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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Le Passeur immobile
2021
as Self
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
2017
Director
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
2015
Writer
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
2010
Screenplay, Director
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
2008
as Self
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
2007
Director, Writer

Sexo en el plató
2007
as Himself
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
2006
Director, Screenplay
A pair of women leave their small town and dud boyfriends behind for fun in Madrid.

Filmmakers in Action
2006
as Self
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
2002
Director, Writer

Sound of the Sea
2001
Director
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
1999
Screenplay, Director
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
1997
Director, Screenplay
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
1996
Writer, Director
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
1995
Director
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
1994
Writer, Director
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
1993
Director, Screenplay
A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.

Jamon Jamon
1992
Director, Screenplay
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
1990
Director, Screenplay
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
1987
Director, Writer
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
1986
Director, Screenplay
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
1983
as as Juan José Bigas Luna)

Como un adiós
1983
as (as Juan José Bigas Luna)

Reborn
1981
Director, Screenplay
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
1980
Writer
Clara- an attractive- sophisticated and unmarried woman- and the autistic child who transforms and absorbs her life- astonishingly interpreted by a ve...

Poodle
1979
Director
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
1978
Writer, Director
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
1978
Screenplay, Director
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...