Screenplay: Mario Camus

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Mario Camus. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Holy Innocents

1984 · Movie · 103 min. · Spain

Direction Mario Camus

Cast Alfredo Landa · Francisco Rabal · Juan Diego · Terele Pávez

Synopsis In the 60s, somewhere in the Spanish countryside, Paco and his wife Régula are poor. Their lives are resignation, sacrifice and obedience as they work for a very wealthy landowner. Their fates are marked unless some unexpected event frees them.

8.1

41K votes

8.1

41K votes

Roma

2004 · Movie · 148 min. · Argentina

7.2

6K votes

7.2

6K votes

The House of Bernarda Alba

1987 · Movie · 103 min. · Spain

Direction Mario Camus

Cast Irene Gutiérrez Caba · Ana Belén · Florinda Chico · Enriqueta Carballeira

Synopsis After the death of her husband Bernada Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house.

6.5

4K votes

6.5

4K votes

6.4

928 votes

El color de las nubes

1997 · Movie · 119 min. · Spain

6.4

782 votes

6.4

782 votes

Los farsantes

1963 · Movie · 82 min. · Spain

6.3

280 votes

6.3

280 votes

The Days of the Past

1977 · Movie · 109 min. · Spain

Direction Mario Camus

Cast Pepa Flores "Marisol" · Antonio Gades · Gustavo Bergés · Antonio Iranzo

Synopsis A woman arrives in town to work as a teacher. It is the time of the 'maquis', the anti-Franco guerrilla that fights with little hope in some regions of Spain just after the end of the civil war. She has...

6.2

640 votes

6.2

640 votes

Sombras en una batalla

1993 · Movie · 97 min. · Spain

6.1

595 votes

6.1

595 votes

Gallego

1988 · Movie · 116 min. · Cuba

Direction Manuel Octavio Gómez

Cast Sancho Gracia · Jorge Sanz · Francisco Rabal · Manuel Galiana

Synopsis An adolescent named Manuel leaves his homeland to emigrate to Cuba in 1916. The film covers his life until the 1960s and at the same time reflects on the history of the country that becomes his second homeland.

6.1

40 votes

6.1

40 votes

6.1

737 votes

With the East Wind

1965 · Movie · 92 min. · Spain

Direction Mario Camus

Cast Antonio Gades · María José Alfonso · Vicente Escudero · Imperio Argentina

Synopsis The girlfriend of a young gypsy tries to guide her life in a proper way but does not achieve it. When she gets difficulties because of a fight everything changes.

6.0

292 votes

6.0

292 votes

6.0

897 votes

5.8

407 votes

Beltenebros (Prince of Shadows)

1991 · Movie · 114 min. · Spain

Direction Pilar Miró

Cast Terence Stamp · Patsy Kensit · José Luis Gómez · Geraldine James

Synopsis Madrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the civil war has finished, an english communist names Darman comes back to Spain to kill a traitor in the communist party.

5.6

1K votes

5.6

1K votes

La visita que no tocó el timbre

1965 · Movie · 96 min. · Spain

Direction Mario Camus

Cast Alberto Closas · José Luis López Vázquez · Laura Valenzuela · Rafaela Aparicio

Synopsis Two brothers who are singles live together without any problems until the day when a friend of them leaves her baby at their flat because she has no time to care for it at the moment. Now the two men...

5.6

139 votes

5.6

139 votes