Juan Serra

History

Juan Serra was a Spanish film editor and assistant director.

Movies

Widows' Nest
Editor
The arrival of some unwanted visitors interrupts the peaceful Cuban home life of sisters Dolores, Carmen and Elvira, as their presence stirs up unwelcome memories.
Who Can Kill a Child?
Editor
A couple of English tourists arrive at the island of Almanzora, off the Spanish Mediterranean coast, where they discover that there are no adults in a small fishing village, only some children who stare at them and smile mysteriously.
Beyond Desire
Editor
El televisor
Editor
Enrique buys a color television just to satisfy a personal pleasure long time deferred but, from that moment on, he becomes obsessed with it in such way that eventually he is incapable to differ reality from fiction.
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
Editor
A new vision of the Knight of the sad figure, which lives obsessed by the chivalry and its codes of honor. Accompanied by his unusual squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote recalls some of the adventures they've shared.
The Angel
Editor
A Spanish singer, known as "El Ángel", owner of a nightclub, lives a double life as an expert in alarms for gangs of thieves. In his last robbery, he betrays his partners, and his lover is kidnapped and he is blackmailed. Thinking that she has betrayed him, he abandons her to her fate. Finally, she committed suicide. El Ángel reconsiders his life and decides to become a monk. But his former life will meet him within the walls of the monastery.
Kill and Be Killed
Editor
A former singer lives alone with her fortune - and with her nephew, Fernando, a low character to whom she refuses to lend more money. Elisa leaves prison and starts a new life as a personal attendant to the aging singer, using her knowledge as a former nurse - a profession she can not return to. Fernando meets Elisa, and together they plan to poison the lonely woman, and use her money abroad. They plan their alibis well. But those who kill by the sword will perish by the sword.
Familia provisional
Editor
The Tenant
Assistant Director
One unlucky day, a married couple with four children get an eviction notice: the building they live in is to be demolished. The family looks desperately for a new home, which is no easy task in Madrid in the fifties.
Pride
Editor
A tale of two families, the Mendozas and Alzagas, faced for generations by the water of a river separating their adjoining properties. Old grudges reappear when the two heirs fall in love.
Jalisco canta en Sevilla
Editor
A charro and his sidekick go to Spain to collect an inheritance.
Currito de la Cruz
Editor
Currito de la Cruz's dream is to become a bullfighter. When he gets the chance to bullfight for the first time, he meets Carmona, a retired renowned bullfighter whom he manages to fascinate. As his protégé, Currito begins to be famous. At the same time, Currito falls in love with Rocío, Carmona's daughter, but his love is not reciprocated, because she loves Ángel Romera, another bullfighter.
Locura de amor
Editor
The passion that Joan of Castile, daughter of the Catholic Kings and heir to the throne, feels for her husband, Philip the Handsome, sovereign of the Netherlands and son of Maximilian of Austria and Mary of Burgundy, is not reciprocated. Her temperament, her jealousy and an unexpected tragedy will throw Joan into the dark realm of madness and obsession with death, the only realm where she will be a true queen…
La princesa de los Ursinos
Editor
The story of the Countess d'Orsini, French noblewoman and courtesan at the court of the Spanish king, who acted as an agent for the King of France and was one of the most powerful people at the Spanish court.
Don Quixote
Editor
The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sancho Panza.
Reina santa
Editor
A virtuous Spanish princess becomes queen of Portugal, and soon is affected by the social struggles and the reckless fight to power between the king's faction and that of his son's.
El crimen de Pepe Conde
Editor
Pepe Conde, a poor simple man, is tricked by a rich marquis to believe he has sold his soul to the devil to win the attention of the woman he is in love with.
Un hombre de negocios
Editor
El fantasma y doña Juanita
Editor
Fearing that her niece Rosita will abandon her true love and enter into a marriage of convenience, doña Juanita tells her the story of when, many years ago, she fell in love with an accountant who worked in a circus.
Ella, él y sus millones
Editor
Arturo Salazar is a powerful businessman who wants to be related to the nobility, so he asks an aristocratic friend to find him a blue-blooded bride.
The Nail
Editor
Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed. When he investigates the case in depth, his suspicions fall on the woman who was going to marry the deceased.
Altar mayor
Editor
La boda de Quinita Flores
Editor
Boda accidentada
Editor
Kitty, niece of a Marchioness, is betrothed to Don Candido, a wealthy manufacturer of preserves. Nico, an old friend of Candide who is completely ruined, arrives to the fashion hotel in which both are. Nico falls in love with Kitty, but, unlike the other men who court her, treats her with indifference. The girl, wounded in his pride, it is interested to Nico. Just before the wedding, Don Candido leaves claimed by its industrial businesses, and instructs his friend to take care of his bride. Nico and Kitty end up falling in love. Don Candido back the same day fixed for the wedding.
La condesa María
Editor
A romantic melodrama
Viaje sin destino
Editor
To save a travel agency in an endangered situation one of the employees has a brilliant idea, announcing a special travel with no defined destiny.
El difunto es un vivo
Editor
An animals' collectionist is despised by his wife so that he decide to comeet suicide, but the notice about the death of his brother, a pianist who lives abroad makes him change his mind. He makes his family think that he has commited suicide and some days after announce the arrival of his brother and he impersonate him. His wife recibes him with an affection that he was unaware to.