El Pico[1] (English: Overdose) is a 1983 Spanish film written and directed by Eloy de la Iglesia.

[3] Set in the Basque country in a cold and dark atmosphere, El Pico employs a rough, neo-realistic style.

[4] The film was De la Iglesia's biggest box-office hit, and it spun off a sequel: El pico 2.

Paco has two younger sisters; his mother, Eulalia, is a traditional housewife; while his father, Evaristo Torrecuadrada, is a Civil Guard commander who holds right-wing views.

Urko's parents are separated, and he lives with his father, Martín Aramendia, a leftist politician affiliated with one of the groups pushing for Basque autonomy.

While returning home from buying medicines for his mother, Paco becomes a hero when he saves his father from an assassination attempt.

They have been police informants in the past and lead Alcántara to Urko, who tells about his and Paco's addiction and drug dealings.

Lieutenant Alcántara immediately suspects Paco and Urko as the culprits in the killing of El Cojo and his wife, based on the ballistics of the gun and the witnesses' descriptions.

At the morgue, while Torrecuadrada and Aramendía discuss telling the truth about what they know, Paco arrives to see the body of his dead friend.

Paco's father takes him to a deserted road by the sea and asks him to give him the stolen gun and the drugs, throwing them away into the ocean.