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Carlos Saura
Director 1932 - 2023

Carlos Saura

Huesca, Aragón, Spain

Carlos Saura Atarés (4 January 1932 – 10 February 2023) was a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. With Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is considered to be among Spain's great filmmakers. He had a long and prolific career that spanned over half a century, and... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

21 titles
Flamenco, Flamenco

Flamenco, Flamenco

Carlos Saura 2010 1h 37m 8.0

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

Fados

Fados

Carlos Saura 2007 1h 30m

A drama steeped in Portugal's Fado music culture.

Iberia

Iberia

Carlos Saura 2005 2h

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 film recreates and reinvents musical pieces and merges classical ballet, contemporary and Spanish dance and flamenco

Tango

Tango

Carlos Saura 1998 1h 55m 8.0

A dangerous love affair inspires a director to create the most spectacular and bodly seductive dance film ever made. 1998 Oscar Nominee Best Foreign Language Film.

The King of Ads

The King of Ads

Martin Scorsese, Gérard Jugnot 1993 1h 31m

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.

Marathon

Marathon

Carlos Saura 1993 2h 10m

A documentary covering the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.

¡Ay, Carmela!

¡Ay, Carmela!

Carlos Saura 1990 1h 42m

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.

El amor brujo

El amor brujo

Carlos Saura 1986 1h 40m

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 he was a boy, is arrested while helping José and unfairly sent to prison.

Carmen

Carmen

Carlos Saura 1983 1h 42m 8.0

A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his feelings.

Deprisa, deprisa

Deprisa, deprisa

Carlos Saura 1981 1h 39m

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 oblivion.

Bodas de sangre

Bodas de sangre

Carlos Saura 1981 1h 8m

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.

Mamá cumple cien años

Mamá cumple cien años

Carlos Saura 1979 1h 32m 10.0

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.

Elisa, vida mía

Elisa, vida mía

Carlos Saura 1977 2h 5m

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 her brother-in-law Julián and their two children to visit Luis for his birthday.

Cría cuervos

Cría cuervos

Carlos Saura 1976 1h 45m 8.2

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

La prima Angélica

La prima Angélica

Carlos Saura 1974 1h 47m

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.

Ana y los lobos

Ana y los lobos

Carlos Saura 1973 1h 42m

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.

El jardín de las delicias

El jardín de las delicias

Carlos Saura 1970 1h 35m

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

Stress es tre tres

Stress es tre tres

Carlos Saura 1968 1h 34m

An industrialist drives to the sea with his wife and best friend, who he thinks are starting an affair. As the two flirt, he becomes increasingly paranoid. Will he end his agony by killing the would-be lover, the inconstant wife or himself?

Peppermint Frappé

Peppermint Frappé

Carlos Saura 1967 1h 30m

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

La caza

La caza

Carlos Saura 1966 1h 27m 8.0

Three men go hunting rabbits during a hot day. Heat and talking about events happened in the past make them angry, until they go totally crazy.

Los golfos

Los golfos

Carlos Saura 1960 1h 23m

A bunch of scoundrels and members of the Spanish youth, who until now have not paid attention more than in the police stations. They are a group of friends who survive as they can in the suburbs of Madrid.

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