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Joaquín Jordá

Joaquín Jordá

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Biography

Joaquín Jordá was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and translator. He belongs to the School of Barcelona where he stands out for his film Dante is Not Only Severe (1967) directed together with Jacinto Esteva. He is also recognized for his documentary film work.

Known For

Carmen
5.3

A French writer documents the seductive power of the beautiful Carmen, who has enchanted José, a young soldier, awakening his most fervent passions leading to tragedy. A path chained to obsession, jealousy, betrayal, and blood.

Carmen

2003
Los jinetes del alba
4.9

The inhabitants of Las Caldas, a village in Asturias, in northern Spain, whose life revolves around a sumptuous spa, trace complicated personal relationships while the whole country is inexorably heading towards revolution and civil war.

Los jinetes del alba

1991
La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català
N/A

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La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català

2019
Change of Sex
5.8

Young José María goes through a painful journey until he discovers that he is a transsexual.

Change of Sex

1977
The People Who Own the Dark
4.9

A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search for food and supplies, they find most of the residents blinded, and soon they discover the existence of a sinister group called The People Who Own The Dark.

The People Who Own the Dark

1976
Sonatas
5.1

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.

Sonatas

1959
Tuset Street
4.5

Barcelona 1967. The pop culture revolution. Jordi (Patrick Bauchau) is a rich playboy who runs around with a bunch of high-end hippies, smoking, drinking, dancing and daydreaming about Tuset Street, an effort to develop a popular street in the newer section of Barcelona after the models of Haight Ashbury Street in San Francisco and Carnaby Street in London. Jordi and his gang represent the new Barcelona, wealthy, artificial and striving for imported sophistication. On the older side of the city is El Paralelo, the theater district. At El Molino, one of its many music halls, performs Violeta (Sara Montiel), a showgirl in the old style tradition who supplements her singing income with prostitution. Somehow Violeta represents the old values, the "real world" living along side an artificial creation such as Tuset.

Tuset Street

1968
Alma gitana
5.7

A young man who wants to become a professional dancer falls in love with a gypsy girl and gets in conflict with her totally different cultural background. But love can overcome these differences..

Alma gitana

1996
Bahía de Palma
9.0

Mario starts working as a pianist in a party hall in Palma de Mallorca, where he finds two girls, an old pupil, and Clara, who will get to conquer him.

Bahía de Palma

1962
El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free
5.8

This is the story of a man fighting with all his might for his life and his freedom. Eleuterio (”El Lute”) embarks upon an action-packed future, fuelled by the notions of freedom and dreams of living just as his countrymen, ever-growing in his mind. Nothing and no-one can stop him. After escaping the Puerto de Santa María prison, the reunion with his family is just the beginning of what will become an endless escape.

El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free

1988
Dante Is Not Only Severe
6.2

A woman uselessly insists on entertaining a man by telling him stories that don’t interest him as much as his works. A film about the impossibility of telling a story that, to this end, concentrates on the story of two people who have a relationship that is destined to fail.

Dante Is Not Only Severe

1967
Andorra Between Two Evils
8.0

Spain 1952. The country lies in the grip of Franco's ruthless dictatorship. In a Spanish police station, Francesc Viel, a left-wing republican, is forced to recount his past.

Andorra Between Two Evils

2000
La vieja música
6.0

The new coach of the basketball team of Lugo arrives from Uruguay. He really knows nothing about training a basketball team so he keeps the previous coach on and in the meantime tries to learn from videos and books, but his real reason for coming to Spain was to find out about an old lost love.

La vieja música

1985
A Body in the Woods
5.8

A hard-hitting police investigation with Rossy de Palma taking the lead as the police officer responsible for solving the murder of a young woman whose mutilated body is found in the woods by local hunters.

A Body in the Woods

1996
The Happy Sixties
10.0

Monica, a wife and mother, is dissatisfied with his routine, conventional life. Her husband, Pablo, decides that the best thing for her and her children is to spend the summer in Cadaqués.

The Happy Sixties

1969
La doble vida del faquir
6.4

La doble vida del faquir (The magicians) returns to the scene of a school in the Catalan town of Sant Julià de Vilatorta where, in 1937, in the midst of civil war, a film-maker in hiding and a group of orphaned children dressed up as sultans and explorers shot an exotic adventure film. The films protagonists relive those childhood days when they were able to switch their school smocks for oriental turbans, while reality imposed its own fancy dress ball with military uniforms and priests dressed in civilian garb.

La doble vida del faquir

2005
Golfo de Vizcaya
8.0

After of living in France for fifteen years, Lucas, a journalist with a dark past, returns to Bilbao, his hometown. He begins an intense romance with a young woman, but a series of circumstances will make the intimacy of the couple almost impossible.

Golfo de Vizcaya

1985
Lute: Forge On or Die
5.7

In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed "El Lute", steals some chickens and is condemned to six months in jail. El Lute moves to the slum outskirts of Madrid with his common law wife, Chelo, starting an itinerant life as a peddler of pots and pans and living in a quinqui shantytown. He gradually embarks upon as life of petty criminality, eventually participating in the theft of a jewelry store during which a bystander is killed.

Lute: Forge On or Die

1987
Numax presenta...
N/A

Workers at the Numax factory in Barcelona conduct an experiment in self-management.

Numax presenta...

1980
At Five in the Afternoon
5.5

A critical view of the world of bullfighting based on the antagonism between two bullfighters who take part in a bullfight that is crucial to both their careers. One is already in decline and fearful; the other is at the peak of his career.

At Five in the Afternoon

1961