Directing

Josep Maria Forn

Born 1928-04-04 · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Josep Maria Forn i Costa (April 4, 1928 – October 3, 2021) was a Spanish actor , film producer and film director . He was born in Barcelona , ​​and began making movies in the 1950s with the short-film Gaudí (1954) and some commercial movies. His film, Burnt Skin (1967), dealt with the migration to Catalonia from other parts of Spain , and was very successful besides the Franco 's censorship. In 1975, he became the founder and president of Institut de Cinema Català. From 1987 to 1991, he was the director of the cinematography department in the Generalitat de Catalunya , and in 1994, president of Catalan Film Directors College. He received the Creu de Sant Jordi Award by the Catalan Government in 2001.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

José María poster
6.5

Biography of the famous bandit El Tempranillo, acting with impunity in Sierra Morena during the reign of Ferdinand VII.

José María

1963

Subjúdice poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Subjúdice

1998

Subjúdice poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Subjúdice

1998

El somni català poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El somni català

2015

El somni català poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El somni català

2015

El somni català poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El somni català

2015

Companys, procés a Catalunya poster
4.0

1939: The remains of the Spanish Republican Army crossed the French border. Among the exiles are Lluís Companys, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and also Aguirre, President of the Basque Government. After the invasion of France by Nazi troops, Companys will be arrested by the Gestapo and handed over to the Francoist authorities. Led by the Count of Mayalde, he is transferred to Madrid and later to Barcelona. After a summary trial, Companys is condemned to death and shot.

Companys, procés a Catalunya

1979

Companys, procés a Catalunya poster
4.0

1939: The remains of the Spanish Republican Army crossed the French border. Among the exiles are Lluís Companys, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and also Aguirre, President of the Basque Government. After the invasion of France by Nazi troops, Companys will be arrested by the Gestapo and handed over to the Francoist authorities. Led by the Count of Mayalde, he is transferred to Madrid and later to Barcelona. After a summary trial, Companys is condemned to death and shot.

Companys, procés a Catalunya

1979

Los culpables poster
8.0

A businessman whose company is bankrupt decides to fake his own death with the complicity of his wife and her lover, a doctor who will be responsible for signing the death certificate. So he can collect a life insurance of five million pesetas, and the lovers will have the free way to get married.

Los culpables

1962

Ho sap el ministre? poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ho sap el ministre?

1991

Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait poster
4.3

A sincere portrait, and in first person, of the multifaceted Andalusian artist José Pérez Ocaña.

Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait

1978

La respuesta poster
6.2

Fierce portrait of a leftist student who betrays his girlfriend in order to kill a rich man with high political influence.

La respuesta

1969

La respuesta poster
6.2

Fierce portrait of a leftist student who betrays his girlfriend in order to kill a rich man with high political influence.

La respuesta

1969

Death at Dawn poster
6.4

The prestigious composer Virgilio Delise, suspected of being involved in the death of his stepfather, unexpectedly runs away. Doria, an ambitious insurance detective, will stop at nothing to prove his guilt.

Death at Dawn

1960

Death at Dawn poster
6.4

The prestigious composer Virgilio Delise, suspected of being involved in the death of his stepfather, unexpectedly runs away. Doria, an ambitious insurance detective, will stop at nothing to prove his guilt.

Death at Dawn

1960

Death at Dawn poster
6.4

The prestigious composer Virgilio Delise, suspected of being involved in the death of his stepfather, unexpectedly runs away. Doria, an ambitious insurance detective, will stop at nothing to prove his guilt.

Death at Dawn

1960

A Body in the Woods poster
5.8

A hard-hitting police investigation with Rossy de Palma taking the lead as the police officer responsible for solving the murder of a young woman whose mutilated body is found in the woods by local hunters.

A Body in the Woods

1996

¿Pena de muerte? poster
7.5

Pedro is accused of the murder of Eduardo . The evidence against him is overwhelming. A famous lawyer has to give up his defense because he is seriously ill. But his son Pablo, who is a writer, decides to investigate

¿Pena de muerte?

1961

Un tesoro en el cielo poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un tesoro en el cielo

1957

Un, dos, tres... ensaïmades i res més poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un, dos, tres... ensaïmades i res més

1985

La ruta de los narcóticos poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La ruta de los narcóticos

1963

Rage poster
10.0

In this docudrama, life in a Catalan village in the early years of the Franco era (1939-1975) is chronicled.

Rage

1978

La Rana Verde poster
7.0

Cimera de los Infantes, Castile, Spain. The young men who meet every day in the bar La Rana Verde are bored because they barely have fun, so they decide to seduce the girls who attend a summer course in the historic castle of the town.

La Rana Verde

1958

La Rana Verde poster
7.0

Cimera de los Infantes, Castile, Spain. The young men who meet every day in the bar La Rana Verde are bored because they barely have fun, so they decide to seduce the girls who attend a summer course in the historic castle of the town.

La Rana Verde

1958