Josep Maria Pou

Josep Maria Pou

Born: January 1, 1944
in Mollet del Vallés, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Movies for Josep Maria Pou...

Escape
Title: Escape
Released: October 31, 2024
Type: Movie
A young man raised in captivity and surrounded by books goes outside for the first time. In practice, nothing fits with the theory read in his immense library. His gridded rationality, his love for strict rules and his allergy to everything ambiguous and hypocritical cause him to turn everything upside down and make others have to adapt, facing their own inconsistencies and the duplicity of the social, moral and judicial system. human. Locked in his own mind, everything is unknown, hostile. He needs an escape route. Where will he find it? Jail seems to be his only option.
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Close Your Eyes
Title: Close Your Eyes
Character: Ferrán Soler (Mr. Levy)
Released: August 16, 2023
Type: Movie
Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.
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The Tree of Blood
Title: The Tree of Blood
Character: Jacinto
Released: October 31, 2018
Type: Movie
Marc and Rebeca, a young couple, travel to an old country house that used to belong to their family. Once there, they write the shared history of their roots, creating a huge family tree that harbours relationships of love, heartbreak, sex, madness, jealousy and infidelity, and under which also lies a history laden with secrets.
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The Realm
Title: The Realm
Character: Frías
Released: September 28, 2018
Type: Movie
Manuel, a Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes him to the public eye. Rather than admit to any wrongdoing, he decides to sell out his whole party in an effort to avoid jail time. It's a decision that will put many lives at risk.
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Title: Cathedral of the Sea
Character: Sahat
Released: May 23, 2018
Type: TV
In the 14th century, Barcelona is experiencing one of its most prosperous moments. The city has grown to La Ribera, a fishing district in which the largest Marian temple ever known is built: Santa María del Mar. But the construction runs parallel to Arnau Estanyol, a serf of the land who, fleeing the abuses of The feudal lords of the countryside take refuge in Barcelona.
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The Laws of Thermodynamics
Title: The Laws of Thermodynamics
Character: Profesor Amat
Released: April 20, 2018
Type: Movie
Manel, a physicist working on his PhD thesis, accidentally fall in love with Elena, a young model and aspiring actress.
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Miss Dalí
Title: Miss Dalí
Character: Dalí pare
Released: April 6, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Abracadabra
Title: Abracadabra
Character: Dr. Fumetti
Released: August 4, 2017
Type: Movie
A housewife struggles with her husband after he is possessed by a ghost.
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Oh, Quina joia!
Title: Oh, Quina joia!
Released: November 5, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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Boy Missing
Title: Boy Missing
Character: Juez
Released: August 19, 2016
Type: Movie
When her son's alleged kidnapper is released for lack of solid evidence, a reputable and well-known attorney takes matters into her own hands with unintended and spectacularly disastrous consequences.
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Concha Velasco: memoria viva
Title: Concha Velasco: memoria viva
Character: Self - Actor
Released: March 31, 2016
Type: Movie
Spanish actress Concha Velasco shares with actor Josep Maria Pou her many memories, the fruit of a long artistic career, both in film and on stage.
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Title: Night and Day
Character: Benet Muntada
Released: February 1, 2016
Type: TV
Working on a series of harrowing cases, forensic pathologist, Sara Grau, finds the key to a case in which she has unwittingly become a prime target. Sophisticated Spanish crime thriller.
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Dying Beyond Their Means
Title: Dying Beyond Their Means
Character: Banquero
Released: September 25, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Blancanieves
Title: Blancanieves
Character: Don Carlos
Released: September 28, 2012
Type: Movie
A black and white silent movie, based on the Snow White fairy tale, that is set in a romantic version of 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.
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Màscares
Title: Màscares
Released: October 2, 2009
Type: Movie
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Carlitos and the Chance of a Lifetime
Title: Carlitos and the Chance of a Lifetime
Character: Don Hipólito Negrero
Released: August 22, 2008
Type: Movie
Carlitos is a heartfelt story about one young boy's fight for his right to play soccer, while keeping his very essence intact.
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Proyecto Dos
Title: Proyecto Dos
Released: April 25, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Barcelona (A Map)
Title: Barcelona (A Map)
Character: Ramon
Released: October 19, 2007
Type: Movie
Six characters, contemporary archetypes of urban solitude, meet in an old apartment located in the city centre of Barcelona. An elderly married couple, her brother and three tenants: a blonde woman who gives French classes, a young security guard, an ex-football player and a young, pregnant South American girl. The old man, who was formerly a doorman at the opera and who likes to dress up in women's clothes, gets them all together and asks them to leave as he is going to die and wants to be alone for the last stage of his life. In this flat, incest, homosexuality and adultery are intertwined in the life of these characters whilst we simultaneously witness the passing of time in this Mediterranean city.
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Title: Quart, el hombre de Roma
Character: Monseñor Aguirre
Released: September 4, 2007
Type: TV
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A Real Friend
Title: A Real Friend
Character: Fat Man
Released: October 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Estrella, an intelligent teen student, spends most of her time alone at school or home, enjoying horror books and movies, while her widow mother Angela works as a nurse in a hospital. Her favorite author is Stephen King and her only friends are Leatherface and a vampire.
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The Hands
Title: The Hands
Character: Giordano
Released: August 10, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Beneath Still Waters
Title: Beneath Still Waters
Character: Julio Gambine
Released: November 2, 2005
Type: Movie
Studying under a disciple of Aleister Crowley, the leader of an upper class group invokes a supernatural force that slowly devours the village of Marienbad and its inhabitants, threatening to spread beyond its geographical limits. The mayor from the town nearby commissions the building of a dam which would flood the valley and therefore submerge the village forever sealing the evil force under water after leader and his followers were incapacitated to be kept from escaping. However, fate ensured the leader's freedom as he remained in the depths when the waters covered Marienbad. Now 40 years later an array of disappearances and deaths in mysterious circumstances are threatening the town next to the reservoir that now covers Marienbad.
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The Food
Title: The Food
Character: Papandreu
Released: August 13, 2005
Type: Movie
In this black comedy about a man in a surreal restaurant somewhere up in the mountains, where Papandreu the chef makes him enjoy his best dishes.
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Sévigné
Title: Sévigné
Character: Gerardo R. Valcárcel
Released: December 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Two friends begin a lesbian relationship.
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Merry-Go-Round c. 1950
Title: Merry-Go-Round c. 1950
Character: Camisa Azul
Released: September 16, 2004
Type: Movie
This movie doesn't have any coherent plot. It's the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how they 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.
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The Sea Inside
Title: The Sea Inside
Character: Padre Francisco
Released: September 3, 2004
Type: Movie
The Sea Inside is about Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. It is the story of Ramón’s relationships with two women: Julia a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living.
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Title: La Mari
Released: May 1, 2003
Type: TV
Intimate story of love and sacrifice of an Andalusian immigrant lady in Catalonia from the 60's
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Zero/infinito
Title: Zero/infinito
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: Policías, en el corazón de la calle
Character: Héctor Ferrer
Released: January 11, 2000
Type: TV
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Goya in Bordeaux
Title: Goya in Bordeaux
Character: Godoy
Released: September 4, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Pepe Guindo
Title: Pepe Guindo
Character: Director
Released: August 20, 1999
Type: Movie
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Beloved/Friend
Title: Beloved/Friend
Character: Jaume
Released: January 29, 1999
Type: Movie
Based on a work of Josep Maria Benet i Jornet entitled "Testament", the film tells the story of an aging professor of medieval literature with the dilemma of deciding who will inherit his essay on "The Book of friend and loved" by Ramon Llull. Feeling near death as a result of illness, he discovers that the ideal person is a young and intelligent student he is in love with and who is dedicated to male prostitution.
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A Time for Defiance
Title: A Time for Defiance
Character: Heliodoro (as José María Pou)
Released: December 18, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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The Stolen Years
Title: The Stolen Years
Character: Roa
Released: September 11, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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Subjúdice
Title: Subjúdice
Character: Pau
Released: June 19, 1998
Type: Movie
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La duquesa roja
Title: La duquesa roja
Character: Presidente
Released: July 17, 1997
Type: Movie
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 "
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El crimen del cine Oriente
Title: El crimen del cine Oriente
Character: Mr. Sendra
Released: May 15, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Puro veneno
Title: Puro veneno
Character: Tomás
Released: June 18, 1996
Type: Movie
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El gabinete del doctor Armengot
Title: El gabinete del doctor Armengot
Character: Dr. Armengot
Released: April 28, 1996
Type: Movie
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Gran Slalom
Title: Gran Slalom
Character: Pepe (as José María Pou)
Released: February 23, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Dual
Title: Dual
Character: Psiquiatra
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: Movie
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Regalo de Navidad
Title: Regalo de Navidad
Released: February 7, 1996
Type: Movie
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The Butterfly Effect
Title: The Butterfly Effect
Character: Rafa
Released: December 20, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Hermana, ¿pero qué has hecho?
Title: Hermana, ¿pero qué has hecho?
Character: Obispo
Released: August 11, 1995
Type: Movie
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?
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Stories from the Kronen
Title: Stories from the Kronen
Character: Padre de Carlos
Released: April 29, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Arnau
Character: Comte de Barcelona
Released: January 17, 1994
Type: TV
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Els Papers d'Aspern
Title: Els Papers d'Aspern
Released: September 23, 1991
Type: Movie
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.
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Semiosis
Title: Semiosis
Released: June 19, 1991
Type: Movie
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La bañera
Title: La bañera
Character: Detective
Released: June 14, 1991
Type: Movie
A man is released from an asylum. He lost his memory and is in search for a woman he might have killed.
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El sueño
Title: El sueño
Released: May 22, 1991
Type: Movie
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Warsaw Bridge
Title: Warsaw Bridge
Character: Editor
Released: March 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Miguel Servet (La Sangre y La Ceniza)
Character: Inquisidor
Released: March 1, 1989
Type: TV
The series recreates the life of the Spanish scientist Miguel Servet from his birth until his execution for blasphemy in 1553.
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Title: Eurocops
Released: November 6, 1988
Type: TV
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Rowing with the Wind
Title: Rowing with the Wind
Character: Oficial Aduana
Released: September 19, 1988
Type: Movie
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.
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El complot dels anells
Title: El complot dels anells
Character: Boix
Released: April 22, 1988
Type: Movie
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Title: Historias del otro lado
Released: January 6, 1988
Type: TV
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Title: Turno de Oficio
Character: Juez Carlos Acosta
Released: October 7, 1986
Type: TV
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Hay que deshacer la casa
Title: Hay que deshacer la casa
Character: Ramón
Released: October 3, 1986
Type: Movie
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
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Title: Segunda Enseñanza
Released: January 23, 1986
Type: TV
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Star Knight
Title: Star Knight
Character: Caballero Verde
Released: December 20, 1985
Type: Movie
A medieval alchemist (Klaus Kinski), knight (Harvey Keitel) and priest (Fernando Rey) mistake a flying-saucer alien for a dragon.
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Title: La Comedia Musical Española
Character: Aramis
Released: October 1, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: La Comedia Musical Española
Character: Maitre
Released: October 1, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: La Comedia Musical Española
Character: Mr. Play
Released: October 1, 1985
Type: TV
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El caso del cadáver descuartizado
Title: El caso del cadáver descuartizado
Character: Inspector Roig
Released: May 24, 1985
Type: Movie
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.
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The Most Beautiful Night
Title: The Most Beautiful Night
Released: September 24, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Adolescencia
Title: Adolescencia
Character: Sacerdote (as José María Pou)
Released: January 21, 1982
Type: Movie
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Title: Cervantes
Character: Mateo Vázquez
Released: April 6, 1981
Type: TV
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The Carrot Queen
Title: The Carrot Queen
Character: Fernando
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Curro Jiménez
Character: Don Mariano
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: TV
Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez
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La espada negra
Title: La espada negra
Released: November 2, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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El segundo poder
Title: El segundo poder
Character: Felipe II
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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Title: El pícaro
Character: Don Ramiro de Tapias y Henares
Released: October 16, 1974
Type: TV
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Una mujer prohibida
Title: Una mujer prohibida
Character: Inspector
Released: May 13, 1974
Type: Movie
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Stained-Glass Windows
Title: Stained-Glass Windows
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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.