Emilio Gutiérrez Caba

Stories (2024)

Ten stories reflect that we are all more similar than we think. No matter where we come from, who we are or where we were born, we all feel love, fear, happiness, hope... and those feelings unite us. ...

Phenomena (2023)

Madrid, Spain, 1998. The many resources and skills of Gloria, Paz and Sagrario, three middle-aged women investigating paranormal events, are put to the test when their leader, Father Pilón, has an unpleasant encounter. ...

Uncensored Women (2022)

The story of a group of actresses who, in the Spain of the seventies, and in the midst of the democratic Transition, decided to appear nude in the films of that time of radical political change, defying the rigid and deeply rooted social rules. ...

Frederica Montseny, la dona que parla (2021)

In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, the rise of anarcho-syndicalism brings Frederica Montseny into the Republic's government. She reluctantly accepts the position to prevent the spread of fascism, becoming the first female minister in Spain — and in E ...

The Vault (2021)

Madrid, Spain, 2010. While the whole city follows the national team's successful participation in the World Cup, a group of daring thieves look for a way into one of the most secure and guarded places on the planet. ...

La Nueve (2020)

A young man accompanies his mother to a nursing home where he meets don Manuel, a World War II veteran. ...

La corte de Ana (2020)

She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a girl who, in time, would become a symbol of freedom and a total artist. Actress, singer, friend, lover. This ...

Stories of Our Cinema (2019)

In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country are projected. From that event, the Spanish actor Antonio Resines intends to compile a series of anecdotes to shape the amazing history of Spanish cinema, hol ...

Despite Everything (2019)

Sara, Lucía, Sofía and Claudia are sisters, 4 modern women with very different personalities, who come together at their mother's funeral, after which they discover the man they've all called "dad" throughout their lives is not really their father. They ...

The Tree of Blood (2018)

Marc and Rebeca, a young couple, travel to an old country house that used to belong to their family. Once there, they write the shared history of their roots, creating a huge family tree that harbours relationships of love, heartbreak, sex, madness, jealou ...

¡Ay, Carmen! (2018)

The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant artist in her own right. ...

El precio de la risa (2017)

The life of Paco Martínez Soria (1902-1982), one of the most famous and beloved Spanish actors, both on stage and screen; a comedian, a theatrical producer, an idol for the masses. A celebration of the uncommon gift of making people laugh. ...

Brava (2017)

Janine works in a bank giving credits to clients to buy houses and receives the offer of a promotion to work in a future branch in China for which she takes Mandarin classes. One night he travels from work to his home on the subway. There is attacked by tw ...

Relaxing Cup of Coffee (2016)

Bienvenido Mr. Heston (2016)

Spain, 1961. Life in the small village of Torrelobatón, in the province of Valladolid, was turned upside down when the cinematic magic circus of a future Hollywood blockbuster, produced by Samuel Bronston, the rogue mogul of his own film empire, came to t ...

Smoke & Mirrors (2016)

A tale of cheats and impostors, taking its inspiration from true facts and from one of the most intriguing characters of recent decades: the spy Francisco Paesa. ...

Neruda (2016)

It's 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief ...

Cervantes versus Lope (2016)

Mockumentary about the confrontation between Miguel de Cervantes and Lope de Vega around the apocryphal second part of the Quijote signed by Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda. It also tells the relations of other writers and influent persons on the Spanish G ...

Palm Trees in the Snow (2015)

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo. ...

Spy Time (2015)

Adolfo, a thirty something security guard, is going through a bad patch. Not only his lifetime girlfriend has just to finished with him to be a guy with no ambition but, moreover, he becomes the target of a series of thugs led by Vázquez, a dangerous crim ...

Flow (2014)

Walter Mann is an actor who can make his life's dream come true: to star in his own play. However, the big moment that is about to arrive is interrupted by an internal struggle that will destabilize him emotionally. ...

El clavo de oro (2014)

A Catholic Easter ritual has been banned for 20 years in a Spanish village due to an incident. Now, the Archbishop has lift the ban on one condition: there will be no stoning during the enactment of "The Gold Nail". ...

Five Square Meters (2011)

Álex and Virginia, a couple planning to get married, buy an apartment located in a building under construction. When there are only a few months left before the apartments are to be delivered, the works are stopped indefinitely. Álex wants a solution and ...

Vidas pequeñas (2011)

The Most Important Thing in Life is Not Being Dead (2010)

An esteemed piano tuner and repairer, Jacobo leads an apparently happy life with his wife, Helena. His serene existence is thrown into a state of confusion when insomnia creeps in, and pianos that previously repaired miraculously overnight remain unfixed. ...

Retornos (2010)

Álvaro, before escaping from himself during ten years, return to his town, a small village in Galicia, to attend to his father's funeral. There he will try to make it up with his brother and to recoup his daugther Mar. Everything gets complicated when he ...

Luna caliente (2009)

In the autumn of 1970, Juan, a Spanish poet living in Paris working for UNESCO, returns on vacation to his hometown, Burgos. The city is under heavy police and military surveillance due to the so-called Burgos process, a summary military trial against a gr ...

Un buen hombre (2009)

A law school professor witnesses his colleague, friend and mentor murder his own wife. Rather than turn his friend in, he disowns him, but the decision leads to more danger. ...

Small Country (2008)

Two young people learn about love as politics turn their world upside down in this drama from director Ana Diez. After a long and successful career as a soccer player, Xavi retires from the game and moves to Spain, where one day to his surprise he happens ...

La torre de Suso (2007)

Cundo emigrated to Argentina to seek a new life. Ten years later he returns home, to the funeral of an old friend, Suso. The film chronicles the reunion with family and friends and how Cundo wants to fulfill the ultimate dream of Suso. The film is a tribut ...

School of Seduction (2004)

"Escuela de seducción" is an acceptable comedy which deals, for the umpteenth time, with the war of the sexes using misunderstandings and fake personalities as dramatic resources. The premise is by no means original, but this is something most films lack ...

Kill Me Tender (2004)

Do all men want the same thing? Nestor, recently widowed, runs a bakery near Barcelona, has a bank account and a bad heart, and swims in the sea every day. He also has a daughter and a two-timing son-in-law. Nestor's maid asks him to hire her 20-something ...

Lost Bullet (2003)

Daniel, an ex-convict, tries to get back at his corrupt father-in-law by kidnapping his own son and hiding him in an abandoned town where they are producing American westerns. Daniel will have to face a vile father-in-law, an ex-wife that stalks him, as we ...

Seeing Double (2003)

When the members of S Club complain about how tough it is to stay on top, they find themselves replaced by lookalikes... or are they? ...

De Colores (2003)

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El florido pensil (2002)

"El Florido Pensil" is a humorous reflection of the education of several generations of Spaniards from the 1940s to the 1960s. Based on the book of the same name by Andrés Sopeña, it evokes, from the present, his memories of that time: everyday school, l ...

Reflections (2002)

Don't Tempt Me (2001)

Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer. ...

La mujer de mi vida (2001)

Ramón, an egocentric and successful film producer, is only interested in money and women. Shortly after receiving a Goya for his latest film, he learns that his friend Enrique, a forgotten actor who is going through a rough patch, needs help. He has conta ...

Ten Days Without Love (2001)

Miguel, a young psychiatrist working in Madrid, learns that his wife has just dumped him for no one else than his own father while he's expecting his mother-in-law's visit, who's come to the city on a medical revision, and doesn't know anything about her d ...

Y decirte alguna estupidez, por ejemplo, te quiero (2000)

The adventures of a group of secondary school . Juan, one of the group, falls in love with Sara, the new girl. ...

Common Wealth (2000)

After finding an enormous amount of money hidden in a dead man's apartment, real estate agent Julia must face the wrath of the very peculiar inhabitants of the apartment building, who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the money. ...

Women (2000)

Eight stories about women, adapted from the book "Women" by Isabel-Clara Simó. ...

The Art of Dying (2000)

Four years after his disappearance, the mysterious case of Nacho, a young and promising painter, is reopened by the police. ...

La primera noche de mi vida (1998)

The story is about a couple that sets out for a dinner party on the millennium eve. The woman is pregnant, the guy has no money and no car and has borrowed one from a friend of his. The car of course is not exactly top class and crashes down after few mile ...

Memorias del ángel caído (1997)

A group of parishioners die poisoned upon receiving communion, during the investigation of the event the priests of the parish begin to have visions. Everything rushes when the dead are resurrected in the autopsy room, these strange events seem to be relat ...

An Internal Affair (1996)

In the early 70s, a rather backwards young soldier with serious family problems finds himself stationed in a small village in Spain's Levante. Secretly in love with a young village girl, Pere slips into her room one night. When he is discovered, the soldie ...

Animia of Love (1996)

Anica runs a dating agency called Animia. After recognizing her new client from Alcoholics Anonymous, she tries to get him to fall in love with her. ...

Escenes d’una orgia a Formentera (1996)

Having gained success and artistic acknowledgement for his performances on the stage, Joan Barnat has now definitively abandoned the theatre to work exclusively for television. But a turn of events causes him to lose control of his mind and he becomes obse ...

Dance with Me (1996)

As a child, Kyoko learned latin dance from Jose, a Cuban-American serviceman stationed in Japan. Years later, Kyoko travels to New York to see Jose again. After much searching, she finds Jose, only to discover that he is dying of AIDS and no longer remembe ...

Mouth to Mouth (1995)

For financial reasons, an aspiring actor begins working for a phone-sex enterprise. Through his new line of work, he develops relationships with two regular clients: Bill, an elderly homosexual, and Amanda, a mysterious femme fatale. ...

Parella de tres (1995)

Ana and Marta are good friends but very different women. Ana is a housewife whereas Marta is an agressive lawyer, single and very independent. Ana is married to Santi and after a crisis she proposed Marta to be the lover of her husband to save her matrimon ...

Souvenir (1994)

Yoshio, a young Japanese loner travelling through Europe, falls for a flight attendant en route to Barcelona. After a mix-up, Yoshio's red suitcase ends up in the hands of his new crush. ...

La sombra del ciprés es alargada (1990)

Avila, early twentieth century. Pedro, a boy of nine years, accompanied by his tutor, comes to live in the house of Don Mateo, a teacher that from that moment will be responsible for his education. Pedro begins an almost familiar relationship with Doña Gr ...

Crazy Poison (1989)

Verónica (Maru Valdivielso) is a young executive who works in a dairy company. One day before going on holiday to the carnivals of Rio Janeiro, the company is blackmailed by a batch of poisoned yogurts. The president of the company gives a heart attack an ...

Una nit a Casa Blanca (1987)

Geltra and Pau don't know each other, she's 23 and tired of all the experiences she's gone through. He's 19 and just left home not knowing where to go or what to do. They will meet in this road trip while heading to a place in Delta de l'Ebre called "Casa ...

Silver-beet Face (1987)

On a road in the deep Spain, a wanderer with no fixed course and light luggage awaits someone to take him somewhere. His name is Antonio and this is how he will end up in a small provincial town, where he will be involved in a plan to steal a canvas of inc ...

Las dos orillas (1987)

Love Ravings (1986)

In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young man. ...

Werther (1986)

This adaptation of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. The boy's m ...

A la pálida luz de la luna (1985)

Carmen leaves her husband Julio to go live with an intellectual who has made a career in the United States. While, Julio goes away to live of rent to house of an aristocrat come to less. After meeting several colorful characters, Julio decides to recover C ...

Réquiem por un campesino español (1985)

Hypocrisy and betrayal are the two dramatic pivots in this effective, emotionally gripping tragedy about the life and death of Paco (Antonio Banderas), a Spanish peasant who had been fighting against the feudal landowning system that kept farmers impoveris ...

Hierro Dulce (1985)

Emilio is an executive in his thirties who is driven to set up an abandoned factory with the participation of a variety of quirky characters. For it, agrees to carry a suitcase with 40 million pesetas inside. ...

What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)

A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others. ...

La gran quiniela (1984)

A young woman wins 200 million pesetas at the 'quiniela' football pool with 14 successfull 'aciertos' and begins to help everybody with the fortune. ...

Bicycles Are for the Summer (1984)

In Madrid, the family of Don Luis, his wife Dolores and their children, Manolita and Luisito, share the daily life of the Civil War with their maid and neighbours. Despite having failed his exams, Luisito wants his father to buy him a bicycle. However, the ...

De camisa vieja a chaqueta nueva (1982)

A former Francoist becomes a democrat after the Spanish Transition ...

Femenino singular (1982)

The Beehive (1982)

As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, survi ...

Porno: Situación límite (1982)

Classic and very little known 80s erotic movie. ...

Los embarazados (1982)

Otra vez adiós (1982)

The Powerful Influence Of The Moon (1981)

The film is an image of the Spanish society in form of various anecdotes which happen to the inhabitants and their neighbours of a finca in Madrid. ...

El tragaluz (1981)

Pepe, no me des tormento (1981)

Stigma (1980)

The death of Sebastian's father engenders in him pathological fears and hallucinations. His death wishes seem to cause horrible accidents, which he is unable to control. When his older brother dies, he feels that he has caused it. He undergoes hypnosis, bu ...

Journey to the Beyond (1980)

A doctor in parapsychology invites some people to their mansion. They all have lived some kind of paranormal experiences. ...

El gran secreto (1980)

Tres mujeres de hoy (1980)

Me olvidé de vivir (1980)

Julio Iglesias, internationally famous spanish singer, ends his Europe-wide tour in Paris. Before setting off to perform in America, decides to take a brief holiday in the quiet and peaceful Contadora Island in Panama. There, he meets Claudia, a german arc ...

Viva la clase media (1980)

Drama based on the true life of a group of middle class and members of the Communist Party of Spain, who were involved in clandestine political activities during the sixties. ...

La tetera (1979)

At the Service of Spanish Womanhood (1978)

A sexually dissatisfied woman is confronted with a man who is the victim of a puritanic education. ...

The Shadow of a Memory (1978)

A city is horrified at the appearance of several cadavers of women who have been savagely raped prior to being killed. ...

The Priest (1978)

Obsessed with fantasies of sex, Father Miguel seeks professional help through his church but they are not listening; thus leaving the Father in a dilemma; leaving the church or should he try, on his own, to surrender to these temptations? ...

Vota a Gundisalvo (1978)

Doña Perfecta (1977)

Pepe Rey, Doña Perfecta's nephew, arrives in Orbajosa, a quiet and provincial city, with the task of building a reservoir. However, the presence of Pepe, a man of liberal ideas to whom unfounded revolutionary and even anticlerical intentions are attribute ...

Till Divorce Us Do Part (1977)

Miguel is a young Spanish naval engineer in love with an American student of History of Art. When she becomes pregnant, she decides that the easiest solution to her situation is to marry her civilly. However, in Spain in the 1970s, prior to the passage of ...

La petición (1976)

An ambitious young woman from a wealthy family, but unsatisfied with her social position, will not hesitate to use all that is within her reach to achieve her ascent in society. ...

Hen Pecked (1974)

Don Juan Alcántara is ruined. He does not dare to confess it to the family, since the unanimous opinion of those who know him is that he is a weakling. His lack of character is remedied by his doctor - pretend that he is suffering from schizophrenia. ...

Un curita cañón (1974)

Father Saturio is a priest unable to keep his mouth shut if he sees injustices being committed. That is why they have transferred him on various occasions from the parishes where he has been assigned. On this occasion, he will have to face Mrs. Aurora, a r ...

Forbidden Passion (1974)

A young woman was seduced by a high positioned official who is married but when she falls in love with a young man she tries to break the other relationship... ...

Una chica y un señor (1974)

The life of a young attractive singer in search of success changes when he meets an accomplished lawyer, considerably older than her. ...

Las señoritas de mala compañía (1973)

Hamlet (1970)

Hamlet, the young and indolent prince of Denmark, who is sure that his father, the king, has been treacherously murdered by those closest to the throne, decides to take revenge, so he cleverly manipulates the hearts of the members of the court in search of ...

El mejor alcalde, el rey (1970)

In the Folds of the Flesh (1970)

Police are in hot pursuit of a criminal who is evading capture on a speeding motorbike. He takes refuge in an overgrown castle's grounds and sees a pale woman burying a corpse in a shallow grave. Thirteen years later, after being recaptured and serving his ...

Carola de día, Carola de noche (1969)

Due to the triumph of a revolution, Carola, a young and beautiful heiress to the throne, leaves her country to save her life; but her new existence, constantly watched, threatened by her enemies, subjected to the punctilious demands of her position, bores ...

No somos ni Romeo ni Julieta (1969)

Words of Love (1969)

John leaves for Barcelona in search of Cristina, who two years ago went to the city. On arrival he is hosted in a cousin's house and there he meets Monica that falls madly in love with him. When he finally finds Cristina, things do not happen as he expecte ...

Vamos por la parejita (1969)

Antonio Garisa is Juan Fernández Arriaga, a typicall spanish man fifty years ago. He's married and has five girls, but he is unhappy because all he wanted was a boy (in spanish argot, "ir por la parejita" means trying to have a couple of children, girl an ...

Cristina Guzmán (1968)

Bring a Little Loving (1968)

Mike, the famous group Los Bravos singer, is kidnapped by Chou-Fang, follower of the doctrines of the fearsome Manchu. In fact, Chou Fang is not interested in Mike, but to dominate the world through a chemical formula that should develop a retired scientis ...

I Do Not Forgive... I Kill! (1968)

Don Ramon, a wealthy patron, receives his son back after he has sent him away to medical school, only to have him fall in love with his new young wife. ...

Los chicos del Preu (1967)

A group of pre-university boys and girls experience all kinds of problems and joys that arise in their lives. Among other worries, they have to deal with the pressure of their studies, difficulties with their families and, of course, their first loves. ...

Las 4 bodas de Marisol (1967)

Marisol, a young star of Spanish cinema, and Frank, an American director, fall in love while filming a movie in Spain. The producer decides to use the situation to organize a publicity stunt, but Marisol prepares a trap to chastise him. ...

Sábado en la playa (1967)

Pablo arrives at the beach and discovers Adrián's schemes to conquer his wife and other women. ...

¿Qué hacemos con los hijos? (1967)

The driver Antonio, boasts of his sons: John, who shares his work as a taxi driver, Luisa, ladies hairdresser, Antonito, studying to be a lawyer, and Paloma, to be a housewife. But Antonio does not know that their children are not exactly as he thinks. The ...

The Midshipmen (1967)

A group of students preparing to be midshipmen at the Naval Academy live very different experiences: from the typical hazing the new responsibilities they will face when they obtain graduation. ...

Historia de la frivolidad (1967)

The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s. ...

The Hunt (1966)

Three veterans of the Spanish Civil War go rabbit hunting. While doing so, old wounds open up. ...

Nine Letters to Berta (1966)

Lorenzo is a young man returns to Spain after spending some time in England, where he fell in love with Berta, the daughter of Spanish immigrants. Lorenzo writes several letters to her trying to convey the beauty of the world her parents left behind. ...

The Mysterious Mr. Van Eyck (1966)

A treasure sinks into the sea with the body of Charles Van Eyck, killed during a fight on a yacht by one of the sailors. ...

The Sweet Sound of Death (1965)

Pablo is in love with Dominique, whom he wants to marry. The girl leads them to a cemetery, where she convinces Pablo that should either of them die, the other will return and help them prepare for the afterlife. She leaves Madrid on a vacation in Bretagna ...

Vacaciones para Ivette (1964)

Andrés' parents, in Madrid, and Pierre's parents, in Paris, have agreed to a school exchange for their children during the summer. However, when they go to the station to pick up Pierre, 10 years old, they meet an attractive young woman who takes his plac ...

Tengo 17 años (1964)

A young girl decide to escape from home because her stepmother doesn´t like her. She finds a modest family that welcomes her as a family member. She learns how to live in lowliness and fall in love with David. ...

Como dos gotas de agua (1964)

The lawyer Angela Goñi is working in two cases at once: an man that wants to take to Pilo, a young orphan, tp a protection child school. And Mili, another young woman neglected by his father, a businessman, whose aunt Teresa wants to claim through the cou ...

Jaguar (1963)

A murderous villain takes over a family's ranch, killing everyone but the youngest son, still a toddler, who is rescued by a faithful servant. The son grows up and becomes The Jaguar, a bandit who along with his gang robs the corrupt rulers of the town and ...