Eloy de la Iglesia
Directing
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.
Filmography 25
Movies (25)
Eloy de la Iglesia: Film Addict2025Self (archive footage)
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon2021
Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores2018Self (archive footage)
Bulgarian Lovers2003Directing
The Tobacconist of Vallecas1987Directing
Turn of the Screw1985Directing
El Pico 21984
Overdose1983
Pals1982Directing
The Minister's Wife1981
Navajeros1980
Afraid to Go Out at Night1980Directing
Confessions of a Congressman1978Man at rally
The Priest1978Directing
The Creature1977Directing
Hidden Pleasures1977Directing
The Other Bedroom1976Directing
Forbidden Love Game1975Directing
Murder in a Blue World1973Directing
No One Heard the Scream1973Directing
The Cannibal Man1972Directing
The Glass Ceiling1971Directing
Cuadrilátero1970Directing
Something Bitter in the Mouth1969Directing
Fantasía... 31966Introductor (uncredited)