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José Luis Garci is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Editor and Script Espagnol born on 20 january 1944 at Madrid (Espagne)

José Luis Garci

José Luis Garci
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Birth name José Luis García Muñoz
Nationality Espagne
Birth 20 january 1944 (80 years) at Madrid (Espagne)

José Luis Garci (born as José Luis García Muñoz; 20 January 1944) is a Spanish director, producer, 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.

Best films

The Grandfather (1998)
(Director)
Double Feature (1984)
(Director)

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Filmography of José Luis Garci (32 films)

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Actor

The Night of the Sunflowers, 2h3
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Carmelo Gómez, Walter Vidarte, José Luis Garci
Roles Himself - Radio Host (voice) (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.541593.541593.541593.541593.54159
Les premières images : un champ de tournesols au crépuscule. Un homme sort furtivement de la plantation, monte dans sa voiture, démarre et s’éloigne. On le voit plus tard, étendu sur son lit dans une chambre de motel : il parle au téléphone avec sa femme, approuve mollement ses décisions domestiques, tout en regardant à la télévision les nouvelles régionales : une jeune fille a été retrouvée dans un champ de tournesols « à Cerredo, près de Santa-Cruz-de-Mira », elle a été tuée après avoir été violée. La télévision montre la jeune morte sur un brancard, et ses parents accablés de douleur…

Director

Holmes & Watson: Madrid Days, 2h9
Directed by José Luis Garci
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Leticia Dolera, Macarena Gómez, José Luis García Pérez, Manuela Velasco
Rating43% 2.151052.151052.151052.151052.15105
Des meurtres semblables à ceux attribués à Jack l'Éventreur sont commis à Madrid. Holmes (Gary Piquer), qui est sujet à des rêves prémonitoires au cours desquels il entrevoit la survenue de ces meurtres, décide de se rentre à Madrid pour enquêter sur l'affaire en compagnie du Docteur Watson (José Luis García Pérez) marié depuis peu à Mary Morstan (Leticia Dolera).
Blood of May, 2h32
Directed by José Luis Garci
Genres Historical
Actors Quim Gutiérrez, Paula Echevarría, Francisco Algora, Lucía Jiménez, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Carlos Larrañaga
Rating50% 2.5308852.5308852.5308852.5308852.530885
Year 1808. The young Gabriel Araceli (Quim Gutierrez) is working as a typesetter in a modest printing of Madrid. His girlfriend, Ines (Paula Echevarria), is a pretty orphan girl living in Aranjuez, hosted by his uncle, the evil Don Celestino Santos (Manuel Galiana). During his visit to the Royal Site to see the bride, Gabriel coincides with the historic uprising of 19 March against Godoy, whose palace is assaulted by the mob. Thinking about the girl's sake, Don Celestino consent to Inez moved to Madrid to live with their relatives also Don Mauro Requejo and sister Restituta. Gabriel, to be near his girlfriend, in response to a notice is provided as a waiter in the shop. With the help of the boy John of God, who is in love with the girl, tries to kidnap Agnes, for Don Mauro seeks nothing less than to marry her himself. And after many vicissitudes, Gabriel gets away with taking advantage Ines tumultuous reception that the people of Madrid surrenders to the new King Ferdinand VII, The Desire. They plan to flee to Cadiz, the birthplace of the boy, but times go scrambled because, under the pretext of their way to Portugal, Napoleon's troops entered Spain. I have made friends and allies, but the French soldiers are unpopular with the population of Madrid, which regards them as invaders. And on 2 May explodes the popular revolt against imperial outposts.
Sunday Light, 1h51
Directed by José Luis Garci
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Álex González, Alfredo Landa, Paula Echevarría, Carlos Larrañaga, Kiti Mánver, Toni Acosta
Rating62% 3.1437053.1437053.1437053.1437053.143705
In early 20th-century Spain, Urbano, an idealistic liberal young man arrives in Cenciella, a small village, to be a secretary at the town hall. Urbano falls in love with Estrella, the daughter of a local landowner Joaco. Politically, the town is split in two, with the forces of evil repped by mayor Atila. Urbano tries to remain neutral but his intentions would be brutally punished.
Ninette
Ninette (2005)
, 1h58
Directed by José Luis Garci
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Elsa Pataky, Beatriz Carvajal
Rating55% 2.7532752.7532752.7532752.7532752.753275
Ninette Sánchez (Elsa Pataky) is an intelligent, sexy, charming and spontaneous Parisian girl, daughter of Spanish republican exiles, working in the Galleries Lafayette. Her ingenuousness and beauty charms Andrés (Carlos Hipólito), a humble Spanish vendor of religious items from Murcia, who is staying with her family after he came to Paris to meet "easy" French women. Andrés falls for her many charms. Unfortunately, Ninette's parents, Armando (Enrique Villén) and Bernarda (Beatriz Carvajal) do not take the news well when Ninette announces that she is pregnant.
Merry-Go-Round c. 1950, 2h30
Directed by José Luis Garci
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors María Adánez, Elsa Pataky, Francisco Algora, María Asquerino, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Agustín González
Rating62% 3.144153.144153.144153.144153.14415
Set in Madrid in the years after the Second World War, the film offers a nostalgic vision of a city managing to sustain entertainment, hope and love in the face of post-war hardship.
Story of a Kiss, 1h45
Directed by José Luis Garci
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Alfredo Landa, Francisco Algora, Agustín González, Manuel Lozano
Rating60% 3.0470653.0470653.0470653.0470653.047065
The plot follows two different stories that take place decades apart from each other. Julio (Carlos Hipolito) attends the funeral of the uncle who raised him. After reminiscing with his uncle's friends, Julio remembers his childhood. At that time, his Uncle Blas (Alfredo Landa) fell in love with a much younger women who made him realize how dispassionate his life had become. The adult Julio also attempts to romance a fellow teacher.
You're the One, 1h51
Directed by José Luis Garci
Genres Drama
Actors Lydia Bosch, Julia Gutiérrez Caba, Manuel Lozano, Fernando Guillén, Marisa de Leza, Jesús Puente
Rating69% 3.4920453.4920453.4920453.4920453.492045
Julia, an only child of an affluent, bank owning family living in Madrid, escapes from her family to get over her grief that her boyfriend has been imprisoned. Julia is a well educated woman, having studied in Switzerland and England, who wants to become a writer. Julia drives to a little village in Asturias called "Corralbos del Sella" and there she stays in a mansion "llendelabarca" of an old childhood friend "Pilara" she had spent many a happy summer with. Also living there is Pilara's mother in law Tia Gala, and her grandson Juanito.
The Grandfather, 2h31
Directed by José Luis Garci
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Melodrama
Actors Fernando Fernán Gómez, Rafael Alonso, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Agustín González, Emma Cohen, Fernando Guillén Cuervo
Rating72% 3.6387153.6387153.6387153.6387153.638715
Don Rodrigo, Count of Albrit, an old Spanish aristocrat, returns to turn-of-the-20th-century Spain after losing his fortune in America. The death of his only son has made him come back to his family estate, now in possession of his daughter-in-law Lucrecia. Upon his return, Don Rodrigo is pleased to meet his granddaughters, Dolly and Nelly, both of whom are adorable and attentive towards him. However, there is something nagging Don Rodrigo.
La herida luminosa, 1h40
Directed by José Luis Garci
Genres Drama
Actors Fernando Guillén, Mercedes Sampietro, Julia Gutiérrez Caba, Neus Asensi, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, José Luis Merino
Rating60% 3.0015753.0015753.0015753.0015753.001575
Dr. Mills, a renowned cardiologist, and his wife Isabel, have had marital problem for a long time. They live accompanied by two maids in a provincial capital in the oppressive Spain of the 1950s. Unexpectedly Love Dr. Mills falls in love with Julia, a young colleague, feeling alive once again. Because Julia makes you feel alive again. Given the refusal of Isabel to a separation, the doctors resorts to crime which is make easier by his profession.
Course Completed, 1h34
Directed by José Luis Garci
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jesús Puente, Teresa Gimpera Flaquer, Pedro Lazaga
Rating61% 3.0955753.0955753.0955753.0955753.095575
Modèle:No plot
Double Feature, 1h55
Directed by José Luis Garci
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama
Actors Adolfo Marsillach, Emma Suárez, Encarna Paso, Jesús Puente, José Bódalo, Rafael Hernández
Rating58% 2.947812.947812.947812.947812.94781
The friendship between two writers, one is a novelist, the other is a screenwriter.
To Begin Again, 1h27
Directed by José Luis Garci
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Antonio Ferrandis, Agustín González, Encarna Paso, José Bódalo
Rating68% 3.4408153.4408153.4408153.4408153.440815
It is the year 1981, the famous writer Antonio Albajara (Antonio Ferrandis) arrives at Gijón, his hometown, from Stockholm, where he has just received the Nobel Prize in Literature. For forty years, Albajara has been a professor of medieval literature at the University of Berkeley, California. He has alternated his teaching with the literary production that has given him worldwide fame. In Gijón, Antonio is reunited with Elena, his first and great love, before he was forced to his exile in 1937 Civil War. However, this visit is not definitive because a serious and deadly disease affects the writer.