José María Cañete

Chronicles of the Hidden Truth (1997)

An adaptation of the short story collection by Pere Calders. ...

La duquesa roja (1997)

An Andalusian duchess has the dilemma of what to do with a grove, whether to convert it into a natural reserve or to make a luxury urbanization. The duchess, who is torn between her aristocratic privileges and a social commitment that has cost her more tha ...

An Internal Affair (1996)

In the early 70s, a rather backwards young soldier with serious family problems finds himself stationed in a small village in Spain's Levante. Secretly in love with a young village girl, Pere slips into her room one night. When he is discovered, the soldie ...

Los hombres siempre mienten (1995)

When Martin is about to be expelled from some literature courses, an unexpected event gives a turn to his uncertain future as a writer. Taking advantage of the absence of his neighbor, a consecrated novelist who entrusts him with the care of his cat, Martà ...

Tales of the Stinking Military Service (1994)

Madregilda (1993)

Madrid, Spain. On Monday, December 22, 1947, Charles Vidor's Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford, premieres. That same week, as every first Friday of the month, Hauma organizes a peculiar card game in an old tavern. ...

Aquesta nit o mai (1992)

The film takes on a trip through a lively metropolis on the eve of a major holiday, witnessing the love lives, family situations, gender confusion and even a diamond traffic ring uniting some 14 different characters. They all have something in common - the ...

Ho sap el ministre? (1991)

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt (1991)

Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company wh ...

Les aparences enganyen (1991)

Tahiti's Girl (1990)

Bueno y tierno como un ángel (1989)

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, ...

La diputada (1988)

Pasión lejana (1987)

Siesta (1987)

American Claire wakes up blood-soaked and bruised at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state, she has flashbacks from the past few days. She thinks she's killed someone, but isn't sure, and now she's wandering the Spanish street ...

The Hidden Truth (1987)

After a long and turbulent time in America at the beginning of the century, Adrian Massaguer returns to his birthplace on the Mediterranean coast, become one of the richest men in the world. ...

Year of Enlightment (1986)

April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, Manolo, su ...

La ràdio folla (1986)

While a radio show is on air, wild things happen. ...

Star Knight (1985)

A medieval alchemist (Klaus Kinski), knight (Harvey Keitel) and priest (Fernando Rey) mistake a flying-saucer alien for a dragon. ...

Move Over, Mrs. Markham (1985)

Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him u ...

Un, dos, tres... ensaïmades i res més (1985)

Un parell d’ous (1985)

Bajo en nicotina (1984)

A film buff can't watch his videos in peace as he is disturbed by his clingy girlfriend and noisy neighbours. He will take drastic measures to get them to shut up for once and for all. ...

Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa (1984)

Pa d’àngel (1984)

Barcelona, 1983. Agustí Martorell is a left-wing lawyer, atheist and former anti-Franco fighter, who discovers that his 15-year-old daughter Esther, influenced by the optional religion classes of Mossèn Parcerisas, a progressive priest and post-councillo ...

Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17 (1983)

Un genio en apuros (1983)

Not published writer, a sculptor who does not expose, a filmmaker who does not make movies ... amateur and professional around anything. His daughter, which is to care, is the only one who understands. A film producer who bombarded daily with an overview, ...

Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble (1983)

In the middle of the first world war, Barcelona is the center of multiple operations related to war, although Spain is a neutral country. ...

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. ...

El fascista, doña Pura y el follón de la escultura (1983)

The consortium of the people approve a proposal from the Mayor; instruct Ramon, a ruined sculptor, an equestrian statue of Franco. Luis, one of the councilors, visit Ramon and proposes the commission, Ramon rejects for ideological grounds, but after thinki ...

Escape from El Diablo (1983)

A young American is framed and thrown into a Mexican prison. His friends journey to Mexico to break him out. ...

Target Eagle (1982)

A Spanish police chief hires an undercover agent, Eagle, to infiltrate a gang of heroin smugglers. Infiltrating the gang, he uses a female agent as a point of contact. However he discovers that there bigger goings-on than dope. The gang is involved in the ...

Porno: Situación límite (1982)

Classic and very little known 80s erotic movie. ...

Airlift (1981)

The Battle of Reefer (1981)

Inter Rail (1981)

Eva is 18 years old and decides to go inter railing through Europe after she has finished school. She has decided to meet up with Klaus in Amsterdam but things get more complicated when she meets Bosse on the way. ...

La quinta del porro (1981)

And Give Us Our Daily Sex (1979)

A pair of sexy bisexual nurses live in an apartment building, one floor up from a middle-aged couple and their son Albert, who is busy putting his new science project—a periscope—to good use by spying on the lingerie-wearing lovelies. Meanwhile, Albert ...

Alicia en la España de las maravillas (1979)

Four different Alices wander through mazes constructed from 40 years of Spanish history in this post-Franco meditation. Loosely related to the "Alice" of Alice in Wonderland, in one episode of this film, Alice (who is clearly a metaphor for the Spanish peo ...

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 ...

Es pecado... pero me gusta (1978)

Fabrizzio hired the services of a prostitute to pretend to be his wife and accompany him to spend a weekend in the country house of his friend Romolo, where Aristides Almirante, an important official of the Ministry of Health, has also been invited. the ap ...

Una familia decente (1978)

The Andalusian Widow (1977)

Lozana, a young, beautiful and clever woman decides to move to the city after a tragic love story. There, she meets Rampin, a naughty rascal who soon finds out that her wit surpasses his own by a handful. When he falls in love with her, he can't help suffe ...

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, ...

Bolero de amor (1970)

¡Cómo sois las mujeres! (1968)

Mario and Teresa are a seemingly happy marriage, but she reproaches that he does not value enough her work at home. As he is not willing to recognize the importance of domestic chores, Teresa offers him to exchange roles. While Teresa gets a job, and devel ...

Manderley (1981)

This is the story of three homosexuals who decide to spend the summer together at the cottage that the parents of one of them have in Santander. The film shows naturally a series of attitudes then considered shocking and even unnatural. ...