La Criatura (aka The Creature)
1977Tender and erotic love story of a respectable bourgeois housewife and a large black Alsatian dog.
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Fiebre (aka Fever)
1972Sandra (Isabel Sarli) is married to a racehorse landowner. They do not love each other. One day, while walking, she meets Jose Maria (Armando Bo), a woodsman. They become lovers and the basis of the relationship is unrestrained sex, irresistible to both. But, after some time, the husband finds out about their relationship.
Do It for Me (aka Hazlo por mí)
1997Andrés’s wealthy father-in-law runs a textile factory; he retires and brings Andrés to Madrid, with wife and son, to run the company. Andrés works long hours, but his wife is bored, and there are tensions at home. When Isabel, a femme fatale, spots Andrés at a party, he’s easy prey – but soon, she might be falling for him, perhaps enough to dump her boyfriend Paco, a small-time cocaine dealer. What if Andrés falls for […]
2 + 2
2012When the fun of double dating begins to grow old, Richard and Bettina share a dirty little secret with their friends Diego and Emilia: They live a double life as swingers, and would love to share this practice with them.
Un embrujo (aka A Spell)
1999Exploited adolescent Eliseo (Daniel Acuña) spends the night with his beautiful schoolteacher, Felipa (Blanca Guerra), after one of his father’s violent outbursts. Afterward, the previously poor student begins making excellent grades. Further suspicions are raised around the coastal village when the school’s principal, Felipa’s sailor boyfriend and several of the boys who teased Eliseo are found dead. Run out of town and accused of witchcraft, Felipa re-enters Eliseo’s life nine years later.
Family Games (aka Juegos de familia)
2016In this Spanish comedy-drama, a man befriends his wife’s lover in an attempt to understand what has happened to their marriage and win her back.
The Enigma of the Yacht (aka El enigma del yate)
1983Natalia and Carlos. Jorge and Blanca. Here are two couples about to go on a trip in a private yacht. It will serve as a treatment for Natalia, who has been suffering from various mental disorders in recent times. But soon after they are at sea, Jorge – who was Natalia’s psychologist and the boat’s skipper – turns up dead. The three remaining occupants are left at the mercy of fate.
The Ages of Lulu
1990The Ages of Lulu is a gruelling sensual odyssey from Spanish director Bigas Luna, made immediately prior to his popular trilogy Jamón, jamón (1992), Golden Balls (1993) and The Tit and the Moon (1994). Starting as the somewhat queasy story of the young Lulu’s affair with the manipulative Pablo (Oscar Ladoire), the movie takes a much darker turn once they are wed. It is conventional cinematic wisdom that there’s no such thing as sex after […]
Jarhead
2005Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swafford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are earger to fight but are fo...d to stay back from the action. Meanwhile Swofford gets news of his girlfriend is cheating on him. Desperately he wants to k..l someone and finally put his training to use.
Forbidden Homework (1992)
1992Expanding on ideas from “La Tarea” (Homework), Director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo continues his story, now of a young man completing an assignment for his film/video class. The young man invites Marieda, a middle-aged woman, over to his aunt’s house to rehearse for a video drama she believes they will eventually record. But she doesn’t realize that she is being videotaped since her arrival. After a faux-sex scene rehearsal, they do make love, which causes an […]