
Birthday:
02-18-1947
Deathday:
02-04-2020 (72 years)
Birthplace:
Albacete, Spain
Biography
José Luis Cuerda became a radio and television technician after leaving law school. In 1969 he joined Televisión Española, making reports and documentaries for the news services. Between 1985 and 1987 he was a professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca. After shooting several short films, in 1982 he directed his first feature film.
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Some Time Later
Act like Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
event2018 star_border 6.1
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Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the slums built around it.
Howard Hawks, San Sebastián 1972
event2003
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In 1972, the American film director Howard Hawks travelled to San Sebastian to preside over the jury of the Film Festival. Two young film buffs, Jesús Martínez León and José Luis Cuerda, came from Madrid in the hope of interviewing him. After thirty years of life and films we recover that unpublished interview.
Thesis
Act like Professor 1
event1996 star_border 7.5
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While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured to death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student at her college...
El hombre de moda
Act like Pablo
event1980 star_border 5
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Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the job as a teacher through an old friend, Bruno Baena, who is the head master of the school. Aurora starts going to Pedro's classes. Pedro will become "El hombre de moda", very soon.
Too Much for Galvez
Act like El tuno
event1981
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Gálvez is a bumbling journalist investigating a real state shady business.
The Sow
Act like Impresor
event1992 star_border 5.8
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After spending three years in captivity in Tunis, Bartolomé returns home Extremadura with the only hope to eat his favorite dish: the pork. Along the way he meets a deserter who is traveling with a sow.
The Dumbfounded King
Act like Dominico
event1991 star_border 5.9
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Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.
Todo es silencio
Act like Grimalado
event2012 star_border 4.3
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In Brétema, on the Atlantic coast, there was a time when networks of smuggling, drug trafficking converted, achieved so much influence that they were close to control everything: social power, institutions, the lives of its people. Fins, Leda and Frink explore the coast in search of what the sea throws after a wreck, the sea is for them a place of continual discovery. The fate of these young people will be marked by the shadow odious and fascinating at the same time the ubiquitous Marshall, owner of almost everything in Brétema.
Un país para reírlo
(1 ep.)
event2021 star_border 2
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It is a Spanish documentary program with a humorous theme, directed by Alberto Utrera and presented by the actor and comedian Goyo Jiménez. It premiered on April 6, 2021.
Open Your Eyes
Producer (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 7.4
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A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
The Others
Producer (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 7.6
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Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
Director (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 7
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Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.
Butterfly
Director (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 7.4
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The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.
On Earth as It Is in Heaven
Director (1 ep.)
event1995 star_border 5.3
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Matacanes dies and goes to heaven just to discover that it was not as he expected, and everyone there is revolutionized lately. Peter explains that God was concerned about the progress of the world, and decided to send a second son to Earth. However, Jesus hears and does not agree, as they would have to rewrite history.
The Enchanted Forest
Director (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 6.8
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In a fantastical forest we meet some people who have been transported to this place by a magic force. Now their histories cross one another.
The Education of Fairies
Director (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 6.4
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A man's life is turned upside down after he is abandoned by the woman he loves.
The Blind Sunflowers
Director (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 6.6
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Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…
Total
Director (1 ep.)
event1983 star_border 7.3
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"Total" opens the trilogy that close "Amanece que no es poco" and "Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra" Year 2598. Three days ago, the world has come to the end in London, a lost and a small Castilian village atmosphere. Lorenzo, a shepherd, tells a series of extraordinary events that have been announcing the end of the world: the cows want to go to school, walls crumble, or Doña Paquita appears in the most unexpected places ..
Pares y nones
Director (1 ep.)
event1982 star_border 5
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Comedy on the effects of affect and impersonal relationships in unmarried couples, couples who cease to be, they should be and never should have been. All focused on ten main characters in that age does not always accompanied by the corresponding maturity.
La viuda del capitán Estrada
Director (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 2
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After the Second World War, the United Nations has declared the blockade of Franco's Spain. In this historical context, for a time little known, lies the story of the widow of a Spanish army captain.
Tocando fondo
Director (1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 5
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Andres de Granada, a forty-benefit trade more clear, believed that the first months of 1993 are the best time to do business. It also has the help of his nephew Fulgencio, who has arrived in Madrid with the idea of learning the trade.
With Good Reason
Director (1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 4
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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.
Primer amor
Director (1 ep.)
event2000
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A short film about first love.
The Tunnel
Director (1 ep.)
event1979
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Adaptation of Ernesto Sábato's work, directed by José Luis Cuerda Juan Pablo Castel, a moderately famous painter, visits Larrea's office to tell him how he met María Iribarne at a painting exhibition. He recounts why he followed her upon realizing she understood his painting, and why he killed her after months of searching, finally establishing contact with her and experiencing a passionate and tumultuous love affair.
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