
Lola Gaos
1921 - 1993Viridiana
Luis Buñuel
Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
Viridiana
Tristana
Luis Buñuel
Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey
As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horatio is doomed.
Tristana
Furtivos
José Luis Borau
Lola Gaos, Ovidi Montllor
Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.
Poachers
Tiempo de amor
Julio Diamante
Julia Gutiérrez Caba, Agustín González
Three stories in which love plays a decisive role intersect. The first of them is led by a couple who decides to break with the chastity they have been keeping until then. In the second Mary discovers that the man with whom he wants to lose his virginity is a ruffian and in the third, and last, a marriage tries to maintain happiness despite the miseries of his daily life. Second film by director and screenwriter Julio Diamante , composed of three autonomous episodes, minimally chained, called " The sunset ", " The night " and " The morning ". The three chapters are very influenced by the social realism that invaded the Spanish literature of the time and by the badly assimilated cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni. This means that, for example.
Tiempo de amor
Los dinamiteros
Juan García Atienza
José Isbert, Sara García
Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month in the queues of the mutuality windows to collect their pension, an opportunity they take advantage of to talk about life. When they learn that the old don Felipe, an acquaintance, is very sick and is alone and without money for a decent funeral, they decide to ask for a loan to help him, but, as they do not grant it, they decide to rob the savings bank. To do this, they will plan everything thoroughly and manufacture a homemade explosive.
Los dinamiteros
El arte de vivir
Julio Diamante
Luigi Giuliani, Elena María Tejeiro
After graduating in Economics, Luis is seeking to burst through in life. His partner Ana sees how his way of being is changing by the standards of his company into a different person. Ana tries to draw his attention in a failed suicide attempt.
El arte de vivir
Esa pareja feliz
Luis García Berlanga, Juan Antonio Bardem
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Elvira Quintillá
Juan and Carmen are a humble couple living in Madrid. She does the housework and he works as an electrician in a film studio. Their dreams of wellness come true when they win a contest sponsored by a soap brand.
That Happy Couple
Un ángel tuvo la culpa
Luis Lucia
Emma Penella, José Luis Ozores
Claudio is a kind mand who works as cashier in a company for several years. Whe he finds closed the bank where he has to deposit a millon of pesetas, he decides to go to a friends party. Due to alcohol effects, he share out the money to the people who need it more.
Un ángel tuvo la culpa
Un marido de ida y vuelta
Luis Lucia
Emma Penella, Fernando Fernán Gómez
Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife dies victim of a heart attack the day she forces him to shave his beloved beard to go to a costume ball dressed as a bullfighter. Its spectrum then begins to walk around the house and the most unexpected cause tangles. When she finally decides to settle definitely get materialize and get his wife, who has meanwhile become a being sweet and understanding.
Un marido de ida y vuelta