Josep Maria Pou
Nascimento : 1944-01-01, Mollet del Vallés, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Jacinto
Um jovem casal desvenda segredos sombrios de seus ancestrais ao escrever a história em comum das famílias de ambos. E um dos dois precisa fazer uma confissão dolorosa.
Frías
Manuel Gómez Vidal é um político amado em sua região: goza de uma boa posição social, tem uma família amorosa, amigos em todos os lugares e muito carisma natural. Ele também é um homem corrupto que vem se enriquecendo com fundos públicos há anos. Depois de tentar encobrir um associado, Manuel fica exposto. Para sua surpresa, os membros do Partido procuram colocar a culpa por toda a trama em seus ombros. Mas ele não vai se render. Até que ponto uma pessoa está disposta a ir para se manter no poder?
Profesor Amat
Um físico usa as leis da termodinâmica para descrever o amor e os relacionamentos românticos. O problema é que sua vida amorosa contradiz toda a teoria.
Dalí pare
Anna Maria Dalí is four years younger than her brother Salvador and they love each other. Both enjoy the great progressive atmosphere of republican Spain, fraternizing with great creators, García Lorca, Buñuel.
Dr. Fumetti
A housewife struggles with her husband after he is possessed by a ghost.
Berenguer wants to be an actor. He fights with all his strength, but it’s not an easy profession for youngsters. His grandfather, an authoritarian patriarch, is against Berenguer's "misguided passion": he only enjoys bringing home young mulato girls. An accident will knock him down. In Los Angeles, Berenguer will search for a secret buried during many years.
Will this trip change his fate, his way of understanding the world and the land where he was born, and his own life? It will be a short and powerful emotional journey full of smiles and some tears.
Juez
Após seu filho ser sequestrado, a juíza Patrícia de Lucas (Blanca Portillo), fará justiça com as próprias mãos, a fim de encontrá-lo. Dos mesmos produtores de "Os Olhos de Júlia" e "El Cuerpo", vem aí mais uma produção surpreendente do cinema espanhol.
Banquero
Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save the Spanish and world economy: kidnap the chairman of the Central Bank and demand that he return everything to the way it used to be.
Don Carlos
Sevilha, Espanha, 1920. Carmen (Macarena García) viveu toda a infância com sua terrível madrasta, Encarna (Maribel Verdú). Cansada de ser reprimida, a jovem resolve fugir de casa para viver diversas aventuras como toureira, na intenção de apagar seu passado traumático. Durante a viagem, ela recebe a ajuda de sete anões toureiros, que decidem protegê-la a todo custo.
Don Hipólito Negrero
Carlitos is a heartfelt story about one young boy's fight for his right to play soccer, while keeping his very essence intact.
When a man of identical appearance to him is killed in the street, scientist Diego Durand realises that the flashes of déjà vu that torment him are part of a sinister secret past that he must uncover.
Ramon
6 characters—contemporary archetypes of urban solitude—in an old Barcelona building: an old husband and wife, her sister, and 3 tenants: a teacher of French, a young ex-footballer, now security guard, and a pregnant Latin American girl.
Fat Man
Estrella, uma adolescente inteligente e solitária, passa a maior parte do tempo sozinha em casa assistindo e lendo estórias de horror, enquanto sua mãe viúva fica trabalhando em um hospital. Nosferatu e outros monstros do cinema, são os melhores amigos da menina (Nerea Inchausti).
Giordano
The priest Mario Pantaleo discovers he has some power to diagnose and cure diseases through the laying on of hands. But the police and the church hierarchy will against him.
Gerardo R. Valcárcel
Two friends begin a lesbian relationship.
Camisa Azul
This movie has any coherent plot. It is more the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how people manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: la colmena or roma (fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.
Padre Francisco
Ramón Sampedro (Javier Bardem) é um homem que luta para ter o direito de pôr fim à sua própria vida. Na juventude ele sofreu um acidente, que o deixou tetraplégico e preso a uma cama por 28 anos. Lúcido e extremamente inteligente, Ramón decide lutar na justiça pelo direito de decidir sobre sua própria vida, o que lhe gera problemas com a igreja, a sociedade e até mesmo seus familiares.
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Godoy
Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He continues to paint at night, and in flashbacks stirred by conversations with his daughter, by awful headaches, and by the befuddlement of age, he relives key times in his life.
Director
Jaume Clara (Joseph Maria Pou), professor de literatura medieval, está envelhecendo. Sentindo que seu tempo está próximo, ele pensa em sua vida e reflete sobre o que pode deixar para aqueles que ama. Ele escreve sua vontade em forma de ensaio, vagamente baseada no Livro dos Amigos e do Amado de Ramon Llull, e a armazena em seu computador. As reações que ele provoca das pessoas envolvidas são bem diferentes do que ele esperava. Seu melhor amigo Pere (Mario Gas) é perturbado pela vontade e acha que deve ser o medo da morte de Jaume que o levou a escrever uma coisa dessas. David (David Selvas), seu aluno mais brilhante, se recusa a ser o herdeiro de Jaume à custa de sua liberdade. Enquanto isso, Pere está tendo problemas familiares envolvendo a esposa e a filha. Cinco pessoas precisam enfrentar a idéia da morte de Jaume, um processo doloroso que não poupa os sentimentos de ninguém. Quando a guerra começa entre os cinco, é difícil saber quem são os vencedores e os perdedores.
Heliodoro (as José María Pou)
After the Spanish Civil War breaks out, the Prado Museum is being evacuated. One of the guards finds a painting by the master, Goya, and takes it to prevent damage to the work of art. In the interim, he meets a young lady with whom he falls in love. Assisted by her and her family members, the soldier attempts to save Goya's masterpiece intact amidst the war and violence.
Roa
Two students are arrested for painting revolutionary graffiti on the university walls. They escape from the camp and flee with two American girls, disguised as rich young men who are showing Spain to two tourists.
Pau
Presidente
An Andalusian duchess has the dilemma of what to do with a grove, whether to convert it into a natural reserve or to make a luxury urbanization. The duchess, who is torn between her aristocratic privileges and a social commitment that has cost her more than one dislike in the past, must make a decision about her lands, to which she wants to get some money without harming the people. On the other hand, An ambitious Basque financier, Antónón Ibarrondo, intends to build a luxury urbanization in the Marbella style in the grove. Around the duchess, the businessman, environmentalists and other members in the conflict, problems begin to arise and everything will be decided in a referendum, convened with the idea that it is the people who decide, which coincides with the annual celebration of the Pilgrimage del Pueblo.With a cast "
Mr. Sendra
Valencia, Spain, in the early 1950s. Salvador and María, two unfortunate people, meet by chance when she takes shelter from the rain at the Oriente Cinema, where he works as a manager.
Tomás
Pepe (as José María Pou)
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.
Rafa
Luis, a Spanish student, goes to London to get a course in Economics. He lives at a house the neighbor of her aunt, but when she broke up with her husband, Luis goes to live with her.
Obispo
Sister Angela and Sister Mary park his van in front of a bank branch. They enter the bank and with the weapons hidden under their habits, commit the robbery of the century, to the astonishment of all employees and customers. After thorough police investigation the two nuns are arrested, but then appears Trini, twin sister of one of them and now all is not so clear. Were the nuns who committed the robbery?
Padre de Carlos
Carlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers. And more each time, each adventure is chained to the next, as if it were a continuous night. A long description of people: grandfather, parents, sister, girlfriend, friends. And, among that, the obscure will of living every minute as if it were the last one. But something which happens puts Carlos and his friend against a reality they have been trying to ignore.
In this free adaptation of the Henry James novel set in the early 19th century, a writer/critic dedicated to the life of poet Jeffrey Aspern, receives a mission in London. He is to sail to the Balearic Islands, the only place any information about Aspern may possibly be found. Unpublished texts by the poet are thought to be there; in the hands of an excentric old lady and her supposed niece, who live as recluses in an old palace on a remote small island off one of the Baleares. In his search, the writer becomes involved in their lives, while trying to obtain untangle the web of mysteries surrounding Alpern, his last work, and his relationship to these two women.
Detective
A man is released from an asylum. He lost his memory and is in search for a woman he might have killed.
Editor
A female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor--three characters, two couples--attend a grand literary cocktail party. The writer has just won the prize for his book "Warsaw Bridge." The winner answers the journalist's questions one after another, but he is unable to come up with a synthesis of the plot of his book. They will simply have to read it.
Boix
Oficial Aduana
In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the personification of her imagination is the cause. Against this backdrop, Claire has Byron's baby then is estranged from him and barred from her daughter. Byron and Percy continue their friendship, the one self-centered and decadent, the other wildly idealistic. The Shelleys take up residence near Pisa.
Ramón
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
Caballero Verde
A medieval alchemist (Klaus Kinski), knight (Harvey Keitel) and priest (Fernando Rey) mistake a flying-saucer alien for a dragon.
Inspector Roig
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.
Federico, an executive of national television, begins to suspect that his wife Elena, an actress who retired prematurely after marriage, is cheating him with another man. The symptoms are that Elena sighs, looks far into heaven and is aware of the exact time a comet passes. In other words, she expects her most beautiful night.
Sacerdote (as José María Pou)
Fernando
Ursula Alejandra Nicholson, the Carrot Queen, an extravagant American millionaire, arrives in Spain. J.J., a suave and ambitious executive, decides to become involved in the American carrot industry. To do so, he will take advantage of an unhappy bookseller, pulling him into a delirious misadventure that serves as a political satire.
Kingdom of Castile, 15th century. A group of nobles, who question the dynastic legitimacy of Princess Juana, daughter of King Enrique IV, conspire with the purpose of overthrowing him.
Felipe II
Inspector
While filming a movie, famous Spanish actor Julio Arenas disappears without a trace. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at a cliff by the sea. Many years later, the mystery is brought up once more by a TV program, which offers previously unreleased images of the last scenes in which he participated, shot by his close friend, director Miguel Garay.
The filmmaker visits the house of his ancestors with the invocation of family photographs and the voice of his parents. A journey into memory through everyday objects and spaces which seem to remain untouched by the passage of time.