Joaquín Oristrell (Writer)
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Works
La cena
Spain, April 15, 1939. With the Civil War concluded, and with the intention of celebrating his victory, General Franco attends a dinner with his generals at the Palace Hotel.
Release Date: 2025-10-31
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
The Champion
Diego has just been voted best young player in Europe and at the age of 20 he is on his way to making his team, Atlético de Madrid, champions of La Liga. But his impulsive and conflictive character makes the club, fed up with his excesses, hire Álex, a withdrawn and lonely psychology professor, to improve his behaviour. The two will have no choice but to learn to understand each other.
Release Date: 2024-07-12
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 40
Our Only Chance
Candela works at a logistics company while she pursues her dream of becoming a singer. Her life changes one night when a multinational record company executive hears her sing in a bar. That same night, Candela meets up with Diego, an old high school classmate of hers who is fighting to be a professional boxer.
Release Date: 2022-12-02
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 23
Two Many Chefs
Mikel, a young cook, meets with his father Juan, who had been missing for 30 years. While trying to keep his restaurant afloat, Mikel has to take care of crazed Juan, a former cook who suffers from a mental condition that prevents him from recognizing neither the aforementioned time gap nor his son Mikel.
Release Date: 2022-09-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 48
HIT
Atypical and highly unconventional high school teacher Hugo Ibarra tries to solve the problems of his most conflictive ESO students through alternative educational practices.
Release Date: 2020-09-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 19
Parchís: the Documentary
The spotlight's on Parchís, a record company-created Spanish boy/girl band that had unprecedented success with Top 10 songs and hit films in the '80s.
Release Date: 2019-03-12
Character: Himself - Filmmaker
Vote Count: 31
Fugitiva
A woman organizes an escape plan camouflaged as a kidnapping to protect her children from her husband's enemies.
Release Date: 2018-04-05
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 21
The Tribe
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 Date: 2018-03-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 204
Just a Little Chemistry
Fan girl finds herself torn between the attraction for her film idol and her best male friend.
Release Date: 2015-07-24
Character: Director Serie
Vote Count: 44
Hablar
An anthology film with 20 stories on the subject of words, communication, linked to one another over a 400-metre stretch: from Madrid's Lavapiés Square to the Sala Mirador. A journey between theatre and cinema, filmed in a single fixed shot running continuously over 80 minutes and half a kilometer, in Madrid's popular Lavapiés district. The characters talk, argue, laugh, cry, threaten, whisper, shout, steal, make dates, get angry with and hug one another, prompting the spectator to reflect on the immense power of words.
Release Date: 2015-06-12
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Character: Self
Vote Count: 16
Fassman, l’increïble home radar
Release Date: 2015-01-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Fallen Cape
Magno, the Great Spanish superhero, vanished from public life after his implication in a child molestation scandal. 20 years have passed and now a documentary filmmaker follows the trail of the fallen hero to make a movie about him.
Release Date: 2013-10-13
Character: Hombre lince
Vote Count: 6
Volare
Seven people interested in the study of dreams meet in a cottage to share experiences. Upon awakening after the first night, Jonah, a newcomer to the group, finds a stranger in her bed: the beautiful girl who had done the autopsy yesterday.
Release Date: 2013-02-05
Department: Directing
Job: Director
La Trinca: Biografia no autoritzada
Release Date: 2011-06-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Felipe y Letizia
Dramatization of King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain's relationship before their marriage.
Release Date: 2010-10-25
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 11
Mediterranean Food
Sofia's story, the best chef the world, and the two men who helped her to become a legend.
Release Date: 2009-02-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 23
Rivales
A history of rivalries: Madrid and Catalans, parents and children, couples, families ... all united and faced by football.
Release Date: 2008-06-27
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 11
Va a ser que nadie es perfecto
Release Date: 2006-10-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character:
Vote Count: 19
El próximo Oriente
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 Date: 2006-08-14
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 10
Queens
In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, are entwined: Judge Helena is in charge of the ceremony; the entrepreneur in hotel business Magda is hosting the guests in her hotel and is responsible for the banquet, while facing a strike leaded by her lover and chef; the nymphomaniac Nuria is facing problems due to her disease; the wealthy Reyes is having a crush for the father of her son's mate and her gardener; and the Argentinean cooker Ofelia is facing financial problems and difficulties in with her son's mate. Along three days, they have complicated relationships with their sons and mates, ex-husbands, lovers and employees.
Release Date: 2005-04-08
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 34
Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena
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 Date: 2004-11-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 7
With Good Reason
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 Date: 2004-11-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 13
Unconscious
A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.
Release Date: 2004-08-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 38
Los abajo firmantes
The first actor of a theater company on tour in Spain dies in a car accident. A new actor, Jorge Ruiz, is to relieve you. He's handsome, young and revolutionary. His arrival creates tension, jealousy and distrust in the rest of the cast, is-especially in Mario Soto, which is responsible to lead in the absence of the author of the assembly, busy with an opera for the Teatro Real in Madrid . Already in the first trial of the work concerned the "Play Without a Title" by Federico Garcia Lorca, their personalities collide head. Morante Carmen, leading actress of the company, and Laura G. Reyna, which was secret lover of the deceased, witness the struggle between the two. As if that were not enough, the newcomer brings added conflict: reading at the end of the function of a manifesto for peace. Mario questioned that decision and the company is divided.
Release Date: 2003-10-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
Majoria Absoluta
Release Date: 2002-10-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 22
Off Key
A trio of opera singers are reunited by a wedding ten years after their stormy breakup.
Release Date: 2001-11-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 7
Cuéntame cómo pasó
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 Date: 2001-09-13
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 9
Vote Count: 55
No Shame
A movie script is presented to Isabel. After reading it she realizes it's based on an old love affair she had with movie director Mario Fabra, the author of the script.
Release Date: 2001-06-29
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 9
Novios
Arturo , a successful restaurateur, having an affair with his assistant Cristal, tells her that he will reveal the extent of their relationship to his wife Paz. Not long after Cristal starts dreaming of life as a housewife, their plans fall through. In revenge, Cristal focuses on Arturo's son, Arturito. She will endeavor to make Arturito her bridegroom at Arturo's expense, in all senses.
Release Date: 1999-09-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6
Between Your Legs
A radio-show assistant meets a budding screenwriter during a group-therapy session for sex addicts.
Release Date: 1999-01-14
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 52
Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.
Release Date: 1997-07-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 51
What Makes Women Laugh?
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 Date: 1997-02-25
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 8
Todos los Hombres Sois Iguales
Release Date: 1996-09-23
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 3
Put a Man in Your Life
In a swimming pool accident, Juan and Belinda somehow exchange bodies. Juan is coaching a football team for an important match and Belinda is getting married. They agree to co-operate and continue in their new bodies.
Release Date: 1996-08-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
África
Martín (Zoe Berriatúa) is a teenager living in the San Blas district of Madrid. He is upset with his father Arturo (Imanol Arias) because he blames him for his mother's death. With the help of his girlfriend África (Elena Anaya), who will become his stepsister, he tries to get revenge on him.
Release Date: 1996-05-17
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
Sombras y luces: Cien años de cine español
Release Date: 1996-05-14
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
Extasis
Rober, Max and Ona, three young people living on the fringes of society, decide to commit a risky robbery.
Release Date: 1996-02-16
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 17
The Butterfly Effect
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 Date: 1995-12-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 31
Mouth to Mouth
For financial reasons an unemployed aspiring actor works for a phone-sex enterprise. One day he receives a call from the mysterious wife of one of his best clients.
Release Date: 1995-11-10
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 26
¡Oh, cielos!
Release Date: 1995-05-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Alegre ma non troppo
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 Date: 1994-05-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 11
All Men Are the Same
Three divorced men who share a flat live together without trouble until they hire a cleaning lady.
Release Date: 1994-02-25
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character:
Vote Count: 17
My Soul Brother
Meeting of two very different brothers: Carlos is an ambitious young businessman happily married to Julia, Toni is a nerve that life has given him so many sticks as the people who surrounded him.
Release Date: 1994-02-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
Cegada de amor
Release Date: 1994-01-28
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
La Lola se va a los puertos
1860, in the Bay of San Fernando, Cadiz. Lola is an Andalusian singer who all men that meet her love. Along with guitarist Heredia, a man who is resigned to love her in silence, she travels to the farmhouse of the wealthy Don Diego, which is also in love with her, to sing in the compromise party of his son Jose Luis and Rosario, his fiancée of childhood. Lola, a woman who never loses her head, is disturbed by the presence of the handsome young gentleman José Luis. Both are attracted and inadvertently awaken the jealousy of Rosario and the envy of Don Diego ... Remake of an eponymous film directed in 1947 by Juan de Orduña
Release Date: 1993-09-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 6
Why Do They Call It Love When They Mean Sex?
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 Date: 1993-02-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 24
Orquesta Club Virginia
Release Date: 1992-09-11
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 3
Pink Sauce
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 Date: 1992-01-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 24
Las Chicas de Hoy en Día
Release Date: 1991-09-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 26
Vote Count: 1
The Most Natural Thing
Following the dissolution of her 20-year marriage to a land developer, a middle-aged woman returns to her law practice and, plotting revenge, accepts as a client a young ecologist who has accused her ex-husband's company of corruption.
Release Date: 1991-01-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 6
Don Juan, My Dear Ghost
Seville, November 1, 1990. Tenorio goes out of his grave, as every year. Similarly, Juan Marquina, a great actor, makes the general rehearsal of a musical version of the play. Since that moment, two worlds come together in a circle of adventures, facing both Don Juans, helped by four beautiful women with decisive influence on their destinies.
Release Date: 1990-08-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 12
Going Down in Morocco
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 Date: 1989-04-11
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 42
Esquilache
In the 18th century in Madrid, the Marquess of Esquilache, King Charles III of Spain's former minister, bans on wearing the popular wide collar with a long coat and brimmed hat. Along with other measures provoke a massive riot in the city.
Release Date: 1989-01-29
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 5
Gatos en el Tejado
This is the story of Manolo Beltra, a mid-aged, unbelieving foul-mouthed but cherished. He is a TV presenter, famous for his participation in a program called "El humor es algo maravilloso". With life more or less settled, a series of events will break this situation and he will have to rethink his way of thinking and deal with his existence.
Release Date: 1988-10-07
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 13
Calé
A fierce passion grows between a well-known actress and a gypsy, from whom she seeks advice about her role in a new version of Pygmalion.
Release Date: 1987-03-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
Blood Hunt
A new doctor arrives in a small Spanish village. As soon as he begins meeting people there, he notices the strange behaviour of the population and is surprised. Young people make fun of him, a man called Gonzalo seems to be some kind of leader, and he is invited to leave the village when he tries to ask about the situation. All his questions get no answer. His neighbour is a lovely and pretty young woman, who works as the local teacher. They develop a sincere friendship from the very first moment, which grows to become love. Unfortunately, Gonzalo feels that the young teacher is "reserved" exclusively for him and he reacts with violence. Meanwhile, the doctor finds out the key of that strange behaviour. Some years ago, during the local feast, some drug-addicts attacked the village in order to get money and goods. There was a fight and some people died, including Gonzalo's son. From then on, Gonzalo and others began their particular "crusade" against drug-addicts.
Release Date: 1986-03-03
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 8
Platos Rotos
Series of 13 chapters that narrates, humorously, the daily life of a family made up of Carmen, a separated woman and owner of a restaurant, her mother-in-law and her daughter. The tangled situations are complicated by the presence of Carmen's ex-husband, and Loli, a girl with a cheerful life and neighbor of the family.
Release Date: 1985-10-02
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 13
De hombre a hombre
Release Date: 1985-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Operation Mantis
A beautiful woman, apparently a sophisticated Miss, is killed while skiing in Candanchú, an accurate shot in the head. But she is more than a beautiful model. It is a secret service agent of the terrorist organization IAAT His death triggers the alarm at the headquarters of the organization and the supreme leader, the bold and elegant Mr. Alfa , decides to take matters into. Three super-they are called to investigate the case, it is the courageous Mayor Sam Stevenson (Paul Naschy), the shrewd Marcello Antonelli (JL Vazquez), and the beautiful and reckless Alferez Allyson Love (Anne Karin).
Release Date: 1984-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2