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| Panhead08 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5599 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 1 of 22 18 July 2009 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey guys. Manuel here. I wanted to know the titles of some higher budget Spanish movies (precisely, movies in which the characters are and speak Spanish). Reason being and simply put, I've been a Spanish learner for 4 years. I did it because I had to in high school, but now I realize the importance and have been avidly trying to learn for the past year (roughly).
I went to the store (FYE) to pick up some hispanic movies, and went to the foregin section. I mostly found these low budget and cheap looking comedies. Nothings wrong with those, as I'm sure they could help me to a certain extent. I'm just not sure what the quality of the subtitles would be, and if they would a) match what was actually being said in Spanish and b) if the dvds would hold my attention, as I'm not very interested in comedy. Having said all of that, here is my question (or questions). Is the hispanic movie industry very successful? If so, where could I find more higher budget quality Spanish films, such as Pan's Labyrinth? <--- This film is the only Spanish movie I know of that actually seems to match the cinematic quality of American movies. And after telling me this, could you all give me a list of the names of movies? Or just a resource by which I could find them myself. I really appreciate it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ashley_Victrola Senior Member United States Joined 5697 days ago 416 posts - 429 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French, Romanian | Message 2 of 22 18 July 2009 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I really liked this one movie Timecrimes that is in "Spain Spanish". It's a psychological thriller type film. Pretty high quality. There aren't a lot of special effects like "Pan's Labyrinth" but it is as high quality as any American movie. I don't know where you could buy it but it was on Netflix's Watch Instantly and that's how I saw it.
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| healing332 Senior Member United States Joined 5611 days ago 164 posts - 211 votes | Message 3 of 22 18 July 2009 at 10:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Get "Sex and Lucia"..very well shot in HD with great camera work and with great dialogue to learn Spanish with..Also go to the public library!..they have a lot of old movies but it will surprise you how many new Spanish movies they have..
Also "En la Cama" is a great movie filmmed in Argentina that has great Spanish dialogue if you are looking to learn Spanish..(remember subtitles are not word for word translation)......buena suerte! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kyrie Senior Member United States clandestein.deviantaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5720 days ago 207 posts - 231 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese | Message 4 of 22 18 July 2009 at 11:15pm | IP Logged | ||
Don't you have any other type of movie to recommend? You know, like ones that aren't porno? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6002 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 5 of 22 18 July 2009 at 11:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think you really need to tell us what sort of films your after. There's a whole host of good Spanish cinema in various genres. It's never "big budget" in Hollywood terms, though. For that reason, you're unlikely to find any "effects vehicle" films -- they leave that to the US. chm*rnsfrmrs*cmh.
If you like Pan's Labyrinth, try looking for other stuff by Guillermo Del Toro -- he works in Hollywood in order to finance his Spanish language stuff. The Devil's Backbone is excellent. Other films I'd personally recommend: Open Your Eyes/Abre Los Ojos. (Although you'll know the story if you've already seen Vanilla Sky.) 800 Bullets/800 Balas. A western set in the modern day, in a western theme park in south-western Spain. Yes, it's as messed-up as it sounds. The Motorcycle Diaries/Diarios de Motocicleta. You must have heard of this one. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Javi Senior Member Spain Joined 5972 days ago 419 posts - 548 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 6 of 22 19 July 2009 at 1:57am | IP Logged | ||
Here you are some top lists of movies made in Spain: Thriller Intriga Comedia Try FilmAffinity to find more, but I'm afraid you won't find the level of quality you expect. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ibnsos Newbie United States Joined 5599 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 22 19 July 2009 at 6:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Netflix has a decent selection of Spanish language movies that you can watch streamed.
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