José Luis Alcaine Movies

At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a...

The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the...

An American writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and...

The Iniesta-Galván family is a theatre company that goes from town to town offering its performances. Over the years, its members will have to...

Luys Forest is a writer with a Falangist political past. He lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting...

In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader.

Alice is a girl devoid of affection seeking refuge in the images shown in the movie screen of a theater that his father manages in the Venezuelan...

A young bank clerk is transferred, in view of his special way of being, to a branch for misfits, where he will meet a whole series of very strange...

This literary film is imbued with the disenchantment of Spanish exiles who left their homes to protest Franco's fascist regime and then returned...

A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), through popular...

A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War, and of a woman. Her quest for...

Antoñito is a bachelor who works in a cabaret as a clarinetist. He has put an advertisement in the newspaper, looking for a good and honest...

Palmira, a woman belonging to the Sevillian aristocracy, as well known for her decrepitude and hypocrisy as the rest of her population, enters into...

After completing his high school studies at the age of twenty-four, Óscar is an immature student, unable to afford alone his return to home...

A boy in Lisbon, in this Lisbon in permanent renovation.

After the death of dictator Francisco Franco, Florentina gives her family shocking news.

Based on the powerful novel by Ray Loriga. A young man and a young girl's lives are united under dramatic circumstances. He has just shot a security...

With a prestigious job and a loving family, Emilio (José Coronado) has the kind of life someone would kill for. But beneath it all is a...

A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely...