Directing
José Luis Borau
Born — Died
1929-08-08 — 2012-11-23
Place of birth
Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
Known for
Directing
Credits
45 titles
Spanish film director and producer, born in Zaragoza. He studied law in his hometown and debuted as a film critic in the newspaper El Heraldo de Aragón. In Madrid, he joined the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas. He exerted great influence on the medium from his teaching at the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía. In 1967 he founded the production company El Imán, Cine y Televisión, with which he has financed his own projects and those of other filmmakers. Of his personal work, two films stand out: Furtivos (1975), Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival and a great success for its opposition to the limits of censorship at the beginning of the Spanish Transition, …
Known for
2.0No synopsis available yet.
Lo Siguiente
2018
5.0Unbenownst to a middle-aged teacher of handicapped children, his long-term suffering girlfriend is pregnant with his child. The film philosophically explores the ideas of free will and destiny as they relate to the characters and their life choices.
Niño nadie
1997
7.0A small town in Arizona is oppressed by the tyranny of a powerful rancher. The owner of a farm, fed up with constant abuse, decides to hire a former gunslinger, as the town sheriff is recognized powerless to stand against the tyrant.
Ride and Kill
1964
6.2In an anguished triangle of silences and unspoken words, a man secretly loves a woman who loves another man.
In Memoriam
1977
6.3A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended.
Everyone Off to Jail
1993
4.8A Border Patrol agent is determined to catch his old nemesis, an American criminal who successfully smuggles illegal aliens across the border from Mexico.
On the Line
1984
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
6.0A portrait of the film director Iván Zulueta and his film Arrebato. It features contributions from friends and people who worked with him such as José Luis Borau, Pedro Almodóvar, Antonio Gasset and Julio Médem.
Arrebatados: recordando a Iván Zulueta
2010
6.5The story of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977), cartoonist, advertiser, poster designer, talent manager, actor, producer and filmmaker, and the most daring of mountaineers; the man who, along with his companions from the so-called “other Generation of '27,” brought Hollywood to Madrid's Gran Vía, turning a grey and sinister post-war city into the capital of an incipient and ambitious cultural industry.
Enrique Herreros
2011
1990s · 2 titles
6.3A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended.
Everyone Off to Jail
1993
6.9Maqroll, Ilona, and Abdul all share a common dream: to sail the world in a tramp-steamer. But who could afford such a thing? Over the years they have become separated. Alone in Panama City, smuggler Maqroll is finding neither great success nor happiness — until the tropical rains come, bringing Ilona: friend, lover, and partner in crime. Abdul, in Morocco, has found a steamer to suit them. In Panama, Ilona and Maqroll begin a new scheme, in search of impossible wealth. But fate has further twists in store.
Ilona Arrives with the Rain
1996
1980s · 2 titles
9.0With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's film.
Cuentos para una escapada
1981
6.3An intrigue based on a failed relationship with touches of dreams and magic filmed on the streets of Seville.
Misadventure
1988
1970s · 4 titles
7.0With more than thirty years, Malena Fonseca is a spinster and provincial woman who, after coincidentally meeting a Frenchman named Lucien, also a thirty-something bachelor like her, decides to marry him. However, after that, and having moved to Madrid in the company of her unbearable and possessive mother-in-law, Malena will gradually discover that her husband is a very rational man whose zero interest in sex despairs her, making the woman feel attracted to the pharmacist in the corner and the hunky bread delivery man.
La adúltera
1975
5.6The relationship between a poacher and his domineering mother in rural Spain is upended when he falls for an escapee from a reform school.
Poachers
1975
5.1Ana works side by side with her mother Maria Rosa in the fight to save the anti-Franco militants from the death penalty during the process of Burgos. Ana's mother is a former actress and Ana, her mother and a few other actors prepare an act of protest in the theater where an international festival on Strinberg is being held. But there are more things in Ana's life. The mother lives with her uncle, the brother of his father, Norman, an old doctor of devious methods. Helped by Fatima, an old nurse who loves her father, the doctor will try to experiment with Ana's ideas and feelings as well
Somnambulists
1978
6.8A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society?
My Dearest Senorita
1972
1960s · 2 titles
5.7A band of young musicians will do the impossible to boycott a song they didn't like that's supposed to represent Spain in a famous musical contest.
Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés
1969
4.6Jose Antonio Amor co-stars with Sonia Bruno and Maria Blanco in this comedy drama about a married man with three children. When his family leaves on vacation, the man has an affair with a pretty office worker. The relationship between the two develops slowly before they end up in bed together. Speeded up shots are used effectively to illustrate the thoughts of the characters. Technical aspects and performances are fine and overshadow some uneven editing.
Snakes and Ladders
1965
Series credits
Behind the camera
5.0Unbenownst to a middle-aged teacher of handicapped children, his long-term suffering girlfriend is pregnant with his child. The film philosophically explores the ideas of free will and destiny as they relate to the characters and their life choices.
Niño nadie
1997
5.0Unbenownst to a middle-aged teacher of handicapped children, his long-term suffering girlfriend is pregnant with his child. The film philosophically explores the ideas of free will and destiny as they relate to the characters and their life choices.
Niño nadie
1997
7.0A small town in Arizona is oppressed by the tyranny of a powerful rancher. The owner of a farm, fed up with constant abuse, decides to hire a former gunslinger, as the town sheriff is recognized powerless to stand against the tyrant.
Ride and Kill
1964
7.0A small town in Arizona is oppressed by the tyranny of a powerful rancher. The owner of a farm, fed up with constant abuse, decides to hire a former gunslinger, as the town sheriff is recognized powerless to stand against the tyrant.
Ride and Kill
1964
6.2In an anguished triangle of silences and unspoken words, a man secretly loves a woman who loves another man.
In Memoriam
1977
4.8A Border Patrol agent is determined to catch his old nemesis, an American criminal who successfully smuggles illegal aliens across the border from Mexico.
On the Line
1984
4.8A Border Patrol agent is determined to catch his old nemesis, an American criminal who successfully smuggles illegal aliens across the border from Mexico.
On the Line
1984
4.8A Border Patrol agent is determined to catch his old nemesis, an American criminal who successfully smuggles illegal aliens across the border from Mexico.
On the Line
1984
5.5Tatin is a young man of fifteen years old who joins a violent group of extreme right-wing ideology, led by Blanca, a mature woman of influential personality.
Black Litter
1977
5.8English scholar visits a small Spanish town in the Andalusian mountains to investigate the disappearance of another English scholar long ago. He learns of the legend of Sabina, a mysterious dragon woman who becomes his obsession.
La Sabina
1979
5.8English scholar visits a small Spanish town in the Andalusian mountains to investigate the disappearance of another English scholar long ago. He learns of the legend of Sabina, a mysterious dragon woman who becomes his obsession.
La Sabina
1979
5.7A band of young musicians will do the impossible to boycott a song they didn't like that's supposed to represent Spain in a famous musical contest.
Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés
1969
4.5In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the return of politician B. from exile. However private trucker Pal can't afford to strike, so he's beaten up and his truck burned. In the headlines he's described as strike-breaker. This is only part of an intrigue which shall get him to murder B.
B. Must Die
1975
4.5In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the return of politician B. from exile. However private trucker Pal can't afford to strike, so he's beaten up and his truck burned. In the headlines he's described as strike-breaker. This is only part of an intrigue which shall get him to murder B.
B. Must Die
1975
4.5In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the return of politician B. from exile. However private trucker Pal can't afford to strike, so he's beaten up and his truck burned. In the headlines he's described as strike-breaker. This is only part of an intrigue which shall get him to murder B.
B. Must Die
1975
5.6The relationship between a poacher and his domineering mother in rural Spain is upended when he falls for an escapee from a reform school.
Poachers
1975
5.6The relationship between a poacher and his domineering mother in rural Spain is upended when he falls for an escapee from a reform school.
Poachers
1975
5.6The relationship between a poacher and his domineering mother in rural Spain is upended when he falls for an escapee from a reform school.
Poachers
1975
6.6Salva works as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a woman who makes a living collecting cardboard. As Salva falls in love with her, Leo's dark past comes back to haunt her.
Leo
2000
6.6Salva works as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a woman who makes a living collecting cardboard. As Salva falls in love with her, Leo's dark past comes back to haunt her.
Leo
2000
6.6Salva works as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a woman who makes a living collecting cardboard. As Salva falls in love with her, Leo's dark past comes back to haunt her.
Leo
2000
6.8A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society?
My Dearest Senorita
1972
5.3A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece.
Anna's Summer
2001
6.7Andrés, an unsuccessful young pianist, witnesses a murder; but keeps silent for fear that the man he has seen next to the corpse will retaliate against him.
Double Edged Crime
1965
6.8Juanito, a peaceful fan of bullfighting, has become picador's assistant to see from the same arena the show in which he brags he is one of the protagonists. Furthermore, he believes he has discovered in a neighbor a potential figure of bullfighting sphere.
El monosabio
1977
5.6Elvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and returns home to settle in Madrid with his beloved nanny, seeking help to overcome their crisis. However, the country has changed so much in his years of confinement that has little or nothing to do with his childhood memories ...
Tata Mía
1986
5.6Elvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and returns home to settle in Madrid with his beloved nanny, seeking help to overcome their crisis. However, the country has changed so much in his years of confinement that has little or nothing to do with his childhood memories ...
Tata Mía
1986
5.6Elvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and returns home to settle in Madrid with his beloved nanny, seeking help to overcome their crisis. However, the country has changed so much in his years of confinement that has little or nothing to do with his childhood memories ...
Tata Mía
1986
7.5No synopsis available yet.
En el río
1960
7.5No synopsis available yet.
En el río
1960
Two very young women live in a country house in the midst of war. The older of the two is the active one, the one who dominates and controls everything that happens in the house. The younger woman is the victim, dominated by the bombings and her companion's mentality, which forces her to maintain impeccable, unhealthy behavior. This conflict between the two is narrated by a voiceover—that of the younger woman—who, now at a distance, reflects on that period of her life.
Estado de sitio
1970