Ricardo Franco
1949 - 1998
La buena estrella
Ricardo Franco
Antonio Resines, Maribel Verdú
Marina, a woman with a glass eye, has the bad luck to be the victim of an assault witnessed by Rafael, a goodhearted butcher, who rescues her from her attacker, a man named Daniel. Rafael has physical problems of his own, but the two stay together as a couple. A baby not Rafael's, for he lost his testicles in an accident is born. Rafael looks forward to raising the child as his own if Marina will consent.
Lucky Star
Después de tantos años
Ricardo Franco
Leopoldo María Panero, Juan Luis Panero
Twenty years after having talked about death, the world and their problems in "El desencanto", the Panero brothers reflect about their actual situation at the moment and what has happened since the last movie.
After All These Years
Los restos del naufragio
Ricardo Franco
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Ángela Molina
Whatever his reasons or intent, when the young man carrying a cello begins working at the old-folks home, he strikes up an acquaintance with the man known as "the Maestro" (Fernando Fernan Gomez), who is full of plans to produce a play based on a Caribbean love affair and adventure in his youth. As he listens to the old man's reminiscences of love, he thinks of his own girlfriend (both are played by Angela Molina). Eventually, the beloved eccentric's play is produced, accompanied by the boy's cello music.
The Remains from the Shipwreck
El caso del cadáver descuartizado
Ricardo Franco
Arnau Vilardebó, Juan Echanove
May 1, 1929. A decomposing headless body is found inside an abandoned wooden box in Madrid's Atocha train station. The victim is later identified as a Barcelona businessman that vanished six months before.
El caso del cadáver descuartizado
El crimen de las estanqueras de Sevilla
Ricardo Franco
Fernando Guillén Cuervo
July 11, 1952. Two sisters are savagely murdered in their tobacco shop in Seville. The money was in plain sight, but it wasn't touched. Without leads, the police follows a jail rumor pointing to three petty criminals.
El crimen de las estanqueras de Sevilla
Pascual Duarte
Ricardo Franco
José Luis Gómez, Diana Perez de Guzman
In Extremadura, Spain, Pascual Duarte, a humble, simple and ignorant peasant, condemned to a boring and humiliating existence with no future, commits a horrible act during a day of such heat that enervates his disturbed mind and his anger, which he will not be able to calm down until, after following a bloody path of senseless violence, he faces his own tragic destiny.
Pascual Duarte
Berlín Blues
Ricardo Franco
Julia Migenes, Keith Baxter
In Cold War-era West Berlin, Lola (Julia Migenes-Johnson), an American blues singer with a nightclub band, falls for the piano player, David (Jose Coronado). Their romance is cut short when David must return to his native East, and Lola soon begins an affair with Huessler (Keith Baxter), the bandleader. But any guilt Lola may feel for betraying David is assuaged when Huessler saves her from unexpected misfortune.
Berlin Blues
