
One of the best known filmmakers in the world and director of some of the most famous films of Spanish cinema, tender in his vision of the characters, but satirical to the point of biting in his social analysis, clearly critical despite the censorship of the Franco regime. He was born in 1921 into a wealthy Valencian family. After the Second World War, he studied at the Escuela Oficial de Cine (IIEC/EOC), where he would later become a professor. There he met Juan Antonio Bardem, and together they made their first film. His narrative ability, together with the sharpness of his satire, bordering on nonsense, made him a popular filmmaker, but also valued by critics. Nevertheless, within his comic line he oscillates between tenderness and the grotesqueness of his choral comedies. Between both extremes are his first films, written in collaboration with Rafael Azcona, in which he develops a black humor, characteristic of both, corrosive denunciations of social hypocrisy and the death penalty. In recent years he was president of the Filmoteca Nacional de España and director of a collection of erotic novels and short stories.

Tuset Street
MOVIE • 1968

Sharon in Scarlet
MOVIE • 1969

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
MOVIE • 2005

Berlanga, fanáticamente contradictorio
MOVIE • 2025

Erotic Stories
MOVIE • 1980

No somos de piedra
MOVIE • 1968

El joven Berlanga
MOVIE • 2022

A la pálida luz de la luna
MOVIE • 1985

Las pirañas
MOVIE • 1967

A Tied Blasé
MOVIE • 1981

From Kuleshov to Berlanga
MOVIE • 2004

De mica en mica s’omple la pica
MOVIE • 1984

Enrique Herreros
MOVIE • 2011

Cuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amando
MOVIE • 1998

Días de viejo color
MOVIE • 1968

La ley del cholo II
MOVIE • 2000

Por la gracia de Luis
MOVIE • 2009

Streetcar for Sale
MOVIE • 1959