Companeros 1970  R, 118 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Cast: Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance, Fernando Rey, Iris Berben, Francisco Bodalo, Karin Schubert, Jose Bodalo, Eduardo Fajardo, Gino Pernice, Jesus Fernandez, Gerard Tichy
This spaghetti Western is set in Mexico during a time of revolt in the early 1900s. Yodlaf (Franco Nero), a mercenary and weapons dealer, joins revolutionary El Vasco (Tomas Milian) whose mission is to free Professor Xantos (Fernando Rey) and his students being held hostage by Americans in Texas. Yodlaf's real mission, however, is to find a cache of gold, and the professor knows where it is. Along the way they must deal with a gunslinger: wooden-handed, pot-smoking John (Jack Palance) and his falcon.
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Django 1966  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Western
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Cast: Franco Nero, Jose Bodalo, Loredana Nusciak, Eduardo Fajardo, Angel Alvarez, Gino Pernice, Simon Arriaga, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia, Erik Schippers, Rafael Albaicin
This is the first of several "spaghetti Westerns" that chronicle the adventures of superhero Django (Franco Nero). Django arrives in a Mexican town dragging a coffin and is immediately caught in the middle of two warring factions: Yankee KKK members and Mexican gangsters. Lots of violence, especially after Django opens the coffin and takes out his Gatling gun.
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To Begin Again 1982  PG, 93 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jose Luis Garci
Cast: Antonio Ferrandis, Encarna Paso, Jose Bodalo, Agustin Gonzalez, Pablo Del Hoyo, Marta Fernandez Muro, Pablo Hoyos
A famed author (Antonio Ferrandis), aware that he has a terminal illness, returns from exile to his homeland in Spain. His sentimental journey leads him to a former lover (Encarna Paso), and the flame is rekindled. This film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
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| 1. Companeros (1970)
2. Django (1966)
3. To Begin Again (1982)
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