Juan Luis Galiardo Filmography

Operacion Algeciras

Actors: Juan Luis Galiardo, Maximo Nicoletti, Jorge Isaac Anaya

Rosa La China

Actors: Juan Luis Galiardo, Luisa Maria Jiminez, Abel Rodriguez Ramirez, Daisy Granados, Yipsia Torres

Synopsis: Chilean director Valeria Sarmiento weaves a tale of love, betrayal, and civil unrest centering around a nightclub in 1950s pre-Communist Cuba in her 2002 romantic drama Rosa La China. Notorious businessman Santiago Ordenez (Juan Luis Galiardo), who primarily goes by the nickname Dulzara, operates Read More

Don Quixote, Knight Errant

Actors: Juan Luis Galiardo, Carlos Iglesias, Jose Luis Torrijos, Victor Clavijo, Santiago Ramos

Synopsis: The infamous man from La Mancha and his devoted sidekick embark on a new quest in this slightly off-kilter version of author Miguel de Cervantes' classic novel Don Quixote, as envisioned by director and screenwriter Manuel Gutierrez Aragon in his 2002 adaptation entitled Don Quixote, Knight Read More

Lazaro De Tormes

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

Adios Con El Corazon

Actors: Juan Luis Galiardo, Laura Ramos, Jesus Bonilla, Maria Luisa San Jose

Synopsis: The third installment of director Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez's state-of-Spain trilogy, which began in 1995 with Whispers of Spain (and Portugal). Roguish Juan (Juan Luis Galiardo) lives by himself, eking out a dubious living from gambling money and blackmailing various women who were once his Read More

Si, Quiero

Actors: Joseba Apaolaza, Cayetana Guillen Cuervo, Marta Belaustegui, Isidoro Fernandez, Jose Ramon Sordiz

Synopsis: Love, larceny, and misunderstanding make for comedy in this humorous crime thriller from Spain. Jon (Joseba Apaolaza) is a bank teller engaged to his boss's daughter. But a chance meeting with his former girlfriend Carmen (Marta Belaustegui) gives Jon second thoughts, and he skips out of the Read More

Tango

Actors: Miguel Ángel Solá, Cecilia Narova, Mía Maestro, Juan Carlos Copes, Julio Bocca, Juan Luis Galiardo

Synopsis: Combining fiction and documentary, 66-year-old Carlos Saura directed this Spanish-Argentine dance drama with masterful camerawork by acclaimed cinematographer Vittorio Storaro. After his wife (Cecilia Narova) leaves him, Argentine film director Mario Suarez (Miguel Angel Sola), moves to a Buenos Read More

Pajarico

Actors: Alejandro Martinez, Dafne Fernandez, Francisco Rabal, Manuel Bandera, Eusebio Lazaro

Synopsis: A relatively simple coming-of-age drama with autobiographical overtones from Carlos Saura, one of Spain's leading directors, the story is told from the viewpoint of 10-year-old Manu as he is shuffled from relative to relative in the hometown of his parents, who are busy trying to decide whether or Read More

Siempre Hay Un Camino A La Derecha

Actors: Juan Luis Galiardo, Juan Echanove, Rosa María Sardà, Neus Asensi, Javier Garruchaga

Synopsis: In this sequel to the acclaimed Sighs of Spain (and Portugal) (1995), two picaros, slick Juan (Juan Luis Galiardo) and his innocent pal Pepe (Juan Echanove) return to Spain with Angelica (Rosa Maria Sarda) and Carmela (Neus Asensi). Pepe and Juan, both in love with the same woman, are on the brink Read More

Enciende Mi Pasion

Crew: Producer

Actors: Miguel Bose, Juan Luis Galiardo, Emma Suarez, Karra Elejalde, Ana Alvarez

Synopsis: Sexual repression, class conflict, fetishes, and an Electra complex are combined in this fast-paced, but convoluted Spanish comedy. Angel, a botanist, loves feet and when he spies the barefoot Luisa in a flower shop, it is love at first sight. Luisa, unaware of his foot fetish and the fact that 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

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

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

Capitan Escalaborns

Lo Sabe El Ministro?

Catorce Estaciones

Yo Soy Esa

Actors: Jose Coronado, Juan Echanove, Loles Leon

Synopsis: The extremely well-loved Flamenco singer Isabel Pantoja makes her screen debut in this feature. Since most of the film consists of her singing, fans of her voice and music will be pleased at this opportunity to see her. In the story, an attractively heavy woman is arriving at a movie theater to Read More

Don Juan, Mi Querido Fantasma

Actors: Juan Luis Galiardo, Maria Barranco, Verónica Forqué, Loles Leon, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: According to Spanish legend, every All Souls Eve, the ghost of the legendary lover Don Juan Tenorio rises up from purgatory to walk the earth in hopes of doing the single good deed necessary for him to be freed from limbo. Unfortunately, though Don Juan has risen 450 times since his death, he has Read More

Guarapo

Papeles Secundarios

Actors: Rosita Fornes, Juan Luis Galiardo, Luisa Perez Nieto, Mario Balmaseda

Synopsis: In Havana, a group of professional stage actors are rehearsing a play. This drama follows their activities onstage and off. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide 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

Pasodoble

Actors: Fernando Rey, Juan Diego, Antonio Resines, Caroline Grimm, Cassen

Synopsis: In this romantic farce, Macarena is a pretty French girl who has come to Cordoba in southern Spain in search of a man she believes may be her father. She finally tracks him and his clan down in a minor city museum: they have become squatters there during one of the museum curator's brief absences. Read More

El Disputado Voto del Senor Cayo

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Juan Luis Galiardo, Inaki Miramon, Lydia Bosch, Eusebio Lazaro

Synopsis: With a message that is certainly slanted to one side, this engaging and well-wrought drama by Antonio Gimenez-Rico attacks the political and intellectual life as so much demagoguery and pedantry, and contrasts politics with the wisdom of a rustic country peasant. The story is told in flashbacks Read More

La Guerra de Los Locos

Actors: Alvaro de Luna, Jose Manuel Cervino, Juan Luis Galiardo, Pepe Munne, Pedro Diaz del Corral

Synopsis: A group of asylum inmates escape with a truck during the Spanish Civil War in this actioner. The escaped lunatics first join a group of farmers loyal to the crown. After the local village doctor is killed, the group vents their wrath on both loyalists and rebels who align themselves with the Read More

La Campanada

Actors: Juan Luis Galiardo, Fiorella Faltoyano, Ovidi Montllor, José María Forn, Marti Galindo

Synopsis: The angst of middle age attacks an otherwise level-headed advertising executive in this routine drama from Jaime Camino. The unhappy ad man punches out a traffic cop in the middle of yet another exasperating gridlock and ends up on the wrong side of a set of bars to cool his ardor for awhile. Read More

Y Al Tercer Ano Resucito

Actors: Francisco Cecilio, Florinda Chico

Synopsis: Reactions to this political drama with a rightist slant will depend on the viewer's own politics. Late director Rafael Gil begins with an ingenious premise. A novice reporter mistakes the news that the French franc (franco in Spanish) has resuscitated for the news that dead fascist dictator 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

Mayordomo Para Todo

Imposible Para Una Solterona

Mission to Kill

Actors: Helmut Berger, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: Order to Kill was originally shipped out to Spanish-speaking theatres under the title El Clan de los Immorales. The story concerns a mob family, headed by gambling czar Jose Ferrer. When one of family's hit men (Helmut Berger) fails to come up to expectations, Ferrer orders the man's execution. Read More

Alta Tension

Autopsy

Synopsis: This strange Spanish film takes the director's obsession with death about as far as it can go. The movie intersperses graphic photography of a complete real autopsy with interviews, conducted in Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris, on people's attitudes towards their own deaths. The Read More

Bianco, Rosso e...

Actors: Antonio Alfonso, Bruno Biassibetti, Ezio Curti, Aldo Farina, Sergio Fasanelli, Pilar Gomez Ferrer, Carla Galletti, Francesca Modigliani

Synopsis: This comic Italian melodrama recounts the story of a friendship which develops out of a romantic obsession. The Italian communist party was largely independent of the Eastern Bloc, and has played a large political role in that country, particularly on the local level. This story tells of Annibale Read More

Fieras Sin Jaula

Antony and Cleopatra

Actors: Garrick Hagan, Charlton Heston, Hildegard Neil, Eric Porter, John Castle, Fernando Rey

Call of the Wild

Actors: Charlton Heston, Raimund Harmstorf, Michele Mercier, George Eastman, Sancho Gracia

Synopsis: Director Ken Annakin and an international cast including Charlton Heston and George Eastman try to breath life into Jack London's often-filmed wilderness adventure. The story follows the adventures of John Thornton (Heston) and Pete (Raimund Harmstorf) as they brawl their way through the Alaskan Read More

Una Senora Llamada Andres

Pepa Doncel

La Chica de Los Anuncios

No Desearas la Mujer de Tu Projimo

Novios 68

Stress Es Tres... Tres

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Juan Luis Galiardo, Fernando Cebrian

Synopsis: A married couple and a male friend leave together on a weekend vacation. Stress is brought on by the husband's jealousies. He hopes to play out his fantasies with his friend and wife in order to justify revenge. Geraldine Chaplin, Juan Luis Galiardo, and Fernando Cebrian star in this odd tryst Read More

Mañana Sera Otro Dia

Actors: Juan Luis Galiardo

Synopsis: Paco and Lisa leave Madrid in a stolen car for a new life in Barcelona in this unconventional Spanish drama. The unmarried couple settles into a cheap hotel room and begins looking for work. Paco becomes a mobster's assistant, while Lisa finds work as a model. Their love for each other begins to Read More

En Andalucia Nacio El Amor

El Arte De Vivir

Actors: Luigi Giuliani, Juan Luis Galiardo

Querida Julia

Doña Rosita, la Soltera

Acteon

Actors: Juan Luis Galiardo

Synopsis: This plodding and pretentious feature from Spain is based on an ancient Roman myth. Acteon watches as the Diana the goddess of hunting bathes in the nude. This is the second feature directed by Jorge Grau, who would later make his mark in horror films. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Crimen de Doble Filo

Anabel

La Lagrima Del Diablo