The films were centered around underclass
delinquents, drugs, and love, and usually starred non-professional actors picked off the street. Quinqui films focused on
marginalized working-class adolescents in the outskirts of Spanish cities involved in small-scale robbery and
street crime. They showed raw violence, explicit sex, police brutality, and commonly depicted
heroin use. (died from AIDS, age 31), (died from heroin overdose, around age 44), and
Sonia Martínez (heroin consumer, died from AIDS complications at age 30). In terms of its political-ideological leanings, José Luis López Sangüesa distinguishes three types of quinqui films: those representative of a Catholic paternalism (de la Loma's films and Klimovsky's ''''), those representative of a Left disenchanted with the Transition (
Eloy de la Iglesia's films and to a lesser extent Saura's
Deprisa, deprisa and Raúl Peña's
Todos me llaman Gato), and a quinqui strand that could be discursively categorized as extreme right-wing or
sociological Francoism (embodied by pictures such as
Juventud drogada,
Chocolate, and
La patria del Rata). == Notable films ==