Much has been said about the various cultural manifestations that exploded after the end of the Franco dictatorship. The Movida Madrileña could be considered the cornerstone used by the media to nourish the past and build the cultural present. Behind this multiform concept lies a torrent that encompasses ideas, fashion, new forms of life or artistic expressions that emerged during the period of the Spanish Transition. Cinema also drank from those times, of those new liberties that had arisen thanks to the progressive detachment of a gravestone called censorship.

However, little is said today about relocating and rethinking the aspects of politics, society, culture and cinema of that immediate past. More so in these times that seem to be in a state of constant change and whose distance from what happened is more than prudent; to remain within that which is already written threatens to stifle our critical gaze and push us to resort to stereotypes and prejudices or fall into deification.

This is how, within cinema, there are aspects that need to be analyzed, put into context and even demystified in order to talk about them with their values and misunderstandings. Quinqui film, until very recently, was a poorly studied topic, sometimes ignored and confined in the B denomination of film analysis. It is true that quality, established by film canons, often circumvents these films and it is largely due to this and other elements (thematic or incomplete review and analysis) that they have ended up being reviled. The taboos and misgivings were primed with films that dealt with juvenile delinquency, the socially marginalized, the navajeros or the junkies. Films that have been understood and classified as “Exploit a la Española” are grouped today in the collective imaginary within the pop world of fashion and T-shirt stores (Matellano 2011) . In this way, quinqui film has suffered the same treatment as the characters it presents: the loss of social context and, where appropriate, cinematographic context. Therefore, their protagonist, among others, have been at the expense not only of oblivion but also of uprooting and even of mythification (although this involves more factors).