The 5 Best Movies About Dogs
When trying to make a selection of films about dogs, it is impossible to escape from subjectivity. But today we wanted to get away a bit from the clichés of the cinema when it comes to portraying the furry, either as self-sacrificing superheroes that everyone can do, or by putting them to live situations that have more to do with us than with animals.
That is why we opted for films that portray dogs without stereotypes or humanizations and prefer to tell the way in which people relate to them.
Our selection of movies about dogs
We leave you 5 movies about dogs shot in different times, languages and places. We hope to open the game in this way so that you can complete this short list with the films that have moved you at different times in your lives.
1-Umberto D. (1952)
The film by the Italian Vittorio de Sica continues to move because of the simplicity and realism with which it tells the story of a pensioner who lives in a desperate financial situation.
Being thrown out of the pension together with his dog Flike, his only companion, Umberto thinks about suicide. For this reason, he seeks – unsuccessfully – a new home for the dog. Failing to do so, he takes the animal in his arms and stands on the tracks, waiting to be run over by a train. But Flike manages to free himself and the old man runs to look for him, allowing a new opportunity for both of them.
2-Marley & me (2008)
This American film, directed by David Frankel, has Owen Wilson as the human protagonist. The film tells with sensitivity and depth the intimate daily relationship of a dog with its owner over 14 years.
Released in Spain as A couple of three , the original title Marley is a Labrador dog who also knew how to win the heart of Jennifer Aniston, the female interpreter of this story, based on an autobiographical book by journalist John Grogan.
3-Dog loves (2000)
Mexican Alejandro González Iñárritu’s debut feature may or may not like it. But if he does something, it is that no one remains indifferent to the forcefulness of his images and the intensity of the intersecting stories.
Thus, among the conflicts of humans, dogs appear: Dogs used in clandestine fights, stray dogs sheltered by a former guerrilla who survives by killing on request, dogs that live a life without deprivation and that end up literally lost under the floor of a flat. deluxe…
4-Bombón, the dog (2004)
In this film by Carlos Sorín, shot once again in Argentine Patagonia, we find the story of a man who, barely over 50, is fired from his job. His life seems to change when an old woman hires him to fix a car and gives him a dog as payment.
At first, the man does not know well what to do with the animal, an impressive specimen of Dogo Argentino that, thanks to its pedigree, begins to open unexpected doors to the protagonist and introduces him to the world of dog shows.
5-Truman (2015)
It tells the story of a lonely man, an Argentine actor exiled in Madrid (Ricardo Darín) and affected by a terminal illness. That is why his almost sole objective is to find a new home – the best, the most reliable – for his dog, the Truman of the title, who has been his faithful company in recent years. The Catalan director Cesc Gay unconventionally solves a story that, in other hands, could have been transformed into a tear-jerking drama.
Special mention for Troilo, the beautiful specimen of B
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