Javier Aguirre

Directing

Javier Aguirre

Born — Died

1935-06-13 — 2019-12-04

Place of birth

San Sebastián, España

Known for

Directing

Credits

46 titles

Javier Aguirre Fernández (June 13, 1935 – December 4, 2019) was a Spanish film director , writer and producer. Aguirre was born in Donostia-San Sebastián in Spain . Aguirre developed an interest in film at an early age. When he was a teenager, he started collaborating for entertainment magazines like Radiocinema , Film Ideal , and others. In 1955, when he was around 20 years old, he founded and directed the San Sebastián Film Club. From 1956 to 1957, Aguirre organized film courses and film festivals. During those years, he also studied at the Institute of Cinematographic Research and Experiences (IIEC). He worked as an assistant director until he started directing his own short films in the…

Known for

Count Dracula's Great Love poster
4.8

Four women spending the night in a deserted sanitarium on a mountain fall into the hands of an evil doctor with a terrible secret.

Count Dracula's Great Love

1973

Hunchback of the Morgue poster
6.0

A hunchback working in a morgue falls in love with a sick woman. He goes berserk when she dies and seeks help from a scientist to bring her back from the dead.

Hunchback of the Morgue

1973

Pierna creciente, falda menguante poster
5.3

In 1916, while Europe was in the middle of First World War and Spain was enjoying the advantages of being a neutral country, eroticism was called voluptuousness and Senator Duke of Daroca, despite his ancient lineage, fell completely in love with a famous cabaret singer, Rosario "La Criollita", which was a scandal. At that time, it was doubted that decent women had legs - But this mystery was resolved a decade later, when the roaring twenties arrived and, with them, the sensual Lupe Cardoso

Pierna creciente, falda menguante

1970

The Killer Is One of Thirteen poster
5.9

A recent widow has invited a group of family friends to her large and secluded country home. However, what the guests don't know is that the reason they've been assembled is that their host suspects one of them might be her husband's killer and she's intent on uncovering the identity of his murderer. As the guests begin to suspect each other, revealing long-kept and sinister secrets in the process, an unknown, black-gloved killer begins bumping them off in a variety of nasty ways.

The Killer Is One of Thirteen

1973

El insólito embarazo de los Martínez poster
6.0

One man becomes each day more and more fat. The exercise does not help him. Finally he goes to the doctor that finds out his problem: he is pregnant.

El insólito embarazo de los Martínez

1974

Ligeramente viudas poster
6.5

Leonor and Engracia suddenly become widows, but both will take their new social situation in different ways. When they meet Jose Luis and Eugenio, all the plans made will change with the intention of reaching the altar.

Ligeramente viudas

1975

Film credits

Behind the camera

Count Dracula's Great Love poster
4.8

Four women spending the night in a deserted sanitarium on a mountain fall into the hands of an evil doctor with a terrible secret.

Count Dracula's Great Love

1973

Count Dracula's Great Love poster
4.8

Four women spending the night in a deserted sanitarium on a mountain fall into the hands of an evil doctor with a terrible secret.

Count Dracula's Great Love

1973

Hunchback of the Morgue poster
6.0

A hunchback working in a morgue falls in love with a sick woman. He goes berserk when she dies and seeks help from a scientist to bring her back from the dead.

Hunchback of the Morgue

1973

Hunchback of the Morgue poster
6.0

A hunchback working in a morgue falls in love with a sick woman. He goes berserk when she dies and seeks help from a scientist to bring her back from the dead.

Hunchback of the Morgue

1973

Pierna creciente, falda menguante poster
5.3

In 1916, while Europe was in the middle of First World War and Spain was enjoying the advantages of being a neutral country, eroticism was called voluptuousness and Senator Duke of Daroca, despite his ancient lineage, fell completely in love with a famous cabaret singer, Rosario "La Criollita", which was a scandal. At that time, it was doubted that decent women had legs - But this mystery was resolved a decade later, when the roaring twenties arrived and, with them, the sensual Lupe Cardoso

Pierna creciente, falda menguante

1970

The Killer Is One of Thirteen poster
5.9

A recent widow has invited a group of family friends to her large and secluded country home. However, what the guests don't know is that the reason they've been assembled is that their host suspects one of them might be her husband's killer and she's intent on uncovering the identity of his murderer. As the guests begin to suspect each other, revealing long-kept and sinister secrets in the process, an unknown, black-gloved killer begins bumping them off in a variety of nasty ways.

The Killer Is One of Thirteen

1973

The Killer Is One of Thirteen poster
5.9

A recent widow has invited a group of family friends to her large and secluded country home. However, what the guests don't know is that the reason they've been assembled is that their host suspects one of them might be her husband's killer and she's intent on uncovering the identity of his murderer. As the guests begin to suspect each other, revealing long-kept and sinister secrets in the process, an unknown, black-gloved killer begins bumping them off in a variety of nasty ways.

The Killer Is One of Thirteen

1973

El insólito embarazo de los Martínez poster
6.0

One man becomes each day more and more fat. The exercise does not help him. Finally he goes to the doctor that finds out his problem: he is pregnant.

El insólito embarazo de los Martínez

1974

El insólito embarazo de los Martínez poster
6.0

One man becomes each day more and more fat. The exercise does not help him. Finally he goes to the doctor that finds out his problem: he is pregnant.

El insólito embarazo de los Martínez

1974

Ligeramente viudas poster
6.5

Leonor and Engracia suddenly become widows, but both will take their new social situation in different ways. When they meet Jose Luis and Eugenio, all the plans made will change with the intention of reaching the altar.

Ligeramente viudas

1975

Ligeramente viudas poster
6.5

Leonor and Engracia suddenly become widows, but both will take their new social situation in different ways. When they meet Jose Luis and Eugenio, all the plans made will change with the intention of reaching the altar.

Ligeramente viudas

1975

Unmarried and Mother in Life poster
5.5

The frog test confirms Julita is pregnant. This is usually a great news. In this case, no. She is a victim of premarital sex, and he, Paco, a mechanic who, according to some theories of French biologist, explained by a podiatrist friend, will not be liable. Don Ramiro, the father of Julia, is a liberal-minded man, but when his daughter tells him that she will have a son who will not parent, seeking the solution of fatherhood in his gun regulation.

Unmarried and Mother in Life

1969

Los oficios de Cándido poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Los oficios de Cándido

1965

Cariñosamente infiel poster
3.7

The film chronicles the life and marital problems of a couple, through the vision of his two sons, four and eight years old and how, despite their young age, they understand the marital problems.

Cariñosamente infiel

1980

Los pecados de mamá poster
3.3

Gloria and Enrique form an apparently happy marriage. But their sexual relations do not work out as they would both like.

Los pecados de mamá

1980

Los que tocan el piano poster
7.6

Cayetana, her boyfriend Paco and Venancio, her foster brother, commit small thefts and, from time to time, spend a few days in jail. Until they meet with Federico, a thief who has traveled abroad and convince them that using European methods success is guaranteed. Paco then decides to act scientifically and seizes a hospital surgical equipment. When they want to realize, poor Venancio is forced to give an injection to a dentistry patient and, even worse, Paco has to pull out a tooth. And all that, before entering the operating room

Los que tocan el piano

1968

La diputada poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

La diputada

1988

Parchís entra en acción poster
6.2

A new adventure of Parchís.

Parchís entra en acción

1983

Los chicos con las chicas poster
6.2

After the rock band Los Bravos take a holiday at a mountainside camp situated next to a girls' school, their singer, Mike, ends up falling in love with one of the students there.

Los chicos con las chicas

1967

Los chicos con las chicas poster
6.2

After the rock band Los Bravos take a holiday at a mountainside camp situated next to a girls' school, their singer, Mike, ends up falling in love with one of the students there.

Los chicos con las chicas

1967

Ni te cases ni te embarques poster
4.9

No synopsis available yet.

Ni te cases ni te embarques

1982

Ni te cases ni te embarques poster
4.9

No synopsis available yet.

Ni te cases ni te embarques

1982

Esposa de día, amante de noche poster
8.0

A married couple are temped by passions around them.

Esposa de día, amante de noche

1977

Esposa de día, amante de noche poster
8.0

A married couple are temped by passions around them.

Esposa de día, amante de noche

1977

Vida/Perra poster
6.0

Vida/Perra is the first feature-length film of Aguirre's "Anticine" and the first monologue in movie history. Aguirre's wife, Esperanza Roy, is the actress of this piece of visual art made as an adaptation of Ángel Vázquez's novel, whose texts are read by Esperanza "as they are." This means, the text have been extracted from the novel without changing their words.

Vida/Perra

1982

Vida/Perra poster
6.0

Vida/Perra is the first feature-length film of Aguirre's "Anticine" and the first monologue in movie history. Aguirre's wife, Esperanza Roy, is the actress of this piece of visual art made as an adaptation of Ángel Vázquez's novel, whose texts are read by Esperanza "as they are." This means, the text have been extracted from the novel without changing their words.

Vida/Perra

1982

Continuum poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Continuum

1994

De profesión, sus labores poster
3.0

While Ana and Juan are a happy couple, and satisfied with their eight years of married life, María José and Federico, their best friends, have not achieved the desired balance in their marriage. Ana and Juan's happiness makes their friends nervous. María José and Clara, Ana's "good" friends, will try by all means to make Ana believe that her husband is capable of cheating on her if the opportunity arises.

De profesión, sus labores

1970

La monja alférez poster
6.2

Set in 1592 and based on a true story, a Spanish nun flees the convent and lives an adventurous life disguised as a man.

La monja alférez

1987

La monja alférez poster
6.2

Set in 1592 and based on a true story, a Spanish nun flees the convent and lives an adventurous life disguised as a man.

La monja alférez

1987

Toros tres (Guisando-Goya-Picasso) poster
NR

"Toros tres as Pasajes tres, also bases his visual game on a counterpoint. Toros de Guisando, Goya, Picasso, in a way, they come to tell the story of the people who have been contemplating them through the centuries ... / ... I would say that more than a story of bulls, this excellent short film is a history of the Hispanic gaze" Mario Benedetti

Toros tres (Guisando-Goya-Picasso)

1963

Vau seis poster
NR

"The film as a whole tries to ensure that the image has no sound and the sound has no image so that the viewer is the one who re-elaborates in his mind the fusion of both." Javier Aguirre

Vau seis

1973

La guerra de los niños poster
6.2

A school closes due to heavy debt which brings the children into action by doing naughty deeds so as to persuade the real estate agency to reopen the school, and since this didn't work, they kidnap the school's owner in order to be heard.

La guerra de los niños

1980

La guerra de los niños poster
6.2

A school closes due to heavy debt which brings the children into action by doing naughty deeds so as to persuade the real estate agency to reopen the school, and since this didn't work, they kidnap the school's owner in order to be heard.

La guerra de los niños

1980

Voz poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Voz

2000

En busca del huevo perdido poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

En busca del huevo perdido

1982

Una vez al año ser hippy no hace daño poster
6.0

The musical group "Flor de Lis y los Dos del Orinoco" tours the fairs of the towns with their repertoire of old melodies. They arrive in Torremolinos and settle in a camping site. There they meet Johny, a cheeky "go-go boy" who lives off the land and, if possible, from foreigners. He joins them and turns them into a beat band. They dress like hippies and sing in English. Their new stage name is "Los Hippy-Loyas", and they present themselves to the public as a pop group from Liverpool. Their new life leads them to the most unusual adventures.

Una vez al año ser hippy no hace daño

1969

El polizón del Ulises poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

El polizón del Ulises

1987

El polizón del Ulises poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

El polizón del Ulises

1987

Battered Flesh poster
3.4

Berta, imprisoned in Franco's Spain on fraud charges, learns to navigate the indignities of prison, spreading her own brand of kindness and empathy to the other inmates, but she unwillingly learns a valuable lesson when she falls in love with one of them.

Battered Flesh

1978