Álex de la IglesiaFilmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: A Goya Award-winning director whose stinging sense of pitch-black humor could best be represented by envisioning a Fellini clown with a scorpion's tale, Spanish filmmaker Álex de la Iglesia has achieved near stratospheric success in his native Europe while curiously remaining a fairly obscure cult...Read More

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The Oxford Murders

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling, Julie Cox, Jim Carter

Synopsis: A young Argentine mathematician visiting the United Kingdom is drawn into a complex murder mystery when his landlady is brutally slain in director Alex de la Iglesia's tense and stylish thriller. John Hurt stars in a film scripted by longtime de la Iglesia collaborator Jorge Guerricaechevarría. Read More

2008
The Yellow Mark

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Belgian comic-book artist Edgar Pierre Jacobs' elusive addition to the Blake and Mortimer series comes to life on the big screen courtesy of maverick Spanish writer/director Álex de la Iglesia in this live-action adventure that finds Captain Francis Blake and science professor Philip Mortimer Read More

2008
The Baby's Room

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Javier Gutierrez, Leonor Watling

Synopsis: Originally filmed as part of the Six Films to Keep You Awake horror series from Spain, Alex de la Iglesia's The Baby's Room weaves the unsettling story of a young couple who moves into a renovated home with their newborn child, only to discover that sinister forces are at work around them when the Read More

2006
El Crimen Ferpecto

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Guillermo Toledo, Monica Cervera, Luis Varela, Tejada Enrique Villen, Fernando Tejero

Synopsis: A playboy has the tables turned on him when he finds himself being used as a plaything by an undesirable woman in this black comedy from Spain. Rafael (Guillermo Toledo) is a self-styled ladies' man working at an upscale department store in Madrid. Rafael thinks of himself as suave and Read More

8/19/05
Common Wealth

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Carmen Maura, Eduardo Antuna, Jesus Bonilla, Sancho Gracia

Synopsis: The fifth feature of noted Spanish filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia, La Comunidad is a frenetic black comedy set in a decrepit old house in the center of Madrid. One of the house's new residents is Julia Garcia (Carmen Maura, whose performance won her a best actress award at the 2000 San Sebastian Read More

11/26/04
800 Bullets

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sancho Gracia, Ángel de Andrés Lopez, Carmen Maura, Eusebio Poncela, Luis Castro

Synopsis: A hyperstylized tribute to spaghetti westerns courtesy of fearless Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia, 800 Bullets finds young Carlos (Luis Castro) striking out on his own in search of his long-lost father. Swiping his shrewish businesswoman mother's (Carmen Maura) credit card and setting his Read More

10/29/04
Hacerse El Sueco

Actors: Peter Lohmeyer, Enrique Molina, Coralia Veloz, Álex de la Iglesia, Mijail Mulkay

Synopsis: Daniel Diaz Torres directed this broad comedy about a family struggling to make ends meet in cash-poor Havana. Amancio (Enrique Molina) is a retired Cuban police officer who makes a point of following the letter of the law, and while many of his neighbors have different schemes to make extra Read More

2001
Muertos de Risa

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Santiago Segura, El Gran Wyoming, Alex Angulo, Carla Hidalgo, Eduardo Gomez

Synopsis: Show business legend is full of stories about comedy teams who don't get along offstage, but Muertos De Risa/Dying Of Laughter takes this notion to new heights in this story about two comedians who hate each other so much that it leads to attempted murder. In the early 1970's, Nino (Santiago Segura Read More

1999
Dance with the Devil

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem, Harley Cross, Aimee Graham, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: The title character of this Alex de la Iglesia film made her first appearance in David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) and was originally played by Isabella Rossellini. Rosie Perez takes over the role in this blend of black comedy, graphic sex and violence, voodoo, and weirdness. Perdita Durango is Read More

1997
El Dia de la Bestia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alex Angulo

Synopsis: Spanish filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia followed his outlandish sci-fi/horror debut, Accion Mutante, with this colorful apocalypse fantasy about Father Angel (Alex Angulo), a scholarly priest whose intensive research into cabalistic "Bible Code" prophecies leads to a horrific discovery: the exact Read More

1995
Acción Mutante

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Antonio Resines, Frederique Feder, Alex Angulo, Saturnino Garcia

Synopsis: Waging war against all things glamorous and beautiful, crippled terrorists Accion Mutante plot a series of attacks on society's elite, gaining a fearsome reputation before their activities are stalled with the jailing of their leader and mastermind, Ramon. Soon reunited with their newly released Read More

1993

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Álex de la IglesiaFilmography

The Oxford Murders

The Yellow Mark

The Baby's Room

El Crimen Ferpecto

Common Wealth

800 Bullets

Hacerse El Sueco

Muertos de Risa

Dance with the Devil

El Dia de la Bestia

Acción Mutante

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