Quinqui (film genre)

Quinqui[lower-alpha 1] (or cine quinqui, meaning "delinquency cinema") is a Spanish film genre that was most popular at the end of the 1970s and in the 1980s.[1] The films were centered around underclass delinquents, drugs, and love, and usually starred non-professional actors picked off the street.[1] Notable directors of this genre were José Antonio de la Loma, Eloy de la Iglesia and Carlos Saura.[2]

Quinqui films focused on marginalized working-class adolescents in the outskirts of Spanish cities involved in small-scale robbery and street crime.[3] They showed raw violence, explicit sex, police brutality, and commonly depicted heroin use.[3]

The genre draws inspiration from Italian neorealism and the French New Wave.[3]

Several of the stars of quinqui cinema would go on to die prematurely,[1] most due to heroin use but some of AIDS.

Notable films
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See also

Notes
  1. Alternatively written as kinki.

References
  1. Alonso, Guillermo (11 February 2019). "Historia negra del cine quinqui: la reivindicación de un género que no dejó supervivientes". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  2. Yuste, Javier. "De 'El Torete' a 'El Cristo', la resurrección del cine quinqui | El Cultural". El Cultural (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  3. Moral, Pedro (4 January 2019). "Heroína y crónica negra: guía básica del cine quinqui". Cinemanía (in Spanish). 20 minutos. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
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