The best Francisco Algora’s drama movies
Today we present the best Francisco Algora’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Francisco Algora’s movies.
Traffic Jam
6.9/10
A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told.
El Dorado
6.4/10
The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
The Beehive
7.1/10
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.
The Grandfather
7.3/10
After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true, and which one is bastard.
Foul Play
6.5/10
A 1977 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem that won the Golden Prize the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.
Barrio
7.1/10
Bored 15-year-old school chums Rai Manu and Javi dream of sexual adventures and exotic resorts while the well-off population of Madrid flock to the beaches on a summer holiday. The youths hang around the concrete wasteland killing time by reading the sex classifieds and pushing their luck. They masturbate, thieve, fight with their families and get involved in a drug bust. Finally Rai, the most daring and restless of the trio - gets shot while trying to steal stereo gear from a car. Each adolescent faces a dreary home life but when they get together they enjoy each other's company to the full. The film is an engaging mixture of comedy drama and the pathos of life in a Madrid neighborhood.
The Rats
5.8/10
A Man Called Autumn Flower
6.7/10
Lluis de Serracant leads a double life. By day he's a young lawyer, scion of a Catalan bourgeois family. At night he's a transvestite performer known to his fans as "Flower of Autumn".
Yo soy fulana de tal
3.1/10
The gentle Spanish comedy Yo soy Fulana de Tal (1975) tells the story of a prostitute who rises from the poor side of town to become a revered member of the community. Along the way she befriends an elderly paternalist artist and also gets her revenge on those who mistreated her in her youth.
¡Bruja, más que bruja!
6.1/10
A small provincial town lives under the caprices of Don Justin, the local cacique. This forces the young Mariana to marry him, taking advantage of the fact that her nephew Juan, the boyfriend of the girl, is far away from military service. Upon his return, Juan is mocked and goes to a witch to assist him in his revenge.
Sunday Light
6.3/10
The small Asturian village of Cenciella, Spain, at the beginning of the twentieth century. The quiet life of Urbano and Estrella, a kind and naive couple in love, is seriously altered when they get involved in the fierce struggle between the local political factions.
Speak, Silent One
6.1/10
Ramiro's grandfather is on vacation in a hostel in the mountains with his family. Decides to send theirs to Madrid and stay in a shelter, saying his health requires. But the reason is another ...
I Feel Strange
5.6/10
Laura (Rocío Dúrcal) is a pianist who leaves her home fed up with her abusive husband's mistreatment. Then she meets Marta (Bárbara Rey), a vedette and television star with whom she will work on the preparation of her new show. From the moment Laura moves to Marta's home, the neighbors' gossips and rumours begin .
Tiovivo c. 1950
6.3/10
This movie has any coherent plot. It is more the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how people manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: la colmena or roma (fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.
Una familia decente
4.2/10
The Dark Story of Cousin Montse
5/10
A young middle class Catalan reflects on the monotony of his life alongside a loose young female with whom he maintains a sexual relation and that will end up telling him the story of her cousin Montse: a social worker who falls for a criminal, therefore causing a great scandal in her family.
Soldados
6.4/10
Dramatic portrait of men and women discouraged in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, after the odyssey of a group of Republican soldiers trying to reach the east coast to go into exile. Agustín must bear that his libertine father lives with the ironer Remedios, although she does not love him. She escapes and he goes to war; when they finally meet again, anxious amid bursts, it will be impossible to consummate their desires repressed for so long.
Winter Diary
5.8/10
Historia de un beso
6.1/10
Secretos de alcoba
4.8/10
