Movies: Jaime Chávarri

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About young Sophie who is taken to a burlesque club with her husband and is hopelessly enticed by awe inspiring beauty Countess Nadine who seduces, kidnaps, and converts the young woman....

Elena, a shy and unmarried girl, belonging to the upper middle class and somewhat marginalized from the general environment, embarks on a trip to the family farmhouse one morning, and when she returns to the city that same day, at night, she is force...

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The Galgo brothers are inseparable macho loners living in the heart of Andalucia at the turn of the century. One day Rafael comes home with Gracia, who is to be his servant and lover. They become trapped in a hell of their own making....

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In a particularly hot summer, Sister Consuelo, superior of an order dedicated to caring for the sick, decided to transform the dilapidated hospital into a modern nursing....

Arrebato (1980) is the great cult movie of today's Spanish cinema and Iván Zulueta, its director, an accursed filmmaker. Arrebato was the film that forecast the end of the movida, a dark and harrowing reel whose history and intra-history are intimate...

Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmakers like Fernando Colomo, Fernando Trueba, Imanol Uribe, Carmen Maura and Antonio Resines, protagonists of the so called 'New Spanish Cinema' in the 80...

They are the first and the last, those who imagine stories and give voice to the characters who live them. However, they never speak. But now, they emerge from the shadows of a poorly lit room and tell their secrets, their tricks, their influences; t...

Iván and Ginebra meet in a purely casual way and soon discover that there is a powerful attraction between them; but the constant presence of Ivan's roommate, Toby, a strange boxer who is afraid to step into the ring, forces them to redefine their re...

Since her earliest childhood, Blancanieves has lived with seven men who have cared for and protected her, but this has never been enough for her, because she wants to be a movie star, a dream that disturbs her guardians....

Francisco is a beggar who lives in the Almudena cemetery. One afternoon, while walking among the graves, he meets Julio, another peculiar beggar who claims to be a poet....

Pili is a middle-age woman. She owns a tabacco shop in a working class neighberhood of Madrid, and she is a gambler. Enraged by the prize of a slot machine, she will chase Ying and Li-Sung throughout the neighborhood. How far will she be willing to g...

Two very young women live in a country house in the midst of war. The older of the two is the active one, the one who dominates and controls everything that happens in the house. The younger woman is the victim, dominated by the bombings and her comp...

In 1972, the American film director Howard Hawks travelled to San Sebastian to preside over the jury of the Film Festival. Two young film buffs, Jesús Martínez León and José Luis Cuerda, came from Madrid in the hope of interviewing him. After thirty ...

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The goblin woman....

Natalia, a fashion model, is assaulted by a man one night, when she is returning from work. She decides to take revenge, and obsessively searches for the rapist....