José Luis Alcaine

José Luis Alcaine

Nascimento : 1938-12-26, Tangier, Morocco

História

José Luis Alcaine is a Spanish cinematographer. Educated in Tangier, he was the first cinematographer to use fluorescent tube as key lighting in the 1970s.

Perfil

José Luis Alcaine

Filmes

Mães Paralelas
Director of Photography
Duas mulheres, Janis e Ana, dividem o quarto de hospital onde vão dar à luz. As duas são solteiras e ficaram grávidas acidentalmente. Janis, de meia-idade, não se arrepende e nas horas prévias ao parto sente-se pletórica, a outra, Ana, é uma adolescente e está assustada, arrependida e traumatizada. Janis tenta animá-la enquanto passeiam como sonâmbulas pelo corredor do hospital. As poucas palavras que trocam nessas horas vão criar um vínculo muito profundo entre as duas, e esse acaso vai encarregar-se de desenvolver e complicar de forma tão retumbante que mudará a vida de ambas para sempre.
Vovó Saiu Do Armário
Director of Photography
Eva está noiva de um homem aristocrático, de família conservadora. O que será que eles vão pensar quando souberem que a avó dela vai se casar com a melhor amiga?
A Voz Humana
Director of Photography
Uma mulher observa o tempo passar enquanto permanece ao lado das malas do ex-amante (que deveria vir para buscá-las, mas nunca chega) e de um cachorro inquieto, que não entende que seu dono o deixou. Dois seres vivos encarando o abandono.
Domino
Director of Photography
Um policial de Copenhague, Dinamarca, busca justiça para o assassinato do seu parceiro, morto pelas mãos de um misterioso homem chamado Imran. Ele se junta com um colega da polícia e a amante do seu parceiro para caçar Imran, mas acabam envolvidos num jogo de gato e rato com um agente da CIA, que os leva da Escandinávia para a Espanha.
Dor e Glória
Director of Photography
Salvador Mallo é um melancólico cineasta em declínio que se vê obrigado a pensar sobre as escolhas que fez na vida quando seu passado retorna. Entre lembranças e reencontros, ele reflete sobre sua infância na década de 1960, seu processo de imigração para a Espanha, seu primeiro amor maduro e sua relação com a escrita e com o cinema.
Todos Já Sabem
Director of Photography
Laura, uma espanhola vivendo em Buenos Aires, volta com os dois filhos para sua cidade natal nos arredores de Madri para comparecer ao casamento de sua irmã. Porém, a viagem é perturbada por eventos inesperados que tornam públicos grandes segredos.
A Rainha da Espanha
Director of Photography
Depois de suas experiências na Alemanha nazista, a atriz Macarena Granada viajou para Hollywood, onde se tornou uma estrela. Nos anos 50, a diva retorna à Espanha franquista para estrelar um sucesso de bilheteria de Hollywood sobre a rainha Isabella I de Castela.
Wild Oats
Director of Photography
Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of a lifetime.
Aragón rodado
Self
A look at the Aragonese countryside, star of the movie screen, accompanied by various trades of cinema.
Os Amantes Passageiros
Director of Photography
Uma pane em um avião coloca em perigo um grupo de excêntricos passageiros que viajam de Madrid à Cidade do México. Enquanto todos se preparam para encarar a morte, a tripulação está pronta para fazer do voo o mais prazeroso possível.
Pablo Picasso e o Roubo da Monalisa
Director of Photography
Paris, 1911. When Da Vinci's painting “La Gioconda” is stolen from the Louvre museum, it is suspected that the authors of the audacious theft are members of a group of bohemian artists led by painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso and poet Guillaume Apollinaire…
Paixão
Director of Photography
O escritório de uma proeminente corporação multinacional serve como ambientação para uma disputa de poder entre duas mulheres contemporâneas. Isabelle tem uma admiração sem limites por sua superior direta, Christine, uma mulher bastante experiente nos jogos do poder. Christine gosta de manipular Isabelle, permitindo que ela cresça um passo de cada vez, levando-a a mergulhar fundo em um jogo de sedução e manipulação, de dominação e servidão.
A Pele Que Habito
Director of Photography
Um evento traumático arruina o estranho relacionamento entre um cirurgião plástico e a mulher que ele mantém presa em sua luxuosa mansão.
Falando Grego
Director of Photography
Georgia (Nia Vardalos) é uma americana de origem grega que trabalha como guia turística acompanhando viajantes justamente.... pela Grécia. Ela vive entediada, uma vez que o grupo de turistas parece curtir mais as compras de camisetas do que aprender alguma coisa sobre história. Esse choque de personalidades e culturas deixa a situação da jovem cada vez pior. Até um dia em que aparece um turista muito especial, o senhor Irv Gordon (Richard Dreyfuss). É ele quem vai mostrar a ela as possibilidades de viver de forma feliz, aconselhando a moça a prestar atenção naquele que Georgia jamais imaginaria que pudesse se apaixonar: o grego e sexy motorista de ônibus Poupi (Alexis Georgoulis).
Lolita's Club
Director of Photography
The plot follows the story of twin brothers, one is a coldhearted violent police officer, the other is a helpless romantic with a mental disability. The two brothers are tragically involved with a prostitute who works in the bordello that gives the film its title. The film was adapted from an eponymous novel written by Juan Marsé.
Teresa, O Corpo de Cristo
Director of Photography
In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader.
O Quarto da Culpa
Director of Photography
A ginecologista Ana convida Glória, sua amiga e enfermeira do hospital, e sua filha Vicky para morarem com ela em troca de auxílio em sua clínica particular. A casa, que é usada em parte como clínica, clara, alegre e pacífica. Mas há algo sinistro nela. Batidas estranhas na porta que leva ao sótão, telefonemas misteriosos que Ana não quer atender...o que parecia ser um agradável consultório médico é, na verdade, uma clínica de abortos. Uma clínica onde a vida e a morte se confundem. Uma clínica onde pacientes e médicos nunca estão sozinhos. Eles estão sempre arrastando seu passado....para o quarto da culpa.
The Maidens' Conspiracy
Director of Photography
Constantinople, 1401. The emperor of Byzantium asks the famous knight Tirant lo Blanc to free the city from the siege of the Turks. After his victory, Tirant will have to face a more difficult task: to overcome the natural opposition of Carmesina, heiress to the Ottoman Empire, to surrender her most precious treasure.
Volver
Director of Photography
Na classe trabalhadora de Madri, Raimunda precisa lidar com a morte do marido enquanto luta para sustentar sua família. Mas rodeada por três gerações de mulheres — sua irmã Sole, sua filha Paula e sua amiga Augustina — e assombrada pela falecida mãe, Raimunda fará mais do que apenas sobreviver.
Vida y color
Director of Photography
Roma
Director of Photography
Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.
A Prostituta e a Baleia
Director of Photography
Vera está escrevendo sobre um livro de fotografias de um argentino morto na Guerra Civil Espanhola. Encantada pelo personagem, ela descobre a história de amor entre ele e uma prostituta. Ela decide então sair de Madrid e ir à Patagônia para saber mais sobre o casal apaixonado.
Má Educação
Director of Photography
Nos anos 1960, dois meninos descobrem o amor, o medo e o abuso num internato católico. O diretor da escola presencia e faz parte das descobertas. Os três se reencontram muitos anos depois, e suas ações passadas e novas vidas se entrelaçam de formas criativas e destrutivas.
Ao Sul de Granada
Director of Photography
Gerald Brenan, um amante da literatura, aluga uma casa por um ano em Yegen, uma aldeia no Alpujarra. Enquanto se integra ao lugar, conhece os moradores da vila, faz amigos, redescobre o amor e vê que precisa decidir o que fazer da vida.
Guerrilha Sem Face
Director of Photography
A perseguição e captura de Abimael Guzman, líder do exército de guerrilheiros peruanos Sendero Luminoso, que durante 12 anos viveu na clandestinidade. Para contar essa história acompanhamos ascensão de Agustin Rejas (Javier Bardem, indicado ao Oscar® de Melhor Ator por "Antes do Anoitecer"), um ex-advogado que se torna o respeitado capitão da policia antiterrorista de um país governado pela corrupção e pelo desmando. Rejas assiste ao inicio de uma revolução silenciosa, que mais tarde torna-se furiosa. Enquanto o país mergulha no caos, a chama da paixão volta a queimar o coração do policial quando ele se aproxima de Yolanda (Laura Morante), a bela professora de balé de sua filha.
António, Um Rapaz de Lisboa
Director of Photography
A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.
De Volta para o Presente
Director of Photography
Los Angeles, 1962. Calvin Webber é um cientista genial mas paranóico em relação à Guerra Fria. Calvin acredita que os mísseis em Cuba eram o aviso de que uma guerra contra a União Soviética era eminente e assim faz Helen, sua esposa, descer para um sofisticado abrigo subterrâneo que ele tinha construído. Logo após os dois descerem um avião de caça cai em cima da casa dos Webber, o que faz com que Calvin acredite que tudo foi destruído em uma guerra nuclear e acione uma trava que só abrirá em trinta e cinco anos. No abrigo nasce Adam. Durante 35 anos, Adam foi criado com os padrões do início dos anos 60. Em 1998, Adam é mandado à superfície para conseguir mantimentos e encontrar uma esposa que não seja "mutante". Mas Adam encontra um mundo bem diferente do que esperava e vai se adaptando a esta nova realidade.
Duelo de Forasteiros
Director of Photography
Jack Sikora (David Bowie), o mair notório forasteiro do Velho Oeste, chega a Basin Field para matar um homem - o legendário pistoleiro Johnny Lowen (Harvey Keitel). Renomado em todo o território, Lowen nunca perder um duelo, mas depois de 20 anos de aventura e fama, ele retornou para fazer as pazes com a sua família, e especialmente, consigo mesmo. Entretanto, Sikora não está disposto a deixar que o rival se aposente e, por mais que Lowen resista, o sanguinário assassino pretende provocá-lo até que um confronto final revel, de uma vez por todas, quem é o atirador mais rápido do Oeste.
Don Juan
Director of Photography
Espanha, século XVII. O país está assolado por uma série de guerras sangrentas. Neste tráfico cenário de perdas e mortes, um personagem clássico ressurge das cinzas: Don Juan ( Jacques Weber), depois de seduzir e prometer casamento à bela Elvira (Emmanuelle Béart), a abandona foge. Atrás dele vão os dois irmãos da donzela, prontos para lavar a honra da família. Na fuga, don Juan e seu criado acabam vitimas de uma tempestade, indo parar numa ilha desconhecida. É ali que o incorrigível conquistador se envolve com mais duas beldades: as donzelas Mathurine ( Penélope Cruz) e Charlotte ( Ariadna Gil). O incorrigível conquistador ganha uma versão atualizada. Mas ágil, mais moderna, com mais bom humor…e com as mais belas atrizes do cinema.
Más allá del jardín
Director of Photography
Palmira, a woman belonging to the Sevillian aristocracy, as well known for her decrepitude and hypocrisy as the rest of her population, enters into an emotional crisis when she reaches maturity.
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.
Confidencias
Director of Photography
Quero Dizer que te Amo
Director of Photography
Em Miami Beach um artista com problemas financeiros se torna marchand e vive armando para sobreviver. Um de seus golpes consiste em convencer viúvas que seus maridos tinham encomendados determinados quadros. Desta forma ele conhece uma mulher muito rica e sexy (Melanie Griffith), que é amiga de uma das viúvas, e entre os dois acontece um relacionamento. Como se isto não bastasse, ele conhece a irmã (Daryl Hannah) de sua namorada, que também é extremamente sensual, e decide criar um irmão gêmeo para poder conquistá-la.
Turkish Passion
Director of Photography
A young woman’s passion forms the basis of this erotic Spanish drama adapted from a popular novel by Antonio Gala. The night before Desideria’s marriage, her girl friends give her some valuable advice on sex. The marriage takes place, and while it is generally happy, her husband Ramiro suffers from sexual dysfunction and Desideria is frustrated. The two end up on holiday in Istanbul with two friends. Desideria falls madly in love with the sensual ambiance of the ancient, teeming city. She begins a passionate affair with a handsome Turkish guide, Yaman. Upon her return home, she learns that she is pregnant. Ramiro agrees to support the child, but unfortunately it dies in infancy and the grieving Desideria flees for Istanbul to find her lover. She finds him and they renew their torrid affair. Later she learns some distressing things about Yaman, but this does not stop her from becoming his sexual slave and a call girl for wealthy carpet sellers.
The Tit and the Moon
Director of Photography
Uma história de amor onde dois homens e um garoto estão apaixonados por Estrellita, uma mulher espectacular: Maurice, o marido; Miguel, um adolescente que sente electricidade cada vez que a toca e Tete, um garoto que está louco pela sua teta, pois a teta da sua mãe foi roubada por seu irmão.
Ovos de Ouro
Director of Photography
Benito González is a flamboyant engineer in Melilla, with a brash and pushy personality. His dream is to build the tallest building ever in the region. After his girlfriend leaves him, he devotes himself entirely to his ambitions, deciding to let nothing get in his way. He marries the daughter of a billionaire, intending to use her father's money to realise his project. Benito waltzes his way through a career of excess, fetishes and deceptions, but the personal conflicts he unleashes ultimately send his life spiraling down to disaster.
Intruso
Director of Photography
In childhood and youth, the three were "the inseparables." Luisa married Ángel, then two years later, she left him to marry Ramiro. After ten years, Ángel reappears, back from South America, broke and ill. Luisa is overcome with sentimentality and, over Ramiro's objections, takes Ángel into their house. Ángel is bitter, he and Ramiro have shifted from best friends to enemies. Luisa wants to be in love with both. Ramiro hopes he can wait out Ángel's declining health, and Luisa wants to heal Ángel through force of will. What is Ángel's plan? Observing the roiling emotions are Luisa and Ramiro's precocious young children. Who's in danger here?
Sedução
Director of Photography
O filme conta a história de Fernando (Jorge Sanz), um jovem anarquista espanhol que ao desertar do exército monarquista foge para o interior do país. Vagando pelo campo sem destino, acaba encontrando Manolo (Fernando Fernán Gómez), outro anarquista que se identifica com suas ideias e lhe dá abrigo. A súbita maré de sorte de Fernando ainda não acabou. Ao contrário, está apenas começando. É que Manolo é pai de quatro mulheres maravilhosas. E as irmãs, sedentas de amor e cada uma à sua maneira, vão usar de todo seu charme para conquistar o inocente visitante. Difícil vai ser controlar o desejo e escolher apenas uma delas para amar.
Jamon Jamon
Director of Photography
Jose Luis trabalha na fábrica de roupas íntimas comandada por seus pais. Sua namorada, Sylvia vem de uma família em dificuldades financeiras, e por isso é rejeitada pela rica família de Jose Luis. Quando ela engravida, o casamento parece ser a única saída possível, mas os pais do jovem, preocupados em vê-lo casado a uma moça pobre, contratam o sedutor Raul, um modelo de cuecas e toureiro, para seduzi-la.
Amantes
Director of Photography
Passado na Espanha dos anos 1950', um jovem (Sanz) deixa o exército e procura emprego para que ele e sua noiva (Verdu) possam casar-se. Aluga um quarto a uma viúva (Abril), e logo começa um tórrido romance com ela. A noiva descobre e decide reconquistá-lo, oferecendo-se a ele e levando-o a conhecer a sua família. Em última análise, ele tem que tomar uma decisão. Baseado em uma história verdadeira.
Ay, Carmela!
Director of Photography
Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute assistant, Gustavete, they journey into rebel territory by mistake. They are arrested, fear a firing squad, and receive a reprieve from an Italian Fascist commander who loves the theatre. He arranges a performance for his troops, bargaining with Paulino to stage a burlesque of the republic in exchange for the actors' freedom. Will the fiery and patriotic Carmela consent?
Ata-me
Director of Photography
Depois de passar metade de sua vida fugindo de orfanatos e hospitais psiquiátricos, o impulsivo e determinado Ricky vai atrás de sua obsessão patológica: Marina, uma atriz pornô com quem dormiu uma vez. Para ganhar o amor dela, ele decide raptá-la e trancá-la em sua própria casa.
El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free
Director of Photography
This is the story of a man fighting with all his might for his life and his freedom. Eleuterio (”El Lute”) embarks upon an action-packed future, fuelled by the notions of freedom and dreams of living just as his countrymen, ever-growing in his mind. Nothing and no-one can stop him. After escaping the Puerto de Santa María prison, the reunion with his family is just the beginning of what will become an endless escape.
Mulheres à Beira de Um Ataque de Nervos
Director of Photography
Em Madrid, Pepa Marcos, uma atriz de dobragens para televisão, é abandonada pelo amante, Ivan. Enquanto tenta falar com ele, é visitada pelo filho deste, Carlos e pela namorada, Marisa, que desejam alugar o seu apartamento. Surge também a sua melhor amiga Candela, que depois de se ter apaixonado por um desconhecido, descobriu que ele é um terrorista xiita e receia ser presa. Enquanto a namorada de Carlos bebe inadvertidamente um gaspacho cheio de soporíferos e adormece profundamente, Pepa faz de tudo para evitar que a verdadeira mulher de Ivan o mate quando ambas descobrem que este planeava viajar com uma segunda amante, a advogada que Pepa tentara contratar para defender Candela.
Lute: Forge On or Die
Director of Photography
In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed "El Lute", steals some chickens and is condemned to six months in jail. El Lute moves to the slum outskirts of Madrid with his common law wife, Chelo, starting an itinerant life as a peddler of pots and pans and living in a quinqui shantytown. He gradually embarks upon as life of petty criminality, eventually participating in the theft of a jewelry store during which a bystander is killed.
Half of Heaven
Director of Photography
After the civil war, Rosa, a beautiful and hard worker woman falls in love with a sharpener who turns out to be a con man. When she becomes a widow, she emigrates to Madrid with her daughter beginning to work as a nurse in the home of Don Pedro, an influential food manager.
Hay que deshacer la casa
Director of Photography
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
Mambru Went to War
Director of Photography
The news of the death of Franco has a special resonance in the family of Florentina. Fiorentina communicates to the rest of the family a story far more important than the general's death: her husband Emiliano (Fernando Fernan-Gomez), who had been left for dead in the civil war, is alive. During the Franco dictatorship has remained hidden beneath the pylon is in the courtyard of the house.
Star Knight
Director of Photography
A medieval alchemist (Klaus Kinski), knight (Harvey Keitel) and priest (Fernando Rey) mistake a flying-saucer alien for a dragon.
O Vaqueiro Cantador
Director of Photography
A singing cowboy roams the Wild West with his sidekick, dancing horse and fancy wardrobe.
La reina del mate
Director of Photography
The Lost Paradise
Director of Photography
This literary film is imbued with the disenchantment of Spanish exiles who left their homes to protest Franco's fascist regime and then returned after its demise to find that democracy had not instilled either ethics or deep motivation in government leaders. Director Basilio Martin Patino presents his story, and a large part of the film is based on his own life, through the experiences of an exiled heroine played by Charo Lopez. She has returned to Spain to look for meaning in her life, something that she never found living in Germany, not even after having a child. She is also in the process of translating the German lyric poet Friederich Holderlin (see the 1985 Halfte Des Lebens) into Spanish, focusing on his epic Hyperion. Excerpts from the translation are voiced over throughout the film. As she looks up old friends from many, many years ago, even those who have achieved worldly success are suffering from the same ennui that propelled her back home.
Akelarre
Director of Photography
A small village in Navarre, Spain, XVII century. Garazi's grandmother is burned at the stake when accussed of being a witch and convicted by an inquisitor, something that brings Garazi under suspicion and eventually into prison, where she is atrociously tortured and humiliated.
O Sul
Director of Photography
Jovem que vive em uma pequena aldeia, no norte da Espanha, rememora, na sua maturidade, a infância, o relacionamento com o pai, os avós e a Guerra Civil Espanhola.
Murder in the Central Committee
Director of Photography
The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assassin of the leader of the Spanish Communist party who was stabbed during a blackout while presiding over a meeting of the party's central committee. The film is a thriller with ironic political overtones.
Bésame, tonta
Director of Photography
A young bank clerk is transferred, in view of his special way of being, to a branch for misfits, where he will meet a whole series of very strange characters.
Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado
Director of Photography
The second part of the documentary "Después de...", "Atado y bien atado" presents the sensitivity that existed in different areas of Spanish society in its young democracy concerning its future, where the fear of a sector was underlying ultra-conservative before the construction of a different country and that already announced the attempted coup d'état of February 1981. Without a doubt, this work —which could not be released until 1983— places Cecilia Bartolomé and her brother as precursors of the social documentary that will have an enormous development and that today continues to be crucial in Spanish film production.
Per favore, occupati di Amelia
Director of Photography
Después de… Primera parte: no se os puede dejar solos
Director of Photography
A small group of filmmakers, led by the Bartolomé brothers, took to the streets at the beginning of the Transition to gather the opinions of politicians and citizens about the country that was about to be formed. Today, this documentary work is a true milestone that defines the history of cinema in Spain, since all its testimonies allow us to understand the plurality of a young society that meditated on how to think about its past and build its future.
La campanada
Director of Photography
Girl with the Golden Panties
Director of Photography
Luys Forest is a writer with a political past Falangist, who lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting his autobiography with the times), and brooding over his failed marriage. His sister is worried about him and decides to send his daughter Mariana on how it is. Mariana comes to town and shake the world of Luys stable with free and uninhibited personality. Soon begins a game of seduction that ends up exposing the intellectual game of Luys.
The Triple Death of the Third Character
Director of Photography
Gulliver
Director of Photography
From Hell to Victory
Director of Photography
In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.
Marián
Director of Photography
Soldados
Director of Photography
Dramatic portrait of men and women discouraged in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, after the odyssey of a group of Republican soldiers trying to reach the east coast to go into exile. Agustín must bear that his libertine father lives with the ironer Remedios, although she does not love him. She escapes and he goes to war; when they finally meet again, anxious amid bursts, it will be impossible to consummate their desires repressed for so long.
Let's Go, Barbara
Director of Photography
Ana is Catalan, daughter of a bourgeois family and works in a studio in advertising. She is 38 years old and has only lived with her husband, with whom she has a relationship cold but accepted by both. Although his family is opposed, decides to leave her husband and takes a vacation with her daughter Barbara, of 12 years, in order to leave behind all the past and start a freer life, with fewer ties, less conventional.
Tentação Proibida
Director of Photography
Roué Giulio Marengo (Mastroianni), um arquiteto romano infeliz no casamento, conhece Francesca (Nastassja Kinski), uma jovem e bonita florentina por quem fica atraído. Logo, no entanto, ele descobre que a moça pode ser sua filha. Roué decide manter as mãos bem longe da moça, mas não consegue se afastar completamente dela.
Red Gold
Director of Photography
A boatswain finds himself stranded on an island. Though surrounded by starving, and poor islanders, the boatswain soon learns that the misery is not caused by the people themselves, but rather by a pack of blood-thirsty pirates.
God Bless Each Corner of This House
Director of Photography
Goodbye Alicia
Director of Photography
Alice is a girl devoid of affection seeking refuge in the images shown in the movie screen of a theater that his father manages. This creates improbable stories in which she is the protagonist...
María, la santa
Director of Photography
Diego , the son of a prostitute stabs Maria , suddenly it begins to happen a number of miracles attributed to the intercession of the dead woman . Patients from all over town arrive to implore and consider her as a saint.
School Trip
Director of Photography
After completing his high school studies at the age of twenty-four, Óscar is an immature student, unable to afford alone his return to home during the summer season. Then he manages to convince Carlos, his young math teacher, to accompany him. Already in the family home, Óscar begins to behave in an increasingly unbalanced and irrational way. Meanwhile, his family will endeavor to see him as the reflection of the absent father figure.
Family Portrait
Director of Photography
Cecilio Rubes, a businessman engaged in the manufacture of baths and toilets, tries to remain neutral in the imminent Spanish civil war. But the attitude of Cécil, his only child, a spoiled boy who grows without respect their parents, will forced him to face the cruel reality of the facts. Jumping back and forth in time, we are shown his present and his past through his wife Adela and Paulina, the mistress of father and son.
Os Meninos
Director of Photography
Um casal de turistas ingleses chega à ilha de Almanzora, ao largo da costa mediterrânea espanhola, onde descobrem que em uma pequena vila de pescadores não há adultos, apenas crianças que olham para eles e sorriem misteriosamente.
Songs for After a War
Director of Photography
A particular reading of the forties and fifties in Spain, the hard years of famine and repression after the massacre of the Spanish Civil War, using popular culture: songs sung by ordinary people, newspapers and magazines, movies and newsreels; the story of a country torn apart needing to overcome the memory of the war and face an uncertain and painful present.
País S. A.
Director of Photography
A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist.
A Diary of a Murderess
Director of Photography
A beautiful young woman sets her sights on an aging millionaire. She seduces him, and moves into his mansion with him. She soon tires of him, though, and after she gets rid of him, she goes after his son.
Pepita Jiménez
Director of Photography
Devil's Exorcist
Director of Photography
Teresita, the only daughter to a wealthy couple, begins to be troubled by loud sounds and visions of a tall man in black walking towards her menacingly. Soon she becomes plagued by strange physical symptoms, visions of arms extending from the walls to grab at her...and sometimes she gets violent. A priest is called in to try and wrench the devil from her body.
Sensualidad
Director of Photography
I Saw Her First
Director of Photography
Corazón solitario
Director of Photography
Antoñito is a bachelor who works in a cabaret as a clarinetist. He has put an advertisement in the newspaper, looking for a good and honest girl, and to which responds Rocío, who escapes from her native Córdoba to hide the embarrassment of her pregnancy. The coexistence with the naive clarinetist, who refuses the insinuations of a co-worker dedicated to prostitution, who idolizes his deceased mother and keeps as a relic the orthopedic leg of his late father, is not easy. The other men will tend their ties around Rocío, that makes way in the world of the spectacle pretending to be blind. When she can no longer conceal that she is pregnant, Antoñito decides to give his name to the fruit of sin.
El niño es nuestro
Director of Photography
El cronicón
Director of Photography
Tinto con amor
Director of Photography
Paseo por los letreros de Madrid
Director of Photography
A travelogue through the diverse neighborhoods of Madrid, its picturesque streets and its history; and an approach, with a sense of humor, to the lighted signs and advertising slogans of the shops: an unusual portrait of the city and its people.
Acteón
Still Photographer
An expressionist reimagining of the classic Greek myth involving Acteón and Diana, transposed to Spain's Costa Brava by a future auteur of horror cinema. Based on the myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which Acteón accidentally catches a glimpse of Diana, the goddess of love, and is subsequently turned into a deer for his dogs to devour, Jorge Grau's modernist retelling resets the story to contemporary Spain, where a fisherman – played by Martin LaSalle, star of Bresson's Pickpocket – follows an enchanting, flirtatious stranger into the city.
Javier y los invasores del espacio
Director of Photography
Nine Letters to Berta
Still Photographer
Lorenzo is a young man who has just returned to Salamanca (Spain) from England, where he fell in love with Berta, a girl daughter of exiled parents who have never seen Spain. Lorenzo tries through some beautiful letters that she understands how is the world where her parents once lived.
Carmen de Carabanchel
Director of Photography
Adam's Perfection
Director of Photography
Adam had everything: the looks of a movie star, the mind of a genius, a seven-figure salary, a brilliant career - everything but a woman worthy of his love. Having lost hope, he resorts to a dangerous experiment and, with the use of an oriental spiritual practice, creates the perfect partner. He alone will be able to enjoy her company, for she is unseen by others. In search for perfection Adam left many a woman behind. Should he not get along with the new girlfriend - leaving may not be an option.