Walter Vidarte

The Night of the Sunflowers (2006)

Two speleologists, Esteban and Pedro, travel to a mountainous area located in northern Spain, near a small village, to study a newly discovered cave and determine if it is of scientific interest, while Gabi, Esteban's wife, awaits their return on a lonely ...

Lo mejor de cada casa (Una semana en el parque) (2000)

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 ...

Homer: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man (1997)

Though he is near death, blind Rene, an elderly Italian-French intellectual, continues to make his annual conference abroad accompanied by his self-centered loyal, beautiful assistant Sibilla who may or may not be his lover. Rene's domineering mother stron ...

Antártida (1995)

A rock star falls in love with a common pickpocket without any personal history. But soon she finds herself in a contraband of drugs and both try to escape it. ...

My Soul Brother (1994)

Meeting of two very different brothers: Carlos is an ambitious young businessman happily married to Julia, Toni is a nerve that life has given him so many sticks as the people who surrounded him. ...

Outrage (1993)

Marco Vallez (Antonio Banderas) is possessed by the beauty of a circus sharp shooter, and from the second they meet he is willing to give up everything to be with her. But one horrifying night sends them both down a road of revenge leaving behind a trail o ...

Chatarra (1991)

Zabu was a dancer in a small cabaret in Bilbao. Twelve years later she is living with her daughter Lola and a small delinquent called Lino in a squalid suburb of an industrial city. She dreams of leaving for Australia. ...

El crimen de Don Benito (1991)

July 18, 1902. A woman and her daughter are brutally murdered in the Extremaduran town of Don Benito. Everybody knows the depraved town boss was responsible, but nobody dares to declare against him. ...

Tramuntana (1991)

In the 13th century, desolation and misery lead the inhabitants of a village in the Pyrenees to emigrate to Burriana, in Valencia, a region considered to be the Promised Land. During the journey, love, hatred and suffering will jeopardize their arrival at ...

El acto (1989)

This is a Spanish Drama starring Antonio Banderas ...

Love Ravings (1986)

In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young man. ...

El rey y la reina (1986)

Romanza final (Gayarre) (1986)

Biography of Julian Gayarre (1844-1890), one of the best tenors of all times. At 19, a professor at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid heard him singing for the first time and offered him a scholarship to continue his studies. His artistic life runs betwe ...

Akelarre (1984)

A small village in Navarre, Spain, XVII century. Garazi's grandmother is burned at the stake when accussed of being a witch and convicted by an inquisitor, something that brings Garazi under suspicion and eventually into prison, where she is atrociously to ...

La conquista de Albania (1983)

King Carlos II of Spain (r. 1665-1700) once sent his brother Luis to lead a military expedition into Albania and conquer that land for the Spaniards. Since Albania was a part of the dowry of Luis' wife, it seemed like a reasonable idea at the time. While t ...

1919, Chronicle of Dawn (1983)

In 1939, José Garcés is in French prison camp after the defeat of Spain's Republicans. To entertain and inspire his fellow prisoners, he tells the story of becoming a man in 1919, the year he realized that learning to live is the same as learning to die. ...

Cuentos para una escapada (1981)

With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's f ...

Tú estás loco Briones (1981)

Faustino Briones is a hardline Falangist who, unhappy with the changes in Spain and after mounting several scandals in his work, is admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Without waiting for him, he begins to interact with the nuns of the place, but especiall ...

Sin alma ni tiempo (1981)

Sus años dorados (1980)

María, a young and attractive woman, loses her job, meets Luis, a young man with no stable job neither, his wife supports him. Luis wants to start a relationship with María, but she doesn't. She prefers to be with Luis' friends instead. ...

El hombre de moda (1980)

Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the ...

Tierra de rastrojos (1980)

Tobi (1978)

A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow ...

Avisa a Curro Jiménez (1978)

Córdoba, Spain. Lord Killarney, representative of the British Museum, acquires an Arabic incunabulum at an auction; but he is murdered and the book disappears. All suspicions fall on El Lince, an antique dealer with a shady background, who asks his nephew ...

Trout (1978)

In a restaurant they're preparing a grand banquet in honor of a sports association of anglers, but several circumstances seem to have conspired to boycott the event. ...

Venus de fuego (1978)

A young man falls madly in love with a woman they call La Venus de Fuego and because of her he becomes involved in a crime. They accuse him of murder and he is forced to flee to a place far away. ...

La Gioconda está triste (1977)

The Mona Lisa loses her famous smile, and so does the rest of the world. ...

The Truce (1974)

A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future. ...

Quebracho (1974)

Set around 1910 in the Chaco region, the film depicts the plight of quebracho woodcutters, cruelly exploited by English businessmen with the support of the authorities, local police, and a paramilitary force established by the employers themselves. ...

Los golpes bajos (1974)

Operación Masacre (1973)

In 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina, are killed several suspected to be part of the civil uprising. However survive seven people manage to tell the story. ...

Santos Vega (1971)

The story of Santos Vega, an Argentine gaucho from the province of Buenos Aires, who lived around 1830, and who gave rise to a legend in which, being an invincible payador, he ends up falling defeated to none other than the Devil, embodied in the person of ...

El habilitado (1971)

Five employees submerged in the basement of a large store in Mar del Plata are grotesquely linked to each other, each trying to feel better than the other thanks to miserable advantages. ...

Quiero llenarme de ti (1969)

A young man dreams of being a singer and become popular with crowds. Over time manages to have everything you want, but on the way he meets a person based envious intrigues that it manages to lose his girlfriend and even his own representative. To do this, ...

The Dependent (1969)

Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams... and her family. ...

Martín Fierro (1968)

The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem. ...

Una máscara para Ana (1966)

A movie director forces her actress wife not to practice her profession, so she escapes. ...

Life is formidable (1966)

A married couple rents a room in their house to a newly married couple with sexual problems. ...

Orden de matar (1965)

Upon learning of the murder of a friend, a police inspector sets out to take justice on his own. This attitude, contrary to his usual convictions, will gradually destroy him. ...

Nadie oyó gritar a Cecilio Fuentes (1965)

A young man loses a hand after being attacked by a gang. A police inspector will make sure to find them and bring justice, whatever it takes. ...

Los hipócritas (1965)

Circe (1964)

Delia Mañara is notorious in her quarter of Buenos Aires for the mysterious deaths of two of her fiancés. She lives in a twilight world and gains most satisfaction through the exercise of power over others. ...

Los evadidos (1964)

Inmates in a prison plan a massive break. When they put their plan into action, however, they find that they may have underestimated the guards and prison officials, and the situation quickly turns into a bloody gun battle. This action feature from directo ...

The Venerable Ones (1963)

Ismael, the weakest and most unstable member of a supposed group of conspirators with power aspirations, constantly suffers ridicule and contempt for his leader, Lucas, and his other companions. Everything changes when a woman with whom Ismael is in love b ...

Man on Pink Corner (1962)

During a local festival, a mysterious stranger appears in town, heading towards a violent confrontation. ...

El romance de un gaucho (1961)

Three Times Ana (1961)

Three different love-related stories -all starring María Vaner as different "Anas". In "The Earth," Ana is a young and idealistic woman on the verge of adulthood when her first relationship with a clerk shatters her dreams of a romantic life. In "The Air, ...

Alias Gardelito (1961)

The title of this story is taken from the name of the great Argentine singer Carlos Gardel, the idol of the antihero Toribio portrayed by Alberto Argibay. Toribio's goal in life is to emulate the famous singer and making his own way successfully in the mus ...

La patota (1960)

A philosophy teacher is raped by her night school students. ...

Luna Park (1960)

A boxer's dream of fighting in the Luna Park stadium and the interests surrounding this sport. ...

Gringalet (1959)

A young painter from La Boca discovers that his father is a millionaire. He goes to live with him, changes his life and comes back to the neighborhood. ...

Procesado 1040 (1958)

Elderly suburban man is imprisoned over a misunderstanding about some garden utensils. ...