Rafael Azcona

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rafael Azcona Fernández (24 October 1926 – 24 March 2008) was an awarded Spanish screenwriter and novelist who has worked with some of the best Spanish and international filmmakers. Azcona won five Goya Awards during his career, including a lifetime achievement award in 1998. He was born in the northern Spanish city Logroño on 24 October 1926. Azcona initially began his career writing for humor magazines. He became known as a screenwriter when he penned the screenplay for the film, El Pisito (The Little Apartment), which was based on his own novel. The 1959 film was directed by Italian film director, Marco Ferreri. Azcona teamed up with director Fernando Trueba in “Belle Époque,” which won an Academy Award for best foreign film in 1994. He collaborated with other Spanish directors including Luis Garcia Berlanga, Jose Luis Cuerda, Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez, Pedro Olea, and Carlos Saura. Azcona was also awarded the Spanish Fine Arts Gold Medal in 1994. Rafael Azcona died at his home in Madrid, Spain, on 24 March 2008, at the age of 81.

Works

The Little Apartment

Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or "pisito", in Spanish dialect). Unfortunately their low salaries prevent them from acquiring one. Soon, Rodolfo's co-workers urge him to marry the old and frail Doña Martina, who is the main tenant in the apartment he boards in. According to Spanish rent-control law, he could inherit the lease from his spouse. Thus begin his misgivings, and Petrita's.

Release Date1959-06-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

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Vote Count34

Rafael Azcona, oficio de guionista

A long talk with the spanish screenwriter Rafael Azcona, who's credited in the writing of more than 100 films. He's well-known for his colourful scripts, indulging in picaresque characters and flavourful dialogue, but has a wide range of facets. He worked for filmmakers like Luis García Berlanga, Marco Ferreri, Carlos Saura, Fernando Trueba or José Luis García Sánchez.

Release Date2007-08-07

Charactersd Himself

The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner

Documentary about Spanish director Luis García Berlanga's "The Executioner" (1963)

Release Date2012-02-25

Charactersd Interviewee

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future

The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often considered a visionary and experimental. The documentary honors the memory of a filmmaker too soon forgot that left an indelible mark in the seventh art.

Release Date2007-09-06

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Rafael Azcona

Release Date2010-09-30

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count1

Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí

Release Date2015-05-15

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Chechu and Family

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.

Release Date1992-06-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count10

Madrid, 1987

In 1987 Madrid, the unexpected encounter between a seasoned journalist and a young student leads to a profound exploration of love, desire, politics, power, and discovery of each other.

Release Date2012-04-13

DepartmentWriting

JobDialogue

Vote Count73

Días de cine

Comedy set in 1977, in which a renowned playwright (Alberto San Juan) tries to shoot a social protest drama starring a doldrums folk, former child star (Natalie Poza) and produced by a producer and shameless liar (Miguel Rellán). Inexperience, ambition, lack of means and the love-hate relationship with the star director shooting become a craze.

Release Date2007-02-09

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count6

How Good the Whites Are

The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, advances across the continent. As a result of the difficulties the team encounters, disorganization gradually takes over the convoy. Each of the members of the group, little by little, yield to their petty, selfish impulses: violence, power, nostalgia - The breakdown of one of the trucks forces Michele and Nadia to wait at an oasis for the arrival of spare parts. But a starving local tribe settles threateningly near them. The chief of the tribe makes a speech they don't understand, which is followed by a macabre purification ceremony.

Release Date1988-01-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count7

Airlift

Release Date1981-12-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

La Grande Bouffe

Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.

Release Date1973-05-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count552

Belle Époque

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.

Release Date1992-12-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count207

María querida

Lola goes to cover the press conference of the Cervantes Prize Award to María Zambrano. Captivated by the personality of the thinker decides to launch a film about her.

Release Date2004-10-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Year of Enlightment

April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, Manolo, surrounded by boys all much younger than he is, feels a bit like the cock of the walk since the only other man around is the handyman Emilio who looks after the gardens and does whatever needs to be done about the place. His wife, Rafaela, is the cook. Manolo meets Irene, a falangist who runs the sanatorium, and the school teacher, Miss Transito, a crabby spinster. He has his first sexual experience, albeit as a voyeur, with his nurse Vicenta. When she has to leave, her place is taken by a girl from the village, Maria Jesus, with whom Manolo falls hopelessly in love. A relationship grows up between them which will mark them both for ever.

Release Date1986-12-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count23

Ay, Carmela!

During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.

Release Date1990-03-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count89

The Last Woman

Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.

Release Date1976-04-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count51

Martes de Carnaval

Mr.Manolito and Mr.Estrafalario– characters of Valle-Inclán’s plays– spend the last days of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship chasing the plays written by their admired Valle-Inclán whose works are banned by a Government Law. One day, they find a piece of The Daughter of the Captain, a portrait of the crazy soldiers who returned home after losing the Spanish Colonies. In other occasion, they attend one of the limited performances of Valle-Inclán’s:The deceiving Mr. Friolera. They are just longing for the best premiere ever: the Second Spanish Republic, a drama on for a very short time. It was a beautiful dream thought, like the Esperpentos (strange-looking characters) of Valle-Inclán.

Release Date2009-04-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count3

The Queen of Spain

After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to The Girl of Your Dreams, 1998.)

Release Date2016-11-25

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count100

Butterfly

The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.

Release Date1999-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count246

Sound of the Sea

A new literature teacher, Ulises, comes to a small town near the sea and falls in love with a young woman, Martina. This woman is loved by a rich businessman named Alberto but chooses Ulises. Soon after their marriage and the birth of their son, Ulises vanishes while fishing at sea. In the meanwhile Martina marries Alberto, but all is not what it seems...

Release Date2001-06-08

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count61

The Court of the Pharaoh

In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage of the artistic caprices of the son of a rich man who supports the regime. They try to stage a Pre-war 'zarzuela' (a sort of Spanish operetta), 'La Corte Del Faraón', which ironically, thirty years later, is too obscene for the regime censorship. They finally manage to perform the 'zarzuela' but end up in the police station where they confirm that justice depends on which side are you on

Release Date1985-09-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count27

Tuset Street

Barcelona 1967. The pop culture revolution. Jordi (Patrick Bauchau) is a rich playboy who runs around with a bunch of high-end hippies, smoking, drinking, dancing and daydreaming about Tuset Street, an effort to develop a popular street in the newer section of Barcelona after the models of Haight Ashbury Street in San Francisco and Carnaby Street in London. Jordi and his gang represent the new Barcelona, wealthy, artificial and striving for imported sophistication. On the older side of the city is El Paralelo, the theater district. At El Molino, one of its many music halls, performs Violeta (Sara Montiel), a showgirl in the old style tradition who supplements her singing income with prostitution. Somehow Violeta represents the old values, the "real world" living along side an artificial creation such as Tuset.

Release Date1968-09-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

The Girl of Your Dreams

During the Spanish Civil War, a troupe of Spanish filmmakers is invited to shoot a film at UFA studios in Nazi Germany.

Release Date1998-11-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count116

Mafioso

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.

Release Date1962-10-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count64

In Praise of Older Women

In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.

Release Date1997-04-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count13

It Can Be Done Amigo

An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless as it first appears.

Release Date1972-03-31

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count83

La Celestina

The young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto's servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Celestina to further the romance. However Calisto's other servant Parmeno is suspicious of Celestina, as he knows about her tricks.

Release Date1996-11-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count44

The Galíndez File

On March 12, 1956, Basque Nationalist Jesús de Galíndez Suarez disappears from his apartment in New York, never heard from again. He had been working with the FBI and was about to publish a book critical of Dominican strongman, Trujillo. In 1988, a graduate student, Muriel Colber, wants to make Galíndez the subject of her dissertation. She's in Spain doing research; finding little, she goes to Santo Domingo. At every turn, the CIA, in the person of agent Robards, tries to thwart her; and, at each turn, as she considers abandoning the project, someone offers new information, often contradictory. She wants the truth behind the Galíndez mystery; will she find it?

Release Date2003-09-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count15

Los desastres de la guerra

The painter Francisco de Goya is witness to the disasters and horrors caused by the bloody resistance of the Spanish people to the French occupation during the Napoleonic wars.

Release Date1983-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

The Executioner

An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.

Release Date1963-08-31

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count195

Kiss the Other Sheik

Italian comedy film in three segments

Release Date1965-12-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count29

Don't Touch the White Woman!

A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.

Release Date1974-01-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count45

Blood and Sand

Remake of the tale of an acclaimed matador who finds himself involved with a beautiful woman, jeopardizing both his marriage and career.

Release Date1989-09-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count31

La adúltera

With more than thirty years, Malena Fonseca is a spinster and provincial woman who, after coincidentally meeting a Frenchman named Lucien, also a thirty-something bachelor like her, decides to marry him. However, after that, and having moved to Madrid in the company of her unbearable and possessive mother-in-law, Malena will gradually discover that her husband is a very rational man whose zero interest in sex despairs her, making the woman feel attracted to the pharmacist in the corner and the hunky bread delivery man.

Release Date1975-12-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Anna and the Wolves

The young but traveled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family.

Release Date1973-06-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count56

The Four Truths

"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.

Release Date1962-12-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count13

My Daughter Hildegart

Madrid 1933. Aurora Rodriguez kills her daughter Hildegart and turn herself over to the police. In jail she remember the circumstances that made her committing the crime...

Release Date1977-09-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count12

A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die

A dishonored Union Army officer leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army.

Release Date1972-12-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count73

The Blind Sunflowers

Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…

Release Date2008-08-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count71

Bye Bye Monkey

In metahistorical New York city electrotechnician Lafayette deals with a megalomaniac director of a wax museum of ancient Rome, an italian lonely anarchist, a group of feminist actresses - including Angelica who falls in love with him - and a small adopted chimpanzee.

Release Date1978-02-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count45

Peppermint Frappé

Julián, a middle-aged single doctor, is reunited with Pablo, a childhood friend who has just married Elena, a beautiful young woman.

Release Date1967-10-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count53

The Garden of Delights

The greedy relatives of a paralysed 45-year-old amnesiac millionaire go to extreme lengths to help him recover his memory.

Release Date1970-11-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count23

Pim, pam, pum… ¡fuego!

Spain, 1940s. While returning to Madrid by train, Paca, a chorus girl who aspires to join a prestigious company, meets Luis, a young man of helpless appearance.

Release Date1975-09-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count5

The Ape Woman

A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.

Release Date1964-01-31

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count59

Fischia Il Sesso

A girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who introduces her to Gavino, a young Sardinian immigrant clandestine.

Release Date1974-03-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

La guerra del cerdo

In an alternative reality, a man who is entering old age faces a society in which the young eliminate the old.

Release Date2012-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Audience

Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.

Release Date1972-03-31

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count38

The Heifer

During the Spanish Civil War a platoon of mismatched Republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on the local holiday of the nearby village. In addition to ruining the Nationalist faction's celebration they want the animal in order to butcher it and feed their famished troops. They get caught in the process and have to go through a series of funny and pathetic incidents before they can get back to their side.

Release Date1985-03-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count68

Life Size

Michel is a middle-aged man with money and social standing. But he dreams of owning a doll to be his lover. When he finally gets one, he realizes he has become a slave to his own fantasy.

Release Date1974-08-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count26

The Harem

A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.

Release Date1967-10-06

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count13

National Heritage

After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exile, with the purpose of returning to Madrid to actively participate in the social events of the aristocracy and to get closer to the closest circle of the Spanish monarch. The obsession of the old marquis is centered on getting in touch with the most illustrious surnames, to ascend socially and to resume the pomp and courtly life that his family lost a long time ago. To this end, he decides to move into an old palace he owns, located in the center of the capital, but not before overcoming the difficulties posed by his wife, who deeply hates both her husband and her son. To regain control of the palace, the Marquis of Leguineche tries to handicap his wife, arguing an incurable mental illness, and then undertake a reform of the place in order to adapt it to aristocratic life.

Release Date1981-03-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count27

The Wheelchair

Don Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. His family strongly refuses him to purchase the vehicle, so don Anselmo decides to take extreme measures to achieve his goal…

Release Date1960-11-03

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count57

To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday

Count Fernando, called Didino, a shy and sexually repressed man, lives under the oedipal authority of countess Mafalda, his bloodsucking and over-controlling mother, until their family hires a new young maid that changes his life.

Release Date1974-08-22

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count22

Honey

Agustín, a school teacher, visits Paco, a former student, whose mother asks him to help her get the boy on the right track.

Release Date1979-08-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count3

Cousin Angelica

When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter, and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present.

Release Date1974-04-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count37

Placido

In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish.

Release Date1962-06-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenstory

Vote Count91

Banderas, the Tyrant

In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.

Release Date1993-11-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count12

The Conjugal Bed

A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.

Release Date1963-04-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count38

The Seducer

Cosme, a 15-year-old boy, sets his sights and his libido on his new neighbor, Merche. After giving her a lift on his moped, and getting a glimpse of her underwear, he begins to look for excuses to wander next door. He manufactures illnesses to stay home from school and uses his free time to ogle her while she sunbathes outside. His efforts to sustain a relationship that leads to the bedroom are hampered by his amusing family, sabotaged by the maid, and jealously noted by his high school girlfriend.

Release Date1995-03-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count8

L'ultimo Pulcinella

An Italian actor (Massimo Ranieri) and his son (Domenico Balsamo) stage a show in a Parisian theater.

Release Date2009-03-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Man with the Balloons

Mario is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting.

Release Date1967-08-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count21

Una noche embarazosa

An Italian taxicab driver is used as a "breeding man" to save the inheritance of a wealthy family in Mexico.

Release Date1977-12-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count8

In the Eye of the Hurricane

Ruth and Michel separate after Ruth finds another man, Paul. Ruth and Paul go to her sunny, idyllic beach side villa to spend summer. They are having a great time together, and then things start happening. The brakes of the car fail, and Ruth narrowly escapes death. The driving equipment goes faulty, and Ruth almost drowns. Michel turns up at their doorstep for an uninvited social call, and Paul asks him in. Ruth suspects Michel of being the person behind the mechanical faults of the car and the diving equipment, but Paul dismisses such a possibility - but he does suggest it to Michel. Then, the heat does go up.

Release Date1971-04-23

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count29

El paraíso ya no es lo que era

Mercedes (Neus Asensi) Mariángeles (Ana Risueño) and Carmen (Miriam Diaz Aroca) need to escape something: the stress of the job, a divorce or a gray and boring existence. And all three are looking for something: a love affair in an exotic country. The destination is Tunisia, land of contrasts, from the deserts and beaches. But far from land into a paradise unprecedented journey undertaken with a group of quirky characters.

Release Date2001-05-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

The Wedding March

Satirical film in four episodes about family and marriage.

Release Date1966-02-17

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count17

The Enchanted Forest

In Galicia, in northern Spain, Malvís, a frustrated day laborer who, fed up with his life, has become a clumsy bandit, tries to make a name for himself by robbing travelers passing through a forest inhabited by colorful characters.

Release Date1987-10-02

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count39

A Man Called Autumn Flower

During the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, young, wealthy Lluis de Serracant leads a double life: by day he's a lawyer, and by night he's a transvestite performer known to his fans as "Flower of Autumn".

Release Date1978-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count13

The National Shotgun

A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm shows full authority over James, who is the real organizer of the meeting. The celebration is diverse characters who live next to absurd situations.

Release Date1978-09-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count73

Goodbye from the Heart

Juan is now in his fifties, has a protruding belly, dyes his hair gray and lives alone with a cat who has urinary problems, but despite this, women still find him attractive.

Release Date2000-07-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count10

Latin Lovers

An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women.

Release Date1961-12-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Controsesso

A vivid assortment consisted of three acts taken from the lives of modern 1960s Italians, always in orbit around the restless theme of sexual inhibition and the pursuit of pleasure in sex.

Release Date1964-11-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count11

Hay que deshacer la casa

Ana is a middle aged woman who many years ago decided to start a new life in Paris. Now she must return to her hometown after the death of her parents, since they have left her an inheritance. There she meets Laura, her only sister, with whom she has to share the money received and, especially, an old house located in the center of Guadalajara. Now, the two women will have to leave the differences and problems behind that have arisen in the past to catch up and recover the fraternal relationship. Written by lament

Release Date1986-10-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count8

Cross Current

A speed-boat racer suffers amnesia after an boating accident and goes to his isolated villa to recuperate. His relationship with his wife is troubled, so he starts an affair (sort of) with the another woman, which results in one of the three of them being shot. But there are several more twists--and more murders--to come.

Release Date1971-08-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count7

The Impeccable Sinner

Honorio Sigüenza is a man in his forties who has always lived under the yoke of his possessive mother. When his mother dies, he undergoes a radical transformation that will lead him to live numerous love affairs in the face of the disapproval of his cousin Veni, who wanted to marry him.

Release Date1987-08-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Suspiros de España (y Portugal)

After the death of the abbot of a small convent the two monks who are left discover among the papers of the passed away abbot letters from the mother of one of them indicating that he is the natural son of a landowner in Extremadura. In order to claim the legacy of his friend the monk who has lived outside the convent for some time plans their voyage to the property of his father picking up on their way his daughter and lover. Once in Extremadura things look a little different to what the plans say.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count13

Run for Your Wife

Riccardo, an unhappily married middle aged Italian working for a shoe factory, goes to America on a four day business trip.

Release Date1965-04-29

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count9

Un rincón para querernos

Release Date1964-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Moors and Christians

A peculiar family, which owns a nougat factory, decides to set out on a trip to Madrid in order to advertise its products in a Food Fair. Besides the disapproval from the family head and company founder, events are not as expected.

Release Date1987-10-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count20

Death and the Lumberjack

An organ grinder called “El Rubio” has the crank of his street organ confiscated because he did not have his identification papers in order. From then on, a journey full of misfortune begins in which he tries hard to find a crank like the impounded one, to allow him to work again.

Release Date1963-05-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Tarot

A young, beautiful woman marries a rich old blind man. While in the household she becomes aware of a plot to kill her elderly husband.

Release Date1973-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count9

The Secret of the Blue Men

An adventurer intends to seize the fabulous treasure of the Tuaregs. But when he falls in love with a beautiful Indian woman, he ends up defending the booty from other adventurers with less scruples.

Release Date1961-08-11

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count1

The Challenges

Los desafíos presents three separate stories that are linked by an American presence in Spain in the 1960s, with Dean Selmier playing the role of the American male in all three.

Release Date1969-09-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count12

The Green March

Release Date2002-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

The Anchorite

Eleven years ago Fernando Tobajas, a man of a certain age, decided to live in the bathroom, in which he created a small apartment, and never leaves it. Tobajas has given up everything except vanity, and his contacts with the world are reduced to visits from friends and messages sent through the toilet inside aspirin tubes in the hope that someone will receive them and know about his existence. Arabel Lee, a beautiful girl, finds one of those messages.

Release Date1976-10-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count11

Pasodoble

A family, expelled from their shack, occupies the museum in Cordoba where once lived the prince who, in his youth, was the grandmother's lover. The curators and administrators of the museum, aided by a couple of inexperienced policemen, harass the squatters to force them to leave.

Release Date1988-06-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count9

Tranvía a la Malvarrosa

The film is based on the autobiography of writer Manuel Vincent. His father doesn't want him to become a writer and sends him to Valencia law school. One day Manuel sees his dream girl and follows her on a trolley car to Malvarossa beach. He then studies in college, meets call girl La China who teaches him love secrets, but still remembers that girl.

Release Date1997-04-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

The Flight of the Dove

A film team arrives at a more authentic and old square in Madrid to shoot a film. The area is full of children, working families and simple people who see the cinema as something unattainable. From his balcony, Paloma, does not lose detail of the shooting, nor of the movements of the gallant, for which he feels a strong attraction.

Release Date1989-02-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

El monumento

Vincent is married to a very sexy woman, who everyone knows as "The Monument", and envy the fate of her husband. However, Vincent is very busy with his work and doesn't pay her enough attention. The situation complicates when the richest man in town gets interested in her.

Release Date1970-09-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Little Spanish Soldier

A young man, son and grandson of soldiers, refuses to perform military service, causing a commotion in the whole family. Finally, social, environmental and family pressures, will force the young to make a decision that will have unforeseeable consequences.

Release Date1988-10-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count7

La familia bien, gracias

Sequel to "The Great Family" and "Family and one more". A widower and the godfather of his 16 children, aged two, wistfully contemplate the past. The father was left alone in the family home, but loneliness overwhelms him so he decides to spend some time at home for each of their children, most of whom are married. But the experience ends up being disastrous.

Release Date1979-12-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count12

Bésame, tonta

A young bank clerk is transferred, in view of his special way of being, to a branch for misfits, where he will meet a whole series of very strange characters.

Release Date1982-04-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

La mujer cualquiera

The whatever woman.

Release Date1994-10-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Seventh Floor

In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged industrialist obsessed with gadgets. When his nose starts to whistle uncontrollably, he checks into a clinic to resolve the problem. What begins as a minor affliction worsens, and Giuseppe is placed on a different floor as his ailments multiply. The sicker he gets, the higher he goes up in the floors of the clinic, until he is near death's door.

Release Date1967-08-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count11

Honeycomb

Teresa and Peter settle down in their new home after the wedding. Things are going well until her childhood furniture arrives, sending Teresa into horrible flashbacks of turmoil from memories of her youth.

Release Date1969-07-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count12

Los muertos no se tocan, nene

Logroño, 1959. The death of a local authority creates a double expectation in his family, the coming of the TV set the deceased bought and the mayor to attend the funeral. His grandson (Airas Brispo) will witness the grotesque situations.

Release Date2011-11-04

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count11

King of the River

An air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby is born, she gives it to her sister that has already two children. The child grows up as another member of the family. Although the adults keep the secret, the children know that he is different.

Release Date1995-02-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Las secretas intenciones

Miguel is a married architect with children; Blanca, an attractive young woman who has attempted suicide by cutting her veins. The relationship between them develops through continuous persecutions, first of him to her and then to him. In their meetings, they reflect on their empty lives, loneliness, boredom and obsession with death.

Release Date1970-07-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

Las pirañas

Ricardo is an executive who has great success with women and behaves almost like a play-boy. His wife Carmen, an attractive housewife without children, feels ignored by him and seeks solace from her mother, who proposes Carmen a change in the way she acts in order to not permanently lose her husband or fall into madness.

Release Date1967-10-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count10

Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?

Gino Pistone is an actor in a local theatre, but his plays aren't successful. But then he gets a genius idea: to make a play on the love story of Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci.

Release Date1974-04-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Franky Banderas

Release Date2004-02-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Gran Slalom

A young officer of the Guardia Civil moves to a ski resort in the Pyrenees traveling on official business. On the way his car has a breakdown and he is picked up by a woman who is staying at the hotel. From this situation several adventures and tangles happen. Things get complicated as he must dress as a woman to avoid being surprised.

Release Date1996-02-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Far from the Trees

An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate relationship with atavism and superstition, with violence and pain, with blood and death; a story of terror, a journey to the most sinister and ancestral Spain; the one that lived far from the most visited tourist destinations, from the economic miracle and unstoppable progress, relentlessly promoted by the Franco regime during the sixties.

Release Date1972-05-19

DepartmentCrew

JobOther

Vote Count9

Streetcar for Sale

This excellent short film written by the magnificent filmmaker duo of Luis García Berlanga and screenwriter Rafael Azcona was to be part of a series entitled Los Pícaros (The Rogues) which was never continued. These two artists were responsible for such masterpieces of Spanish cinema as Plácido and El verdugo (The Executioner). Here, Berlanga and Azcona collaborated for the first time, setting the stage for the post-war "Berlanguiana" vision that would develop. José Luis López Vázquez plays Julián, a seedy swindler, who with his cronies tries to sell a streetcar to a rich but naive farmer, a newcomer to the city. High jinx ensue. With this film begins the great stage of Berlanga's filmmaking in which he mixes a little social criticism and notes of anti-clericalism with a great deal of farce.

Release Date1959-10-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

National III

In order to solve economic problems, "Leguineche" family decide to move to France with their limited belongings.

Release Date1982-12-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count13

El divorcio que viene

Pepe, married to Amparo has fallen madly in love with Mónica, who happens to be the wife of his best friend Luis. Love affairs abound in this screwball comedy in which everyone is unhappy with their respective marriages and dream of the then imminent approval of divorce in Spain .

Release Date1980-07-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Pintadas

Diego and Clara have met recently and suddenly have the urge to live together. Afterwards, They find a house to live in. However, strange things start to happen.

Release Date1997-07-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

L'Estate

A young student joins her rich lawyer stepfather and then her mother who the selfish man does not love, for a summer vacation in Sardinia with the man's posh friends

Release Date1966-11-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count3

La cera virgen

María works in a hostess bar in Madrid because, forced by the Puritans of her little village, she had to leave accused of public scandal just for having kissed her boyfriend. María, together with her three sisters, decides to return and builds a club in the village faced with the scandalized don Florencio, a repressed banker and overlord who secretly desires María. In order to go unnoticed, María and her sisters run the club through a wax-chandler's shop where the majority of men of the village will parade, which excites even more the lascivious and hypocritical don Florencio.

Release Date1972-02-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

A Perfect Couple

Forty-two-year-old Lorenzo finds himself out of work. Through an ad placed in the local newspaper, he gets a job as a helping hand for an aging homosexual poet who can barely manage on his own. From this moment on, Lorenzo juggles his strange line of work with the life he leads alongside his long-suffering wife and his secret encounters with Faustina, his lover. Everything goes awry from one day to the next due, amongst other things, to some compromising photos and an unexpected funeral.

Release Date1998-06-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Long Live the Bride and Groom

Leo Pozas, native from Burgos and high bank clerk, arrives to a town on the Costa Brava, with his mother to marry Loli. Unexpectedly, Leo's mother died. This may mean the suspension of the wedding, a year of mourning and, perhaps, another relief, so that Leo and Loli hide the corpse of the old betrothal until after the wedding...

Release Date1970-04-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count13

La revolución matrimonial

Begoña and Pedro are stuck. Despite having been married for many years, now the only thing they have in common is a son obsessed with basketball. A new conjuncture will cause love to resurface.

Release Date1974-07-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Siempre hay un camino a la derecha

"There's Always a Way to the Right" is the name of a sensational television program with a large audience. The host portrays the lives of unfortunate people, trying to convince them that their fortunes can change whenever they set their minds to it.

Release Date1997-08-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Europeans

Spain, 1958. Miguel and Antonio, single and in their thirties, go on a trip to Ibiza, attracted by the European sexual myth and the illusion of freedom. But on the island nothing will be as they expected.

Release Date2020-11-20

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count5

El poder del deseo

Javier lives with his mother in a modest apartment. He conducts surveys on the effectiveness of ads. This work provides a humble earning for the two of them. One day he meets Juna at a bus stop. He tries to ask her out, but she refuses. A few days later, they meet again. Slowly a relationship develops, but her plan is to marry someone rich. Javier's wealthy uncle included him in his testament, so Juna talks Javier into killing the uncle.

Release Date1975-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

127 millones libres de impuestos

Release Date1981-07-31

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

De los reptiles-saurios en los cafés

Time and again, the quiet routine of a nameless cafe, located in a town that is also nameless, and in an unspecified era, is unsettle by the attack of a reptile-saurus on the regular customers.

Release Date2014-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobShort Story

La mujer infiel

A man in love with an unfaithful woman.

Release Date1990-03-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Don Chisciotte

A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea.

Release Date1984-04-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

José Luis López Vázquez. ¡Qué disparate!

José Luis López Vázquez, an essential artist in the history of Spanish cinema, manages to find a late love that changes his life, after having a successful professional life for years, but a rather neglected personal life.

Release Date2022-11-01

Vote Count4