David Trueba (Writer)
Little is known about David Trueba, a figure with a modest footprint in Writer. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
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 Date2000-07-07
Charactersd Secretario del obispo
Vote Count7
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 Date2001-07-06
Charactersd Prof. Ética
Vote Count17
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 Date1994-09-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Espectador Cine
Vote Count8
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 Date2019-11-22
Charactersd Himself - Filmmaker
Vote Count2
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 Date1992-01-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Chico imprenta
Vote Count7
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 Date2003-10-03
Charactersd Military Doctor
Vote Count3
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 Date2007-08-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
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 Date2024-02-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self - Filmmaker
Vote Count3
Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez
Release Date2017-02-27
Charactersd Self - Interviewee
Episode Count1
Usted está aquí
Release Date2022-07-24
Charactersd Self
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
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 Date2008-11-20
Charactersd Self
Vote Count3
Rafael Azcona
Release Date2010-09-30
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
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 Date2016-01-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
¿Qué fue de Jorge Sanz?
Release Date2010-09-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
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 Date2012-04-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count64
Sofía y la vida real
Release Date2023-06-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
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 Date2022-11-24
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count4
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 Date1997-10-31
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count205
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 Date2016-11-25
DepartmentWriting
JobCharacters
Vote Count90
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 Date1995-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count156
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 Date1998-11-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count102
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 Date2013-10-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count163
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 Date2003-03-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count21
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 Date2023-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count48
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 Date2024-03-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
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 Date2020-08-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count142
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 Date2011-11-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count11
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 Date1996-12-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count21
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 Date2000-10-04
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count31
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 Date2004-11-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count13
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 Date2000-10-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
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 Date2006-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
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 Date2019-09-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
¿Qué fue de Jorge Sanz? Buena racha
Release Date2017-03-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Casi 40
Two old friends. An ex couple. A music tour. Two lives to meet again.
Release Date2018-04-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count19
¿Qué fue de Jorge Sanz? 5 años después
Release Date2016-02-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
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 Date2013-04-13
DepartmentCrew
JobTechnical Advisor
Vote Count11
La silla de Fernando
Vital reflections of veteran actor and filmmaker Fernando Fernán Gómez.
Release Date2006-11-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
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 Date2002-04-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count15
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 Date2020-08-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
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 Date1997-06-20
Vote Count97
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 Date2013-06-28
Vote Count3
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 Date1992-01-01
Vote Count5
¿Qué (diablos) es España?
Release Date2022-11-02
Vote Count1