Jaime de Armiñán

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Jaime de Armiñán

Born March 10, 1927 · Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Died April 9, 2024 · aged 97

Jaime de Armiñán Oliver was a Spanish screenwriter and film director. His films have been nominated for Academy Awards in the Foreign language film category twice, in 1972 for Mi querida señorita and in 1980 for El Nido.

Known For

My Dearest SeñoritaMy Dearest Señorita · 2026
My Dearest Señorita
★ 6.52026
MovieDramaRomance
A young woman from a traditional family learns she's intersex, sparking a journey of self-discovery, gender identity and love found in unexpected places.
The Witching HourThe Witching Hour · 1985
The Witching Hour
★ 4.61985
MovieDramaRomance
César and Pilar tour the Spanish countryside with their bus, showing films and doing magic spectacles in small villages. In one of these trips they find Saga, a beautiful young woman who starts to travel with them and changes their lives in unexpected ways.
Balearic CaperBalearic Caper · 1966
Balearic Caper
★ 4.91966
MovieAdventureThriller
A scepter is stolen, and it's hunted for by various groups of international robbers and spies, for various reasons - in a parody of 007 movies.
The Love of Captain BrandoThe Love of Captain Brando · 1974
The Love of Captain Brando
★ 5.41974
MovieDramaRomance
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.
El día que nací yoEl día que nací yo · 1991
El día que nací yo
★ 4.61991
MovieDramaRomance
A gypsy who sells fish in a market, sings on weekends in a tablao. One day, a professor, exiled in Cádiz for her political ideas, offers the cantaora a job.
The NestThe Nest · 1980
The Nest
★ 6.61980
MovieDrama
In a town near Salamanca, an eccentric widower, aged 60, is captivated by an imp, a precocious 13 year old. Alejandro is wealthy and alone, passing time with music, chess, and his shotgun. Gregoria (Goyita) the daughter of a weak-willed policeman and his bullying wife, is a budding naturalist who conspires to meet Alejandro. Even though he knows the village is talking, Alejandro spends time with Goyita, on walks, horseback rides, and dinners. He's enchanted and tells his friend the village priest that he's living for the first time. Goyita makes new demands on Alejandro, and he must decide how to be true to his ethics and to this Platonic yet highly-charged relationship.
On the Far Side of the TunnelOn the Far Side of the Tunnel · 1994
On the Far Side of the Tunnel
★ 4.71994
MovieDrama
Miguel and Aurelio are two film writers who decide to lock in a monastery in Aragon to finish the script for a movie. Strolling through the beautiful neighborhood, they meet a young and very attractive baker, with whom they maintain a loving relationship and she becomes, without realizing it, the protagonist of the script.
Historia de la frivolidadHistoria de la frivolidad · 1967
Historia de la frivolidad
★ 7.21967
MovieComedyTV Movie
The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s.

Filmography

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Yo he visto a la muerteYo he visto a la muerte · 1967
Yo he visto a la muerte
★ 5.71967
MovieDrama
Four real episodes told by their protagonists: Antonio Mejías "Bienvenida" tells the serious goring he suffered in the Plaza de Las Ventas and his recovery process. Álvaro Domecq Romero evokes the last days of the life of the mare "Splendid", the noble animal that was brave and sensitive companion of his father. Andrés Vázquez tells how the times of the "capeas" were in little villages. With him were many unknown kids, who found an anonymous and obscure death. Finally, Luis Miguel "Dominguín", who was with Manolete, in Linares, the afternoon in which he met his death, evokes that tragic afternoon and glosses the bullfighter's human virtues. The four protagonists have seen the death in one way or another and the four tell the indelible impression that remained on them.

Writer

The Lame PigeonThe Lame Pigeon · 1995
The Lame Pigeon
★ 5.11995
MovieComedyDrama
Little Felipe has been sick for a long time. To hasten his recovery, his parents send him to spend the summer of 1958 in the villa of his grandparents, located in the wealthy quarter of Cadiz. The warm climate of southern Spain is good for the boy, but the inhabitants of the great home may be a different story as all the relatives within are a tad strange. There Felipe meets his great-grandmother and her tough nurse Adoracion who patiently listens to grandmama's reminiscence's of the bandoleros who died for her. Felipe is not allowed to leave his bed, but his hours pass pleasantly thanks to the ministrations of the sexy Mari, a virgin, who loves to tease her four strapping aspiring lovers. As the summer progresses, Felipe interacts with all of his relatives and from their strange behavior finds himself learning an awful lot about life and love.

Director