José Luis Borau

My Dearest Señorita (2026)

A young woman from a traditional family learns she's intersex, sparking a journey of self-discovery, gender identity and love found in unexpected places. ...

Anna's Summer (2001)

A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece. ...

Leo (2000)

Salva working as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a girl who makes a living collecting cardboard. Gradually Salva be falling in love for the young, but the life of Leo holds a dark past. ...

Niño nadie (1997)

Unbenownst to a middle-aged teacher of handicapped children, his long-term suffering girlfriend is pregnant with his child. The film philosophically explores the ideas of free will and destiny as they relate to the characters and their life choices. ...

Tata Mía (1986)

Elvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and returns home to settle in Madrid with his beloved nanny, seeking help to overcome their crisis. However, the country has changed so much in his years of confineme ...

On the Line (1984)

A Border Patrol agent is determined to catch his old nemesis, an American criminal who successfully smuggles illegal aliens across the border from Mexico. ...

La Sabina (1979)

English scholar visits a small Spanish town in the Andalusian mountains to investigate the disappearance of another English scholar long ago. He learns of the legend of Sabina, a mysterious dragon woman who becomes his obsession. ...

Black Litter (1977)

Tatin is a young man of fifteen years old who joins a violent group of extreme right-wing ideology, led by Blanca, a mature woman of influential personality. ...

In Memoriam (1977)

In an anguished triangle of silences and unspoken words, a man secretly loves a woman who loves another man. ...

El monosabio (1977)

Juanito, a peaceful fan of bullfighting, has become picador's assistant to see from the same arena the show in which he brags he is one of the protagonists. Furthermore, he believes he has discovered in a neighbor a potential figure of bullfighting sphere. ...

Poachers (1975)

The relationship between a poacher and his domineering mother in rural Spain is upended when he falls for an escapee from a reform school. ...

B. Must Die (1975)

In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the return of politician B. from exile. However private trucker Pal can't afford to strike, so he's beaten up an ...

My Dearest Senorita (1972)

A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society? ...

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' ...

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. ...

Double Edged Crime (1965)

Andrés, an unsuccessful young pianist, witnesses a murder; but keeps silent for fear that the man he has seen next to the corpse will retaliate against him. ...

Ride and Kill (1964)

A small town in Arizona is oppressed by the tyranny of a powerful rancher. The owner of a farm, fed up with constant abuse, decides to hire a former gunslinger, as the town sheriff is recognized powerless to stand against the tyrant. ...

En el río (1960)

Enrique Herreros (2011)

The story of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977), cartoonist, advertiser, poster designer, talent manager, actor, producer and filmmaker, and the most daring of mountaineers; the man who, along with his companions from the so-called "other Generation of '27," bro ...

Arrebatados: recordando a Iván Zulueta (2010)

A portrait of the film director Iván Zulueta and his film Arrebato. It features contributions from friends and people who worked with him such as José Luis Borau, Pedro Almodóvar, Antonio Gasset and Julio Médem. ...

Por la gracia de Luis (2009)

A walk through the work of Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) that is neither a documentary nor a narrative movie, but a tribute to one of the greatest directors of Spanish cinema. Anything can happen: the performers are not themselves, but their characters ...

Ilona Arrives with the Rain (1996)

Maqroll, Ilona, and Abdul all share a common dream: to sail the world in a tramp-steamer. But who could afford such a thing? Over the years they have become separated. Alone in Panama City, smuggler Maqroll is finding neither great success nor happiness ...

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. ...

Misadventure (1988)

An intrigue based on a failed relationship with touches of dreams and magic filmed on the streets of Seville. ...

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 ...

Somnambulists (1978)

Ana works side by side with her mother Maria Rosa in the fight to save the anti-Franco militants from the death penalty during the process of Burgos. Ana's mother is a former actress and Ana, her mother and a few other actors prepare an act of protest in t ...

La adúltera (1975)

With more than thirty years, Malena Fonseca is a spinster and provincial woman who, after coincidentally meeting a Frenchman named Lucien, also a thirty-something bachelor like her, decides to marry him. However, after that, and having moved to Madrid in t ...

Poachers (1975)

The relationship between a poacher and his domineering mother in rural Spain is upended when he falls for an escapee from a reform school. ...

My Dearest Senorita (1972)

A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society? ...

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. ...

Snakes and Ladders (1965)

Jose Antonio Amor co-stars with Sonia Bruno and Maria Blanco in this comedy drama about a married man with three children. When his family leaves on vacation, the man has an affair with a pretty office worker. The relationship between the two develops slow ...