Fernando Arrabal

Spain was still under the boots of Franco and his henchmen, good Spanish movies were made in France...or Mexico. The vision of the Spanish civil war was ubiquitous and Arrabal's movies tried to exorcise the past.

Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal. (imdb)

The Spanish Civil War, as experienced by the town of Villa Ramiro. The local count and his Fascist nephews ally with the rebels; the count's son, indifferent to politics at the outset, later makes a choice; the town's teacher, Antonio Garcia, a pacifist, tries not to take sides but to inspire the children with ideas; a beautiful eccentric woman, Vandale, brings leadership and strength to the town; dwarfs long for equality... (imdb)

Running away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a special link with Mother-Earth. He ends up by convincing the hermit to come along with him into another desert... the big town! (IMDB)

This is a surreal little film about several children who befriend a potty old retired railroad engineer and end up actually breathing new life into an abandoned, rusting Pacific steam locomotive. (imdb)

When a boy is the victim of his over-protective mother, he leaves his home at night in search of female victims. When he meets a young girl who is a petty thief, he mistreats her and she falls in love with him. He takes the girl home...

A narration of Fernando Arrabal's 1969 novel of the same title. While the name suggests little, what you see in the film might be better titled as Mondo Arrabal. As you obliquely dive into the world of Arrabal through the meanderings of Leila Fischer through the streets of New York, there seems to be little congruence between what she does and the narration.

A futuristic story about a man and his clone.