Cinematography: Francisco Sempere

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Francisco Sempere. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Placido

1961 · Movie · 85 min. · Spain

Direction Luis García Berlanga

Cast Cassen · José Luis López Vázquez · Elvira Quintilla · Amelia de la Torre

Plot In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the...

8.1

18K votes

8.1

18K votes

Red Fish

1955 · Movie · 93 min. · Spain

Direction José Antonio Nieves Conde

Cast Emma Penella · Arturo de Córdova · Pilar Soler · Manuel de Juan

Plot Ivón, a chorus girl, and Hugo, a failed writer, turn up at a provincial hotel on a stormy night. They have come from Madrid with Carlos, Hugo’s son, born nineteen...

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

The Rocket from Calabuch

1956 · Movie · 92 min. · Spain

Direction Luis García Berlanga

Cast Edmund Gwenn · Valentina Cortese · Franco Fabrizi · Juan Calvo

Plot A renown atomic scientist escapes from his world of formulas and destruction and finds a respite in a Spanish seaside village.

7.5

7K votes

7.5

7K votes

7.3

5K votes

El pisito

1959 · Movie · 76 min. · Spain

Direction Marco Ferreri · Isidoro M. Ferry

Cast Mary Carrillo · José Luis López Vázquez · Concha López Silva · Celia Conde

Plot Madrid, in the late 1950s. In Franco’s Spain, there is a severe housing crisis. Rodolfo and Petrita have been engaged for twelve years, and yearn to marry, but cannot until...

7.3

6K votes

7.3

6K votes

Se vende un tranvía

1959 · Movie · 29 min. · Spain

Direction Juan Estelrich

Cast José Luis López Vázquez · Antonio García Quijada · María Luisa Ponte · Antonio Martínez

Plot Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez plays Julián a vulgar swindler, next to his cronies try sell a tram to a rich but little intelligent farmer newcomer to the city.

7.0

323 votes

7.0

323 votes

Los chicos

1959 · Movie · 80 min. · Spain

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Joaquín Zaro · Alberto Jiménez · José Sierra · Ana María Vidal

Plot Ferreri's film "Los Chicos" (The Boys) is about the lives of four lower-middle class Spanish boys coping with the effects of the Spanish Civil War. The film depicts an inhospitable...

6.6

712 votes

6.6

712 votes

6.6

142 votes

Todos somos necesarios (Ritorno alla vita)

1956 · Movie · 84 min. · Spain

Direction José Antonio Nieves Conde

Cast Alberto Closas · Folco Lulli · Ferdinand Anton · Lida Baarova

Plot After serving their sentence, three prisoners, a doctor, a civil servant and a thief, leave jail. During the train trip they do together to return home, they analyze their respective...

6.4

411 votes

6.4

411 votes

Amador

1964 · Movie · 105 min. · Spain

6.2

326 votes

6.2

326 votes

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

1974 · Movie · 93 min. · Italy

Direction Jorge Grau

Cast Arthur Kennedy · Cristina Galbó · Jeannine Mestre · Raymond Lovelock

Plot A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a thirst for...

6.1

2K votes

6.1

2K votes

The Star of Africa

1957 · Movie · 99 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Alfred Weidenmann

Cast Joachim Hansen · Marianne Koch · Hansjörg Felmy · Horst Frank

Plot Biographic Movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa.

5.9

78 votes

5.9

78 votes

5.8

96 votes

Hypnosis

1962 · Movie · 86 min. · Italy

5.7

155 votes

5.7

155 votes

Sabían demasiado

1962 · Movie · 89 min. · Spain

Direction Pedro Lazaga

Cast Tony Leblanc · José Luis López Vázquez · Concha Velasco · José Isbert

Plot A gang of Spanish pickpockets decide to send one of them to Chicago to learn how to be a gangster...

5.6

561 votes

5.6

561 votes

Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo

1973 · Movie · 135 min. · Spain

Direction Roberto Gavaldón

Cast Fernando Fernán Gómez · Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" · María Fernanda D'Ocón · Paca Gabaldón

Plot A new vision of Don Quixote, obsessed with the walking gentlemen, that accompanied of a peculiar Sancho Panza they remind some adventures.

5.5

679 votes

5.5

679 votes

The Black Sword

1976 · Movie · 105 min. · Spain

5.4

102 votes

5.4

102 votes

Operación: Embajada

1963 · Movie · 82 min. · Spain

5.4

22 votes

5.4

22 votes