Tomàs Pladevall

El gènere femení (2011)

Magic Journey to Africa (2010)

Jana's magical journey to Africa contains a deep message about friendship, love, passion, nature and imagination. ...

The Silence Before Bach (2007)

A beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach's music plays in the world today. Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked 'dramatic' scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, ...

Filmmakers in Action (2006)

What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to "Filmmakers vs. Tycoons. ...

La silla (2006)

A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop. ...

No al no: Visca el piano! (2006)

Carles Santos plays several of his pieces on the piano. This film was made for the exhibit on Carles Santos Visca el piano! held at the Miro Foundation in the summer of 2006. ...

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005)

How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to th ...

The Tempest (2003)

Naked bodies are buffeted by water accompanied by the music Il Temporale from the opera La Cenerentola and the overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia both by Gioacchino Rossini. ...

Bellas durmientes (2001)

Lawrence, a renowned writer, comes to Santiago to spend a winter course. There, by his colleague Elijah, finds a very special house on the outskirts of the city, run by a secretive and mysterious woman, Salome. In this house, mature men, old, spend the nig ...

Germanes de sang (2001)

Marga, a well-known television presenter, organizes a dinner with old friends from boarding school to which he has not seen for 30 years. But the meeting hidden other motives. Marga projects an old super 8 film shot where they can guess the murderer of a f ...

Leo (2000)

Salva working as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a girl who makes a living collecting cardboard. Gradually Salva be falling in love for the young, but the life of Leo holds a dark past. ...

The Pianist (1998)

This music-themed drama is set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past, where the you ...

Subjúdice (1998)

An advocate for progressive takes the case of a conservative politician to accuse you of sexual harassment. ...

Viaje a la luna (1998)

The exhibition, which coincides with the birth centenary of the poet Federico García Lorca, proposes a realistic recreation in images by Frederic Amat of the poet's screenplay Trip to the Moon. The aim, according to Amat, is to unravel the mysteries of th ...

Train of Shadows (1997)

Experimental silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s. ...

Chronicles of the Hidden Truth (1997)

An adaptation of the short story collection by Pere Calders. ...

Actresses (1997)

In order to prepare for her role as a certain well-known actress, a young woman has lengthy conversations with three different actresses who were good friends with the famous star. Emerging from these conversations are three equally different versions of t ...

Tiempos mejores (1994)

The story of the relationship between a showgirl and a former toreador. ...

Solitude (1991)

Early 20th century in a remote place in Catalonia. Mila, a newly wed young woman is forced by her husband and some circumstances to move to a remote location in the mountains. Marital problems arise in this lonely atmosphere but Mila finds comfort in Gaiet ...

Warsaw Bridge (1990)

A female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor--three characters, two couples--attend a grand literary cocktail party. The writer has just won the prize for his book "Warsaw Bridge." The winner answers the journalist's questions one after another ...

El rey del mambo (1989)

Don Martin, the owner of a repair company, hires Jamaican Ali to fix television antennas. The boy, besides being an excellent professional, causes a furor among the neighbors because of his great attractiveness, so the men will do everything possible to ma ...

Daniya, the emir's garden (1988)

Daniya is the story of a trip. A man of culture and resolute, the younger brother of the Countess of Barcelona, leaves the Catalan court for the kingdom of Denia (Daniya). The purpose of his trip is to accept the ecclesiastical authority entrusted to him b ...

The Blonde at the Bar (1987)

Mario is dominated by his castrating wife, and is also suffering from writer's block. He goes to a local (very mixed) bar where he meets an exhuberant blonde prostitute, through her room mate, a gay gigolo. With Mario's help, the blonde goes on to better j ...

Karnabal (1985)

Jaumet is about lo live his most unforgettable adventure. Traveling by car, he arrives in a village whose inhabitants are quite outlandishly, as if they were plunged in a rare carnival behavior. ...

The Battle of Reefer (1981)

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 ...

Catalan Cuckold (1979)

Comedy about a marriage guidance counselor whose own marriage is on the rocks. ...

forty years without sex (1979)

Through various episodes we are shown sexual repression and desire at the same time, in the Spanish of yesteryear. ...

L’orgia (1978)

A group of boys and girls are locked up a weekend in a friends house in which they do a party that little to little is converted in an orgy. But not everything is sex, there are also cinematographic digressions, chocolate and churros, and good humor. ...

Tattoo, The First Adventure Of Pepe Carvalho (1978)

A man's body turns up on a Barcelona beach with a message tattooed on his arm: "I was born to revolutionize hell". Detective Pepe Carvalho is put in charge of the case, taking him from the back streets of Barcelona to the Amsterdam canals, with no effect w ...

Rage (1978)

In this docudrama, life in a Catalan village in the early years of the Franco era (1939-1975) is chronicled. ...

Raza, el espíritu de Franco (1977)

Documentary made immediately after Franco's death, which includes interviews with the dictator's sister and with Alfredo Mayo, the actor who played the lead role in the film 'Raza'. ...

The Young Dracula (1977)

Transylvania. Seventies. Mina and Lucy, two friends very attractive, they are mysteriously drawn into a surprising and terrifying story whose protagonist is Jonathan Dracula, a direct descendant of Count Dracula. ...

La oscura historia de la prima Montse (1977)

Paco, a middle-class young man, tells his lover the shady story of his cousin Montse, a social worker. ...

Las alegres chicas de 'El Molino' (1977)

Barcelona in the seventies. Piper, comedian at the theater El Molino has specialized in effeminate roles, but in reality is a conqueror. His wife, Nita, sets a trap for him. ...

Sexy... amor y fantasía (1977)

Iconockaut (1976)

Two lovers, a man and a woman, meet and separate in a timeless space. ...

Vivir a mil (1976)

Robin Hood nunca muere (1975)

Night of the Howling Beast (1975)

Waldemar, the renowned adventurer, joins an expedition to find the Yeti in the Himalayas. While hiking the mountains, he's captured by two cannibalistic demon nymphets guarding a remote Buddhist temple and becomes their sex-slave. They transform him into a ...

Los hijos de Scaramouche (1975)

D'ombres (2021)