Javier Aguirre

Known for DirectingBorn 1935-06-13Died 2019-12-04San Sebastián, España

Javier Aguirre Fernández (June 13, 1935 – December 4, 2019) was a Spanish film director , writer and producer. Aguirre was born in Donostia-San Sebastián in Spain . Aguirre developed an interest in film at an early age. When he was a teenager, he started collaborating for entertainment magazines like Radiocinema , Film Ideal , and others. In 1955, when he was around 20 years old, he founded and directed the San Sebastián Film Club. From 1956 to 1957, Aguirre organized film courses and film festivals. During those years, he also studied at the Institute of Cinematographic Research and Experiences (IIEC). He worked as an assistant director until he started directing his own short films in the 1960s. He began his work as a director in 1961, directing a short documentary titled Pasajes tres , which received the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival . He had a prolific career, directing 45 feature films, 10 short films, 2 documentaries, and 25 documentary shorts. Aguirre also wrote and produced most of his films. Spanish horror movie fans know him as the director of three popular Paul Naschy horror films, El hunchback de la Morgue (1973, aka Hunchback of the Morgue ), El gran amor del conde Drácula (1973, aka Count Dracula's Great Love ) and El asesino esta entre los trece (aka The Killer is One of the Thirteen ).Read more

Movies & web series

El polizón del Ulises

Tautólogos plus X

Fluctuaciones entrópicas

Innerzeitigkeit (Temporalidad interna)

Sara, una estrella

Voz

El amor sí tiene cura

En busca del huevo perdido

Sin film III

Zero/infinito

Esposa de día, amante de noche

Che Che Che

Los que tocan el piano

Wild Session

Continuum 1

Parchís entra en acción

UTS Cero

Impulsos ópticos en progresión geométrica

España insólita

Las locuras de Parchís

The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone

La diputada

Ligeramente viudas

The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry

Volveré a nacer

La monja alférez

El astronauta

La guerra de los niños

Los chicos con las chicas

Vida/Perra

La segunda guerra de los niños

El insólito embarazo de los Martínez

Hunchback of the Morgue

Una vez al año ser hippy no hace daño

The Killer Is One of Thirteen

Unmarried and Mother in Life

Cómo empezar una película sobre Javier Aguirre

Pierna creciente, falda menguante

Rocky Carambola

Consensus

El mejor regalo

Ni te cases ni te embarques

Count Dracula's Great Love

Vida íntima de un seductor cínico

Materialista, idealista, cinematógrafo, magnetófono, buen chico y sádico

Acto de posesión

Cariñosamente infiel

La iniciación en el amor