Luis García Berlanga

The little village of Villar del Río is awaiting the song performance of Carmen Vargas, 'The Great Andalusian Star'. The quiet village is governed by a deaf, naughty and good-natured Mayor, who's only seeking the way to give life to the place. By the same time good news comes to the village: the arrival of North American high personalities that will give economical aid to the nation city by city, village by village... (imdb)

In a small Spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person dining with them. The celebrations also include a parade, and in it we find Plácido, the humble owner of a three-wheeler, whose family is forced to live in a public lavatory because of the lack of money to pay the rent, and who has to pay the second bill of his vehicle before midnight or else he will lose it.

An undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement. (imdb)

Juan works as an electrician in a Film Studio and his wife Carmen takes care of domestic tasks, therefore forming a marriage in a precarious economic situation. Their fortune seems to change when they are chosen by a soap company for a commercial and during a day they are labeled as ''The Happy Couple'', receiving various gifts to improve their living conditions.

In the celebration of the day of the political prisonner the victims of the Franco repression meet in the jail of Valencia. Among them are parvenues, mafiosi, bankers, and a communist priest... (imdb)

Tells how a woman is in a classroom with all kinds of American objects giving her students a detailed, step-by-step explanation about executions in the electric chair. After this lesson, she emerges in a romantic fantasy. (mundocine.net)

Following ¡Bienvenido Mister Marshall! Berlanga directed the tame and inconsequential Novio a la vista (Boyfriend in Sight) in 1953, before experiencing the first of several lengthy periods of inactivity that plagued his career. (sensesofcinema)

Piccoli, as a chic dentist, forsakes his 'liberated' but arid marriage for a new love. His job slides as he devotes himself entirely to her; they marry, but soon their bliss becomes contaminated and he tries to kill her. What makes Life Size a suitably bizarre project for Piccoli in his running battle with the bourgeoisie is that the object of his affections is a lifelike doll, complete with mucous membranes. (Time Out)

It concerns a businessman who joins the nation's most powerful figures on a hunting expedition and provokes a crisis of state. The film was inspired by a real event that took place in the 1960s when the newly-appointed Government Minister of Information, Manuel Fraga, joined Franco and his family on a hunting expedition and by accident fired pellets into Franco's daughter's rear end. (sensesofcinema)

The movie takes place precisely around that turn of the century and provides a prophetic portrayal of the hysteria around the Y2K. The rather references to the corruption phenomenon in Spain and Europe reflect the way Spain found itself after all the scandals of the years with Felipe González as Prime Minister. (imdb)

Gwenn plays a retired atomic scientist who settles in a peaceful Spanish village. But he can't remain sedentary for long, and soon he's off and about developing a new kind of rocket. So much for his retirement, and so much for the peace and quiet in his village, which is soon overrun with reporters and spies. (allmovie.com)

A Marquis suddenly becomes inspired to reclaim his palace, now gone to seed, right in the heart of Madrid. He and his son head for the city, without taking into account that his wife, the aged Marquesa is thoroughly ensconsed in the palace, has been for more than 40 years, and has no intention of leaving. In order to settle the issue, the Marquis decides to get his wife committed - not an unreasonable proposition given the fact that she has preferred to stay in bed all these years. (All Movie Guide)

The last part of Berlanga's Leguineche family trilogy.

In this offbeat comedy, a clerk and his mother visit the beach the day before his wedding. He leaves his mother alone for a few minutes and returns to find she has drowned. Not wanting to delay his wedding with the standard mourning period, he packs his mother in ice. (allmovie.com)

A platoon of mismatched republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on the saint patron date of the village. In addition to ruining the nationals' celebration they want the animal in order to butcher it and feed their famished troops. They get caught in the procession and have to go through a series of funny and pathetic incidents before they can get back to their side. (imdb)

In order to bring back the tourists to the village, their inhabitants organize a fake miracle: the apparition of San Dimas. (Written by Pablo Montoya (imdb)

Project directed by Luis G. Berlanga in La Escuela de Cine, Tercer curso, 1949/50.

Ricardo is an executive who has great success with women and behaves almost like a play-boy. His wife, Carmen, an attractive housewife without children, it feels ignored by him and seeks solace from her mother, who proposes Carmen a change in the way she acts in order to do not lose permanently her husband or even fall into madness (imdb).

A peculiar family who owns a nougat factory decides to set out on a trip to Madrid to advertise their products in a Food Fair (imdb).