Personal Info
Birth date
1947-02-18 (78 Years)
Day of death
2020-02-04
Gender
Male
Known for
Directing
Place of birth
Albacete, Spain
Also known as
-José Luis Cuerda
Biography
José Luis Cuerda became a radio and television technician after leaving law school. In 1969 he joined Televisión Española, making reports and documentaries for the news services. Between 1985 and 1987 he was a professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca. After shooting several short films, in 1982 he directed his first feature film.
Filmography
The Others
7.615
Overview:
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.Open Your Eyes
7.458
Overview:
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.Thesis
7.477
Overview:
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured to death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student at her college...Butterfly
7.368
Overview:
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.On Earth as It Is in Heaven
5.4
Overview:
Matacanes dies and goes to heaven just to discover that it was not as he expected, and everyone there is revolutionized lately. Peter explains that God was concerned about the progress of the world, and decided to send a second son to Earth. However, Jesus hears and does not agree, as they would have to rewrite history.Un país para reírlo
2
Overview:
It is a Spanish documentary program with a humorous theme, directed by Alberto Utrera and presented by the actor and comedian Goyo Jiménez. It premiered on April 6, 2021.Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
7.063
Overview:
Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.Todo es silencio
4.3
Overview:
In Brétema, on the Atlantic coast, there was a time when networks of smuggling, drug trafficking converted, achieved so much influence that they were close to control everything: social power, institutions, the lives of its people. Fins, Leda and Frink explore the coast in search of what the sea throws after a wreck, the sea is for them a place of continual discovery. The fate of these young people will be marked by the shadow odious and fascinating at the same time the ubiquitous Marshall, owner of almost everything in Brétema.El hombre de moda
5
Overview:
Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the job as a teacher through an old friend, Bruno Baena, who is the head master of the school. Aurora starts going to Pedro's classes. Pedro will become "El hombre de moda", very soon.The Dumbfounded King
5.9
Overview:
Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.The Enchanted Forest
6.828
Overview:
In Galicia, in northern Spain, Malvís, a frustrated day laborer who, fed up with his life, has become a clumsy bandit, tries to make a name for himself by robbing travelers passing through a forest inhabited by colorful characters.Pares y nones
5
Overview:
Comedy on the effects of affect and impersonal relationships in unmarried couples, couples who cease to be, they should be and never should have been. All focused on ten main characters in that age does not always accompanied by the corresponding maturity.The Blind Sunflowers
6.587
Overview:
Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…Some Time Later
6.2
Overview:
Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the slums built around it.The Education of Fairies
6.326
Overview:
A man's life is turned upside down after he is abandoned by the woman he loves.Tocando fondo
5
Overview:
Andres de Granada, a forty-benefit trade more clear, believed that the first months of 1993 are the best time to do business. It also has the help of his nephew Fulgencio, who has arrived in Madrid with the idea of learning the trade.La viuda del capitán Estrada
2
Overview:
Adaptation of a novel by Pedro García Montalvo that tells a story of destructive passion conditioned by social components that takes place during the 1940s.The Sow
5.8
Overview:
After spending three years in captivity in Tunis, Bartolomé returns home Extremadura with the only hope to eat his favorite dish: the pork. Along the way he meets a deserter who is traveling with a sow.The Tunnel
NYR
Overview:
Adaptation of Ernesto Sábato's work, directed by José Luis Cuerda Juan Pablo Castel, a moderately famous painter, visits Larrea's office to tell him how he met María Iribarne at a painting exhibition. He recounts why he followed her upon realizing she understood his painting, and why he killed her after months of searching, finally establishing contact with her and experiencing a passionate and tumultuous love affair.Total
7.3
Overview:
"Total" opens the trilogy that close "Amanece que no es poco" and "Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra" Year 2598. Three days ago, the world has come to the end in London, a lost and a small Castilian village atmosphere. Lorenzo, a shepherd, tells a series of extraordinary events that have been announcing the end of the world: the cows want to go to school, walls crumble, or Doña Paquita appears in the most unexpected places ..With Good Reason
4.2
Overview:
A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media.Too Much for Galvez
NYR
Overview:
Gálvez is a bumbling journalist investigating a real state shady business.Howard Hawks, San Sebastián 1972
NYR
Overview:
In 1972, the American film director Howard Hawks travelled to San Sebastian to preside over the jury of the Film Festival. Two young film buffs, Jesús Martínez León and José Luis Cuerda, came from Madrid in the hope of interviewing him. After thirty years of life and films we recover that unpublished interview.Acting
2021Un país para reírlo (1 Episode) as Unknown
2018Some Time Later as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2017Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez (1 Episode) as Self - Interviewee
2012Todo es silencio as Grimalado
2010Rafael Azcona as Self
2010Un País Para Comerselo (1 Episode) as Self
2003Howard Hawks, San Sebastián 1972 as Unknown
1996Thesis as Professor 1
1995Lo + plus (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
1992The Sow as Impresor
1991The Dumbfounded King as Dominico
1981Too Much for Galvez as El tuno
1980El hombre de moda as Pablo
Directing
2018Some Time Later ... Director
2012Todo es silencio ... Director
2008The Blind Sunflowers ... Director
2006The Education of Fairies ... Director
2004With Good Reason ... Director
2000Primer amor ... Director
1999Butterfly ... Director
1995On Earth as It Is in Heaven ... Director
1995Makinavaja: La Serie (13 Episodes) ... Director
1993Tocando fondo ... Director
1992The Sow ... Director
1991La viuda del capitán Estrada ... Director
1989Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing ... Director
1987The Enchanted Forest ... Director
1983Total ... Director
1982Pares y nones ... Director
1979The Tunnel ... Director
1977Mala Racha ... Director
Writing
2018Some Time Later ... Screenplay
2008The Blind Sunflowers ... Screenplay
2006The Education of Fairies ... Writer
1999Butterfly ... Screenplay
1995On Earth as It Is in Heaven ... Writer
1993Tocando fondo ... Writer
1992The Sow ... Writer
1991La viuda del capitán Estrada ... Screenplay
1989Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing ... Screenplay
1982Pares y nones ... Screenplay
1977Mala Racha ... Writer
Production
2008The Blind Sunflowers ... Producer
2001The Others ... Producer
1999Butterfly ... Executive Producer
1997Open Your Eyes ... Producer
1996Thesis ... Executive Producer, Producer
Creator
1995Makinavaja: La Serie ... Creator
Camera
1980El hombre de moda ... Still Photographer