A Candle for the Devil 1973
Two sisters running a small hotel in Spain kill female tourists whose morals do not meet their strict religious standards.
Two sisters running a small hotel in Spain kill female tourists whose morals do not meet their strict religious standards.
A young couple traveling through the Pyrenees stays overnight at an ancient Spanish castle, only to discover that it is the headquarters for a coven of witches.
Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.
Inspired by the famous Patty Hearst case, this thriller centers around a young woman who's kidnapped and brainwashed by a crime ring and ends up succumbing to Stockholm Syndrome.
Mónica has just died in a traffic accident. Along with her was another man. Pedro Bernáldez, painter and lover of Mónica, was so in love with her that he came to change his painting style for the one indicated by his lover. Now that Mónica has died, Pedro will investigate what relationship the deceased had with each other and begins to discover many things.
This sex comedy concerns the efforts of Julien to get his timid, "backward" 20-year-old son to take an interest in sex and get married. After a series of adventures with women (arranged by papa), Valentin finally gets married to a woman who appears to be as shy as he is. Things get complicated when his father begins an affair with her.
A beautiful teenage shepherdess named Adega sleeps one night with a mysterious pilgrim in a barn of impoverished and superstitious Galicia of the nineteenth century. The overwhelming fanaticism of the villagers motivates them to consider the outsider an envoy of Satan, reason why they deny him the lodging. The pilgrim, on the other hand, will react by cursing the people with plague and misery.
Sergio falls in love with Federica, the maid of the house whom everyone calls "Volvoreta" ("butterfly" in Galician). Aware of the situation, the mother of the young gentleman dismisses the maid, who has no choice but to go to the capital city. But Sergio's love is so strong that he will follow her wherever she goes.
Antoñito is a bachelor who works in a cabaret as a clarinetist. He has put an advertisement in the newspaper, looking for a good and honest girl, and to which responds Rocío, who escapes from her native Córdoba to hide the embarrassment of her pregnancy. The coexistence with the naive clarinetist, who refuses the insinuations of a co-worker dedicated to prostitution, who idolizes his deceased mother and keeps as a relic the orthopedic leg of his late father, is not easy. The other men will tend their ties around Rocío, that makes way in the world of the spectacle pretending to be blind. When she can no longer conceal that she is pregnant, Antoñito decides to give his name to the fruit of sin.