Anguish
An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's collection. Reality soon takes a bizarre turn, both for the characters and the audience.
The Chambermaid on the Titanic
Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Titanic and cannot get a room, asks to share his room. They do, chastely; when he awakens, she is gone, but he sees her at the sailing and gets a photo of her. When he returns home, he suspects that his wife Zoe has been sleeping with Simeon, the foundry owner. Horty goes to the bar, where his friends get him drunk and he starts telling an erotic fantasy of what happened with him and Marie, drawing a larger audience each night.
The Ages of Lulu
Fifteen-year-old Lulu has never known any affection from her family. But when she goes to a rock concert with Pablo, a friend of the family, he introduces Lulu to her first sexual experience. Years later, Pablo and Lulu have married; Pablo has created a sheltered, private world for Lulu, into which nothing intrudes. However, Lulu tires of her cloistered existence, and begins hanging out in shady bars, looking for vicarious thrills and danger.
Bambola
Her name is Mina, but she is called Bambola (doll). Upon the death of her mother, she and her homosexual brother, Flavio, open a pizzeria. A man named Ugo loans Bambola the money, but is then killed in a fight with another one of her boyfriends, Settimio. While visiting Settimio in jail, she meets a sadistic man named Furio, and they begin a relationship.
The Tit and the Moon
A child does not stand the idea of having a new brother and dreams about drinking milk from the breasts of his mother again. The child asks the moon to bring him a tit only for him.
Jamón, Jamón
José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.
Golden Balls
A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.
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Bigas Luna
Director
Isabel García Lorca
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Caroline
Zelda Rubinstein
as
Mother
Olivier Martinez
as
Horty
Giorgio Gobbi
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Manu
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
as
Marie
Stefania Orsola Garello
as
Mimi
Santiago Segura
as
Camillero
María Barranco
as
Ely
Javier Bardem
as
Jimmy
Óscar Ladoire
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Pablo / husband
Anita Ekberg
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La mamá
Abel Folk
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El Padre
Mathilda May
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La Gabacha
Luis Fernández de Eribe
as
(uncredited)
Jordi Mollà
as
El niñato
Anna Galiena
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Prostituta
Penélope Cruz
as
Silvia
Benicio Del Toro
as
El amigo de Miami
Albert Vidal
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El suegro
Elisa Tovati
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Rita
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