Directed by Carlos Saura • 1966 • Spain
Starring Ismael Merlo, Alfredo Mayo, José María Prada

Carlos Saura’s international breakthrough is a tour de force of psychological tension in which three men, all veterans of the Spanish Civil War, reunite in the village of Castille for a day of drinking ...

Directed by Carlos Saura • 1967 • Spain
Starring Geraldine Chaplin, José Luis López Vázquez, Alfredo Mayo

The first of Carlos Saura’s many collaborations with Geraldine Chaplin is a darkly comic psychological thriller that casts the actor in a VERTIGO-esque double role as both the glamorous, una...

Directed by Carlos Saura • 1968 • Spain
Starring Geraldine Chaplin, Juan Luis Galiardo, Fernando Cebrián

A dangerous love triangle comes into focus as, over the course of one fateful day, a possessive industrialist (Fernando Cebrián), his unfaithful wife (Geraldine Chaplin), and his flirtatious ...

Directed by Carlos Saura • 1969 • Spain
Starring Geraldine Chaplin, Per Oscarsson, Emiliano Redondo

Teresa (Geraldine Chaplin) and her husband Pedro (Per Oscarsson) live comfortably in an ultramodern brutalist home that is suddenly upended when she inherits a trove of old furniture from her fami...

Directed by Carlos Saura • 1970 • Spain
Starring José Luis López Vázquez, Luchy Soto, Lina Canalejas

Following a car accident, a megawealthy businessman (José Luis López Vázquez) is left paralyzed and with no memory of who he is or of anything connected to his previous life—including the number ...

Directed by Carlos Saura • 1973 • Spain
Starring Geraldine Chaplin, José María Prada, José Vivó

One of director Carlos Saura’s most potent allegories for the hypocrisy and repression that defined Francoist Spain follows Ana (Geraldine Chaplin), a young English woman who arrives at a remote Spani...

Directed by Carlos Saura • 1974 • Spain
Starring José Luis López Vázquez, Lina Canalejas, Fernando Delgado

Carlos Saura’s most explosively controversial work, COUSIN ANGELICA ignited a violent uproar for its provocative treatment of the Spanish Civil War, with the film’s right-wing detractors go...

Directed by Carlos Saura • 1976 • Spain
Starring Ana Torrent, Geraldine Chaplin, Conchita Pérez

Carlos Saura’s exquisite CRÍA CUERVOS . . . heralded a turning point in Spain: shot while General Franco was on his deathbed, the film melds the personal and the political in a portrait of the legacy ...

Directed by Carlos Saura • 1977 • Spain
Starring Fernando Rey, Geraldine Chaplin, Isabel Mestres

In ELISA, VIDA MÍA (“Elisa, My Dear”), Carlos Saura explores one of his recurring obsessions—interplay between past and present, memory and reality—through a spellbinding portrait of a complex father...

Directed by Carlos Saura • 1978 • Spain
Starring Geraldine Chaplin, José Luis Gómez, Xabier Elorriaga

Carlos Saura returns to the potent themes of trauma and repression that run through nearly all of his 1970s films that deal, in one way or another, with the psychological effects of authoritaria...

Directed by Carlos Saura • 1981 • Spain
Starring Berta Socuéllamos, José Antonio Valdelomar

In making DEPRISA, DEPRISA, director Carlos Saura populated his cast with actual denizens of the Madrid streets to tell the story of youth on the edge of doom. Angela (Berta Socuéllamos) is a young waitre...

Directed by Carlos Saura • 1982 • Spain, France
Starring Assumpta Serna, Iñaki Aierra, Álvaro de Luna

Juan (Iñaki Aierra), a playwright obsessed by his torrid family history, attempts to work through the unresolved issues of his past by staging an autobiographical play entitled “Sweet Hours.” As...

Directed by Carlos Saura • 1993 • Spain

Carlos Saura's film of the Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992 brings a visual flair and humanism that paid excellent tribute to the Games and to the Catalan capital. The title event, the men's marathon, was chosen both as symbol and leitmotif, in par...