The best José María Blanco’s movies
We present our ranking of the best José María Blanco’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about José María Blanco.
99 Women
4.7/10
Jesus Franco's campy women's prison film is worthwhile for genre devotees primarily due to an outstanding cast. Mercedes McCambridge is unintentionally hilarious as sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz, spitting tacky dialogue with exuberant venom in a performance so overbearing that it verges on classic. The plot is standard for the genre, as three women (Maria Rohm, Elisa Montes, Luciana Paluzzi) are sentenced to an island prison off the Panamanian coast, only to encounter torture, rape, and lesbianism. When sympathetic Warden Caroll (Maria Schell) replaces Diaz, the prisoners assume that conditions will improve, but their agony only worsens until they decide to escape. Rosalba Neri co-stars, and Herbert Lom runs the corrupt men's prison nearby. 99 Mujeres was heavily censored in various prints, with versions running anywhere between 70 and 108 minutes. Edits running 84, 86, and 94 minutes are most commonly available.
Sweet Home
5.2/10
A couple decides to spend a romantic evening in a floor of a semi-abandoned building that slip because she works as a consultant for the council house and got the keys. During the evening they discover that a hooded murderer is the only tenant left in the building...and they have become the new target.
Fight to the Death
6.4/10
The parallel stories of a police commissioner and a bank robber whose lives eventually come together.
The Exquisite Cadaver
6.2/10
A publisher of novels begins to receive packets containing macabre: members of a female corpse. The appearance of a mysterious woman who seems related packages will lead to a situation of dramatic denouement.
Sartana Does Not Forgive
5.8/10
Jorge Martin is relentlessly stalking a gang of outlaws led by the ruthless Slim (Jack Elam) who raped and murdered his bride.
Eyeball
5.9/10
A group of American tourists is traveling through Spain when two of them are murdered by a mysterious serial killer who removes an eyeball from every one of his victims. The tour presses on as the murders continue, with the travelers and the police trying to deduce which one of them is the killer.
In the Claws of the CIA
4.5/10
Kung fu champ John is given the chance to train CIA agents in martial arts by using self-hypnosis. But when he discovers the reason he escapes and the CIA go after him. John must fight for his life all over Europe as he flees the CIA.
La diputada
4.8/10
El certificado
6.2/10
Silvia is a Spanish woman from the provinces who travels to the big city at the time of Franco's dictatorship. There she meets a married man, with whom she ends up having a sentimental relationship, becoming lovers. But to prove him that he should not be jealous, Silvia gets a certificate of virginity.
Sensualidad
4.3/10
Female Street Dogs
4.3/10
Lolita al desnudo
5.1/10
Jaizkibel
6.6/10
Captain Escalaborns
6.2/10
After the death of his parents, Juan goes into an adventure to find Captain Escalaborns to whom he must deliver the map of a treasure to be searched together.
Persecución hasta Valencia
Vanished
4.7/10
During a visit to a tropical island, a man mysteriously disappears and his wife must lead her own investigation in order to find him.
Target Eagle
4.2/10
A Spanish police chief hires an undercover agent (a Jewish mercenary(?)) to infiltrate a gang of heroin smugglers. The mercenary is code-named Eagle because of a tattoo. Infiltrating the gang, he uses a female agent as a point of contact. However, as he gets deeper into the gang, he discovers that there bigger goings-on than dope. The gang is involved in the transportation of smuggled uranium for the manufacture of nuclear arms for sale to Libya and other aspiring third world countries. Things get even stickier when a ruthless bad guy shows up and he turns out to be one of Eagle's former cohorts in the Foreign Legion.
La española inglesa
6.3/10
In 1596, a Spanish girl, Isabel, is kidnapped by the English during the Capture of Cádiz and sent to England, where, already an adult woman, she falls in love with her kidnapper's son.
Those Skies
A made-for-TV adaptation of the novel of the same name by Bernardo Atxaga. It tells the story of Irene, an ETA convict who, upon leaving prison in Barcelona, takes a bus to Donostia, her home. Along the way Irene reminisces about her life and contemplates her future, her right to choose her own path despite the pressures put on her by others.
Lone Wolves
5.3/10
Lone Wolves is about corruption in the high spheres, set in a prison drama and with a black film aesthetic. Lone wolves has a structure similar to Reservoir dogs, where through several episodes we will discover why certain characters ended up in jail.
