Acting
Paco de Lucía
Born December 21, 1947 · Algeciras, Cadiz, Spain
Died February 25, 2014 · aged 66
Francisco Sánchez Gómez (21 December 1947 – 25 February 2014), known as Paco de Lucía, was a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer, and record producer. A leading proponent of the new flamenco style, he was one of the first flamenco guitarists to branch into classical and jazz. Richard Chapman and Eric Clapton, authors of Guitar: Music, History, Players, describe de Lucía as a "titanic fig…
Known For
Hannie Caulder · 1971Hannie Caulder
★ 6.21971
MovieDramaWestern
After she's raped by the outlaw trio who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the ways of a gun in order to exact her revenge.
Manoushe: A Gypsy Love Story · 1992Manoushe: A Gypsy Love Story
★ 6.01992
MovieRomanceFantasy
In the darkness of a rural night, a gypsy clan gathers to mourn their beloved patriarch's in a ritual celebrated through music and dance.
The Hit · 1984The Hit
★ 6.51984
MovieDramaThriller
Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
Flamenco Flamenco · 2010Flamenco Flamenco
★ 7.02010
MovieMusicDocumentary
A look at the history and traditions of flamenco music and dance.
Sevilles · 1992Sevilles
★ 5.41992
MovieMusic
Filmed like a documentary, "Sevillanas" consists of eleven short performances by Spain's most famous flamenco dancers, singers and guitarists. Saura, well-known for his flamenco films ("Blood Wedding," "Carmen"), here provides an in-depth look at the Sevillanas form of flamenco and its dancers.
Flamenco · 1995Flamenco
★ 6.21995
MovieDocumentaryMusic
The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba.
Carmen · 1983Carmen
★ 6.61983
MovieDramaRomance
While rehearsing a flamenco ballet adaptation of Bizet's opera “Carmen”, Antonio, the choreographer, falls in love with the main dancer, Carmen, a fiercely independent woman. Antonio is slowly consumed by jealousy and possessiveness towards Carmen, just like Don José in the original opera, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.
Paco de Lucía: La Búsqueda · 2014Paco de Lucía: La Búsqueda
★ 6.72014
MovieDocumentary
The documentary is a summary of Paco de Lucía's career, his art, his human category and his life, from his first artistic steps to his last professional steps, which have been marked by flamenco. Numerous testimonies and interviews carried out between 2010 and 2014 are exposed.
Filmography
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Hannie Caulder · 1971Hannie Caulder
★ 6.21971
MovieDramaWestern
After she's raped by the outlaw trio who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the ways of a gun in order to exact her revenge.
Manoushe: A Gypsy Love Story · 1992Manoushe: A Gypsy Love Story
★ 6.01992
MovieRomanceFantasy
In the darkness of a rural night, a gypsy clan gathers to mourn their beloved patriarch's in a ritual celebrated through music and dance.
The Hit · 1984The Hit
★ 6.51984
MovieDramaThriller
Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
Flamenco Flamenco · 2010Flamenco Flamenco
★ 7.02010
MovieMusicDocumentary
A look at the history and traditions of flamenco music and dance.
Sevilles · 1992Sevilles
★ 5.41992
MovieMusic
Filmed like a documentary, "Sevillanas" consists of eleven short performances by Spain's most famous flamenco dancers, singers and guitarists. Saura, well-known for his flamenco films ("Blood Wedding," "Carmen"), here provides an in-depth look at the Sevillanas form of flamenco and its dancers.
Flamenco · 1995Flamenco
★ 6.21995
MovieDocumentaryMusic
The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba.
Carmen · 1983Carmen
★ 6.61983
MovieDramaRomance
While rehearsing a flamenco ballet adaptation of Bizet's opera “Carmen”, Antonio, the choreographer, falls in love with the main dancer, Carmen, a fiercely independent woman. Antonio is slowly consumed by jealousy and possessiveness towards Carmen, just like Don José in the original opera, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.
Paco de Lucía: La Búsqueda · 2014Paco de Lucía: La Búsqueda
★ 6.72014
MovieDocumentary
The documentary is a summary of Paco de Lucía's career, his art, his human category and his life, from his first artistic steps to his last professional steps, which have been marked by flamenco. Numerous testimonies and interviews carried out between 2010 and 2014 are exposed.
The Shadow of the Strings · 2009The Shadow of the Strings
★ 8.02009
MovieDocumentary
Throughout the streets of Huelva, a man with his guitar has been disambiguating for years, day and night he goes out into the streets to make a living asking for money in bars and terraces. His guitar almost never has the six strings, his hands are dirty, his mind long ago could not stand the life that he had to live, and he continues as he can stuck to that guitar with which he expresses himself continuously, indefatigable. That vagabond, an omnipresent street artist, is the "Niño Miguel", considered by many to be the best guitarist in the history of flamenco, a genius who revolutionized the guitar with only two records in the 70s, a source of inspiration for all other guitarists... a guitarist of guitarists, a living legend, a mystery, a misunderstood genius, excluded from society: The shadow of the strings.
Francisco Sánchez - Paco de Lucía · 2002Francisco Sánchez - Paco de Lucía
★ 9.02002
MovieMusicDocumentary
Francisco Sanchez: Paco de Lucia, is the definitive documentary on the myth of the flamenco guitar. It not only provides information about his life and musical art, but it also offers a previously unknown intimate portrait of the artist than makes us 'feel' and understand the human being beneath the world wide known genius. Retired in the Mexican jungle, Paco de Lucía shows in this program his creative doubts, the reasons for his silence and other secrets of his genius. It is the first time that the 'master' invites a television team to share with him a world tour and allows it to record his daily life in Mexico and his meetings with other artists, like Chick Corea.
Pavarotti & Friends 4 - For War Child · 1996Pavarotti & Friends 4 - For War Child
★ 10.01996
MovieMusic
Pavarotti & Friends was a series of benefit concerts hosted by Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti between 1992 and 2003 in his home town of Modena, Italy. Proceeds from the events were donated to humanitarian causes including the international aid agency War Child and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The Pavarotti & Friends for War Child concert was held on June 20, 1996. Proceeds from the concert were donated to the international aid agency, War Child, specifically in aid of children in Bosnia. The concert featured guest performances by Elton John, Sheryl Crow, Eric Clapton, Liza Minnelli and Joan Osborne.
Meeting of the Spirits · 1982Meeting of the Spirits
1982
MovieMusic
In 1979 and 1980, three world renowned guitarists, John Mc Laughlin, Paco De Lucia and Larry Coryell, formed a guitar super-trio and toured Europe. This is the recording of their performance live at Royal Albert Hall.
La Sabina · 1979La Sabina
★ 5.81979
MovieDrama
English scholar visits a small Spanish town in the Andalusian mountains to investigate the disappearance of another English scholar long ago. He learns of the legend of Sabina, a mysterious dragon woman who becomes his obsession.
Paco de Lucia - Concierto de Aranjuez · 1991Paco de Lucia - Concierto de Aranjuez
★ 10.01991
Movie
A Special Guitar Summernight · 1981A Special Guitar Summernight
★ 6.51981
MovieMusic
A Special Guitar Summernight with John McLaughlin, Al di Meola and Paco de Lucia at the Loreley. August 30, 1981.
Paco De Lucía, John McLaughlin - Paco and John Live at Montreux 1987 · 1987Paco De Lucía, John McLaughlin - Paco and John Live at Montreux 1987
1987
MovieMusic
Paco & John - Live At Montreux 1987
Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco · 1981Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco
★ 9.01981
MovieMusicDocumentary
It was a Friday night in 1980, December 5th to be exact: the Warfield stadium in San Francisco filled up lazily. The stage that was being set up was simple: three small wooden chairs, three microphones with the booms set at rather low height.Here comes the first hero of the evening on stage, the living legend Al Di Meola, with an outfit that smacks of a modern cowboy..His trusty acoustic guitar is placed on an easel next to one of the chairs. pick up the mic and.....
Paco de Lucia & Group · 2004Paco de Lucia & Group
★ 4.02004
MovieMusic
Recorded live at Germeringer Jazztage, 1996
Program: Mi Nino Curro, El Panuelo, Alcazar de Sevilla, Playa del Carmen, Zyryab, Buena Buana King Kong
Camarón: The Film · 2018Camarón: The Film
★ 7.12018
MovieDocumentary
This documentary looks back on the life of legendary flamenco singer Camarón, who went from humble roots to rock star status to a tragic early death.