Vicente Aranda

  • Vicente Aranda – Fata Morgana (1965)

    1961-1970ArthouseGialloSpainSpanish cinema under FrancoVicente Aranda

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    “Gim is a beautiful fashion model whose life is in peril. There is a homicidal killer who seek to murder her only Gim is totally unaware of her danger. The only person who seems to be sure that the killer will strike is a professor at a local collage. A police detective also believes the killer will strike but knows not the killer nor the victim. Upon speaking to the professor he has the victims identity and must find her in the mostly deserted city populated by a small group of unusual people who attempt to thwart his search.Read More »

  • Vicente Aranda – Las crueles aka El cadáver exquisito aka The exquisite cadaver (1969)

    Drama1961-1970ArthouseSpainSpanish cinema under FrancoVicente Aranda

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    Carlos (Andre Argaud), a well-do-do publisher and family man, receives a severed hand in the mail at work and buries it before going home but once there, his beautiful wife (Theresa Gimpera) reads him a telegram asking if he’d like a forearm. Carlos makes up a lame, work-related explanation but now suspicious, she follows her husband and spots a mysterious woman in black following him as well. That woman is Parker (Capucine), whose lesbian lover, Esther (Judy Matheson), was once Carlos’ mistress who never got over being cast aside. Esther committed suicide but Parker kept the body and, holding Carlos responsible, devises a complicated plan to have him framed for Esther’s murder…Read More »

  • Vicente Aranda – Celos AKA Jealousy (1999)

    1991-2000DramaEroticaSpainVicente Aranda

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    A month before he’s to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman’s friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta tells Antonio the man’s first name. Carmen tells him that the man meant nothing to her, and that the photograph was taken before she met Antonio. She loves Antonio and sets out to wipe the photograph from his mind through exuberant sex, but her ploy backfires and Antonio remains fixated. Slowly he finds out about the man, and about Carmen’s past. Will jealousy consume this couple or can they find a way to kill the green-eyed monster?Read More »

  • Vicente Aranda – Canciones de amor en Lolita’s Club (2007)

    2001-2010EroticaSpainThrillerVicente Aranda

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    Plot : Canciones de amor en Lolita’s Club (2007) is an erotic thriller, in which sex and brutality are mixed in a story of twin brothers, one a violent police officer the other mentally challenged, both tragically involved with a prostitute in the bordello that gives the film its title.Read More »

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