2 Movies Starring Elvira Mènguez

The Dancer Upstairs

The Dancer Upstairs

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-05-23

Languages:

English, Quechua, Spanish

Countries:

Spain, USA

Runtime:

132 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(5359 Reviews)

Director:

John Malkovich

Cast:

Writer:

Nicholas Shakespeare (novel)

Nicholas Shakespeare (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The story of Detective Agustin Rejas, a man clinging to the hope of an impossible love in an impossible world. Tracking Ezequiel, a delusional anarchist who incites the downtrodden masses to join in his brutal revolution against the fascist government in their unnamed Latin American country, Rejas finds solace in his sense of self-respect and the joy that his daughter and wife bring him. Then he meets Yolanda--his daughter's soulfully beautiful ballet teacher--a woman who sparks his long-forgotten passions and represents all that is good and all that is corrupt in their troubled country. But she, who appears to be a shelter from the storm, may in actuality be the storm's eye. Ultimately, as the revolution intensifies and the net closes around hunter and hunted alike, the dancer's truth will prove as elusive as the revolutionary's cause and the detective's peace.

Thirteen Chimes

Thirteen Chimes

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-01-17

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain, Portugal

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

NC-17

IMDB Ratings:

5.1 (358 Reviews)

Genres:

Thriller

Cast:

Writer:

Juan Vicente Pozuelo

Curro Royo

Xavier Villaverde

Suso del Toro (novel)

Fullplot:

Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father eighteen years ago, begin to persecute to him, since his father died by shot gun, peculiarly, when thirteen peals sounded in the cathedral, fact what obsesses to Jacobo. After watching several times, Mateo convinces his son to make the work for the cathedral that his father couldn't finish in life, but what begins as a simple work becomes a madness spiral when Jacobo discovers the true intentions of the ghost of his father: to kill to his son to usurp his body to finish the statue, and after to return to the life.

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