Fernando Vivanco

El próximo Oriente (2006)

Cain is a self-conscious butcher who lives in the Madrid neighborhood of Lavapiés and who envies his brother Abel, his only family, for having achieved everything he does not have. When Cain discovers that Abel has left a neighbor neighbor pregnant, daugh ...

Franky Banderas (2004)

The Winter of the Anjanas (2000)

A young worker enjoying an affair with an upper class beauty, Adelaida, is drafted by the Spanish Army to fight in the Cuban War of Independence. After Adelaida receives an unusual announcement regarding her lover's death in combat, she refuses to believe ...

Atilano, presidente (1998)

Atilano Bermejo is a petty crook who gets involved in the scam of his life: to be Prime Minister. His charisma and lack of social concern make him an ideal political candidate for a group of bankers looking for a good public image behind which to hide and ...

Backroads (1997)

Spain, 1974. A teenager and his father are traveling in a car that is the only property they have. Their life is a continuous move by desolate coastal apartments in the tourism low season. When forced to change route and get away from sea, their lives will ...

Siempre hay un camino a la derecha (1997)

"There's Always a Way to the Right" is the name of a sensational television program with a large audience. The host portrays the lives of unfortunate people, trying to convince them that their fortunes can change whenever they set their minds to it. ...

The Good Life (1996)

Tristan is about to turn fifteen. He enjoys the good life his parents have built for him. And yet, it won't be long before his environment of protection, affection and comfort crumbles. From then on, he will learn the taste of loneliness, sadness and that ...

Matías, juez de línea (1996)

Matias is a soccer referee. He promised his dying mother never to lie. When he referees a match of the spanish national team and there is a clear penalty against Spain in the last minute of the game he has no choice and marks the foul. As a result Spain do ...

Puede ser divertido (1995)

Alicia and Carmen are two recently divorced single mothers who become friends after their kids get in a fight at school. Their new friendship is put to the test when they agree to start dating the same man for fun. ...

Justino, un asesino de la tercera edad (1994)

Justino was working in a bull-ring but now he is retired. For him it is very difficult to adapt to the new situation although he will find soon a hobby without forgetting his profession. ...

Everyone Off to Jail (1993)

A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco's reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended. ...

Huidos (1993)

Amo tu cama rica (1992)

Pedro goes out searching for a girl, but the night doesn't seem to be good. While he is talking with a friend, he sees Sara breaking up with a boy. He goes after her, and they end up sleeping in his house. Time goes by and they continue together. But Sara ...

Lulú de noche (1986)

German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While looking for the protagonist, Rufo appears, an introvert jazz musician. He could play Jack the ripper. ...

Coarse Salt (1984)

A famous composer creative in crisis and must compose a new album, but is going through a painful separation that prevents him from concentrating. ...

Soldados de plomo (1983)

Andrew returns to his hometown after a long absence. His father was a military high society who abandoned his wife to join the mother of Andrew, one cupletista second row. The reason for his return is to take over an old inheritance left him by his father: ...

Total (1983)

"Total" opens the trilogy that close "Amanece que no es poco" and "Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra" Year 2598. Three days ago, the world has come to the end in London, a lost and a small Castilian village atmosphere. Lorenzo, a shepherd, tells a series ...

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 ...

Labyrinth of Passion (1982)

An array of outrageous people, including a desperate nymphomaniac and a terrorist with an acute sense of smell, seek love and happiness in Madrid. ...

A contratiempo (1982)

The relationship of a adult man and a young girl. ...

Estoy en crisis (1982)

Bernabe (José Sacristán) works as an artistic director for a publicity firm but his avocation is fawning after his bosses, sleeping with whomever might advance his career, and ignoring his wife. Life continues on in this vein until he meets a young model ...

Escape From Segovia (1981)

In the summer of 1977, a political prisoner, living in exile, recounts the circumstances of his escape to a journalist: in April 76, a group of ETA members planned to escape from prison, but the project fails when, due to a tip-off, the guards discover the ...

Vecinos (1981)

Luis and Aurora live in the outskirts of Madrid, his life is quiet and peaceful until it reaches Antonio, her new neighbor. Luis says that neighbors are classic bores who put loud music, no wave and always call at inopportune to ask for something. But Auro ...

7 calles (1981)

The Black Hand (1980)

Three old schoolmates, who in their time as students had formed a kind of secret society called The Black Hand, in order to embitter teachers' lives, meet again years later with very different lives. One is a dad's son who is distracted as best he can; ano ...

La paloma azul (1980)

A film that focuses on the sexual changes that occur in the minds and bodies of adolescent boys and girls. It explains the process from sexual contact to childbirth, as well as contraception. ...

La caza de brujas (1967)

When, in a very strict Catholic school, a teacher enters a bathroom and surprises two students engaged in forbidden sexual practices, some of their classmates do not know whether to remain silent or rat out their own friends when questioned by school autho ...