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Javier Aguirre

Javier Aguirre

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Biography

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 1960s. He began his work as a director in 1961, directing a short documentary titled Pasajes tres , which received the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival . He had a prolific career, directing 45 feature films, 10 short films, 2 documentaries, and 25 documentary shorts. Aguirre also wrote and produced most of his films. Spanish horror movie fans know him as the director of three popular Paul Naschy horror films, El hunchback de la Morgue (1973, aka Hunchback of the Morgue ), El gran amor del conde Drácula (1973, aka Count Dracula's Great Love ) and El asesino esta entre los trece (aka The Killer is One of the Thirteen ).

Known For

Battered Flesh
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
Los que tocan el piano
8.0

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
The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry
6.0

King of Horror, legendary actor, scriptwriter and director, Paul Naschy is regarded as the Spanish Lon Chaney and the most prolific filmmaker dedicated to the fantastic cinema in Spain.

The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry

2010
The Killer Is One of Thirteen
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
Unmarried and Mother in Life
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 chicos con las chicas
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
Pierna creciente, falda menguante
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
Count Dracula's Great Love
4.9

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
La guerra de los niños
6.1

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
El astronauta
6.2

After witnessing man's landing on the Moon on television, several friends from the Spanish village of Minglanillas decide to do the same and build their own rocket.

El astronauta

1970
Vida íntima de un seductor cínico
4.4

No description available.

Vida íntima de un seductor cínico

1975
La diputada
6.5

No description available.

La diputada

1988
Ni te cases ni te embarques
4.9

No description available.

Ni te cases ni te embarques

1982
The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone
6.5

An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes violently, in the Basque Country, in northern Spain.

The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone

2003
Hunchback of the Morgue
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
Las locuras de Parchís
6.8

When the Parcheesi kids return from Disneyland, they learn that Vicky, Don Atilio's daughter, will be their new group mate. But Don Atilio opposes Vicky's relationship with Gemma, Yolanda, David, Tino, Frank and Carlitos, so he sends her to a nuns' school run by Don Atilio's sister.

Las locuras de Parchís

1982
Consensus
5.0

In a small provincial town on the Spanish coast, a conflict arises between prostitutes and a group of devout women, annoyed by the presence of prostitutes in their locality. The tension is increasing and the prostitutes are asking Carmelo, the local pharmacist, to intercede for them. He, who goes out with Asunción, one of the women facing the heteros, refuses. To convince Carmelo, prostitutes force him to have sex with them. Due to the pleasure of this experience he changes his mind.

Consensus

1980
Una vez al año ser hippy no hace daño
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
La iniciación en el amor
3.5

In a sun-drenched pastoral world, two teenage shepherds—Daphnis, raised by goats after being abandoned, and Chloe, his devoted companion—explore the innocence and intensity of first love. As they awaken to desire and defy the expectations of wealth and status, their bond deepens in secret. But when Daphnis’s true lineage resurfaces, the lovers must navigate family opposition and the stirrings of adulthood.

La iniciación en el amor

1976
Cómo empezar una película sobre Javier Aguirre
5.0

No description available.

Cómo empezar una película sobre Javier Aguirre

2013