Quote: (02-12-2013 06:20 PM)Nudge Wrote:
Anyone know any good Spanish language movies? Wanna start watching at least 1 or 2 a week for listening practice.
Getting Abre los Ojos (the original Vanilla Sky) at the moment with Penelope Cruz. Supposed to be way better than the Tom Cruise shite.
If you liked
Abre los ojos, I suggest you try some other movies by the same director, Alejandro Amenábar (
The Others, Ágora, Tesis).
My favorite, by far is his debut film,
Tesis (1996). Generally speaking, the 1990s was an unusually good decade for Spanish movies.
Tesis is the kind of movie loaded with explicit sadistic violence and sensual innuendo that girls love and guys love to dismiss. The protagonist is a demure nice girl researching violent videos for her university thesis. She gets the help of a weird introverted loner who collects porn and violent video tapes. And then there is the suave rich guy who teases her. What makes this movie great is that the weird loner is not the pathetic clueless beta one might expect. And neither is the nice rich guy a shallow Disney prince.
Intellectual Property being what it is in Spain, you can easily find many Spanish full movies (search: “
pelicula completa”) on YouTube.
Also, I have found that TV series for kids are a great way to learn new languages. I suggest this one
Verano Azul, full series available on Spain's Public TV website, it's about a group of kids spending their summer vacations on the coast, very 80s. If you want rapport with Spanish chicks in their 30s this one is a must.
http://www.rtve.es/television/verano-azu...completos/
Some links:
Tesis (1996)
Trailer with English subtitles at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIrrXbhIuzI
Full movie available at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDSUQre97rw
Ángela (Ana Torrent) is a film student at the Madrid's University Complutense. Searching for research material for her thesis (hence the film's title) on audio-visual violence, she attains the friendship of Chema (Fele Martínez), a fellow student and introvert with an encyclopedic collection of violent and pornographic films.
After her professor dies while watching a film she steals the videotape, discovering that it is a snuff film featuring a girl whom Chema recognizes as a former student at the university - and a former associate of current student Bosco (Eduardo Noriega). Investigating the origins of the tape, they are drawn into the operations of a chilling snuff ring.
El rey pasmado (1991)
Trailer at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl0_jwHzCOY
Funny watching these left wing actors playing the part of caricaturized ultra-conservatives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6EZgg2Nu6U&NR
In the 17th century, king Felipe IV, becomes obsessed after seeing the naked body of a prostitute and decides that he needs to see the naked body of his queen. He is met with the staunch opposition of the Church and the powers-that-be of the Court.
El día de la bestia (1995)
Full movie with English subtitles at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwEbKgj11LY
A Roman Catholic priest (Álex Angulo) believes he has deciphered a secret message in the bible that predicts the birth of the Antichrist on Christmas Day 1995. By committing multiple sins, the priest hopes to sell his soul, so that he can be at the birth of the Antichrist and kill it before it can destroy the world.
In his quest he is helped by a death metal salesman from Carabanchel (Santiago Segura) and the Italian host of a TV show on the occult (Armando De Razza).
Best-Seller: El premio (1996)
Hot scene
http://www.dalealplay.com/informaciondec...?con=78884
Imagine Sergio's reaction when he wakes up after a night of heavy drinking with a terrible hangover only to take a phone call from a stranger that wants to inform him about a finished mission he supposedly commissioned. Sergio is a fiction writer who hasn't seen the recognition he wants and feels he deserves. The caller proceeds to ask him for the ten million pesetas Sergio promised the man for killing his wife. It's clear the man on the other side of the line knows what he's talking about, but poor Sergio can't make sense of the whole thing, even less not being completely sober. What follows is a nightmare on the life of Sergio. Did he, or didn't he ordered his wife's demise?
Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley (1998)
The most successful Spanish movie of all time with a budget of 1.7 million euros and a box-office of 10.9 million. It has three sequels so far.
Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJSg4GYbBE
Full movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WdjlRm3kY8
José Luis Torrente (Santiago Segura) is a lazy, rude, drunkard, sexist, racist, extreme-right-wing Madrid cop who lives in a decrepit apartment in a slum neighborhood with his wheelchair-bound father, whose disability checks are Torrente's only real income.
Los años bárbaros (1998)
Two short clips with Spanish subtitles when English is spoken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCCVK-cgPKc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUCL46Wb22c
During the early (and toughest) years of General Franco’s dictatorship, two students (Jordi Mollà, Ernesto Alterio) are arrested for painting revolutionary graffiti on the university walls. They escape from the camp and flee with two American girls (Heddy Burres, Allison Smith), disguised as rich young men who are showing Spain to the two tourists.
