Known for Directing
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.
Born
February 18, 1947
Died
February 4, 2020 (age 72)
Birthplace
Albacete, Spain
Filmography
45 films, 6 shows


Some Time Later
2018 · 1h 36m
country: Portugal
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.


Todo es silencio
2012 · 1h 59m
country: Spain
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.


The Blind Sunflowers
2008 · 1h 38m
country: Spain
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…


The Education of Fairies
2006 · 1h 43m
country: Argentina
A man's life is turned upside down after he is abandoned by the woman he loves.


With Good Reason
2004 · 1h 40m
country: Spain
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
Primer amor
2000 · 4m
country: Spain
A short film about first love.


Butterfly
1999 · 1h 36m
country: Spain
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
1995 · 1h 35m
country: Spain
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.


Tocando fondo
1993 · 1h 28m
country: Spain
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.


The Sow
1992 · 1h 42m
country: Spain
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.


La viuda del capitán Estrada
1991 · 1h 42m
country: Spain
Adaptation of a novel by Pedro García Montalvo that tells a story of destructive passion conditioned by social components that takes place during the 1940s.


Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
1989 · 1h 46m
country: Spain
Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.


The Enchanted Forest
1987 · 1h 48m
country: Spain
In Galicia, in northern Spain, Malvís, a frustrated day laborer who, fed up with his life, has become a clumsy bandit, tries to make a name for himself by robbing travelers passing through a forest inhabited by colorful characters.


Total
1983 · 52m
country: Spain
"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
1982 · 1h 32m
country: Spain
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.


The Tunnel
1979 · 1h 6m
country: Spain
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.


Mala Racha
1977
country: Unknown