# The best Luis García Berlanga films

From Welcome Mr. Marshall! to La vaquilla: the Berlanga films critics and audiences rate highest (Zenda, Diariocrítico, El Debate, FilmAffinity).

- 167 votes · 13 items
- Feb 21, 2022 · maría sierra
- https://even.best/en/l/2058/the-best-luis-garcia-berlanga-films

## Top 12

1. **The Executioner (1963)** (22 · ▲23 ▼1) — An undertaker's assistant inherits his father-in-law's job as executioner.
2. **Welcome Mr. Marshall! (1953)** (19 · ▲19 ▼0) — A Castilian village dresses up as Andalusian to welcome the Americans.
3. **Plácido (1961)** (14 · ▲15 ▼1) — A charity campaign to 'seat a poor man at your table' on Christmas Eve.
4. **The National Shotgun (1978)** (12 · ▲12 ▼0) — A hunting party with ministers and an intercom maker.
5. **Life Size (1974)** (7 · ▲10 ▼3) — Michel Piccoli and a life-size doll.
6. **Patrimonio nacional (1981)** (7 · ▲9 ▼2) — Second part of the Leguineche trilogy.
7. **Calabuch (1956)** (6 · ▲10 ▼4) — A scientist hides away in a Mediterranean village.
8. **Miracles of Thursday (1957)** (6 · ▲9 ▼3) — A declining spa town fakes apparitions.
9. **La vaquilla (1985)** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — Republican soldiers try to steal a heifer in the middle of the war.
10. **Nacional III (1982)** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — The end of the 'national' trilogy.
11. **Everyone Off to Jail (1993)** (4 · ▲8 ▼4) — A ceremony in a prison; three Goyas.
12. **That Happy Couple (1953)** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Co-directed with Bardem: a humble couple wins a contest.
13. **Boyfriend in Sight (1954)** (2 · ▲6 ▼4) — A northern summer holiday in 1918, written with Neville.

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