Acting

José María Cañete

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Known for

Siesta poster
5.3

American Claire wakes up blood-soaked and bruised at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state, she has flashbacks from the past few days. She thinks she's killed someone, but isn't sure, and now she's wandering the Spanish streets without money or a clear memory.

Siesta

1987

And Give Us Our Daily Sex poster
5.8

A pair of sexy bisexual nurses live in an apartment building, one floor up from a middle-aged couple and their son Albert, who is busy putting his new science project—a periscope—to good use by spying on the lingerie-wearing lovelies. Meanwhile, Albert’s mother is being even naughtier than her precious boy, sneaking off for some extra-marital action while her hair-obsessed husband is at the salon, having his follicles tended to. There are multiple versions of this movie - the original softcore version as well as a harder one with inserts of intimate close-ups performed by body-doubles.

And Give Us Our Daily Sex

1979

Year of Enlightment poster
6.0

April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, Manolo, surrounded by boys all much younger than he is, feels a bit like the cock of the walk since the only other man around is the handyman Emilio who looks after the gardens and does whatever needs to be done about the place. His wife, Rafaela, is the cook. Manolo meets Irene, a falangist who runs the sanatorium, and the school teacher, Miss Transito, a crabby spinster. He has his first sexual experience, albeit as a voyeur, with his nurse Vicenta. When she has to leave, her place is taken by a girl from the village, Maria Jesus, with whom Manolo falls hopelessly in love. A relationship grows up between them which will mark them both for ever.

Year of Enlightment

1986

Target Eagle poster
5.5

A Spanish police chief hires an undercover agent, Eagle, to infiltrate a gang of heroin smugglers. Infiltrating the gang, he uses a female agent as a point of contact. However he discovers that there bigger goings-on than dope. The gang is involved in the transportation of smuggled uranium for the manufacture of nuclear arms for sale to Libya and other aspiring third world countries.

Target Eagle

1982

Es pecado... pero me gusta poster
4.6

Fabrizzio 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

Star Knight poster
4.2

A medieval alchemist (Klaus Kinski), knight (Harvey Keitel) and priest (Fernando Rey) mistake a flying-saucer alien for a dragon.

Star Knight

1985

Film credits

1990s · 11 titles

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt poster
6.0

Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company when she prefers solitude, his treating her work as less important than his, his casual and cruel dismissal of her opinions, her boss assigning her an incompetent editor, bartenders ignoring her, her passage into middle age. She can be feisty and edgy, which sometimes gets in the way of what would make her happy. And she regularly threatens to leave Antonio. Will she, and on what terms? What will he do?

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

1991

Tales of the Stinking Military Service poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Tales of the Stinking Military Service

1994

Tahiti's Girl poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tahiti's Girl

1990

La punyalada poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La punyalada

1990

Los hombres siempre mienten poster
5.0

When Martin is about to be expelled from some literature courses, an unexpected event gives a turn to his uncertain future as a writer. Taking advantage of the absence of his neighbor, a consecrated novelist who entrusts him with the care of his cat, Martín steals his identity and some pages of his latest novel, presented in the school as a result of his own work. As a result of this, the teacher congratulates him publicly and the girl he is in love begins to look at him with different eyes.

Los hombres siempre mienten

1995

La duquesa roja poster
5.3

An Andalusian duchess has the dilemma of what to do with a grove, whether to convert it into a natural reserve or to make a luxury urbanization. The duchess, who is torn between her aristocratic privileges and a social commitment that has cost her more than one dislike in the past, must make a decision about her lands, to which she wants to get some money without harming the people. On the other hand, An ambitious Basque financier, Antónón Ibarrondo, intends to build a luxury urbanization in the Marbella style in the grove. Around the duchess, the businessman, environmentalists and other members in the conflict, problems begin to arise and everything will be decided in a referendum, convened with the idea that it is the people who decide, which coincides with the annual celebration of the Pilgrimage del Pueblo.With a cast "

La duquesa roja

1997

An Internal Affair poster
10.0

In the early 70s, a rather backwards young soldier with serious family problems finds himself stationed in a small village in Spain's Levante. Secretly in love with a young village girl, Pere slips into her room one night. When he is discovered, the soldier reacts with spontaneous violence, creating an embarrassing problem for the military that the brass decide to handle--expeditiously-- as "an internal affair."

An Internal Affair

1996

Ho sap el ministre? poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ho sap el ministre?

1991

Aquesta nit o mai poster
4.6

The film takes on a trip through a lively metropolis on the eve of a major holiday, witnessing the love lives, family situations, gender confusion and even a diamond traffic ring uniting some 14 different characters. They all have something in common - they're after love, money, live in or visit the same luxury apartment building, and speak Catalan, in the pulsating and hallucinating Barcelona of the 1990s.

Aquesta nit o mai

1992

Madregilda poster
5.2

Madrid, Spain. On Monday, December 22, 1947, Charles Vidor's Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford, premieres. That same week, as every first Friday of the month, Hauma organizes a peculiar card game in an old tavern.

Madregilda

1993

Les aparences enganyen poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les aparences enganyen

1991

1980s · 27 titles

Siesta poster
5.3

American Claire wakes up blood-soaked and bruised at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state, she has flashbacks from the past few days. She thinks she's killed someone, but isn't sure, and now she's wandering the Spanish streets without money or a clear memory.

Siesta

1987

Year of Enlightment poster
6.0

April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, Manolo, surrounded by boys all much younger than he is, feels a bit like the cock of the walk since the only other man around is the handyman Emilio who looks after the gardens and does whatever needs to be done about the place. His wife, Rafaela, is the cook. Manolo meets Irene, a falangist who runs the sanatorium, and the school teacher, Miss Transito, a crabby spinster. He has his first sexual experience, albeit as a voyeur, with his nurse Vicenta. When she has to leave, her place is taken by a girl from the village, Maria Jesus, with whom Manolo falls hopelessly in love. A relationship grows up between them which will mark them both for ever.

Year of Enlightment

1986

Target Eagle poster
5.5

A Spanish police chief hires an undercover agent, Eagle, to infiltrate a gang of heroin smugglers. Infiltrating the gang, he uses a female agent as a point of contact. However he discovers that there bigger goings-on than dope. The gang is involved in the transportation of smuggled uranium for the manufacture of nuclear arms for sale to Libya and other aspiring third world countries.

Target Eagle

1982

Star Knight poster
4.2

A medieval alchemist (Klaus Kinski), knight (Harvey Keitel) and priest (Fernando Rey) mistake a flying-saucer alien for a dragon.

Star Knight

1985

Un parell d’ous poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Un parell d’ous

1985

Un genio en apuros poster
4.2

Not published writer, a sculptor who does not expose, a filmmaker who does not make movies ... amateur and professional around anything. His daughter, which is to care, is the only one who understands. A film producer who bombarded daily with an overview, each more extravagant reproaches his fantasy and challenges to look carefully for 24 hours whichever comes around to check that everything that happens follows a rigorous logic .

Un genio en apuros

1983

Pa d'àngel poster
4.8

Barcelona, 1983. Agustí Martorell is a left-wing lawyer, atheist and former anti-Franco fighter, who discovers that his 15-year-old daughter Esther, influenced by the optional religion classes of Mossèn Parcerisas, a progressive priest and post-councillor, has converted to Catholicism and was secretly baptized.

Pa d'àngel

1984

Move Over, Mrs. Markham poster
6.0

Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him use his house for a love tryst while Fernando wines and dines Adela. At the same time, Paco's wife, Carmen, will be taking her lover to Rosa's house. From here on the rout begins, as Paco tries to get rid of Silvia, his secretary, and Carmen, her husband. Fernando thinks Rosa is cheating on him with Oscar, who thinks Fernando is gay and having an affair with his partner, while the soldier thinks his girlfriend is a professional...

Move Over, Mrs. Markham

1985

Bajo en nicotina poster
4.0

A film buff can't watch his videos in peace as he is disturbed by his clingy girlfriend and noisy neighbours. He will take drastic measures to get them to shut up for once and for all.

Bajo en nicotina

1984

Airlift poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

Airlift

1981

Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble poster
9.0

In the middle of the first world war, Barcelona is the center of multiple operations related to war, although Spain is a neutral country.

Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble

1983

Pasión lejana poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pasión lejana

1987

The Battle of Reefer poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

The Battle of Reefer

1981

The Flight of the Dove poster
6.2

A film team arrives at a more authentic and old square in Madrid to shoot a film. The area is full of children, working families and simple people who see the cinema as something unattainable. From his balcony, Paloma, does not lose detail of the shooting, nor of the movements of the gallant, for which he feels a strong attraction.

The Flight of the Dove

1989

Escape from El Diablo poster
5.3

A young American is framed and thrown into a Mexican prison. His friends journey to Mexico to break him out.

Escape from El Diablo

1983

Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17 poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17

1983

Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa

1984

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

No synopsis available yet.

Un, dos, tres... ensaïmades i res més

1985

El crack dos poster
6.9

Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo investigates the life of a gay man who has apparently abandoned his partner. When they both turn up dead, it seems one killed the other before committing suicide, but Areta is not convinced.

El crack dos

1983

Bueno y tierno como un ángel poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bueno y tierno como un ángel

1989

La diputada poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

La diputada

1988

The Hidden Truth poster
7.0

After a long and turbulent time in America at the beginning of the century, Adrian Massaguer returns to his birthplace on the Mediterranean coast, become one of the richest men in the world.

The Hidden Truth

1987

La quinta del porro poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

La quinta del porro

1981

La ràdio folla poster
7.0

While a radio show is on air, wild things happen.

La ràdio folla

1986

El fascista, doña Pura y el follón de la escultura poster
4.8

The consortium of the people approve a proposal from the Mayor; instruct Ramon, a ruined sculptor, an equestrian statue of Franco. Luis, one of the councilors, visit Ramon and proposes the commission, Ramon rejects for ideological grounds, but after thinking it accepts as there are no marble equestrian statues. When Ramon finally finished the statue, the whole consortium believes it is past time to inaugurate a statue of Franco. To satisfy Ramon approve the making of a new statue. This is dedicated to democracy.

El fascista, doña Pura y el follón de la escultura

1983

Porno: Situación límite poster
3.7

Classic and very little known 80s erotic movie.

Porno: Situación límite

1982

Inter Rail poster
8.0

Eva is 18 years old and decides to go inter railing through Europe after she has finished school. She has decided to meet up with Klaus in Amsterdam but things get more complicated when she meets Bosse on the way.

Inter Rail

1981

1970s · 8 titles

And Give Us Our Daily Sex poster
5.8

A pair of sexy bisexual nurses live in an apartment building, one floor up from a middle-aged couple and their son Albert, who is busy putting his new science project—a periscope—to good use by spying on the lingerie-wearing lovelies. Meanwhile, Albert’s mother is being even naughtier than her precious boy, sneaking off for some extra-marital action while her hair-obsessed husband is at the salon, having his follicles tended to. There are multiple versions of this movie - the original softcore version as well as a harder one with inserts of intimate close-ups performed by body-doubles.

And Give Us Our Daily Sex

1979

Es pecado... pero me gusta poster
4.6

Fabrizzio 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

Alicia en la España de las maravillas poster
4.8

Four different Alices wander through mazes constructed from 40 years of Spanish history in this post-Franco meditation. Loosely related to the "Alice" of Alice in Wonderland, in one episode of this film, Alice (who is clearly a metaphor for the Spanish people) is raped by some multinational corporations. Told in a somewhat confusing manner, especially for those unfamiliar with the nuances of Spain's history in the period between 1936 and 1975, this is director Jorge Feliu's first feature film.

Alicia en la España de las maravillas

1979

Una familia decente poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Una familia decente

1978

Let's Go, Barbara poster
4.4

Ana is Catalan, daughter of a bourgeois family and works in a studio in advertising. She is 38 years old and has only lived with her husband, with whom she has a relationship cold but accepted by both. Although his family is opposed, decides to leave her husband and takes a vacation with her daughter Barbara, of 12 years, in order to leave behind all the past and start a freer life, with fewer ties, less conventional.

Let's Go, Barbara

1978

Bolero de amor poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Bolero de amor

1970

The Andalusian Widow poster
6.2

Lozana, a young, beautiful and clever woman decides to move to the city after a tragic love story. There, she meets Rampin, a naughty rascal who soon finds out that her wit surpasses his own by a handful. When he falls in love with her, he can't help suffering as he sees how she plays not only with him, but with all of her lovers as well.

The Andalusian Widow

1977

Spanish Fury poster
3.9

Season 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