Ricardo Franco

Black Tears (1998)

A mentally unbalanced woman captures the heart of an already-engaged admirer. ...

Lucky Star (1997)

Rafael, a lonely 40-something butcher, saves a pregnant Marina from an assault by her boyfriend Daniel. Rafael agrees to take Marina in and they happily raise the child together. Years later, Daniel re-enters their lives and turns them upside down. ...

¡Oh, cielos! (1995)

After All These Years (1994)

Twenty years after having talked about death, the world and their problems in "El desencanto", the Panero brothers reflect about their actual situation at the moment and what has happened since the last movie. ...

El sueño de Tánger (1991)

Three friends get involved with arms traffickers in Tangiers. ...

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. ...

El crimen de las estanqueras de Sevilla (1991)

July 11, 1952. Two sisters are savagely murdered in their tobacco shop in Seville. The money was in plain sight, but it wasn't touched. Without leads, the police follows a jail rumor pointing to three petty criminals. ...

La mujer perdida (1990)

A woman is lost. ...

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. ...

Berlin Blues (1988)

In Cold War-era West Berlin, Lola (Julia Migenes-Johnson), an American blues singer with a nightclub band, falls for the piano player, David (Jose Coronado). Their romance is cut short when David must return to his native East, and Lola soon begins an affa ...

Bilbao Blues (1986)

Beatriz is an attractive young lawyer who enjoys an enviable position thanks to the influence of her father, a prominent businessman. Lucas, a young man with a rather shady past, is struggling to emerge from the unfavorable situation in which life has plac ...

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. ...

In 'N Out (1984)

A man goes to Mexico to attend his father's funeral, 30 years after his father supposedly died. ...

The Remains from the Shipwreck (1978)

Whatever his reasons or intent, when the young man carrying a cello begins working at the old-folks home, he strikes up an acquaintance with the man known as "the Maestro" (Fernando Fernan Gomez), who is full of plans to produce a play based on a Caribbean ...

Pascual Duarte (1976)

In Extremadura, Spain, Pascual Duarte, a humble, simple and ignorant peasant, condemned to a boring and humiliating existence with no future, commits a horrible act during a day of such heat that enervates his disturbed mind and his anger, which he will no ...

The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse (1972)

Dr. Mabuse and his accomplices steal all kinds of attributes from a National Research Institute (including female staff members) in order to complete his own evil mind-control ray. Dr. Mabuse has this impressive and horribly scarred man-monster that kills ...

El espíritu del animal (1971)

El desastre de Annual (1970)

La madre (1995)

Winner of a Goya Award for best shortfilm ...

After All These Years (1994)

Twenty years after having talked about death, the world and their problems in "El desencanto", the Panero brothers reflect about their actual situation at the moment and what has happened since the last movie. ...

Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980)

After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman's mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends. ...

Compañero de viaje (1979)

A tale of hate in a town in the Venezuelan Andes where the conflicts and passions of those who live enclosed in the mountains make violence an inevitable destiny. ...

Somnambulists (1978)

Ana works side by side with her mother Maria Rosa in the fight to save the anti-Franco militants from the death penalty during the process of Burgos. Ana's mother is a former actress and Ana, her mother and a few other actors prepare an act of protest in t ...

The Remains from the Shipwreck (1978)

Whatever his reasons or intent, when the young man carrying a cello begins working at the old-folks home, he strikes up an acquaintance with the man known as "the Maestro" (Fernando Fernan Gomez), who is full of plans to produce a play based on a Caribbean ...

El desastre de Annual (1970)

Ginebra en los infiernos (1970)

Iván and Ginebra meet in a purely casual way and soon discover that there is a powerful attraction between them; but the constant presence of Ivan's roommate, Toby, a strange boxer who is afraid to step into the ring, forces them to redefine their relatio ...