Vicente Aranda

Vicente Aranda

November 9, 1926 · 99 years old

Vicente Aranda was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer. Due to his refined and personal style, he was one of the most renowned Spanish filmmakers. He started as a founded member of the Barcelona School of Film and became known for bringing contemporary Spanish novels to life on the bi…

Known For

9 titles
1
Mad Love

Mad Love

2001 · 1h 55m · Movie

The love story that transformed Juana, Queen of Spain, into Juana "the Mad". A story of passions, lies and jealousy with a political motive behind.

6.5
2
Lovers: A True Story

Lovers: A True Story

1991 · 1h 43m · Movie

1950s Madrid: After military service, Paco looks for work to save up and marry his fiancée. She rejects his sexual advances. So when he rents a room with a cute widow making advances, he caves in.

6.9
3
Carmen

Carmen

2003 · 1h 55m · Movie

CARMEN, a classic novel by Prosper Merimee, tells the story of forbidden passion between a young soldier and a spoken-for woman, Carmen, revealing its destructive nature.

6.1
4
Turkish Passion

Turkish Passion

1994 · 1h 52m · Movie

Desideria, a married Spanish woman who has a quite boring and hidden sex-life, goes to Istanbul where she meets Yaman, a Turkish tourist guide, who makes her discover new physical experiences.

5.3
5
El Lute: Run for Your Life

El Lute: Run for Your Life

1987 · 2h 3m · Movie

First part of the history of "El Lute", a delinquent who became notorious in Spain for his jail escapes in the 60's, converting himself in a popular legend.

6.6
6
The Naked Eye

The Naked Eye

1998 · 1h 44m · Movie

Begoña is a thirty something consultant who has rebelled against her upper-middle-class background and has overdone it with sex ever since her youth. On recommendation of her psychoanalyst she keeps a video diary of her encounters...

4.7
7
The People Who Own the Dark

The People Who Own the Dark

1976 · 1h 22m · Movie

Rich partygoers in castle survive nuclear war. Venturing out, they find townspeople blinded. Discover sinister group called "People Who Own The Dark" exists.

5.6
8
Girl with the Golden Panties

Girl with the Golden Panties

1980 · 1h 45m · Movie

Luis, an aging Falangist author with guilty conscious, is writing fake memoirs. Two reporters, his niece Mariana and her lesbian friend Elmyr, arrive to do a piece on him. While fact-checking his memoirs Mariana becomes attracted ...

5.3
9
Left-Handed Fate

Left-Handed Fate

1966 · 1h 24m · Movie

The inhabitants of a strange desert Barcelona are gradually leaving the city in a panic group. The victims of a serial killers seem to feel strangely attracted by their executioners. Only Gim, an attractive blonde advertising mode...

5.6