Carlos Saura Movies

A documentary on the life and career of the Spanish auteur Carlos Saura.

A medium-length documentary commissioned by the Cuenca City Council. The documentary shows an honest, sincere, although sometimes mere tourist...

Captures the vivacity and charisma of the jota, a waltz-like castanet dance with its origins in the province of Aragon.

A drama teacher casts a woman in a play about torture, and the two eventually become lovers. As production of the play develops, the director begins...

José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader...

A young girl, after failing an exam, is forced by her father, a taxi-driver, to learn his profession. Soon she discovers that her father is not only...

Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989's La Noche Oscura (The Dark Night). Juan Diego stars as San Juan de...

"Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one that I prefer." "As inexplicable as the...

Spain. 1978. Year of the first democratic elections following the dictatorship, and of the birth cine quinqui (delinquent movies): films that rapidly...

At the end of 1954, Eduardo Ducay, Juan Julio Baena and Carlos Saura travelled to the region of Sanabria (province of Zamora) to make a commissioned...

Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis in her marriage with...

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who...

Filming "Goya. May 3" is an innovative audiovisual project that makes a cinematographic recreation of Goya's painting "The Executions of May 3"...

Reflections on Spanish cinema, based on seventy interviews with prominent filmmakers, analyzing their work and addressing their views on various...

The city of Madrid as it appears in the Spanish films of the 1950s. A small tribute to all those who filmed and portrayed Madrid despite the...