Julio Torres is a writer, director, and comedian from El Salvador. He is a two-time Peabody Award winner for HBO’s Los Espookys and Fantasmas, and earned four Emmy nominations for his work on Saturday Night Live. Torres made his feature directorial debut with Problemista (released by A24 in 2023). His other notable credits include his first solo hour, My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres, and Color Theories, released as an HBO special following the show’s sold-out off-Broadway run. Photo by Andrew Lipovsky
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The List
1
Birth
UnavailableJonathan Glazer
2004
100 min
2
Do the Right Thing
UnavailableSpike Lee
1989
120 min
3
Kuroneko
Kaneto Shindo
1968
100 min
4
All About My Mother
UnavailablePedro Almodóvar
1999
101 min
5
Where Is the Friend’s House?
Abbas Kiarostami
1987
83 min
6
The Virgin Suicides
UnavailableSofia Coppola
1999
97 min
7
PlayTime
Jacques Tati
1967
115 min
8
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1974
93 min
9
Pixote
Héctor Babenco
1980
127 min
10
Amores perros
UnavailableAlejandro G. Iñárritu
2000
154 min