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Eloy de la Iglesia
Zarautz, Gipuzkoa, Spain
De la Iglesia was an outspoken gay socialist filmmaker relatively unknown outside of Spain, despite a prolific and successful career in his native country. He is best remembered f…
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De la Iglesia was an outspoken gay socialist filmmaker relatively unknown outside of Spain, despite a prolific and successful career in his native country. He is best remembered for having portrayed urban marginality and the world of drugs and juvenile delinquency in the early 1980s, and his films serve as an archive of the Spanish marginality of this era. Is other words, his work is closely related to the phenomenon popularly known in Spain as "quinqui cinema". His films are an example of commitment to the immediate reality; they were made with honesty and great risk, against the conformist outlook of most movies of its time. Many of this films also deal with the theme of homosexuality.
Filmography
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2025
Eloy de la Iglesia: Film Addict
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2021
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2018
Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2003
Bulgarian Lovers
Movie Director
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1987
The Tobacconist of Vallecas
Movie Director
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1985
Turn of the Screw
Movie Screenplay
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1984
El pico 2
Movie
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1983
Overdose
Movie
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1982
Pals
Movie Director
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1981
The Minister's Wife
Movie
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1980
Navajeros
Movie
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1980
Afraid to Go Out at Night
Movie Director
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1978
Confessions of a Congressman
Movie Man at rally
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1978
The Priest
Movie Director
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1977
The Creature
Movie Director
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1977
Hidden Pleasures
Movie Screenplay
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1976
The Other Bedroom
Movie Screenplay
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1975
Forbidden Love Game
Movie Director
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1973
Murder in a Blue World
Movie Screenplay
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1973
No One Heard the Scream
Movie Director
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1972
The Cannibal Man
Movie Director
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1971
The Glass Ceiling
Movie Director
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1970
Cuadrilátero
Movie Director
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1969
Something Bitter in the Mouth
Movie Screenplay
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1966
Fantasía... 3
Movie Introductor (uncredited)
