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800 Balas 

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800 Balas Title

(800 Bullets)

Ibercine proudly previews the first photos of Alex de la Iglesia's upcoming Western shot entirely on location at the old Spaghetti Western sets in Almeria, Spain. Check his promo interview as well!

Ibercine met Alex de la Iglesia at Viva! Spanish Film Festival in Manchester. Read all about it here.

Abre Los Ojos

Abre Los Ojos

(Open your Eyes)

César is a young man with a fantastic life. The sole inheritant of a small fortune, attractive and lucky with women. He has it all. Until his ex-girlfriend takes him for a ride that will change his life forever.

Alejandro Amenábar's successful film after Tesis and recently remade by Cameron Crowe and titled Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise and Penélope Cruz.

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Barrio

(Neighbourhood)

Javi, Manu and Rai are best friends. Life in their neighbourhood goes by slowly and in the summer holidays there is little to do and much free time to get in trouble.

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La Comunidad

(Common Wealth)

This is Alex de la Iglesia's latest sucess in Spain. A Black comedy-thriller, La Comunidad is the story of Julia, who sells flats in Madrid. She finds 300 million pesetas hidden in a flat, but will the greedy neighbours let her keep it?

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La Niña de tus ojos

(The Girl of your Dreams)

Awarded with 7 Goya Awards, La Niña de tus Ojos tells the story of a troupe of Spanish actors running away from the Spanish Civil War traveling to Nazi Germany at the brink of World War II. They soon discover they run away from a war to land on another one. Penélope Cruz won the Best Actress Goya Award for her wonderful performance.

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Perdita Durango

 

An explosive cocktail of violence, sex and voodoo based on the novel by Barry Gifford. From Alex de la Iglesia, director of La Comunidad and The Day of the Beast comes this explosive road movie filmed in Mexico with Rosie Perez as Perdita and Javier Bardem as Romeo Dolorosa, her santero delinquent lover.

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Solas

 

 

 

(Alone)

When Maria's father is admitted to hospital she feels obliged to share her flat with her mother, whom she has not seen in years. The relationship between the two women will revive forgotten feelings and old family ghosts.

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Todo Sobre Mi Madre

 

(All About My Mother)

Pedro Almodóvar's Academy Award-winning film movie, which made Penélope Cruz an international star.

Manuela, whose son Esteban is killed in a car accident, travels to Barcelona to find Esteban's father, who has no idea of their son. On her way she meets up with an old friend of hers, a transvestite prostitute and a pregnant nun from whom she finds love again.

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Tesis

 

 

 

 

(Thesis)

My name is Angela. They're going to kill me.

Angela is writing her thesis paper on audiovisual violence. Her thesis supervisor finds a videotape and is found dead he next day.

A new and dangerous audiovisual world opens up in front of her. Angela could be the protagonist of the next snuff movie...

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Torrente, el Brazo Tonto de la Ley 

(Torrente, the Stupid Arm of The Law)

Torrente is a Spanish, fascist, chauvinist, racist and alcoholic policeman. This great member of the law and order lives with his disabled father in Madrid, where he takes his task of "defender of justice" very seriously. Torrente discovers an important band of drug-dealers in his own neighbourhood and with the help of his very special friends will draw a plan to dismantle it.

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Coming Soon

 

Hable con Ella- Cast

Hable con Ella title 

(Talk to Her) 

Pedro Almodóvar's latest success. Almodovar explains: "Hable Con Ella is a narrators film. Narrators of stories about themselves, men who speak to whomever can hear them, and above all those who cannot hear them"

Read Pedro's self interview to promote the film.

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Transcript by Virginia Chico.

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