Ricardo Franco
Know for: Directing
Born: 1949-05-24
Place of birth:
Also know as:
La madre (1995)
Winner of a Goya Award for best shortfilm
After All These Years (1994)
Twenty years after having talked about death, the world and their problems in "El desencanto", the Panero brothers reflect about their actual...
Compañero de viaje (1979)
A tale of hate in a town in the Venezuelan Andes where the conflicts and passions of those who live enclosed in the mountains make violence an...
Ginebra en los infiernos (1970)
Iván and Ginebra meet in a purely casual way and soon discover that there is a powerful attraction between them; but the constant presence of...
Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980)
After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her...
Somnambulists (1978)
Ana works side by side with her mother Maria Rosa in the fight to save the anti-Franco militants from the death penalty during the process of Burgos....
In 'N Out (1984)
A man goes to Mexico to attend his father's funeral, 30 years after his father supposedly died.
Pascual Duarte (1976)
In Extremadura, Spain, Pascual Duarte, a humble, simple and ignorant peasant, condemned to a boring and humiliating existence with no future, commits...
Lucky Star (1997)
Marina, a woman with a glass eye, has the bad luck to be the victim of an assault witnessed by Rafael, a goodhearted butcher, who rescues her from...
Black Tears (1998)
A mentally unbalanced woman captures the heart of an already-engaged admirer.
Berlin Blues (1988)
In Cold War-era West Berlin, Lola (Julia Migenes-Johnson), an American blues singer with a nightclub band, falls for the piano player, David (Jose...
The Remains from the Shipwreck (1978)
Whatever his reasons or intent, when the young man carrying a cello begins working at the old-folks home, he strikes up an acquaintance with the man...
After All These Years (1994)
Twenty years after having talked about death, the world and their problems in "El desencanto", the Panero brothers reflect about their actual...
Lucky Star (1997)
Marina, a woman with a glass eye, has the bad luck to be the victim of an assault witnessed by Rafael, a goodhearted butcher, who rescues her from...
Bilbao Blues (1986)
Beatriz is an attractive young lawyer who enjoys an enviable position thanks to the influence of his father, a prominent businessman. Lucas, a young...
El sueño de Tánger (1991)
Three friends get involved with arms traffickers in Tangiers.
El sueño de Tánger (1991)
Three friends get involved with arms traffickers in Tangiers.
El caso del cadáver descuartizado (1985)
May 1, 1929. A decomposing headless body is found inside an abandoned wooden box in Madrid's Atocha train station. The victim is later identified as...
El crimen del expreso de Andalucía (1991)
Madrid, 1924. A ne'er-do-well in his 30s, perpetual disappointment to his aging military father, hatches a plan to rob the mail train to Andalusia....
Pascual Duarte (1976)
In Extremadura, Spain, Pascual Duarte, a humble, simple and ignorant peasant, condemned to a boring and humiliating existence with no future, commits...
The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse (1972)
Dr. Mabuse and his accomplices steal all kinds of attributes from a National Research Institute (including female staff members) in order to complete...
El crimen de las estanqueras de Sevilla (1991)
July 11, 1952. Two sisters are savagely murdered in their tobacco shop in Seville. The money was in plain sight, but it wasn't touched. Without...
Black Tears (1998)
A mentally unbalanced woman captures the heart of an already-engaged admirer.
Berlin Blues (1988)
In Cold War-era West Berlin, Lola (Julia Migenes-Johnson), an American blues singer with a nightclub band, falls for the piano player, David (Jose...
The Remains from the Shipwreck (1978)
Whatever his reasons or intent, when the young man carrying a cello begins working at the old-folks home, he strikes up an acquaintance with the man...