Thesis
Thesis is a 1996 Spanish thriller film, written and directed by Alejandro Amenábar and starring Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez and Eduardo Noriega. It is Amenábar's first feature film. The 1996 film is based on Amenábar's original script about a murder at a university. Thesis premiered in the panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the Annecy Festival. With notable critical and public success, the film marked the beginning of one of the most successful directors of Spanish cinema. It won several awards, including the Goya Award for best film and best original script.
Synopsis: A young student of Audiovisual Communication, Ángela, prepares a thesis on audiovisual violence. Her teacher suggests helping her look for extremely violent films in the college video library. However, a strange event takes place and, the next day, the professor dies in a projection room. Together with Chema, a classmate, Ángela decides to watch the same movie: it is a "snuff movie", a film in which a murder or the real death of a person is filmed and she discovers that a woman has died there. Terrified, she decides to investigate more about that mysterious event with the help of Chema. But Angela is moving into dangerous territory that will possibly lead her to become the protagonist of the next "snuff movie."
