Víctor Erice Movies

Life through a glass, life through a lens, life through a camera. Fade to black. General view of the access to a factory with a big wheel.

In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of...

Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.

A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.

1940. In a rural home in northern Spain life goes on, slowly. But a blood stain on a newborn might have some deep meanings.

Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by...

Filmmaker Victor Erice follows Spanish artist Antonio Lopez in his painstaking attempt to paint the image of a tree.

In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.

A married woman living in France returns to Madrid to bury her father.

Relationships and multiple influences between two great directors of modern cinema.

Filmed in 1963, but not released in Spain until 1967, the film depicts the failed romance between a bourgeois French tourist girl and a Spanish...

Los desafíos presents three separate stories that are linked by an American presence in Spain in the 1960s, with Dean Selmier playing the role...

This film project was made in 1996 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cinema.

The boredom of a young middle-class woman at home a Sunday afternoon. Not to be confused with Carlos Saura's short of the same name produced in 1957.

Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice talks about the first movie he probably ever saw, Roy William Neill's The Scarlet Claw (1944), starring Basil...

Apuntes is a sort of prologue to ‘The Quince Tree Sun’. With images shot by Erice in the Summer of 1990, as he was preparing such film,...

Six authorities of cinema describe their approach to transcendence, mysticism, spirituality and life after dead.

Greek Theo Angelopoulos traveling from Athens to Ostia, the Roman beach where Pasolini was killed. Far from there, in a Spanish train station,...

In Spain, Antoñito, a child, is punished to remain standing doing the fascist salute. As an adult, turned into a young college student, he...