José Luis Garci

Born: 1944-01-20

José Luis Garci is a Spanish director, producer, film critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author. He earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Begin the Beguine (1982). Four of his films, including also Sesión continua (1984), Asignatura aprobada (1987) and El abuelo (1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director. His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots.


Placeholder

The Night of the Sunflowers

as Himself - Radio Host (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 2006-08-25

Two speleologists, Esteban and Pedro, travel to a mountainous area located in northern Spain,...

Movie page

El crack dos

as Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: 1983-08-01

Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo investigates the life of a gay man who has apparently...

Movie page

Viva la clase media

as Antonio 'Vladimiro' Flanagan
Released: 1980-01-04

Drama based on the true life of a group of middle class and members of the Communist Party of...

Movie page

Vida conyugal sana

as Oficinista (uncredited)
Released: 1974-02-11

Enrique is a thirty-year-old lawyer who is married to Ana. Apparently he is a normal man who has...

Movie page

Operación Palace

as Himself
Released: 2014-02-23

Finally, 33 years later, the whole truth behind the attempted coup d'état that shook Spain on...

Movie page

La noche de los cien pájaros

as uncredited
Released: 1976-01-01

The young Enrique leaving to study at the University and is married to Juana. One day he meets a...

Movie page

Cradle Song

as (uncredited)
Released: 1994-04-15

A group of nuns find an abandoned baby girl at the doorstep of their convent.

Movie page

Enrique Herreros

as Self - Filmmaker
Released: 2011-06-10

The story of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977), cartoonist, advertiser, poster designer, talent...

Movie page

Samuel: Hollywood vs Hollywood

as uncredited
Released: 2024-01-12

Movie page

Summers el rebelde

as uncredited
Released: 2024-03-15

Movie page

Olea… ¡Más alto!

as Self - Filmmaker
Released: 2020-11-06

An account of the life and work behind the camera of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Olea, whose very...

Movie page