
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'.

Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law
1998 · as Cura

The Other Way Around
2024 · as Padre de Ale

El último truco
2008 · as Self

Stories of Our Cinema
2019 · as Himself - Filmmaker

Spanish Fly
1998 · as Anthropologist

The Critic
2022 · as Self

Film surprise

Aragón rodado
2014 · as Self

¡Ay, Carmen!
2018 · as Self - Filmmaker

Rafael Azcona
2010 · as Self

Enrique Morente: flamenco impuro
2021 · as Self

Madame Cinéma
2018 · as Himself

Summers el rebelde
2024

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022 · as Self

Brindis por el cine español
1994 · as Self

Aquí
2026 · as Dr. Ribeiro

Equipo Crónica. Arte de trinchera
2025 · as Self

Berlanga!!
2021 · as Self - Filmmaker