The Goalkeeper 2000  R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: El Portero
Director: Gonzalo Suarez
Cast: Carmelo Gomez, Maribel Verdu, Roberto Alvarez, Antonio Resines, Eduard Fernandez, Elvira Minguez, Abel Viton, Andoni Gracia, Julio Velez, Felipe Velez, Carolina Bona, Adrian Ramirez
After the Spanish Civil War, soccer was rebuilding, and former champion goalie Ramiro (Carmelo Gomez) travels the countryside making money by challenging people to get a soccer ball past him. When he arrives in one town, he meets and falls in love with Manuella (Maribel Verdu) and must decide whether or not to stay put with a real job.
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Rowing with the Wind 1988 R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gonzalo Suarez
Cast: Hugh Grant, Lizzy McInnerny, Valentine Pelka, Elizabeth Hurley, Jose Luis Gomez, Virginia Mataix, Ronan Vibert, Jose Carlos Rivas, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Bibi Andersson
The story behind the story of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is revealed as Lord Byron (Hugh Grant), Mary Shelley (Lizzy McInnerny), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Valentine Pelka), Claire Clairmont (Elizabeth Hurley), and Dr. Polidori (Jose Luis Gomez) gather at Lord Byron's villa. But then the drama wanders as it chronicles the events following as one tragedy seems to follow another.
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What Have I Done to Deserve This? 1984  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Cast: Carmen Maura, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma, Angel de Andres Lopez, Gonzalo Suarez, Veronica Forque, Juan Martinez, Chus Lampreave, Kiti Manver, Sonia Anabela Holimann, Cecilia Roth, Pedro Almodovar
Gloria (Carmen Maura) works hard to keep some sort of order in a wildly dysfunctional family. Husband Antonio (Angel de Andres Lopez) is a cabbie (and forger on the side) and is infatuated with an aging opera star for whom he was once a chauffeur. His current issue revolves around two writers who have written a manuscript that is intended to be the memoirs of Hitler–if Antonio will copy it in Hitler's handwriting. One son sells heroin while the other moves in with a gay dentist. Meanwhile, the mother-in-law is perhaps the most weird. A fun romp.
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| 1. The Goalkeeper (2000)
aka: El Portero
2. Rowing with the Wind (1988)
3. What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
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