Fernando Trueba
Highest Rated: 95% Belle Epoque (1992)
Lowest Rated: 14% Two Much (1996)
Birthday: Jan 18, 1955
Birthplace: Madrid, Spain
Spanish director of light, frolicsome comedies with classical characters and story structures. Trueba had directed features and penned screenplays for a number years, starting with "Opera Prima/First Effort" (1980) unbeknownst to Americans save film festival attendees. This changed with the release of "Belle Epoque" (1993) which snagged a 1993 Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film. A story of a young soldier who stays with a painter and his four beautiful daughters, the film illustrated Trueba's desire to entertain through well-scripted comedies. His signature films include "El Ano de las Luces/The Year of Awakening" (1986) and "The Mad Monkey" (1989), his English-language debut, starring Jeff Goldblum.
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Filmography
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80% | 73% | They Shot the Piano Player |
Director, Screenwriter |
$59.2K | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Critic | Self | - | 2022 |
93% | 85% | Film, the Living Record of Our Memory | Self | $8.7K | 2021 |
84% | 86% | Memories of My Father | Director | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Historias de nuestro cine | Unknown (Character) | - | 2019 |
30% | 35% | The Queen of Spain |
Director, Writer |
- | 2016 |
70% | 55% | The Artist and the Model |
Director, Screenwriter, Writer |
$43.0K | 2012 |
87% | 77% | Chico & Rita |
Director, Screenwriter |
$21.4K | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 59% | The Dancer and the Thief |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Miracle of Candeal | Director | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | 81% | El Milagro de Candeal | Director | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | 36% | The Shanghai Spell |
Director, Writer |
- | 2002 |
87% | 87% | Calle 54 |
Director, Writer, Producer |
$183.1K | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 68% | The Girl of Your Dreams | Director | - | 1998 |
14% | 35% | Two Much |
Director, Writer, Producer |
$1.1M | 1996 |
95% | 78% | Belle Epoque | Director | $943.5K | 1992 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Twisted Obsession |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Year of Awakening | Director | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Year of Enlightenment | Director | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sé infiel y no mires con quién |
Director, Writer |
- | 1985 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Opera Prima | Director | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El león enamorado | Director | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lion in Love | Director | - | 1979 |