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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…
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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.
Everybody Knows · 2018Everybody Knows
★ 6.52018
MovieCrimeMystery
Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
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.
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.
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.
My Life in Ruins · 2009My Life in Ruins
★ 6.12009
MovieComedyRomance
A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.
Bad Education · 2004Bad Education
★ 7.42004
MovieDramaCrime
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown · 1988Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
★ 7.41988
MovieComedyDrama
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.
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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
Golden Balls · 1993Golden Balls
★ 5.51993
MovieComedyDrama
A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.
Director of Photography
Stay as You Are · 1978Stay as You Are
★ 5.81978
MovieRomanceDrama
A married Roman landscape architect starts an affair with a young woman who might be a shadow from his past.
Director of Photography
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
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
El Sur · 1983El Sur
★ 7.61983
MovieDrama
A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.
Director of Photography
Cuentos de Borges · 1993Cuentos de Borges
★ 9.01993
Series
Director of Photography
Plinio · 1972Plinio
★ 8.31972
SeriesCrime
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