José Luis Garci
Also Known As: José Luis García Muñoz
Biography: José Luis Garci is a Spanish director, producer, film critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author. He earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Begin the Beguine (1982). Four of his films, including also Sesión continua (1984), Asignatura aprobada (1987) and El abuelo (1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director. His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Madrid, España
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La noche de los cien pájaros
Overview: The young Enrique leaving to study at the University and is married to Juana. One day he meets a painter who takes Enrique into another life and confused begin to think about taking some drastic measures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Samuel: Hollywood vs Hollywood
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-12
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Summers el rebelde
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-03-15
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Operación Palace
Overview: Finally, 33 years later, the whole truth behind the attempted coup d'état that shook Spain on the afternoon of February 23, 1981, is revealed by those who lived through those dreadful hours; a deep look behind the heavy curtain which hides the real mastermind, waiting to be unmasked.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-02-23
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El crack dos
Overview: Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo investigates the life of a gay man who has apparently abandoned his partner. When they both turn up dead, it seems one killed the other before committing suicide, but Areta is not convinced.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-08-01
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Vida conyugal sana
Overview: Enrique is a thirty-year-old lawyer who is married to Ana. Apparently he is a normal man who has only one obsession: the commercials. He feels a real passion for the erotic world of the ads either in billboards, trash cans, public transport, magazines or television. The continuous publicity bombardment ends up leading him towards a neurosis that changes his personality.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-02-11
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Enrique Herreros
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-06-10
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The Night of the Sunflowers
Overview: Two speleologists, Esteban and Pedro, travel to a mountainous area located in northern Spain, near a small village, to study a newly discovered cave and determine if it is of scientific interest, while Gabi, Esteban's wife, awaits their return on a lonely road at the foot of the mountain.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-08-25
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Viva la clase media
Overview: Drama based on the true life of a group of middle class and members of the Communist Party of Spain, who were involved in clandestine political activities during the sixties.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-01-04
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Cradle Song
Overview: A group of nuns find an abandoned baby girl at the doorstep of their convent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-04-15
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Olea… ¡Más alto!
Overview: An account of the life and work behind the camera of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Olea, whose very personal viewpoint, interested in all kinds of subjects, approached in very different ways, but always with a very characteristic style, has analyzed the social and political life of Spain for more than five decades.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-11-06
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