The best José Sacristán’s documentary movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best José Sacristán’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about José Sacristán.
FFG, el último gran conversador
Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being an excellent conversationalist, capable of hypnotizing and seducing those who listened to him.
Barefoot in the Kitchen
6/10
What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragments of different films, both fiction and non-fiction. (Followed by “Manda huevos,” 2016.)
Mi Marilyn
7.3/10
A memory of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), woman, actress, goddess, myth, in the words of the Spanish director and scriptwriter José Luis Garci, who returns to his childhood and recovers a lost paradise.
Alfonso Sánchez
6.1/10
Famous Spanish film critic Alfonso Sánchez talks about his personal life, his work and Anouk Aimée. A sentimental tribute to one of the most relevant figures on the Spanish film scene.
Rafael Azcona
Querido Fotogramas
5.9/10
The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic of voices represented by people who make films, those who write them and those who consume them. The documentary pays tribute to the readers of “Fotogramas” helped by the leading figures of Spanish cinema, who will read to the camera the most representative letters received at its offices in the history of the magazine.
Olea... ¡más alto!
Palabras para un fin del mundo
7.5/10
Spain, 1931. The Second Republic is born. The writer and philosopher Miguel de Unamuno is considered one of the ethical pillars of the new regime. Five years later, on December 31, 1936, a few months after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, Unamuno dies in his home in Salamanca, the propaganda center of the rebel side, led by General Francisco Franco.
El precio de la risa
6.5/10
The life of Paco Martínez Soria (1902-1982), one of the most famous and beloved Spanish actors, both on stage and screen; a comedian, a theatrical producer, an idol for the masses. A celebration of the uncommon gift of making people laugh.
Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream
7.1/10
Documentary about David Lean's unfinished attempt of adapting Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo.
Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell
7.2/10
In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes from Spain; but is captured by the Nazis in 1940 and imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp, in Austria, a year later. There, he works as a prisoner in the SS Photographic Service, hiding, between 1943 and 1945, around 20,000 negatives that later will be presented as evidence during several trials conducted against Nazi war criminals after World War II.
Soledad Miranda, Flower in the Desert
The life of an Andalusian actress who had a brilliant career in cinema, but died early in a car accident at 27 years old.
Projekt Huemul: The IVth Reich in Argentina
7.4/10
In 1946, President Peron started a secret nuclear project with the help of Nazis refugees which consisted in the use of a new method "Nuclear Fusion". Five years later, he would announce to the world his succeed. Even today, no country around the world has achieved it.
Yo quería ser Tyrone Power
An account of the life and work, in his own words, of José Sacristán, one of the best Spanish actors of all time.
Fallas 37: el arte en guerra
In November 1936, a few months since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the Second Republic moves to Valencia. In this situation, several Valencian artists and intellectuals decide to build four fallas —satirical plasterboard sculptures created to be burnt— to mock fascism.
Blood In The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
Quinqui cinema encompassed a series of Spanish crime films with a unique national sensibility, as they reflected the times of the Franco dictatorship transition. Guided by academics Mery Cuesta and Tom Whittaker, this featurette explores this explosive subgenre.
El último verano
7.1/10
