Manolo Matji (Writing)

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite

A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances.

Release Date:2023-11-10

Character:Self - Screenwriter

Vote Count:5

Tad Jones

Tadeo is a foolish and stubborn adventurer who explores an old pyramid and comes across a modern family of mummies.

Release Date:2004-11-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:17

Hours of Light

September 1987. In a shootout with police, Juan Jose Garfia makes a triple murder. Sentenced to more than one hundred years, is a rebel prisoner, clever and elusive that it has nothing to lose and nobody to worry about. In 1991, manages to escape from a police van jumping up. Stopped after two months of robberies and shootings, Garfia leads several prison riots, against which the authorities takes as a measure subjecting prisoners to a more contentious special isolation regime. Garfia, the prisoner with the highest IQ, avoiding drugs, which seems immune to punishment, and lives two years without seeing anyone, held in a tiny cell and subjected to continuous harassment. There he meets Marimar, a nurse I can barely speak, but between both of a current of mutual understanding.

Release Date:2004-09-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:15

This Was Solitude

Release Date:2001-05-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Kisses for Everyone

Three students are sent by their families to Cadiz in 1965, his last chance to pass and become what is expected of them. The appearance of some dancers disrupts their commitments: boys lose the course and girls, their work. But together they learn to decide their future.

Release Date:2000-12-01

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:14

El niño invisible

A group of children find a magic stone that transports them to the XII century.

Release Date:1995-12-15

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:4

Sirenas

Antonio saved his own life on a sinking boat. He is deaf and so that he can’t hear the singing of the sirens from the bottom of the sea.

Release Date:1995-03-01

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:4

Mar de luna

Story of impossible love between a knight and his sister. From them born a son who is repudiated by the gentleman, who takes him to live with monks in a monastery. When the boy grows up, escapes from the monastery to see the world and especially the sea. On the way he meets a peddler who teaches him to function in life.

Release Date:1995-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Black River

Río Negro is the struggle of two men, Osuna and Funes, hungry for power and wealth in a small town in Venezuela, during the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez

Release Date:1992-02-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:3

The White Dove

The story unfolds in Bilbao. Rocío (Emma Suárez), is in love with Mario (Antonio Banderas), a free rider with a lot of face that, to top it all, is partner of the business of her father, Domingo (Francisco Rabal) with whom she maintains incestuous relations. When Domingo passes away, both Mario and Rocío's mother have to put to the front of the business, finishing with the inheritance that could receive Rocío. In the midst of her frustration, a young business worker, secretly in love with Rocío, will try to have the legacy of her father end up in the hands of his rightful heiress.

Release Date:1989-11-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:3

Twisted Obsession

An American writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and manipulative pretty sister, his life starts to unravel and he realizes that he's been used.

Release Date:1989-09-05

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:21

La guerra de los locos

At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War a group of interns of a psychiatric hospital takes advantage of the confusion of the arrival of the "national" troops to get away from the center. In their flight, the fugitive patients will find a group of anarchists with whom they share bloody war episodes.

Release Date:1987-04-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

El disputado voto del señor Cayo

Based on Miguel Delibes novel. Rafael Corral, socialist member, decide to attend to the funeral of a friend although they had recomended him not to go for politic reasons. He finds there some friends and talking with them makes him to change his mind.

Release Date:1986-11-03

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:10

Turno de Oficio

Release Date:1986-10-07

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:2

The Holy Innocents

Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master "needs" their work. When Regula's brother is fired from where he has worked for 61 years, he settles down at their little place... An attack against the archaism of the spanish country of the 60s.

Release Date:1984-04-04

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:115

El hombre de moda

Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the job as a teacher through an old friend, Bruno Baena, who is the head master of the school. Aurora starts going to Pedro's classes. Pedro will become "El hombre de moda", very soon.

Release Date:1980-11-14

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:2

Opera Prima

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 Date:1980-04-02

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:12

Los días del pasado

A woman arrives in town to work as a teacher. It is the time of the 'maquis', the anti-Franco guerrilla that fights with little hope in some regions of Spain just after the end of the civil war. She has a love affair with one of the guerrillas, but their relationship will have an impossible future because of the past.

Release Date:1977-05-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:5

Ginebra en los infiernos

Iván and Ginebra meet in a purely casual way and soon discover that there is a powerful attraction between them; but the constant presence of Ivan's roommate, Toby, a strange boxer who is afraid to step into the ring, forces them to redefine their relationship.

Release Date:1970-01-01

Character:Harasser

Gospel

Release Date:1969-01-01

Department:Production

Job:Production Manager

Ida y vuelta

Elena, a shy and unmarried girl, belonging to the upper middle class and somewhat marginalized from the general environment, embarks on a trip to the family farmhouse one morning, and when she returns to the city that same day, at night, she is forced to take a strange woman in her car.

Release Date:1968-05-23

Department:Production

Job:Assistant Production Manager

Vote Count:4