Vicente ArandaFilmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Spanish filmmaker Vicente Aranda is best-known for bringing Juan Marse's novels to life on the big screen. His films are almost always politically charged with the aftereffects of Franco's regime and he is well-known for courageously exploring difficult social issues. He also doesn't balk in his...Read More

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Love Songs in Lolita's Club

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Eduardo Noriega, Flora Martinez, Belén Fabra, Hector Colome, Carla Sanchez

Synopsis: A violent man discovers his mentally challenged brother is his rival for the affections of a beautiful but troubled woman in this drama from filmmaker Vicente Aranda. Raul (Eduardo Noriega) is an angry, loose cannon of a cop who has lost his job after roughing up one too many suspects and Read More

2007
The Maidens' Conspiracy

Crew: Director

Actors: Leonor Watling, Victoria Abril, Giancarlo Giannini, Ingrid Rubio, Casper Zafer

2006
The White Knight

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Paz Vega, Casper Zafer, Esther Nubiola, Leonor Watling, Ingrid Rubio, Charlie Cox

Synopsis: Writer-director Vincente Aranda adapted his sweeping historical saga Tirante el Blanco (AKA The White Knight, 2006) from the bestselling European novel by Joanot Martorell. Casper Zafer (La Femme Musketeer) plays the titular soldier, Tirante. Ordered by the Emperor of Byzantium to free Read More

2005
Hay Motivo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Luis Tosar, Candela Peña

2004
Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus

Actors: Hany Abu-Assad, Pedro Almodóvar, Vicente Aranda, Bruno Barde, Xavier Beauvois

2004
Carmen

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Paz Vega, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Jay Benedict, Antonio Dechent, Joan Crosas

Synopsis: Directed by veteran Spanish helmer Vicente Aranda, Carmen revolves around a complex cast of characters, including Merimee (Jay Benedict), a writer and archeologist whose research in southern Spain circa 1830 brings him into contact with Jose (Leonardo Sbaraglia), a bandit. When Merimee meets the Read More

2003
Mad Love

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pilar Lopez de Ayala, Daniele Liotti, Manuela Arcuri, Eloy Azorín, Rosana Pastor, Giuliano Gemma

Synopsis:
This lavish historical drama was inspired by the true story of Juana the Mad, who became Queen of Spain before her willfulness and jealousy robbed her of her power. During the late 15th century, Juana (Pilar Lopez de Ayala) was born to the Spanish royal family, and as a teenager her mother Read More

8/30/02
Celos

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Daniel Jiménez Cacho, María Botto, Luis Tosar, Alicia Sanchez, Jose Luis Oliva

Synopsis: Noted Spanish director Vicente Aranda explores female sensuality and male vanity in this slick erotic thriller. Stunningly beautiful Carmen (Aitana Sanchez Gijon) works at an orange packing factory and is engaged to be married to Antonio (Daniel Gimenez Cacho), a long-distance trucker who works Read More

1999
La Mirada Del Otro

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Laura Morante, Jose Coronado, Miguel A. Garcia, Sancho Gracia, Juanjo Puigcorbe

Synopsis: Scripter Alvaro del Amo and director Vicente Aranda adapted this Spanish film from Fernando G. Delgado's prize-winning novel. The story follows the psychosexual experiments of upper-middle-class consultant Begona (Laura Morante). Japanese businessmen arrive in Madrid to test a palm-size video Read More

1998
Libertarias

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This big-budget Spanish drama pays tribute to the courageous women who sacrificed their lives during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Maria's peaceful life as a nun is shattered when revolutionary anarchists force her and her sisters to flee their convent sanctuary. Maria ends up hiding in a brothel Read More

1996
La Pasion Turca

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A young woman's passion forms the basis of this erotic Spanish drama adapted from a popular novel by Antonio Gala. The night before Desideria's marriage, her girl friends give her some valuable advice on sex. The marriage takes place, and while it is generally happy, her husband Ramiro suffers Read More

1995
El Amante Bilingüe

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ornella Muti, Imanol Arias, Loles Leon, Javier Bardem

Synopsis: Juan (Imanol Arias) speaks Catalan and Spanish. He was active in political protests under the Franco regime. He is an astonishingly bad accordian player, and an acceptable ventriloquist, which enables him to scratch a living from the streets as an itinerant musician/entertainer. A long time ago Read More

1993
Intruso

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Victoria Abril, Imanol Arias, Antonio Valero, Alicia Agut, Susana Buen

Synopsis: In this drama, a dying man makes a final, desperate bid to steal his ex-wife away from her new spouse. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Aventis

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, María Botto

Synopsis: In the year of The Mambo Kings, Antonio Banderas - then on the very cusp of stardom - also headlined the Spanish-language drama Aventis, directed by Vincente Aranda. Translated, the title refers to a Spanish blend of historical recounting and mythmaking. The story involves a doctor and nurse who Read More

1992
Lovers

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdú

Synopsis: Vicente Aranda's Lovers is set in Spain, mostly in Madrid, during the 1950s. The story line is reminiscent of Theodore Dreiser's classic An American Tragedy (which was filmed as A Place in the Sun), wherein a passive, amoral, and shallow protagonist inadvertently destroys the lives of two women Read More

1991
Manana Sere Libre

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Imanol Arias, Angel Pardo, Jorge Sanz, Pastora Vega, Blanca Apilanez

Synopsis: El Lute (Imanol Arias) is a rebel prisoner who escapes on New Years Eve to rejoin his family in this historical adventure. He and his brothers evade the Civil Guards as they rob banks and engage in shootouts with the enemy. El Lute is once again captured but is pardoned after the death of Franco. Read More

1989
If They Tell You I Fell

Crew: Director

Actors: Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, Antonio Banderas, Guillermo Montesinos

Synopsis: This complex and confusing Spanish feature intercuts stories from 1936, 1940, 1970 and 1988, and has Victoria Abril play three different parts in them. The lives of many people are shown to be tangled together in nearly incomprehensible ways, and many of the characters are prone to engage in Read More

1989
El Lute - Camina O Revienta

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Imanol Arias, Victoria Abril, Antonio Valero, Diana Penalver

Synopsis: Policemen everywhere are sometimes lampooned for their self-importance and pomposity, and it is not unusual for a particularly impudent thief to become a national hero. However, Spain's Guardia Civil in the 1960s were an unusually self-righteous lot, and the otherwise not particularly Read More

1987
Tiempo De Silencio

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Imanol Arias, Victoria Abril, Charo Lopez, Francisco Rabal, Juan Echanove

Synopsis: Set at the end of the 1940s, this drama about Pedro (Imanol Arias), a medical researcher, and his relationships with his family and women underscores the mood of repression that dominated Spain during Franco's fascist regime. Pedro lives in a boardinghouse and is attracted to Dorita (Victoria Abril Read More

1986
Fanny Pelopaja

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fanny Cottençon, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Algora, Berta Cabré, Ian Sera

Synopsis: This vicious crime thriller tells the story of Fanny (Fanny Cottençon), a cold-blooded woman who has served several prison sentences for petty crimes. Her hatred for Andrés (Bruno Cremer), an even more brutal policeman who once knocked out her teeth, is the emotional axis around which the story Read More

1984
Asesinato En El Comite Central

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Patxi Andion, Victoria Abril, Conrado SanMartin, Jose Vivo, Héctor Alterio

Synopsis: When the lights go off at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, no one suspects anything more than the usual power outage -- until the Secretary General, Santiago Carrillo, ends up murdered in that short span of time. The Party calls in a private investigator, and the Read More

1982
La Muchacha de Las Bragas de Oro

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lautaro Murúa, Victoria Abril, Isabel Mestres, Hilda Vera

Synopsis: Slow in parts but still engaging and well-acted, this drama by Vicente Aranda explores the changing nature of a former fascist, Luis Forest (Lautaro Murua), and his relationship to his niece Mariana (Victoria Abril). Luis has retired to the seacoast to devote himself to writing his memoirs and Read More

1979
Planeta Ciego

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this horror movie, a sudden nuclear war interrupts a wild orgy in a ramshackle house. The participants are spared the fate of those outside who are all blinded. Afterwards the newly blind begin attacking the house causing the man inside to fight them off with a high-powered rifle to protect the Read More

1976
Cambio de Sexo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Victoria Abril

Synopsis: Themes long forbidden in Spain under the Franco dictatorship began to be explored in the years just following his demise. In this 1976 film, an unhappy and very effeminate man (played by a woman, Victoria Abril), experiences one difficulty after another. As a boy in Cataluña, his father attempts Read More

1976
The Blood Spattered Bride

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Simon Andreu, Maribel Martin, Alexandra Bastedo

Synopsis: Vicente Aranda directed this erotic horror film, continuing themes which he had explored in the previous year's Exquisite Cadaver. Alexandra Bastedo stars as a lesbian vampire who woos frigid newlywed Maribel Martin away from her husband Simon Andreu on their honeymoon. Aranda fills the film with Read More

1972
Till Death Do Us Part

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sheridan LaFanu's classic vampire tale Carmilla has been filmed (faithfully or otherwise) as Vampyr and Blood and Roses. The 1972 Spanish production Till Death Do Us Part is the most recent adaptation of the LaFanu original. This time, Maribel Martin plays the virginal young bride who falls under Read More

1972
Las Crueles

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Capucine, Carlos Estrada, Judy Matheson

Synopsis: The story of this Spanish film revolves around the corpse of a woman, Esther (Judy Matheson), whose body parts are sent in numerous packages to a horrified and puzzled print editor (Carlos Estrada). He is also sent a dead turtle, which must mean something. The packages are sent as a form of Read More

1971
Fata Morgana

Crew: Director

Actors: Teresa Gimpera

Synopsis: A model becomes the target of a kidnapping attempt masterminded by a mad professor in this avant garde film from Spain. Young thugs steal a giant picture of the popular model. The model confides in a wealthy patron who is killed by his jealous girlfriend, and the girlfriend goes on a murder spree Read More

1965