Juanjo PuigcorbeFilmography

Unconscious

Actors: Leonor Watling, Luis Tosar, Mercedes Sampietro, Juanjo Puigcorbe, Nuria Prims

Synopsis: An expectant, ultra-modern mother living in 1913 Barcelona is thrust into a complex and labyrinthine mystery when her psychiatrist husband goes missing and she is forced to seek the help of her conservative brother-in-law in locating her missing spouse in director Joaquin Oristrell's Freudian Read More

Amnesia

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini, Martina Stella, Juanjo Puigcorbe, Ruben Ochandano

Synopsis: Directed by Gabriele Salvatores, Amnesia takes place in the Spanish island of Ibiza, where an odd mix of commercialism, ex-hippies, fisherman, and artists co-exist. Town locals Sandro (Diego Abatantunono), a pornographic film director, and Angelino (Sergio Rubini), the manager of a beachside Read More

Novios

Actors: Juanjo Puigcorbe, Candela Peña, Juan Diego Botto, Maria Barranco, Karra Elejalde

Synopsis: In this farce, noted Spanish director Joaquin Oristrell sets his sights on a raving sexist and the aftermath of his misdeeds. Ex-athlete and restaurateur Arturo splits his time between training his slow-witted son Arturito in the finer points of speed walking and having an affair with his Read More

La Mirada Del Otro

Actors: Laura Morante, Jose Coronado, Miguel A. Garcia, Sancho Gracia, Juanjo Puigcorbe

Synopsis: Scripter Alvaro del Amo and director Vicente Aranda adapted this Spanish film from Fernando G. Delgado's prize-winning novel. The story follows the psychosexual experiments of upper-middle-class consultant Begona (Laura Morante). Japanese businessmen arrive in Madrid to test a palm-size video Read More

Amores Que Matan

Actors: Carmen Maura, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Juanjo Puigcorbe

Synopsis: Set in the suburbs, this tale of seduction, philandering, vengeance and murder is told with an airy, comical twist. The tale begins in summer on the day in which jealous husband Marco chokes his wife to death and then buries her in his backyard. He killed her because he discovered that she was Read More

Al Limite

Actors: Juanjo Puigcorbe, Lydia Bosch, Béatrice Dalle, Bud Spencer

Synopsis: This Spanish-French thriller is set in Madrid where latenight radio talk-show host Elena (Beatrice Dalle) gets a call from serial killer Javier Barea (Juanjo Puigcorbe, best-known for his comedy roles) who claims he will kill within the hour. Lawyer Maria Ramos (played by Spanish soap-opera star Lydia Bosch Read More

Mirada Liquida

Synopsis: On a dark and rainy night, a deeply troubled Antonio drives a saddened Laura home from the hospital after witnessing the painful death of her husband (Antonio's best friend), Tomas. In a series of flashbacks, as water splashes down the darkened car windows, Antonio tells her how he came to marry Read More

Corazon Loco

El Dedo En La Llaga

Synopsis: In this lively Spanish-Argentine comic fantasy, two luckless actors get angry and with the help of a high school drama class jolt a sleepy, rural Argentina town into to taking much-needed political action. Before coming to town the disillusioned duo were making a meager existence performing their Read More

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health

Actors: Ana Belén, Juanjo Puigcorbe, Penélope Cruz

Synopsis: This sophisticated Spanish romantic comedy charts the course of a long-time on-again-off again love affair between Diana Balaguer and Santi Garcia. The story begins at a sumptuous dinner party for the King of Spain. There the beauteous Diana Balaguer makes eye contact with security guard Santi Read More

Todos Los Hombres Sois Iguales

Synopsis: This Spanish sex-comedy comes from director Manuel Gomez Pereira and focuses on a trio of divorced men who agree to swear off relationships with women. Burned to many times by the fairer sex, roommates Juan, Joaquin, and Manolo make a pact that they will stay single forever. However, when they Read More

Els De Davant

Actors: Juanjo Puigcorbe, Estelle Skornik, Carmen Elias, Gricha Tchernov

Synopsis: In this Spanish-French drama, a Turkish diplomat in Soviet Georgia during 1932 attempts to solve the mysterious death of his predecessor. It is based on the book by Belgian author Georges Simenon. Adil Bey has just been assigned to replace the recently deceased consul at Batum, a town on the Black Read More

Justino, un Asesino de la Tercera Edad

Actors: Saturnino Garcia

Synopsis: There are many minor occupations in the bullfighting profession aside from the one most people focus on. In this black comedy, Justino (Saturnino Garcia) is a sixty-two year old retired puntillero who lives a carefree life, hanging out at the local bar with his cronies while living with his Read More

Rosa Rosae

Mi Hermano Del Alma

Actors: Juanjo Puigcorbe, Carlos Hipolito, Lydia Bosch, Juan Echanove, Jordi Mollà

Synopsis: Carlos (Carlos Hipolito) is a steady sort of fellow, a law-abiding insurance salesman. Somehow, in his competition with his raffish, gambling-addicted brother Toni (Juanjo Puigcorbe), he has won the hand of Julia (Lydia Bosche) and they have married. For ten years, they have generally gone their Read More

Le Journal de Lady M

Actors: Myriam Mezieres, Felicite Wouassi, Antoine Basler

Synopsis: Lady M (Myriam Mezieres) sings in some of the less well-known Paris clubs. She's a gifted performer and is quite beautiful, but her work is not the sort that invites popular acclaim. Despite the fact that she is unlikely to become famous, she enjoys her life as a performer who lives just outside Read More

Les Gens d'en Face

La Reina Anonima

Actors: Carmen Maura, Marisa Paredes, Juanjo Puigcorbe, Jesus Bonilla, Cristina Marcos

Synopsis: Ana Luz's husband has gone away for a little while. While he's away, she experiences every possible irruption into her house, from a troupe of actors to a woman claiming to be her husband's lover. She seems to kill a plumber with her screwdriver, and her neighbor apparently kills a policeman. Just Read More

Ho Sap El Ministre

Actors: Rosa María Sardà, Juanjo Puigcorbe, Juan Luis Galiardo, Jose Sazatornil, Muntsa Alcañiz

Synopsis: In this sex farce, two eccentric manufacturing families from far-flung regions of Spain have come to Madrid in order to try and influence a government ministry's decision about who will make a particular set of Army uniforms. The man of the house, in one of the families, has married into it purely Read More

Un Paraguas Para Tres

Actors: Juanjo Puigcorbe, Eulalia Ramon, Icíar Bollaín, Francis Lorenzo, German Cobos

Synopsis: Daniel and Maria were lovers at one time, but they have long since broken their affair off. However, when they keep running into one another at a Madrid department store, they start to think that perhaps Fate is saying something to them, and reluctantly they try to give one another a second chance Read More

Salsa Rosa

Lo Sabe El Ministro?

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

Actors: Carmen Maura, Antonio Resines, Juanjo Puigcorbe, Carmen Conesa, Tina Sainz

Synopsis: In this comedy from Spain, Carmen (Carmen Maura) is a woman in her early 40s who is nearing the end of her rope juggling a career as a reporter, taking care of her two children, minding the house, and dealing with a husband (her third) who thinks that she doesn't pay enough attention to him, and Read More

La Diputada

Pasion Lejana

Mi General

Actors: Fernando Rey, Héctor Alterio, José Luis Lopez Vasquez

Synopsis: The generals in this comedy probably got their positions the old-fashioned way: through having good connections (and/or lots of family money) and sufficient seniority. What is certain is that they have no affinity for the study of modern warfare, which is what they have been sent to do here. They Read More

Barrios Altos

Mes Enlla De La Passio

Actors: Patricia Adriani, Juanjo Puigcorbe, Angel Jové, Rosa Novell, Remei Barrio

Synopsis: A confusing melange of sequences and episodes, this experimental film by Jesus Garay remains an enigma from beginning to end. The heroine, such as she is, seems to have a quasi-religious meaning since she manifests the marks of stigmata and appears to want to be crucified. Her associates include a 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

Pan de Angel

Crew: Screenwriter

La Quinta Del Porro

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alvaro de Luna, Pepe Munne

Synopsis: Throughout this low-brow semi-comedy, a group of Spanish military inductees regale each other with jokes, indulge in juvenile cameraderie, and generally pass the time away as only the energized young can, voluntarily locked up in a freight car on the train that is taking them to boot camp. While Read More

Salut I Forca Al Canut

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Juanjo Puigcorbe, Isabel Mestres, Pepón Coromina

Synopsis: Unusual only because the dialogue is in Catalan, this otherwise run-of-the-mill drama is about a sex counsellor with his own sexual problems. He is chasing after a nurse while his wife is having an affair with someone else. To put it mildly, his marriage is not doing so well. Issues such as Read More

40 Años Sin Sexo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Carlos Lucena, Alfredo Luchetti

Synopsis: 40 Years Without Sex, this non-narrative, skit-based satirical film's title in English, refers to the rather extreme moralism of the Franco era (1939-1976) in Spain during which, at least as far as public notice of it went, there was "no sex." In one episode, boys masturbate under the sheets while Read More

La Orgia

Crimen Imperfecto

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