Rosa Morata

Escenes d’una orgia a Formentera (1996)

Having gained success and artistic acknowledgement for his performances on the stage, Joan Barnat has now definitively abandoned the theatre to work exclusively for television. But a turn of events causes him to lose control of his mind and he becomes obse ...

Letters from Alou (1990)

A group of Africans clandestinely reaches the coast of southern Spain. Among them is Alou, a 28 years old Senegalese. As all his belongings are stolen while in Almsería, he has no choice but to engage in street vending. His only pleasure are the letters h ...

If They Tell You I Fell (1989)

In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fan ...

The Rise, Fall, and Repose of Maria von Herzig (1986)

Spanish actress María de Montenegro marries a Nazi officer, von Herzig, in Berlin during World War II, and years later is forced to return to Barcelona. There she hopes to find what could be her last chance to regain her lost success. ...

Men of Fire (1984)

Short film by Antoni Padrós ...

The Victor of Olot (1981)

In a small Catalan village take advantage of the visit of an ecclesiastical authority of Rome, during vacations, to organize a conference on the topic of religion and sex. This causes the people to divide into two camps, those who favor and those against t ...

Objetivo: sexo (1981)

Journey to the Beyond (1980)

A doctor in parapsychology invites some people to their mansion. They all have lived some kind of paranormal experiences. ...

¡En qué lío me han metido! (1980)

Es pecado... pero me gusta (1978)

Fabrizzio hired the services of a prostitute to pretend to be his wife and accompany him to spend a weekend in the country house of his friend Romolo, where Aristides Almirante, an important official of the Ministry of Health, has also been invited. the ap ...

Playing Parents (1978)

Leonor and Juan are a united couple of good standing that cannot have children. They want to adopt one but do not succeed because he is too old. Leonor proposes Juan an audacious plan: having a child with another woman, offering her a significant amount o ...

Change of Sex (1977)

Young José María goes through a painful journey until he discovers that he is a transsexual. ...

Shirley Temple Story (1976)

A humorously distorted version of the life of Shirley Temple, and described by its director as a terrorist musical. Shirley Temple sets off for the Emerald City to tell the Wizard that she is upset that Judy Garland has been selected for the role of Doroth ...

Una prima en la bañera (1976)

Spanish Fury (1975)

Season 1973-1974. After fourteen years of drought, the FC Barcelona of Johan Cruyff is making a spectacular campaign. Sebastián, a great fan of soccer, decides then to join a Barça's supporters club. There he will meet the daughter of his friend Amadeo, ...

Lock-Out (1973)

An allegory of political oppression under Franco, with a plot alternating between narrative sequences and dream-like moments styled after the Spanish avant garde. Padrós employs a range of musical forms including opera, scores, and choreography to undersc ...

The Pigs (1972)

Short film based on a real news item in which a student from Ohio was sentenced to spend three hours in a pigsty to learn to differentiate between a pig and a policeman. It shows a group of friends which make up a surreal symphony of people counting pigs a ...

Swedenborg (1971)

A tragedy that does not avoid irony while showing a couple in a romantically disastrous state. ...

What's for dinner, dear? (1971)

Short film that addresses family repression through the bond between a brother and a sister in which the stronger takes advantage of the weaker. ...

Ice Cream (1970)

A short film about a mysterious ceremony, based on an essay by William S. Burroughs. ...

Pim, pam, pum, revolución (1970)

Short film dedicated to the "established order" (yet made clearly outside of it) and drawing from the protests of 1968 and the struggle for socialist revolution, it also challenges the Catholicism and nationalism of Franco's Spain. It depicts the breakdown ...

Daphnis and Chloe (1969)

Daphnis and Chloe wander through a forest, intercut with shots of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and following no clear chronological trajectory, in a questioning of sexual roles and the permissible standards of Franco-era cinema. ...