Biutiful
Biutiful is a Mexican-Spanish movie directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (who also directed Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel). Starring Javier Bardem as a lead.
Tropes used in Biutiful include:
- Abusive Mother striving to be good
- Adult Fear: Who will care for the children after Uxbals' death?
- The Atoner: Uxbal tries, and fails
- Crapsack World: the portrayal of Barcelona
- Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: No, it really doesn't. Uxbal is heavily involved with lots of different types of criminals, and his life is absolutely terrible.
- Hero with an F In Good
- How We Got Here
- I See Dead People: A whole family of them
- It Got Worse and worse, and worse
- Magic Realism
- Mood Swinger: Marambra, for obvious reasons
- My God, What Have I Done?: The carbon monoxide poisoning of the immigrant workers
- Invisible to Gaydar
- Tear Jerker: The Movie.
- Tragic Hero: Uxbal
- Ungrateful Bastard: Uxbal gets no gratitude for passing on the dead's messages, although to be fair, the people he's talking to might assume he's a fake, or be speaking out of pain.