The best José Sazatornil’s drama movies
We present our ranking of the best José Sazatornil’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 Sazatornil.
The Executioner
7.9/10
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
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.
Year of Enlightment
6.8/10
April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, Manolo, surrounded by boys all much younger than he is, feels a bit like the cock of the walk since the only other man around is the handyman Emilio who looks after the gardens and does whatever needs to be done about the place. His wife, Rafaela, is the cook. Manolo meets Irene, a falangist who runs the sanatorium, and the school teacher, Miss Transito, a crabby spinster. He has his first sexual experience, albeit as a voyeur, with his nurse Vicenta. When she has to leave, her place is taken by a girl from the village, Maria Jesus, with whom Manolo falls hopelessly in love. A relationship grows up between them which will mark them both for ever.
La pecadora
6.2/10
Hotel Danubio
5.2/10
Galicia (Spain), 50s. Hugo, a failed writer, whose works rejects and over his publishing because they lack credibility, maintains relationships with Ivon, a beautiful young chorus girl, obsessed with stop work, marry and live without financial burdens. Hugo has a son, Carlos, about the age of Ivon, that in addition to her father steal a large inheritance, falls in love for the young. But on Carlos, young, rich and handsome, hangs a mystery ... Remake of the film "Los peces rojos", 1955.
El amor empieza en sábado
Mañana...
6.5/10
"Tomorrow ..." (mañana...) is the easy exit to deceive themselves of those who feel the impotence and the cowardice to confront face to face their circumstances in life.
Sangre en el ruedo
5.4/10
Like every night, Manuel remembers the old days of glory, when after the war he was a famous bullfighter. He and his friend Juan were the fashionable couple. Now Juan is a prominent businessman in bullfighting. But Manuel's feelings toward him have changed radically: an inexplicable hated seizes him when someone mentions his name. It has been more than twenty years since that afternoon, when Manuel was bullfighting and fell to the ground.
Un millón en la basura
6.8/10
In the vast army of human society, Pepe, a sweeper, occupies one of the last places: anonymous, gray, vague. Pepe is a member of that ghostly dawn brigade, to blow hose, clean the streets at dawn. One day Pepe finds a million in the trash. Financial need of the poor sweeper suggests keeping the money, but his wife advises him to do his civic duty and return the money ...
Las tres perfectas casadas
7.2/10
El golfo que vio una estrella
2.7/10
Los agentes del 5º grupo
5.5/10
Hospital de urgencia
Los gallos de la madrugada
6.5/10
Vete de mí
6.2/10
El fin de la inocencia
4.8/10
A student, expelled from school for her behaviour, moves into the house of her uncle, a man with sadistic tendencies.
