José Luis Borau

José Luis Borau

Рождение : 1929-08-08, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain

Смерть : 2012-11-23

Профиль

José Luis Borau

Фильмы

Enrique Herreros
Himself - Filmmaker
The story of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977), cartoonist, advertiser, poster designer, talent manager, actor, producer and filmmaker, and the most daring of mountaineers; the man who, along with his companions from the so-called “other Generation of '27,” brought Hollywood to Madrid's Gran Vía, turning a grey and sinister post-war city into the capital of an incipient and ambitious cultural industry.
Arrebatados: recordando a Iván Zulueta
A portrait of the film director Iván Zulueta and his film Arrebato. It features contributions from friends and people who worked with him such as José Luis Borau, Pedro Almodóvar, Antonio Gasset and Julio Médem.
Por la gracia de Luis
Himself
A walk through the work of Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) that is neither a documentary nor a narrative movie, but a tribute to one of the greatest directors of Spanish cinema. Anything can happen: the performers are not themselves, but their characters; there are no interviews, but greetings; a series of entrances and exits. A joyful reunion, a celebration of life.
Anna's Summer
Producer
A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece.
Leo
Director
Salva working as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a girl who makes a living collecting cardboard. Gradually Salva be falling in love for the young, but the life of Leo holds a dark past.
Niño nadie
Writer
Unbenownst to a middle-aged teacher of handicapped children, his long-term suffering girlfriend is pregnant with his child. The film philosophically explores the ideas of free will and destiny as they relate to the characters and their life choices.
Niño nadie
Director
Unbenownst to a middle-aged teacher of handicapped children, his long-term suffering girlfriend is pregnant with his child. The film philosophically explores the ideas of free will and destiny as they relate to the characters and their life choices.
Ilona Arrives with the Rain
Alcántara
Maqroll, Ilona, and Abdul all share a common dream: to sail the world in a tramp-steamer. But who could afford such a thing? Over the years they have become separated. Alone in Panama City, smuggler Maqroll is finding neither great success nor happiness — until the tropical rains come, bringing Ilona: friend, lover, and partner in crime. Abdul, in Morocco, has found a steamer to suit them. In Panama, Ilona and Maqroll begin a new scheme, in search of impossible wealth. But fate has further twists in store.
Everyone Off to Jail
Capellan
A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended.
Dear Nanny
Writer
Elvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and returns home to settle in Madrid with his beloved nanny, seeking help to overcome their crisis. However, the country has changed so much in his years of confinement that has little or nothing to do with his childhood memories ...
Dear Nanny
Director
Elvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and returns home to settle in Madrid with his beloved nanny, seeking help to overcome their crisis. However, the country has changed so much in his years of confinement that has little or nothing to do with his childhood memories ...
Downstream
Director
A Border Patrol agent is determined to catch his old nemesis, an American criminal who successfully smuggles illegal aliens across the border from Mexico.
Cuentos para una escapada
With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's film.
La Sabina
Writer
English scholar visits a small Spanish town in the Andalusian mountains to investigate the disappearance of another English scholar long ago. He learns of the legend of Sabina, a mysterious dragon woman who becomes his obsession.
La Sabina
Director
English scholar visits a small Spanish town in the Andalusian mountains to investigate the disappearance of another English scholar long ago. He learns of the legend of Sabina, a mysterious dragon woman who becomes his obsession.
Black Litter
Writer
Tatin is a young man of fifteen years old who joins a violent group of extreme right-wing ideology, led by Blanca, a mature woman of influential personality.
In memoriam
Producer
A writer loses his beloved, in the hands of another man, wihtout having expressed his feelings to her.
El monosabio
Screenplay
Juanito, a peaceful fan of bullfighting, has become picador's assistant to see from the same arena the show in which he brags he is one of the protagonists. Furthermore, he believes he has discovered in a neighbor a potential figure of bullfighting sphere.
Poachers
Gobernador
Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.
Poachers
Producer
Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.
Poachers
Screenplay
Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.
Poachers
Director
Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.
Вы должны убить B.
Producer
В некой южноамериканской стране складывается напряженная политическая ситуация. Общественность требует возвращения из изгнания популярного политика Б. По всей территории прокатывается волна забастовок. Однако водитель грузовика Пал Ковак игнорирует стачку и оказывается в черном списке профсоюза. Его автомобиль сожжен неизвестными, напарник погиб, а сам он теперь не может найти работу. Спецслужбы, отслеживающие ситуацию, считают, что в лице Ковака нашли идеальную кандидатуру в убийцы оппозиционного политика. Спецоперация начинается…
Вы должны убить B.
Writer
В некой южноамериканской стране складывается напряженная политическая ситуация. Общественность требует возвращения из изгнания популярного политика Б. По всей территории прокатывается волна забастовок. Однако водитель грузовика Пал Ковак игнорирует стачку и оказывается в черном списке профсоюза. Его автомобиль сожжен неизвестными, напарник погиб, а сам он теперь не может найти работу. Спецслужбы, отслеживающие ситуацию, считают, что в лице Ковака нашли идеальную кандидатуру в убийцы оппозиционного политика. Спецоперация начинается…
Вы должны убить B.
Director
В некой южноамериканской стране складывается напряженная политическая ситуация. Общественность требует возвращения из изгнания популярного политика Б. По всей территории прокатывается волна забастовок. Однако водитель грузовика Пал Ковак игнорирует стачку и оказывается в черном списке профсоюза. Его автомобиль сожжен неизвестными, напарник погиб, а сам он теперь не может найти работу. Спецслужбы, отслеживающие ситуацию, считают, что в лице Ковака нашли идеальную кандидатуру в убийцы оппозиционного политика. Спецоперация начинается…
My Dearest Senorita
Assistant Director
A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society?
My Dearest Senorita
Writer
A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society?
My Dearest Senorita
Médico (uncredited)
A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society?
Estado de sitio
Producer
Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés
Tio Prudencio
A band of young musicians will do the impossible to boycott a song they didn't like at all, and that's supposed to represent Spain in a famous musical contest. An unusual film by the odd Zulueta in which, after the success of Spanish singer Massiel in Eurovision contest, this kind of contests are parodied with an insane story shot without a script and with the performance of several top music bands of that time.
Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés
Producer
A band of young musicians will do the impossible to boycott a song they didn't like at all, and that's supposed to represent Spain in a famous musical contest. An unusual film by the odd Zulueta in which, after the success of Spanish singer Massiel in Eurovision contest, this kind of contests are parodied with an insane story shot without a script and with the performance of several top music bands of that time.
Double Edged Crime
Director
Andrés, son of a famous pianist, discovers the corpse of a tuner killed in his shop, located in the basement of his house. Then a suspect leaves, but in the fear of possible reprisals he doesn't tell anything to the police, only to his wife Laura. From that moment on, Andrés feels threatened and persecuted.
Snakes and Ladders
Cliente del café (uncredited)
Jose Antonio Amor co-stars with Sonia Bruno and Maria Blanco in this comedy drama about a married man with three children. When his family leaves on vacation, the man has an affair with a pretty office worker. The relationship between the two develops slowly before they end up in bed together. Speeded up shots are used effectively to illustrate the thoughts of the characters. Technical aspects and performances are fine and overshadow some uneven editing.
Ride and Kill
Screenplay
A small town in Arizona is oppressed by the tyranny of a powerful rancher. The owner of a farm, fed up with constant abuse, decides to hire a former gunslinger, as the town sheriff is recognized powerless to stand against the tyrant.
Ride and Kill
Director
A small town in Arizona is oppressed by the tyranny of a powerful rancher. The owner of a farm, fed up with constant abuse, decides to hire a former gunslinger, as the town sheriff is recognized powerless to stand against the tyrant.
En el río
Screenplay
En el río
Director