Perros Callejeros Trilogy (BLU-RAY)

Cine Quinqui – pronounced ‘kinky’ and short for quincallero, slang used to describe juvenile delinquents – was a series of neorealist dramas depicting the teenage crimewave that plagued post-Franco Spain. And while more than 30 Quinqui movies were produced between 1977 and 1985, the genre was defined – alongside Eloy de la Iglesia’s NAVAJEROS/EL PICO films – by this shocking urban trilogy from writer/director José Antonio de la Loma: Recognized as the original Quinqui, PERROS CALLEJEROS features a star-making performance by real-life street felon Ángel Fernández Franco as charismatic young hoodlum El Torete. De la Loma’s adolescent antihero returns in PERROS CALLEJEROS II to battle an increasingly brutal world of robberies, prison and vengeance. In LOS ÚLTIMOS GOLPES DE EL TORETE, the titular gangster joins forces with the equally notorious El Vaquilla for a rampage that turns violent criminals into pop culture idols. Frank Braña (PIECES), Marta Flores (THE HOUSE BY THE EDGE OF THE LAKE), Xabier Elorriaga (THESIS) and Bernard Seray (THE DEVIL’S HONEY) co-star – along with dozens of actual quinquis – in these groundbreaking action hits, now scanned in 4K from their original camera negatives with English subtitles for the first time ever in North America. Disc 1: PERROS CALLEJEROS Disc 2: PERROS CALLEJEROS II Disc 3: LOS ÚLTIMOS GOLPES DE EL TORETE