
Directing
Alfonso Ungría
Born 1946-03-30 · Madrid, Spain
Alfonso Ungría (born March 30, 1946, in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish film and television director and screenwriter. After beginning his career in independent cinema in the late 1960s, he directed numerous films and television productions, including El hombre oculto (1970), Gulliver (1976), Soldados (1978), La conquista de Albania (1983), África (1996), and El deseo de ser un piel roja (2002). He also directed several productions for Televisión Española (TVE), including the television film Lazos (1994).
Acting credits
NRIn 2025, the Basque Government, EITB and the Filmoteca Vasca set about recovering and restoring four medium-length films made completely in the Basque language in the mid-80s. The process, long and delicate, included a trip to the L'Immagine Ritrovata lab in Bologna. The documentary, an own production by EITB, follows the peregrination of the four directors and the restoration process completed in Italy. Because it's important to tell these stories too.
Itzalak argitzen
2026
4.1A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.
Erotic Stories
1980
6.3Honorio Sigüenza is a man in his forties who has always lived under the yoke of his possessive mother. When his mother dies, he undergoes a radical transformation that will lead him to live numerous love affairs in the face of the disapproval of his cousin Veni, who wanted to marry him.
The Impeccable Sinner
1987
NRNo synopsis available yet.
El viaje de Julieta
2023
Behind the camera
6.3Martín (Zoe Berriatúa) is a teenager living in the San Blas district of Madrid. He is upset with his father Arturo (Imanol Arias) because he blames him for his mother's death. With the help of his girlfriend África (Elena Anaya), who will become his stepsister, he tries to get revenge on him.
África
1996
6.3Martín (Zoe Berriatúa) is a teenager living in the San Blas district of Madrid. He is upset with his father Arturo (Imanol Arias) because he blames him for his mother's death. With the help of his girlfriend África (Elena Anaya), who will become his stepsister, he tries to get revenge on him.
África
1996
NRA girl falls in love with Abraham Lincoln.
Querido Abraham
1968
NRA girl falls in love with Abraham Lincoln.
Querido Abraham
1968
4.7A 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
NRLuz, the daughter of an ambassador living in Madrid, discovers that she is HIV-positive. At the same time, she meets Luis, an advertising executive leading an AIDS awareness campaign. As their relationship develops, both are forced to confront the realities of living with the disease.
Lazos
1994
NRLuz, the daughter of an ambassador living in Madrid, discovers that she is HIV-positive. At the same time, she meets Luis, an advertising executive leading an AIDS awareness campaign. As their relationship develops, both are forced to confront the realities of living with the disease.
Lazos
1994
6.5Dramatic portrait of men and women discouraged in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, after the odyssey of a group of Republican soldiers trying to reach the east coast to go into exile. Agustín must bear that his libertine father lives with the ironer Remedios, although she does not love him. She escapes and he goes to war; when they finally meet again, anxious amid bursts, it will be impossible to consummate their desires repressed for so long.
Soldados
1978
6.5Dramatic portrait of men and women discouraged in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, after the odyssey of a group of Republican soldiers trying to reach the east coast to go into exile. Agustín must bear that his libertine father lives with the ironer Remedios, although she does not love him. She escapes and he goes to war; when they finally meet again, anxious amid bursts, it will be impossible to consummate their desires repressed for so long.
Soldados
1978
4.1A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.
Erotic Stories
1980
4.1A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.
Erotic Stories
1980
4.7No synopsis available yet.
Gulliver
1979
4.7No synopsis available yet.
Gulliver
1979
6.7Martín wanders through Tangier, unsure of what to do with his life. There he meets another eccentric man twice his age: Abel, a cheerful, adventurous bon vivant. And, on a wild night, they decide to blow up a nuclear power plant: doing so will be the only light in their bleak future. But only when Ana, Abel's young lover, joins them on their journey (along the coast and into the interior of the country) is their destiny confirmed. She will be the catalyst for their love, their conflicts, their ideals, and their inevitable, enormous final explosion.
El deseo de ser piel roja
2002
6.7Martín wanders through Tangier, unsure of what to do with his life. There he meets another eccentric man twice his age: Abel, a cheerful, adventurous bon vivant. And, on a wild night, they decide to blow up a nuclear power plant: doing so will be the only light in their bleak future. But only when Ana, Abel's young lover, joins them on their journey (along the coast and into the interior of the country) is their destiny confirmed. She will be the catalyst for their love, their conflicts, their ideals, and their inevitable, enormous final explosion.
El deseo de ser piel roja
2002
5.2King Carlos II of Spain (r. 1665-1700) once sent his brother Luis to lead a military expedition into Albania and conquer that land for the Spaniards. Since Albania was a part of the dowry of Luis' wife, it seemed like a reasonable idea at the time. While that expedition and its final battle is the subject of this historical film, the scale involved can hardly do justice to the concept. The protagonists talk incessantly, and by the time they get down to the final grand battle, it turns out to be a skirmish between several dozen men.
La conquista de Albania
1983
7.0It's 8 AM in a summer morning from the 70's. Jon, an ETA member, is being chased by the police in the Old Town of San Sebastian. While he runs, he revises his whole life.
Ehun metro
1985
7.0It's 8 AM in a summer morning from the 70's. Jon, an ETA member, is being chased by the police in the Old Town of San Sebastian. While he runs, he revises his whole life.
Ehun metro
1985
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Tirarse al monte
1971
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Tirarse al monte
1971
5.2Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalist forces.
Man in Hiding
1971
5.2Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalist forces.
Man in Hiding
1971
No synopsis available yet.
Vida en los teleclubs
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No synopsis available yet.
Vida en los teleclubs
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