Gonzalo Suárez

Berlanga!!

How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to do with his own? Since to understand the secrets of an artist it is essential to know the person behind, his family, his friends, his collaborators, as well as prestigious filmmakers and actors trace a collective portrait of a creator as singular as he is universal.

Release Date:2021-10-26

Character:Self - Filmmaker

Vote Count:1

Wings of Darkness

The night seems terribly dark, of an unfathomable blackness where the worst nightmares dwell. For the archer Yin, however, the night is made of shadows, brown or reddish, velvety or light, as if it were inhabited by flying beings that cannot be seen during the day, like wings of darkness.

Release Date:2021-06-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Malinche's Dream

The tragic story of the encounter between the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and the emperor Moctezuma, lord of the Mexica Empire, through the words and mediation of a woman called Malinche.

Release Date:2019-01-25

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:Character Voice (voice)

Querido Fotogramas

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 Date:2018-10-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

Forever

Garrón's friends try to help him win back his wife by recovering something from the very beginning of their relationship.

Release Date:2017-07-12

America's Affaire

The best kept secret in American history is revealed. San Martín and Bolívar meet for the first and only time to chase the dream of a Grand Motherland.

Release Date:2015-09-01

Vote Count:2

Writing Heads

They are the first and the last, those who imagine stories and give voice to the characters who live them. However, they never speak. But now, they emerge from the shadows of a poorly lit room and tell their secrets, their tricks, their influences; they tell their own story, that of those who face the blank page, the absolute nothingness; that of those who are the true authors, those who create and destroy entire universes. They are the screenwriters.

Release Date:2013-09-19

Character:Himself

La venta del paraíso

Many immigrants, when they arrived in Spain, thought they had found paradise, soon thwarted all their dreams of prosperity. Many of them then decided to return to their land, but not so simple. In a pension match various immigrants end up discovering that deportation is the only way to return to his country.

Release Date:2013-04-03

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:3

Gonzalo Suárez: Sam Peckinpah, director salvaje (TV)

Release Date:2011-05-01

Character:(voice) (as Gonzalo Suarez)

Vote Count:1

Express Oviedo

All hell breaks loose when an eccentric theatrical ensemble arrives in Oviedo, Spain to stage a production of the Leopoldo Alas play -La Regenta.

Release Date:2007-10-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

El genio tranquilo

A watchmaker from Soweto finds a shoebox out of which he makes an improvised camera, aligns two lenses, and by looking through them, discovers images from the past. These are from the same places that, 35 years earlier, director Gonzalo Suárez, along with his brother Carlos, made the film Aoom.

Release Date:2006-02-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

El elefante del rey

North Sudan, summer 1923. King Alfonso XIII of Spain captures an enormous African elephant, an apparently irrelevant act that, however, will be paramount to understand the Spain of 20th century; an animal from far lands that will become a symbol of the Second Spanish Republic, the communist movement and many other things; a royal hunting that marks the beginning of a bizarre story of jealousy, passion, political intrigues and taxidermy.

Release Date:2003-10-03

Character:Gonzalo Suárez - Writer

Vote Count:3

The Goalkeeper

Ramiro Forteza is a Premier League goalkeeper whom the Civil War and the rigors of the war led to make a living visiting villages and challenging locals to mark him penalty goals. One evening he arrives to a town in Asturias and meets Manuela, a young widow with a son, who survives sewing for Ursula, Andrade's wife, the Civil Guard sergeant.

Release Date:2000-09-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

My Name Is Shadow

Doctor Beiral, torn apart by the internal struggle between his social persona and the dark instincts that torment him, manages to use his investigations to give life to the monster that he has long held within him.

Release Date:1996-04-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

The Detective and Death

In a European city agitated by racial unrest, a powerful tycoon must face the only thing he cannot deceive or corrupt: death. Meanwhile, a detective tries to find the woman he loves, and, at the same time, an innocent young woman follows him with the crazy purpose of bringing her son, who has been killed in the crib by a gunman, back to life.

Release Date:1994-09-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

La reina anónima

Anna Luz, a married woman, rethinks her life when she receives the visit of a stranger who claims to be her neighbor from the floor below. His arrival coincides with the entry of a series of extravagant characters who, as in a dream, invade his house. Ana is then immersed in this succession of strange and wonderful events that will forever ruin what until then was a normal life.

Release Date:1992-10-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Don Juan in Hell

While the last remnants of the Empire are extinguishing and King Philip II (1559-1598) is dying in the shadow of lost splendor, a man, defying the divine and human justice, turns his passions into fate and his will into law. His fame is as great as his pride. His conviction, eternal. His name, a legend: Don Juan. Free adaptation of "Don Juan" by Moliere.

Release Date:1991-06-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

El lado oscuro

Release Date:1991-03-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

La mujer fría

The cold woman.

Release Date:1990-03-16

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Rowing with the Wind

In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the personification of her imagination is the cause. Against this backdrop, Claire has Byron's baby then is estranged from him and barred from her daughter. Byron and Percy continue their friendship, the one self-centered and decadent, the other wildly idealistic. The Shelleys take up residence near Pisa.

Release Date:1988-09-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:30

The House of Ulloa

Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion, this gloriously comic and gothic story follows the fortunes of an innocent young priest as he enters a world of moral decadence, sexual intrigue and corruption of an aristocratic family in nineteenth-century Galicia.

Release Date:1985-12-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Los Pazos de Ulloa

Release Date:1985-12-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:2

The Secret Garden

A few days ago, Lucia (Assumpta Serna) receives anonymous letters in which he is forced to perform certain actions that she accepts without question. Her current boyfriend, Arthur (Xabier Elorriaga), suspects the mysterious sender can be Lucia's former lover, whose strange death never reached clarified. Now it's time it's Arthur who put the cards on the table to get to the bottom of it.

Release Date:1984-11-05

Department:Directing

Job:Second Assistant Director

Vote Count:7

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.

Release Date:1984-10-25

Character:Lucas Villalba

Vote Count:241

Epilogue

The film tells the story of two writers in love with the same woman. For years, they have worked together. One day they separate. Ten years later and Ditirambo meets up with Rocabruno, at the very least to tell him his latest story. An epilogue that closes what they together have opened.

Release Date:1984-01-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

A contratiempo

The relationship of a adult man and a young girl.

Release Date:1982-03-15

Character:Hombre de Finisterre

Vote Count:1

Cuentos para una escapada

With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's film.

Release Date:1981-07-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Parranda

Cebrian, a blast furnace worker Asturian, being held at the Civil Guard barracks. There has to be accountable for the disasters in a day of party with two friends.

Release Date:1977-03-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

The Carrot Queen

Ursula Alejandra Nicholson, the Carrot Queen, an extravagant American millionaire, arrives in Spain. J.J., a suave and ambitious executive, decides to become involved in the American carrot industry. To do so, he will take advantage of an unhappy bookseller, pulling him into a delirious misadventure that serves as a political satire.

Release Date:1977-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Beatriz

A child is witness to an assault on a monk by the gang of Lorenzo the Fifth. The monk escapes and takes refuge in the estate of Doña Carlota, a countess who lives with her son Juan and daughter Beatriz. Basilisa, the maid, conjures the devil to free her son from an irreversible illness, but to do so the evil must be transmitted to an innocent soul, and for that she chooses Beatriz. The child begins to be the victim of a possession, for which everyone blames the monk.

Release Date:1976-12-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

Bloodbath

Chicken, a desperate hippie junkie living in a small Spanish village, is finding it difficult to separate fantasy and reality. This isn't helped by the villagers practising magic and child sacrifice, or his involvement with a group of boozy expatriates lost in their own dreams and regrets.

Release Date:1975-11-29

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:7

The Regent's Wife

Adapted from the novel of the same name by Clarín, which narrates the difficulties of Ana Ozores to adapt to the sordidness of life in Vetusta, a provincial city of northern Spain inspired in Oviedo. The young Ana, married to a retired regent, lives oppressed by the provincial hypocrisy and the mystical fears of an absorbing religion. Sexually dissatisfied, beset by constant erotic dreams, she reveals in her confessional her intimate torments, and her confessor begins to feel a morbid passion for her. At the same time, Álvaro Mesía, a Don Juan, intends to seduce Ana.

Release Date:1974-12-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

House of the Damned

A young woman just released from a mental institution returns home to her mansion and faces a new set of horrors.

Release Date:1974-09-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

To the Devil, with Love

On an island buffeted by storms, the seamen are confined with no desire to abandon the life by the sea. They spend days and nights drunk in the tavern. The young woman who serves them has one desire: to go far away. This sets the stage for a musical in the open, and will frame a story of love and adventure, reminiscent of the director's film Aoom.

Release Date:1972-09-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:El capitán

Vote Count:4

Morbidness

Newlyweds have decided to spend the honeymoon in the middle of a forest and sheltered in a caravan. Relations between the two start to get confused, especially when she begins to obsess over a nearby house and with eyes that seem to spy on her with lust.

Release Date:1972-09-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

Aoom

The story concerns an actor who is unhappy with life and decides to separate from his body and integrate his mind into a doll. When his body dies, a group of characters search the countryside to find the doll.

Release Date:1970-07-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

The Strange Case of Doctor Faust

Doctor Fausto is observed by unknown creatures in outer space. All of a sudden, a strange woman appears in his life. Her strange behavior leads his life down the path to insanity.

Release Date:1969-12-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Narrator/Mephistopheles/Octavio Beiral

Vote Count:6

The Exquisite Cadaver

A publisher of novels begins to receive packets containing macabre: members of a female corpse. The appearance of a mysterious woman who seems related packages will lead to a situation of dramatic denouement.

Release Date:1969-08-25

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:13

Ditirambo

Ditirambo never smiles, always tells the truth and ruthlessly carries out all the missions entrusted to him. The widow of a writer orders him to locate the former lover of her husband with the purpose of getting revenge on her.

Release Date:1969-03-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:José Ditirambo

Vote Count:7

De cuerpo presente

After seeing that Nelson kisses his lover, Barlow poisons him. But it turns out that Nelson comes back to life when he was about to be buried. From that moment, Barlow does not stop chasing him to finish his work.

Release Date:1967-08-28

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:6

Plan Jac Cero Tres

The president of the Import and Export Group hires the services of the great Ruperto Solís to woo Úrsula, the beautiful heiress of an Iranian oil tycoon.

Release Date:1967-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Ditirambo vela por nosotros

In a desolate world, in a city of madness, José Ditirambo is a wolf among wolves, a fury among furies, an intrepid journalist whose favorite weapons are humor and logic, until he embarks on a mission to find a woman he has heard asking for help through the pipes in his bathroom.

Release Date:1967-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:José Ditirambo

Vote Count:3

Left-Handed Fate

The inhabitants of a strange desert Barcelona are gradually leaving the city in a panic group. The victims of a serial killers seem to feel strangely attracted by their executioners. Only Gim, an attractive blonde advertising model, decides to face her destiny.

Release Date:1966-05-10

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:9

El horrible ser nunca visto

A young woman who lives with her uncle begins to dream about a monster that lurks in the shadows of the night.

Release Date:1966-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Vote Count:6