Mario Camus

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 ...

Roma (2004)

Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma. ...

La playa de los galgos (2002)

Martín tries to find his brother Pablo, who disappeared after a terrorist incident to which he was apparently linked. In the course of his investigation, he meets Berta, a mysterious woman who leads him to an Argentinean psychiatrist exiled in Denmark who ...

City of Wonders (1999)

A young man, Onofre Bouvila, arrives in Barcelona escaping the troubles of his family. Knowing no one, his only objective is to build a new life. But Barcelona is a city run by warlords and mafias. And it doesn't take Onofre long to understand that in orde ...

El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe (1998)

La vuelta del Coyote (1998)

In the mid-19th century, California, a Mexican territory, became part of the United States. Faced with the possibility of being dispossessed of his land by the new authorities, Don César de Echagüe, a Spanish nobleman, asks his son César, a capricious a ...

El Coyote: El tribunal del Coyote (1998)

The Color of the Clouds (1997)

Clementina befriends Lola's nerdy lawyer, Valerio, and slowly a romance develops between them. Meanwhile, old fisherman and model-maker Colo has found a consignment of drugs floating in the sea and tries to get rid of them to raise money to save Lola's ho ...

Más allá del jardín (1996)

Palmira, a woman belonging to the Sevillian aristocracy, as well known for her decrepitude and hypocrisy as the rest of her population, enters into an emotional crisis when she reaches maturity. ...

Suburbs (1996)

A young auditor live peacefully in a residential block consisting of identical townhouses. However, a purely casual visit to the veterinarian on duty with his dog, causes a chain of lies under which the auditor notices the hidden face of all his daily life ...

Self Esteem (1994)

A woman married to a bank director sees how her life is destroyed in a matter of hours when the police discovers that her husband has escaped with money from the bank. ...

Shadows in a Conflict (1993)

Ana, a former member of the Basque terrorist group ETA who lives in a small village near the Portuguese border working as a veterinarian and sharing her days with her partner Darío and their daughter Amalia, meets José, an attractive man who participated ...

After the Dream (1992)

Amós is a sailor and owner of a ship. He is impatient with the arrival of his uncle who returns from the Soviet Union, after having exiled there after the Civil War. They have no time to meet because the old man unexpectedly dies. Amos knows, thanks to th ...

Prince of Shadows (1991)

Madrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the civil war has finished, a communist comes back to Spain to kill a traitor. ...

La Femme et le Pantin (1990)

Matthieu, a mature and wealthy French businessman, meets Estrella in Barcelona, a teenager with a humble family, who is subjugated by his youth, spontaneity, candor and mischief. ...

La rusa (1987)

A man falls in love with a terrorist. ...

The House of Bernarda Alba (1987)

After the death of her husband Bernarda Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house. ...

Marbella (1985)

Comedy thriller directed by Miguel Hermoso. ...

La vieja música (1985)

The new coach of the basketball team of Lugo arrives from Uruguay. He really knows nothing about training a basketball team so he keeps the previous coach on and in the meantime tries to learn from videos and books, but his real reason for coming to Spain ...

Bohemian Nights (1985)

In the empty house of his family, Ramon, a poet, remembers the last day of the life of his master: the last time he went out with his friend don Latino de Hispalis, his talk with a minister and his dinner with Ruben Dario. ...

The Holy Innocents (1984)

In 60s Extremadura, Paco el Bajo and his relatives work during day in a farmhouse, and silently suffer submission to their masters, who exploit them and treat them almost like animals. Meanwhile, Paco dreams that one day his children will be able to study. ...

Crooks (1983)

A man of a certain social position falls in jail and request protection to a pickpocket and con man during his stay. On his release he promises to help his friend what then creates many problems. ...

The Beehive (1982)

As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, survi ...

Los días del pasado (1977)

A woman arrives in town to work as a teacher. It is the time of the 'maquis', the anti-Franco guerrilla that fights with little hope in some regions of Spain just after the end of the civil war. She has a love affair with one of the guerrillas, but their r ...

La joven casada (1975)

A young couple reviews the year they have lived together. According to him, this time has been positive. But she thinks that Jorge was carried away by his father, betraying the plans they had made together before marrying, although she believes that there ...

The Birds of Baden-Baden (1975)

It's summer and Madrid is almost deserted. Elisa, a young bourgeois woman who is preparing her doctoral thesis, needs the services of a photographer to illustrate her work. She hires Pablo, a somewhat bohemian, strange, and solitary man who lives with his ...

La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea (1973)

Canticle (1972)

While conducting interviews with women working in local brothels, Fernando, a journalist, meets Elisa. The woman will tell him her dramatic story, which begins at age 14 when she is raped by her godfather. ...

Wrath of the Wind (1970)

A mute gunslinger takes on an oppressive landlord in 19th century Valencia and falls in love with a local woman. ...

Esa mujer (1969)

At the end of the 19th century, Soledad Romero, a well-known singer, is accused of murder. During the trial her tragic story is revealed. ...

Let Them Talk (1968)

Raphael plays a singer who searches for his classical pianist brother in Buenos Aires, with the brother eventually revealed playing in the squalid bar. ...

Volver a vivir (1968)

A former soccer player is morally and mentally destroied by the death of his wife. But when he gets the chance to train a team he regains his life by making victories and also finding another love. ...

Al ponerse el sol (1967)

A famous singer and actor is at the peak of his career but fatigue, stress and harassment of the media makes feel unbalanced. His star began to fall rapidly and so goes into a clinic to cure his pain. Coming out, away from his audience, will spend some tim ...

With the East Wind (1967)

The life of Sebastián, a 28-year-old Roma, changes drastically after he kills a man. From that moment, he must flee, experiencing the torments of loneliness, guilt, and the rejection of his people. ...

When You Are Not Here (1966)

The film is slightly autobiographical, Raphael is trying to find fame and fortune as a popular singer in Spain until he teams up with an up and coming Spanish composer which helps him become a popular singer in Spain. ...

La visita que no tocó el timbre (1966)

Two unmarried siblings live together without problems until the day a friend leaves her baby in their apartment because she does not have time to take care of him. ...

Weeping for a Bandit (1964)

José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits. ...

Young Sánchez (1964)

Portrait of the life of an amateur boxer, who falls into the hands of a cruel manager while turning into professional. ...

Muere una mujer (1964)

A salesman discovers that his wife has died under strange circumstances. Examining these circumstances, it becomes obvious to him that they were mainly caused by himself. ...

La suerte (1963)

A short film by Mario Camus. ...

Los farsantes (1963)

The Drunkard (1962)

A couple shelters an alcoholic haunted by his Republican past in their suburban home. ...

The Delinquents (1960)

A group of friends who are struggling to survive in the slums of Madrid commit petty crime in order to finance the debut as a bullfighter of one of them. ...

Mario Camus según el cine (2022)

A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker Mario Camus (1935-2021). ...

Mañana podría estar muerto (2012)

No blood, no money! Fights, acrobatics, jumps and death were the daily routine of the "old school" Spanish stuntmen and their coordinators. Their profession did put a price on their lives: the higher the risk, the higher the reward. ...