Chus Lampreave

Acting

Chus Lampreave

Born — Died

1930-12-11 — 2016-04-04

Place of birth

Madrid, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

67 titles

María Jesús Lampreave Pérez (11 December 1930 – 4 April 2016), known as Chus Lampreave, was a Spanish actress. Born in Madrid, she began appearing in films in 1958, but she became internationally known thanks to her roles in films by Pedro Almodóvar, where she played old ladies with maternal or pastoral traits. She died in Almería in 2016 at the age of 85.

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 9 titles

Broken Embraces poster
7.2

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.

Broken Embraces

2009

Talk to Her poster
7.6

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Talk to Her

2002

Volver poster
7.5

Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.

Volver

2006

Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella poster
6.1

For this second film in the cult comedy series Torrente takes our fat police officer from Madrid to Marbella in Spain to investigate a villain’s plot to destroy the city with a missile. This James Bond style slapstick comedy became the most successful box-office film in Spanish film history beating out only the first Torrente film.

Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella

2001

Chef's Special poster
5.7

Maxi thinks his life is perfect. He is a famous cook who owns a successful restaurant in Chueca and is living his life as a gay man without much complex. But when his son Edu and his daughter Alba appear, and a new attractive neighbor comes along, it will have a strong effect on his life resulting in his values being challenged for ever.

Chef's Special

2008

Robbery at 3 O'clock… and Half poster
5.7

A German bank buys a small Spanish entity and announces to its employees that it will pre-retire them on January 1st. The cashier Galindo proposes his fellow coworkers a plan to steal a large sum of euros which will arrive on New Year's Eve.

Robbery at 3 O'clock… and Half

2003

Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido! poster
6.9

Abandoned by her husband, a woman takes to the streets in search of money to feed her children. (Promotional short for the film What Have I Done to Deserve This?, directed by Pedro Almodóvar.)

Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido!

2005

Say I Do poster
5.6

An unlikely couple fake a relationship to win a TV game show prize. Wannabe actress Estrella dreams of becoming a hostess on a romance reality-TV show presented by Amador Rosales. Meanwhile, movie usher and film buff Victor, who hates such reality shows, is being pressured by his mother to be a contestant.

Say I Do

2004

El florido pensil poster
6.2

"El Florido Pensil" is a humorous reflection of the education of several generations of Spaniards from the 1940s to the 1960s. Based on the book of the same name by Andrés Sopeña, it evokes, from the present, his memories of that time: everyday school, local radio, Roberto Alcázar's comics, Thursday cinema with Franco opening swamps and "Yon Güein" chasing and killing Indians. Through the childish eyes of a child Sopeña (Daniel Rubio) and his schoolmates, we discover a way of understanding the world, society and a Spain "of glories and flowery pensil", as the national anthem of those years used to sing.

El florido pensil

2002

1990s · 9 titles

Belle Époque poster
6.7

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.

Belle Époque

1992

Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law poster
6.5

A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.

Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law

1998

The Flower of My Secret poster
6.8

Middle-aged romance author Leo writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works overseas, is distant both physically and emotionally. As she reevaluates her life and writing, Leo is led to an unexpected relationship with Ángel, a sensitive newspaper editor.

The Flower of My Secret

1995

Everyone Off to Jail poster
6.3

A 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

On Earth as It Is in Heaven poster
5.7

Matacanes dies and goes to heaven just to discover that it was not as he expected, and everyone there is revolutionized lately. Peter explains that God was concerned about the progress of the world, and decided to send a second son to Earth. However, Jesus hears and does not agree, as they would have to rewrite history.

On Earth as It Is in Heaven

1995

Mátame mucho poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mátame mucho

1998

7,000 Days Together poster
6.1

Petra and Matías have been unhappily married for twenty years. When Matías falls in love with shop assistant Angelines, he comes up with the perfect plan to get rid of Petra but their nosey neighbours get in the way.

7,000 Days Together

1994

Casque bleu poster
5.4

Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another woman. By way of atonement, he takes his wife back to the Mediterranean island where, 13 years earlier, they spent their honeymoon. Not such a good move, as it turns out. The peacemaking holiday coincides with the outbreak of a bloody civil war. Having failed to leave the country, Patrick, his wife and their eccentric entourage are taken hostage by merciless guerrillas…

Casque bleu

1994

Supernova poster
3.8

Count Nado, is in love with Fénix, an intergalactic singer. Unable to achieve it with traditional methods, the evil Nado kidnaps the scientist Avelina to make a replica of the singer, creating Supernova.

Supernova

1993

1980s · 24 titles

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown poster
7.4

After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

1988

Dark Habits poster
6.6

After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.

Dark Habits

1983

What Have I Done to Deserve This? poster
7.1

A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

1984

Matador poster
6.7

A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.

Matador

1986

Year of Enlightment poster
6.0

April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, Manolo, surrounded by boys all much younger than he is, feels a bit like the cock of the walk since the only other man around is the handyman Emilio who looks after the gardens and does whatever needs to be done about the place. His wife, Rafaela, is the cook. Manolo meets Irene, a falangist who runs the sanatorium, and the school teacher, Miss Transito, a crabby spinster. He has his first sexual experience, albeit as a voyeur, with his nurse Vicenta. When she has to leave, her place is taken by a girl from the village, Maria Jesus, with whom Manolo falls hopelessly in love. A relationship grows up between them which will mark them both for ever.

Year of Enlightment

1986

Going Down in Morocco poster
5.8

Chusa shares a flat in central Madrid with her cousin Jaime and her lover Alberto. The group makes ends meet by smuggling and selling drugs from Morocco. They take in a naive young woman, Elena, and decide to include her in their next scheme although this will prove complicated.

Going Down in Morocco

1989

National III poster
6.2

In order to solve economic problems, "Leguineche" family decide to move to France with their limited belongings.

National III

1982

Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing poster
7.2

Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.

Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing

1989

El rollo de septiembre poster
4.2

It is the disastrous grades at the end of the school year that make several students from different places gather at the school to spend the whole summer studying, in order to make up for the lost course. Naturally, at this school, the last thing the kids are going to do is study, but the mayor of the town wants to demolish the school to build a housing development...

El rollo de septiembre

1985

Move Over, Mrs. Markham poster
6.0

Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him use his house for a love tryst while Fernando wines and dines Adela. At the same time, Paco's wife, Carmen, will be taking her lover to Rosa's house. From here on the rout begins, as Paco tries to get rid of Silvia, his secretary, and Carmen, her husband. Fernando thinks Rosa is cheating on him with Oscar, who thinks Fernando is gay and having an affair with his partner, while the soldier thinks his girlfriend is a professional...

Move Over, Mrs. Markham

1985

National Heritage poster
7.1

After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exile, with the purpose of returning to Madrid to actively participate in the social events of the aristocracy and to get closer to the closest circle of the Spanish monarch. The obsession of the old marquis is centered on getting in touch with the most illustrious surnames, to ascend socially and to resume the pomp and courtly life that his family lost a long time ago. To this end, he decides to move into an old palace he owns, located in the center of the capital, but not before overcoming the difficulties posed by his wife, who deeply hates both her husband and her son. To regain control of the palace, the Marquis of Leguineche tries to handicap his wife, arguing an incurable mental illness, and then undertake a reform of the place in order to adapt it to aristocratic life.

National Heritage

1981

Bajo en nicotina poster
4.0

A film buff can't watch his videos in peace as he is disturbed by his clingy girlfriend and noisy neighbours. He will take drastic measures to get them to shut up for once and for all.

Bajo en nicotina

1984

Wait for Me in Heaven poster
6.6

Pepe Soriano plays a Madrid shopkeeper who is kidnapped by henchmen of Franco in this political comedy. After his kidnapping, he is forced to become the dictator's double for many official ceremonies. Due to his long and unexplained absence, Pepe's wife believes her husband has been abducted and killed, so she tries to reach her husband through spiritualism. After Pepe surprises her with a nocturnal visit, he tells her he will touch his ear to signal it is he and not Franco in public appearances.

Wait for Me in Heaven

1988

La última cena... del 88 poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La última cena... del 88

1988

Epilogue poster
5.6

For many years, Rocabruno and Ditirambo co-authored their novels, and they were both in love with the same woman; but one day they went their separate ways. Ten years later, Ditirambo visits Rocabruno with the intention of asking him to write one last novel together.

Epilogue

1984

The Impeccable Sinner poster
6.3

Honorio 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

The Secret Garden poster
5.1

A few days ago, Lucia (Assumpta Serna) receives anonymous letters in which he is forced to perform certain actions that she accepts without question. Her current boyfriend, Arthur (Xabier Elorriaga), suspects the mysterious sender can be Lucia's former lover, whose strange death never reached clarified. Now it's time it's Arthur who put the cards on the table to get to the bottom of it.

The Secret Garden

1984

Cuentos para una escapada poster
9.0

With 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

I'm the One You're Looking For poster
7.0

Natalia, a fashion model, is assaulted by a man one night, when she is returning from work. She decides to take revenge, and obsessively searches for the rapist.

I'm the One You're Looking For

1989

Moors and Christians poster
5.8

A peculiar family, which owns a nougat factory, decides to set out on a trip to Madrid in order to advertise its products in a Food Fair. Besides the disapproval from the family head and company founder, events are not as expected.

Moors and Christians

1987

Total poster
7.4

"Total" opens the trilogy that close "Amanece que no es poco" and "Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra" Year 2598. Three days ago, the world has come to the end in London, a lost and a small Castilian village atmosphere. Lorenzo, a shepherd, tells a series of extraordinary events that have been announcing the end of the world: the cows want to go to school, walls crumble, or Doña Paquita appears in the most unexpected places ..

Total

1983

La vida alegre poster
5.9

Ana starts working as a Doctor in the S.T.I.U. (sexual transmission illnesses unit) at a Hospital. She begins meeting a lot of strange and bizarre characters there, while her jealous husband has to deal with it...

La vida alegre

1987

Miss Caribe poster
5.3

A woman's father dies in a Central American country and leaves her a bizarre inheritance: a ship which acts as a floating brothel under the appearance of being a restaurant. Alejandra, our heroine, decides to put an end to the ship's dissolute activities and use her inheritance as a school. Customers, cooks, waiters and the girls will meet her idea with considerable resistance.

Miss Caribe

1988

Lulú de noche poster
4.0

German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While looking for the protagonist, Rufo appears, an introvert jazz musician. He could play Jack the ripper.

Lulú de noche

1986

1970s · 9 titles

The Love of Captain Brando poster
5.4

During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old republican exile, returns to his home in a small Castilian village and befriends Aurora, a young and attractive teacher.

The Love of Captain Brando

1974

And They Lived Happily Ever After poster
6.2

Manoli and Fernando, a couple of communist ideas, want to live their love freely, fleeing from any bourgeois convention. At first, the couple rejects the help of her parents, but soon they will begin to give in and accept all kinds of comforts.

And They Lived Happily Ever After

1976

My Dearest Senorita poster
6.8

A 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

Al fin solos, pero... poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Al fin solos, pero...

1976

The National Shotgun poster
6.8

A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm shows full authority over James, who is the real organizer of the meeting. The celebration is diverse characters who live next to absurd situations.

The National Shotgun

1978

El bengador gusticiero y su pastelera madre poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

El bengador gusticiero y su pastelera madre

1977

Lola, They Say She Does Not Live Alone poster
4.5

A prostitute promises to the Virgin Mary not to practice her trade for a year if she heals her sick child.

Lola, They Say She Does Not Live Alone

1970

El monosabio poster
6.8

Juanito, 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

Nunca es tarde poster
5.8

Antonio and Teresa are a couple who live in a flat in San Sebastian. Ursula Michelena, an elderly woman over 70 years old, lives on the top floor. Ursula is secretly in love with Antonio, whom he continually spies from one of the windows of her house. One night she sees Antonio and Teresa making love and that fact excites her violently, in such a way that she asks Antonio for a secret appointment and tells her that she is pregnant and that the son she is waiting for is his. Úrsula, according to her version, has become pregnant looking at Antonio and Teresa making love.

Nunca es tarde

1977

1960s · 4 titles

1950s · 2 titles

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