David Trueba (Writing)
Little is known about David Trueba, a figure with a modest footprint in Writing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
El hombre bueno
Vera and Juan have made the decision to divorce and want Alonso to act as a Good Man, a kind of mediator to help them in the process. Isolated in an idyllic house by the sea, the time will come for all of them to reveal their secrets and to confront the idea of love and loss.
Release Date:2024-03-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Un día en Nueva York con Woody Allen
Spanish filmmaker David Trueba travels to New York to interview Woody Allen, who reviews his filmography and his many personal and artistic concerns.
Release Date:2024-02-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Filmmaker
Vote Count:3
Jokes & Cigarettes
Barcelona, Spain, in the late sixties. Eugenio, a young jeweler who has fallen in love with Conchita, a singer, to the point of learning to play the guitar to accompany her in her performances, will first have to learn to overcome his stage fright.
Release Date:2023-11-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:45
Sofía y la vida real
Release Date:2023-06-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:1
The Sagrada Familia
A documentary series that tells the story of the rise and fall of the Pujol family: a story of politics, corruption and the portrait of a Catalonian society who saw in Jordi Pujol, the head of the Catalonian government between 1980 and 2003.
Release Date:2022-11-24
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:4
¿Qué (diablos) es España?
Release Date:2022-11-02
Vote Count:1
Usted está aquí
Release Date:2022-07-24
Character:Self
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:1
A este lado del mundo
This drama about immigration into Europe is set in the city of Melilla, a Spanish possession in Africa on the border with Morocco.
Release Date:2020-08-28
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1
Memories of My Father
In the polarized and violent Medellín (Colombia's 'City of Eternal Spring') of the 1970s, doctor Héctor Abad Gómez is concerned about both his children and children from less favored classes. After a devastating loss in the family, Héctor gives himself to the greater cause of public health programs for the poor in Medellín to the consternation of the city's authorities.
Release Date:2020-08-22
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:140
Stories of Our Cinema
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 Date:2019-11-22
Character:Himself - Filmmaker
Vote Count:2
Si me borrara el viento lo que yo canto
In 1963, under Franco’s dictatorship, two Swedish students travelled to Spain to spread news of the movements in favour of democracy. They contacted a young university troubadour, Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio, and on return to Stockholm set about making an album with the recording of his songs. They called it Canciones de la Resistencia española and kept the singer-songwriter's identity anonymous. The album was an instant hit all over Scandinavia.
Release Date:2019-09-24
Department:Crew
Job:Script
Vote Count:2
Casi 40
Two old friends. An ex couple. A music tour. Two lives to meet again.
Release Date:2018-04-20
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:18
¿Qué fue de Jorge Sanz? Buena racha
Release Date:2017-03-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez
Release Date:2017-02-27
Character:Self - Interviewee
Episode Count:1
The Queen of Spain
After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to The Girl of Your Dreams, 1998.)
Release Date:2016-11-25
Department:Writing
Job:Characters
Vote Count:88
¿Qué fue de Jorge Sanz? 5 años después
Release Date:2016-02-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Salir de casa
After almost thirty years of his career, the musician Fran Nixon joins film director David Trueba for a travel around Spain in which they'll talk about it and meet some friends.
Release Date:2016-01-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self
Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
Spain, 1966. An English teacher who travels to Almería when he hears that John Lennon is making a film there befriends with a 16-year-old boy who has run away from home and a young girl who also seems to be running away from something.
Release Date:2013-10-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:157
Ilusión
Daniel, a Spanish filmmaker would like to give his country back some of the hope it has lost due to the financial crisis. He's determined to shoot an inspirational movie about the Moncloa Pact, the agreement that brought back Democracy to Spain after the Franco era. The thing is he wants the film to be a musical.
Release Date:2013-06-28
Vote Count:3
The Wishful Thinkers
What some filmmakers do when they are not making movies: they waste time; they eat and get drunk; they take a walk after watching a movie; they fall in love; they are alone or with friends, building future memories for a future movie.
Release Date:2013-04-13
Department:Crew
Job:Technical Advisor
Vote Count:11
Madrid, 1987
In 1987 Madrid, the unexpected encounter between a seasoned journalist and a young student leads to a profound exploration of love, desire, politics, power, and discovery of each other.
Release Date:2012-04-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:63
Los muertos no se tocan, nene
Logroño, 1959. The death of a local authority creates a double expectation in his family, the coming of the TV set the deceased bought and the mayor to attend the funeral. His grandson (Airas Brispo) will witness the grotesque situations.
Release Date:2011-11-04
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:11
Rafael Azcona
Release Date:2010-09-30
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
¿Qué fue de Jorge Sanz?
Release Date:2010-09-12
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:1
El último truco
Documentary film about visual effects master Emilio Ruiz del Rio. From his early works on films at 1942, to his last contribution at 2007, Emilio Ruiz talks on his film experiences and traditional trickery, using foreground miniatures, glass shots, and painted cut out miniatures. It shows interviews with some of the professionals he has worked with, like, Rafaela de Laurentiis, Ray Harryhausen, Guillermo del Toro, or Enzo Castellari
Release Date:2008-11-20
Character:Self
Vote Count:3
Rafael Azcona, oficio de guionista
A long talk with the spanish screenwriter Rafael Azcona, who's credited in the writing of more than 100 films. He's well-known for his colourful scripts, indulging in picaresque characters and flavourful dialogue, but has a wide range of facets. He worked for filmmakers like Luis García Berlanga, Marco Ferreri, Carlos Saura, Fernando Trueba or José Luis García Sánchez.
Release Date:2007-08-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Himself
La silla de Fernando
Vital reflections of veteran actor and filmmaker Fernando Fernán Gómez.
Release Date:2006-11-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Bienvenido a casa
Young couple Samuel and Eva move to Madrid and start living together when he finds work as a photographer. Although Samuel doesn't knows, Eva's expecting a baby.
Release Date:2006-04-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:8
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:12
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:Military Doctor
Vote Count:3
Soldiers of Salamina
Professor Lola Sánchez investigates the truth behind the events experienced by Rafael Sánchez Mazas, one of the founders of the Falange Española party, during the Spanish Civil War.
Release Date:2003-03-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:21
Cuban Rafters
The story of Cuban refugees who risked their lives in homemade rafts to reach the United States, and what life is like for those who succeed.
Release Date:2002-04-12
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:15
No Pain, No Gain
David is a teenager who feels he doesn't belong to a life where his family, friends and the girl he loves seem not to understand him.
Release Date:2001-07-06
Character:Prof. Ética
Vote Count:16
Obra maestra
Two cinephile weirdos kidnap a famous actress to force her to star in a little movie they're making with an 8mm camera.
Release Date:2000-10-27
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:3
I Come
Caco is a proud, handsome man, head of a family, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he has been torn to pieces by the death of his beloved daughter. He constantly visits her grave, weeps silently at her photo and has transferred all his wildly protective love and attention onto his mentally challenged nephew, Diego. It seems that Diego's father, Caco's brother, is in hiding after having killed a man from the Caravaca family, who are equally powerful in the community. They are looking for vengeance and have come to Caco for justice. When he refuses to betray his brother, the Caravacas grow impatient. When they realize they are getting nowhere, they threaten to kill Diego. Despite his fierce pride, Caco eventually realizes that the cycle of killing and revenge must be broken. But how can he achieve this and protect everyone he loves?
Release Date:2000-10-04
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:30
Goodbye from the Heart
Juan is now in his fifties, has a protruding belly, dyes his hair gray and lives alone with a cat who has urinary problems, but despite this, women still find him attractive.
Release Date:2000-07-07
Character:Secretario del obispo
Vote Count:7
The Girl of Your Dreams
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to arise...
Release Date:1998-11-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:100
Dance with the Devil
She's sexy, shameless and loves taking people to their limit. She's a dangerous young woman who dreams about a jaguar that licks her naked body and sleeps by her side. Her past is bathed in blood and weird passions. Now she's met the man of her wildest dreams. He's dark, tough and mysterious. He likes robbing banks, trafficking in corpses and spicing it all with voodoo rituals. Together, the duo sets off toward Mexico destined to become the most feared outlaws in the continent.
Release Date:1997-10-31
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:199
Airbag
Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prostitute. Mafioso whorehouse owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends femme fatale Fatima to check things out. Juantxo and his friends are trying to get the ring back and in the process get involved in the war between gangs.
Release Date:1997-06-20
Vote Count:96
The Good Life
Tristan is about to turn fifteen. He enjoys the good life his parents have built for him. And yet, it won't be long before his environment of protection, affection and comfort crumbles. From then on, he will learn the taste of loneliness, sadness and that survival is often more important than life.
Release Date:1996-12-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:20
Two Much
Art Dodge is a painter-turned-gallerist drowning in debt. He gets in over his head when a con job leads to an engagement with a rich divorcee. He gets in deeper when he falls for her sister, and invents a twin brother to be her beau; and deeper still when his fiancée's ex-husband comes looking for revenge.
Release Date:1995-12-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:154
Los peores años de nuestra vida
Alberto lives with his parents and his brother Roberto, quite attractive, who tells him there are lots of girls. Alberto is a romantic guy, and doesn't find a girl for his own. He knew he was in love as soon as he saw Maria, although he was not very sure of what she thought. His brother told him he would help with her, but things get difficult when Roberto also likes Maria.
Release Date:1994-09-09
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:Espectador Cine
Vote Count:8
Amo tu cama rica
Pedro goes out searching for a girl, but the night doesn't seem to be good. While he is talking with a friend, he sees Sara breaking up with a boy. He goes after her, and they end up sleeping in his house. Time goes by and they continue together. But Sara has too many men around and Pablo can't stand that. Their relation is difficult, they love each other but, at the same time, they can not be together.
Release Date:1992-01-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:Chico imprenta
Vote Count:7
Evilio
Evilio, a deranged, knife-wielding maniac abducts three pretty young women and drags them to an abandoned building. He tells his bound and helpless captives that he will call their families one by one - if someone answers the phone, that captive will live; if not, a gruesome death awaits.
Release Date:1992-01-01
Vote Count:5