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'.

Filmography

• 2027Aquí — Dr. Ribeiro
• 2026Bajañí — Director
• 2024Haunted Heart — Director, Writer
• 2024Miradas del cine español
• 2024Summers el rebelde
• 2024The Other Way Around — Padre de Ale
• 2023They Shot the Piano Player — Screenplay, Director
• Lo de Évole
• 2020Memories of My Father — Director
• La resistencia — Invitado
• 2016The Queen of Spain — Screenplay, Director
• 2014Torrente 5: Operation Eurovegas — Script Consultant
• 2012The Artist and the Model — Screenplay, Director
• 2010Chico & Rita — Writer, Director
• 2009The Dancer and the Thief — Director, Screenplay
• 2006Hécuba: un sueño de pasión — Thanks
• 2004The Miracle of Candeal — Director
• 2003Black and White: Bebo & Cigala Live — Director, Producer, Executive Producer, Music Producer
• 2002The Shanghai Spell — Director, Screenplay
• 2001Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella — Thanks
• 2001Y Tu Mamá También — Thanks
• 2000Calle 54 — Director, Writer
• 1998Spanish Fly — Anthropologist
• 1998The Girl of Your Dreams — Director
• 1998Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law — Cura, Thanks
• 1996The Good Life — Producer
• 1995Lumière & Company — Director
• 1995Suspiros de España (y Portugal) — Writer
• 1995Two Much — Director, Screenplay
• 1994Las mujeres de mi vida — Writer
• 1992Belle Époque — Director, Story
• La mujer de tu vida — Producer, Creator
• 1990La mujer fría — Writer
• 1990La mujer inesperada — Writer, Director
• 1990La mujer oriental — Writer
• 1989Twisted Obsession — Screenplay, Director
• 1988El juego más divertido — Executive Producer
• 1988Miss Caribe — Writer
• 1986Lulú de noche — Producer
• 1986Year of Enlightment — Writer, Director
• 1985De tripas corazón — Writer, Executive Producer
• 1985Move Over, Mrs. Markham — Director, Screenplay
• 1984Coarse Salt — Screenplay, Director
• 1982A contratiempo — Writer
• 1982Chicho o Mientras el cuerpo aguante (una comedia didáctica) — Writer, Director
• 1981Vecinos — Executive Producer
• 1980Erotic Stories — Writer
• 1980Opera Prima — Screenplay, Director
• 1980The Black Hand — Writer
• 1980Tunait is de nait — Writer, Director
• 1979The Lion in Love — Director, Writer
• 1976The coffin — Assistant Director
• 1974O documento — Assistant Director
• Film surprise
• Mariscal. La alegría de vivir

Appearances as themselves (21)

• 2025Equipo Crónica. Arte de trinchera — Self
• 2022Film: The Living Record of Our Memory — Self
• Martínez y hermanos — Self - Guest
• 2022The Critic — Self
• 2021Berlanga!! — Self - Filmmaker
• 2021Enrique Morente: flamenco impuro — Self
• 2021FFG, el último gran conversador — Self - Filmmaker
• 2021Luis García Berlanga: pasado, presente y futuro del cine español — Self - Filmmaker
• Pan y Circo — Self
• 2019Stories of Our Cinema — Himself - Filmmaker
• 2018Madame Cinéma — Himself
• 2018¡Ay, Carmen! — Self - Filmmaker
• Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez — Self - Interviewee
• Marcians — Self
• 2014Aragón rodado — Self
• 2010Rafael Azcona — Self
• 2010Un cine como tú en un país como éste — Himself
• 2008El último truco — Self
• 1994Brindis por el cine español — Self
• Ciné regards — Self
• The Oscars — Self