Writing

Álvaro del Amo

Known for

Writing

Credits

30 titles

Known for

Love at First Sight poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Love at First Sight

1992

The Naked Eye poster
4.9

Begoña is a thirty something consultant who has rebelled against her upper middle class background and has overdone it with sex ever since her youth. On recommendation of her psychoanalyst she keeps a video diary of her encounters using a palm-sized video gadget called "The Owl". On Christmas Eve, reluctantly, Begoña goes to have dinner with her dysfunctional family: her stern mother, her married brother and her younger sister. Soon, Begoña, the family’s black sheep, clash with her relatives. She leaves abruptly in disharmony, only her sister seems sympathetic towards her. The same night in a bar, Begoña is befriended by Daniel a solitary handsome man in his late teens. The attractive and self assure Begoña draws his attention, but when her on and off ex boyfriend Elio, and adventurous biker, shows up at the bar, an argument ensures between Elio and Daniel.

The Naked Eye

1998

Lovers: A True Story poster
6.5

A torrid affair between a recently discharged serviceman and an attractive widow leads to murder.

Lovers: A True Story

1991

Camarón: When Flamenco Became Legend poster
6.7

The life of Camarón de la Isla, the legendary Spanish flamenco cantaor, from his beginning until his death; the relationships he struck up with his wife, la Chispa, and guitarists Paco de Lucía, Tomatito and Paco Cepero…

Camarón: When Flamenco Became Legend

2005

Jealousy poster
5.5

A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta tells Antonio the man's first name. Carmen tells him that the man meant nothing to her, and that the photograph was taken before she met Antonio. She loves Antonio and sets out to wipe the photograph from his mind through exuberant sex, but her ploy backfires and Antonio remains fixated. Slowly he finds out about the man, and about Carmen's past. Will jealousy consume this couple or can they find a way to kill the green-eyed monster?

Jealousy

1999

El crimen de Don Benito poster
4.4

July 18, 1902. A woman and her daughter are brutally murdered in the Extremaduran town of Don Benito. Everybody knows the depraved town boss was responsible, but nobody dares to declare against him.

El crimen de Don Benito

1991

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Naked Eye poster
4.9

Begoña is a thirty something consultant who has rebelled against her upper middle class background and has overdone it with sex ever since her youth. On recommendation of her psychoanalyst she keeps a video diary of her encounters using a palm-sized video gadget called "The Owl". On Christmas Eve, reluctantly, Begoña goes to have dinner with her dysfunctional family: her stern mother, her married brother and her younger sister. Soon, Begoña, the family’s black sheep, clash with her relatives. She leaves abruptly in disharmony, only her sister seems sympathetic towards her. The same night in a bar, Begoña is befriended by Daniel a solitary handsome man in his late teens. The attractive and self assure Begoña draws his attention, but when her on and off ex boyfriend Elio, and adventurous biker, shows up at the bar, an argument ensures between Elio and Daniel.

The Naked Eye

1998

Lovers: A True Story poster
6.5

A torrid affair between a recently discharged serviceman and an attractive widow leads to murder.

Lovers: A True Story

1991

Camarón: When Flamenco Became Legend poster
6.7

The life of Camarón de la Isla, the legendary Spanish flamenco cantaor, from his beginning until his death; the relationships he struck up with his wife, la Chispa, and guitarists Paco de Lucía, Tomatito and Paco Cepero…

Camarón: When Flamenco Became Legend

2005

Jealousy poster
5.5

A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta tells Antonio the man's first name. Carmen tells him that the man meant nothing to her, and that the photograph was taken before she met Antonio. She loves Antonio and sets out to wipe the photograph from his mind through exuberant sex, but her ploy backfires and Antonio remains fixated. Slowly he finds out about the man, and about Carmen's past. Will jealousy consume this couple or can they find a way to kill the green-eyed monster?

Jealousy

1999

El crimen de Don Benito poster
4.4

July 18, 1902. A woman and her daughter are brutally murdered in the Extremaduran town of Don Benito. Everybody knows the depraved town boss was responsible, but nobody dares to declare against him.

El crimen de Don Benito

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El tigre

1980

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El tigre

1980

The Crime of Captain Sánchez poster
4.3

Madrid, Spring 1913. During a visit to the casino, a beautiful 20 year-old woman catches the eye of a 50 year-old rich widower. But the gamble he is about to commit is far greater than he suspects.

The Crime of Captain Sánchez

1985

The Dreyer Cycle poster
2.0

Madrid, Spain, 1961, during the Franco regime. Carlos, a law student who runs a film club, decides to organize a cycle dedicated to the movies of Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer.

The Dreyer Cycle

2006

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Una historia

1978

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Una historia

1978

With Good Reason poster
4.7

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.

With Good Reason

2004

Los preparativos poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Los preparativos

1968

Los preparativos poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Los preparativos

1968

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Presto Agitato

1979

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Presto Agitato

1979

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pasolini, el poeta en la playa

2000

Todo alrededor poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Todo alrededor

1965

Todo alrededor poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Todo alrededor

1965

Zumo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zumo

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Zumo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zumo

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No artwork available
7.0

In Madrid, inside a middle-class apartment, through a succession of dialogues, the young Luis and Julia act as lovers, friends, brothers, husband and wife. Dos is one of the most radical examples of non-narrative cinema in cinematography, not just Spanish, but worldwide.

Dos

1980

No artwork available
7.0

In Madrid, inside a middle-class apartment, through a succession of dialogues, the young Luis and Julia act as lovers, friends, brothers, husband and wife. Dos is one of the most radical examples of non-narrative cinema in cinematography, not just Spanish, but worldwide.

Dos

1980

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Visconti: La verdad del melodrama

2001

Una preciosa puesta de sol poster
4.5

Three women from three different generations meet at last in a trip to a resort in northern Spain.

Una preciosa puesta de sol

2003

Intruso poster
4.5

In childhood and youth, the three were "the inseparables." Luisa married Ángel, then two years later, she left him to marry Ramiro. After ten years, Ángel reappears, back from South America, broke and ill. Luisa is overcome with sentimentality and, over Ramiro's objections, takes Ángel into their house. Ángel is bitter, he and Ramiro have shifted from best friends to enemies. Luisa wants to be in love with both. Ramiro hopes he can wait out Ángel's declining health, and Luisa wants to heal Ángel through force of will. What is Ángel's plan? Observing the roiling emotions are Luisa and Ramiro's precocious young children. Who's in danger here?

Intruso

1993

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Paisaje con árbol

1973