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Actors: Paddy Considine, Virginie Ledoyen, Gary Oldman, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Lluís Homar
Synopsis: First-time 31-year-old director Koldo Serra's thriller The Backwoods (AKA El bosque de las sombras, 2006) re-charts thematic territory covered, in years prior, by such well-worn classics as Deliverance and Southern Comfort, and such B-grade horror pictures as Savage Island (2004). With their Read More
Actors: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Fernando Guillen Cuervo, Abel Folk, Jordi Dauder, Patrick Bauchau
Synopsis: This action-filled Spanish melodrama takes dramatic license with the facts surrounding the illegal slave trade in early nineteenth century Cuba. It is 1820 and Amelia has recently been wed to Ton, a Cuban plantation owner whom she barely knows as part of a business contract. With Ton's sinister Read More
Actors: Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Xavier Elorriaga
Synopsis: At first it looks as though the Basque revolutionary who has returned home from exile in Mexico has come back to help further the Basque separatist cause. However, while he pals around with his old ETA buddies and generally gets caught up on his family and the current situation, it becomes clear Read More
Synopsis: Aguirre (Omero Antonutti) leads 300 Spanish soldiers and 300 natives in his search for the legendary land of El Dorado in Peru during the year 1560. The expedition is attacked by hostile jungle tribes before mutiny breaks out among the soldiers. The unit is forced to kill and eat their horses to Read More
Actors: Patxi Bisquert, Amaia Lasa, Nacho Martinez
Synopsis: In this slow-paced film focusing on Basque culture and politics, the life of Tasio (Patxi Bisquert), a man who works in the coal industry, is traced from his childhood (young Tasio is played by Garikoitz Mendigutxia), through his teen years (Isidro José Solano), to his adulthood. As Tasio grows up Read More
Actors: Omero Antonutti, Silvia Munt, Amaia Lasa, Patxi Bisquert, Mario Pardo
Synopsis: The Basque country lies around the Gulf of Biscay, and one of its cities, Bilboa, is the setting for this turgid story of political intrigue. The Basque separatist movement has always been a point of contention in Spanish politics and provides the shady backdrop for this story about Lucas (Omero Antonutti Read More
Actors: Pepa Flores, Patxi Bisquert, Encarna Paso, Isabel Mestres, Santiago Ramos
Synopsis: Leaving a lot of paths started but untrodden, this routine drama about a man fighting the system and losing flips back and forth between prison scenes, bank scenes, and what appears to be an incompetent Spanish court system. Cesar (Patxi Bisquert) is an up-and-coming banker, a champion of liberal Read More
Actors: Silvia Munt, Mary Carrillo, José Luis Lopez Vasquez, Walter Vidarte, Patxi Bisquert
Synopsis: In a well-acted historical drama about clashes between opposite ends of the economic and cultural spectrum, a literal witch hunt in a Basque village sets orthodox religion against pagan beliefs, feudal lords against the impoverished peasantry, abusive men against defenseless women, and in some Read More
Actors: Xavier Elorriaga, Klara Badiola, Walter Vidarte
Synopsis: King Carlos II of Spain (r. 1665-1700) once sent his brother Luis to lead a military expedition into Albania and conquer that land for the Spaniards. Since Albania was a part of the dowry of Luis' wife, it seemed like a reasonable idea at the time. While that expedition and its final battle is the Read More
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