Cine quinqui or cine kinki (meaning "delinquency cinema") is a
Spanish exploitation
film genre that was most popular at the end of the 1970s and in the 1980s.
Features
The films were centered around underclass
delinquents, drugs, and love, and usually starred non-professional actors picked off the street.
The most representative directors of the genre are and
Eloy de la Iglesia
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De la Iglesia was an outspoken gay socialist filmmaker who is relatively unknown outside Spain despite a prolific and successful career in his ...
, even if other directors such as
Carlos Saura,
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón and
Vicente Aranda
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Due to his refined and personal style, he was one of the most renowned Spanish filmmakers. He started as a f ...
also reproduced the ''quinqui'' social imaginaries in some of their films.
Quinqui films focused on
marginalized
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working-class
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adolescents in the outskirts of Spanish cities involved in small-scale robbery and
street crime.
They showed raw violence, explicit sex, police brutality, and commonly depicted
heroin
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use.
The genre draws inspiration from
Italian neorealism and the
French New Wave
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.
Several of the stars of quinqui cinema would go on to die prematurely,
most due to heroin use but some of
AIDS
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. Some of them include (prostitute at age 16, died from overdose at age 30), (heroin user at age 14, found dead in a wasteland at age 23), (died from AIDS, age 31) and (died from heroin overdose, around age 44).
Notable films
Legacy
After the demise of the quinqui trend, some directors have looked back to the quinqui era themes in films such as ' (1992), ' (1993). ''
Historias del Kronen
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It was entered into the 1995 Cannes ...
'' (1995) ' (1999), ''
7 Virgins
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Plot
Tano, a jailed teenager, gets a 48-hour release to attend his brother's wedding. Wh ...
'' (2005), ' (2006), ' (2012), ' (2016) or ''
Outlaws
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Outlaws or The Outlaws may also refer to:
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* ''The Outlaws'' (1950 film), an Italian crime film
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''.
References
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Cinema of Spain
Film genres
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