Fernando Fernán Gómez Filmography

The City of No Limits

Actors: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Geraldine Chaplin, Ana Fernandez, Adriana Ozores

Synopsis: Max (Fernando Fernán Gómez), the wealthy family patriarch and head of a pharmaceuticals business, is dying of cancer and has relocated from Madrid to a Paris hospital for treatment. The members of his family, including his wife, Marie (Geraldine Chaplin), have gathered around him there. Victor (Leonardo Sbaraglia Read More

Lazaro De Tormes

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rafael Alvarez, Karra Elejalde, Beatriz Rico, Francisco Algora, Juan Luis Galiardo

Visionarios

Actors: Eduardo Noriega, Ingrid Rubio, Emma Suarez, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Karra Elejalde

Synopsis: This drama from Spain was inspired by a real-life incident in the 1930s when a number of people living in a small Basque village claimed to have seen apparitions of the Virgin Mary. In the early '30s, an anti-clerical movement swept through Spain and it was decreed that state-sponsored schools Read More

Butterfly

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Manuel Lozano, Uxia Blanco, Gonzalo Martin Uriarte, Alexis de Los Santos

Synopsis: Veteran director Jose Luis Cuerda delivered this sensitive portrait of a child coming of age during a tense political situation just before the Spanish Civil War. On his first day of school, frail eight-year-old Moncho (Manuel Lozano) is so terrified by the imposing figure of his teacher Don Read More

Plenilunio

Actors: Miguel Ángel Solá, Adriana Ozores, Juan Diego Botto, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Chete Lera

Synopsis: Romance and murder walk side by side in this psychological drama from Spain. A serial killer has been plying his grisly trade in a small town in Spain, murdering young girls and leaving their bodies in a nearby forest. A police inspector (Miguel Angel Sola) is sent in to investigate -- his first Read More

All About My Mother

Actors: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penélope Cruz, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Eloy Azorín, Rosa María Sardà

Synopsis: Pedro Almodóvar directed this story of a woman and her circle of friends who find themselves suffering a variety of emotional crises. Manuela (Cecilia Roth) is a single mother who has raised her son, Esteban (Eloy Azorín), to adulthood on her own and has come to emotionally depend on him. One Read More

The Grandfather

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Rafael Alonso, Cayetana Guillen-Cuervo, Agustin Gonzalez, Cristina Cruz

Synopsis: Rodrigo de Arista (Fernando Fernan-Gomez) is an elderly Spanish gentleman who went to the United States in hopes of cashing in on the gold rush, but returned to Northern Spain with very little to show for his efforts. He discovers upon his arrival that his son has died, leaving behind a wife Read More

Pepe Guindo

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Verónica Forqué, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz, Yael Barnatan

Synopsis: Veteran Spanish film star Fernando Fernan-Gomez plays, appropriately enough, a veteran actor looking back on his career and wondering what his relatively short future will hold. Don Agustin is a 65-year-old actor travelling to Madrid to perform his one-man show Pepe Guindo, in which he Read More

Tram A La Malvarrosa

Actors: Liberto Rabal, Jorge Merino, Ariadna Gil, Sergio Villanueva, Antonio Resines

Synopsis: Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Spanish author Manuel Vincent, this drama chronicles the coming-of-age of a young man who grew up in Spain during the late '50s, the time when Franco's regime was dominating the country. The film opens in 1957 as Manuel returns from boarding school to Read More

Belle Epoque

Actors: Penélope Cruz, Miriam Diaz-Aroca, Gabino Diego, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Ariadna Gil, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: After striking responsive chord at the Berlin Film Festival, Fernando Trueba's Belle Epoque (aka Age of Beauty) went on to win 9 Spanish Goya awards and an Academy Award for "Best Foreign Film." Set in pre-Franco Spain, film stars Jorge Sanz as Fernando, a carefree, pacifistic army deserter. Read More

El Rey Pasmado

Actors: Gabino Diego, Laura del Sol, Joaquim de Almeida, Maria Barranco, Juan Diego

Synopsis: It is 1620, and the young King of Spain (Gabino Diego) is technically a married man, because the great churchmen have conducted a grand public wedding ceremony joining him with a wife. However, as the real rulers of the state, they have perversely kept him completely innocent in matters of sex, so Read More

Cuentos De Borges I

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Fernando Guillén, Pastora Vega, Hugo Soto, Miguel Dedovich

Marcellino

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Alberto Cracco, Didier Benureau

Synopsis: A young boy abandoned at a monastery attempts to come to reconcile his faith with the violence and unpredictability of the outside world in this drama from director Luigi Comencini. In the 16th century, war is raging and a young mother abandons her baby at the door of a crumbling monastery. Named Read More

Fuera de Juego

Crew: Director

El Mar y el Tiempo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Rafaela Aparicio, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Christina Marsillach

Synopsis: After the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Spain was governed by the moralistic and occasionally heavy-handed Falangist regime of General Francisco Franco. However, as time passed, the government's strict restrictions on public behavior, divorce and so on were eased. Compared to the 1940s in Spain Read More

La Mitad Del Cielo

Actors: Ángela Molina, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Margarita Lozano, Antonio V. Valero, Nacho Martinez

Synopsis: Rosa (Angela Molina) has one burning desire: to escape the grinding poverty in which she was born. To this end, Rosa takes a job at a fancy eatery in Madrid. Slowly and methodically, she becomes the city's Number One restaurateur. Not that she hasn't had a little "extra help" along the way: in Read More

Esquilache

Actors: Ángela Molina, Concha Velasco, Adolfo Marsillach

Synopsis: After the death of Carlos II in 1700, the throne of Spain was up for grabs, and all the European powers got involved. Even after the next king was crowned, anarchy and poverty marred the lives of the Spanish for many years. Finally, Carlos III, attempted to bring significant reforms with the Read More

Vera

Actors: Ana Beatriz Nogueira, Raul Cortez, Aida Leiner, Carlos Kroeber, Cida Almeida

Synopsis: Brazilian teenager Vera (Ana Beatriz Nogueria) is released from the orphanage where she has spent most of her life. Her brutal experiences while a ward of the State have caused her to adopt masculine dress and mannerisms--a successful effort to wield power over her fellow orphans. On the outside Read More

Moros Y Cristianos

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Andres Pajares, Rosa María Sardà, José Luis Lopez Vasquez, Agustin Gonzalez

Synopsis: In this comedy, a manufacturer of turrón, a candy which resembles the honey-almond confection halvah, wants to promote it outside the regions of southern Spain where it is a traditional Christmas treat. It is particularly associated with a festival during which the wars between the Christians and Read More

Delirios de Amor

Cara de Acelga

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Marisa Paredes, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba

Synopsis: Antonio (Jose M. Sacristan) is a vagabond traveler who hitches a ride into a small town. He takes a job in a restaurant before landing a better job in the local movie theater. Antonio remembers the owner as the woman who employed his acting troupe years before when he was a young child. He later Read More

Pobre Mariposa

Actors: Graciela Borges, Lautaro Murúa, Pepe Soriano, Victor Laplace, Cipe Lincovsky

Synopsis: A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who Read More

Viaje A Ninguna Parte

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Laura del Sol, Juan Diego, Maria Luisa Ponte, Gabino Diego

Synopsis: The spirit, hopes, and failures of a troupe of itinerant performers in the 1950s create a poignant, humorous leitmotif in this drama by Fernando Fernan-Gomez. The story of the wandering players is told in flashbacks, as Carlos Galvan (Jose M. Sacristan) reminisces about the good times while under Read More

Mambru Se Fue A La Guerra

Crew: Director

Actors: Agustin Gonzalez, Emma Cohen, Jorge Sanz

Synopsis: In a story with a good premise, a man who has been hiding in a cave for 40 years decides he is finally ready to come out and re-integrate himself into village life. He went into hiding to escape the harsh rule of the fascist dictator Francisco Franco. After Franco dies in 1975, the cave-dweller Read More

De Hombre a Hombre

Marbella, un Golpe de Cinco Estrellas

Synopsis: While at a Spanish resort town, a wealthy man is lifted of $3 million as part of a nefarious scheme. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Luces de Bohemia

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Agustin Gonzalez, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Imanol Arias, Berta Riaza

Synopsis: The poetic and iconoclastic lights of Bohemia have been dimmed in this interpretation of the original play by Ramon Valle-Inclan. Set at the turn of the 20th century in Madrid, the focus is on a perpetual drunk, the blind Max Estrella (Francisco Rabal) and his verses, sayings, and total disregard Read More

La Corte de Faraon

Actors: Ana Belén, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Antonio Banderas, Josema Yuste, Agustin Gonzalez

Synopsis: La Corte de Faraon is a romp of a zarzuela ("operetta" is a loose translation) that first appeared in 1910 (original libretto by Guillermo Perrin and Miguel de Palacios, original music by Vicente Lleó). The Pharaoh rewards his victorious general Putifar (Josema Yuste) with a new bride, Lota (Ana Belen Read More

Requiem Por Un Campesino Espanol

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Terele Pavez

Synopsis: Hypocrisy and betrayal are the two dramatic pivots in this effective, emotionally gripping tragedy about the life and death of Paco (Antonio Banderas), a Spanish peasant who had been fighting against the feudal landowning system that kept farmers impoverished. Paco's life is told in flashbacks by Read More

Las Bicicletas Son Para El Verano

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Amparo Soler Leal, Agustin Gonzalez, Victoria Abril, Patricia Adriani

Synopsis: In his second successful starring role in 1983, Agustín Gonzalez is a father who runs a wine shop in Madrid, a city under a three-year siege (1936-1939) because the Nationalists forces of Francisco Franco need to take Madrid before the fascist dictator can be installed in power. The siege has left Read More

Los Zancos

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Laura del Sol, Antonio Banderas, Francisco Rabal

Synopsis: Carlos Saura's The Stilts (Los Zancos) features Fernando Gomez as a middle-aged professor/playwright. Falling head over heels in love with actress Laura DelSol, Gomez begins obsessing on the girl, despite her unwillingness to make a commitment. When another, younger man (Francisco Rabal) enters Read More

La Noche Más Hermosa

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Victoria Abril, Bibi Andersen, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Oscar Ladoire

Synopsis: This ostensible comedy about the affairs or non-existent affairs of television executive Federico José Sacristán and his actress wife Elena Victoria Abril) is almost as hard to believe as director Manuel Gutiérrez-Aragón's previous effort Feroz. Federico convinces a friend to attempt to seduce his Read More

Stico

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Agustin Gonzalez, Carmen Elias

Synopsis: Leopoldo Contreras (Fernando Fernán Gómez) is a burnt-out university professor who convinces a married couple to take him on as a live-in servant, in exchange for room and board. The absurdity of this supposedly serious proposition only worsens when the "servant" discovers he has $200,000 in Read More

Soldados de Plomo

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Silvia Munt, Assumpta Serna, Amparo Rivelles

Synopsis: Confusion seems to settle over this drama like dust on a polished surface, until the layers are so thick that nothing is seen clearly any more. Andrés (José Sacristán) goes back to Spain from Mexico because a lawyer has sent for him. Andrés has inherited an enormous piece of property -- an old Read More

Feroz

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Frederic de Pasquale

Synopsis: This fantasy about a young man who becomes a bear, who becomes a young man again is equally ambivalent in its identity -- it is a drama that becomes a comedy that becomes a satire, and is not quite a straightforward fable. After the young man runs away from being shackled to a cabin, he spends the Read More

Juana la Loca... de Vez En Cuando

Interior Rojo

Apaga... Y Vamonos

Besame Tonta

Maravillas

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Cristina Marcos, Enrique San Francisco, León Klimovsky, Eduardo McGregor

Synopsis: A young Catholic girl takes viewers through a changing Spanish political and social landscape as she develops from her confirmation day to adulthood. Her first experience with the real Spain comes when her Jewish godfathers cannot come to her confirmation. One of the godfathers, using a ring Read More

127 Millones Libres de Impuestos

Cinco Tenedores

Crew: Director

Actors: Concha Velasco, Jose Sazatornil, Rafael Alonso, Agustin Gonzalez

Synopsis: The title of this comedy refers to a section of Madrid known for its posh restaurants. When a German chef chops off his wife's head with a meat cleaver on the last night before the business closes for the season, the owner takes pity on the chef's only child and hides the high-school student in Read More

Mama Cumple Cien Años

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Amparo Muñoz, Rafaela Aparicio, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Norman Brisky

Synopsis: For the Spanish Mama Turns a Hundred, director Carlos Saura reassembles many of his cast members from his 1972 Anna and the Wolves. As Mama reaches the century mark, her wolf-pack relatives go fang and claw after currying her favor in hopes of a large legacy. The film is set during the Franco Read More

Los Restos Del Naufragio

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Ángela Molina, Ricardo Franco, Alfredo Mayo

Synopsis: Whatever his reasons or intent, when the young man carrying a cello begins working at the old-folks home, he strikes up an acquaintance with the man known as "the Maestro" (Fernando Fernan Gomez), who is full of plans to produce a play based on a Caribbean love affair and adventure in his youth. Read More

Arriba Hazaña

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Héctor Alterio, José M. Sacristán, Lola Herrera

Synopsis: Mañuel Azana was the last man elected as president of the Spanish Republic before the Spanish Civil War. In this 1970s film, Spanish schoolchildren are taught about him in their history classes but get the name confused, referring to him as "Hazana." Because for them he represents a kind of Read More

Mi Hija Hildegart

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Amparo Soler Leal, Carlos Velat, Pedro Diaz del Corral

Synopsis: Aurora is a dedicated feminist in the early part of this century, who doesn't need men in her life. She successfully arranges to be impregnated by a man so that she can have a child. The child turns out to be the girl Hildegart, an intellectual prodigy, gifted at languages, music, and literature. Read More

Reina Zanahoria

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Marilina Ross, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Diana Polakov, Fernando Hilbeck

Synopsis: A group of businessmen have discovered a man whose face resembles that of the two former husbands of a woman known as "the carrot queen," for her huge carrot-growing empire. In this comedy, they intend to use him as bait to induce the hard-headed businesswoman to sign a lucrative carrot Read More

Parranda

Actors: José Luis Gómez, José M. Sacristán, Antonio Ferrandis, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Charo Lopez

Synopsis: Three booze-soaked near-derelicts have a series of macabre adventures on the day when one of them was supposed to report to his new job at the mine, located near their northern Spanish town. Set at the end of the 19th century, and based on A Esmorga by Eduardo Balnacoamer, this story follows the Read More

La Querida

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ricardo Merino

Synopsis: La Querida tells the story of a woman (Rocio Jurado), gifted as a singer, who wants to rise from her lowly status as a barroom prostitute to become the mistress of a rich man. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

El Anacoreta

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Claude Dauphin, Charo Soriano, Jose Maria Mompin

Synopsis: In this tragicomedy, loosely based on a tale by Anatole France, Fernando Fernan Gomez plays a man who has locked himself away in the bathroom of his apartment in Madrid after furnishing it with various necessities. In a wan attempt to communicate with the far-distant world, he flushes aspirin Read More

Yo Soy Fulana de Tal

Yo La Vi Primero

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Manuel Summer, Fernando Rubio, León Klimovsky

Synopsis: When the mind of a six-year-old wakes up in a 36-year-old body, it causes some confusion for all concerned. After having been in a coma since he was six, when the boy awakens he is greeted by his parents, a psychiatrist, teachers and a priest. This large group attempts to bring the boy in a man's Read More

Pim, Pam, Pum . . . Fuego!

Actors: José Orjas, Mara Goyanes

Synopsis: Even during the Second World War, some Spanish anti-Nazis worked to sabotage the Germans operating in their supposedly neutral country. This drama explores the love between a showgirl and a younger man who has been such a guerilla. She is also the mistress of a local black-market gangster, and Read More

El Amor del Capitan Brando

Actors: Ana Belén

Synopsis: Aurora (Ana Belen) is a high-school teacher. When two attractive men fall in love with her, she enjoys their attention. One of them is a young student of hers (Jaime Gamboa), the other is a man returning from his many years of exile following the Spanish Civil War (Fernando Fernan Gomez). Her Read More

Fragments from Willoughby's Video... Part 1

Synopsis: Video art by Willoughby Sharp. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Spirit of the Beehive

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Telleria

Synopsis: Widely regarded as a masterpiece of Spanish cinema, this allegorical tale is set in a remote village in the 1940s. The life in the village is calm and uneventful -- an allegory of Spanish life after General Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War. While their father (Fernando Fernán Gómez) Read More

Vera...Un Cuento Cruel

Synopsis: In this Spanish Gothic romance/thriller, based on a story by Villiers d'Isle-Adam, Count Alfredo is grief-stricken in the worst way after the death of his French bride. Alfredo announces that he intends to mourn his dead wife for a while, and then join her in death in a crypt next to hers. Their Read More

Ana y los Lobos

Synopsis: This Spanish drama verges on parody as it explores the convoluted, repressed personalities of a family dominated by a powerful mother. The mother's frustrations have warped the men. The three men's foibles are revealed during the visit of a young English woman. Director Saura has used intensified Read More

Los Gallos de la Madrugada

Actors: Alfredo Mayo

Synopsis: This Spanish-language detective story investigates the death of a lovely young woman (Conchita Velasco). The film begins with the discovery of her body on a beach in southern Spain. A vagrant tinker (Fernando Fernan Gomez) who is implicated in her death investigates it alongside the police. Also Read More

Crimen Imperfecto

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A taxi driver and a failed actor accept an underworld job that could make them rich in this madcap crime comedy from director Antonio del Real. Down-on-his-luck Augusto drives a cab for a living, and his best friend, Julio, just can't seem to land any good roles. When a local crime kingpin offers Read More

De Profesion, Sus Labores

Pierna Creciente, Falda Menguante

Por Que Pecamos a Los Cuarenta?

Estudio Amueblado 2p

Como Casarse En Siete Dias

Crew: Director

La Vil Seduccion

El Extrano Viaje

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This dark comedy directed by Fernando Fernan Gomez concerns a trio of secluded, childish siblings with a very bizarre lifestyle. Ignacia (Tota Alba) is a vicious harridan who mercilessly berates her younger sister Paquita (Rafaela Aparicio), eventually beating her severely. Outraged brother Read More

Mayores Con Reparos

Crew: Director

Ninette Y un Senor de Murcia

Crew: Director

Un Vampiro Para Dos

El Mundo sigue

Crew: Director

Rififi En la Ciudad

Actors: Antonio Prieto, Jean Servais

Synopsis: Wily police officials set a trap for corrupt Central American politician Maurice Leprince (Jean Servais) in this rare thriller from director Jesus Franco. Leprince's gang murders all those who stand in their way, including a bartending informant (Manuel Gas), but they are soon murdered as well. Fernando Fernan Gomez Read More