Top 15 Films by Carlos Saura

Nel crepuscolo della dittatura di Francisco Franco, un'orfana di otto anni e le sue due sorelle trovano rifugio nella casa della loro severa zia e fanno il possibile per acclimatarsi a una nuova realtà. Avranno il coraggio di sopravvivere?

Julián, un medico single, si riunisce con l'amico d'infanzia Pablo, tornato dall'Africa con la moglie Elena. Julian si innamora di lei e cerca di sedurla, ma lei lo rifiuta e lui decide di trasformare la sua infermiera Ana in Elena.

Angela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers.

A British governess comes to an isolated house to take care of the children of a convoluted family.

Three men go hunting rabbits during a hot day. Heat and talking about events that happened in the past make them angry, until they go totally crazy.

A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very Spanish version of Bizet's dramatization of Prosper Merimee's novella Carmen. The choreographer Antonio falls in love with Carmen, the main dancer. Their story then turns similar to the play.

Elisa hasn't seen her father Luis in nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister at a time of crisis in their marriage informing her that her father is sick and decides to travel to Madrid to visit Luis for his birthday.

Un gruppo di mascalzoni e giovani spagnoli, che fino ad ora non hanno prestato più attenzione che nelle stazioni di polizia. Sono un gruppo di amici che sopravvivono come possono nella periferia di Madrid.

Mario Suarez is a forty-something tango artist, whose wife Laura has left him. He leaves his apartment and starts preparing a film about tango.

Durante la guerra civile spagnola, un gruppo di fumetti alleggerisce i giorni delle truppe repubblicane. Stanchi della vita in prima linea, si dirigono verso Valencia, entrando accidentalmente in terra nemica e cadendo prigionieri.

A middle age construction tycoon is wheelchair-bound and amnesiac from a car accident in the company of his mistress. He alone had access to all his business's secrets, including the combination to the safe and his Swiss bank account.

After being given permission to re-inter his mother's body in their family vault, a middle-aged man who survived the Spanish Civil War as a child returns home and relives old memories.

A drama steeped in Portugal's Fado music culture.

As a hall fills with performers, a narrator says that flamenco came from Andalucia, a mix of Greek psalms, Mozarabic dirges, Castillian ballads, Jewish laments, Gregorian chants, African rhythms, and Iranian and Romany melodies. The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba. Families present numbers, both festive and fierce. The camera and the other performers are the only audience.

A group of dancers puts Lorca's 'Blood Wedding' on stage, the tragic play about a married man who is still in love with his ex-girlfriend, and tries to reunite with her despite her planned wedding.