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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Equipo Crónica. Arte de trinchera
2025
as Self

The Other Way Around
2024
as Padre de Ale
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
2024
Director, Writer
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
2024

Miradas del cine español
2024

They Shot the Piano Player
2023
Screenplay, Director
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
2022
as Self
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
2022
as Self
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
2021
as Self
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!!
2021
as Self - Filmmaker
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
2021
as Self - Filmmaker
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
2021
as Self - Filmmaker
A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perdurance in contemporary Spanish cinema.

Memories of My Father
2020
Director
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
2019
as Himself - Filmmaker
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!
2018
as Self - Filmmaker
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
2018
as Himself
A documentary on Venezuelan filmmaker Margot Benacerraf, who won the Cannes International Critics Prize with her movie Araya in 1959.

The Queen of Spain
2016
Screenplay, Director
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
2014
as Self
A look at the Aragonese countryside, star of the movie screen, accompanied by various trades of cinema.

The Artist and the Model
2012
Screenplay, Director
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
2010
Writer, Director
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
Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmakers like Fernando Colomo, Fernando Trueba, Imanol U...

Rafael Azcona
2010
as Self

The Dancer and the Thief
2009
Director, Screenplay
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
2008
as Self
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
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
2004
Director
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
2003
Director, Producer, Executive Producer
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
2002
Director, Screenplay
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
2001
Thanks
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
2000
Director, Writer
A film featuring performances of several stars of the Latin Jazz music scene.

The Girl of Your Dreams
1998
Director, Writer
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
1998
as Anthropologist
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
1998
as Cura (uncredited)
A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.

The Good Life
1996
Producer
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
1995
Director
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under condition...

Two Much
1995
Director, Screenplay
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)
1995
Writer
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
1994
Writer
The women of my life.

Belle Époque
1992
Director, Story
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
1990
Writer, Director
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
1990
Writer
The cold woman.

La mujer oriental
1990
Writer
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
1989
Screenplay, Director
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
1988
Writer
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
1988
Executive Producer
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
1986
Writer, Director
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
1986
Producer
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
1985
Director, Screenplay
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
1985
Writer, Executive Producer
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
1984
Screenplay, Director
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
1982
Writer, Director
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
1982
Writer
The relationship of a adult man and a young girl.

Vecinos
1981
Executive Producer
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
1980
Screenplay, Director
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
1980
Writer
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
1980
Writer
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
1980
Writer, Director

The Lion in Love
1979
Director, Writer
Based on Esopus' fable "The lion in love".

The coffin
1976
Assistant Director
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...