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Alex De La Iglesia - news / articles

The Oxford Murders Competition - 18 April 2008
Oxford Belfry Hotel, set in 550 acres of English countryside.- -Based on Guillermo Martínez's award-winning novel, director Alex De La Iglesia's The Oxford Murders stars Lord of the Rings Star Elijah Wood and Britain's superbly eccentric icon John Hurt.- - -An old

Alex De La Iglesia - what members say

Accion Mutante review by Savage from London, England

Really very tiresome 4 March 2008
...Anyone who has seen Alex De La Iglesia's awesomely good 'La dia de la bestia' would surely be interested in checking out this, his debut movie.And, although obviously made on a v... Read customer review

Comunidad, La review by from Manchester, England

La Comunidad, great to watch. 11 March 2005
...ilm festival in Manchester when it came out, the surprise was that the director Alex De La Iglesia was there in the cinema and gave us a brief presentation before the film. Very ... Read customer review

Alex De La Iglesia - filmography

The Oxford Murders on DVD (2007)
Starring: John Hurt, Elijah Wood, Leonor Watling
Director: Alex De La Iglesia
Certificate:
At Oxford University, a professor (Hurt) and a grad student (Wood) work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.

50% from 10,162 members

Ferpect Crime on DVD (2004)
Starring: Guillermo Toledo, Monica Cervera, Luis Varela
Director: Alex De La Iglesia
Certificate:
Ferpect Crime Rafael (Guillermo Toledo), a suave playboy and women's clothing section clerk. When Rafael's quest for a promotion goes deadly wrong it puts him in the debt of Lourdes (Monica Cervera), a homely co-worker. When Lourdes blackmails Rafael into being her boyfriend, Rafael will go to ..read more »

64% from 254 members

Perfect Crime (2004)
Starring: Alex De La Iglesia, Guillermo Toledo, Mónica Cervera
Director: Alex De La Iglesia
Certificate:
Rafael (Guillermo Toledo) is at the top of the heap at Yeyo's, the department store whose ladies department is his own small kingdom. A hit with customers and coworkers alike, the suave Rafael is able to sell anything to anyone, and seems a shoe-in for store manager. But things don't go exactly as ..read more »

63% from 35 members
Currently unavailable

800 Bullets on DVD (2002)
Starring: Sancho Garcia, Carmen Maura
Director: Alex De La Iglesia
Certificate:
Director Alex de la Iglesia has become a cult figure in his native Spain for his stylish genre parodies. In 800 BULLETS, he waxes nostalgic about an era in Spanish filmmaking long gone, when Westerns and epics used the landscape of Spain for their vast background vistas. The film centres on Carlos, ..read more »

60% from 258 members

Comunidad, La (2000)
Starring: Carmen Maura, Eduardo Antuna, Maria Asquerino
Director: Alex De La Iglesia
Certificate:
A lucky female estate agent agent finds a large sum of money in a dead man's house. Now she has to deal with the locals.

73% from 115 members
Currently unavailable

Muertos De Risa (1999)
Starring: Santiago Segura, El Gran Wyoming, Alex Angulo
Director: Alex De La Iglesia
Certificate:
1970s comedy duo Nino (Santiago Segura) and Bruno (El Gran Wyoming) rose to fame after a chance meeting and a first gig that should have been considered a disaster. With Bruno as the straight man and Nino as the "dumb" half of the team, their act was based on humiliation, which eventually lead to ..read more »

45% from 21 members
Currently unavailable

Perdita Durango (1997)
Starring: Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem, Harley Cross
Director: Alex De La Iglesia
Certificate:
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The title character of this Alex de la Iglesia film made her first appearance in David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) and was originally played by Isabella Rossellini. Rosie Perez takes over the role in this blend of black comedy, graphic sex and violence, voodoo, and weirdness. Perdita Durango is ..read more »

55% from 744 members
Not currently released

Dance With The Devil on DVD (1997)
Starring: Rosie Perez, James Gandolfini, Aimee Graham
Director: Alex De La Iglesia, Alex D
Certificate:
Perez plays Perdita Durango, a woman on the run who, along with her evil lover Romeo Delorosa, goes across the Mexican/U.S. border in a flash of human sacrifice, black magic, hitmen, and lots of other things normal people go out of their way to avoid. Based on a novel by Barry Gifford, creator of ..read more »

56% from 111 members

The Day of the Beast (1995)
Starring: Alex Angulo, Alex De La Iglesia, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Director: Alex De La Iglesia
Certificate:
A basque priest finds by means of a cabalistic study of the bible that the anti-christ is going to be born on Christmas day in Madrid.

78% from 172 members
Currently unavailable

Accion Mutante on DVD (1993)
Starring: Alex Angulo, Antonio Resines, Frederique Feder
Director: Alex De La Iglesia
Certificate:
In a future world ruled by good-looking people, a terrorist group of mutants leaded by Ramon Yarritu kidnap the daughter of Orujo, a rich businessman, to claim for the rights of the ugly people. Escaping from the police in their spaceship, Ramon trys to kill his gang in order to get all the ransom. ..read more »

56% from 410 members

Alex De La Iglesia facts

5 most recent films

The Oxford Murders - 2.5 stars
Ferpect Crime - 3.0 stars
Perfect Crime - 3.0 stars
800 Bullets - 3.0 stars
Comunidad, La - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Day of the Beast - 4.0 stars
Comunidad, La - 3.5 stars
Ferpect Crime - 3.0 stars
800 Bullets - 3.0 stars
Accion Mutante - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Muertos De Risa - 2.5 stars
Perfect Crime - 3.0 stars
The Oxford Murders - 2.5 stars
Dance With The Devil - 3.0 stars
Perdita Durango - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Santiago Segura - 5 times - show films
Alex Angulo - 4 times - show films
Luis Varela - 3 times - show films
Fernando Tejero - 3 times - show films
Monica Cervera - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alex D - 1 times - show films