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José Luis Alcaine
Born December 26, 1938 · Tangier, Morocco (age 87)
José Luis Alcaine Escaño (born 26 December 1938) is a Spanish cinematographer. Educated in Tangier, he was the first cinematographer to use a fluorescent tube as key lighting in the 1970s. He has worked on films such as Belle Époque (Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 1993), Two Much (1995), Blast from the Past (1999), and The Skin I Live In (2011). He won the European Film Award for B…
Known For
The Skin I Live In · 2011The Skin I Live In
★ 7.52011
MovieDramaHorror
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Blast from the Past · 1999Blast from the Past
★ 6.81999
MovieDramaRomance
Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webbers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.
Parallel Mothers · 2021Parallel Mothers
★ 6.82021
MovieDrama
Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.
Volver · 2006Volver
★ 7.52006
MovieComedyDrama
Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.
Jamon Jamon · 1992Jamon Jamon
★ 6.21992
MovieComedyDrama
José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.
Strange Way of Life · 2023Strange Way of Life
★ 6.32023
MovieDramaWestern
After 25 years, a former hired gun visits his old colleague, now a small-town sheriff. Their past relationship is explored, as is how they reflect on it in the present.
Pain and Glory · 2019Pain and Glory
★ 7.42019
MovieDrama
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! · 1990Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
★ 6.81990
MovieComedyRomance
After being released from a mental hospital, a troubled young man tracks down an actress he once had sex with and forces her into captivity, determined to make her part of his life.
Filmography
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Volver · 2006Volver
★ 7.52006
MovieComedyDrama
Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.
Director of Photography
El cronicón · 1970El cronicón
★ 6.01970
MovieComedy
Director of Photography
Passion · 2013Passion
★ 5.22013
MovieThrillerDrama
The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder.
Director of Photography
Stay as You Are · 1978Stay as You Are
★ 5.71978
MovieRomanceDrama
A married Roman landscape architect starts an affair with a young woman who might be a shadow from his past.
Director of Photography
The Dancer Upstairs · 2002The Dancer Upstairs
★ 6.12002
MovieCrimeDrama
A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
Director of Photography
Cuentos de Borges · 1993Cuentos de Borges
★ 9.01993
Series
Director of Photography
Plinio · 1972Plinio
★ 8.31972
SeriesCrime
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