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Vicente Aranda
Writer 1926 - 2015

Vicente Aranda

Barcelona, Spain

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... Read full bio →

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

12 titles
Carmen

Carmen

Vicente Aranda 2003 1h 59m 6.0

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.

Juana la Loca

Juana la Loca

Vicente Aranda 2001 1h 55m

The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.

Libertarias

Libertarias

Vicente Aranda 1996 2h 5m

At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front.

La pasión turca

La pasión turca

Vicente Aranda 1994 1h 52m

A young woman’s passion forms the basis of this erotic Spanish drama adapted from a popular novel by Antonio Gala. The night before Desideria’s marriage, her girl friends give her some valuable advice on sex. The marriage takes place, and while it is generally happy, her husband Ramiro suffers from sexual dysfunction and Desideria is frustrated.

Amantes

Amantes

Vicente Aranda 1991 1h 43m

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.

Tiempo de silencio

Tiempo de silencio

Vicente Aranda 1986 1h 51m

Pedro Martín, a young and ambitious doctor, is studying the effect of cancerous cells on mice, but he has run out of mice in his laboratory, since they do not breed there, and he has no funds to purchase more of these expensive laboratory animals from the United States.

Fanny Pelopaja

Fanny Pelopaja

Vicente Aranda 1984 1h 40m 6.0

In the slums of Barcelona, Fanny, a woman just released from prison, tries to carry out a revenge that has nourished for years: to kill "El Gallego", the corrupt and brutal policeman who killed her boyfriend

La muchacha de las bragas de oro

La muchacha de las bragas de oro

Vicente Aranda 1980 1h 45m

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 to him.

Cambio de sexo

Cambio de sexo

Vicente Aranda 1977 1h 49m

A seventeen year old boy follows the painful path to discovering that he is transsexual.

Último deseo

Último deseo

León Klimovsky 1976 1h 34m

A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search for food and supplies, they find most of the residents blinded, and soon they discover the existence of a sinister group called The People Who Own The Dark.

La novia ensangrentada

La novia ensangrentada

Vicente Aranda 1972 1h 36m 5.5

A young husband's sexual fantasies frighten his new wife and cause her to seek advice from Carmilla, a descendent of Mircalla de Karnstein. Carmilla seduces the young bride and forces her to commit gory acts of mutilation.

Fata/Morgana

Fata/Morgana

Vicente Aranda 1966 1h 25m

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 model, decides to face her destiny.

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