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Born January 18, 1955 · Madrid, Spain
Trueba studied Cinematography at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, was cinema critic for the newspaper 'El País' and for 'La Guía del Ocio' and also founded the journal "Casablanca". At the movies his first success was 'Opera Prima' (1980) following the style of the "comedia madrileña". He had major success with 'Sé infiel y no mires con quién' (1985) starting a longer colaboration with the producer Andrés Vicente Gómez. He won the second Foreign Film Academy Award for Spain in 1993 with 'Belle Epoque'.

Haunted Heart
2024

They Shot the Piano Player
2023

Memories of My Father
2020

The Queen of Spain
2016

The Artist and the Model
2012

Chico & Rita
2010

The Dancer and the Thief
2009

The Miracle of Candeal
2004

Black and White: Bebo & Cigala Live
2003

The Shanghai Spell
2002

Calle 54
2000

The Girl of Your Dreams
1998

Lumière & Company
1995

Two Much
1995

Belle Époque
1992

La mujer inesperada
1990

Twisted Obsession
1989

Year of Enlightment
1986

Move Over, Mrs. Markham
1985

Coarse Salt
1984

Mientras el cuerpo aguante
1982

Opera Prima
1980

Tunait is de nait
1980

The Lion in Love
1979

Equipo Crónica. Arte de trinchera
2025

The Other Way Around
2024

Summers el rebelde
2024

Miradas del cine español
2024

The Critic
2022

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022

Enrique Morente: flamenco impuro
2021

Berlanga!!
2021

FFG, el último gran conversador
2021

Luis García Berlanga: pasado, presente y futuro del cine español
2021

Stories of Our Cinema
2019

¡Ay, Carmen!
2018

Madame Cinéma
2018

Aragón rodado
2014
Un cine como tú en un país como éste
2010

Rafael Azcona
2010

El último truco
2008

Spanish Fly
1998

Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
1998
Brindis por el cine español
1994