Eloy de la Iglesia
- Directing
- January 1, 1944 · Zarautz, Gipuzkoa, Spain
- March 23, 2006
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Eloy de la Iglesia: Film Addict · Self
- Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
- Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores · Self
- Bulgarian Lovers · Screenplay, Director
- The Tobacconist of Vallecas · Director, Screenplay
- Turn of the Screw · Screenplay, Director
- El pico 2 · Director, Screenplay
- Overdose · Screenplay, Director
- Pals · Director, Screenplay
- The Minister's Wife · Director, Screenplay
- Navajeros · Screenplay, Director
- Afraid to Go Out at Night · Director, Screenplay
- Confessions of a Congressman · Man at rally, Director
- The Priest · Director
- The Creature · Director
- Hidden Pleasures · Director, Screenplay
- The Other Bedroom · Screenplay, Director
- Forbidden Love Game · Director, Writer
- Murder in a Blue World · Director, Screenplay
- No One Heard the Scream · Screenplay, Director
- The Cannibal Man · Screenplay, Director
- The Glass Ceiling · Screenplay, Director
- Cuadrilátero · Director
- Something Bitter in the Mouth · Director, Screenplay
- Fantasía... 3 · Introductor (uncredited), Director