Best Spanish movies of 1970s

Actors : Lola Gaos, Franco Nero, Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey,
Directors : Luis Buñuel,

When the young woman Tristana's mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Don Lope is well-liked and well-known because of his honorable ...

Actors : José Legarreta, Brontis Jodorowsky, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfonso Arau,
Directors : Alejandro Jodorowsky,

A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.

Actors : Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock, Aldo Massasso, Arthur Kennedy,
Directors : Jorge Grau,

A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a thirst for human flesh by chemical pesticides being used by area farmers.

Actors : Marta Fernández Muro, Will More, Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth,
Directors : Iván Zulueta,

A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.

Actors : Maria Perschy, Bárbara Rey, Carlos Lemos, Jack Taylor,
Directors : Amando de Ossorio,

The living corpses of the Satan-worshiping Knights Templar hunt for human victims in a 16th century galleon.

Actors : Barbara Capell, Paul Naschy, Gaby Fuchs, Andrés Resino,
Directors : León Klimovsky,

Elvira is travelling through the French countryside with her friend Genevieve, searching for the lost tomb of a medieval murderess and possible vampire, Countess Wandessa. They find a ...

Actors : Roberto Sosa, Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sánchez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz,
Directors : Felipe Cazals,

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against ...

Actors : Ana Farra, Ewa Aulin, Lucia Bosé, Espartaco Santoni,
Directors : Jorge Grau,

The ageing Countess discovers that the blood of a maid can temporarily restore her youth and great beauty. She falls in love with a dashing young soldier but is compelled to kill again and ...

Actors : José Sacristán, Enrique Vivó, José Luis Alonso, María Luisa San José,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

Sex and politics collide in this tale of forbidden love, blackmail and murder. Set up by the secret police to compromise a prominent politician, a teenage hustler discovers himself ...

Actors : José Sacristán, Ángela Molina, Saverio Marconi, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Gillo Pontecorvo,

As 1973 winds down, Franco is still governing Spain with an iron hand. Opposition parties are forbidden; labor movements are repressed; and Basque nationalists are mercilessly hunted down. ...

Actors : Salvador Sánchez, José Carlos Ruiz, Manuel Ojeda, Delia Casanova,
Directors : Felipe Cazals,

In Mexico city, the most infamous jail "Lecumberri" three prisoners make a plan to introduce drugs.

Actors : Andrés Mejuto, Guglielmo Spoletini, Gianni Garko, María Silva,
Directors : Rafael Romero Marchent,

A pair of outlaws are on the hunt for some loot they know is missing from a robbery. Outsmarting and killing anyone who tries to foil their plans.

Actors : José Antonio Amor, Nuria Torray, Daniela Giordano, Teresa Gimpera,
Directors : Alfonso Balcázar,

A young widower with his new wife returns to the mansion in which his first wife died.

Actors : José Luis López Vázquez, Amparo Soler Leal, John Steiner, Antonio Casas,
Directors : Pedro Olea,

Benito Freire is a peddler who lives miserably in an environment dominated by ignorance and superstition. He is dedicated to peddling by the Galician towns and suffers severe attacks of ...

Actors : Paca Gabaldón, Cantinflas, Fernando Fernán Gómez, María Fernanda D'Ocón,
Directors : Roberto Gavaldón,

Don Quixote is obsessed with knighthood and its honor codes. Together with his singular squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote remembers the adventures they have shared.

Actors : Florinda Chico, Andrés Pajares, Antonio Ozores, Fernando Esteso,
Directors : Mariano Ozores,

Federico provides accommodation in his house for his friend Roque who is unemployed and becomes annoying. To get rid of him, Fernando tries to make Roque a boxing champion who will be able to challenge the current national boxing champion.

Actors : Florinda Chico, José Gálvez, Alfredo Landa, Enriqueta Carballeira,
Directors : Ramón Fernández,

Miguel Cañete is a village man who is called up by the Navy to do military service, but he lives alone with his little brother and doesn't know where to leave him...

Actors : Rafael Machado, David Thomson, Patricia Granada, Lidia Zuazo,
Directors : José Ramón Larraz,

A superstitious, illiterate young gypsy servant girl comes to live with a solitary female artist at her country chateau. The girl has recurring nightmares of a naked man on horseback ...

Actors : Daniel Martín, Klaus Kinski, George Martin, Marina Malfatti,
Directors : Alfonso Balcázar,

Trinity is an ex-gunslinger desperately wanting to be forgiven and accepted by his family that he abandoned years earlier. Unfortunately for him, a ruthless bounty hunter is on his trail. ...

Actors : Elsa Alarcón, Jorge Álvarez, Magdalena Aguirre, Luis Alarcón,
Directors : Silvio Caiozzi,

This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.