Raúl Fraire

The Stone Raft (2002)

An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residen ...

Wiped-Out Footprints (1999)

Manuel is a Spanish writer who has emigrated to Argentina. He hears that his childhood village in Spain is to be turned into a reservoir, and returns for one last trip. There he meets widow Virginia, an old love, and begins to hope that he might reignite t ...

Luciérnagas (1996)

Dánova is an atypical detective, down on his luck but with some important contacts close to power, who receives the strangest assignment of his career: to investigate the disappearance of corpses from the Forensic Anatomical Institute. The case, which ini ...

Belmonte (1995)

Seville 1913. Juan is a weak-looking boy who has grown up in a marginal environment. But it transforms when at night it challenges bulls in fences. Calderón, an old bullfighter, looks at him, in his rare ways, in his passionate attitude, and guided by a s ...

Krapatchouk (1993)

Two young men have left their obscure Balkan country to earn some money as "guest workers" in western Europe. On their way back home, they attempt to change trains in Paris but encounter surprising difficulties from the ticket authorities there. It seems t ...

Chechu y familia (1992)

Chechu is a 13 year old boy who lives surrounded by peculiar people: his grandfather, his uncle, and two maids. He falls in love with one of them. ...

El juego de los mensajes invisibles (1992)

Based on the novel "Adopted son" of Álvaro Pombo. Pancho, a seventy years old man lives isolated in a Galician country house, not far from the sea, which is served by an old maid. Suddenly, the past bursts in his life with the unexpected visit of a man w ...

No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990)

Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his fellow soldiers while they march through an African colony in revolt during 1973. ...

It Smells Like Someone Died Here... But It Wasn't Me! (1990)

The Count of Capranegra, accompanied by his chamberlain, travels to Soborlskaia to claim the castle of his great-great-grandfather who died in strange circumstances. But to get the fortune he must first pass a difficult test. ...

Martín (1988)

The young Martín reluctantly spends the hot summer in Madrid with his parents, porters for a farm in the center of the city where they live. ...

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 ...

Los invitados (1987)

A murder is committed in a small village of Andalusia. ...

Voyage to Nowhere (1986)

The Iniesta-Galván family is a theatre company that goes from town to town offering its performances. Over the years, its members will have to adapt to changes and make decisions, like that of whether or not to continue performing. One day, unexpectedly, ...

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 ...

Pasos Largos (El último bandido andaluz) (1986)

"Pasos largos" (long steps) is an alias for the last Andalusian bandit, after engaging in poaching for a living, he begins to commit small crimes in the mountainous area of Ronda (Malaga, Spain), but everything gets even more complicated. ...

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. ...

Crimen en familia (1985)

Ignacio Costa is a tyrannical businessman with a conflictive personal life. He has a large family, a woman he abuses and humiliates and five children with whom he does the same, except for Mariana one of the girls. ...

Berta's Motives (1984)

The life of a young girl who plays with little animals and insects is suddenly changed with the arrival of a film crew and a strange man. ...

The Arrangement (1983)

After a period of inactivity, Crisanto, a police inspector, returns to the service. When a friend of his is murdered, he decides to take over the investigation. ...

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. ...

Fredy el croupier (1982)

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 ...

La leyenda del tambor (1981)

In June 1808, Napoleon's troops invade Spain. A boy named Isidro will beat his drum in the mountains of El Bruc, making the French army believe that thousands of armed men are waiting to confront them. ...

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. ...

Sin alma ni tiempo (1981)

Esperando a papá (1980)

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. ...

Seven Days in January (1979)

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

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? ...

Mala Racha (1977)

Dos locos en el aire (1976)

Falling in love with a superior's daughter, complications arise for an Air Force officer. ...

Accused Women (1975)

A terrifying story based on a fact occurred in Buenos Aires, early 1967. Reported in "La Nación" and all the other newspapers, after the death of a woman interned at the Instituto de Detención para Mujeres. Doctor Vallejos, the magistrate in charge of th ...

Yo tengo fe (1974)

Palito Ortega recreates his own biography in this film. The most significant events in the singer's life and his personal struggle to achieve success are portrayed through the story of Martín Ríos. A humble boy from the countryside, born into a poor and ...

La vuelta de Martín Fierro (1974)

Based on the work of Jose Hernandez, the film tells aspects of the life of the gaucho Martin Fierro. ...

The Traitors (1973)

Based on a true story, the film narrates the life of a fictitious Peronist union leader who, after years of militancy, gains power in the union during the 1960s and gradually becomes a corrupt bureaucrat. ...

The Mafia (1972)

The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of t ...