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Alex de La  Iglesia is a Spanish director. He was born in 1965. He has filmed a lot of movies and has received several awards in his career.  He usually makes black comedies with twisted characters and dark lives. One of his movies is called El Dia de la Bestia. I dont remember exactly when it was released, around 1994 I think, but this is my favorite. It's about a priest who is obssessed with the end of the world and the arrival of the demon in earth. His mission is to find this demon and kill him. To do it, he finds the help of a death metal fan and and a mystic charlatan. This film is a lot of fun but it also makes you think about a lot of things that are not so trivial. If you haven't seen it, you are missing something good.

Stanley Kubrick was and American director who was born in 1928 and died in 1999. He is considered by many people as one of the most important directors of the 20th century. He made 13 films in his career. Dr Strangelove is a black comedy filmed in 1964. The actor Peter Sellers performed several different roles in this movie, showing fantastic acting skills. The story is a political/military satire set in times of the cold war between USA and the USSR. Again, I like it because it deals with an extremely delicate topic with smart criticism, black humor and wit. If you haven't seen it, do it now and you will not regret it.