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| Spanish | El Espinazo del diablo (The Devil's Backbone) | SF0038 |
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The Devil’s Backbone is a stylish and unpredictable supernatural chiller… which deftly mixes horror, suspense, and dark humor. Twelve-year-old Carlos is the latest arrival to Santa Lucia School, an imposing stone building that shelters the orphans of the Republican militia and politicians during the last days of the Spanish Civil War. Carlos gradually uncovers the dark ties that bind the inhabitants of the school: hidden riches, sexual intrigue, and the restless ghost of a murdered student. | |
| Spanish | El Espiritu de la Colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive) | SF0058 |
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In Castile c.1940, a traveling movie theatre brings James Whale's b/w film classic "Frankenstein" (1931) to a village. (Admission 1 peseta for adults, 2 reales for children.) Two young girls, Isabel and Ana, determine to find the Monster. | |
| Spanish | El gran calavera (The Great Madcap) | SF0117 |
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Buñuel's first "comeback" film since "L'Age d'Or" in 1930 (he made only a few musicals in the interim), "El Gran Calavera" concerns a family's attempts to change the patriarch's somewhat indulgent and hedonistic ways by fooling him into thinking his large fortune is gone. They assume a life of poverty in Mexico in an attempt to teach him a lesson. However, he discovers it's a ruse, but continues to perpetuate the facade of ignorance while sneaking off during the day to conduct his thriving business. Why? To teach his family a lesson - they are all lazy, worthless leeches! | |
| Spanish | El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) | SF0001 |
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In 1944 fascist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her she's a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the the true princess and will never see her real father, the king, again. | |
| Spanish | El Mar (The Sea) | SF0028 |
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Agusti Villaronga directs this intensely morbid love story about fascist executions, disease, bloody animal abuse, and violent homoeroticism. Set in a small village on the island of Mallorica during the Spanish civil war, four children witness the execution of leftists at the hands of pro-Franco villagers. In a desperate act of revenge, one of the children kills the son of the lead executioner. Ten years later, the three survivors of the incident find themselves recuperating in a sanitarium. Fragile Manuel, who suffers from TB, has fervently embraced Christianity, while violent Andreu, who also suffers from the disease, boasts about his womanizing exploits while secretly longing for Morell, an elderly male black marketeer. The third survivor is Francisca who, after losing her virginity to Andreu, became a nun working as a nurse at the institute. As the two young men's sickness deepens, they grow increasingly tormented. Manuel violently reacts to his attraction to Andreu by growing even more fanatically religious, while Andreu's sexual frustration results in him brutally killing a cat. | |
| Spanish | El Norte | SF0124 |
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Beginning in the remote mountain jungles of Guatemala, awash with the lushness of nature and the rainbow colors of the Mayans, this highly-acclaimed drama about a brother and sister seeking a better life centers on two young Indians. When their father is killed by government soldiers and their mother is taken away, they set out for the “promised land” to the north- El Norte. It is a perilous journey fraught with dangers. Tijuana is a dismal shantytown inhabited by many people who are ready to cheat and kill for their meager possessions. To cross the U.S. border, they must brave a treacherous rat-infested sewage tunnel. And when they finally reach Los Angeles their trials are not yet over, for they are “illegals” sub-merged in an alien culture. A stunningly photographed, powerfully acted, moving story, El Norte is a dream imagery hailed as “an enormously special film, a work of great sophistication that… has the truth, the magic of a piece of folk art.” | |
| Spanish | El Norte | SF0043 |
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Beginning in the remote mountain jungles of Guatemala, awash with the lushness of nature and the rainbow colors of the Mayans, this highly-acclaimed drama about a brother and sister seeking a better life centers on two young Indians. When their father is killed by government soldiers and their mother is taken away, they set out for the “promised land” to the north- El Norte. It is a perilous journey fraught with dangers. Tijuana is a dismal shantytown inhabited by many people who are ready to cheat and kill for their meager possessions. To cross the U.S. border, they must brave a treacherous rat-infested sewage tunnel. And when they finally reach Los Angeles their trials are not yet over, for they are “illegals” sub-merged in an alien culture. A stunningly photographed, powerfully acted, moving story, El Norte is a dream imagery hailed as “an enormously special film, a work of great sophistication that… has the truth, the magic of a piece of folk art.” | |
| Spanish | El Pisto (The Apartment) | SF0011 |
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Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or "pisito", in Spanish dialect). Unfortunately their low salaries prevent them from acquiring one. Soon, Rodolfo's co-workers urge him to marry the old and frail Doña Martina, who is the main tenant in the apartment he boards in. According to Spanish rent-control law, he could inherit the lease from his spouse. Thus begin his misgivings and Petrita's. | |
| Spanish | El Sur (The South) | SF0067 |
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Somewhere in the North of Spain, Estrella's father represents an unknown and fascinating world in her childhood. As she grows up, she learns that he once had a lover, and that he is still in love with her. | |
| Spanish | El viaje de Carol (Carol's Journey ) | SF0099 |
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Carol, a twelve-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with Maruja, the village teacher, and a young local boy, Tomiche. | |
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