Fernando Trueba

Fernando Trueba

1955-01-18 Madrid, Spain 59 Credits

Biography

Trueba studied Cinematography at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, was cinema critic for the newspaper 'El País' and for 'La Guía del Ocio' and also founded the journal "Casablanca". At the movies his first success was 'Opera Prima' (1980) following the style of the "comedia madrileña". He had major success with 'Sé infiel y no mires con quién' (1985) starting a longer colaboration with the producer Andrés Vicente Gómez. He won the second Foreign Film Academy Award for Spain in 1993 w...

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Equipo Crónica. Arte de trinchera

Equipo Crónica. Arte de trinchera

2025

as Self

Acting
The Other Way Around

The Other Way Around

2024

as Padre de Ale

6.7
Acting

After 15 years as a couple, Ale and Alex decide to throw a party to celebrate their separation, leaving their loved ones perplexed.

Haunted Heart

Haunted Heart

2024

Director, Writer

5.7
Directing Writing

On a beautiful remote island in Greece, young and spirited Alex joins the team of a boutique seaside restaurant as their new waitress. Despite her fem...

Summers el rebelde

Summers el rebelde

2024

6.0
Acting
Miradas del cine español

Miradas del cine español

2024

Acting
They Shot the Piano Player

They Shot the Piano Player

2023

Screenplay, Director

6.4
Writing Directing

New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist wh...

The Critic

The Critic

2022

as Self

6.4
Acting

A portrait of film critic Carlos Boyero, one of the most followed and feared figures in Spanish cinema, surrounded by controversy and both love and ha...

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

2022

as Self

8.6
Acting

Why are we still able, today, to view images that were captured over 125 years ago? As we enter the digital age, audiovisual heritage seems to be a su...

Enrique Morente: flamenco impuro

Enrique Morente: flamenco impuro

2021

as Self

6.0
Acting

Enrique Morente's three sons tell the story of their father: the most revolutionary flamenco in history. Despite criticism from purists, he opened can...

Berlanga!!

Berlanga!!

2021

as Self - Filmmaker

8.0
Acting

How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to ...

FFG, el último gran conversador

FFG, el último gran conversador

2021

as Self - Filmmaker

8.1
Acting

Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. ...

Luis García Berlanga: pasado, presente y futuro del cine español

Luis García Berlanga: pasado, presente y futuro del cine español

2021

as Self - Filmmaker

3.0
Acting

A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perdurance in contemporary Spanish cinema.

Memories of My Father

Memories of My Father

2020

Director

7.6
Directing

In the polarized and violent Medellín (Colombia's 'City of Eternal Spring') of the 1970s, doctor Héctor Abad Gómez is concerned about both his childre...

Stories of Our Cinema

Stories of Our Cinema

2019

as Himself - Filmmaker

5.5
Acting

In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country are projected. From that event, the Spanish actor An...

¡Ay, Carmen!

¡Ay, Carmen!

2018

as Self - Filmmaker

5.3
Acting

The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant arti...

Madame Cinéma

Madame Cinéma

2018

as Himself

Acting

A documentary on Venezuelan filmmaker Margot Benacerraf, who won the Cannes International Critics Prize with her movie Araya in 1959.

The Queen of Spain

The Queen of Spain

2016

Screenplay, Director

5.1
Writing Directing

After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Fran...

Aragón rodado

Aragón rodado

2014

as Self

1.0
Acting

A look at the Aragonese countryside, star of the movie screen, accompanied by various trades of cinema.

The Artist and the Model

The Artist and the Model

2012

Screenplay, Director

6.2
Writing Directing

In occupied France in summer 1943, a world-weary famous sculptor finds the desire to work again with the arrival of a beautiful young Spanish refugee.

Chico & Rita

Chico & Rita

2010

Writer, Director

7.2
Writing Directing

Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but thei...

Un cine como tú en un país como éste

2010

as Himself

6.3
Acting

Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmakers like Fernando Colomo, Fernando Trueba, Imanol U...

Rafael Azcona

Rafael Azcona

2010

as Self

7.0
Acting
The Dancer and the Thief

The Dancer and the Thief

2009

Director, Screenplay

5.6
Directing Writing

Present day. Chile. Legendary bank robber Vergara Grey is getting out of prison after 5 long years and is looking forward to a quiet, uneventful life ...

El último truco

El último truco

2008

as Self

7.3
Acting

Documentary film about visual effects master Emilio Ruiz del Rio. From his early works on films at 1942, to his last contribution at 2007, Emilio Ruiz...

Hécuba: un sueño de pasión

2006

Thanks

8.0

What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profession. Thirty-six Spanish actors reflect on their w...

The Miracle of Candeal

The Miracle of Candeal

2004

Director

5.2
Directing

The story of the Candeal favela in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where musician Carlinhos Brown carries out social and cultural initiatives that protect ...

Black and White: Bebo & Cigala Live

Black and White: Bebo & Cigala Live

2003

Director, Producer, Executive Producer

Directing Producing

Cuban pianist Bebo Valdés and Spanish singer Diego el Cigala perform live at the Costa Nord cultural center in Valldemossa, Mallorca, Spain, on June 2...

The Shanghai Spell

The Shanghai Spell

2002

Director, Screenplay

5.6
Directing Writing

A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old gi...

Y Tu Mamá También

Y Tu Mamá También

2001

Thanks

7.4

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

Calle 54

Calle 54

2000

Director, Writer

7.6
Directing Writing

A film featuring performances of several stars of the Latin Jazz music scene.

The Girl of Your Dreams

The Girl of Your Dreams

1998

Director, Writer

6.5
Directing Writing

A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to ari...

Spanish Fly

Spanish Fly

1998

as Anthropologist

2.0
Acting

A woman journalist, Zoe, knows better than to go into a story with her mind already made up. But that's exactly what she does when she heads off to Sp...

Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law

Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law

1998

as Cura (uncredited)

6.5
Acting

A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.

The Good Life

The Good Life

1996

Producer

6.4
Producing

Tristan is about to turn fifteen. He enjoys the good life his parents have built for him. And yet, it won't be long before his environment of protecti...

Lumière & Company

Lumière & Company

1995

Director

6.3
Directing

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under condition...

Two Much

Two Much

1995

Director, Screenplay

5.4
Directing Writing

Art Dodge is a painter-turned-gallerist drowning in debt. He gets in over his head when a con job leads to an engagement with a rich divorcee. He gets...

Suspiros de España (y Portugal)

Suspiros de España (y Portugal)

1995

Writer

5.3
Writing

After the death of the abbot of a small convent the two monks who are left discover among the papers of the passed away abbot letters from the mother ...

Las mujeres de mi vida

Las mujeres de mi vida

1994

Writer

Writing

The women of my life.

Belle Époque

Belle Époque

1992

Director, Story

6.7
Directing Writing

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has...

La mujer inesperada

La mujer inesperada

1990

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

A man wakes up in a train to Malaga. A mysterious woman helps him get in time to his marriage, which is a few hours later.

La mujer fría

La mujer fría

1990

Writer

Writing

The cold woman.

La mujer oriental

La mujer oriental

1990

Writer

Writing

Lorenzo is a market operator, who has just separated from his French wife. He is feeling very lonely, and his partner and friend decides to `bring him...

Twisted Obsession

Twisted Obsession

1989

Screenplay, Director

5.3
Writing Directing

An American writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and mani...

Miss Caribe

Miss Caribe

1988

Writer

5.2
Writing

A woman's father dies in a Central American country and leaves her a bizarre inheritance: a ship which acts as a floating brothel under the appearance...

El juego más divertido

El juego más divertido

1988

Executive Producer

5.3
Producing

Two popular television actors, Ada and Bruno, are filming " Hotel de Fez ", a popular and popular television series that upsets the lives of its two p...

Year of Enlightment

Year of Enlightment

1986

Writer, Director

6.1
Writing Directing

April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for chil...

Lulú de noche

Lulú de noche

1986

Producer

3.7
Producing

German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While lookin...

Move Over, Mrs. Markham

Move Over, Mrs. Markham

1985

Director, Screenplay

6.0
Directing Writing

Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country...

De tripas corazón

De tripas corazón

1985

Writer, Executive Producer

4.8
Writing Producing

In Madrid, a Lawyer gets the freedom for "El Chirlo" a usual 20 years old crook. Chirlo wants to thank Jaime, his lawyer, the defense and treat him fo...

Coarse Salt

Coarse Salt

1984

Screenplay, Director

5.0
Writing Directing

A famous composer creative in crisis and must compose a new album, but is going through a painful separation that prevents him from concentrating. In ...

Mientras el cuerpo aguante

Mientras el cuerpo aguante

1982

Writer, Director

7.8
Writing Directing

A documentary on song-writer, singer, speaker and thinker Chicho Sanchez Ferlosio, his anarchistic way of life seen through his songs, opinions and in...

A contratiempo

A contratiempo

1982

Writer

5.0
Writing

The relationship of a adult man and a young girl.

Vecinos

Vecinos

1981

Executive Producer

5.0
Producing

Luis and Aurora live in the outskirts of Madrid, his life is quiet and peaceful until it reaches Antonio, her new neighbor. Luis says that neighbors a...

Opera Prima

Opera Prima

1980

Screenplay, Director

5.9
Writing Directing

Matias meets Violeta, his cousin one morning in Madrid at the Plaza de Opera. He is twenty-five. She is 18. He's a divorced journalist trying to write...

Erotic Stories

Erotic Stories

1980

Writer

3.7
Writing

A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost ...

The Black Hand

The Black Hand

1980

Writer

3.3
Writing

Three old schoolmates, who in their time as students had formed a kind of secret society called The Black Hand, in order to embitter teachers' lives, ...

Tunait is de nait

Tunait is de nait

1980

Writer, Director

4.0
Writing Directing
The Lion in Love

The Lion in Love

1979

Director, Writer

3.0
Directing Writing

Based on Esopus' fable "The lion in love".

The coffin

The coffin

1976

Assistant Director

Directing

A group of thieves pretend to be men carrying an empty coffin and ask some rich people in the town to let them leave the dirty coffin there because it...