José Luis Garci
Born: 1944-01-20 in Madrid, España
Known For: Directing
Biography
José Luis Garci is a Spanish director, producer, film critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author. He earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Begin the Beguine (1982). Four of his films, including also Sesión continua (1984), Asignatura aprobada (1987) and El abuelo (1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director. His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots.
Filmography
2025
2020
- Olea… ¡Más alto! as Self - Filmmaker
2019
- The Crack: Inception ... (Director)
2014
- Operación Palace as Himself
2012
- Holmes & Watson: Madrid Days ... (Director)
2011
- Enrique Herreros as Self - Filmmaker
2008
- Blood of May ... (Writer)
2007
- Sunday Light ... (Director)
2006
- Hécuba: un sueño de pasión ... (Thanks)
- The Night of the Sunflowers as Himself - Radio Host (voice) (uncredited)
2005
- Ninette ... (Director)
2004
- Merry-Go-Round c. 1950 ... (Director)
2002
- Historia de un beso ... (Director)
2000
- Leo ... (Executive Producer)
- Yoyes ... (Producer)
- You're the One ... (Director)
- Cóndor Crux ... (Executive Producer)
1999
- Un uomo perbene ... (Producer)
- Yerma ... (Writer)
- Shacky Carmine ... (Producer)
- The Revenge ... (Associate Producer)
1998
- The Grandfather ... (Director)
- Stolen Moments ... (Producer)
1997
- La herida luminosa ... (Producer)
1995
- ¡Qué grande es el cine! as Self - Host
1994
- Cradle Song as (uncredited)
1992
- Casablanca revisitada ... (Director)
1988
- Historias del otro lado ... (Writer)
- El tesoro ... (Writer)
- La gran comedia ... (Producer)
- El río que nos lleva ... (Executive Producer)
1987
- Course Completed ... (Director)
1985
- Beyond the Walls ... (Producer)
1984
- Double Feature ... (Director)
1983
- El crack dos as Minor Role (uncredited)
1982
- Begin the Beguine ... (Director)
1981
- El crack ... (Director)
1980
- Alfonso Sánchez ... (Director)
- Viva la clase media as Antonio 'Vladimiro' Flanagan
1979
- Las verdes praderas ... (Director)
1978
- Alone in the Small Hours ... (Director)
1977
- La Gioconda está triste ... (Story)
- Asignatura pendiente ... (Director)
1976
- La noche de los cien pájaros
- La mujer es cosa de hombres ... (Writer)
- Tiempo de gente acobardada ... (Director)
1975
- Mi Marilyn ... (Director)
- Mi mujer es muy decente, dentro de lo que cabe ... (Writer)
- ¡Al fútbol! ... (Director)
1974
- Vida conyugal sana as Oficinista (uncredited)
- Los nuevos españoles ... (Screenplay)
1973
- Murder in a Blue World ... (Screenplay)
- It's Not Good for a Man to Be Alone ... (Writer)
1972
- Plinio ... (Screenplay)
- The Telephone Box ... (Screenplay)
- La casa de las Chivas ... (Writer)
1970
- El cronicón ... (Writer)
1969
- Las nenas del mini-mini ... (Writer)
1968
- Los preparativos ... (Writer)
1967
- Los chicos del Preu ... (Writer)
1966
- Las últimas horas ... (Writer)