In un umile quartiere alla periferia di Barcellona, Dan e i suoi due amici, Vio e Reno, vivono senza pensare al domani, tra feste e pestaggi. Dietro l'apparenza di piccolo delinquente, Dan nasconde un artista di talento e una diversa sensibilità verso il mondo che lo circonda. La ricomparsa del padre, dopo la sua scarcerazione, risveglia i vecchi demoni di Dan, facendolo precipitare in una spirale di violenza che lo costringe a fuggire e mette a dura prova l'amicizia tra i tre amici. Per Dan e Vio inizia un viaggio senza ritorno, in cui devono lasciarsi alle spalle i bambini che erano, cambiando per sempre le loro vite. Riusciranno a sfuggire al loro destino per amore?
Una cotta porta un adolescente vittima di bullismo a unirsi a un nuovo gruppo di amici per un'estate di furti, rapine, amore e altre avventure nella Girona del 1978.
A chronicle of the life of Jaro, the leader of a juvenile delinquent gang, depicting his rise from street urchin to outlaw anti-hero on the way to his inevitable end.
Following the events of El pico, the heroin-addicted Paco faces jail time due to his involvement in a double murder.
Che cosa succede ai ragazzi di Palermo quando escono dal riformatorio? Questo il tema di un film scomodo che divise i critici, indispettì i politici, scandalizzò i benpensanti. Un film di scorrevole scrittura giornalistica e televisiva, seguito di Mery per sempre (1989), anch'esso scritto dal siciliano Aurelio Grimaldi.
Angela is a young waitress who turns her back on society when she meets and falls in love with Pablo, a reckless criminal delinquent. Along with Pablo’s gang of car thieves, the pair embark on a drug and disco-fueled robbery spree as they hurtle toward oblivion.
A veteran policeman named Fernando feels a lot of hatred against Ángel because the boy ran him over with a car leaving him lame. Now Fernando accuses the young crook of having participated in a robbery at a gas station in which a murder has occurred. Helped by his friends, Ángel rebuilds the facts that serve him as an alibi, but while he is in pre-trial detention in La Modelo prison (Barcelona) a terrible mutiny will take place.
Juan Jose Moreno Cuenca, alias the Heifer, is 23 years old and tells his story as a criminal offender from 1 Ocaña Toledo. Fatherless, the offender has his childhood and how everything changed when her mother went to prison.
While the Torete rob banks, the Heifer, another delinquent who has not noticed it, enters the same place to rob him. After failing the coup, both decide to associate.
L'insegnante Marco Terzi viene momentaneamente trasferito da Milano a Palermo, ad insegnare in un riformatorio, in attesa che si liberi un posto per lui in un liceo. Marco cerca di motivare i ragazzi, ed ascolta anche le loro storie oltre ad istruirli. Nella sua classe, tutti ragazzi "difficili": Natale, che crede fermamente nella mafia; Mery, un travestito innamorato di lui e che alla luce del giorno è emarginato da tutti; Pietro, convinto che il suo destino sia il cinema...
Perros Callejeros is based on the juvenile delinquency of the 1970s and 80s in Spain. The story is set in Barrio de la Mina in Barcelona one of the most conflict neighbourhoods in Spain. The characters chosen were real juvenile delinquents all with criminal records, which the director used to give the film a realistic touch. This film is very powerful and dramatic, it shows how these kids were brought up to survive on the streets.
The plot follows the misadventures of two young friends who are forced into street hustling and ever-expanding life of crime when one impregnates the sister of the other and they need to get the money to pay for her to have an abortion.
A young Catholic girl takes viewers through a changing Spanish political and social landscape as she develops from her confirmation day to adulthood. Her first experience with the real Spain comes when her Jewish godfathers cannot come to her confirmation. One of the godfathers, using a ring, poses an early challenge to her innocence that puts her in danger. He later returns, indirectly introducing her to a new boyfriend. If he is one of the symbols for Jewish life under Franco, or for a Judeo-Christian interaction, that interaction is complex. The young woman encounters different lovers as she grows into adulthood, but at the same time she is burdened with financially supporting her father and his own rather decadent lifestyle. Again, this difference in generations could be understood as a difference between the "new" and "old" Spain; it is up to the viewers to interpret the story elements as they decide.
El Muertes and El Jato travel to Morocco to get some chocolate but run into trouble when they are assaulted by locals. Magda, El Jato's girlfriend, waits for them in Algeciras where they decide to steal a car to get back.
A gang of criminals, composed entirely of young people, bases its unique fun on stealing from rich elders with the help of the charms of one of the members of the band, Pepi (Nadiuska). They are misunderstood young people looking for an assimilation of society.
"El Rata" is released from prison after having served a sentence for "political" crimes during Franco's dictatorship. Now, on the street and with very few opportunities to work, he decides to commit a crime again.
Spain. 1978. Year of the first democratic elections following the dictatorship, and of the birth cine quinqui (delinquent movies): films that rapidly became a big commercial success, showing things that were banned by the censorship not too long before.
Latest example of Spanish "neokinki" cinema, which was popular in the late seventies/early eighties, right after the end of Franco's dictatorship. Destructured families of low social classes are the perfect environment for delinquency, drugs, violence and broken lives.
Fernando, lives in the heart of Barcelona's Chinatown, which seeks life peddling amphetamines and alternating with a peculiar gallery sinister characters. In one of those sunrises stolen life, Fernando meet Elsa, a young teenager, fresh and lively, with a passionate and self-destructive personality who unwittingly become the most addictive. Together they try to survive in a shadowy villain and Barcelona at the end of the day is taken by the renegades of society and their particular codes.