José Lifante

José Lifante, mi aventura en el cine (2024)

First-person testimony of the life and work of one of the most important and prolific supporting actors in our country. The last legacy of one of the actors who most loved his profession and for which he continued working until his last days. ...

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, ...

Sanjulián: el poder de la ilustración (2021)

An account, in his own words and those of his relatives, of the life and work of the brilliant Manuel Pérez-Sanjulián Clemente, one of the most important Spanish illustrators of all times. ...

Wild Session (2019)

A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a low-budget cinema and great popular acceptance that exploited cinematographic fashions: westerns, horror movies, erotic comedies and thrillers about petty cri ...

Rebobinando (2017)

The Last Script (2016)

Actress Lone Fleming suffers terrible nightmares in which she is pursued by zombie Templars. ...

Party Town (2016)

Two brothers, Juan and Richi, once had a duo act, Supergalactic, with a one-off pop hit in the 1990s. When the mayor of their hometown asks them to reunite, the two decide to overlook their differences for one last taste of stardom – and a quick payday. ...

Yo quise hacer Los bingueros 2 (2016)

El Viaje Glauber (2015)

Firme Usted Aquí (2014)

Spain. Faced with the progressive aging of the population and the dire economic situation, the Administration launches an assisted euthanasia campaign aimed at so-called -unproductive beings-. Keen to get their hands on the amount of money set for the subs ...

Lentejuelas de sangre (2012)

Antonio Gracia José (1942-2011), known as "Pierrot," was a prominent member of the Barcelona art scene, a pioneer in the filmmaking of underground short films and Fantaterror movies, writer and playwright, magazine editor, movie poster painter, cartoonist ...

Gallino, the Chicken System (2012)

A man named Alucinio drifts on the Antarctic desert amid a winter storm. He has been betrayed -in dreams- by the woman he loves. When he is about to freeze to death is rescued by a poulterer who will introduce him to the secrets of pornophilosophy. Meanwhi ...

The Evil Faces of Víctor Israel (2010)

Hour-long documentary about distinctive-looking Spanish character actor Víctor Israel. ...

Rojo sangre (2004)

Veteran actor Pablo Thevenet has no luck: His daughter has been murdered, his wife has left him, he finds no job and his agent wants to leave him - current directors will never give him a role. He hates current talentless stars on TV talk shows. Suddenly, ...

The Biggest Robbery Ever Told (2002)

Lucas Santos, named El Santo is petty thief going continuously in and out of jail. Tired of small thefts, he aims to strike a blow that makes him famous and become the star of all media. His wife Lucia, a comprehensive and sweet woman, while awaiting the r ...

Dagon (2001)

A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. Running for ...

Lázaro de Tormes (2001)

Operación Gónada (2000)

The Dog in the Manger (1996)

Countess Diana de Belflor is in love with Teodoro, her secretary, but he is engaged to Marcela. ...

Los porretas (1996)

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 ...

Fiesta (1995)

A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War. ...

Sons of Trinity (1995)

The Trinity legend continues when the sons of Trinity and Bambino head out on the road to continue the legendary hijinks of their fathers. ...

Sevilla Connection (1992)

Aquí, el que no corre... vuela (1992)

Lola, a member of a gang of crooks, is visited by a cousin who comes to work in a multinational. ...

The Long Winter (1992)

In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how h ...

Ni se te ocurra... (dejar de verla) (1991)

Two friends study the "Telenovela" project and face misunderstanding from their families for their studies. ...

Drums of Fire (1990)

In 1568, Saadi prince Abdelmalek is exiled from Morocco by his brothers, an event that is only the beginning of his adventures: fighting the Spanish Inquisition, taking part in the Battle of Lepanto, being incarcerated in Alicante prison, and assist in the ...

Blood and Sand (1989)

Remake of the tale of an acclaimed matador who finds himself involved with a beautiful woman, jeopardizing both his marriage and career. ...

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits. ...

Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988)

Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and unhappy marriages. ...

Birds of Prey (1987)

Vanessa, a television reporter covering a story of a farmer attacked by his chickens, discovers that this is not an isolated incident. Travelling to Spain with her cameraman Peter, the two discover the survivors of a town wiped out by the birds thirty year ...

¡Esto es un atraco! (1987)

A group of people are recruited by the brain of a band of robbers to commit the theft of some gold bars. Each character has a particular problem why he needs the money, but all are pretty sloppy. ...

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. ...

Pasos Largos (El último bandido andaluz) (1986)

"Pasos largos" (long steps) is an alias for the last Andalusian bandit, after engaging in poaching for a living, he begins to commit small crimes in the mountainous area of Ronda (Malaga, Spain), but everything gets even more complicated. ...

La pantalla diabólica (1985)

A young aspiring director is an admirer of a famous filmmaker whom he kidnaps and impersonates in the production of a film. ...

The Chosen One (1985)

Federico is a cashier in a bank. He is bored with his life. But one day a body falls on his car. The suspected suicide victim is collected by a group of men that disappear in a car. Federico's life is about to change completely. ...

La hoz y el Martínez (1985)

The Hit (1984)

Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong. ...

Scarab (1984)

Dr. Wilfred Manz performs a magical experiment on a beetle-shaped amulet. His patience exhausted, he smashes his fist into some bottles and a few drops of blood fall onto the scarab. His laboratory is rocked by an explosion, the god Khepera appears and Man ...

¡¡¡A tope!!! (1984)

Madrid, 80 A couple, Juanjo and Rachel, threatening their relationship when Juanjo falls in love with another girl, Marta. ...

La loca historia de los tres mosqueteros (1983)

Shake Before Use (1983)

No overview found. ...

Mar brava (1983)

Mingo, a kid whose father and brother have disappeared in shipwrecks, finds an amnesic man lying on the beach. Might he be St. Elmo? ...

Power Game (1983)

Y del seguro… líbranos, Señor! (1983)

Panic (1982)

A scientist's experiment with a deadly bacteria goes awry and leaves him horribly deformed. The monstrous man then runs amok in his town. ...

El gran mogollón (1982)

In a western and Mediterranean country, very fond of bullfighting and soccer, legislative elections are held, that is, "El Gran Mogollón" is elected from the bosses. Each leader feels that his position is secure, and some are preparing to take the preside ...

Life, Love and Death (1982)

Divided into three grotesque stories of absurd humor that, as the title suggests, are based on life, love and death. ...

En busca del huevo perdido (1982)

The Adventures of Enrique and Ana (1981)

Enrique is a gym teacher who along with his sister want to start a musical career with the support of their grandfather, a great scientist who wants to stop an evil despot from getting an artifact that would endanger the entire world. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gay Club (1981)

A group of homosexual friends tries to set up a gay club in a town in Andalusia, meeting the opposition of the chief who will use all his resources to try to prevent it. ...

Pepe, no me des tormento (1981)

Esperando a papá (1980)

Chocolate (1980)

El Muertes and El Jato travel to Morocco to get some chocolate but run into trouble when they are assaulted by locals. Magda, El Jato's girlfriend, waits for them in Algeciras where they decide to steal a car to get back. ...

Despido improcedente (1980)

Afraid to Go Out at Night (1980)

A bank employee, shy and skittish, is falling into the web of fear of the events he sees around him and the crime wave that seems to invade the city. ...

La familia bien, gracias (1979)

Sequel to "The Great Family" and "Family and one more". A widower and the godfather of his 16 children, aged two, wistfully contemplate the past. The father was left alone in the family home, but loneliness overwhelms him so he decides to spend some time a ...

Paco the Infallible (1979)

In Madrid of the 20's, many women were hired as wet nurses for middle class families. Milk is paid very well, so women are turning to the honest services of Paco, glazier by trade, which completes his monthly salary getting pregnant the clients who pay for ...

Companys, procés a Catalunya (1979)

1939: The remains of the Spanish Republican Army crossed the French border. Among the exiles are Lluís Companys, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and also Aguirre, President of the Basque Government. After the invasion of France by Nazi troops, ...

¡Mi adúltero esposo! ('In Situ') (1979)

La insólita y gloriosa hazaña del cipote de Archidona (1979)

Tobi (1978)

A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow ...

Let's Go, Barbara (1978)

Ana is Catalan, daughter of a bourgeois family and works in a studio in advertising. She is 38 years old and has only lived with her husband, with whom she has a relationship cold but accepted by both. Although his family is opposed, decides to leave her h ...

At the Service of Spanish Womanhood (1978)

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

Borrasca (1978)

Der Tiefstapler (1978)

The German ambassador to a small republic is expecting the visit of his Minister of Development. When the visit is called off, the Ambassador persuades two tourists to take over the role of Ambassador. ...

Butterfly on the Shoulder (1978)

On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains evidence that it ...

Vota a Gundisalvo (1978)

Las locuras de Jane (1978)

An unstable young woman commits crazy actions both inside and outside the mental institution in which she lives. ...

Casa de citas (1978)

Luciano has been working in an important company for fifteen years without be rewarded for his efforts, his fidelity and submission. On the recommendation of a cousin, he acts as front man for the shameful business of his managers. They get it so far as to ...

¡Susana quiere perder... eso! (1977)

El fin de la inocencia (1977)

A student, expelled from school for her behaviour, moves into the house of her uncle, a man with sadistic tendencies. ...

¡Bruja, más que bruja! (1977)

A small provincial town lives under the caprices of Don Justin, the local cacique. This forces the young Mariana to marry him, taking advantage of the fact that her nephew Juan, the boyfriend of the girl, is far away from military service. Upon his return, ...

Foul Play (1977)

A workshop employee decides to take advantage of a long weekend to go to Torremolinos to have fun and chat up foreign tourists. ...

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 ...

El bengador gusticiero y su pastelera madre (1977)

María, la santa (1977)

Diego , the son of a prostitute stabs Maria , suddenly it begins to happen a number of miracles attributed to the intercession of the dead woman . Patients from all over town arrive to implore and consider her as a saint. ...

The bark (1977)

Valentín and Mauro are a maquis couple who have abandoned the fight against the Franco regime to become robbers in order to survive. Their area of ​​operation is the mountains of Asturias, where they terrorize the local population with their robberies ...

Beatriz (1976)

A child is witness to an assault on a monk by the gang of Lorenzo the Fifth. The monk escapes and takes refuge in the estate of Doña Carlota, a countess who lives with her son Juan and daughter Beatriz. Basilisa, the maid, conjures the devil to free her s ...

The Third Door (1976)

One of the first (and perhaps therefore ambiguous) approaches to homosexuality in Spain at the time. The film narrates in cinematographic form the problem of the third sex, its justification and its existence within a real environment that is society itsel ...

The Shameful Secret of a Good Boy (1976)

Devil's Kiss (1976)

Former Countess Clair and Professor Gruber conduct occult research in castle basement of Count Victor, re-animating people to kill for them. ...

Cuando los maridos se iban a la guerra (1976)

In the medieval Castile, Don Tello de Buinesa, the boastful feudal lord, lives with his three sons and their beautiful wives. ...

La siesta (1976)

The seemingly peaceful life of a Castilian little village hides the most turbid and ardent passions. Calixto, a repairman of television antennas, is required by the fiery housewives to quench their sexual instincts. ...

Madrid, Costa Fleming (1976)

Sexy comedy. ...

Spanish Fly (1976)

British sex comedy. Sir Percy de Courcy accidentally turns some poor tasting wine into an aphrodisiac when his old school chum, Mike Scott arrives with a photographer and several gorgeous models. ...

Hard Times for Dracula (1976)

Dracula is not having a good time. The years are not passing in vain, he has health problems, economic problems, and even now his own castle is open to the public, thus denying him the quality and daytime rest that this character deserves. ...

The Immorals (1975)

País S. A. (1975)

A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist. ...

Robin Hood nunca muere (1975)

The Night of the Walking Dead (1975)

In a 19th century village, a young aristocrat suffering from a terminal disease finds herself being drawn to the underground world of vampires and their strange rituals. ...

The Book of Good Love (1975)

The Killer of Dolls (1975)

A groundskeeper's son, who is mentally unstable due to childhood trauma, goes on a murdering spree where his perception of reality is distorted by imagining people as mannequins and vice versa. ...

The Devil's Exorcist (1975)

A specialized psychologist is called in to assess a teenaged girl who is exhibiting startling behavioral problems, but she comes to realize that the girl's issues may be out of her realm of expertise and rooted more in the spiritual. ...

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)

When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to ki ...

Violent Blood Bath (1974)

A notoriously harsh French judge, vacationing at a luxury resort, finds his holiday interrupted when a mysterious killer begins murdering those in and around the hotel. ...

Green Inferno (1973)

Green Inferno hits the heart of the Amazon for big action. ...

Criminal Abortion (1973)

Barcelona police is following the actions of a pimp. A web of forced illegal abortions on prostitutes is discovered. ...

Barcelona Kill (1973)

No overview found. ...

Cake of Blood (1971)

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

Cutting Heads (1970)

In a castle, somewhere in the Thirld World, Diaz is delirious, dreaming of the power he had in Eldorado, while oppressing the indians, workers and peasants. He is well aware of the menace his old victims represent, while a miracle-making shepherd fascinate ...

Los atracadores (1962)

The film is divided into three parts: 'Restlessness', 'Violence' and 'Death', to explain the motivations, evolution and defeat of three young misfits from Barcelona who end up being robbers. The way of crime is an easy way for them: a boy and a worker with ...

The Unsatisfied (1961)

A young woman is stabbed in a bar frequented by criminals and her boyfriend is arrested as the main suspect. However, when the girl finally dies, they assign the case to a commissioner, father of the detainee. He will discover that behind the crime is a da ...