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'.
FFG, el último gran conversador
(Self - Filmmaker)
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
(Self)
Berlanga!!
(Self - Filmmaker)
Enrique Morente: flamenco impuro
(Self)
El último truco
(Self)
Aragón rodado
(Self)
Spanish Fly
(Anthropologist)
The Critic
(Self)
Miradas del cine español
Summers el rebelde
Un cine como tú en un país como éste
(Himself)
The Other Way Around
(Ale's father)
Rafael Azcona
(Self)
Madame Cinéma
(Himself)
¡Ay, Carmen!
(Self - Filmmaker)
Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
(Cura (uncredited))
Stories of Our Cinema
(Himself - Filmmaker)
Luis García Berlanga: pasado, presente y futuro del cine español
(Self - Filmmaker)
La resistencia
(Invitado)
The Oscars
(Self)
Pan y Circo
(Self)
Lo de Évole
Martínez y hermanos
(Self - Guest)
Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez
(Self - Interviewee)
Marcians
(Self)
Belle Époque
(Director)
Belle Époque
(Story)
Opera Prima
(Screenplay)
Opera Prima
(Director)
The Dancer and the Thief
(Director)
The Dancer and the Thief
(Screenplay)
Chico & Rita
(Writer)
Chico & Rita
(Director)
Two Much
(Director)
Two Much
(Screenplay)
The Girl of Your Dreams
(Director)
The Miracle of Candeal
(Director)
The Shanghai Spell
(Director)
Year of Enlightment
(Writer)
Year of Enlightment
(Director)
The Shanghai Spell
(Screenplay)
Move Over, Mrs. Markham
(Director)
Twisted Obsession
(Screenplay)
Twisted Obsession
(Director)
Coarse Salt
(Screenplay)
Coarse Salt
(Director)
The Artist and the Model
(Screenplay)
Calle 54
(Director)
The Artist and the Model
(Director)
Black and White: Bebo & Cigala Live
(Director)
Calle 54
(Writer)
They Shot the Piano Player
(Screenplay)
De tripas corazón
(Writer)
The Black Hand
(Writer)
De tripas corazón
(Executive Producer)
The Queen of Spain
(Screenplay)
Move Over, Mrs. Markham
(Screenplay)
El juego más divertido
(Executive Producer)
Lumière & Company
(Director)
Mientras el cuerpo aguante
(Writer)
Mientras el cuerpo aguante
(Director)
Erotic Stories
(Writer)
Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
(Thanks)
Haunted Heart
(Director)
Haunted Heart
(Writer)
The Lion in Love
(Director)
The Queen of Spain
(Director)
A contratiempo
(Writer)
The Good Life
(Producer)
They Shot the Piano Player
(Director)
Tunait is de nait
(Writer)
Memories of My Father
(Director)
Suspiros de España (y Portugal)
(Writer)
Miss Caribe
(Writer)
Tunait is de nait
(Director)
The Lion in Love
(Writer)
The Girl of Your Dreams
(Writer)
Y Tu Mamá También
(Thanks)
Lulú de noche
(Producer)
Vecinos
(Executive Producer)
La mujer oriental
(Writer)
La mujer inesperada
(Writer)
La mujer inesperada
(Director)
La mujer fría
(Writer)
Las mujeres de mi vida
(Writer)
The coffin
(Assistant Director)
Black and White: Bebo & Cigala Live
(Producer)
Black and White: Bebo & Cigala Live
(Executive Producer)
Black and White: Bebo & Cigala Live
(Music Producer)
La mujer de tu vida
(Producer)
La mujer de tu vida
(Creator)