Directing
Jaime Chávarri
Born March 20, 1943 · Madrid, España (age 83)
Spanish film director born in Madrid. Graduated in Law, he never practiced as a lawyer. He later studied for two years at the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía and worked as a film critic for the magazine Film Ideal while making several short films in super-8. His first solo feature film was Los viajes escolares (1974). In 1976 he released El desencanto, a biographical documentary about the poet …
Known For
She Walks in Darkness · 2025She Walks in Darkness
★ 6.72025
MovieDramaThriller
A young agent leaves everything behind to pose as a member of ETA, risking her life to uncover the terrorists' hideouts in the south of France.
La intrusa · 1993La intrusa
★ 5.01993
Movie
The Galgo brothers are inseparable macho loners living in the heart of Andalucia at the turn of the century. One day Rafael comes home with Gracia, who is to be his servant and lover. They become trapped in a hell of their own making.
Matador · 1986Matador
★ 6.71986
MovieDramaThriller
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
Madrid 11-M: todos íbamos en ese tren · 2005Madrid 11-M: todos íbamos en ese tren
★ 8.02005
MovieDocumentary
The Spirit of the Beehive · 1973The Spirit of the Beehive
★ 7.71973
MovieDramaFantasy
In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.
Vampyros Lesbos · 1971Vampyros Lesbos
★ 5.71971
MovieHorror
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
The Apostate · 2015The Apostate
★ 5.42015
MovieComedyDrama
A young man navigates the bureaucracy of the Catholic Church when he tries to renounce his faith.
El río de oro · 1986El río de oro
★ 4.41986
MovieDrama
During a long summer, the tranquility of a couple and their three children resting in a country house is altered with the arrival of the children's uncle, a character who exerts a curious influence on the boys and a morbid and strange attraction the wife. Twelve years after 'Los viajes escolares' (1973), his first commercial feature film, the Madrid director Jaime Chávarri returns to the same estate in the province of Segovia to shoot a new family story, about his own plot and script. Like its predecessor, 'The Golden River' contains a strong autobiographical charge and is full of personal resonances. But this new history of family ties is narrated from a perspective in which adultery manifests itself openly. Endowed with a slow narrative rhythm, the film presents an international cast headed by Ángela Molina, Bruno Ganz, Francesca Annis and Stefan Gubser. The film also has the presence of a very young Juan Diego Botto, in one of his first appearances on the big screen.
















