José Manuel Cervino

El Cepa Returns (2019)

Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime (1980), directed by Pilar Miró, returns to the various locations where the shooting of the mythical film, narrating the infamous Grimaldos case (1910), ...

Gold (2017)

Spanish soldiers battle indigenous tribes and their own brutal natures as they search for a legendary city built of gold. ...

Born to Win (2016)

Encarna, a thirtysomething girl of Móstoles (Madrid) is trapped in a life without changes, at the side of her lifelong boyfriend and with a job absent of incentives. Stigmatized by the famous Spanish sketch of the "Empanadillas de Móstoles", Encarna look ...

As Luck Would Have It (2011)

Roberto is an unemployed publicist who achieved success when he thought of a famous slogan: "Coca-Cola, the spark of life." Now he is a desperate man, trying to remember the happy days, back to the hotel where he spent the honeymoon with his wife. However, ...

The Last Circus (2010)

A trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed. ...

Dos billetes (2009)

El prado de las estrellas (2008)

Alfonso is a retiree who visits Nanda, an elderly woman who was like his mother when he was orphaned, at a residence where Luisa, a young social worker, works. One morning, collecting snails in the Prado de las Estrellas, Alfonso meets a young man who emer ...

The 13 Roses (2007)

True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed without ev ...

The Wooden Box (2006)

After the death of don Lucio, his widow Eloísa asks one of her neighbours to use the latter's house in order to hold the dead man's wake, since Eloísa's own house is too small for that. From then on, a series of strange happenings take place during a sin ...

School of Seduction (2004)

"Escuela de seducción" is an acceptable comedy which deals, for the umpteenth time, with the war of the sexes using misunderstandings and fake personalities as dramatic resources. The premise is by no means original, but this is something most films lack ...

Tánger (2004)

Abdul Kader Torres (Jorge Perugorria), son of Ricardo Torres (Matterhorn), former Commissioner of the Social Political Brigade, and Fatima, a beautiful tangerine, just returned to London to work on his father's shady business dealings, "Executive Tangier " ...

La compasión del diablo (2002)

Zero/infinito (2002)

Dama de Porto Pim (2001)

"Dama de Porto Pim" tells the story of a rich woman who arrives at a little Portuguese island while her husband is in the II World War; there, a humble fisherman, promised to marry a girl of the town, falls in love with her, and she will also fall in love ...

I Will Survive (1999)

After the father of Marga's unborn child dies, the young woman loses all hope, until she meets a dashing, handsome gentleman who just might be the man of her dreams -- aside from the fact that he happens to be gay… ...

Mararía (1998)

Fermín (Carmelo Gómez) is a Basque doctor who arrives on the island of Lanzarote. Meet a beautiful girl named Mararía (Goya Toledo), which falls in love in silence. One day a handsome Englishman named Beltrahn (Iain Glen) appears, who will win the love ...

Atómica (1998)

The lives of four people involved in dysfunctional relationships change when a porn star moves to Spain. ...

Not Love, Just Frenzy (1996)

A group of enthusiastic teenagers embark on a journey to find love in Madrid's hottest discotheques but find themselves tangled in a web of sex, drugs and crime. ...

Menos que cero (1996)

Hotel y domicilio (1995)

Ángel works as a forensic doctor in a medium-sized city. Abandoned by his partner, a psychiatrist friend and neighbor helps him, induces him to play sports, and directs him to a dating agency to solve his most pressing problem. This is how Ángel meets Br ...

Hermana, ¿pero qué has hecho? (1995)

Sister Angela and Sister Mary park his van in front of a bank branch. They enter the bank and with the weapons hidden under their habits, commit the robbery of the century, to the astonishment of all employees and customers. After thorough police investiga ...

El crimen del expreso de Andalucía (1991)

Madrid, 1924. A ne'er-do-well in his 30s, perpetual disappointment to his aging military father, hatches a plan to rob the mail train to Andalusia. He intends the hit to be bloodless, but complications arise soon. ...

Guarapo (1989)

Benito a.k.a. Guarapo, is a young laborer without land, who dreams of emigrating to America for a better future. ...

Lute: Forge On or Die (1987)

In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed ...

La monja alférez (1987)

Set in 1592 and based on a true story, a Spanish nun flees the convent and lives an adventurous life disguised as a man. ...

La guerra de los locos (1987)

At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War a group of interns of a psychiatric hospital takes advantage of the confusion of the arrival of the "national" troops to get away from the center. In their flight, the fugitive patients will find a group of anarchi ...

Bilbao Blues (1986)

Beatriz is an attractive young lawyer who enjoys an enviable position thanks to the influence of her father, a prominent businessman. Lucas, a young man with a rather shady past, is struggling to emerge from the unfavorable situation in which life has plac ...

El rey y la reina (1986)

Jarabo (1985)

July 21, 1958. Madrid wakes up to the news that a pawnbroker has been murdered in his shop. Soon, police finds that the victim's associate, his pregnant wife and their maid have been murdered as well in their own home across the street. ...

Últimas tardes con Teresa (1984)

Adapted from the novel by Juan Marse, the film shows two distant worlds in the Spain of the 50's, the suburban and the bourgeois, which are related through two characters, Manolo Reyes, vulgar motorcycle thief who aspires to escape poverty and Teresa Serra ...

Overdose (1983)

Paco, the teenage son of a Civil Guard commander in Basque Country, becomes addicted to heroin. ...

El crack dos (1983)

Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo investigates the life of a gay man who has apparently abandoned his partner. When they both turn up dead, it seems one killed the other before committing suicide, but Areta is not convinced. ...

Circle of Passions (1983)

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife. ...

Pals (1982)

José is an unemployed 18-year-old living in a cramped apartment in the slums of Madrid. Marginalized by poverty, José spends his time with his friend Antonio. However, when Antonio gets his girlfriend, Rosario, pregnant, the two friends try anything to g ...

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 ...

The Minister's Wife (1981)

Rafael, a young man from the provinces, works as a waiter in a resort and helps himself economically having sex for money with rich older women. During a bomb threat, he is discovered in bed with one of the guest, Leonor Marchioness of Montenegro, and he i ...

The Crime of Cuenca (1981)

Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier. ...

El crack (1981)

Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies. ...

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. ...

Maravillas (1981)

A young Catholic girl takes viewers through a changing Spanish political and social landscape as she develops from her confirmation day to adulthood. Her first experience with the real Spain comes when her Jewish godfathers cannot come to her confirmation. ...

Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven (1980)

A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to reconsider her life--work, family, friendships, men-- causing a psychol ...

Navajeros (1980)

A chronicle of the life of Jaro, the leader of a juvenile delinquent gang, depicting his rise from street urchin to outlaw anti-hero on the way to his inevitable end. ...

Viva la clase media (1980)

Drama based on the true life of a group of middle class and members of the Communist Party of Spain, who were involved in clandestine political activities during the sixties. ...

Operation Ogre (1979)

Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA ...

Seven Days in January (1979)

After the death of Franco, the nostalgic fascist regime attempts to preserve the 1936's order. ...

La fierecilla domada (1979)

The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine. ...

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

Confessions of a Congressman (1978)

Roberto, a leader and follower of the ideals of his radical leftist opposition party, can't resist the cheap beautiful street teenagers that are thrown his way for various pleasures. ...

The Priest (1978)

Obsessed with fantasies of sex, Father Miguel seeks professional help through his church but they are not listening; thus leaving the Father in a dilemma; leaving the church or should he try, on his own, to surrender to these temptations? ...

A Dog Called... Vengeance (1977)

A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog. ...

Tooth and Nail (1977)

The second feature length movie of Paulino Viota, this is a disillusioned and biting look at the years of Spanish democratic transition, narrated in a dry and scrawny style that shows the political intrigues, struggles and frustrated hopes of the first yea ...

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. ...

Emilia... parada y fonda (1976)

My Wife's Boyfriends (1972)

Emilio Antunez and his wife Charo, come to La Molina, willing to spend a few happy days of vacation. Charo, foreseeing that she will meet with important people, brings an assorted and elegant wardrobe, which is soon able to wear when she meets with Aurora, ...

Simón, contamos contigo (1971)

Pierna creciente, falda menguante (1970)

In 1916, while Europe was in the middle of First World War and Spain was enjoying the advantages of being a neutral country, eroticism was called voluptuousness and Senator Duke of Daroca, despite his ancient lineage, fell completely in love with a famous ...

El corazón de un bandido (1968)

The life and adventures of Pedro Becerra, a generous-hearted Andalusian bandit, and the account of his troubled love story with the beautiful Margarita… ...

Eva 63 (1963)

Elena is a writer and is in a relationship with a painter, Fernando. Charo works as a waitress in a hotel and continues to dream of John Sargent, her platonic love, although when she discovers that the actor is gay she returns to her boyfriend Luis. Mara, ...