Adria Collado Movies

In this Spanish-French comedy-thriller, porn queen Roxy Foxy (Bibi Andersen) is in Madrid promoting her new film and also scoring the orgasm-inducing aphrodisiac known as Blue Ice. Strip-club manager El Calvo (Jose Manuel Cervino) thinks the drug stash is safe with junkie Chano (Javier Manrique), but it's discovered by Carla (Maria Esteve). Other characters include an investigative journalist (Adria Collado), who is writing about Roxy, and a computer geek (Gustavo Salmeron), who spends so much time on the Internet that he leaves his partner Ana (Nathalie Sesena) sexually unfulfilled. The original title translates as Don't Talk to Me About Men Because I Get Atomic. Shown at the 1997 San Sebastian Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

Recalling the darkly surreal world of Terry Gilliam, director Daniel Monzon debuts with this delirious film about a teenager shifting between grim reality and the much more alluring world of fantasy. The film opens with the muscle-bound Beldar (Joel Joan) and the vivacious Sonja (Neus Asensi) decapitating monsters and interpreting ancient languages in a dank labyrinth as they hunt for a legendary gem called the Heart of the Warrior. Without it, Beldar is cursed. Just before the dynamic duo meets their demise, Ramon (Fernando Ramallo), a pimply teenager, awakes from a dream. We learn that Beldar and Sonja are characters in a Dungeons and Dragons-style role playing game that Ramon plays along with Victor (Juan Diaz) and the perpetually horny Javi (Jaime Barnatan). As the film progresses, Ramon's intense fantasy world begins to bleed into reality. A one-eyed midget (Javier Aller) who Javi spies on the subway becomes the guardian of the evil Netheril (Santiago Segura), who in real life is a sleazy TV psychic. The fictional character Sonja, who Ramon is in love with, finds her real world incarnation as streetwalker Sonia (also Asensi). Soon Ramon begins to confuse fiction with reality when he bursts into the building of a prominent politician and hurls a sword at him, prompting a nationwide manhunt. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

Noted Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura follows up on his 1999 opus Goya with this wild and woolly reimagining of a 1930s adventure serial from the mind of a surrealist master. The film opens in the present with an aged Luis Buñuel listening to a script pitch about the search for a magical table smuggled from the Ottoman empire to Spain several centuries ago. As the spiel plods on, Buñuel's mind drifts, imagining himself during his prime with his buddies Salvador Dali and Garcia Lorca. The trio search for the missing item of furniture through the winding alleys and sewers of Toledo. Along the way, the actors playing Buñuel, Dali, and Lorca reflect on playing the parts of great artists while engaging in witty banter with one another. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

The three main characters in Ibiza Dream are old friends who have each come to a crossroads in their lives. Carlos (Paco Marin) has decided he is a hedonist. Chica (Adriana Dominguez) has grown tired of her lifestyle on Ibiza and begins to seek something more. Nacho (Adria Collado) has found spiritual enlightenment in India and has returned to Ibiza and must no figure out how his new views fit into his old world. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

When successful Spanish research scientist Diego (Adria Collado) sees his spitting image get killed in a Buenos Aires car accident, he becomes convinced that the man was his long lost twin brother and sets out on a desperate search for his biological parents, in the process becoming embroiled in a vast conspiracy involving cloning and violent Russian heavies. Diego and his best friend Martin (Alfonso Lara) are watching television when they see a man who bears a striking resemblance to Diego get killed on television. Diego has long been the victim of repeated déjà vu, and now he's beginning to wonder if there may be a rational explanation for his many strange experiences. When Diego discovers that he was adopted as a young boy, he leaves his wife Susan (Lucia Jiminez) to travel to Argentina and get some answers. The situation grows increasingly complex when Diego comes into contact with the dead man's parents, who claim that their son was adopted as well. Ageing alcoholic Malcolm (Jose Maria Pau) may have just the answers they are searching for, but when he questions Diego about his wife Susan, Diego wonders how a the man could even know of his wife's existence. Meanwhile, back in Spain, things get complicated when Susan is contacted by a man named John (Andrew Bicknell), and becomes the unwitting target of Russian thugs-for-hire Djanov (Bruno Squarcia) and Cherkasov (Manuel Tomas del Estal Castano). ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi