José María Forqué

Directing

José María Forqué

Born — Died

1923-03-08 — 1995-03-17

Place of birth

Zaragoza, Spain

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

José María Forqué Galindo (Zaragoza, March 8, 1923 - Madrid, March 17, 1995) was a Spanish architect, film director and screenwriter.

Known for

Behind the camera

Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country poster
4.1

A man and a woman hitch a ride in the dark and swap their sad tales of failed relationships.

Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country

1978

Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country poster
4.1

A man and a woman hitch a ride in the dark and swap their sad tales of failed relationships.

Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country

1978

Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country poster
4.1

A man and a woman hitch a ride in the dark and swap their sad tales of failed relationships.

Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country

1978

In the Eye of the Hurricane poster
6.2

Ruth and Michel separate after Ruth finds another man, Paul. Ruth and Paul go to her sunny, idyllic beach side villa to spend summer. They are having a great time together, and then things start happening. The brakes of the car fail, and Ruth narrowly escapes death. The driving equipment goes faulty, and Ruth almost drowns. Michel turns up at their doorstep for an uninvited social call, and Paul asks him in. Ruth suspects Michel of being the person behind the mechanical faults of the car and the diving equipment, but Paul dismisses such a possibility - but he does suggest it to Michel. Then, the heat does go up.

In the Eye of the Hurricane

1971

In the Eye of the Hurricane poster
6.2

Ruth and Michel separate after Ruth finds another man, Paul. Ruth and Paul go to her sunny, idyllic beach side villa to spend summer. They are having a great time together, and then things start happening. The brakes of the car fail, and Ruth narrowly escapes death. The driving equipment goes faulty, and Ruth almost drowns. Michel turns up at their doorstep for an uninvited social call, and Paul asks him in. Ruth suspects Michel of being the person behind the mechanical faults of the car and the diving equipment, but Paul dismisses such a possibility - but he does suggest it to Michel. Then, the heat does go up.

In the Eye of the Hurricane

1971

It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game poster
4.1

A young Hacienda-owner abuses women due to his traumatic youth while his mother covers for his sadistic actions.

It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game

1974

It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game poster
4.1

A young Hacienda-owner abuses women due to his traumatic youth while his mother covers for his sadistic actions.

It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game

1974

Sonny and Jed poster
5.8

As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, Joe nonetheless robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Not only is he a murderous, ill-tempered sort, he is bad-mannered, too. When beautiful Sonny decides he should be her man and teach her how to be a proper outlaw, sparks fly.

Sonny and Jed

1972

No artwork available
7.0

A short documentary directed by Jesus Franco.

Oro español

1959

Balearic Caper poster
4.9

A scepter is stolen, and it's hunted for by various groups of international robbers and spies, for various reasons - in a parody of 007 movies.

Balearic Caper

1966

Balearic Caper poster
4.9

A scepter is stolen, and it's hunted for by various groups of international robbers and spies, for various reasons - in a parody of 007 movies.

Balearic Caper

1966

Furnished Studio 2.P. poster
4.3

Two bank employees use a computer to determine the girls for their sexual affairs in their newly hired flat.

Furnished Studio 2.P.

1969

Furnished Studio 2.P. poster
4.3

Two bank employees use a computer to determine the girls for their sexual affairs in their newly hired flat.

Furnished Studio 2.P.

1969

Cross Current poster
5.1

A speed-boat racer suffers amnesia after an boating accident and goes to his isolated villa to recuperate. His relationship with his wife is troubled, so he starts an affair (sort of) with the another woman, which results in one of the three of them being shot. But there are several more twists--and more murders--to come.

Cross Current

1971

Las que tienen que servir poster
5.8

Juana and Francisca are serving at the Stevens house, an American couple. Both of them have a boyfriend, one is an egg-carrier and the other is a transporter with his own motorcycle. And both with a totally totalitarian and macho concept regarding male-female relations. The girls also have two American suitors assigned to the American Base of Torrejón, friends of their masters. Thus, without almost pretending, the two girls will find themselves in the midst of the jealous Spaniards and the beefy Yankees.

Las que tienen que servir

1967

Buscando a Mónica poster
7.0

A man has a street accident with his car in his way to Buenos Aires. While he waits for his car repairing, this business man learns that everybody in the little town where he's stuck seem to know about his wife Mónica. He knows little about her past, but the reactions of the townsfolk towards him range from laughing at his back to practically don't want him around. He won't leave the town until he could learn more about the secret past of his wife. But the former life of the young beautiful mother of his daughter involves a turbulent story.

Buscando a Mónica

1962

A Girl Named Marilyne poster
4.4

Marilyne, a young French girl, is studying in Paris, where she lives a quiet and peaceful life in the company of Herve, a young faculty member. Her life is altered by the behavior of her mother Paula, a woman immersed in vice and corruption, dominated by an easy disposition to love the young people who come to her. Arrangement that leads her to feel a deep passion for her daughter's boyfriend, thus breaking the tranquility of the two young people.

A Girl Named Marilyne

1980

Paco the Infallible poster
6.7

In Madrid of the 20's, many women were hired as wet nurses for middle class families. Milk is paid very well, so women are turning to the honest services of Paco, glazier by trade, which completes his monthly salary getting pregnant the clients who pay for it.

Paco the Infallible

1979

De espaldas a la puerta poster
7.0

Inspector Simón and Inspector Arévalo investigate the stabbing of a nightclub employee.

De espaldas a la puerta

1959

De espaldas a la puerta poster
7.0

Inspector Simón and Inspector Arévalo investigate the stabbing of a nightclub employee.

De espaldas a la puerta

1959

Usted puede ser un asesino poster
5.8

Two friends plan a weekend of partying while their wives go to a mountain resort; but everything gets complicated when a corpse appears in the pantry, apparently out of nowhere.

Usted puede ser un asesino

1961

Usted puede ser un asesino poster
5.8

Two friends plan a weekend of partying while their wives go to a mountain resort; but everything gets complicated when a corpse appears in the pantry, apparently out of nowhere.

Usted puede ser un asesino

1961

Usted puede ser un asesino poster
5.8

Two friends plan a weekend of partying while their wives go to a mountain resort; but everything gets complicated when a corpse appears in the pantry, apparently out of nowhere.

Usted puede ser un asesino

1961

The Game of Truth poster
6.2

Lucia is a mature woman who maintains a relationship with the young John. When he is found murdered in a bullring with a nail stuck in his chest, Lucia is the prime suspect, it is believed that the motive for the crime was jealousy because it felt for her daughter Marta, which had also been seduced by John.

The Game of Truth

1963

The Game of Truth poster
6.2

Lucia is a mature woman who maintains a relationship with the young John. When he is found murdered in a bullring with a nail stuck in his chest, Lucia is the prime suspect, it is believed that the motive for the crime was jealousy because it felt for her daughter Marta, which had also been seduced by John.

The Game of Truth

1963

Maribel and the Strange Family poster
5.3

The life of Maribel, a disilluisoned prostitute working the Madrid of 1960, suddenly changes when a simple man that she meets by chance without knowing her profession, decides that she is the woman of her life and that he wants to marry her and to meet his odd family.

Maribel and the Strange Family

1960

Maribel and the Strange Family poster
5.3

The life of Maribel, a disilluisoned prostitute working the Madrid of 1960, suddenly changes when a simple man that she meets by chance without knowing her profession, decides that she is the woman of her life and that he wants to marry her and to meet his odd family.

Maribel and the Strange Family

1960

Un millón en la basura poster
7.0

In the vast army of human society, Pepe, a sweeper, occupies one of the last places: anonymous, gray, vague. Pepe is a member of that ghostly dawn brigade, to blow hose, clean the streets at dawn. One day Pepe finds a million in the trash. Financial need of the poor sweeper suggests keeping the money, but his wife advises him to do his civic duty and return the money ...

Un millón en la basura

1967

Vultures Over the City poster
6.2

Merli, teamed with Mexican star Hugo Stiglitz as his photographer buddy, plays a journalist investigating the shady activities of the local Mafia. Eventually the shit hits the fan, and Merli is cornered and beaten for sticking his nose to close to the action. After his girlfriend is raped, Merli dishes out some vigilante justice and punches, shoots, and bitch slaps his way through the Mafia ranks.

Vultures Over the City

1981

Yo he visto a la muerte poster
5.7

Four real episodes told by their protagonists: Antonio Mejías "Bienvenida" tells the serious goring he suffered in the Plaza de Las Ventas and his recovery process. Álvaro Domecq Romero evokes the last days of the life of the mare "Splendid", the noble animal that was brave and sensitive companion of his father. Andrés Vázquez tells how the times of the "capeas" were in little villages. With him were many unknown kids, who found an anonymous and obscure death. Finally, Luis Miguel "Dominguín", who was with Manolete, in Linares, the afternoon in which he met his death, evokes that tragic afternoon and glosses the bullfighter's human virtues. The four protagonists have seen the death in one way or another and the four tell the indelible impression that remained on them.

Yo he visto a la muerte

1967

Whom God Forgives poster
5.6

Set in rural South of Spain in the 19th century, tells the story of group of outlaws, from very different origins, trying to survive, hiding from the law enforcement officers in caves in a hilly area, and their struggle against the evil mining company that exploits the poor people of their home village.

Whom God Forgives

1957

Whom God Forgives poster
5.6

Set in rural South of Spain in the 19th century, tells the story of group of outlaws, from very different origins, trying to survive, hiding from the law enforcement officers in caves in a hilly area, and their struggle against the evil mining company that exploits the poor people of their home village.

Whom God Forgives

1957

Madrid, Costa Fleming poster
7.0

Sexy comedy.

Madrid, Costa Fleming

1976

Madrid, Costa Fleming poster
7.0

Sexy comedy.

Madrid, Costa Fleming

1976

Police Calling 091 poster
6.3

A police inspector makes his service in a patrol car attenging emergency calls. A memory hauns him, the death of her daughter, who was killed hit by a car that fled. The car is located and the inspector goes there and confrontation will be violent.

Police Calling 091

1960

Police Calling 091 poster
6.3

A police inspector makes his service in a patrol car attenging emergency calls. A memory hauns him, the death of her daughter, who was killed hit by a car that fled. The car is located and the inspector goes there and confrontation will be violent.

Police Calling 091

1960

Bring a Little Loving poster
8.0

Mike, the famous group Los Bravos singer, is kidnapped by Chou-Fang, follower of the doctrines of the fearsome Manchu. In fact, Chou Fang is not interested in Mike, but to dominate the world through a chemical formula that should develop a retired scientist. The daughter of the Professor, the beautiful Sao-Ling, believed that Mike is a superhero and involves it the dangerous history.

Bring a Little Loving

1968

Bring a Little Loving poster
8.0

Mike, the famous group Los Bravos singer, is kidnapped by Chou-Fang, follower of the doctrines of the fearsome Manchu. In fact, Chou Fang is not interested in Mike, but to dominate the world through a chemical formula that should develop a retired scientist. The daughter of the Professor, the beautiful Sao-Ling, believed that Mike is a superhero and involves it the dangerous history.

Bring a Little Loving

1968

Black Humor poster
6.0

A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze artist Wilma is going to get rid of a rival during a "magic act" performed by an amateur. A strange widow comes to inquire about the services of a new marriage agency. A peasant woman tormented by a bug in her ear barges into a healer's house.

Black Humor

1965

El segundo poder poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

El segundo poder

1976