Direction: Víctor Erice

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Víctor Erice. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The South

1983 · Movie · 93 min. · Spain

Direction Víctor Erice

Cast Omero Antonutti · Sonsoles Aranguren · Icíar Bollaín · Lola Cardona

Synopsis "El Sur" ("The South") is the story of Estrella, a little girl from Southern Spain who has been uprooted to the North. Estrella maintains a sentimentalized attachment to the region of her birth, an attachment manifested in her love for...

7.8

14K votes

7.8

14K votes

The Spirit of the Beehive

1973 · Movie · 94 min. · Spain

Direction Víctor Erice

Cast Ana Torrent · Fernando Fernán Gómez · Isabel Tellería · Laly Soldevila

Synopsis In a small Castilian village in the early 40s, in the wake of the devastating Civil War, Ana and her sister, having seen a mobile projection of Frankenstein, becomes obsessed with locating the legendary Monster.

7.7

18K votes

7.7

18K votes

Dream Of Light

1992 · Documentary · 139 min. · Spain

Direction Víctor Erice

Cast Antonio López

Synopsis Filmmaker Victor Erice travels deep into the world of an artist and his vision as he documents the dedication of Antonio Lopez Garcia, who is trying to paint a picture of the quince tree in his Madrid backyard. Throughout an...

7.4

5K votes

7.4

5K votes

La morte rouge (Soliloquio)

2006 · Documentary · 33 min. · Spain

Direction Víctor Erice

Cast Víctor Erice

7.1

505 votes

7.1

505 votes

7.1

830 votes

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

2002 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany

Direction Wim Wenders · Víctor Erice · Werner Herzog · Chen Kaige

Cast Chloë Sevigny · Amber Tamblyn · Ana Sofía Liaño · Pelayo Suárez

Synopsis Unique in the history of cinema about the most universal of all subjects: Time. Each of the 15 directors has been given exactly ten minutes on the screen for their vision. With complete creative freedom, the directors bring their own...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Close Your Eyes

2023 · Movie · 169 min. · Spain

Direction Víctor Erice

Cast Manolo Solo · José Coronado · Ana Torrent · Soledad Villamil

Synopsis A famous Spanish actor, Julio Arenas, disappears during the shooting of a film. Although his body was never found, the police concluded that he had suffered an accident at the edge of the sea. Many years later, this kind of...

6.7

7K votes

6.7

7K votes

Historic Centre (Centro Histórico)

2012 · Movie · 80 min. · Portugal

Direction Pedro Costa · Manoel de Oliveira · Víctor Erice · Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Judite Araujo · Maria Fatima Braga Lima · Arlindo Fernandes · Filomena Gigante

Synopsis A feature film with four stories celebrating the city of Guimarães in the North of Portugal.

6.2

412 votes

6.2

412 votes

6.0

434 votes

Arroyo de la Luz (S)

2005 · Documentary · 20 min. · Spain

Direction Víctor Erice

6.0

69 votes

6.0

69 votes

Sea-Mail (S)

2006 · Movie · 4 min. · Spain

Direction Víctor Erice

Cast Víctor Erice

Synopsis This is a short film made by Víctor Erice as a letter to Abbas Kiarostami for the art exhibition "Correspondances" which is travelling around the world. Since this is the only text that appears in the film, besides the "Dear...

4.5

314 votes

4.5

314 votes

3.11 A Sense of Home

2012 · Movie · 75 min. · Japan

Direction Naomi Kawase · Kaori Momoi · Toyoko Yamasaki · Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Cast Kaori Momoi · Zhao Tao · Ana Torrent

Synopsis This is a film project dedicated to the victims of and the affected areas by the Tohoku Earthquake that occured on March 3rd, 2011. 21 filmmakers/artists around the world voluntarily offered their films of 3min 11sec long which were specifically...

4.4

38 votes

4.4

38 votes

Sketches (1990-2003)

2003 · Documentary · 29 min. · Spain

Direction Víctor Erice

Cast Antonio López

Synopsis 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, observing how the painter Antonio López worked. Erice wrote and selected the texts...

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Víctor Erice: Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondencias

2016 · Documentary · 96 min. · Spain

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Los días perdidos

1963 · Movie · 41 min. · Spain

Direction Víctor Erice

Cast Francisco Andrada · María Teresa Dressel · María Elena Flores · Luisa Muñoz

Synopsis 'Los días perdidos' was a 40-minute medium-length film, about a Spanish immigrant woman who worked in Paris, and who returns to Spain after her father's death. The succession of certain events makes him aware of the uprooting of his entire...

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Not rated