La comunidad
feature film, 2000
DIRECTED BY: Álex de la Iglesia
                          CAST:
                            Carmen Maura,
 Terele Pavez,
 Eduardo Antuna
                        
                          SCRIPT:
                            Alex de la Iglesia,
 Jorge Guerricaechevarria
                        
                          Synopsis:
                            Julia is in real estate business and is quite energetic in her job. She 
decides to use a very attractive apartment in a house in order to bring a little 
life into her marriage. While she amuses herself on a water bed with her husband 
Ricardo, a rain of cockroaches fall on them from a hole in the ceiling. Soon, 
firemen break into the apartment above them and find a decomposing body of an 
old man. Later that night, Julia breaks into the apartment of the old man. There 
she finds 15 million dollars that he won in a lottery, hidden in the floor. 
While she exits the dead man’s apartment, carrying the money in trash bags, she 
runs into the neighbor Ramon. He is suspicious of Julia. Soon it becomes evident 
that all inhabitants of house knew about the hidden money. It was their 
agreement to share the money after the old man’s death. But, when Julia appeared 
the plan went wrong. Soon, Julia is invited to a party organized by the Cuban 
charmer Oswaldo. There is a gallery of grotesque characters, inhabitants of the 
house… Julia’s unusual and unanimous neighbors are determined in their attempt 
get the money, which they believe is only theirs…
                        
color, 106 min