Screenplay: Rafael Azcona

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


The Executioner

1963 · Movie · 90 min. · Spain

Direction Luis García Berlanga

Cast José Isbert · Nino Manfredi · Emma Penella · José Luis López Vázquez

Plot An undertaker's assistant marries an executioner's daughter, and the new groom takes on his father-in-law's job but grows real squeamish when the time comes to execute someone. UK TimeOut movie...

8.3

39K votes

8.3

39K votes

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

7.6

6K votes

Butterfly Tongues (La lengua de las mariposas)

1999 · Movie · 97 min. · Spain

Direction José Luis Cuerda

Cast Fernando Fernán Gómez · Manuel Lozano · Uxía Blanco · Gonzalo Uriarte

Plot For Moncho, it's an idyllic year: he starts school, he has a wonderful teacher, he makes a friend in Roque, he begins to figure out some of the mysteries of...

7.5

45K votes

7.5

45K votes

El bosque animado

1987 · Movie · 108 min. · Spain

Direction José Luis Cuerda

Cast Alfredo Landa · Tito Valverde · Miguel Rellán · Fernando Rey

Plot In the fantastic world of the "bosque animado" meet some people who have been transported to this place by a magic force. Now their histories cross one another.

7.4

11K votes

7.4

11K 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

The Heifer

1985 · Movie · 122 min. · Spain

Direction Luis García Berlanga

Cast Alfredo Landa · Guillermo Montesinos · Santiago Ramos · José Sacristán

Plot A platoon of mismatched republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on the saint patron date of the village. In addition...

7.2

15K votes

7.2

15K votes

Mafioso

1962 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Alberto Sordi · Norma Bengell · Gabriella Conti · Ugo Attanasio

Plot A long-lost comic classic from the Golden Age of Italian cinema, lovingly restored to its original glory. The incomparable Alberto Sordi gives one of his finest performances as Antonio Badalamenti,...

7.2

322 votes

7.2

322 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

7.0

2K votes

National Heritage

1981 · Movie · 110 min. · Spain

Direction Luis García Berlanga

Cast Luis Escobar · José Luis López Vázquez · Amparo Soler Leal · Mary Santpere

Plot Luis García Berlanga's second take on the Leguineches, a down and out aristocratic family who settle in their palatial home in the middle of Madrid and try to feign relevance.

6.9

5K votes

6.9

5K votes

The Big Feast

1973 · Movie · 125 min. · France

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Ugo Tognazzi · Philippe Noiret · Michel Piccoli

Plot Four wealthy middle-aged men decide to get together at a country villa and eat themselves to death. They are: Marcello, a pilot; Ugo, a chef; Philippe, a judge; and Michel,...

6.8

3K votes

6.8

3K votes

¡Ay, Carmela!

1990 · Movie · 102 min. · Spain

Direction Carlos Saura

Cast Carmen Maura · Andrés Pajares · Gabino Diego · Maurizio De Razza

Plot Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). They are Republicans, and with their mute assistant, Gustavete, they journey into rebel...

6.8

11K votes

6.8

11K votes

Anna and the Wolves

1973 · Movie · 102 min. · Spain

Direction Carlos Saura

Cast Geraldine Chaplin · Fernando Fernán Gómez · José María Prada · José Vivó

Plot The young but traveled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family.

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

The Ape Woman

1964 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Annie Girardot · Ermelinda De Felice · Achille Majeroni

Plot A man, Antonio Focaccia (Ugo Tognazzi), meets a woman, Maria (Annie Girardot), full of hair on her body. Antonio makes Maria to become a freak to earn a lot of...

6.8

249 votes

6.8

249 votes

The Conjugal Bed

1963 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Marina Vlady · Walter Giller · Linda Sini

Plot A 40 years old man, Alfonso, finally succeeds to marry a virgin, educate, beautiful and very catholic woman. But soon she, Regina, starts stressing him because she wants to be...

6.7

75 votes

6.7

75 votes

Belle Epoque (The Age of Beauty)

1992 · Movie · 108 min. · Spain

Direction Fernando Trueba

Cast Fernando Fernán Gómez · Jorge Sanz · Penélope Cruz · Ariadna Gil

Plot The sultry Spanish countryside, 1931. The monarchy is ending, and the army and church reign supreme over Spanish life. In this tumultuous world, a young soldier Fernando (Jorge Sanz), decides...

6.7

23K votes

6.7

23K votes

6.6

142 votes