Writing

José María Palacio

Known for

Writing

Credits

33 titles

Known for

The Lovely Lola poster
6.5

"La Bella Lola" is a struggling singer trying to make a living for herself and her sister Ana in late 19th Century Spain. Lola is having an affair with Gabriel, a rich and influential older man who gives her jewelry and supports her singing career. Things change rapidly when Lola meets and falls in love with young playboy Javier, although the romance is doomed from the start. Javier belongs to an aristocratic family and has a bright future as a politician.

The Lovely Lola

1962

Mission to Caracas poster
8.2

Special agent Becker is after a briefcase that rather cleverly disguises some secret documents.

Mission to Caracas

1965

The Case of Cabaret poster
6.0

Police are alerted to a series of murders all surrounding an old cabaret.

The Case of Cabaret

1975

El taxi de los conflictos poster
8.3

Taxi driver Tadeo is about to encounter a busy shift. Throughout the day heterogeneous characters get into his taxi and the most varied situations arise. One of them leaves a baby in the taxi and Tadeo must find out where the little one belongs. He tackles this daunting task while keeping in the back of his mind that at the end of the day he has an appointment with a mysterious woman who apparently needs to tell him something very important.

El taxi de los conflictos

1969

Marisol rumbo a Río poster
5.4

Separated by continents, twin sisters Marisol and Mariluz live worlds apart—one in Madrid with her struggling mother, the other in Rio under the care of a wealthy uncle. When Marisol’s mother sacrifices everything to reunite the family in Brazil, their arrival threatens a sinister scheme: Mariluz’s governess and her lover are plotting to steal the uncle’s fortune. With the truth unraveling and danger closing in, the twins must fight not just for reunion—but for survival.

Marisol rumbo a Río

1963

Un vampiro para dos poster
6.0

A Spanish couple emigrates to Germany looking for employment, in a desperate attempt to reconcile their marriage. The only work they can find, however, is in a castle inhabited by a strange baron, who is actually a vampire.

Un vampiro para dos

1965

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Lovely Lola poster
6.5

"La Bella Lola" is a struggling singer trying to make a living for herself and her sister Ana in late 19th Century Spain. Lola is having an affair with Gabriel, a rich and influential older man who gives her jewelry and supports her singing career. Things change rapidly when Lola meets and falls in love with young playboy Javier, although the romance is doomed from the start. Javier belongs to an aristocratic family and has a bright future as a politician.

The Lovely Lola

1962

Mission to Caracas poster
8.2

Special agent Becker is after a briefcase that rather cleverly disguises some secret documents.

Mission to Caracas

1965

The Case of Cabaret poster
6.0

Police are alerted to a series of murders all surrounding an old cabaret.

The Case of Cabaret

1975

El taxi de los conflictos poster
8.3

Taxi driver Tadeo is about to encounter a busy shift. Throughout the day heterogeneous characters get into his taxi and the most varied situations arise. One of them leaves a baby in the taxi and Tadeo must find out where the little one belongs. He tackles this daunting task while keeping in the back of his mind that at the end of the day he has an appointment with a mysterious woman who apparently needs to tell him something very important.

El taxi de los conflictos

1969

Marisol rumbo a Río poster
5.4

Separated by continents, twin sisters Marisol and Mariluz live worlds apart—one in Madrid with her struggling mother, the other in Rio under the care of a wealthy uncle. When Marisol’s mother sacrifices everything to reunite the family in Brazil, their arrival threatens a sinister scheme: Mariluz’s governess and her lover are plotting to steal the uncle’s fortune. With the truth unraveling and danger closing in, the twins must fight not just for reunion—but for survival.

Marisol rumbo a Río

1963

Un vampiro para dos poster
6.0

A Spanish couple emigrates to Germany looking for employment, in a desperate attempt to reconcile their marriage. The only work they can find, however, is in a castle inhabited by a strange baron, who is actually a vampire.

Un vampiro para dos

1965

Me has hecho perder el juicio poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Me has hecho perder el juicio

1973

Pero… ¡en qué país vivimos! poster
5.2

Antonio Torres, a serious singer of Spanish popular music, and Bárbara, a vivacious yé-yé singer, face off in a chaotic contest promoted by Rodolfo Sicilia, an overworked publicist.

Pero… ¡en qué país vivimos!

1967

Rocío de la Mancha poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Rocío de la Mancha

1963

¡Qué cosas tiene el amor! poster
7.0

The Loinaz siblings live off petty theft in refined environments. When they find out that Peret is going to shoot a movie in Marbella, the whole family moves their headquarters to Marbella.

¡Qué cosas tiene el amor!

1973

Las hijas de Helena poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Las hijas de Helena

1963

Las estrellas están verdes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Las estrellas están verdes

1973

Yo soy fulana de tal poster
10.0

The gentle Spanish comedy Yo soy Fulana de Tal (1975) tells the story of a prostitute who rises from the poor side of town to become a revered member of the community. Along the way she befriends an elderly paternalist artist and also gets her revenge on those who mistreated her in her youth.

Yo soy fulana de tal

1975

Si las mujeres mandaran (o mandasen) poster
4.6

No synopsis available yet.

Si las mujeres mandaran (o mandasen)

1982

Si las mujeres mandaran (o mandasen) poster
4.6

No synopsis available yet.

Si las mujeres mandaran (o mandasen)

1982

El chulo poster
4.7

A powerless man finds a solution to a childhood trauma.

El chulo

1974

Las chicas del bingo poster
3.2

The movie tells the story of four beautifull and young girls: María, Pilar, Patricia and Virginia. They all work at the bingo and while they sell bingo cars they fill the room with smiles, happyness and excitement. But not all in their lifes is a game. They have all type of problems and dificult situations at work: the harassment of men, the quirks of the players ... but by the end love will win, as well as the joy of life and optimism.

Las chicas del bingo

1982

Un marido de ida y vuelta poster
4.6

Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife dies victim of a heart attack the day she forces him to shave his beloved beard to go to a costume ball dressed as a bullfighter. Its spectrum then begins to walk around the house and the most unexpected cause tangles. When she finally decides to settle definitely get materialize and get his wife, who has meanwhile become a being sweet and understanding.

Un marido de ida y vuelta

1957

Hand of the Assassin poster
7.7

A group of people take shelter from the storm in an old spa served by a marriage and a servant. It is a very diverse group, highlighting a man who, with his wife, carrying a briefcase full of money. At night, at dinner in honor of the newcomers is a power outage and shortly afterwards, they realize that the man with the briefcase has been murdered.

Hand of the Assassin

1967

Afraid to Go Out at Night poster
5.2

A bank employee, shy and skittish, is falling into the web of fear of the events he sees around him and the crime wave that seems to invade the city.

Afraid to Go Out at Night

1980

París bien vale una moza poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

París bien vale una moza

1972

Doctor, me gustan las mujeres, ¿es grave? poster
10.0

Carlos, a university professor, is admired and praised above all by people who see in him the ideal person to fill the best positions.

Doctor, me gustan las mujeres, ¿es grave?

1974

Fulanita y sus menganos poster
7.0

The Spanish official representative of the European Congress of prostitutes, held in Paris, is dedicated to remembering various stories that have occurred in the performance of their profession over the years.

Fulanita y sus menganos

1976

Rueda de sospechosos poster
9.0

A woman is found murdered in her house the day after a party. The police begins the search for the killer asking questions to all the people that attended the party.

Rueda de sospechosos

1964

Fin de semana poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fin de semana

1964

Trampa para Catalina poster
6.0

Catherine bears a strong resemblance to Silvia, daughter of a millionaire who has escaped with a bullfighter. A group of ruffians who intends to defraud the Silvia's father used to Catalina for their plans.

Trampa para Catalina

1963

Compadece al delincuente poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Compadece al delincuente

1960

Trío de damas poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Trío de damas

1960

Eva 63 poster
6.2

Elena is a writer and is in a relationship with a painter, Fernando. Charo works as a waitress in a hotel and continues to dream of John Sargent, her platonic love, although when she discovers that the actor is gay she returns to her boyfriend Luis. Mara, a model, and Miguel is dating a sick man much older than them. Eugenia is a haute couture dressmaker and cares for her niece Soledad, who wants to be a singer. All of them have ambitions of love, but none is happy with their current situation.

Eva 63

1963

Las cicatrices poster
8.0

The unstoppable ambition of a young lover of the bullrings and the support of her sister and a friend, will enable him to become a great figure of bullfighting, overcoming the various barriers that every torero finds when entering the world of bullfighting .... Pedrin, the son of a newscaster, decides to be a bullfighter and, after the death of a partner, struggles to succeed in the bullrings.

Las cicatrices

1967

Fail in Communism poster
6.7

The story of two students in a school of terrorism installed in the south of France and considered a "sanctuary" and not by the Virgin of Lourdes, sent to Spain to fulfill a dark mission that failed dismally when mistaken for a priest with his link.

Fail in Communism

1956

Plaza de Oriente poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Plaza de Oriente

1963