Paco Catalá

Quinqui Stars (2018)

QUINQUI STARS begins in the years of the transformations that took place between the 70s and the 80s in the peripheral neighborhoods of Madrid that affected many young people and drove them towards delinquency. ...

Neckan (2017)

Una caja de Botones (2010)

Faced with the fact he cannot afford the present his daughter Irene wants for King's Day, Andrés has no choice but to tell her the truth behind this tradition. It will be an emotional journey for them both. ...

La máquina de bailar (2006)

After accidentally killing the albino boa of his boss, and in search of money to buy a new one, Dani and his colleagues sign up for the first national competition of Dance Dance Revolution. ...

Historia De Estrella (2003)

Hitting Bottom (1998)

Juan Gutiérrez, 44, an electrician, has been unemployed for a long time. He decides to leave his family to go find work in Madrid, believing that in the big city the opportunities will be greater. Once there, he discovers that things are not as he believe ...

Memorias del ángel caído (1997)

A group of parishioners die poisoned upon receiving communion, during the investigation of the event the priests of the parish begin to have visions. Everything rushes when the dead are resurrected in the autopsy room, these strange events seem to be relat ...

Give Me Something (1997)

Young Benigno is institutionalized after witnessing his mother murder his father. Years later, Benigno is released back into the world, now considered sane, intelligent and literary man. He leads a peaceful life in a mission for the homeless run by nuns un ...

Campeones (1997)

A boy learns of his father's terminal disease the same day that their favourite football team is going to play the final match of the national championship. ...

Sons of Trinity (1995)

The Trinity legend continues when the sons of Trinity and Bambino head out on the road to continue the legendary hijinks of their fathers. ...

Cuernos de mujer (1995)

Ana works in an office where the things are going very badly. One night after having dinner with nasty rich people, she has a discussion with her husband. He dissapears and then the life of Ana changes: she has incredible luck in gambling. ...

Everyone Off to Jail (1993)

A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco's reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended. ...

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. ...

La visita (1993)

Vespers of the day of the dead. A girl, in the middle of the rain, rushes towards her house. ...

The Dumbfounded King (1991)

Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. How ...

Fourteen Stations (1991)

Mala yerba (1991)

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. ...

Yo soy ésa (1990)

Carmen Torres, a famous and renowned singer, lives the fame aware of what it implies, but Jorge Olmedo, her shadow partner, succumbs to a world in which drugs and poker games reign. Husband and wife travel to Seville to see the premiere of "Yo soy ésa", a ...

The Cross of Iberia (1990)

A U.S. Army pilot's liberal ideals are challenged when he is stationed at a newly installed military base in Spain, under Franco's regime. ...

The White Dove (1989)

Rocío, is in love with Mario, a free rider with a lot of face that, to top it all, is partner of the business of her father, Domingo with whom she maintains incestuous relations. When Domingo passes away, both Mario and Rocío's mother have to put to the ...

Blood and Sand (1989)

Remake of the tale of an acclaimed matador who finds himself involved with a beautiful woman, jeopardizing both his marriage and career. ...

Autumn Rain (1989)

A writer named Daniel is going through a crisis, aggravated by the unexpected success of his wife in her professional career as an actress. ...

Little Spanish Soldier (1988)

A young man, son and grandson of soldiers, refuses to perform military service, causing a commotion in the whole family. Finally, social, environmental and family pressures, will force the young to make a decision that will have unforeseeable consequences. ...

El río que nos lleva (1988)

In 1946, an irishman joins a group of 'gancheros' (wood workers) while they drive wood thru the Tajo river, discovering human solidarity. ...

Al acecho (1987)

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 ...

Half of Heaven (1986)

After the civil war, Rosa, a beautiful and hard worker woman falls in love with a sharpener who turns out to be a con man. When she becomes a widow, she emigrates to Madrid with her daughter beginning to work as a nurse in the home of Don Pedro, an influen ...

Tata Mía (1986)

Elvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and returns home to settle in Madrid with his beloved nanny, seeking help to overcome their crisis. However, the country has changed so much in his years of confineme ...

Star Knight (1985)

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

Caso cerrado (1985)

Cesar and Isabel just got married for the Jewish rite, their religion. He is a director of a banking company. She works in a bookstore owned by her mother-in-law. The couple sees their happiness truncated when César discovers financial anomalies in the en ...

Beyond the Walls (1985)

This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued by the radical Christian Inquisition, one of a plethora of difficulties Spaniards faced at the time. Spanish super star Carmen Maura plays a nun who agree ...

El caso del cadáver descuartizado (1985)

May 1, 1929. A decomposing headless body is found inside an abandoned wooden box in Madrid's Atocha train station. The victim is later identified as a Barcelona businessman that vanished six months before. ...

The Sea Serpent (1985)

A serpent, created by radioactivity, threatens a Spanish coastal town. ...

Café, coca y puro (1985)

Bragas húmedas (1984)

Dos mejor que uno (1984)

Rafa and Jeromo are a curious couple of friends. Their friendship began in childhood as well as his love for Silvia, which have been in love since childhood. Silvia Jeromo elected, and Rafa decided to disappear. Years later he returns and finds that the co ...

The Most Beautiful Night (1984)

Federico, an executive of national television, begins to suspect that his wife Elena, an actress who retired prematurely after marriage, is cheating him with another man. The symptoms are that Elena sighs, looks far into heaven and is aware of the exact ti ...

The Angry Cid (1983)

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, "Mio Cid", is in love with Jimena, but the Count of Oviedo, his father, challenges him to a duel and is killed. He before him curses Rodrigo, that if he marries Jimena, he will lose his manly faculties. And, in fact, when he gets ma ...

La loca historia de los tres mosqueteros (1983)

Sábado, sabadete (1983)

Five friends living in Madrid decide to spend a weekend camping together in the mountains. ...

El higo mágico (1983)

Hunting Ground (1983)

A female lawyer passionately defends criminals, believing that everyone deserves a second chance. But her latest defendants have no qualms about making her their next victim. ...

I am no Longer a Virgin, Olé, I am no Longer a Virgin (1982)

The tale of a young woman on a quest to lose her virginity. ...

Aberraciones sexuales de un diputado (1982)

Ni te cases ni te embarques (1982)

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

...And the Third Year, He Resuscitated (1980)

On November 20, 1978 a truck driver picks up a man on the road, that tells him to take him to Pardo's Palace. Soon, the truck driver begins to realize who this person is. ...

Silvia ama a Raquel (1979)

Réquiem por un empleado (1978)

Juan Fonseca works as managerial from a modern factory, where they start using a new machine that revolutionizes all known techniques. After 7 years of courtship he gets married and enter in the consumer society: car, house, TV... His wife is pregnant and ...

Deseo carnal (1978)

The Frenchman's Garden (1978)

"The Frenchman" was what locals called the man who ran the bar and restaurant in the small town of Peñaflor in rural Spain in the early part of the 20th century. But Juan Andrés Aldije Monmeja was not your usual jolly innkeeper. He ran an illegal gamblin ...

Estimado Sr. juez... (1978)

Battered Flesh (1978)

Berta, imprisoned in Franco's Spain on fraud charges, learns to navigate the indignities of prison, spreading her own brand of kindness and empathy to the other inmates, but she unwillingly learns a valuable lesson when she falls in love with one of them. ...

The Clear Motives of Desire (1977)

A morbid curiosity leads Andrea and her friends to spy on a couple of young people during their amorous outings. Javi, the boyfriend, feels bothered because that situation, but ignores that Andrea is attracted to him. ...

The Kidnapping (1976)

Inspired by the famous Patty Hearst case, this thriller centers around a young woman who's kidnapped and brainwashed by a crime ring and ends up succumbing to Stockholm Syndrome. ...

La Corea (1976)

Toni is a seventeen year old young man who comes to Madrid from a little village in search of work. A friend from the same village of Toni puts him in touch with Charo, "La Corea", a mature woman dedicated to facilitating contacts and boys to American men ...

El hombre que supo amar (1976)

The life of Juan de Dios and his struggle against social, political and religious structures. ...

Pim, pam, pum… ¡fuego! (1975)

Spain, 1940s. While returning to Madrid by train, Paca, a chorus girl who aspires to join a prestigious company, meets Luis, a young man of helpless appearance. ...