
José Luis Garci
Directing
José Luis Garci is a Spanish director, producer, film critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author. He earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Begin the Beguine (1982). Four of his films, including also Sesión continua (1984), Asignatura aprobada (1987) and El abuelo (1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director. His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots.
Behind the camera
2019The Crack: Inception
Director & Screenplay
2012Holmes & Watson: Madrid Days
Director & Writer
2008Blood of May
Director & Writer
2007Sunday Light
Director & Screenplay
2005Ninette
Director & Writer
2004Merry-Go-Round c. 1950
Director & Writer
2002Historia de un beso
Director & Writer
2000You're the One
Director & Writer
1999Yerma
Writer
1998The Grandfather
Director & Writer
1997La herida luminosa
Director & Writer
1994Cradle Song
Director & Writer
1992Casablanca revisitada
Director & Writer
1988El tesoro
Writer
1987Course Completed
Director & Writer
1984Double Feature
Director & Writer
1983El crack dos
Director & Screenplay
1982Begin the Beguine
Director & Writer
1981El crack
Director & Screenplay
1980Alfonso Sánchez
Director & Writer
1980Viva la clase media
Writer
1979Las verdes praderas
Director & Writer
1978Alone in the Small Hours
Director & Screenplay
1977Asignatura pendiente
Director & Writer