Miguel Palenzuela

Lisboa (1999)

Joao sells video tapes in road bars between Portugal and Spain. One day he finds a middle aged woman in the middle of nowhere. Somebody is looking for her and she has to escape to Lisboa. But what is the secret of this woman? Why does she want to go to Lis ...

Open Your Eyes (1997)

Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and la ...

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health (1997)

Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them. ...

Earth (1996)

A mysterious exterminator falls in love with two women who live in a distinctive wine-producing region in Spain. ...

Malena es un nombre de tango (1996)

The attractive Malena listen to after telling the history of her life. Her treasure is not just an emerald that she inherits from her grandfather, but the key to discover the path of her existence, the eternal fight with her sister, and the passionate rela ...

Turkish Passion (1994)

A young woman's passion forms the basis of this erotic Spanish drama adapted from a popular novel by Antonio Gala. The night before Desideria's marriage, her girl friends give her some valuable advice on sex. The marriage takes place, and while it is gener ...

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 ...

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. ...

Wheels on Meals (1984)

Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket. ...

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 ...

Murder in the Central Committee (1982)

The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assassin of the leader of the Spanish Communist party who was stabbed during a blackout while presiding over a ...

Nunca es tarde (1977)

Antonio and Teresa are a couple who live in a flat in San Sebastian. Ursula Michelena, an elderly woman over 70 years old, lives on the top floor. Ursula is secretly in love with Antonio, whom he continually spies from one of the windows of her house. One ...

Puberty, Adolescence, the Difficult Age (1977)

A group of adolescents from the same school, although of different social classes, intervene between them. Oscar falls in love with Sandra until Diego seduces her and makes her pregnant... ...

Relación matrimonial y otras cosas (1975)

Antonio Gaudí, una visión inacabada (1974)

The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid (1967)

This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries wit ...

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. ...

El primer cuartel (1966)

Cotolay (1965)

A loose retelling of the 13th century Galician legend of the boy Cotolay who helped three pilgrims establish the Convent of San Francisco near Santiago de Compostela. ...

Llegar a más (1964)

Despite his youth, Daniel is not happy with his luck. He works in an auto repair shop and his job does not offer him any prospects of progress. Influenced by the large number of workers who are leaving Spain for Germany, he decides to emigrate as well. ...

The Pitiless Three (1964)

Three unequal brothers seek revenge for the murder of their father. Each of them goes a different way. ...

The Helen Morgan Story (1957)

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices. ...

Rapsodia de sangre (1957)

Andras Pulac, a young pianist, refuses to perform a concert in honor of a senior Soviet leader, as a sign of rebellion against the 1956 invasion of Hungary. His refusal, although he does not know it, harms the organizers of a demonstration against the comm ...