About
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
Bulgarian Lovers2003 · Screenplay, Director
The Tobacconist of Vallecas1987 · Director, Screenplay
Turn of the Screw1985 · Screenplay, Director
El Pico 21984 · Director, Screenplay
Overdose1983 · Screenplay, Director
Pals1982 · Director, Screenplay
The Minister's Wife1981 · Director, Screenplay
Navajeros1980 · Screenplay, Director
Afraid to Go Out at Night1980 · Director, Screenplay
Confessions of a Congressman1978 · Director, Screenplay
The Priest1978 · Director
The Creature1977 · Director
Hidden Pleasures1977 · Director, Screenplay
The Other Bedroom1976 · Screenplay, Director
Forbidden Love Game1975 · Director, Writer
Murder in a Blue World1973 · Director, Screenplay
No One Heard the Scream1973 · Screenplay, Director
The Cannibal Man1972 · Screenplay, Director
The Glass Ceiling1971 · Screenplay, Director
Cuadrilátero1970 · Director