Bigas Luna

Bigas Luna

1946-03-19 Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 28 Credits

Biography

Bigas Luna was a Spanish film director. He began his professional career in the design world, creating the 'Estudio Gris' with Carlos Riart in 1969. In his earlier exhibitions, at the beginning of the sixties, he showed a great interest in conceptual art and the emerging visual technologies. Esteemed as an atypical director in the Spanish cinema, in 1986 he retired to Tarragona in order to devote his time to painting. In 1990 the producer Andrés Vicente Gómez persuaded him to return to cinema an...

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Le Passeur immobile

Le Passeur immobile

2021

as Self

Acting

Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake (1988)...

Bigas x Bigas

Bigas x Bigas

2017

Director

5.7
Directing

Javier Bardem produces this documentary on the larger-than-life director Bigas Luna, compiled from over 600 hours of his personal video-diaries to rev...

Second Origin

Second Origin

2015

Writer

4.8
Writing

After a massive destruction on Earth, a white girl Alba (14) and a black boy Didac (9), are the only survivors on the Earth. They must start a new wor...

DiDi Hollywood

DiDi Hollywood

2010

Screenplay, Director

4.0
Writing Directing

Bar worker Diana Diaz leaves Madrid for Miami and with new boyfriend, Robert (Luis Hacha), they then head for Hollywood, prepared to do anything for f...

Bigas Luna: The entomologist gaze

Bigas Luna: The entomologist gaze

2008

as Self

Acting

An exploration of the world and the work of the most international Catalan filmmaker through the director's entomological vision and his portrayal of ...

Con el corazón

Con el corazón

2007

Director, Writer

5.0
Directing Writing
Sexo en el plató

Sexo en el plató

2007

as Himself

6.0
Acting

How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prepare and feel? Spanish actors and directors talk ab...

My Name Is Juani

My Name Is Juani

2006

Director, Screenplay

5.6
Directing Writing

A pair of women leave their small town and dud boyfriends behind for fun in Madrid.

Filmmakers in Action

Filmmakers in Action

2006

as Self

6.8
Acting

What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in...

Collar de moscas

Collar de moscas

2002

Director, Writer

3.5
Directing Writing
Sound of the Sea

Sound of the Sea

2001

Director

5.8
Directing

Son de Mar (English: "Sound of the Sea") is a 2001 Spanish drama / erotic film directed by Juan José Bigas Luna based on the novel of the same title b...

Volaverunt

Volaverunt

1999

Screenplay, Director

5.9
Writing Directing

The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries...

The Chambermaid on the Titanic

The Chambermaid on the Titanic

1997

Director, Screenplay

6.2
Directing Writing

Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Ti...

Bambola

Bambola

1996

Writer, Director

4.4
Writing Directing

Her name is Mina, but she is called Bambola (doll). Upon the death of her mother, she and her homosexual brother, Flavio, open a pizzeria. A man named...

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...

The Tit and the Moon

The Tit and the Moon

1994

Writer, Director

6.3
Writing Directing

A child does not stand the idea of having a new brother and dreams about drinking milk from the breasts of his mother again. The child asks the moon t...

Golden Balls

Golden Balls

1993

Director, Screenplay

5.5
Directing Writing

A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.

Jamon Jamon

Jamon Jamon

1992

Director, Screenplay

6.2
Directing Writing

José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the un...

The Ages of Lulu

The Ages of Lulu

1990

Director, Screenplay

6.4
Directing Writing

Fifteen-year-old Lulu has never known any affection from her family. But when she goes to a rock concert with Pablo, a friend of the family, he introd...

Anguish

Anguish

1987

Director, Writer

6.3
Directing Writing

An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's c...

Lola

Lola

1986

Director, Screenplay

4.9
Directing Writing

Lola is a young woman who works in a factory. She lives a violent and tormented love with Mario. To get away from him, Lola moved to Barcelona. There ...

Como un adiós

Como un adiós

1983

as as Juan José Bigas Luna)

Acting
Como un adiós

Como un adiós

1983

as (as Juan José Bigas Luna)

Acting
Reborn

Reborn

1981

Director, Screenplay

4.1
Directing Writing

A man discovers that his girlfriend is a "stigmata" (someone whose hands and feet mysteriously bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was crucifi...

Mater amatísima

Mater amatísima

1980

Writer

5.1
Writing

Clara- an attractive- sophisticated and unmarried woman- and the autistic child who transforms and absorbs her life- astonishingly interpreted by a ve...

Poodle

Poodle

1979

Director

5.5
Directing

Bernard and his sister Eloisa live in a ramshackle house, the rest of their ancient past and prosperity. They are waiting for their old and sick Aunt ...

Bilbao

Bilbao

1978

Writer, Director

6.2
Writing Directing

A disturbed middle-aged man is obsessed by a dancer and prostitute and abducts her, with tragic consequences.

Tattoo, The First Adventure Of Pepe Carvalho

Tattoo, The First Adventure Of Pepe Carvalho

1978

Screenplay, Director

4.7
Writing Directing

A man's body turns up on a Barcelona beach with a message tattooed on his arm: "I was born to revolutionize hell". Detective Pepe Carvalho is put in c...