Eloy de la Iglesia

Date of Birth: 01 Jan 1944
Country: Spain
Total Credits at Criticker: 22 (Director), 17 (Writer)
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Daniel (Cuervo) is a middle-aged, gay man who comes from an established family and lives a charmed, middle-class existence. He is a "regular" of Madrid's gay bar scene sometimes hunting for good-looking, young foreigners. At one of these bars, he meets Kyril (Beba), a hunky 23-year-old Bulgarian. After a night of animalistic passion, Daniel is under his Eastern European spell. Wild, reckless and slightly dangerous, Kyril seems to turn Daniel's conservative and rather predictable life upside down. (TLA Releasing)
A young man, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother's fiancee and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to the butchery... (imdb)
Sex and politics collide in Eloy de la Iglesia's harrowing, hard-hitting tale of forbidden love, blackmail and murder. Set up by the secret police to compromise a prominent politician, a teenage hustler discovers himself passionately in love with the man he must betray. Contains nudity, harsh language and violence. Sexual situations and viewer discretion is advised. (imdb)
Honest citizens live in terror as gangs of leather clad, whip-wielding sadists roam the nighttime streets. Meanwhile, in a top-secret laboratory, strange mind control experiments are being conducted. Against this background a beautiful nurse tries to ease the pain of those condemned to die.
A Civil Guard Commander discovers that his 17 year old son, who wants to enter the Military Academy, is a heroin addict (Filmaffinity)
After finishing a strict and traumatizing education at a Jesuit seminary, young Roberto is offered a post by the priest of his village: The local count is looking for a new teacher for his 8 year old niece, Flora. Roberto accepts the post and soon finds himself traveling to the remote estate of the count by the seaside which is taken care of by the old housekeeper Mrs. Antonia. (Anonymous (imdb)
After several years of marriage, Cristina manages to finally get pregnant. Shortly before giving birth, the shock that produces a dog rushes delivery, and stillbirth. (Filmaffinity)
Leandro, a unemployed construction worker, and his friend Tocho try to rob a tobacco shop in the Madrid neighborhood of Vallecas, but Mrs. Justa, the tobacconist, prevents it by alerting the neighbors who notify the police. Meanwhile, inside the tobacco shop, the confrontation between the two friends and their 'hostages', the tobacconist and her niece, is relaxing and an incipient sympathy arises between them.
José Manuel Gómez Perales alias "El Jaro" lives with his band, also teenagers and their girlfriends. One day he meets Mercedes, a prostitute who want him away from the bad way. Then appears Toñi, a drug addict from which he falls. (imdb)
Paco, son of the commander of the Civil Guard Evaristo Torrecuadrada, has been involved in Bilbao in the murder of a couple of heroin traffickers. When the press begins to take an interest in the case, the efforts of his father to take him apart from drugs and hide the evidence of the crime are useless. Paco will be arrested, tried and imprisoned in the Madrid prison of Carabanchel, where he will experience first hand the rigors of the penitentiary system.
Two best friends are forced into street hustling and and ever-expanding life of crime when one impregnates the sister of the other.
A teenage couple, who have decided to run away from home, are picked up by their teacher when hitchhiking and invited back to his lavishly furnished home.
Marta spends a few days alone while her husband is on a business trip. But she starts to get scared when she hears some mysterious steps every night on the top floor. Her neighbor will try to convince her that it is her husband's footsteps when he returns from work, but Marta does not believe it and begins to investigate. (imdb)
The Marchioness of Montenegro, indirectly responsible for getting Rafael fired from his old job, helps him find a new job as the gardener for the Minister of Economy. His beautiful young wife, Teresa, is sexually frustrated with her husband's impotence, and begins to pay attention to Rafael, eventually becoming pregnant by him. Meanwhile, a leftist terrorist group has contacted Rafael, forcing him to aid them in kidnapping the minister. (Timon88)
A closeted banker, middle-aged and successful, falls madly in love with a poor but handsome 18-year-old student with some devastating consequences. (imdb)
In December of 1966, Franco has strengthened his dictatorship of Spain via referendum, while the Catholic Church has recently modernized many of its attitudes via Vatican II. In a suburb of Madrid, a conservative priest (Andreu) must deal with inner conflicts of his own: those between his strict religious views and his sexual desires that will not go away. (Timon88)
A young man goes to a relative's house to celebrate Christmas, and finds that three female family members of different ages seek to advance their romantic attention. (imdb)
A satirical take on life in Madrid in the early post-Franco years, when crime was high and citizens often felt unsafe. Don Francisco (Sacristán) and his family members are affected by the rising hysteria in different ways, while Don Cosme (Ferrandis) refuses to be intimidated. (Timon88)
The beautiful Diana (Muñoz) intensely desires to have children, but her husband Marcos (Andreu), a wealthy businessman with political aspirations, is sterile. By chance, she meets the gas station attendant Juan (Andión); he is young, virile, and attractive, and they pursue an affair, which results in Diana becoming pregnant. (Timon88)
Óscar is a promoter and manager of boxing who, in addition to controlling the professional careers of his clients, also monitors their love life. One of the boxers he promotes, Miguel Valdés, starts dating Elena, a young and beautiful model with whom the promoter is in love. The maneuvers to undo the relationship do not work and, mad with jealousy, he organizes in retaliation a bloody fight against another boxer, José Laguna, which will have fateful consequences for Miguel. (imdb)