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Born January 1, 1944 · Zarautz, Gipuzkoa, Spain
De la Iglesia was an outspoken gay socialist filmmaker relatively unknown outside of Spain, despite a prolific and successful career in his native country. He is best remembered for having portrayed urban marginality and the world of drugs and juvenile delinquency in the early 1980s, and his films serve as an archive of the Spanish marginality of this era. Is other words, his work is closely related to the phenomenon popularly known in Spain as "quinqui cinema". His films are an example of commitment to the immediate reality; they were made with honesty and great risk, against the conformist outlook of most movies of its time. Many of this films also deal with the theme of homosexuality.

Bulgarian Lovers
2003

The Tobacconist of Vallecas
1987

Turn of the Screw
1985

El Pico 2
1984

Overdose
1983

Pals
1982

The Minister's Wife
1981

Navajeros
1980

Afraid to Go Out at Night
1980

Confessions of a Congressman
1978

The Priest
1978

The Creature
1977

Hidden Pleasures
1977

The Other Bedroom
1976

Forbidden Love Game
1975

Murder in a Blue World
1973

No One Heard the Scream
1973

The Cannibal Man
1972

The Glass Ceiling
1971

Cuadrilátero
1970

Something Bitter in the Mouth
1969
Fantasía... 3
1966