José M. SacristánFilmography

Mario Vargas Llosa: The Biography

Actors: Jose Vargas Llosa, Alfredo Barnechea, Gladys Eguren Llosa, Abelardo Oquendo, Julia Uriquidi

Synopsis: Mario Vargas Llosa: The Biography surveys the life and career of the critically acclaimed novelist. The writers shifting political views are charted, and explained within the context of his upbringing. The filmmakers touch briefly on a variety of his most famous works. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Read More

Roma

Actors: Juan Diego Botto, Susú Pecoraro, José M. Sacristán, Agustín Garvíe, Vando Villamil

Synopsis: An aging author's life story sets the stage for an look back at the political turmoil and social upheaval of Argentina in the 1950s and '60s in this historical drama from filmmaker Adolfo Aristarain. Acclaimed novelist Joaquín Góñez (José Sacristán) has agreed to write his memoirs, and young Read More

Things That Make Life Worth Living

Actors: Ana Belén, Eduard Fernández, José M. Sacristán, María Pujalte, Rosario Pardo

Adao e Eva

Actors: Joaquim de Almeida, Maria de Medeiros

Synopsis: This Portuguese language comedy is about a very contemporary love triangle. Caterina (Maria de Medeiros) is a beautiful, opportunistic and charming woman, a TV journalist. She pretends to be smitten by a handsome political do-gooder in order to gain an exclusive interview with him. She also uses Read More

Un Lugar en el Mundo

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Federico Luppi, Cecilia Roth, Leonor Benedetto

Synopsis: Adolfo Aristarain and Alberto Lecchi wrote this South American western in which sheep-herders battle a ruthless landowner. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Todo es Mentira

Actors: Penélope Cruz, Coque Malla, Jordi Mollà, Gustavo Salmerón, Irene Bau

Synopsis: Life and love provides the focus for this Spanish comedy which focuses upon four couples. Pablo, a pessimist, has a new lover. His relationship is very similar to the relationships of his three friends. Though they are all dissatisfied with their mates, none of the possess the courage to change Read More

Todos a la Carcel

Actors: Jose Sazatornil, José M. Sacristán, Antonio Resines, Juan Luis Galiardo

Synopsis: This Spanish comedy set in a Valencia prison, contains political overtones. A promoter decides to organize a gala dinner to pay tribute to the political prisoners. Naturally the media is invited to the event. Every one at the dinner comes with his or her own agenda and it isn't long before Read More

La Ardilla Roja

Actors: Emma Suarez, Maria Barranco, Karra Elejalde

Synopsis: When he sees a motorcycle go over the side of the boardwalk at San Sebastian, crashing onto the beach, Jota goes to see what happened. He discovers that the vehicle was being driven by an attractive young woman. He calls an ambulance and gets onto it with her. When the emergency medical staff Read More

El Pajaro De La Felicidad

Actors: Mercedes Sampietro, José M. Sacristán, Carlos Hipolito

Synopsis: Carmen (Mercedes Sampietro) is a puzzle to all the people who surround her: her parents, her grown son, and a charming literature professor. They cannot understand how she can prefer solitude to being in their company. Her work certainly thrives in solitude, as she is a restorer of old paintings. Read More

La Madre Muerta

Actors: Karra Elejalde, Lio, Ana Alvarez

Synopsis: Ismael ( Karra Elejalde) is a thief who, as this thriller opens, is robbing the home of a woman painter. When she unexpectedly returns while he is riffling through her possessions, he kills her without a second thought. At some point as he is escaping the scene, however, he discovers that the Read More

Madregilda

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Juan Echanove, Barbara Auer, Kamel Cherif, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: Spain, having suffered a civil war in the 1930s, was a neutral country during World War II. Generalissimo Francisco Franco (Juan Echanove) was the sole ruler of what was then deliberately fashioned into a puritanical society. In this satire, the hypocrisy of Madrid society in that period is Read More

Yo Me Bajo En la Proxima. Y Usted?

Crew: Director

High Heels

Actors: Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bose, Féodor Atkine, Pedro Diaz del Corral

Synopsis: Written and directed by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almódovar, Tacones Lejanos is a murder mystery centering on flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo (Marisa Paredes) and her daughter Rebecca (Victoria Abril), a television anchorwoman. After being estranged for 15 years, Becky re-enters Rebecca's life Read More

El Vuelo De La Paloma

Actors: Ana Belén, José M. Sacristán, Juan Echanove, Juan Luis Galiardo, Antonio Resines

Synopsis: This wacky comedy depicts a single day in and around the set of a movie on the Spanish Civil War being filmed in a working class Madrid neighborhood. Paloma, (Ana Belen), a bored housewife with a husband who is too concerned about being exploited by "the ruling classes" to work, must evade the Read More

Viaje A Ninguna Parte

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

Estranger - Oh! De La Calle Cruz Del Sur

Cara de Acelga

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

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

La Vaquilla

Actors: Guillermo Montesinos, Alfredo Landa, José M. Sacristán, Carlos Velat, Violeta Cela

Synopsis: This entertaining comedy is set in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War when a group of Republican soldiers sneak into a village in enemy territory to steal a bull with plans of butchering it to feed themselves. Fate and the bull itself, however, have other plans. One of the surreptitious Read More

Rustlers' Rhapsody

Crew: Stunts

Actors: Tom Berenger, G.W. Bailey, Marilu Henner, Andy Griffith, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: An amusing spoof of the good 'ole westerns back in the halcyon days when all the cliches were held up as icons, this parody by Hugh Wilson works best for savvy audiences. Rex O'Herlihan (Tom Berenger) is a singing cowboy with a wardrobe straight out of the Hollywood westerns of the '40s -- he Read More

Dos Mejor Que Uno

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

Epilogo

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Francisco Rabal, Charo Lopez, Manuel Zarzo

Synopsis: Director Gonzalo Suárez wrote this sequel to his 1967 film Ditirambo in which the lead character has a friend and fellow writer named Rocabruno (Francisco Rabal) who struggles with writer's block on a grand scale. Ditirambo (José Sacristán) has more enthusiasm than his friend, and unflinchingly Read More

Soldados de Plomo

Crew: Director

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

La Colmena

Actors: Victoria Abril, Ana Belén, Francisco Rabal, Mario Pardo

Synopsis: Based on a 1943 book of the same title by Camilo José Cela, Colmena features the comings and goings of a wide variety of characters, all trying to survive in a poverty-stricken Madrid during World War II. Rather than feature any single story line, these people from all walks of life cross paths Read More

Estoy En Crisis

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Christina Marsillach, Mercedes Sampietro, Fernando Vivanco

Synopsis: Bernabe (José Sacristán) works as an artistic director for a publicity firm but his avocation is fawning after his bosses, sleeping with whomever might advance his career, and ignoring his wife. Life continues on in this vein until he meets a young model whom he invites up to his boss's Read More

Que Vienen Los Socialistas!

La Cripta

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Rafaela Aparicio, Blanca Guerra, Carlos Lucena

Synopsis: As cryptic as the title itself, Cripta is about an inmate in a mental hospital who is released to help solve the mystery of a girl who has been missing for six years. After many forays into the darker side of Barcelona, he accomplishes his task and then goes back to the mental hospital. ~ Eleanor Read More

Operazione Ogro

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Eusebio Poncela, Ángela Molina, Saverio Marconi, José M. Sacristán

Synopsis: This thriller is based on the still politically sensitive story of the assassination of General Francisco Franco's heir apparent General Carrero Blanco. The General was to have been kidnapped by the Basque separatists, but when that proved too difficult, they arranged to bomb his car (with him in Read More

Letti Selvaggi

Actors: Ursula Andress, Laura Antonelli, Sylvia Kristel, Monica Vitti, Orazio Orlando

Synopsis: In this standard but toned-down sex comedy, seven different vignettes starring female leads like Monica Vitti, Ursula Andress, Laura Antonelli, and Sylvia Kristel portray various questionable exploits headed by women with minds of their own. Antonelli, for example, plays a dynamic businesswoman Read More

El Diputado

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Maria Luisa San Jose, José Luis Alonso, Angel Pardo, Agustin Gonzalez

Synopsis: Roberto Orbea (Jose M. Sacristan) is a Spanish socialist politician who used to be a lawyer. In the film, which is almost completely told in "flashbacks," he reminisces about his recent life. Despite many years of hiding his political beliefs, he is imprisoned and realizes while in prison that he Read More

La Triple Mort Du Troisieme Personnage

Actors: José M. Sacristán, André Dussollier, Brigitte Fossey, Patricia Guzman, Marcel Dossogne

Synopsis: Four men are tortured in a South American prison. Two of them survive, are released, and are sent into exile in France. However, their new freedom does not mean that their former captors aren't keeping an eye on them. When one of them publishes a book, all sorts of problems ensue. ~ Clarke Read More

Miedo a Salir de Noche

Solos En La Madrugada

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Fiorella Faltoyano, Emma Cohen, Maria Casanova

Synopsis: Jose (Jose M. Sacristan) is a radio disk jockey living in Post-Franco Madrid. He is in his 30s and is separated from his wife. After a liaison with a scholar, he discovers another possible match with a woman who works at the same radio station, who has known and loved him since they were both Read More

Oro Rojo

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Isela Vega, Hugo Stiglitz, Patricia Adriani

Synopsis: Blood is the Red Gold of this film's title. When a sailor arrives on an island dictatorship and is a little too flashy with his money, he is soon robbed of it. He finds himself among the down-and-outers, who sell blood for enough money to survive on. Unable to avoid trouble, the sailor is quickly 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

Hasta Que el Matrimonio Nos Separe

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Maria Luisa San Jose, Cristina Galbo, Juan Luis Galiardo

Synopsis: Fortunately, the engineer in this movie never gets around to marrying his pregnant American girlfriend in the church or her their subsequent divorce would have left him in no position to remarry. Ironically, when he proposes to his new girlfriend, a nurse, she confesses to being separated from her 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

Asignatura Pendiente

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Silvia Tortosa, Héctor Alterio

Synopsis: A married professional man and an equally married woman become lovers in the last days of Franco's rule in Spain. The two were an item when they were in college, and both of them are bored with their married state. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Un Hombre Llamado 'Flor de Otono'

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Paco Algora, Carmen Carbonell, Roberto Camardiel

Synopsis: Set in 1920s Barcelona, this Spanish film explores the events leading up to an assassination attempt made on the life of dictator Primo de Rivera by an upper-class transvestite homosexual with anarchist political views. Scenes from his "characteristic" lifestyle are reconstructed for the movie, as 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

Las Largas Vacaciones del 36

Actors: Concha Velasco, Ismael Merlo, Ángela Molina, Francisco Rabal, Charo Soriano

Synopsis: Set near Barcelona at the time of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, this epic drama explores the adventures suffered by an uncommitted vacationing family caught unawares by the conflict. In focusing on the war's effects on the family, this film was able to offer much more devastating Read More

The Woman with Red Boots

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Jacques Weber, Laura Betti

Synopsis: Perrot (Fernando Rey) is a rich man. He is also a meddling, busybody art-hating wacko. It may be that he is a woman-hater as well, for he certainly causes enough trouble for the well-regarded writer, Françoise (Catherine Deneuve). Fortunately, she has resources of calmness and clairvoyance which Read More

Los Nuevos Espanoles

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Maria Luisa San Jose, Amparo Soler Leal, Antonio Ferrandis, Manuel Zarzo

Synopsis: In Los Nuevos Espanoles, the slow-paced and happily inefficient lives of the "old" Spaniards is transformed as international corporations demand that they conform to more modern standards. In this spoof/satire, five "old Spaniard" insurance brokers suffer through the training techniques of the Read More

Senora Doctor

Paris Bien Vale Una Moza

Vente a Ligar Al Oeste

Don Erre Que Erre

Una Senora Llamada Andres

El Angel

Como Esta El Servicio!

La Familia Y...Uno Mas

Atrevete y Veras

Actors: Ana Belén, Eduard Fernández, María Pujalte, José M. Sacristán, Rosario Pardo