Jaime Chávarri

La manzana de oro (2023)

Vampyros Lesbos (2008)

About young Sophie who is taken to a burlesque club with her husband and is hopelessly enticed by awe inspiring beauty Countess Nadine who seduces, kidnaps, and converts the young woman. ...

Camarón: When Flamenco Became Legend (2005)

The life of Camarón de la Isla, the legendary Spanish flamenco cantaor, from his beginning until his death; the relationships he struck up with his wife, la Chispa, and guitarists Paco de Lucía, Tomatito and Paco Cepero… ...

Madrid 11-M: todos íbamos en ese tren (2005)

El año del diluvio (2004)

In a particularly hot summer, Sister Consuelo, superior of an order dedicated to caring for the sick, decided to transform the dilapidated hospital into a modern nursing. ...

Kisses for Everyone (2000)

Three students are sent by their families to Cadiz in 1965, his last chance to pass and become what is expected of them. The appearance of some dancers disrupts their commitments: boys lose the course and girls, their work. But together they learn to decid ...

Tangos Are for Two (1998)

A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of Gardel, dumps her boyfrie ...

Gran Slalom (1996)

A young officer of the Guardia Civil moves to a ski resort in the Pyrenees traveling on official business. On the way his car has a breakdown and he is picked up by a woman who is staying at the hotel. From this situation several adventures and tangles hap ...

The Things of Love: Part 2 (1995)

On the way to his exile in Lisbon, Mario meets Silvia, a widow who turns out to be one of his admirers. Silvia has inherited a fortune, leading Mario to resume his career, eventually falling for him. Although Mario has relations with her, he makes it clear ...

La mujer duende (1994)

The goblin woman. ...

After All These Years (1994)

Twenty years after having talked about death, the world and their problems in "El desencanto", the Panero brothers reflect about their actual situation at the moment and what has happened since the last movie. ...

La intrusa (1993)

The Galgo brothers are inseparable macho loners living in the heart of Andalucia at the turn of the century. One day Rafael comes home with Gracia, who is to be his servant and lover. They become trapped in a hell of their own making. ...

Tierno verano de lujurias y azoteas (1993)

A youngster recently arrived to Spain from Russia falls in love with his own cousin who is an astonishingly beautiful actress and, besides, much older than him. ...

Marathon (1993)

A documentary covering the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. ...

The Things of Love (1989)

In 1940's Madrid. Juan plays piano for Pepita and her on-stage partner Mario. Although Mario really wants to steal Juan for himself, Juan is not interested and Mario resorts to a string of lovers as consolation. When he loves (and leaves) a young nobleman, ...

I'm the One You're Looking For (1989)

Natalia, a fashion model, is assaulted by a man one night, when she is returning from work. She decides to take revenge, and obsessively searches for the rapist. ...

El río de oro (1986)

During a long summer, the tranquility of a couple and their three children resting in a country house is altered with the arrival of the children's uncle, a character who exerts a curious influence on the boys and a morbid and strange attraction the wife. ...

Tatuaje (1985)

A short film starring Pedro Almodóvar and Marisa Paredes, parodying a 1940s torch song, the famous Spanish copla "Tatuaje". ...

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 ...

Bearn (1983)

Mallorca, 1865. Mr Bearns' funerals, "better to dye thant to mix blood". ...

Luis y Virginia (1982)

Cuentos para una escapada (1981)

With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's f ...

Dedicated to... (1980)

A mix of characters and actions create only a semblance of a plot in this confusing tale of intrigue, undefined crimes, and incest. A newspaper reporter is working on a story about a criminal serving time in jail. He interviews the prisoner, has an affair ...

Erotic Stories (1980)

A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality. ...

What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1978)

Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape ...

To an Unknown God (1977)

José, a fifty-year-old homosexual magician, feels the need to return to Granada, the place where he spent his childhood, perhaps to embrace the painful memory of tragic experiences, perhaps to bury it definitively. ...

School Trip (1976)

After completing his high school studies at the age of twenty-four, Óscar is an immature student, unable to afford alone his return to home during the summer season. Then he manages to convince Carlos, his young math teacher, to accompany him. Already in ...

The Disenchantment (1976)

This film is a documentary about the poet Leopoldo Panero. His widow and his sons talk about death in general in this special case, and also about their own family problems. ...

A Chaste Spanish Man (1973)

Don Santiago, a forty-year-old owner of a pastry shop in Madrid de los Austrias, receives surprising news: a woman, in fact his real mother, leaves him with a brothel in England. ...

The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existi ...

Anna and the Wolves (1973)

The young but traveled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family. ...

Vampyros Lesbos (1971)

An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood. ...

Cake of Blood (1971)

Four part anthology horror film, with segments featuring witchcraft, ghosts, Frankenstein and his monster, and ancient Christians battling Celtic vampires. ...

Estado de sitio (1970)

Two very young women live in a country house in the midst of war. The older of the two is the active one, the one who dominates and controls everything that happens in the house. The younger woman is the victim, dominated by the bombings and her companion' ...

Ginebra en los infiernos (1970)

Iván and Ginebra meet in a purely casual way and soon discover that there is a powerful attraction between them; but the constant presence of Ivan's roommate, Toby, a strange boxer who is afraid to step into the ring, forces them to redefine their relatio ...

Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés (1969)

A band of young musicians will do the impossible to boycott a song they didn't like that's supposed to represent Spain in a famous musical contest. ...

El gran amante (1969)

A young woman, fan of a leading actor, sneaks into a film set and pretends to be the main actress. ...

Run, Blancanieves, Run (1967)

Since her earliest childhood, Blancanieves has lived with seven men who have cared for and protected her, but this has never been enough for her, because she wants to be a movie star, a dream that disturbs her guardians. ...

She Walks in Darkness (2025)

A young agent leaves everything behind to pose as a member of ETA, risking her life to uncover the terrorists' hideouts in the south of France. ...

La casa de los retratos (2023)

Berlanga!! (2021)

How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to do with his own? Since to understand the secrets of an artist it is essential to know the person behind, ...

Cuento Chino (2019)

Pili is a middle-age woman. She owns a tabacco shop in a working class neighberhood of Madrid, and she is a gambler. Enraged by the prize of a slot machine, she will chase Ying and Li-Sung throughout the neighborhood. How far will she be willing to go? ...

Aute retrato (2019)

A journey through the different creative facets of Luis Eduardo Aute: singer and songwriter, painter, poet, filmmaker. Collaborators and friends tell the life of this total artist and reveal the impact his work has had in the past, has in the present and w ...

The Apostate (2015)

A young man navigates the bureaucracy of the Catholic Church when he tries to renounce his faith. ...

Writing Heads (2013)

They are the first and the last, those who imagine stories and give voice to the characters who live them. However, they never speak. But now, they emerge from the shadows of a poorly lit room and tell their secrets, their tricks, their influences; they te ...

24 horas en la vida de Querejeta (2012)

Un cine como tú en un país como éste (2010)

Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmakers like Fernando Colomo, Fernando Trueba, Imanol Uribe, Carmen Maura and Antonio Resines, protagonists of the so called 'New Spanish Cinema' in the 80s. Hi ...

All Night Long (2010)

Like so many other actors, Ava Gardner hated to watch her films. She said that the woman on the screen wasn't her. But all films tell two stories: the plot and the tale of the bodies filmed. This film narrates what happened between two images: a first shot ...

Howard Hawks, San Sebastián 1972 (2003)

In 1972, the American film director Howard Hawks travelled to San Sebastian to preside over the jury of the Film Festival. Two young film buffs, Jesús Martínez León and José Luis Cuerda, came from Madrid in the hope of interviewing him. After thirty ye ...

Arrebatos (1998)

The making of Iván Zulueta's film Arrebato (1979). Interviews with cast, crew, and producers. ...

Sombras y luces: Cien años de cine español (1996)

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Matador (1986)

A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other. ...

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. ...

National Heritage (1981)

After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exile, with the purpose of returning to Madrid to actively participate in the social events of the aristocracy ...

Erotic Stories (1980)

A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality. ...

A flor de piel (C) (1974)

Cake of Blood (1971)

Four part anthology horror film, with segments featuring witchcraft, ghosts, Frankenstein and his monster, and ancient Christians battling Celtic vampires. ...

Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés (1969)

A band of young musicians will do the impossible to boycott a song they didn't like that's supposed to represent Spain in a famous musical contest. ...

Ida y vuelta (1968)

Elena, a shy and unmarried girl, belonging to the upper middle class and somewhat marginalized from the general environment, embarks on a trip to the family farmhouse one morning, and when she returns to the city that same day, at night, she is forced to t ...