José Díaz Morales

José Díaz Morales

Birth : 1908-07-31, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

History

José Díaz Morales (1908-1976) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director. He emigrated to Mexico following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

Profile

José Díaz Morales

Movies

El sexo sentido
Screenplay
About a nymphomaniac and an artist that constantly spies on her.
Las adorables mujercitas
Screenstory
Las adorables mujercitas
Screenplay
Las adorables mujercitas
Director
El primer amor
Director
Seminary students interrupts his studies for a final vacation in the real world and finds it difficult to break his worldly bonds in preparation for the pristhood.
Mujercitas
Director
Extremely loose adaptation of Little Women, set in 1970s; three teenaged girls and a younger sister live alone after the death of their parents.
One Way
Writer
Italian crime drama
Besos, besos... y mas besos
Director
Rom-com anthology movie with three anecdotes.
Los ángeles de la tarde
Director
El sinvergüenza
Director
Smooth-talking ladies' man runs an employment agency for call girls masquerading as language tutors.
La hora desnuda
Writer
La hora desnuda
Director
La rebelion de las hijas
Director
Three young women are ready to marry, but their father inserts himself into the decision-making process.
Las cadenas del mal
Director
Ambitious young woman thinks she's on he fast track to fame and fortune, but her manager's a sleazeball who gets her hooked on IV drugs and pimps her out at random.
Ha entrado una mujer
Director
Widower lives with his three young-adult children, hiding from them the fact that one of them was born to a different mother than the woman he was married to. Then the mother of the "illegitimate" child shows up after 20 years...
El manantial del amor
Director
Boy/girl stuff at a health spa that's famous for aphrodisiac waters.
La amante perfecta
Director
Mexican feature film
Préstame a tu mujer
Director
A man who took a vow of chastity wants to keep his mistress.
No juzgarás a tus padres
Director
Self-hating mixed-race woman denies her African heritage.
Las infieles
Writer
Las infieles
Director
Un nuevo modo de amar
Director
A phony psychic convinces a young widow that her nest husband will die soon after the wedding... so she tells her fiancé to take a number, and marries a rando to sidestep that problem.
Muchachas, muchachas, muchachas
Director
A group of college girls are traveling through Guanajuato, Mexico when their car suddenly breaks down. In an attempt to get a male passer-by to help them, the girls (led by the voluptuous Rosa Maria Vazquez) strip down to their bras and panties. At first, they are snubbed by a gay couple, but eventually the young women receive help from a local 'farm worker' (Dominican actor Andres Garcia). From here, the coeds are taken to a local town, where they are mistaken for a group of strippers. To tantalize would-be beaus, the young lovelies parade around their apartment complex in bikinis. The coeds' leader begins to fall in love with the 'farm worker,' but it is later revealed that he is not what he appears to be.
Las pecadoras
Writer
Jewel-thief and his girlfriend try to go straight.
Las amiguitas de los ricos
Director
On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus engineers a miracle that will rehabilitate three kept women into orthodox 'decency' and marriage.
El satánico
Director
The film follows the exploits of a small gang of jewel thieves who employ a little person as their ultimate tool.
Esta noche si
Writer
Esta noche si
Director
Noches prohibidas
Director
Fully shot in Puerto Rico, Noches prohibidas tells the story of a beautiful woman desired by three men, but she is passionate about a captain in her life.
The Witches Attack
Director
Santo must battle an evil witch and the demons and evil spirits she brings up from Hell.
Mujeres, mujeres, mujeres
Writer
Three-episode sex farce.
Mujeres, mujeres, mujeres
Director
Three-episode sex farce.
Los que nunca amaron
Writer
A story of teenage love set against the backdrop of the 60's, filmed on the picturesque tropical beaches of Puerto Rico. A classic Latino love story, asking the timeless question -- whether it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.
Los que nunca amaron
Director
A story of teenage love set against the backdrop of the 60's, filmed on the picturesque tropical beaches of Puerto Rico. A classic Latino love story, asking the timeless question -- whether it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.
Baron Brakola
Writer
Santo goes up against the vampire Baron Brakola, who has returned to seek vengeance on the descendants of the Knight in the Silver Mask (Santo's colonial era ancestor).
Baron Brakola
Director
Santo goes up against the vampire Baron Brakola, who has returned to seek vengeance on the descendants of the Knight in the Silver Mask (Santo's colonial era ancestor).
The Grave Robbers
Writer
Santo investigates a series of grave robberies.
The Grave Robbers
Director
Santo investigates a series of grave robberies.
The Diabolical Axe
Director
In the Age of the Inquisitions, 1603, Santo, El Enmascarado de Plata, is being laid to rest by a group of monks. The Black Hood, an axe-wielder and a tormented soul who sold his soul to the devil after losing his love to El Santo, appears at the foot of his tomb and swears to seek his revenge no matter how many centuries it takes. El Santo is the chosen one and is sworn to fight for good and justice at any cost. After he finds his love, Alicia, dead at the hands of the Black Hood, El Santo must trust his faith and use his strength in this battle of good vs. evil.
La revoltosa
Director
Mari Pepa, a beautiful laundress of Madrid, and Felipe, a carpenter, are in love but they are always quarreling over trifles. However, she must marry with the fence Don Leo to help his father, a drunk player who has committed a robbery and has determined the family jewels.
Yo, el mujeriego
Director
Playboy bachelor poses as a woman's husband to protect her daughter's reputation at a private school. Remake of El Mil Amores (1955).
Los bárbaros del norte
Director
Townsfolk expect that when the dead sheriff's son comes home, people will quit doing crimes... but he turns out to be an inept comedian type bozo guy.
Los secretos del sexo débil
Writer
Los secretos del sexo débil
Director
Las recién casadas
Screenplay
Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.
Las recién casadas
Writer
Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.
El cara parchada
Director
Average guy is mistaken for notorious gangster.
Estos años violentos
Director
Sobre el muerto las coronas
Director
A family has their daughter marry a dying man in order to get an inheritance, but get into trouble when the man survives his illness.
Sobre el muerto las coronas
Script
A family has their daughter marry a dying man in order to get an inheritance, but get into trouble when the man survives his illness.
Besito a papá
Director
A young man hires somebody to impersonate his father when it comes times to meet his girlfriend's parents.
Las cosas prohibidas
Director
Four unrelated stories about unmarried mothers.
Matrimonios juveniles
Director
Bridegroom's life is thrown into chaos on his wedding day, Murphy's Law in action.
Mundo, demonio y carne
Director
Manicomio
Writer
Manicomio
Director
La rebelión de los adolescentes
Director
College student returns home after the death of his father, then discovers Pops was killed by members of a crime syndicate.
Beauty contest
Director
Mom and Dad convince studious college girl to enroll in a beauty pageant, hoping to win big cash prize at the end of the rainbow.
Siete pecados
Director
Seven dresses/seven models at a fashion show, and each one represents one of the seven deadly sins.
Al compás del rock and roll
Writer
When a romantic orchestra won't change their boring style into something more modern to get gigs, their girlfriends split and form a rock and roll orchestra that quickly becomes talk of the town. The guys are furious since they are relegated to their opening act as a comical number, but when the League of Virtue protests against the new satanic music, the old-fashioned music seems to win the day.
Al compás del rock and roll
Director
When a romantic orchestra won't change their boring style into something more modern to get gigs, their girlfriends split and form a rock and roll orchestra that quickly becomes talk of the town. The guys are furious since they are relegated to their opening act as a comical number, but when the League of Virtue protests against the new satanic music, the old-fashioned music seems to win the day.
La virtud desnuda
Director
A certain young woman won't allow her virtuous reputation to be compromised... until her suitors agree to the price she sets on it. Twist ending.
Los chiflados del rock and roll
Director
Tinieblas
Director
Juventud desenfrenada
Director
Teenagers with neglectful parents run amok; some get killed, some get arrested, some get rehabilitated.
Unfaithful Wives
Adaptation
A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
Unfaithful Wives
Director
A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
Necesito un marido
Director
After being stood up at the altar, a young heiress hires a burglar to pose as her husband to help her save face.
La engañadora
Writer
La engañadora
Director
Martes 13
Director
A guy threatens suicide when the woman he loves gets engaged to another man, then he enters into an arrangement with her whereby she will nurse him back to mental health during the six months until her fiancé comes back from Europe
Reventa de esclavas
Director
Mad-science/comedy scenario about reviving the corpse of an Egyptian mummy morphs into a love story set in ancient Egypt.
Yo soy muy macho
Director
To help her pilot brother, Maria disguises as a man to take his place, and must live in the jungle with a very "macho" captain, eventually falling in love.
La segunda mujer
Director
Couple with preteen children break up; Dad meets a new woman and they marry. The children grow up, and they're spoiled-y rich kids flirting with criminal lawlessness. Cue the violins.
Mi papá tuvo la culpa
Writer
Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.
Mi papá tuvo la culpa
Director
Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.
Love, how bad you are!
Script
Noirish drama about a drug trafficker and his girlfriends.
Love, how bad you are!
Story
Noirish drama about a drug trafficker and his girlfriends.
Love, how bad you are!
Director
Noirish drama about a drug trafficker and his girlfriends.
Letters to Ufemia
Adaptation
Small-town rom-com from a female POV.
Letters to Ufemia
Script
Small-town rom-com from a female POV.
Letters to Ufemia
Director
Small-town rom-com from a female POV.
El dinero no es la vida
Director
A humble bartender falls into a world of gambling and vices, losing everything.
El dinero no es la vida
Adaptation
A humble bartender falls into a world of gambling and vices, losing everything.
Salón de belleza
Director
Employees and clients at Merle's Beauty Stuff have illicit romances and cheating husbands and that kind of thing. Meanwhile, the cop that directs traffic outside gets an opportunity to become a movie star.
Noche de perdición
Writer
Shortly before a nightclub artist leaves Mexico for an international tour, she's witness to a murder. Shortly after she leaves, she's named as a suspect in the crime, and her husband, assuming she's guilty, turns his back on her. The-e-en...
Noche de perdición
Director
Shortly before a nightclub artist leaves Mexico for an international tour, she's witness to a murder. Shortly after she leaves, she's named as a suspect in the crime, and her husband, assuming she's guilty, turns his back on her. The-e-en...
Retorno al quinto patio
Director
After getting out of prison, Ramon Vallarta tries to put his life back together, establishing himself in a new career and reconciling himself with his former sweetheart. Also other stuff. Sequel to Quinto Patio.
White hair
Writer
Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.
White hair
Director
Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.
La tienda de la esquina
Director
Shady characters try to buy the corner shop and destroy a decent family's livelihood.
Pobre corazón
Director
Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dumping her on moving on would be better for him than watching her decline and feeling sad.
La malcasada
Writer
La malcasada
Director
El capitán de Loyola
Writer
El capitán de Loyola
Director
The Unruly Girl
Director
Adaptation of the operetta of the same title. Mari Pepa, who works as a laundress, has gone to live in the neighborhood courtyard house, which is also tenant Felipe, who courted.
Revancha
Writer
A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.
Señora Tentación
Adaptation
Famous singer hires a pianist/songwriter on the strength of his compositions, then seduces him away from his fiancee and from the paths of righteousness in general.
Señora Tentación
Script
Famous singer hires a pianist/songwriter on the strength of his compositions, then seduces him away from his fiancee and from the paths of righteousness in general.
Señora Tentación
Director
Famous singer hires a pianist/songwriter on the strength of his compositions, then seduces him away from his fiancee and from the paths of righteousness in general.
Pecadora
Adaptation
Prostitution and drug-smuggling in Mexico City and Cd. Juarez.
Pecadora
Script
Prostitution and drug-smuggling in Mexico City and Cd. Juarez.
Pecadora
Director
Prostitution and drug-smuggling in Mexico City and Cd. Juarez.
Carita de cielo
Writer
A young woman is brought before a prosecutor after stealing food. She is defended by Julio, a university professor who decides to exhibit her as an example in his class on the theory of theft. Then he hires her as a housemaid. Her face and charms won’t only save her family from serious quandaries; they will also inspire the professor’s love.
Carita de cielo
Director
A young woman is brought before a prosecutor after stealing food. She is defended by Julio, a university professor who decides to exhibit her as an example in his class on the theory of theft. Then he hires her as a housemaid. Her face and charms won’t only save her family from serious quandaries; they will also inspire the professor’s love.
Una gitana en Jalisco
Writer
Una gitana en Jalisco
Director
Pervertida
Director
A country girl finds herself working as a prostitute, but her true love, a musician, comes looking for her. She must fight a cabaret dancer for his love.
Pervertida
Script
A country girl finds herself working as a prostitute, but her true love, a musician, comes looking for her. She must fight a cabaret dancer for his love.
Pervertida
Adaptation
A country girl finds herself working as a prostitute, but her true love, a musician, comes looking for her. She must fight a cabaret dancer for his love.
Por un amor
Director
Palabras de mujer
Director
Young songwriter falls in love with a singer he writes for... but her jealous manager fucks up both their lives.
La culpable
Writer
Mexican movie
La culpable
Director
Mexican movie
Los amores de un torero
Director
Romantic melodrama, duh.
Adulterio
Director
Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.
Una gitana en México
Writer
Una gitana en México
Director
El corsario negro
This Mexican drama features murder, revenge, ruling power and romance in Eighteenth century Maracaibo.
Cristóbal Colón
Director
Jesus of Nazareth
Writer
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
Jesus of Nazareth
Director
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
Regalo de reyes
Writer
Class conflicts between two families; one's upper-class but decaying, one's industrious middle-class on the rise. Also Christmas.
Canto a mi tierra
Writer
Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.