Fernando Colomo Gómez (born 2 February 1946) is a Spanish film producer, screenwriter and film director.[1] He has also acted in small roles in his own and other's films. He is regarded as the father of the so-called comedia madrileña.[2]
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
Release Date2001-09-13
Charactersd Fernando Colomo
Episode Count1
Vote Count55
One of Spain's best talent agents in the '90s, Paquita now finds herself searching desperately for new stars after suddenly losing her biggest client.
Release Date2016-07-06
Charactersd Fernando Colomo
Episode Count1
Vote Count50
After getting dumped by her long-term boyfriend and pregnant by a one-night stand, María’s meticulous life plan begins to slip into disarray – but her sister Esther and best friend Cristina are determined to see her through.
Release Date2019-10-18
Charactersd José Antonio
Episode Count4
Vote Count51
The series shows how coexistence is pushed to the limit and a realistic and intimate reflection of what happens in our houses during confinement. Small anecdotes that arise in the homes of several protagonists and a starting situation: being locked up at home.
Release Date2020-04-07
Charactersd El vecino atareado
Episode Count8
Vote Count9
A group of enthusiastic teenagers embark on a journey to find love in Madrid's hottest discotheques but find themselves tangled in a web of sex, drugs and crime.
Release Date1996-11-15
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Charactersd Fernando
Vote Count21
A medieval alchemist (Klaus Kinski), knight (Harvey Keitel) and priest (Fernando Rey) mistake a flying-saucer alien for a dragon.
Release Date1985-12-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Guardián (uncredited)
Vote Count34
Sofia introduces her three adult daughters to her new lover who is their age and happens to be a woman. The women, in particular Elvira find it extremely difficult to accept their mothers sudden apparent sexual reversal. The news pushes the neurotic Elvira to the point of nervous breakdown. Sol, the youngest daughter, writes a lude rock song about it and performs in front of them at a concert. The daughters plot together on how to get their mothers new girlfriend, a native Czech, and brilliant pianist, out of her life. Their plot goes terribly wrong and turns the film from a light-hearted comedy, into mildly amusing drama.
Release Date2002-01-11
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Charactersd Juez de paz
Vote Count35
A cleaner woman with vocational street dancer tries to recover her long-stranded son that she gave for adoption, a former CEO who lost everything, including his memories.
Release Date2018-03-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Empleado (uncredited)
Vote Count205
Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.
Release Date1997-07-01
Charactersd Maître
Vote Count51
Satur and Tina are married, and Berta enters their life as a ‘unicorn.’ In the end, however, Satur is pushed out and Tina and Berta have an affair. Manu is a loser who tries to embark on a relationship with Amanda, who at the same time is involved with Alex, Claudia and Marta and Esteban, with whom they are all co-raising two children. Everyone seem to be living many different lives but all of them will have a lot to learn from each other.
Release Date2021-05-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Maestro de yoga
Vote Count32
Summer in Menorca. The young Olivia has lost all understanding for the world. She just ended an affair in order to begin a real relationship, but no sooner had it started than this also ends. She is comforted and receives prosaic advice from her sculptor mother Nuria. When pensioned advertisement filmmaker Fernando moves into their guesthouse, a fresh wind blows over the island. While Olivia sees him as a father figure, Fernando tries to seduce Nuria. ISLA BONITA is a charming, wonderfully cheerful comedy full of misunderstandings – and a bijou homage to the idyllic holiday island of Menorca. Director and main actor Fernando Colomo delights us with this semi-autobiographic fiction film.
Release Date2015-11-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Fer
Vote Count20
Paco and Regina are going to get married, but they don't know that this will unleash a fight between their mothers to see who decides every detail of the wedding. Carmen, Paco's mother, is an expert in sentimental blackmail to get what she wants. While Catalina, Regina's mother, is an expert in using her contacts to pressure and extort people until her slightest whim is fulfilled. Their struggle unleashes a battle of epic proportions, where nothing will be left standing.
Release Date2024-08-02
Charactersd Pasajero Uber
Vote Count12
Honorio Sigüenza is a man in his forties who has always lived under the yoke of his possessive mother. When his mother dies, he undergoes a radical transformation that will lead him to live numerous love affairs in the face of the disapproval of his cousin Veni, who wanted to marry him.
Release Date1987-08-13
Charactersd El fraile
Vote Count2
Luci, Graci and Mar, three sisters that make a comedy trio, go to the wedding of their father with a woman who is 45 years younger than him. During the feast Luci's husband dies in an accident. Despite the tragedy, the trio have to fulfill their commitment acting during August in Benidorm. The widow discovers thanks to a notebook that her husband cheated on her, so she decides to flirt with everyone.
Release Date1997-02-25
Charactersd Técnico sonido
Vote Count8
Gloria is a porn artist that performs live-sex. When his mate gets sick he brings her a young substitute, Manu. The boy works surprisingly well and then Gloria decides to go into business with him. Things get complicated when Gloria discovers that Manu is in trouble because of his gambling debts.
Release Date1993-02-12
Charactersd Aurelio Castro
Vote Count24
Since he began to work, Domingo lives against the trend: he sleeps during the day, care for her younger sister in the afternoon and at night vacuums in a department store.
Release Date1997-06-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Vote Count1
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 Antonio Resines intends to compile a series of anecdotes to shape the amazing history of Spanish cinema, holding several conversations with prominent figures of the Spanish film industry.
Release Date2019-11-22
Charactersd Himself - Filmmaker
Vote Count2
Ana's husband is the perfect wealthy middle-class man. Koro's husband is a cook with no more ambitions. One day, Ana meets Koro in a night club and she proposes Ana to seduce each others husbands. The following morning Ana thinks this was a joke, but things are not always what it seems. Written by Dulzz
Release Date1992-01-23
Charactersd Vecino
Vote Count24
Three divorced men who share a flat live together without trouble until they hire a cleaning lady.
Release Date1994-02-25
Charactersd Fernando
Vote Count17
Pablo hates everything. When Lucia comes into his life, he thinks she's the woman he dreams of, and sees the solution to all his problems. But Lucia, who is rather manipulating, is just what will make Pablo explode. Nobody believes in the ideal couple, not even Pablo's friends, who live all in couples, and all with problems: Between Ariel and Lola there is a professional rivalty they don't know how to cope with; Claudio lives on Natalia, and none of them feels good about it; what's wrong with Alejandro and Beatriz is just the big age difference between them two. Nobody is happy with his partenaire, but everyone will let it be, maybe for conformism, maybe for fear, maybe for lazyness, or maybe because Everything is false.
Release Date1994-10-14
Charactersd Alejandro
Vote Count13
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 pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.
Release Date1980-03-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Hombre buscando el servicio
Vote Count7
She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a girl who, in time, would become a symbol of freedom and a total artist. Actress, singer, friend, lover. This is the story of Ana Belén.
Release Date2020-03-19
Charactersd Himself - Filmmaker
Vote Count2
An ageing artist in the twilight of his career, Fermín's hand has started to shake. On the brink of financial ruin, he will have to move into the studio he shares with his friend Javier de Juan in an old garage, to which his son Pablo, also a painter, arrives on his return from a long trip to India, intending to stay with him. Their widely differing approaches to art and life will soon spark arguments between the two. Pepa, Pablo's mother and Fermín's ex, makes a suggestion: that they enter a competition to create their own version of El Bosco's The Garden of Earthly Delights, which could solve their financial problems.
Release Date2025-09-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Release Date2016-01-01
Charactersd Él mismo
Vote Count3
Hortensia is a mature officer of the INEM office. She has been abandoned by her husband so she doesn't believe in love anymore. One day Eduardo Fernandez goes to the employment office because after overcoming a deep depression, he has decided that his life has to get better.
Release Date2004-11-26
Charactersd Encargado Chiquipark
Vote Count7
A group of friends finds a dilapidated place and decide to repair it, paint it and live in it in communal plan. The problem is the bank, owner of the premises, does not want them occupied so they threaten to call the police to evict them.
Release Date1978-01-01
Charactersd Sr. Ayuntamiento
Release Date2025-03-14
Charactersd Agapito
Release Date2017-02-27
Charactersd Self - Interviewee
Episode Count1
Release Date1995-04-04
Charactersd Self - Guest
Episode Count1
The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic of voices represented by people who make films, those who write them and those who consume them. The documentary pays tribute to the readers of “Fotogramas” helped by the leading figures of Spanish cinema, who will read to the camera the most representative letters received at its offices in the history of the magazine.
Release Date2018-10-05
Charactersd Self
Vote Count2
The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant artist in her own right.
Release Date2018-10-29
Charactersd Self - Filmmaker
Vote Count3
The early days of the future genius of Spanish cinema Luis García Berlanga, from his birth in Valencia in 1921 to his departure to Madrid in 1947 to become a filmmaker.
Release Date2022-10-26
Charactersd Self - Filmmaker
Vote Count2
Release Date2015-03-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Release Date1991-09-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count26
Vote Count1
Release Date2004-09-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
Release Date2010-01-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
An apprentice hit man who wants to surpass his mentor, two friends whom everyone except themselves sees as a couple, a Real Madrid football player about to embark on an acting career, a serial killer with a heart who finds his soul mate and a corrupt landowner cornered when a “parcel” arrives at his door make up these five self-contained stories, ranging from romantic comedy to drama, as well as terror, dark humour and thriller.
Release Date2020-07-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count8
Brenan arrives at Yegen on foot, interrupting the funeral held for the daughter of the local cacique. He collapses from dysentery and soon learns that the local cacique, Don Fernando, is leaving for Granada with his wife. Brenan rents Fernando’s house for a year and soon enlists the services of María as housekeeper and cook and becomes friends with a local man named Paco. Brenan spends most of his time reading, walking, and trying to write poetry.His friends Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey (who is ill), and Ralph Partridge visit for a couple of days. Brenan, who has been maintaining a correspondence with Carrington, learns during the visit that Partridge and Carrington are engaged. He is crushed, as he had been in love with Carrington.
Release Date2003-01-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count21
Isabel is torn between the need to feel valued as an actress and her insecurities and contradictions. One night, she hosts a very special dinner: her husband Ángel, who is a scriptwriter, and Susana, Ángel's ex-wife and film director, want to convince Argentinian actor Diego Peretti to star in a movie. But at some point something unexpected happens that surprises everyone and disturbs the evening.
Release Date2016-04-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count110
A couple's children bring a magic ball, which allows them to bring snowmen to life, to a Christmas mountain chalet holiday.
Release Date2021-11-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count22
Luis, a Spanish student, goes to London to get a course in Economics. He lives at a house the neighbor of her aunt, but when she broke up with her husband, Luis goes to live with her.
Release Date1995-12-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count31
Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape
Release Date1978-08-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
A girl who lives with her dealer cousin and her policeman boyfriend who is a policeman regularly transports drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all of them smoke grass from time to time there is need for more. Deciding to take a friend of hers who has just left home down to Morocco for a transport she gets problems because it is the first time for her friend and this makes it difficult. But as all are very open-minded there is no problem they would not try to solve.
Release Date1989-04-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count43
Quique is a successful 30-year-old composer. He does not have the necessary funds to support a broken family. With a sister who is in prison for trafficking drugs and an elderly mother suffering from Alzheimer's, he decides to reconcile his activity with a new job: Drug dealer.
Release Date2019-06-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count35
Release Date1992-10-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count11
Release Date1992-09-11
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count3
A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media.
Release Date2004-11-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count13
Alex is a young woman who resorts to arms and drug trafficking to support her parents and younger brother in 1990s Basque Country. Alex has her life further complicated by her unrequited love for Javi, a member of her criminal gang.
Release Date1995-03-03
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count14
Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain.
Release Date1995-10-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count26
A history of rivalries: Madrid and Catalans, parents and children, couples, families ... all united and faced by football.
Release Date2008-06-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count11
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 a thriller. She studies violin. She's a vegetarian. He loves meat. Many things separate them, but he moves into her apartment.
Release Date1980-04-02
DepartmentArt
JobArt Direction
Vote Count14
Two students are arrested for painting revolutionary graffiti on the university walls. They escape from the camp and flee with two American girls, disguised as rich young men who are showing Spain to two tourists.
Release Date1998-09-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
In 1940's Madrid. Juan plays piano for Pepita and her on-stage partner Mario. Although Mario really wants to steal Juan for himself, Juan is not interested and Mario resorts to a string of lovers as consolation. When he loves (and leaves) a young nobleman, the young man wants revenge.
Release Date1989-09-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count27
Paris, 1911. When Da Vinci's painting “La Gioconda” is stolen from the Louvre museum, it is suspected that the authors of the audacious theft are members of a group of bohemian artists led by painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso and poet Guillaume Apollinaire…
Release Date2013-01-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
Ana starts working as a Doctor in the S.T.I.U. (sexual transmission illnesses unit) at a Hospital. She begins meeting a lot of strange and bizarre characters there, while her jealous husband has to deal with it...
Release Date1987-04-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count19
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, meet again years later with very different lives. One is a dad's son who is distracted as best he can; another has become a writer of espionage novels and is persecuted by the CIA, and the third leads an indolent life without further ado. The reunion of the three friends will make the society of La Mano Negra revive.
Release Date1980-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Cain is a self-conscious butcher who lives in the Madrid neighborhood of Lavapiés and who envies his brother Abel, his only family, for having achieved everything he does not have. When Cain discovers that Abel has left a neighbor neighbor pregnant, daughter of immigrants from Bangladesh and Muslim religion, decides to pass for the father of the child and take responsibility for what will be his new family.
Release Date2006-08-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
Pablo is a twenty-year-old man who wants to be a musician in order to be appreciated by his mother and find a male partner he can share his love with. He finds one, but because of his demanding behaviour, he is soon alone again. He tries to become a French horn player in the Youth Spain National Orchestra, but the examiner turns out to be his father, who's been living apart from his family and doesn't really accept Pablo's sexual trends. Once Pablo fails in his exam, he feels very depressed. When another French horn player from Valencia hasn't got a place to sleep, Pablo takes him home to his house. The next morning, however, he finds a girl named Salome inside of his bed.
Release Date1994-05-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count11
TV Miniseries of 2 episodes. "El pacto" tells the unusual and controversial story, inspired by a real case happened in the U.S., seven girls, Rebeca, Mará, Ana, Bea, Vivi, Merche and Carol seven teenage friends and students of 4th year of the same class one day decide to take a surprising decision: to become pregnant at the same time. After achieving his goal, it creates a stir in the school where they study and the girls become the focus of the small seaside town in which they reside. Soon after, the remarkable fact is investigated by their parents and teachers, as well as the media to discover the motivations behind this group of adolescents to carry out the unusual pact.
Release Date2008-12-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count29
Bernabe (José Sacristán) works as an artistic director for a publicity firm but his avocation is fawning after his bosses, sleeping with whomever might advance his career, and ignoring his wife. Life continues on in this vein until he meets a young model whom he invites up to his boss's temporarily vacant country house, pretending the house belongs to him. Not very far away, bulldozers and other machinery are clearing the beautifully wooded area so construction can start on an amusement park. Little does Bernabe realize that his potential new conquest is a seriously fanatical environmental advocate, and she arrives at the house with friends, gets Bernabe high and "out of it," and then she and her friends proceed to trash the construction machinery. Once Bernabe comes around again, he finds out what has happened, loses heart for his planned sexual escapade, and begins to appreciate his wife for the first time.
Release Date1982-02-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
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 of being a restaurant. Alejandra, our heroine, decides to put an end to the ship's dissolute activities and use her inheritance as a school. Customers, cooks, waiters and the girls will meet her idea with considerable resistance.
Release Date1988-04-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
A Spaniard photographer (Antonio Resines) goes to New York in an attempt of selling his work. Despite his broken English and his shyness, he meet two editors that could be interested in publishing his pictures. However, his dreams of fame vanish when he realizes that his photographs are considered old-fashioned by the American publishers.
Release Date1984-01-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Walter, an aspiring musician from Madrid, has a lot of troubles. After finding a videotape, he learns something which will alter his whole life, and put his Madrid problems on hold. In the tape, a Cuban woman confesses to being his mother. She is waiting for him in Havana. Walter goes to Havana to see his mother. There, the plot thickens with the addition of the mother's daughter, and a Spanish airline crew member, who round out the quartet.
Release Date1999-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Spain, 1977. The first general elections are about to take place after the long dictatorship and the progressive environment of Madrid is easily palpable. Protagonists, Carmen and Juan were once married and now living separately, both have a child. It's one of the only reasons they maintain cordial to one another. Their separation, the political context and the contradictions of the progressives of the time will not defeat the affinity between the two.
Release Date1977-09-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Carlota works as an ambulance driver for the SAMUR. She becomes infatuated with porno-comic artist Number One, whom she meets after the latter suffers indigestion from eating ten hard-boiled eggs. A trail of misunderstandings between them ensue. Told from the angle of each of the protagonists, Carlota begins by explaining her story and then Number One intertwines the story of the events with that of Carlota, allowing the viewer to appreciate the reason for the rude attitude towards her.
Release Date1998-10-23
DepartmentWriting
JobDialogue
Vote Count9
Release Date2018-10-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Madrid was one of the hardest-hit regions in the world by the pandemic of Covid-19. When the state of alarm was declared in March 2020, awarded filmmaker Hernán Zin grab his camera and went out to portray it from all fronts: hospitals, ambulances, nursing homes, funeral homes, fire department, police and army operations.He got exclusive access to places and situations that few filmmakers in the world had due to the effort of the politicians to keep the press out of the hospitals and nursing homes.
Release Date2020-11-27
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
Vote Count2
Two middle aged Spanish men bump into each other at a music store: Calvo, who is a TV actor, and Casado. They were school mates and haven't met for a long time. They begin to remember old times, for instance, when they had to sing the post civil war Spanish anthem and they mistook the lyrics. But suddenly Calvo gets mad, breaks some discs, takes Casado to a small room, and acts as if he were the priest at the school. This priest has found that Casado had dirty magazines in his bedroom, and threatens him to tell his family if he doesn't give away the name of the boy who commits vandalism in the school. Terrified, Casado gives Calvo's name. Calvo comes back to the present, says he wasn't guilty, quietly pays the broken discs, and leaves the store.
Release Date1976-07-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Release Date1994-01-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
This short film tells the story of Romeo and Julio, a gay couple from Seville who decide to get married in spite of opposition from their respective families.
Release Date2019-10-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Release Date1975-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date2023-09-05
Episode Count4
Vote Count4
Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmakers like Fernando Colomo, Fernando Trueba, Imanol Uribe, Carmen Maura and Antonio Resines, protagonists of the so called 'New Spanish Cinema' in the 80s. His first films were produced between friends, her back to the industry. Rolled with minimal budget and with the sole intention of having fun ... And big surprise were critical and box office successes. And also true generational manifestos.
Release Date2010-10-26
Vote Count3
Release Date2024-03-08
Release Date2018-04-11
