Juan Amorós

Movies

The Hanged Man
Director of Photography
Two lovers break the law and struggle to stay together when carnal obsession causes tempers to flare.
Desde que amanece apetece
Director of Photography
Pelayo is leaving to work for his uncle Lorenzo and to find a nice girl to settle down with. Pelayo arrives to find out that Lorenzo's "business" is in fact a male strip show and Lorenzo's dancers are a laughing stock. Lorenzo has all his money tied up in his wedding with ex-prostitute Palmira. With Pelayo arriving life turns upside down. Can Lorenzo keep his infidelities a secret and his crew off the streets? Can Pelayo keep from falling for a prostitute on his way to finding a wife?
Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena
Director of Photography
Hortensia is a mature officer of the INEM office. She has been abandoned by her husband so she doesn't believe in love anymore. One day Eduardo Fernandez goes to the employment office because after overcoming a deep depression, he has decided that his life has to get better.
Off Key
Director of Photography
A trio of opera singers are reunited by a wedding ten years after their stormy breakup.
Between Your Legs
Director of Photography
Miranda, a sex addict, works for a radio station and is married to a cop. She signs up for therapy in order to deal with her sex addiction. Also in the group is Javier, a sex-phone junkie. The two misfits hit it off and a torid affair ensues. But things get a little complicated when Javier finds out that his phone sex trysts have been secretly taped and being distributed all over Madrid and that his ex-wife is living with his business partner. Elsewhere, while investigating a murder case, Felix discovers Miranda's affair with Javier.
Grandes ocasiones
Cinematography
Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
Director of Photography
A woman seduces a hotel janitor to gain access to the famous musicians coming into town.
Freedomfighters
Director of Photography
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.
Mouth to Mouth
Director of Photography
For financial reasons an unemployed aspiring actor works for a phone-sex enterprise. One day he receives a call from the mysterious wife of one of his best clients.
Cuernos de mujer
Cinematography
Ana works in an office where the things are going very badly. One night after having dinner with nasty rich people, she has a discussion with her husband. He dissapears and then the life of Ana changes: she has incredible luck in gambling.
All Men Are the Same
Director of Photography
Three divorced men who share a flat live together without trouble until they hire a cleaning lady.
El amante bilingüe
Camera Operator
Joan Mares obsession for the lovely and luscious Norma Valenti takes epic proportions because he cannot let go of her. After he is injured by some skin heads, he uses his scars to pursue his life as a street musician. He devices a plan to get to Norma and she never catches on to his deceit, except she realizes that as Juan Faneca his performance in bed is exactly what she had experienced with Joan Mares because she concludes they were taught sex by the same prostitute.
El amante bilingüe
Director of Photography
Joan Mares obsession for the lovely and luscious Norma Valenti takes epic proportions because he cannot let go of her. After he is injured by some skin heads, he uses his scars to pursue his life as a street musician. He devices a plan to get to Norma and she never catches on to his deceit, except she realizes that as Juan Faneca his performance in bed is exactly what she had experienced with Joan Mares because she concludes they were taught sex by the same prostitute.
I Get Off at the Next Stop, What About You?
Director of Photography
A divorcing couple remembers the best years of their lives.
El día que nací yo
Director of Photography
A gypsy who sells fish in a market, sings on weekends in a tablao. One day, a professor, exiled in Cádiz for her political ideas, offers the cantaora a job.
Offsides
Cinematography
Comedy as six pensioners in residence take on the sponsorship of the FOOTBALL team in the neighbouring orphanage with unexpected consequences.
If They Tell You I Fell
Director of Photography
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, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
Winter Diary
Director of Photography
El juego más divertido
Cinematography
Two popular television actors, Ada and Bruno, are filming " Hotel de Fez ", a popular and popular television series that upsets the lives of its two protagonists. Together they will initiate a romance behind the small screen very particular since there will be no time or way to consummate it, which will cause a tremendous tangle sown with nonsense.
The Impeccable Sinner
Director of Photography
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.
The Hidden Truth
Camera Operator
After a long and turbulent time in America at the beginning of the century, Adrian Massaguer returns to his birthplace on the Mediterranean coast, become one of the richest men in the world.
The Hidden Truth
Director of Photography
After a long and turbulent time in America at the beginning of the century, Adrian Massaguer returns to his birthplace on the Mediterranean coast, become one of the richest men in the world.
Redondela
Director of Photography
4,000 tons of oil have been stolen from a Galician deposit. The alleged thieves are defended by the lawyer Ramos, but the witnesses die and suspicions point to Franco's brother.
Year of Enlightment
Camera Operator
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.
Year of Enlightment
Director of Photography
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.
Lulú de noche
Director of Photography
German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While looking for the protagonist, Rufo appears, an introvert jazz musician. He could play Jack the ripper.
Be Wanton and Tread No Shame
Cinematography
Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him use his house for a love tryst while Fernando wines and dines Adela. At the same time, Paco's wife, Carmen, will be taking her lover to Rosa's house. From here on the rout begins, as Paco tries to get rid of Silvia, his secretary, and Carmen, her husband. Fernando thinks Rosa is cheating on him with Oscar, who thinks Fernando is gay and having an affair with his partner, while the soldier thinks his girlfriend is a professional...
The Trap
Director of Photography
A woman becomes obsessed with a man she can't have, and carries the torch for more than 15 years.
El caso del cadáver descuartizado
Cinematography
May 1, 1929. A decomposing headless body is found inside an abandoned wooden box in Madrid's Atocha train station. The victim is later identified as a Barcelona businessman that vanished six months before.
Our Father
Director of Photography
The story of a Spanish Cardinal who is told he only has one more year to live. He decides to return to his hometown, after an absence of 30 years, to sort out his affairs.
El crimen del capitán Sánchez
Cinematography
Madrid, Spring 1913. During a visit to the casino, a beautiful 20 year-old woman catches the eye of a 50 year-old rich widower. But the gamble he is about to commit is far greater than he suspects.
De tripas corazón
Cinematography
In Madrid, a Lawyer gets the freedom for "El Chirlo" a usual 20 years old crook. Chirlo wants to thank Jaime, his lawyer, the defense and treat him for a meal with Rocio, Jaime's girlfriend. Jaime leave so Chirlo and Rocio go together to take a walk. Since then, everything turns bad.
Un, dos, tres... ensaïmades i res més
Director of Photography
Fanny Straw-Top
Cinematography
In the slums of Barcelona, Fanny, a woman just released from prison, tries to carry out a revenge that has nourished for years: to kill "El Gallego", the corrupt and brutal policeman who killed her boyfriend
Y del seguro… líbranos, Señor!
Director of Photography
Morbidness
Cinematography
Newlyweds have decided to spend the honeymoon in the middle of a forest and sheltered in a caravan. Relations between the two start to get confused, especially when she begins to obsess over a nearby house and with eyes that seem to spy on her with lust.
Canticle
Director of Photography
Starring Elisa Laguna, Paquita Ferrera, Rosa María Carmona, Leila Lakhoua, Fernando Hilbeck and Fernando Rey, «Chicas de club» is 1970 Drama film directed by Jorge Grau, and written by Mario Camus, Jorge Grau, and Claudio Rodríguez.
Far from the Trees
Director of Photography
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.
Los gallos de la madrugada
Underwater Camera
Topical Spanish
Director of Photography
Jesús, a runaway from a seminary, attends the auditions to join a pop music band; but he is not finally chosen, along with three other boys. But Alicia, a cheerful and enterprising girl, decides to create her own band with all of them.
Life Goes On
Director of Photography
A promising goalkeeper of Real Madrid sees his chance when a teammate is injured and is summoned to replace him. But the misfortune is primed with him when an untimely car accident damaged her spine and is forced to give up that had to be the game of his life. Tired of so much bad luck, he retreats to a seaside hotel, where chance will go up to the stage.
Furnished Studio 2.P.
Director of Photography
Two bank employees use a computer to determine the girls for their sexual affairs in their newly hired flat.
The Exquisite Cadaver
Director of Photography
A publisher of novels begins to receive packets containing macabre: members of a female corpse. The appearance of a mysterious woman who seems related packages will lead to a situation of dramatic denouement.
Words of Love
Director of Photography
John leaves for Barcelona in search of Cristina, who two years ago went to the city. On arrival he is hosted in a cousin's house and there he meets Monica that falls madly in love with him. When he finally finds Cristina, things do not happen as he expected, the time and the city have changed her and she is not sure to continue the relationship. Meanwhile, Monica tries unsuccessfully to call the attention of John.
Ditirambo
Director of Photography
Ditirambo never smiles, always tells the truth and ruthlessly carries out all the missions entrusted to him. The widow of a writer orders him to locate the former lover of her husband with the purpose of getting revenge on her.
Oscuros sueños de agosto
Director of Photography
Isabel returns to Spain, after several years of absence, to be cured of a neurosis. His daughter Ana, whom he has not seen in all this time, decides to spend the holidays with her, taking advantage of the fact that her boyfriend has gone to study in Germany. During her stay in the sanatorium, Ana meets Mario, an attractive young man somewhat unbalanced, who tries to seduce her. Although at first she does not show any interest, little by little she becomes attracted to him.
Escuela de periodismo
Assistant Camera
Report on the activities of the Spanish journalists. Series of separate episodes of various kinds, including almost all the areas normally covered by the national journalism, from sports to chronicle events.