Acting
Rosa Morata
Acting credits
No synopsis available yet.
Una prima en la bañera
1976
4.0An allegory of political oppression under Franco, with a plot alternating between narrative sequences and dream-like moments styled after the Spanish avant garde. Padrós employs a range of musical forms including opera, scores, and choreography to underscore a plot featuring a group of dropouts living in a junkyard who try to re-integrate with "The System" as represented by a party.
Lock-Out
1973
5.8Young José María goes through a painful journey until he discovers that he is a transsexual.
Change of Sex
1977
5.7In a small Catalan village take advantage of the visit of an ecclesiastical authority of Rome, during vacations, to organize a conference on the topic of religion and sex. This causes the people to divide into two camps, those who favor and those against the "Congress", until finally after a series of negotiations between both sides, we arrive at consensus. A large mosaic of characters carry the story to end happily, through critical situations with the conservative church.
The Victor of Olot
1981
4.7In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
If They Tell You I Fell
1989
9.0An upper-class family celebrates their daughter's upcoming marriage to a young man who appears to be of the same social standing. The fiancé has sexual relations with another woman, and this sets off a chain of humiliations.
Serenata a la claror de la lluna
1978
6.4A short film about a mysterious ceremony, based on an essay by William S. Burroughs.
Ice Cream
1970
5.1A group of Africans clandestinely reaches the coast of southern Spain. Among them is Alou, a 28 years old Senegalese. As all his belongings are stolen while in Almsería, he has no choice but to engage in street vending. His only pleasure are the letters he writes to his family to tell the vicissitudes of his Spanish adventure.
Letters from Alou
1990
4.6Fabrizzio hired the services of a prostitute to pretend to be his wife and accompany him to spend a weekend in the country house of his friend Romolo, where Aristides Almirante, an important official of the Ministry of Health, has also been invited. the approval of a new medicine of doubtful effectiveness called Fagatín, whose patent Fabrizzio owns.
Es pecado... pero me gusta
1978
5.5A humorously distorted version of the life of Shirley Temple, and described by its director as a terrorist musical. Shirley Temple sets off for the Emerald City to tell the Wizard that she is upset that Judy Garland has been selected for the role of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. On this trip she is accompanied by a group of characters who make reference to a fragmented, bipolar society. The film was begun as Franco was ill and completed after his death, and makes reference to the oppression of Spain during this period.
Shirley Temple Story
1976
Short film dedicated to the "established order" (yet made clearly outside of it) and drawing from the protests of 1968 and the struggle for socialist revolution, it also challenges the Catholicism and nationalism of Franco's Spain. It depicts the breakdown of a relationship, as the woman leaves for Germany where the Marxist struggle needs her help, and the man mocks her revolutionary ideals.
Pim, pam, pum, revolución
1970
6.5A doctor in parapsychology invites some people to their mansion. They all have lived some kind of paranormal experiences.
Journey to the Beyond
1980
3.9Season 1973-1974. After fourteen years of drought, the FC Barcelona of Johan Cruyff is making a spectacular campaign. Sebastián, a great fan of soccer, decides then to join a Barça's supporters club. There he will meet the daughter of his friend Amadeo, an attractive young woman who will not stop until Sebastián agrees to marry her. The couple will celebrate their wedding on the same day that Barça and Madrid compete for the League.
Spanish Fury
1975
Spanish actress María de Montenegro marries a Nazi officer, von Herzig, in Berlin during World War II, and years later is forced to return to Barcelona. There she hopes to find what could be her last chance to regain her lost success.
The Rise, Fall, and Repose of Maria von Herzig
1986
4.0No synopsis available yet.
Objetivo: sexo
1981
4.7Leonor and Juan are a united couple of good standing that cannot have children. They want to adopt one but do not succeed because he is too old. Leonor proposes Juan an audacious plan: having a child with another woman, offering her a significant amount of money if she renunciates to the child. As it is very difficult to find the girl, they publish an advertisement in the press. Ana finally applies, as she has no job and lives far away from his family, so she accepts the deal.
Playing Parents
1978
Short film that addresses family repression through the bond between a brother and a sister in which the stronger takes advantage of the weaker.
What's for dinner, dear?
1971
Short film based on a real news item in which a student from Ohio was sentenced to spend three hours in a pigsty to learn to differentiate between a pig and a policeman. It shows a group of friends which make up a surreal symphony of people counting pigs and the actress Rosa Morata, dressed like a decadent cabaret performer, who unsuccessfully tries to escape from a runaway herd of men.
The Pigs
1972
A tragedy that does not avoid irony while showing a couple in a romantically disastrous state.
Swedenborg
1971
No synopsis available yet.
¡En qué lío me han metido!
1980
Daphnis and Chloe wander through a forest, intercut with shots of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and following no clear chronological trajectory, in a questioning of sexual roles and the permissible standards of Franco-era cinema.
Daphnis and Chloe
1969
10.0Having gained success and artistic acknowledgement for his performances on the stage, Joan Barnat has now definitively abandoned the theatre to work exclusively for television. But a turn of events causes him to lose control of his mind and he becomes obsessed with leaving his work to seek out a past love from the 70’s in the island of Formentera.
Escenes d’una orgia a Formentera
1996
NRShort film by Antoni Padrós
Men of Fire
1984