Known for Acting
María Jesús Lampreave Pérez (11 December 1930 – 4 April 2016), known as Chus Lampreave, was a Spanish actress. Born in Madrid, she began appearing in films in 1958, but she became internationally known thanks to her roles in films by Pedro Almodóvar, where she played old ladies with maternal or pastoral traits. She died in Almería in 2016 at the age of 85.
Born
December 11, 1930
Died
April 4, 2016 (age 85)
Birthplace
Madrid, Spain
Filmography
66 films, 7 shows


Me, the President
2015 · 18m · ES
Spain's recent election have alarmed europe. It's the second time blank votes win, plunging the country into chaos. The European Union decides to elect the new Spanish president using a rather unique method, Facebook.


Torrente 5: Operation Eurovegas
2014 · 1h 42m · ES
Crooked cop Torrente gets out of jail in the year 2018 to find a different Spain from the one he knew.


The Artist and the Model
2012 · 1h 44m · ES
In occupied France in summer 1943, a world-weary famous sculptor finds the desire to work again with the arrival of a beautiful young Spanish refugee.


Broken Embraces
2009 · 2h 7m · ES
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.


Chef's Special
2008 · 1h 51m · ES
Maxi thinks his life is perfect. He is a famous cook who owns a successful restaurant in Chueca and is living his life as a gay man without much complex. But when his son Edu and his daughter Alba appear, and a new attractive neighbor comes along, it will have a strong effect on his life resulting in his values being challenged for ever.


Volver
2006 · 2h 1m · ES
Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.


Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido!
2005 · 19m · ES
Abandoned by her husband, a woman takes to the streets in search of money to feed her children. (Promotional short for the film What Have I Done to Deserve This?, directed by Pedro Almodóvar.)


Say I Do
2004 · 1h 42m · ES
An unlikely couple fake a relationship to win a TV game show prize. Wannabe actress Estrella dreams of becoming a hostess on a romance reality-TV show presented by Amador Rosales. Meanwhile, movie usher and film buff Victor, who hates such reality shows, is being pressured by his mother to be a contestant.


Robbery at 3 O'clock… and Half
2003 · 1h 39m · ES
A German bank buys a small Spanish entity and announces to its employees that it will pre-retire them on January 1st. The cashier Galindo proposes his fellow coworkers a plan to steal a large sum of euros which will arrive on New Year's Eve.


El florido pensil
2002 · 1h 43m · ES
"El Florido Pensil" is a humorous reflection of the education of several generations of Spaniards from the 1940s to the 1960s. Based on the book of the same name by Andrés Sopeña, it evokes, from the present, his memories of that time: everyday school, local radio, Roberto Alcázar's comics, Thursday cinema with Franco opening swamps and "Yon Güein" chasing and killing Indians. Through the childish eyes of a child Sopeña (Daniel Rubio) and his schoolmates, we discover a way of understanding the world, society and a Spain "of glories and flowery pensil", as the national anthem of those years used to sing.


Talk to Her
2002 · 1h 52m · ES
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.


Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella
2001 · 1h 39m · ES
For this second film in the cult comedy series Torrente takes our fat police officer from Madrid to Marbella in Spain to investigate a villain’s plot to destroy the city with a missile. This James Bond style slapstick comedy became the most successful box-office film in Spanish film history beating out only the first Torrente film.


A Perfect Couple
1998 · 1h 33m · ES
Forty-two-year-old Lorenzo finds himself out of work. Through an ad placed in the local newspaper, he gets a job as a helping hand for an aging homosexual poet who can barely manage on his own. From this moment on, Lorenzo juggles his strange line of work with the life he leads alongside his long-suffering wife and his secret encounters with Faustina, his lover. Everything goes awry from one day to the next due, amongst other things, to some compromising photos and an unexpected funeral.


Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law
1998 · 1h 37m · ES
A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.


Mátame mucho
1998 · ES


On Earth as It Is in Heaven
1995 · 1h 35m · ES
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 Flower of My Secret
1995 · 1h 46m · FR
Middle-aged romance author Leo writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works overseas, is distant both physically and emotionally. As she reevaluates her life and writing, Leo is led to an unexpected relationship with Ángel, a sensitive newspaper editor.


7,000 Days Together
1994 · 1h 40m · ES
Petra and Matías have been unhappily married for twenty years. When Matías falls in love with shop assistant Angelines, he comes up with the perfect plan to get rid of Petra but their nosey neighbours get in the way.


Casque bleu
1994 · 1h 38m · FR
Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another woman. By way of atonement, he takes his wife back to the Mediterranean island where, 13 years earlier, they spent their honeymoon. Not such a good move, as it turns out. The peacemaking holiday coincides with the outbreak of a bloody civil war. Having failed to leave the country, Patrick, his wife and their eccentric entourage are taken hostage by merciless guerrillas…


Everyone Off to Jail
1993 · 1h 39m · ES
A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended.


Supernova
1993 · 1h 20m · ES
Count Nado, is in love with Fénix, an intergalactic singer. Unable to achieve it with traditional methods, the evil Nado kidnaps the scientist Avelina to make a replica of the singer, creating Supernova.


Belle Époque
1992 · 1h 49m · FR
In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.


La mujer inesperada
1990 · 1h · ES
A man wakes up in a train to Malaga. A mysterious woman helps him get in time to his marriage, which is a few hours later.


I'm the One You're Looking For
1989 · 1h 30m
Natalia, a fashion model, is assaulted by a man one night, when she is returning from work. She decides to take revenge, and obsessively searches for the rapist.


Going Down in Morocco
1989 · 1h 23m · ES
Chusa shares a flat in central Madrid with her cousin Jaime and her lover Alberto. The group makes ends meet by smuggling and selling drugs from Morocco. They take in a naive young woman, Elena, and decide to include her in their next scheme although this will prove complicated.


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


La última cena... del 88
1988


Miss Caribe
1988 · 1h 30m · MX
A woman's father dies in a Central American country and leaves her a bizarre inheritance: a ship which acts as a floating brothel under the appearance of being a restaurant. Alejandra, our heroine, decides to put an end to the ship's dissolute activities and use her inheritance as a school. Customers, cooks, waiters and the girls will meet her idea with considerable resistance.


Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988 · 1h 28m · ES
After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.


Wait for Me in Heaven
1988 · 1h 46m · ES
Pepe Soriano plays a Madrid shopkeeper who is kidnapped by henchmen of Franco in this political comedy. After his kidnapping, he is forced to become the dictator's double for many official ceremonies. Due to his long and unexplained absence, Pepe's wife believes her husband has been abducted and killed, so she tries to reach her husband through spiritualism. After Pepe surprises her with a nocturnal visit, he tells her he will touch his ear to signal it is he and not Franco in public appearances.


Moors and Christians
1987 · 1h 56m · ES
A peculiar family, which owns a nougat factory, decides to set out on a trip to Madrid in order to advertise its products in a Food Fair. Besides the disapproval from the family head and company founder, events are not as expected.


The Impeccable Sinner
1987 · 1h 27m · ES
Honorio Sigüenza is a man in his forties who has always lived under the yoke of his possessive mother. When his mother dies, he undergoes a radical transformation that will lead him to live numerous love affairs in the face of the disapproval of his cousin Veni, who wanted to marry him.
Eulalia
Eulalia
1987 · ES


La vida alegre
1987 · 1h 32m · ES
Ana starts working as a Doctor in the S.T.I.U. (sexual transmission illnesses unit) at a Hospital. She begins meeting a lot of strange and bizarre characters there, while her jealous husband has to deal with it...


Year of Enlightment
1986 · 1h 45m · ES
April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, Manolo, surrounded by boys all much younger than he is, feels a bit like the cock of the walk since the only other man around is the handyman Emilio who looks after the gardens and does whatever needs to be done about the place. His wife, Rafaela, is the cook. Manolo meets Irene, a falangist who runs the sanatorium, and the school teacher, Miss Transito, a crabby spinster. He has his first sexual experience, albeit as a voyeur, with his nurse Vicenta. When she has to leave, her place is taken by a girl from the village, Maria Jesus, with whom Manolo falls hopelessly in love. A relationship grows up between them which will mark them both for ever.


Matador
1986 · 1h 45m · ES
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.


Lulú de noche
1986 · 1h 34m · ES
German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While looking for the protagonist, Rufo appears, an introvert jazz musician. He could play Jack the ripper.


Move Over, Mrs. Markham
1985 · 1h 34m · ES
Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him use his house for a love tryst while Fernando wines and dines Adela. At the same time, Paco's wife, Carmen, will be taking her lover to Rosa's house. From here on the rout begins, as Paco tries to get rid of Silvia, his secretary, and Carmen, her husband. Fernando thinks Rosa is cheating on him with Oscar, who thinks Fernando is gay and having an affair with his partner, while the soldier thinks his girlfriend is a professional...


The Chosen One
1985 · 1h 20m · ES
Federico is a cashier in a bank. He is bored with his life. But one day a body falls on his car. The suspected suicide victim is collected by a group of men that disappear in a car. Federico's life is about to change completely.
Tatuaje
Tatuaje
1985 · 5m · ES
A short film starring Pedro Almodóvar and Marisa Paredes, parodying a 1940s torch song, the famous Spanish copla "Tatuaje".


El rollo de septiembre
1985 · ES
It is the disastrous grades at the end of the school year that make several students from different places gather at the school to spend the whole summer studying, in order to make up for the lost course. Naturally, at this school, the last thing the kids are going to do is study, but the mayor of the town wants to demolish the school to build a housing development...


The Secret Garden
1984 · 1h 40m · ES
A few days ago, Lucia (Assumpta Serna) receives anonymous letters in which he is forced to perform certain actions that she accepts without question. Her current boyfriend, Arthur (Xabier Elorriaga), suspects the mysterious sender can be Lucia's former lover, whose strange death never reached clarified. Now it's time it's Arthur who put the cards on the table to get to the bottom of it.


What Have I Done to Deserve This?
1984 · 1h 42m · ES
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.


Bajo en nicotina
1984 · 1h 22m · ES
A film buff can't watch his videos in peace as he is disturbed by his clingy girlfriend and noisy neighbours. He will take drastic measures to get them to shut up for once and for all.


Epilogue
1984 · 1h 32m · ES
For many years, Rocabruno and Ditirambo co-authored their novels, and they were both in love with the same woman; but one day they went their separate ways. Ten years later, Ditirambo visits Rocabruno with the intention of asking him to write one last novel together.


Dark Habits
1983 · 1h 40m · ES
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.


Total
1983 · 52m · ES
"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 ..


National III
1982 · 1h 42m · ES
In order to solve economic problems, "Leguineche" family decide to move to France with their limited belongings.


Cuentos para una escapada
1981 · 1h 48m · ES
With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's film.


National Heritage
1981 · 1h 52m · ES
After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exile, with the purpose of returning to Madrid to actively participate in the social events of the aristocracy and to get closer to the closest circle of the Spanish monarch. The obsession of the old marquis is centered on getting in touch with the most illustrious surnames, to ascend socially and to resume the pomp and courtly life that his family lost a long time ago. To this end, he decides to move into an old palace he owns, located in the center of the capital, but not before overcoming the difficulties posed by his wife, who deeply hates both her husband and her son. To regain control of the palace, the Marquis of Leguineche tries to handicap his wife, arguing an incurable mental illness, and then undertake a reform of the place in order to adapt it to aristocratic life.


El erótico enmascarado
1980 · ES
Manolo (Fernando Esteso) is a porn actor who no longer has any attraction towards women, having become "a decent man". But, of course, there is a horny doctor, who happens to be a fan of this actor, that will do everything to help him, even trying to turn him on with his own wife.


The National Shotgun
1978 · 1h 35m · ES
A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm shows full authority over James, who is the real organizer of the meeting. The celebration is diverse characters who live next to absurd situations.


Nunca es tarde
1977 · 1h 38m · ES
Antonio and Teresa are a couple who live in a flat in San Sebastian. Ursula Michelena, an elderly woman over 70 years old, lives on the top floor. Ursula is secretly in love with Antonio, whom he continually spies from one of the windows of her house. One night she sees Antonio and Teresa making love and that fact excites her violently, in such a way that she asks Antonio for a secret appointment and tells her that she is pregnant and that the son she is waiting for is his. Úrsula, according to her version, has become pregnant looking at Antonio and Teresa making love.


El bengador gusticiero y su pastelera madre
1977 · ES


El monosabio
1977 · 1h 28m · ES
Juanito, a peaceful fan of bullfighting, has become picador's assistant to see from the same arena the show in which he brags he is one of the protagonists. Furthermore, he believes he has discovered in a neighbor a potential figure of bullfighting sphere.


And They Lived Happily Ever After
1976 · 1h 32m · ES
Manoli and Fernando, a couple of communist ideas, want to live their love freely, fleeing from any bourgeois convention. At first, the couple rejects the help of her parents, but soon they will begin to give in and accept all kinds of comforts.


Al fin solos, pero...
1976 · ES


The Love of Captain Brando
1974 · 1h 32m · ES
During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old republican exile, returns to his home in a small Castilian village and befriends Aurora, a young and attractive teacher.


My Dearest Senorita
1972 · 1h 20m · ES
A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society?


Lola, They Say She Does Not Live Alone
1970 · 1h 35m · ES
A prostitute promises to the Virgin Mary not to practice her trade for a year if she heals her sick child.


Les Combinards
1966 · 1h 20m · ES
Léo and Claude, two penniless friends turned con artists, answer matrimonial classified ads to trap women. But one of the friends soon finds his own game turned against him.


The Executioner
1963 · 1h 31m · ES
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.


La becerrada
1963 · 1h 36m · ES
San Ginés de la Sierra is a small village lost in the mountains in southern Spain. It is known throughout the region for two peculiar characteristics: its "persistent" drought and a "Home of the Vanquished". This "home" is an institution that houses some twenty old people, to whose care are eleven nuns and crosses a distressing economic situation. The nuns are desperately seeking a solution and decide to hold a charity bulls run.


The Wheelchair
1960 · 1h 26m · ES
Don Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. His family strongly refuses him to purchase the vehicle, so don Anselmo decides to take extreme measures to achieve his goal…


Streetcar for Sale
1959 · 29m · ES
This excellent short film written by the magnificent filmmaker duo of Luis García Berlanga and screenwriter Rafael Azcona was to be part of a series entitled Los Pícaros (The Rogues) which was never continued. These two artists were responsible for such masterpieces of Spanish cinema as Plácido and El verdugo (The Executioner). Here, Berlanga and Azcona collaborated for the first time, setting the stage for the post-war "Berlanguiana" vision that would develop. José Luis López Vázquez plays Julián, a seedy swindler, who with his cronies tries to sell a streetcar to a rich but naive farmer, a newcomer to the city. High jinx ensue. With this film begins the great stage of Berlanga's filmmaking in which he mixes a little social criticism and notes of anti-clericalism with a great deal of farce.


The Little Apartment
1959 · 1h 27m · ES
Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or "pisito", in Spanish dialect). Unfortunately their low salaries prevent them from acquiring one. Soon, Rodolfo's co-workers urge him to marry the old and frail Doña Martina, who is the main tenant in the apartment he boards in. According to Spanish rent-control law, he could inherit the lease from his spouse. Thus begin his misgivings, and Petrita's.