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Joaquin Hinojosa Movies

2002  
 
The infamous man from La Mancha and his devoted sidekick embark on a new quest in this slightly off-kilter version of author Miguel de Cervantes' classic novel Don Quixote, as envisioned by director and screenwriter Manuel Gutierrez Aragon in his 2002 adaptation entitled Don Quixote, Knight Errant. Around the year 1615, Don Quixote (Juan Luis Galiardo) and Sancho Panza (Carlos Iglesias) enjoy the lives of celebrities, as the public was made well aware of their exploits thanks to the writings of De Cervantes. Now well into the twilight of his life, the eccentric nobleman gets the notion that a horde of angry Turks are about to launch a naval attack and Quixote decides it is once again time to suit up in the name of honor. As Quixote and Panza head out to meet their "foes," the anachronistic duo draws the attention and derision of their fellow countrymen. But no matter, Panza is perfectly content to let Quixote do his own thing -- even going so far as to instigate the knight's sense of daring-do, as the men head out to for what may be their final adventure together. ~ Ryan Shriver, Rovi

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Starring:
Juan Luis GaliardoCarlos Iglesias, (more)
 
1989  
 
Pedro Jarrapellejos (Antonio Ferrandis) is a ladies man who cannot turn the heads of Isabel (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) or her beautiful daughter. When both peasant women are found raped and murdered in a brutal scene, a schoolteacher is falsely accused. Pedro knows his own nephew and his friend participated in the killings, but he uses his considerable influence over the police and courts to intimidate the witnesses into silence. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

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Starring:
Antonio FerrandisJuan Diego, (more)
 
1987  
 
Two gunmen chase after an anthropologist on the run in this convoluted, low-budget drama. In spite of several technical flaws in production and amateurish performances, the film shared prize money given by the CIGA hotel chain at the 1987 San Sebastian Film Festival. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

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Starring:
Rafael DiazJorge De Juan, (more)
 
1986  
 
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), his beautiful neighbor. He wiles away his time with a wealthy friend and generally leads a normal life until he tries to save the life of a young woman who has had an abortion that went tragically wrong. He fails, and the woman's boyfriend comes after him, believing that he killed her. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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Starring:
Imanol AriasVictoria Abril, (more)
 
1985  
 
The poetic and iconoclastic lights of Bohemia have been dimmed in this interpretation of the original play by Ramon Valle-Inclan. Set at the turn of the 20th century in Madrid, the focus is on a perpetual drunk, the blind Max Estrella (Francisco Rabal) and his verses, sayings, and total disregard for his wife and daughter as he pursues both the bottle and the muse. His friend, Don Latino (Agustin Gonzalez) accompanies Max on his travels through the city. Max is rarely sober and can be found in unlikely situations, such as dressing down a government minister for his bourgeois success or commiserating with an anarchist in prison. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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Starring:
Francisco RabalAgustin Gonzalez, (more)
 
1984  
 
Expatriate Argentine Rodolfo Kuhn directed this chilling drama about two fascistic thugs who torture victims sent to them by an anonymous, unseen "Señor Galindez." One of the two is a family man, settled in with his wife and daughter to a typical homey lifestyle, and the other man lives alone and is decidedly vicious by inclination. The two men are sent to the building where they torture -- in order to wait for someone they have to train (played by Antonio Banderas). The banality of evil is nowhere more apparent than in this story of inhuman behavior and empty minds. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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Starring:
Héctor AlterioJoaquin Hinojosa, (more)
 
1977  
 
On the heels of his award-winning Cria cuevos (Raise Ravens), Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura dashed off the muted psychological drama Elisa, My Love. Geraldine Chaplin stars as Elisa, who after an absence of 20 years is reunited with her father, Fernando Rey (in a superb performance, which won him the Cannes Film Festival "Best Actor" prize ). Having just divested herself of an unhappy marriage, Elisa hopes to heal old, long-standing family wounds. Inasmuch as Saura thrives on exploring "unspeakable" subjects in his films, one can gather that the relationship between Elisa and her father may be far more complex than it seems at first. Elisa, Vida Mia was released in English-speaking countries as Elisa, My Love. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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1976  
 
With dialogue spoken in the dialect of Spanish used in Estremadura, this drama examines the life of a man who, in a psychopathic frenzy, kills his dog, his horse, his mother, and local citizens, before being captured by soldiers and executed. The story is based on the book La Familia de Pascual Duarte by Camilio Jose Cela. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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Starring:
José Luis GómezHéctor Alterio, (more)
 
1977  
R  
This shocking film would have been impossible to make just two years before, in 1975. It tells the story of a group of right-wing terrorists, led by a strangely seductive older woman, whose destructive attacks on anyone it considers to have betrayed Spain to any form of leftism are cynically ignored by the police. The main story is about Tatin (Jose Luis Alonso), a 15-year-old young man, a hanger-on and newcomer to the group, who longs to participate in his first action against the hated "reds." ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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Starring:
José Luis AlonsoMaria Luisa Ponte, (more)