Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, known as Chicho Ibáñez Serrador or Luis Peñafiel — the pseudonym with which he signed his scripts — was a Spanish film and television director, stage director, actor and screenwriter. Throughout his life he stood out for his contribution to fantasy and horror films, as well as for the numerous programs he directed for Televisión Española.
Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts.
Release Date1966-02-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Episode Count29
Vote Count17
A couple of English tourists arrive at the island of Almanzora, off the Spanish Mediterranean coast, where they discover that there are no adults in a small fishing village, only some children who stare at them and smile mysteriously.
Release Date1976-04-26
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Charactersd Man Next to the Bus (uncredited)
Vote Count255
Nino and Bruno are two comedians who reach the heights of success with their duo act, turning them into huge TV celebrities. However, the hate between them grows fast, as much as their fame.
Release Date1999-03-12
Charactersd Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Vote Count78
A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist.
Release Date1975-10-27
Charactersd Actores invitados
Vote Count1
Enrique buys a color television set just to satisfy a personal pleasure long time deferred but, from that moment on, he becomes obsessed with it in such way that eventually he is incapable to differ reality from fiction.
Release Date1974-07-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Charactersd Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Vote Count15
In December 1974, a Spanish filmmaker named Sergio del Monte died under strange circumstances while shooting his debut film. Only a few people were able to see the footage that had been captured, and they all allegedly went blind or suffered the same fate as the director. The producers made the negatives disappear, however some cans filed in an Italian laboratory appear to have survived...
Release Date2009-01-01
Charactersd himself
Edgar Allan Poe's short story adapted as a TV-Movie in Argentina
Release Date1959-08-24
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Charactersd
Three extraordinary tales written by Edgar Allan Poe, the Master of the Grotesque: a man who is dead but is not; a cask of wine and a meditated revenge; and a heart that refuses to stop beating.
Release Date1960-06-18
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Charactersd Sidney
Vote Count5
A lonely writer one day meets a prostitute to whom he offers his money in exchange for her time and friendship. However, she begins to tire of him when his economy declines, so he must get money at all costs. Pilot episode of a series that was not broadcast at the time by TVE.
Release Date1970-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd
Release Date1995-04-04
Charactersd Self - Guest
Episode Count1
Actor and writer Mark Gatiss embarks on a chilling journey through European horror cinema, from the silent nightmares of German Expressionism in the 1920s to the Belgian lesbian vampires in the 1970s, from the black-gloved killers of Italian bloody giallo cinema to the ghosts of the Spanish Civil War, and finally reveals how Europe's turbulent 20th century forged its ground-breaking horror tradition.
Release Date2012-10-30
Charactersd Self
Vote Count11
A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephilia, in search of genre specialists, fans and filmmakers who speak of their shared passion for fantastic cinema; a whole international spiritual community united under the cathartic shadow of horror.
Release Date2017-10-14
Charactersd Self - Filmmaker
Vote Count4
A peculiar, meticulous, vocationally archeological account of the professional life of the actor, Spanish by birth, Argentinean by adoption, Narciso Ibañez Menta (1912-2004), spiritual disciple of Lon Chaney, the new man of a thousand faces, master of horror, star of Argentinean theater, cinema and television for decades.
Release Date2008-10-30
Charactersd Self - Filmmaker
Vote Count3
How the Uruguayan-Spanish actor, writer, producer and director Narciso «Chicho» Ibáñez Serrador changed forever the way of producing programs for Spanish television.
Release Date2017-05-22
Charactersd Self - Filmmaker
Vote Count4
Release Date2018-10-13
Charactersd Self
Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez, often shortened as Un, dos, tres, and named Un, dos, tres... a leer esta vez in the last season, was a Spanish game show created by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador. The show, which ran from 1972 to 2004 spanning ten seasons, became the most famous game show in the history of Spanish television. It also was the first television show exported outside of Spain, with versions aired in the United Kingdom, Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.
Release Date1972-04-24
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count3
Release Date2021-11-05
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count16
Juan and Sonia arrive at a large old house, an ideal place to raise their newborn son. When, one night before going to bed, they check the operation of the monitoring device installed in the baby's room, they discover that someone is sitting next to the crib.
Release Date2006-11-04
DepartmentEditing
JobEditorial Coordinator
Vote Count175
Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.
Release Date1969-12-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count113
Mario and Clara, his pregnant girlfriend, try to find a new apartment to settle in as soon as possible, so they go to visit one in a distant neighborhood that seems abandoned. Once there, things are not as they expected.
Release Date2006-03-21
DepartmentEditing
JobEditorial Coordinator
Vote Count87
After the sudden death of his wife, Tomás, a successful elderly writer who has been out of Spain during the last forty years, unexpectedly receives an old tarot card which seems to have for him a disturbing meaning, so he decides to return to the small village where he grew up.
Release Date2006-09-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count44
Estrella, an intelligent teen student, spends most of her time alone at school or home, enjoying horror books and movies, while her widow mother Angela works as a nurse in a hospital. Her favorite author is Stephen King and her only friends are Leatherface and a vampire.
Release Date2006-10-25
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count35
When nurse Gloria has financial difficulties, her friend Dr. Ana Torres invites her to move with her six year-old daughter Vicky to her old big house where she runs a gynecologic clinic. In return, Gloria will assist Ana in her clinic in the afternoons.
Release Date2006-08-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count28
Cubelles, Tarragona, Spain, Christmas 1985. Five friends make an unexpected discovery in the forest: a woman disguised as Santa Claus trapped in a deep hole dug in the middle of nowhere.
Release Date2005-10-27
DepartmentEditing
JobEditorial Coordinator
Vote Count71
The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s.
Release Date1967-02-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
In 1829, a young man goes to London in search of his uncle, an irate watchmaker, in order to provide him with a home and a job.
Release Date1964-12-18
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
Between astonishment and despair, Baldo, a courier, sees how, slowly and inexorably, he sinks into the asphalt.
Release Date2021-10-08
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Concept
Vote Count9
The nightmare tells how in 1880 in a village in mountainous Galicia a series of mysterious deaths devastate the region. All the victims are young women, and murdered under mysterious circumstances. And the townspeople begin to suspect that the person responsible is Naim, a strange neighbor who lives apart, never leaving during the day. But Lúa, a young woman from the village who sees through her prejudices, will do everything possible to protect her most hidden secrets.
Release Date2022-10-28
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Concept
Vote Count4
El Televisor narrates how Marcos, the only neighbor without an alarm, finally ends up installing a protection system in his chalet. Far from feeling safer, he soon becomes obsessed with the idea that someone is stalking him, and he connects the signal from the surveillance cameras to the TV in the living room. Progressively, the images of the closed circuit supplant the programs and the movies, until becoming the only thing that is reproduced on the screen. His wife and his children helplessly witness the man's madness... but maybe "something" out there is really threatening the family. Something visible only between the pixels of the TV.
Release Date2022-10-11
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Concept
Vote Count2
An old man makes a pact with the devil to once again see the woman he loves... his niece.
Release Date1990-09-28
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count2
Madrid, Spain, 1982. TV director Chicho Ibáñez Serrador asks André, a lousy actor playing a ventriloquist, to work with Charlie, a disturbing dummy.
Release Date2021-10-08
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Concept
Vote Count7
Elena and her lover Javier set in motion a plan to assassinate her husband Alberto, a successful businessman.
Release Date2021-10-09
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Concept
Vote Count7
In a near and dystopian future, for reasons unknown, it is impossible to go outside. A couple is forced to live with an unknown family while the world beyond the windows of their house seems to disintegrate forever. But the biggest threat of all might be inside, in the exact center of the dining room table. Or at the bottom of the nightstand drawer. Or in the past.
Release Date2022-10-28
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Concept
El Transplante focuses on the story of "a mature couple" who "sees the need to renew their bodies to avoid being fired from their jobs", but who only have enough money for one of them. That limiting circumstance will force them to make decisions.
Release Date2022-10-28
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Concept
Vote Count3
A gold digger kills her rich old husband and then is driven to the brink of madness when her late hubby starts haunting her. Is he really dead or a vengeful ghost?
Release Date1990-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count4
Edgar Allan Poe's short story adapted as a TV-Movie in Argentina.
Release Date1959-08-17
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Release Date1991-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count4
Tono is continuously harassed by her mother, who is uncannily cruel and authoritarian. His obsession with a woman's voice recorded on cassette and his favorite doll will help him fight out of his mother's control.
Release Date2019-10-13
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Year 2045. In an attempt to save his relationship with Eva, Dani acquires a double to cover his absence when she needs him.
Release Date2021-10-09
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Concept
Vote Count5
Arnold Hall (Narciso Ibáñez Menta) is a middle-aged comedian who, betrayed by his wife, decides to murder her and flee using his own show as a cover. From this moment on, he is pursued by a mysterious and strange character who claims to know his crime, and blackmails him to betray him if he does not do what he asks.
Release Date1962-08-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Due to the triumph of a revolution, Carola, a young and beautiful heiress to the throne, leaves her country to save her life; but her new existence, constantly watched, threatened by her enemies, subjected to the punctilious demands of her position, bores her desperately.
Release Date1969-12-07
Vote Count10
A celestial envoy comes to Earth to help solve some small conflicts between humans, related to their attitude and relationships.
Release Date1960-02-25
Vote Count2
