José Luis Garci

José Luis Garci

Born: January 20, 1944
in Madrid, España
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.

Movies for José Luis Garci...

Summers el rebelde
Title: Summers el rebelde
Released: March 15, 2024
Type: Movie
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Samuel: Hollywood vs Hollywood
Title: Samuel: Hollywood vs Hollywood
Released: March 4, 2024
Type: Movie
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Olea… ¡Más alto!
Title: Olea… ¡Más alto!
Character: Self - Filmmaker
Released: November 6, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Operación Palace
Title: Operación Palace
Character: Himself
Released: February 23, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Enrique Herreros
Title: Enrique Herreros
Character: Self - Filmmaker
Released: June 10, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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The Night of the Sunflowers
Title: The Night of the Sunflowers
Character: Himself - Radio Host (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Cradle Song
Title: Cradle Song
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1994
Type: Movie
A group of nuns find an abandoned baby girl at the doorstep of their convent.
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El crack dos
Title: El crack dos
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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Viva la clase media
Title: Viva la clase media
Character: Antonio 'Vladimiro' Flanagan
Released: January 4, 1980
Type: Movie
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.
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La noche de los cien pájaros
Title: La noche de los cien pájaros
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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Vida conyugal sana
Title: Vida conyugal sana
Character: Oficinista (uncredited)
Released: February 11, 1974
Type: Movie
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.