Carlos Saura

The Walls Can Talk (2023)

Las paredes hablan is Carlos Saura's peculiar take on the origin of art. The acclaimed and multi-award winning director, with more than 50 films to his name, portrays the evolution and relationship of art with the wall as a creative canvas from the first g ...

The King of All the World (2021)

Manuel is preparing his next show, a musical about making a musical show. He seeks the help of Sara his ex-wife and renowned choreographer to direct. In the casting, the young Ines will appear as a rising star while dealing with her father and local mob. D ...

Goya, May 3rd (2021)

Filming "Goya. May 3" is an innovative audiovisual project that makes a cinematographic recreation of Goya's painting "The Executions of May 3" through an 8K digital recording with real digital scenography under the direction of Carlos Saura, also from Ara ...

Rosa Rosae. A Spanish Civil War Elegy (2021)

Saura creates and recovers more than thirty images, drawings and photographs that he prints, manipulates, plays with and subsequently films, to produce a story which, while recreating the Spanish Civil War, could also reflect the horrors of universal confl ...

Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander (2018)

The architect, a contemporary master, Renzo Piano. The filmmaker, another contemporary master, Carlos Saura. ...

J: Beyond Flamenco (2016)

Captures the vivacity and charisma of the jota, a waltz-like castanet dance with its origins in the province of Aragon. ...

Argentina (2015)

Argentina continues Saura's lyrical exploration of the essence, talent and patrimony of popular dance and song in both fiction and documentary ...

Carlos Saura's FlamencoHoy (2013)

Flamenco Flamenco (2010)

A look at the history and traditions of flamenco music and dance. ...

I, Don Giovanni (2009)

A drama based on the life of 18th century Italian lyricist Lorenzo da Ponte, who collaborated with Mozart on his "Don Giovanni" opera. ...

Sinfonía de Aragón (2008)

Carlos Saura shows us in this piece his personal vision of the land where he was born. Throughout the seasons we enter a route that ranges from the green Pyrenean landscapes to the Monegros desert. The images offer us the beauty of this Aragonese land but ...

Fados (2007)

A series of musical performances showcasing the diverse facets of fado, a musical genre from Lisbon. ...

Iberia (2005)

Adaptation of the suite "Iberia" by Isaac Albeniz. Documentary about the world of flamenco. The story arises from the music itself and those who interpret it: the musicians and dancers. ...

The 7th Day (2004)

Isabel Jimenez is a teenager witnessing a horrible feud between her own family and the Fuentes family, a feud involving broken hearts, property disputes and a mysterious fire that destroyed the Fuentes house. Isabel's uncle is murdered by Jeronimo Fuentes, ...

Salomé (2002)

Salomé's story interpreted by a director and a troupe of flamenco dancers. ...

Bunuel and King Solomon's Table (2001)

The old Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83) imagines a movie plot, set in Toledo in the future 2002, about the fantastic adventure of three actors, who play him and his friends, the painter Salvador Dalí (1904-89) and the poet Federico García Lorca ...

Goya in Bordeaux (1999)

Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He continues t ...

Tango (1998)

A dangerous love affair inspires a director to create the most spectacular and boldly seductive dance film ever made. ...

Little Bird (1997)

Manu travels to Murcia to spend the summer with their grandparents because their parents are getting divorced. Surrounded by gardens, sea, nature, and lush, warm family, Manu find his first love and the first signs of adulthood. ...

Taxi (1996)

A young girl, after failing an exam, is forced by her father, a taxi-driver, to learn his profession. Soon she discovers that her father is not only a driver but also a member of a racist group eliminating immigrants, homosexual, transvestite, etc. people. ...

Flamenco (1995)

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 ...

Outrage (1993)

Marco Vallez (Antonio Banderas) is possessed by the beauty of a circus sharp shooter, and from the second they meet he is willing to give up everything to be with her. But one horrifying night sends them both down a road of revenge leaving behind a trail o ...

Marathon (1993)

A documentary covering the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. ...

El sur (1992)

Saura''s film inspired on Borges' short story The South. ...

Sevilles (1992)

Filmed like a documentary, "Sevillanas" consists of eleven short performances by Spain's most famous flamenco dancers, singers and guitarists. Saura, well-known for his flamenco films ("Blood Wedding," "Carmen"), here provides an in-depth look at the Sevil ...

The King of Ads (1991)

A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-Marie Boursicot. ...

Ay, Carmela! (1990)

During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner. ...

The Dark Night of the Soul (1989)

Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989's La Noche Oscura (The Dark Night). Juan Diego stars as San Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross), the legendary 16th-century poet-prophet. Galvanized into action by the sp ...

El Dorado (1988)

The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado. ...

El amor brujo (1986)

In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela since ...

The Stilts (1984)

After the death of his wife, Angel, a university professor and writer, he falls into a severe depression. He flees to his house in the country, but there the evil is accentuated, which leads him to an attempted suicide that Teresa, his young neighbor, save ...

Carmen (1983)

While rehearsing a flamenco ballet adaptation of Bizet's opera "Carmen", Antonio, the choreographer, falls in love with the main dancer, Carmen, a fiercely independent woman. Antonio is slowly consumed by jealousy and possessiveness towards Carmen, just li ...

Antonieta (1982)

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who killed herself in 1931 in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. ...

Sweet Hours (1982)

Juan Sahagún, since childhood, feels passion for his mother. One day in the street he sees a woman identical to her. He follows her and finds out that she works as an actress in a theater company, so Juan decides to hire the whole company to represent the ...

Faster, Faster (1981)

Angela is a young waitress who turns her back on society when she meets and falls in love with Pablo, a reckless criminal delinquent. Along with Pablo's gang of car thieves, the pair embark on a drug and disco-fueled robbery spree as they hurtle toward obl ...

Blood Wedding (1981)

A dance troupe prepares for and completes a dress rehearsal of Federico García Lorca's tragic play "Blood Wedding," which is about a bride who runs away from her wedding with a former boyfriend. ...

Mama Turns 100 (1979)

Ana and her husband Antonio arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch. ...

Blindfolded Eyes (1978)

A drama teacher casts a woman in a play about torture, and the two eventually become lovers. As production of the play develops, the director begins to receive threatening letters. ...

Elisa, My Life (1977)

Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis in her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill. Elisa decides to travel to the countryside of Madrid with Isabel and he ...

Cria! (1976)

Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death of her mother. ...

Cousin Angelica (1974)

When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who w ...

Anna and the Wolves (1973)

The young but traveled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family. ...

The Garden of Delights (1970)

The greedy relatives of a paralysed 45-year-old amnesiac millionaire go to extreme lengths to help him recover his memory. ...

Honeycomb (1969)

Teresa and Peter settle down in their new home after the wedding. Things are going well until her childhood furniture arrives, sending Teresa into horrible flashbacks of turmoil from memories of her youth. ...

Stress Is Three (1968)

Set in one-day, three people embark together on a car trip from Madrid to Almeria. Antonio (Cebrián) is a successful industrialist, however he is dismayed that his personal life does not reflect his glittering career. He is insecure about his faltering ma ...

Peppermint Frappé (1967)

Julián, a middle-aged single doctor, is reunited with Pablo, a childhood friend who has just married Elena, a beautiful young woman. ...

The Hunt (1966)

Three veterans of the Spanish Civil War go rabbit hunting. While doing so, old wounds open up. ...

Weeping for a Bandit (1964)

José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits. ...

Muere una mujer (1964)

A salesman discovers that his wife has died under strange circumstances. Examining these circumstances, it becomes obvious to him that they were mainly caused by himself. ...

The Delinquents (1960)

A group of friends who are struggling to survive in the slums of Madrid commit petty crime in order to finance the debut as a bullfighter of one of them. ...

Cuenca (1958)

A medium-length documentary commissioned by the Cuenca City Council. The documentary shows an honest, sincere, although sometimes mere tourist portrait, of the lands of Cuenca and its people, without artifice or imposture, with feeling and authenticity and ...

La tarde del domingo (1957)

El pequeño Río Manzanares (1956)

A tour of the Manzanares River and its influence on the urban layout and customs of the city of Madrid. ...

El proceso (1955)

Taking Franz Kafka's "The Process" as a source of inspiration, a poetic approach is made to his plot, to his characters and sets turned into icons, a meta-theatrical reflection where the gestural language and the surrealist elements imply a very personal r ...

Before Breakfast (1955)

A man, whom we don't identify, kills himself with his razor because he can no longer bear the complaints of his wife, whose face we can't see well either. An impressionistic work with very close shots that cut out reality until, for example, the faces of t ...

Miradas del cine español (2024)

Reflections on Spanish cinema, based on seventy interviews with prominent filmmakers, analyzing their work and addressing their views on various general topics such as the industry and the evolution of Spanish cinema, as well as current issues such as the ...

The Walls Can Talk (2023)

Las paredes hablan is Carlos Saura's peculiar take on the origin of art. The acclaimed and multi-award winning director, with more than 50 films to his name, portrays the evolution and relationship of art with the wall as a creative canvas from the first g ...

Donde acaba la memoria (2022)

Film travels through Las Hurdes and the Residencia de Estudiantes to build the portrait of Ian Gibson, author of the biographies of Buñuel, Dalí and Lorca. The journey ends in Granada, where, after a 50-year search, Gibson is closer than ever to finding ...

Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel (2022)

French writer Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021) traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). ...

Searching for Ingmar Bergman (2018)

A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, with interviews with his closest collaborators and a new generation of filmmakers. ...

Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores (2018)

Spain. 1978. Year of the first democratic elections following the dictatorship, and of the birth cine quinqui (delinquent movies): films that rapidly became a big commercial success, showing things that were banned by the censorship not too long before. ...

Saura(s) (2017)

Carlos Saura, a living legend. Félix Viscarret, a director who wants to make a film portrait of the great master. He draws up a plan. He thinks it's brilliant. He will show the intimate side of Saura through conversations of the genius with his 7 children ...

Carlos Saura - Fotograf (2017)

The film follows the Spanish film director as he publishes a book of his mostly unknown photography. His intimate and often surprising photos create a striking portrait of daily life in 1950's Spain that contrasts with dictator Francisco Franco's propagand ...

Matilde Coral, acariciando el aire (2016)

Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí (2015)

Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin (2015)

"Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one that I prefer." "As inexplicable as the accidents that set it off, our imagination is a crucial privilege. ...

Aragón rodado (2014)

A look at the Aragonese countryside, star of the movie screen, accompanied by various trades of cinema. ...

Carlos Saura's FlamencoHoy (2013)

24 horas en la vida de Querejeta (2012)

Rafael Azcona (2010)

In the Lost City (2009)

The city of Madrid as it appears in the Spanish films of the 1950s. A small tribute to all those who filmed and portrayed Madrid despite the dictatorship, censorship and the critical situation of industry and society. ...

Critic (2008)

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and ...

Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza (2007)

Documentary that reconstructs the professional life of the dancer through the thread of his own voice. A work that travels to the fundamental landscapes of the personal history of Gades with unpublished documents and the testimony of those who shared with ...

Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones (2005)

Documentary about the personal and professional life of Pablo G. del Amo. He is the most influential movie editor in Spain. ...

Portrait of Carlos Saura (2004)

A documentary on the life and career of the Spanish auteur Carlos Saura. ...

Speaking of Buñuel (2000)

Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Tho ...

Les paradoxes de Buñuel (1998)

Famed film director Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) is the subject of this French documentary, with anecdotal interviews edited thematically into sections highlighting Bunuel's contradictions --"Surrealist and Moralist," "Iconoclast and Traditionalist," "Sadist an ...

Buñuel (1989)

Analysis of the work of Luis Buñuel in fifty mini chapters. A co-production of Arsenal Films, Barcelona International Film Festival and Ovideo TV in collaboration with the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP). The film won the 1st Prize at the ...

The Little Apartment (1959)

Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or "pisito", in Spanish dialect). Unfortunately their low salaries prevent them from acquiring one. Soon, Rodolfo's co-workers urge him to m ...

El proceso (1955)

Taking Franz Kafka's "The Process" as a source of inspiration, a poetic approach is made to his plot, to his characters and sets turned into icons, a meta-theatrical reflection where the gestural language and the surrealist elements imply a very personal r ...