Paco Algora Movies
Long known for his stylish and terrifying werewolf films, Spanish actor/director Paul Naschy takes terror to a whole new level in this dark tale of an out-of-work actor's harrowing decent into madness and murder. His glory days long behind him, forgotten film star Pablo Thevenet (Naschy) bitterly resents the lavish attention heaped upon the film industry's latest generation of youthful and photogenic up-and-comers. When audition callbacks yield deafening silence, the destitute Thevenet is forced to accept a humiliating job as a doorman and entertainer at the mysterious Pandora Club. His performances as some of history's most notorious murderers -- including Jack the Ripper and Giles de Ray, among others -- prove increasingly disturbing as fantasy slowly bleeds into reality, and it isn't long before the disillusioned has-been is extracting bloody revenge on those he feels have hindered his late-career comeback. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Naschy
Norberto Lopez Amado's They're Watching Us is about a cop who becomes obsessed with a case. Juan (Carmelo Gomez) is ordered to head up an investigation concerning a businessman who has been missing for almost three years. The officer who worled on the case previously now resides in a mental institution and is unable to say anything other than, "They're watching us." A priest (Roberto Alvarez) explains how a series of disappearances in the area have supernatural underpinnings. As Juan is absorbed deeper and deeper into the case, his mother is concerned for him. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carmelo Gómez, Icíar Bollaín, (more)
- 1986
A group of asylum inmates escape with a truck during the Spanish Civil War in this actioner. The escaped lunatics first join a group of farmers loyal to the crown. After the local village doctor is killed, the group vents their wrath on both loyalists and rebels who align themselves with the forces of Franco. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alvaro de Luna, Jose Manuel Cervino, (more)
- 1977
Set in 1920s Barcelona, this Spanish film explores the events leading up to an assassination attempt made on the life of dictator Primo de Rivera by an upper-class transvestite homosexual with anarchist political views. Scenes from his "characteristic" lifestyle are reconstructed for the movie, as well has his crises of conscience: He has decided to kill the dictator, and at the same time has decided to tell his much-beloved mother that he is a homosexual. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- José M. Sacristán, Paco Algora, (more)
- 1976
On long summer weekends, Juan (Alfredo Landa) is in the habit of hopping on his motorcycle in Madrid and driving for many hours to Torremolinos, a popular hangout for foreign tourists. There, he indulges in his fondness for romancing foreign girls. In this movie, which won a Gold Prize at the 1977 Moscow Film Festival, the people he meets on his journey form a microcosm of modern Spain. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alfredo Landa, Paco Algora, (more)
- 1975
The Spanish cartoonist known as Fragas (Antonio Fraguas) directed this film that concerns the kidnapping of a factory owner. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Maria Luisa San Jose, Manolo Zarzo, (more)
