Tomàs Pladevall Fontanet (Sabadell, Barcelona, November 25, 1946) is a director of Catalan photography. He studied Industrial Technical Engineering and Design and is a Photography Director from the Official School of Cinematography of Madrid in 1972. He has been the director of photography, and often also a camera operator, in 56 feature films, and in addition to four hundred documentaries, advertising spots, shorts of fiction and series and programs for television.
Total trailers found: 48
02 August 2006
A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.
01 January 1994
The story of the relationship between a showgirl and a former toreador.
11 April 1997
It's Christmas and the 7 Year old Hector is traveling with his parents to France in order to visit his grandmother.
01 January 1991
Early 20th century in a remote place in Catalonia. Mila, a newly wed young woman is forced by her husband and some circumstances to move to a remote location in the mountains.
10 April 1978
In this docudrama, life in a Catalan village in the early years of the Franco era (1939-1975) is chronicled.
31 August 1979
Comedy about a marriage guidance counselor whose own marriage is on the rocks.
26 November 1978
A group of boys and girls are locked up a weekend in a friends house in which they do a party that little to little is converted in an orgy.
09 November 2001
Lawrence, a renowned writer, comes to Santiago to spend a winter course. There, by his colleague Elijah, finds a very special house on the outskirts of the city, run by a secretive and mysterious woman, Salome.
12 February 1979
Through various episodes we are shown sexual repression and desire at the same time, in the Spanish of yesteryear.
17 January 1997
In order to prepare for her role as a certain well-known actress, a young woman has lengthy conversations with three different actresses who were good friends with the famous star.
08 October 1997
An adaptation of the short story collection by Pere Calders.
01 March 1990
A female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor--three characters, two couples--attend a grand literary cocktail party.
01 January 1976
Frank and Roger are shocked by the death of their friend Gene--who apparently has died of an unknown disease--and decide to investigate.
18 April 1977
Barcelona in the seventies. Piper, comedian at the theater El Molino has specialized in effeminate roles, but in reality is a conqueror.
13 September 1998
This music-themed drama is set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell is the house pianist.
06 October 1976
Two lovers, a man and a woman, meet and separate in a timeless space.
01 January 2003
Naked bodies are buffeted by water accompanied by the music Il Temporale from the opera La Cenerentola and the overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia both by Gioacchino Rossini.
13 December 1997
Experimental silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s.
09 January 1975
Waldemar, the renowned adventurer, joins an expedition to find the Yeti in the Himalayas. While hiking the mountains, he's captured by two cannibalistic demon nymphets guarding a remote Buddhist temple and becomes their sex-slave.
05 October 2001
Marga, a well-known television presenter, organizes a dinner with old friends from boarding school to which he has not seen for 30 years.
01 January 1988
Daniya is the story of a trip. A man of culture and resolute, the younger brother of the Countess of Barcelona, leaves the Catalan court for the kingdom of Denia (Daniya).
18 August 1977
Paco, a middle-class young man, tells his lover the shady story of his cousin Montse, a social worker.
07 May 2010
Jana’s magical journey to Africa contains a deep message about friendship, love, passion, nature and imagination.
30 April 1987
Mario is dominated by his castrating wife, and is also suffering from writer's block. He goes to a local (very mixed) bar where he meets an exhuberant blonde prostitute, through her room mate, a gay gigolo.
17 July 2005
How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to the restrictive frame of the television screen and the abusive requirements of advertising.
05 June 1978
A man's body turns up on a Barcelona beach with a message tattooed on his arm: "I was born to revolutionize hell".
01 September 2000
Salva working as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a girl who makes a living collecting cardboard.
21 December 2007
A beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach’s music plays in the world today.
02 November 1977
Documentary made immediately after Franco's death, which includes interviews with the dictator's sister and with Alfredo Mayo, the actor who played the lead role in the film 'Raza'.
06 February 1998
The exhibition, which coincides with the birth centenary of the poet Federico García Lorca, proposes a realistic recreation in images by Frederic Amat of the poet's screenplay Trip to the Moon.
09 March 1981
In a small Catalan village take advantage of the visit of an ecclesiastical authority of Rome, during vacations, to organize a conference on the topic of religion and sex.
15 September 2006
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs.
10 September 1977
Transylvania. Seventies. Mina and Lucy, two friends very attractive, they are mysteriously drawn into a surprising and terrifying story whose protagonist is Jonathan Dracula, a direct descendant of Count Dracula.
20 October 1989
Don Martin, the owner of a repair company, hires Jamaican Ali to fix television antennas. The boy, besides being an excellent professional, causes a furor among the neighbors because of his great attractiveness, so the men will do everything possible to make him leave and stop competing with them.
17 October 1985
Jaumet is about lo live his most unforgettable adventure. Traveling by car, he arrives in a village whose inhabitants are quite outlandishly, as if they were plunged in a rare carnival behavior.
01 January 2006
Carles Santos plays several of his pieces on the piano. This film was made for the exhibit on Carles Santos Visca el piano! held at the Miro Foundation in the summer of 2006.
