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Donnie Darko is a science fiction film written and directed by Richard Kelly. In 2001, the year of its premiere, the film did not attract much attention from distributors and the public. Without...
The Clockwork Orange (A Clockwork Orange, in English) is a film from the year 1971. It was directed and adapted for film by Stanley Kubrick and is based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, ...
Requiem for a Dream (2000) is a film by Darren Aronofsky about addiction and the death of dreams. The film is based on a book of the same title by the writer Hubert Selby Jr., ...
Fight club, also known as Fight club is a 1999 film directed by David Fincher. It wasn't very successful at the box office, but it has held a place among the ...
Pulp Fiction, known in Latin America as Violent Times, is a film directed by Quentin Tarantino, released in 1994. Since then, it has become a cult movie ...
There is controversy when it comes to defining what a cult movie is. In general terms, it is understood as that cinematographic work of any genre that, either because it is novel or because ...
Naturalism is a literary, artistic and philosophical current that takes place at the end of the 19th century. Naturalism is often regarded as a more extreme bias of realism, its ...
Literary realism is a current that developed in Europe in the second half of the 19th century and made its way during the decline of romanticism. This trend is moving away from fantasy ...
The Baroque was a cultural period that spanned from the second half of the 16th century to the first half of the 18th century. It spread throughout Europe and Latin America, as well as other ...
A philosophical current is a grouping that includes different thinkers, who share the same ideas, tendencies or thoughts. They all have in common a way of thinking or ...
Como agua para chocolate is a novel written by the Mexican writer Laura Esquivel, published in 1989. The story revolves around Tita, a woman who cannot live a love story with ...
The classic play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, written roughly between 1593 and 1594, has passed down the generations and has become a masterpiece of literature ...
Written by the French Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary is the epitome of 19th century literary realism. At the time, the novel aroused such scandal that Flaubert was prosecuted for it ...
In the novel Hopscotch (1963), Julio Cortázar breaks with the traditional conception of the narrative by introducing playful elements and innovations of a very diverse nature. Therefore, it was ...
Pride and Prejudice is the masterpiece of the English writer Jane Austen, whose background is the life of the English bourgeoisie in the early nineteenth century. The novel shows how relationships ...
The Persistence of Memory is a painting by the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, which was executed in 1931 in less than five hours. The work has small dimensions, 24 x 33 cm ...
Pablo Larraín's film No tells the story of the 1988 Chilean plebiscite that could end the militarist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In that plebiscite, the Chilean people had two ...
Post-Impressionism or Post-Impressionism designates the set of pictorial styles that succeeded Impressionism between approximately 1875 and 1905, in France. It was not a movement with ...
Ludwing van Beethoven is one of the most emblematic composers, pianists and conductors of the transition between the 18th and 19th centuries. Thanks to his creativity and daring, the ...
The Stranger (L'Étranger) is a book by Albert Camus published in 1942 and is one of the most widely read works by him in the world. The novel introduces us to Meursault, a Franco-Algerian man ...
Existentialism is a philosophical and literary current oriented to the analysis of human existence. It emphasizes the principles of freedom and individual responsibility, which must ...
The Greek tragedy is a dramatic genre that emerged in Classical Antiquity. It consists of the representation of a serious action (as opposed to comedy), whose gravity invites us to release the ...
Liberty Leading the People o July 28 is a painting by the painter Eugène Delacroix, the greatest exponent of French romanticism. The painting represents the July Revolution of 1830, which occurred in ...
El hoyo is a Spanish horror and science fiction film directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia. This 2019 feature film is a Netflix original production that has reached a huge ...
The rococo was a European art movement of French origin that was characterized by its cheerful and provocative style, and a taste for excessive decoration. It manifested itself in painting, the ...
Quentin Tarantino is one of the most important directors of independent and postmodern cinema. He is a director who has broken the rules of cinema to create a fresh new style. His cinema, that ...
Romanticism is an artistic and literary movement that emerged in the transition from the 18th century to the 19th century in England, Germany and France, and from there it spread throughout the world ...
Bohemian Rhapsody is the most iconic single from the British band Queen. This song was a break with the way of conceiving rock: he combined rock and ballad with opera, and ...
We have compiled a list of 40 classics of cinematography that brings together the best films of all time, arranged chronologically and accompanied by a brief synopsis. Each title ...
Moby Dick is a novel by the American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851, and today it has become a classic of Western literature. Tell the story of the whaling ship ...
The poem The song of the pirate by José de Espronceda (1808-1842) is one of the best known of Spanish romanticism. It is part of the book Poetry, published in 1846 after the death of ...
Sophocles was an author of Greek origin and one of the greatest classical poets of antiquity. Although there are not many data referring to his bibliography, there are works of him that follow ...
Antigone is a Sophocles tragedy based on the ancient Greek myth of the same name. The plot revolves around Antígona, who defies the law to kill her brother Polinices, ...
Sophocles' Oedipus the King is one of the classical works of Greek theater, the importance of which is of paramount importance to Western civilization. In addition to constituting a masterpiece from the point of view ...
Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla, better known as Astor Piazzolla, was a distinguished Argentine composer and bandoneonist who lived between 1921 and 1992. He is known as the composer who renewed tango ...
"I only know that I know nothing" or "I only know that I know nothing" is a famous phrase attributed to the Greek philosopher Socrates (470-399 BC. de C.), in which he expresses that he is aware of his own ignorance. The...
The Scream is a work by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, whose original title is Skrik (Scream in English). Due to its expressive force, this painting is considered an antecedent of the movement ...
Pedro Páramo is a novel written by the Mexican Juan Rulfo in 1955, which has become a classic in literature. It is framed within a universal literary topic: the son who seeks ...
We recommend a series of Spanish-American musical pieces that you should listen to at least once in your life. They are part of those songs that accompany us in the delicate process of looking towards ...
The poem Men fools you accuse, by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, exposes the inequality and injustice of which women are victims through machismo and female discrimination. The...
Edvard Munch is a Norwegian painter located in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century, and is considered the father of Expressionism. Her work, scandalous to many, aroused the admiration of young people ...
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is inspired by The Sentinel, a story by the writer and also screenwriter of the film Arthur C ...
1984 by George Orwell is a dystopia novel whose plot takes place in Oceania, a country dominated by a totalitarian government that keeps its citizens under constant surveillance and even insists ...
The Vatican Pietà is a sculptural work of the Italian Renaissance created by the Florentine artist Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1499, when he was just 24 years old. It receives this name ...
What does it mean Religion is the opium of the people: The phrase "religion is the opium of the people" is authored by Karl Marx, a prominent 19th century German intellectual and philosopher. It means that ...