The best José Luis López Vázquez’s movies

José Luis López Vázquez

José Luis López Vázquez

12/03/1922- 01/11/2009
We present our ranking of the best José Luis López Vázquez’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about José Luis López Vázquez.
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Little Lips

Little Lips
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/02/1978
A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his genitalia. He contemplates suicide, but recovers after becoming interested in his caretaker's 12 year-old war orphan niece, who now lives in the manor.

El turismo es un gran invento

El turismo es un gran invento
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/03/1968
  • Character: Basilio
After a vacation to a seaside resort, a Spanish mayor attempts to modify his small rural town for tourists in an attempt to make money.

Travels with My Aunt

Travels with My Aunt
6.3/10
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.

The Legend of Frenchie King

The Legend of Frenchie King
5.2/10
Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.

Placido

Placido
7.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/10/1961
  • Character: Gabino Quintanilla
In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish.

The Beehive

The Beehive
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/10/1982
  • Character: Leonardo Meléndez
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.

Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella

Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 30/03/2001
  • Character: Guijarro
For this second film in the cult comedy series Torrente takes our fat police officer from Madrid to Marbella in Spain to investigate a villain’s plot to destroy the city with a missile. This James Bond style slapstick comedy became the most successful box-office film in Spanish film history beating out only the first Torrente film.

The Executioner

The Executioner
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1963
  • Character: Antonio Rodríguez, el hermano mayor de José Luis
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.

The Wheelchair

The Wheelchair
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/11/1960
  • Character: Alvarito
Don Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. His family strongly refuses him to purchase the vehicle, so don Anselmo decides to take extreme measures to achieve his goal…

The Telephone Box

The Telephone Box
7.9/10
A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.

Peppermint Frappe

Peppermint Frappe
7.1/10
Julian, a middle-aged single doctor, meets his childhood friend Pablo again. The latter is back from Africa and has just married a beautiful young blonde, Elena. Julian falls in love with her and tries to seduce her, but she mockingly pushes him away from her. He then finds that Ana, his nurse, bears a troubling resemblance to Elena. He decides to gradually transform Ana into Elena…

Accidente 703

Accidente 703
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/08/1962
  • Character: Enrique 'Quiquito'
Hector travels with Luisa by the road linking Madrid with Barcelona. When another car suddenly crosses his path, his vehicle leaves the road and plunges into a tree. Hector dies and she is seriously injured. The other car was occupied by Jorge and Paula, her lover. Several vehicles cross before the car crash and do not stop, each for a different reason. Among them is Julio, a truck driver who does not stop in order to reach his destination on time, not knowing that at the wrecked car travels his old girlfriend.

The Fourth Victim

The Fourth Victim
5.7/10
A man's wife is found suspiciously drowned in their swimming pool and because his two previous wives also died strange deaths he is charged with murder and only gets off because his motherly housekeeper lies to clear his name. When a pretty blonde woman shows up and starts flirting with him it's clear from the start that she may not be who she seems to be.

Moon of Avellaneda

Moon of Avellaneda
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/01/2004
  • Character: Don Aquiles
The story of a social and sports club in a Buenos Aires neighborhood and of those who try to save it from being closed.

The Swindlers

The Swindlers
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/09/1963
  • Character: Judge (segment "Pretura, La")
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.

The Little Apartment

The Little Apartment
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/06/1959
  • Character: Rodolfo
Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or "pisito", in Spanish dialect). Unfortunately their low salaries prevent them from acquiring one. Soon, Rodolfo's co-workers urge him to marry the old and frail Doña Martina, who is the main tenant in the apartment he boards in. According to Spanish rent-control law, he could inherit the lease from his spouse. Thus begin his misgivings and Petrita's. Written by Emilio

Cousin Angelica

Cousin Angelica
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/04/1974
  • Character: Luis
When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter, and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present.

Akelarre

Akelarre
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 08/03/1984
  • Character: Inquisidor
A small village in Navarre, Spain, XVII century. Garazi's grandmother is burned at the stake when accussed of being a witch and convicted by an inquisitor, something that brings Garazi under suspicion and eventually into prison, where she is atrociously tortured and humiliated.

Moscow Gold

Moscow Gold
4.7/10
In an odd destiny coincidence and hospital employee reiceives some important and confident information from a dying old man. He shares it with one friend and both start a crazy and extravangant adventure.

Moros y cristianos

Moros y cristianos
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/10/1987
  • Character: Jacinto López
A family owned a nougat factory moves to Madrid to promote your product in a food fair, against the advice of family patriarch and founder of the company, Don Fernando Planchadell, which remains true to its principles.

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