Enrique Jardiel Poncela

Los habitantes de la casa deshabitada (2018)

Usted tiene ojos de mujer fatal (1975)

Madrid, Spain, early thirties. The charming playboy Sergio Hernán is an unscrupulous womanizer who over the years has seduced and abandoned hundreds of women with the complicity of Oshidori, his cynical butler. However, his brief encounter with Elena Fort ...

Blanca por fuera y Rosa por dentro (1971)

Blanca and Ramiro are a married couple who are always arguing just for pleasure; but Blanca suddenly suffers a misfortune and everything changes. ...

Wait for me in Siberia, Darling! (1971)

Debauched playboy has a hypochondriac streak and an unscrupulous doctor that profits from it. ...

The Seven Lives of the Cat (1971)

Guillermo's family has been living for years a terrible curse. All the women in his family have died because of love and murdered by men of the clan. The funny thing is that before each death a cat appeared. One day, while Guillermo prepares the papers for ...

Satan's Five Warnings (1970)

Two couples live through attraction, distraction, sympathy, friendship, quarrel, jealousy, fidelity, and the Devil supervises it all by delivering solemn warnings in choice moments. ...

Un adulterio decente (1969)

Federico is having an affair with Fernanda, which he believes widow, when in fact she is married. When the trick is discovered, a doctor appears very opportunely saying that infidelity is a disease caused by bacteria and has no cure. In his private clinic ...

You and I Are Three (1962)

When Manolina saw a picture of Rodolfo, a South American poet, she falls in love for him. Three months after marriage by proxy, Rodolfo meets with her, which takes a major surprise to meet the twin brother of her husband. ...

Usted tiene ojos de mujer fatal (1962)

Fantasmas en la casa (1961)

A young playwright meets a girl he was once in love with. ...

Un marido de ida y vuelta (1957)

Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife dies victim of a heart attack the day she forces him to shave his beloved beard to go to a costume ball dressed as a bullfighter. Its spectrum then begins to w ...

Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!! (1951)

Tin Tan just won the lottery and wants to donate it to an orphanage. Sataela and Riverita want to keep the money for themselves. In an attenpt to do so, they convince him of having a terminal disease and suggest that committing suicide is his best option. ...

Los habitantes de la casa deshabitada (1946)

In a dark and stormy night, Raimundo's car suffers a breakdown, so he and Gregorio, his chauffeur, must try to ask for shelter in the only nearby house, a sinister mansion, of those that seem inhabited by ghosts. ...

Las cinco advertencias de Satanás (1945)

Satan plays a trick on two roues, telling them five things that are predestined to happen to them, but leaving out some crucial details. Then he sits back and laughs as they struggle against their preordained situations. ...

Eloísa está debajo de un almendro (1943)

Fernando, who has returned to his hometown after studying in Brussels, finds a strange suicide note written by his father ten years earlier. ...

Los ladrones somos gente honrada (1942)

Based on a play ...

Mauricio, o una víctima del vicio (1940)

Margarita, Armando and his father (1939)

A young couple, Margarita and Armando, reenact the story of The Lady of the Camellias, as they fall in love, Armando's flamboyant father disapproves of their relationship and does everything to separate them. ...

El fakir Rodríguez (1938)

Un anuncio y cinco cartas (1937)

An honest man puts an ad looking for a room to rent in an honest house and receives five peculiar answers. ...

Angelina, o El honor de un brigadier (1935)

Madrid, Spain, 1880. Angelina, daughter of the pompous Brigadier Marcial, is tempted by the womanizer Germán, who asks her to run away together, just after her boyfriend, Rodolfo, asks her to do exactly the same thing with him. ...

Insure Your Wife (1935)

This Fox Film comedy – based on a play by Argentinean writer Julio Escobar – features an international cast that includes actor and singer Raúl Roulien and his fiancée in both the movie and real life, actress and dancer Conchita Montenegro. The plot ...

Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela (2014)

The Spanish author Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) was one of the best comedy writers of all time, a novelist and newspaper columnist, misunderstood, even censored, both by the Second Republic government and Francoism, an outsider ahead of his time; al ...

Fin de curso (1943)

Mauricio, o una víctima del vicio (1940)

Un anuncio y cinco cartas (1937)

An honest man puts an ad looking for a room to rent in an honest house and receives five peculiar answers. ...

Una viuda romántica (1933)

1933 Spanish language film. ...

Fake News (1933)

A parody of the current affairs news format built upon autonomous pieces. ...