José Luis García Sánchez

Los muertos no se tocan, nene (2011)

Logroño, 1959. The death of a local authority creates a double expectation in his family, the coming of the TV set the deceased bought and the mayor to attend the funeral. His grandson (Airas Brispo) will witness the grotesque situations. ...

Don Mendo Rock ¿La venganza? (2010)

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 ...

Martes de Carnaval (2008)

Mr.Manolito and Mr.Estrafalario– characters of Valle-Inclán's plays– spend the last days of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship chasing the plays written by their admired Valle-Inclán whose works are banned by a Government Law. One day, they find a piece ...

Días de cine (2007)

Comedy set in 1977, in which a renowned playwright (Alberto San Juan) tries to shoot a social protest drama starring a doldrums folk, former child star (Natalie Poza) and produced by a producer and shameless liar (Miguel Rellán). Inexperience, ambition, l ...

With Good Reason (2004)

A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media. ...

María querida (2004)

Lola goes to cover the press conference of the Cervantes Prize Award to María Zambrano. Captivated by the personality of the thinker decides to launch a film about her. ...

Franky Banderas (2004)

The Green March (2002)

Lázaro de Tormes (2001)

Goodbye from the Heart (2000)

Juan is now in his fifties, has a protruding belly, dyes his hair gray and lives alone with a cat who has urinary problems, but despite this, women still find him attractive. ...

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. ...

Tranvía a la Malvarrosa (1997)

The film is based on the autobiography of writer Manuel Vincent. His father doesn't want him to become a writer and sends him to Valencia law school. One day Manuel sees his dream girl and follows her on a trolley car to Malvarossa beach. He then studies i ...

The Seducer (1995)

Cosme, a 15-year-old boy, sets his sights and his libido on his new neighbor, Merche. After giving her a lift on his moped, and getting a glimpse of her underwear, he begins to look for excuses to wander next door. He manufactures illnesses to stay home fr ...

King of the River (1995)

An air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby is born, she gives it to her sister that has already two children. The child grows up as another member of the family. Although the adults keep the secret, ...

Suspiros de España (y Portugal) (1995)

After the death of the abbot of a small convent the two monks who are left discover among the papers of the passed away abbot letters from the mother of one of them indicating that he is the natural son of a landowner in Extremadura. In order to claim the ...

La mujer cualquiera (1994)

The whatever woman. ...

Banderas, the Tyrant (1993)

In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally. ...

Belle Époque (1992)

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love. ...

El día que nací yo (1991)

A gypsy who sells fish in a market, sings on weekends in a tablao. One day, a professor, exiled in Cádiz for her political ideas, offers the cantaora a job. ...

The Longest Night (1991)

Fifteen years after the plot a lawyer and a military ex-attorney meet and recall the intense days of 1975 when both participated in the decission of war or peace. The film is told in flashbacks of the two protagonists. ...

La mujer infiel (1990)

A man in love with an unfaithful woman. ...

Going Down in Morocco (1989)

A girl who lives with her dealer cousin and her policeman boyfriend who is a policeman regularly transports drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all of them smoke grass from time to time there is need for more. Deciding to take a friend of hers who has ju ...

The Flight of the Dove (1989)

A film team arrives at a more authentic and old square in Madrid to shoot a film. The area is full of children, working families and simple people who see the cinema as something unattainable. From his balcony, Paloma, does not lose detail of the shooting, ...

Pasodoble (1988)

A family, expelled from their shack, occupies the museum in Cordoba where once lived the prince who, in his youth, was the grandmother's lover. The curators and administrators of the museum, aided by a couple of inexperienced policemen, harass the squatter ...

Divine Words (1987)

A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law. ...

Madrid (1987)

Hans, a German director, is in Madrid to film a television production about the capital and the Civil War, 50 years after it occurred. Accompanied by Lucía, his editor, and Goyo, his cinematographer, he films shots of the modern city, searching for spaces ...

Hay que deshacer la casa (1986)

Ana is a middle aged woman who many years ago decided to start a new life in Paris. Now she must return to her hometown after the death of her parents, since they have left her an inheritance. There she meets Laura, her only sister, with whom she has to sh ...

The Court of the Pharaoh (1985)

In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage of the artistic caprices of the son of a rich man who supports the ...

The Lost Paradise (1985)

This literary film is imbued with the disenchantment of Spanish exiles who left their homes to protest Franco's fascist regime and then returned after its demise to find that democracy had not instilled either ethics or deep motivation in government leader ...

Inquisición y libertad (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 ...

Dolores (1981)

Based on the life of Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria), president of the PCE. The film is a documentary, prepared over three years with archive material from Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Havana, Yugoslavia and Basque and Spanish film libraries. ...

Trout (1978)

In a restaurant they're preparing a grand banquet in honor of a sports association of anglers, but several circumstances seem to have conspired to boycott the event. ...

Caudillo (1977)

Caudillo is a documentary film by Spanish film director Basilio Martín Patino. It follows the military and political career of Francisco Franco and the most important moments of the Spanish Civil War. It uses footage from both sides of the war, music from ...

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. ...

Del amor y de la muerte (1977)

Don Diego goes to war and his son Don Gonzalo is, in his absence, the new lord of the region. The milling Elvira, one of the mistresses of Don Diego, has a beautiful daughter, Elena, who has the desire of Don Gonzalo. But Elena is also the daughter of Don ...

And They Lived Happily Ever After (1976)

Manoli and Fernando, a couple of communist ideas, want to live their love freely, fleeing from any bourgeois convention. At first, the couple rejects the help of her parents, but soon they will begin to give in and accept all kinds of comforts. ...

Songs for After a War (1976)

A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), through popular culture: songs, newspapers and magazines, movies and newsreels. ...

Fierce Love, or When Children Play at Love (1975)

Vicente and Margarita are a traditional and middle class married couple whose life is surrounded by a sea of confusion and uncertainty when their children begin to make their own decisions. They have discovered love and will not let their parents tell them ...

Spanish Fury (1975)

Season 1973-1974. After fourteen years of drought, the FC Barcelona of Johan Cruyff is making a spectacular campaign. Sebastián, a great fan of soccer, decides then to join a Barça's supporters club. There he will meet the daughter of his friend Amadeo, ...

The Lonely Heart (1973)

Antoñito is a bachelor who works in a cabaret as a clarinetist. He has put an advertisement in the newspaper, looking for a good and honest girl, and to which responds Rocío, who escapes from her native Córdoba to hide the embarrassment of her pregnancy ...

Speak, Silent One (1973)

Ramiro's grandfather is on vacation in a hostel in the mountains with his family. Decides to send theirs to Madrid and stay in a shelter, saying his health requires. But the reason is another ... ...

Loco por Machín (1971)

A grotesque story starring a man obsessed with Antonio Machin, whose only desire was always to be black. ...

Gente de boina (1971)

A short documentary about the spanish town of Tomelloso and the hat the villagers use to wear ...

Paseo por los letreros de Madrid (1968)

A travelogue through the diverse neighborhoods of Madrid, its picturesque streets and its history; and an approach, with a sense of humor, to the lighted signs and advertising slogans of the shops: an unusual portrait of the city and its people. ...

Tinto con amor (1968)

Nine Letters to Berta (1966)

Lorenzo is a young man returns to Spain after spending some time in England, where he fell in love with Berta, the daughter of Spanish immigrants. Lorenzo writes several letters to her trying to convey the beauty of the world her parents left behind. ...

Anabel (1964)

Young Anabel mistakes a woman for her dead mother. ...

Miradas del cine español (2024)

Reflections on Spanish cinema, based on seventy interviews with prominent filmmakers, analyzing their work and addressing their views on various general topics such as the industry and the evolution of Spanish cinema, as well as current issues such as the ...

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite (2023)

A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances. ...

FFG, el último gran conversador (2021)

Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being an e ...

Víctor Manuel: el abuelo Víctor (2020)

La corte de Ana (2020)

She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a girl who, in time, would become a symbol of freedom and a total artist. Actress, singer, friend, lover. This ...

Stories of Our Cinema (2019)

In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country are projected. From that event, the Spanish actor Antonio Resines intends to compile a series of anecdotes to shape the amazing history of Spanish cinema, hol ...

Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí (2015)

The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner (2012)

Documentary about Spanish director Luis García Berlanga's "The Executioner" (1963) ...

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 ...

Rafael Azcona (2010)

Orson Welles y Goya (2008)

Gente de mesón (1969)