Below I have created an extensive list of resources for Spanish/Latin American films. Hopefully it will of use for those interested in Spanish/Latin American cinema and to that end I would like to thank the people/organisations would produced them.
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LAS 13 ROSES 2007 SPAIN LÁZARO, EMILIO MARTÍNEZ – NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
True story of a young women imprisoned charged with helping the rebellion against Franco in the 1940’s.
14 KILÓMETROS/14 KILOMETERS 2007 SPAIN OLIVARES, GERARDO – NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Three Africans set off on a journey to Spain looking for a better life but become stranded in the desert with little hope of survival.
ABEL (15) 2010 MEXICO LUNA, DIEGO £14.99
Abel is an unstable child with mental problems who after his father leaves decides that he’s the man of the house, and begins acting like his absent father rather than the youngest child. To the surprise of everyone, adult responsibilities agree with Abel, and the family seems significantly happier with his new personality. But this proves to be short-lived when Abel’s real dad unexpectedly returns, and the two vie for the status of head of the household.
Level: AS, A2, KS4 Subject: Spanish, Film Studies
SPANISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES
LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS/BROKEN EMBRACES/ (15) 2009 SPAIN ALMODÓVAR,PEDRO DVD – £19.99 BLU RAY – £27.99
Almodovar tells a twisting tale of how a blind writer came to loose his sight.
Level: GCSE, Scottish Highers Subject: Spanish, Film Studies, Media Studies
ARRUGAS/WRINKLES (15) 2011SPAIN FERRERAS, IGNACIO DVD – £19.99 BLU RAY – £24.99
Animated film based on the comic book by Paco Roca set in a care home for the elderly.
ARRANCAME LA VIDA/TEAR THIS HEART OUT 2008 MEXICO SNEIDER, ROBERTO – NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
A beautiful young girl marries a rich charming and powerful man. However the wealth and money don’t necessarily bring freedom and happiness and her generous and seductive husband is not the man she dreamt of.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
EL BANO DEL PAPA (15) 2007 URUGUAY CHARLONE C/FERNANDEZ E. £19.99
Comedy about a petty smuggler with an ingenious plan to provide toilet facilities to the masses when the Pope visits his local town.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
BLANCANIEVES (15) 2012 SPAIN BERGER, PABLO £19.99
Spanish black and white silent fantasy drama based on the Snow White fairy
EL BOLA (15) SPAIN 2001 MANAS, ACHERO £19.99
Goya awarding winning film about teenage friendship.
A BUSCA/FATHER’S CHAIR (15) BRAZIL 2012 LUCIANO MOURA IN PORTUGUESE £12.99
Theo (Wagner Moura) perfect live changes overnight when his 15-year-old son Pedro goes missing. Theo drops everything and embarks on a journey throughout Brazil to find him
LA CAJA 507/BOX 507 (15) 2004 SPAIN URBIZU, ENRIQUE £29.99
Thriller about robber who breaks open numerous safe deposit boxes and stumble across a which might solve a seven year old murder.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO LA CAJA 507
CARNE DE CAÑÓN/LIVE FLESH (18) SPAIN 1997 SPAIN ALMODOVAR, PEDRO £19.99
Sexy Almodovar thriller.
CENIZAS DEL CIELO/ASHES FROM THE SKY (12A) 2008 SPAIN QUIRÓS, JOSÉ ANTONIO – NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Environmental drama
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
CIDADE DE DEUS/CITY OF GOD (18) BRAZIL 2000 LUND, KATIA £17.99
Violent look at the child gangs in the slums of Rio de Janeiro Level: AS, A2, Subject: Citizenship, English, Film Studies Study Guide Spanish language study guide Cinescola
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE SCREENPLAY
EL CIELO GIRA/SKY TURNS 2005 SPAIN ALVAREZ, MERCEDES – NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Director Mercedes Alvarez was three years old when her parents left the village of La Aldea in the barren Northern Spanish Soria region. As the last child born in La Aldea the director return to the dying village to make this film.
LOS COLORES DE LA MONTANA 2010 COLUMBIA ARBELÁEZ, CÉSAR – NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
This moving film tells the story of a football mad 9 year old boy living in a remote region of the Andes which is beset by fighting between the guerilla fighters and government troops.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
LA DANZA DE LA REALIDAD/DANCE OF REALITY (18) 2013 CHILE JODOROWSKY, ALEJANDRO £15.99
23 years since his last film Jodorowsky return with a film about is own life growing up a Ukrainian-Jew is the small Chilean costal town of Tocopilla in the early 1930s. The film blends the directors personal story with metaphor, mythology, and poetry.
DESPUÉS DE LUCÍA/AFTER LUCIA (15) 2012 MEXICO FRANCO, MICHEL £19.99
Tense drama about a teenage girl who becomes the object of increasingly violent bullying at her new school.
EL DIA DE LA BESTIA/DAY OF THE BEAST 1995 IGLESIA, ÁLEX DE LA. – NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Darkest humoured horror film about a priest’s quest to prevent the birth of the Anti-Christ in Madrid on Christmas Day.
DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA /MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (15) 2004 ARGENTINA SALLES,W/THOMAS D DVD – £19.99 BLU RAY – £19.99Based on the journals of Ché Guevara, this coming-of-age road movie follows the adventures of the young medical student Ché (Gael García Bernal) and his friend Alberto Granada (Rodrigo de la Serna) as they cross South America on motorbikes in the early 1950s, on their way to take up their medical residency at a leper colony in Peru.
ERES MI HÉROE/YOU’RE MY HERO (15) SPAIN 2003 CUADRI, ANTONIO £19.99EL ESPINAZO DEL DIABLO/DEVIL’S BACKBONE (15) SPAIN 2001 DEL TORO, GUILERMON £19.99
Set in an orphanage during the Spanish Civil War which is haunted by a decomposing spirit.
Level: GCSE topic: Están en Peligro AS / A Level topic: crime Subject: Spanish
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY JACKY COLLINS AND ANN DAVIES
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
EL ESPÍRITU DE LA COLMENA/SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (PG) SPAIN 1973 ERICE, VICTOR £19.99 – AWAITING RE-ISSUE ON DVD
A remote Spanish village in the 1940’s a child becomes obsessed by the good-bad monster in the film Frankenstein. Victor Erice’s impressive film cloaks its political message in allegory.
LA JAULA DE ORO/THE GOLDEN DREAM (12A) 2013 GUATEMALA QUEMADA-DÍEZ, DIEGO £15.99
Three teenagers from the poorest part of Guatemala set off for a better life in the US.
On their way, they meet Chauk, an indigenous boy who can’t speak Spanish, but tags along. Continuing their journey they encounter kidnappers, drug traffickers and corrupt officials
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES
KIKA (18) 1994 SPAIN ALMODOVAR, PEDRO £17.99
Kika, a make-up artist is involved in a web of intrigue.
EL LABERINTO DEL FAUNO/PANS LABYRINTH (15) 2006 SPAIN TORO, GUILLERMO DEL £17.99
An adult fairy tale set in 1944 Spain, where both fantasy and reality are sinister and malevolent.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Scottish Highers Subject: Spanish, Film Studies, Media Studies
LAND AND FREEDOM (15) UK 1995 PART IN ENGLISH PART IN SPANISH LOACH, KEN £19.99
Ken Loach’s moving story of the Spanish Civil War and an unemployed Liverpool man, who heads for Spain as a volunteer to fight in the war. Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subjects: Film Studies, History
LA LENGUA DE LAS MARIPOSAS/BUTTERFLY’S TONGUE (15) 1999 SPAIN JOSE LUIS CUERDA £19.99
A school boys friendship with his teacher is tested with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
MATERIALES CURSOS ANTERIORES SPANISH LANGUAGE GUIDE
SPANISH LANGUAGE GUIDE WRITTEN BY PAULA PERERO CHAVARRÍA
LOBO (15) 2004 SPAIN COURTOIS, MIGUEL £17.99
Film about Mikel Lejarza, an undercover agent who became responsible for infiltrating Basque terrorist organisation, ETA.
SPANISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO EL LOBO
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO EL LOBO
MACHUCA (15) 2004 CHILE WOOD, ANDRES £19.99
Andres Woods semi-autobiographical film is set in Chile in 1973.
SPANISH FILM NOTES BY ANA VALBUENA
LA MÁQUINA DE PINTAR NUBES/THE CLOUD PAINTING MACHINE (15) 2009 SPAIN MAZO, A/TELLERÍA, P – NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Coming-of-age tale set in Bilbao in 1974.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
MAR ADENTRO/SEA INSIDE (PG) 2004 SPAIN AMENABAR, ALEJANDRO £19.99
The real-life story of the paralysed Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30 year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE WRITTEN BY JACKY COLLINS AND ANN DAVIES
MARIA LLENA ERES DE GRACIA/MARIA FULL OF GRACE (15) 2004 COLOMBIA MARSTON, JOSHUA £17.99
Thriller about a Colombia 17 years old who becomes involved in smuggling drugs to the USA. Level: AS, A2, Subject: Spanish
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY JACKY COLLINS AND ANN DAVIES
FRENCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO MARIA LLENA ERES DE GRACIA
DUTCH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO MARIA LLENA ERES DE GRACIA
MISS BALA (15) 2011 MEXICO NARANJO, GERARDO £19.99
Mexican thriller about a poor Tijuana salesgirl who dreams of winning the local beauty pageant. However, she becomes embroiled in a nightmare world of organised crime when she witnesses the massacre of American anti-narcotics agents at a nightclub.
Level: AS, A2, KS4 Subject: Spanish, Citizenship, Film Studies, Media Studies, PSHE & Citizenship
LA MITAD DEL CIELO/HALF OF HEAVEN (12A) 1986 SPAIN ARAGÓN, MANUEL GUTIÉRREZ – NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
A tale of female passion and determination in a male dominated world.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA.
LA MUJER DEL ANARQUISTA/THE ANARCHIST’S WIFE (15) 2008 SPAIN SEHR,P/ NOËLLE, M – NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Love story set during the Spanish Civil War.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
LA NANA/MAID (15) CHILE 2009 SILVA, SEBASTIAN £15.99
Comedy drama and social commentary that explores the subtle and complex dynamics at work between a well-meaning upper class Chilean family and their Peruvian maid
SPANISH LANGUAGE FILMS NOTES OT LA NANA
EL NIÑO (15) 2014 MONZÓN, DANIEL £19.99
Spanish thriller about Niño (Jesús Castro), a young man living in La Línea de la Concepción, who agrees to smuggle drugs from Africa to Spain.
OCHO APELLIDOS VASCOS /SPANISH AFFAIR (15) 2014 SPAIN LAZARO, EMILIO MARTINEZ £19.99
A young man from Seville seeks to win the heart of a Basque girl in this hit Spanish comedy based on the culture clash between the north and south of Spain
SPANISH LANGUAGE ESSAY ON OCHO APELLIDOS VASCOS
LOS OLVIDADOS (15) MEXICO 1950 BUNUEL, LUIS £12.99
Mexican drama about a street gang in Mexico City
EL ORFANATO/ORPHANAGE (15) 2007 MEXICO BAYONA , JUAN ANTONIO £19.99
Chilling ghost story
LA PIEL QUE HABITO/THE SKIN I LIVE IN (18) SPAIN ALMODÓVAR, PEDRO DVD – £19.99 BLU RAY – £27.99
Antonio Banderas plays a plastic surgeon whose attempts to cultivate a new form of human skin have led to years of experimentation on a woman, Vera. But as the story of Vera’s past emerges, it becomes clear that the surgeon has a questionable agenda of his own as he manipulates her face and body for his own purposes.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, KS4 Subject: Spanish, Film Studies, Media Studies
REACHING FOR THE MOON (15) 2013 BRAZIL BARRETO, BRUNO IN PORTUGUESE £15.99
Set at the height of 1950s glamour, this film recounts the extraordinary relationship between Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Set at the height of 1950s glamour, this audience award winning drama recounts the extraordinary relationship between Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRODUCTION NOTES
RELATOS SALVAJES/WILD TALES (15) 2014 ARGENTINA SZIFRON, DAMIÁN
DVD – £15.99 BLU RAY – £19.99
Academy Award-nominated film consisting of six stories about characters who cross the thin line that divides civilisation from barbarism.
SOLAS (15) 1998 SPAIN ZAMBRANO, BENITO £19.99
Award wining film about the relationship between a mother and her daughter.
SPANISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO SOLAS
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO SOLAS
SOMOS LO QUE HAY/WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (18) 2010 MEXICO GRAU, JORGE MICHEL DVD – £15.99 BLU RAY – £19.99
Visceral and powerful portrait of a Mexican family bound by a monstrous secret.
TAMBIÉN LA LLUVIA/EVEN THE RAIN (15) 2012 SPAIN BOLLAÍN, ICIAR £14.99 Spanish actress, writer and director Icíar Bollaín directs this political docu-drama about an international film crew that arrives in rural Bolivia to make a film about Christopher Columbus. However, director Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal) and his crew find their project under threat when violent demonstrations break out locally against the corporate ownership of the area’s water rights. The film uses a dual storyline to draw parallels between issues of wealth, ownership and political power both 500 years ago, when Spain first conquered the New World, and today, when corporate giants use their money and power to ride roughshod over the rights of indigenous people.
Level: AS, A2, KS4 Subject: Spanish, Film Studies, Media Studies
¿TE ACUERDAS DE LAKE TAHOE?/LAKE TAHOE (12) 2008 MEXICO EIMBCKE, FERNANDO £15.99 – NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Juan car crashes and as he is stranded in a small town he makes tentative connections with the people he has met and is finally able to find the strength to face up to a recent family tragedy.
TE DOY MIS OJOS/TAKE MY EYES (15) 2004 SPAIN BOLLAIN, ICAIR £19.99 Realist drama about a woman and her child escaping her abusive husband. .
TESIS (18) 1986 SPAIN AMENÁBAR, ALEJANDRO – AWAITING RE-ISSUE ON DVD
Tense thriller
TODO SOBRE MI MADRE/ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (15) 1999 SPAIN ALMODOVAR, PEDRO £19.99
On the death of her son a single mother goes to find the boys father, a transvestite named Lola who does not know he had a child Level: AS, A2 Subject: Spanish, Women, Gender, Film Studies, Media Studies, PSHE & Citizenship
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY JACKY COLLINS AND ANN DAVIES
UN FRANCO, 14 PESETAS/CROSSING BORDERS (15) 2006 SPAIN IGLESIAS, CARLOS – NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Gentle comedy about Spanish immigrants living in 1960s Switzerland
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
UN LUGAR EN EL MUNDO 1992 ARGENTINA ARISTARÁIN, ADOLFO – NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
South American western
UNA MUJER FANTÁSTICA/A FANTASTIC WOMAN (15) 2017 CHILE LELIO , SEBASTIÁN DVD – £12.99 BLU RAY – £17.99
After Orlando dies his transgender partner, Marina, finds herself and her lifestyle coming under scrutiny by Orlando’s family and the police. Marina is banned from Orlando’s funeral and questioned and harassed relentlessly, while at the same time trying to grieve the loss of her partner.
Winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar
ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO UNA MUJER FANTÁSTICA
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT UNA MUJER FANTÁSTICA – A FANTASTIC WOMAN
GERMAN LANGUAGE PRESS KIT UNA MUJER FANTÁSTICA – A FANTASTIC WOMAN
ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCREENPLAY TO UNA MUJER FANTÁSTICA – A FANTASTIC WOMAN
LA VIDA PRECOZ Y BREVE DE SABINA RIVAS/ PRECOCIOUS & BRIEF LIFE OF SABINA RIVAS (15) 2012 MEXICO MANDOKI, LUIS £12.99
Honduran teenager Sabina Rivas (Greisy Mena) leaves her small town dreaming of becoming a famous singer in the USA. However first she must navigate through Mexico’s seedy underworld to reach her goal.
SPANISH LANGUAGE FILMS NOTES TO LA VIDA PRECOZ Y BREVE DE SABINA RIVAS
EL VIAJE DE TEO TEO’S JOURNEY (12A) 2009 MEXICO DOEHNER, WALTER – NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
Eight-year-old Teo goes on a journey in search of his father, from whom he has been separated at the Mexican-US border.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
EL VIOLIN (15) 2005 MEXICO VARGAS, FRANCISCO £19.99
An old farmer and violinist, smuggles ammunition to the guerilla movement beneath the noses of government troops.
VIRIDIANA (15) MEXICO 1961 B/W BUNUEL, LUIS £15.99
Bunuel’s masterwork packed with black humour, anticlericism and scathing satire.
VOCES INOCENTES/INNOCENT VOICES (12) 2004 MEXICO MANDOKI, LUIS £19.99
Set in El Salvador in the 1980s, an eleven-year-old boy who suddenly becomes the’man of the house’ after his father abandons the family in the middle of a civil war
Level: GCSE topic: relationships, first love AS / A Level topic: war, third world Subject:
SPANISH LANGUAGE PRE FILM STUDENT GUIDE
SPANISH LANGUAGE POST FILM STUDENT GUIDE
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
VOLVER (15) 2006 SPAIN ALMODOVAR, PEDRO £19.99
After her death, a mother returns as a ghost, to fix a family situations she couldn’t resolve during her life.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subject: Spanish, Film Studies, Media Studies
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE WRITTEN BY CARMEN HERRERO
WAKOLDA/GERMAN DOCTOR (12A) 2013 ARGENTINA PUENZO, LUCIA £15.99
The true story of an Argentinean family who lived alongside ex-Nazi SS Josef Mengele without knowing his true identity.
WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL? (12A) 2013 SILVER, MARC £15.99
Actor Gael García Bernal produces and presents this documentary exploring the issue of illegal immigration from Mexico into the USA.
ZIPI Y ZAPE Y EL CLUB DE LA CANICA/ZIP & ZAP AND THE MARBLE GANG (PG) 2013 SPAIN SANTOS, OSKAR £19.99
SPANISH LANGUAGE NOTES TO ZIPI Y ZAPE Y EL CLUB DE LA CANICA
ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES TO ZIPI Y ZAPE Y EL CLUB DE LA CANICA
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES TO ZIPI Y ZAPE Y EL CLUB DE LA CANICA
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