Antonio Larreta

The Window

It is a significant day for 80 year old Antonio. After an absence of many years, his estranged son is coming to visit. All must be perfect. There will be a toast with a very special champagne an embrace; warm words that may finally bridge the gap between them-- But before, Antonio must wait. Bedridden, he looks out his window at the Patagonian landscape and sees light and life, the past and the pr

Release Date2009-03-12

Charactersd Antonio

Vote Count10

Curro Jiménez

Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez

Release Date1976-12-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count18

Vote Count9

Avisa a Curro Jiménez

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 to warn Curro Jiménez.

Release Date1978-09-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count4

Mad Love

The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.

Release Date2001-09-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count77

Volaverunt

The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries, at a time when Madrid was wobbling through a difficult time and setting the scene for the following Prim vs Crown uprising.

Release Date1999-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count28

I, the Worst of All

A 17th-century Mexican nun defies expectations by becoming a renowned intellectual and writer during the Spanish Inquisition.

Release Date1990-08-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count20

The House of Bernarda Alba

After the death of her husband Bernarda Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house.

Release Date1987-04-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count29

Tres palabras

Passionate and tragic love story in between Alfredo and María, famous spanish singer from the fifties. Se is resurrected by Alfredo, cinema director, with Lupe, the young singer's daughter.

Release Date1993-11-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

The Holy Innocents

In 60s Extremadura, Paco el Bajo and his relatives work during day in a farmhouse, and silently suffer submission to their masters, who exploit them and treat them almost like animals. Meanwhile, Paco dreams that one day his children will be able to study.

Release Date1984-04-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count127

Al fin solos, pero...

Release Date1976-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven

A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to reconsider her life--work, family, friendships, men-- causing a psychological and emotional crisis pushes her toward a drastic decision.

Release Date1980-11-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count9

Ballad of Dog Beach

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.

Release Date1987-03-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count12

The Truth on the Savolta Affair

Barcelona between 1917 and 1923. Is the era of gangsterism, during which gunmen clash between anarchists and thugs paid by The Patronal showed a shocking number of deaths. The confrontation between anarchists and workers of the factory owners Savolta arms worsens when Savolta family decides to end the rebellion hiring murderers hired and plotting to hide their illegal transactions with Germany. Adapted from the novel by Eduardo Mendoza.

Release Date1980-02-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count12

The Fencing Master

A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before he is fascinated by her and agrees. She wishes to learn a particular thrust which he is famous for. When a local nobleman becomes involved with her the intrigue begins.

Release Date1992-09-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count19

The Things of Love

In 1940's Madrid. Juan plays piano for Pepita and her on-stage partner Mario. Although Mario really wants to steal Juan for himself, Juan is not interested and Mario resorts to a string of lovers as consolation. When he loves (and leaves) a young nobleman, the young man wants revenge.

Release Date1989-09-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count32

The Things of Love: Part 2

On the way to his exile in Lisbon, Mario meets Silvia, a widow who turns out to be one of his admirers. Silvia has inherited a fortune, leading Mario to resume his career, eventually falling for him. Although Mario has relations with her, he makes it clear that will never fall in love. In Madrid, Juan Pepita and resume their relationship, and because of this the jilted Nena John Colman murders before Pepita, after being arrested. Pepita accepts a contract in Argentina, reunited with Mario. There he meets Tulio, who after starting a relationship with singer eventually ask marriage.

Release Date1995-03-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count11

El río que nos lleva

In 1946, an irishman joins a group of 'gancheros' (wood workers) while they drive wood thru the Tajo river, discovering human solidarity.

Release Date1988-09-08

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count6

Stolen Moments

1947, in Patagonia, in a little village on the seaside. An abandoned house on the beach shelters Letty's dreams, her loneliness that only Miguel, a very young pianist, may share with her. Tomas, her husband, loves Letty and eagerly defends her against all the village, while she keeps playing her part of a 'femme fatale' with a romantic past and a very adventurous file. But on a windy day, a handsome and strange foreigner appears, coming from the sea, a man just as those Bette Davis used to fall in love with. For Letty, reality begins to look like the most incredible dreams of her. But this will call the police inspector's attention. With that mysterious spy, Letty will be involved in a story that will end as those stories she was so fond of when she was going to the movie theater of her little willage.

Release Date1998-07-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Black River

The struggle of two men, Osuna and Funes, hungry for power and wealth in a small town in Venezuela, during the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez.

Release Date1990-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Fourteen Stations

Release Date1991-09-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Nunca estuve en Viena

About an upper-class family during the Centenary of the May Revolution, which coincides with the decline of the aristocratic classes in those years.

Release Date1989-04-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Mestizo

A village on the Venezuelan coast, a place of fishermen and big haciendas, Aquiles Vargas, a white aristocrat in somewhat reduced circumstances, fights with Cruz Guaregua, a humble black fisherwoman, and mother of his only son, a half-caste 'mestizo'.

Release Date1988-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1