Joaquín Oristrell

Writing

Joaquín Oristrell

Born

1953-09-15 (73)

Place of birth

Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Known for

Writing

Credits

46 titles

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health poster
6.1

Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health

1997

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health poster
6.1

Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health

1997

Between Your Legs poster
5.4

A radio-show assistant meets a budding screenwriter during a group-therapy session for sex addicts.

Between Your Legs

1999

Between Your Legs poster
5.4

A radio-show assistant meets a budding screenwriter during a group-therapy session for sex addicts.

Between Your Legs

1999

Mediterranean Food poster
5.3

Sofia's story, the best chef in the world, and the two men who helped her to become a legend.

Mediterranean Food

2009

Mediterranean Food poster
5.3

Sofia's story, the best chef in the world, and the two men who helped her to become a legend.

Mediterranean Food

2009

Queens poster
6.0

In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, become entwined.

Queens

2005

Two Many Chefs poster
6.1

Mikel, a young cook, meets with his father Juan, who had been missing for 30 years. While trying to keep his restaurant afloat, Mikel has to take care of crazed Juan, a former cook who suffers from a mental condition that prevents him from recognizing neither the aforementioned time gap nor his son Mikel.

Two Many Chefs

2022

The Dinner poster
6.9

Spain, April 15, 1939. With the Civil War concluded, and with the intention of celebrating his victory, General Franco attends a dinner with his generals at the Palace Hotel.

The Dinner

2025

The Champion poster
5.6

Diego has just been voted best young player in Europe and at the age of 20 he is on his way to making his team, Atlético de Madrid, champions of La Liga. But his impulsive and conflictive character makes the club, fed up with his excesses, hire Álex, a withdrawn and lonely psychology professor, to improve his behaviour. The two will have no choice but to learn to understand each other.

The Champion

2024

Off Key poster
4.9

A trio of opera singers are reunited by a wedding ten years after their stormy breakup.

Off Key

2001

Alegre ma non troppo poster
5.1

Pablo is a twenty-year-old man who wants to be a musician in order to be appreciated by his mother and find a male partner he can share his love with. He finds one, but because of his demanding behaviour, he is soon alone again. He tries to become a French horn player in the Youth Spain National Orchestra, but the examiner turns out to be his father, who's been living apart from his family and doesn't really accept Pablo's sexual trends. Once Pablo fails in his exam, he feels very depressed. When another French horn player from Valencia hasn't got a place to sleep, Pablo takes him home to his house. The next morning, however, he finds a girl named Salome inside of his bed.

Alegre ma non troppo

1994

Don Juan, My Dear Ghost poster
6.2

Seville, November 1, 1990. Tenorio goes out of his grave, as every year. Similarly, Juan Marquina, a great actor, makes the general rehearsal of a musical version of the play. Since that moment, two worlds come together in a circle of adventures, facing both Don Juans, helped by four beautiful women with decisive influence on their destinies.

Don Juan, My Dear Ghost

1990

The Tribe poster
6.3

A cleaner woman with vocational street dancer tries to recover her long-stranded son that she gave for adoption, a former CEO who lost everything, including his memories.

The Tribe

2018

All Men Are the Same poster
6.5

Three divorced men who share a flat live together without trouble until they hire a cleaning lady.

All Men Are the Same

1994

With Good Reason poster
4.7

A 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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Libre

—

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

Unconscious poster
6.9

A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.

Unconscious

2004

Unconscious poster
6.9

A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.

Unconscious

2004

Rivales poster
5.8

A history of rivalries: Madrid and Catalans, parents and children, couples, families ... all united and faced by football.

Rivales

2008

Fassman, l'increïble home radar poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fassman, l'increïble home radar

2015

Fassman, l'increïble home radar poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fassman, l'increïble home radar

2015

Extasis poster
5.8

Rober, Max and Ona, three young people living on the fringes of society, decide to commit a risky robbery.

Extasis

1996

Why Do They Call It Love When They Mean Sex? poster
5.8

Gloria is a porn artist that performs live-sex. When his mate gets sick he brings her a young substitute, Manu. The boy works surprisingly well and then Gloria decides to go into business with him. Things get complicated when Gloria discovers that Manu is in trouble because of his gambling debts.

Why Do They Call It Love When They Mean Sex?

1993

Esquilache poster
5.8

In the 18th century in Madrid, the Marquess of Esquilache, King Charles III of Spain's former minister, bans on wearing the popular wide collar with a long coat and brimmed hat. Along with other measures provoke a massive riot in the city.

Esquilache

1989

Mouth to Mouth poster
5.4

For financial reasons, an aspiring actor begins working for a phone-sex enterprise. Through his new line of work, he develops relationships with two regular clients: Bill, an elderly homosexual, and Amanda, a mysterious femme fatale.

Mouth to Mouth

1995

The Butterfly Effect poster
6.4

Luis, a Spanish student, goes to London to get a course in Economics. He lives at a house the neighbor of her aunt, but when she broke up with her husband, Luis goes to live with her.

The Butterfly Effect

1995

No Shame poster
6.2

Acting teacher Isabel happens upon a script written by her old lover, film director Mario Fabra, based on their relationship 20 years prior. Chaos ensues when her students, including Isabel's daughter Belén, ageing actress Ronda, and Mario's TV actress girlfriend Cecilia all scheme to get cast in the film.

No Shame

2001

No Shame poster
6.2

Acting teacher Isabel happens upon a script written by her old lover, film director Mario Fabra, based on their relationship 20 years prior. Chaos ensues when her students, including Isabel's daughter Belén, ageing actress Ronda, and Mario's TV actress girlfriend Cecilia all scheme to get cast in the film.

No Shame

2001

Horror and Love poster
NR

A love letter to the world of freaks, this documentary retraces the birth of Horrorland, voted Europe's Best Scream Park, as well as the love story between Cristina Raya and David Moreno, the two main driving forces behind this Catalan theme park. From St. Louis to Vilassar de Dalt, by way of Newcastle, the camera accompanies them on their odyssey to build a dream called Horrorland.

Horror and Love

2026

Horror and Love poster
NR

A love letter to the world of freaks, this documentary retraces the birth of Horrorland, voted Europe's Best Scream Park, as well as the love story between Cristina Raya and David Moreno, the two main driving forces behind this Catalan theme park. From St. Louis to Vilassar de Dalt, by way of Newcastle, the camera accompanies them on their odyssey to build a dream called Horrorland.

Horror and Love

2026

Horror and Love poster
NR

A love letter to the world of freaks, this documentary retraces the birth of Horrorland, voted Europe's Best Scream Park, as well as the love story between Cristina Raya and David Moreno, the two main driving forces behind this Catalan theme park. From St. Louis to Vilassar de Dalt, by way of Newcastle, the camera accompanies them on their odyssey to build a dream called Horrorland.

Horror and Love

2026

De hombre a hombre poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

De hombre a hombre

1985

Hablar poster
5.9

An anthology film with 20 stories on the subject of words, communication, linked to one another over a 400-metre stretch: from Madrid's Lavapiés Square to the Sala Mirador. A journey between theatre and cinema, filmed in a single fixed shot running continuously over 80 minutes and half a kilometer, in Madrid's popular Lavapiés district. The characters talk, argue, laugh, cry, threaten, whisper, shout, steal, make dates, get angry with and hug one another, prompting the spectator to reflect on the immense power of words.

Hablar

2015

Hablar poster
5.9

An anthology film with 20 stories on the subject of words, communication, linked to one another over a 400-metre stretch: from Madrid's Lavapiés Square to the Sala Mirador. A journey between theatre and cinema, filmed in a single fixed shot running continuously over 80 minutes and half a kilometer, in Madrid's popular Lavapiés district. The characters talk, argue, laugh, cry, threaten, whisper, shout, steal, make dates, get angry with and hug one another, prompting the spectator to reflect on the immense power of words.

Hablar

2015

El último mono poster
10.0

A man organizes courses aimed at men, specifically so-called "alpha males." As part of a challenge, he must win the heart of a feminist woman with whom, initially, he stands no chance.

El último mono

2026

Los abajo firmantes poster
6.8

The first actor of a theater company on tour in Spain dies in a car accident. A new actor, Jorge Ruiz, is to relieve you. He's handsome, young and revolutionary. His arrival creates tension, jealousy and distrust in the rest of the cast, is-especially in Mario Soto, which is responsible to lead in the absence of the author of the assembly, busy with an opera for the Teatro Real in Madrid . Already in the first trial of the work concerned the "Play Without a Title" by Federico Garcia Lorca, their personalities collide head. Morante Carmen, leading actress of the company, and Laura G. Reyna, which was secret lover of the deceased, witness the struggle between the two. As if that were not enough, the newcomer brings added conflict: reading at the end of the function of a manifesto for peace. Mario questioned that decision and the company is divided.

Los abajo firmantes

2003

Los abajo firmantes poster
6.8

The first actor of a theater company on tour in Spain dies in a car accident. A new actor, Jorge Ruiz, is to relieve you. He's handsome, young and revolutionary. His arrival creates tension, jealousy and distrust in the rest of the cast, is-especially in Mario Soto, which is responsible to lead in the absence of the author of the assembly, busy with an opera for the Teatro Real in Madrid . Already in the first trial of the work concerned the "Play Without a Title" by Federico Garcia Lorca, their personalities collide head. Morante Carmen, leading actress of the company, and Laura G. Reyna, which was secret lover of the deceased, witness the struggle between the two. As if that were not enough, the newcomer brings added conflict: reading at the end of the function of a manifesto for peace. Mario questioned that decision and the company is divided.

Los abajo firmantes

2003

África poster
6.3

Martín (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