Asunción Balaguer

Barcelona Christmas Night (2015)

Multiple love stories unfold in Barcelona during Christmas's Eve. ...

Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin (2015)

"Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one that I prefer." "As inexplicable as the accidents that set it off, our imagination is a crucial privilege. ...

Una mujer sin sombra. Asunción Balaguer (2015)

Huídas (2014)

Luisa Is Not Home (2012)

Luisa's washing machine has stopped working. After the initial misfortune this will represent, it will actually become her perfect alibi to slip away from her slow daily routine. To her husband, the absence of the washing machine will become a greater abse ...

Ephemeral (2012)

Alicia dreams of becoming a ballet dancer. In the cozy windmill where she lives with her grandmother, she impatiently waits for the moment to go for the long-awaited audition. But out there, the world is not as idyllic as she thinks. ...

What the Eye Doesn't See (2012)

All families have secrets and lies, and at some point everyone has thought of confessing everything. But when? How? One by one? Suddenly at a family reunion? Today, on Christmas Eve, it doesn't seem to be the best moment. On Christmas Eve you must enjoy yo ...

Ciudadano Villanueva (2012)

The spanish Javier Villanueva is imprisoned with the false accusation of murder of a prosecutor in Bolivia. His father fight to uncover a plot designed to protect the real culprits. ...

Vidas pequeñas (2011)

Abstenerse agencias (2011)

A young couple visits a widow named Amparo on Christmas Eve to possibly buy her floor. But Amparo seems more interested in their lives than a flat sale. ...

Sweet (2011)

In the window of the house, where some say the sweetness dwells, is reflected, every night, a delicious story. ...

Paper Birds (2010)

At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the members of a group of vaudeville performers have been stripped of everything: all they have left is hunger and the instinct to survive. Day after day, agonizingly, lost and helpless between the victors and the vanqu ...

Socarrat (2009)

We all have secrets. We all have family. We all search for happiness. What if we share our secrets and search for happiness together? ...

Brain Drain (2009)

Emilio, a shy, not too brilliant pupil at a humble local secondary school, has always harboured a secret love for Natalia, the cutest, brightest girl in the class. On the last day of the school year, when he finally decides to declare his love, Natalia is ...

La bella otero (2008)

Enloquecidas (2008)

Blanca confesses to her aunt Barbara she met the man of her live and he disappeared. By chance in a charming old couples house for sale, they find his picture. It's their son and he's dead. Mad Blanca and Barbara began a crazy investigation in a city under ...

Myway (2008)

Small-scale hustler Marc is stretched to the limit when a drug deal goes wrong and runs him afoul of the mob, which only exacerbates his existing problems with his wife, his daughter and his elderly father, who's suffering from Alzheimer's disease. As Marc ...

The Baby's Room (2006)

Juan and Sonia arrive at a large old house, an ideal place to raise their newborn son. When, one night before going to bed, they check the operation of the monitoring device installed in the baby's room, they discover that someone is sitting next to the cr ...

Rosario (2005)

Story of a mother who unconditionally loves her son. ...

Mala uva (2004)

Stork Day (2004)

Filippo is a star on the Italian TV. He works for a documentary series about wild animals and nature. He is sent to Tenerife (Spain) to shot an issue about the local stork. It is the 13th of August. After he did his job is time to leave, but the ferry coul ...

O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador (2003)

One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island". But, as one bad thing never comes alone, the daily lives of the inhabitants of this small mountain village ...

First and Last Love (2002)

An elderly man returns to his native town with the hope of finding his childhood love. ...

Días de voda (2002)

Sonia, the daughter of a prominent publisher, is about to fulfill her lifelong dream of marrying Rosendo, a promising writer with homosexual tendencies, who pines for his fiancee far less than he does for the brand new literary award launched by his future ...

Caiman's Dream (2001)

Iñaki, a petty thief, is forced to leave Spain because of a crime that got complicated. He decides to go to Mexico to meet his father, and realizes that he has lived a life of lies, but also discovers other things, within a group of guys with little luck. ...

Solo mía (2001)

A women meets a charming man and falls in love, they get married and start a family. As they age and have children, the man's becomes violent and abusive. ...

Broken Silence (2001)

Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, because of his smile and the br ...

Nights of Constantinople (2001)

The triumph of a young man in an important erotic literature contest reaches the ears of his grandmother. ...

Moonfish (2000)

A summer film. About summers. Two seasons splitting it apart by half a dozen years, the youth years – time it takes its characters to realise they're getting lonely. Hellish summer ends and we're on a little fishing village, river-side, in Lisbon's south ...

Wiped-Out Footprints (1999)

Manuel is a Spanish writer who has emigrated to Argentina. He hears that his childhood village in Spain is to be turned into a reservoir, and returns for one last trip. There he meets widow Virginia, an old love, and begins to hope that he might reignite t ...

Divine (1998)

"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa the signal ...

Memorias del ángel caído (1997)

A group of parishioners die poisoned upon receiving communion, during the investigation of the event the priests of the parish begin to have visions. Everything rushes when the dead are resurrected in the autopsy room, these strange events seem to be relat ...

Mouth to Mouth (1995)

For financial reasons, an aspiring actor begins working for a phone-sex enterprise. Through his new line of work, he develops relationships with two regular clients: Bill, an elderly homosexual, and Amanda, a mysterious femme fatale. ...

The Lame Pigeon (1995)

Little Felipe has been sick for a long time. To hasten his recovery, his parents send him to spend the summer of 1958 in the villa of his grandparents, located in the wealthy quarter of Cadiz. The warm climate of southern Spain is good for the boy, but the ...

House out of Town (1995)

Daniel is a yuppie that hasn't been been able to lead a satisfactory sentimental life. One day he meets Yolanda, a beautiful young woman who has a daughter, Patricia, and who hasn't been very lucky in life either. They decide to get together and they go to ...

La niña de tus sueños (1995)

Film centred around a mother, Françoise, who is HIV positive and her young daughter Ana. ...

Felicidades, Tovarich (1995)

A grandfather, a veteran communist militant, runs away on his birthday with his granddaughter Adriana. ...

How to Be Miserable and Enjoy It (1994)

Carmen, an attractive 40 year old woman, suddenly belongs a widow. For her, the emptiness feeling is new and disorienting. Trying to rebuild her life, Carmen finds that men around her are interested in offering her more than a shoulder to mourn. The unexpe ...

The Long Winter (1992)

In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how h ...

The Man Who Lost His Shadow (1992)

Paul has left his wife and children. Now his wife and ex-mistress is on the hunt for him. ...

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt (1991)

Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company wh ...

El crimen del expreso de Andalucía (1991)

Madrid, 1924. A ne'er-do-well in his 30s, perpetual disappointment to his aging military father, hatches a plan to rob the mail train to Andalusia. He intends the hit to be bloodless, but complications arise soon. ...

Twisted Obsession (1989)

An American writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and manipulative pretty sister, his life starts to unravel and he realizes that he's been used. ...

Quimera (1988)

A journalist, overwhelmed by problems, contemplates suicide. He then finds a way out of his desperate situation by fleeing to a mountain village haunted by the legend of a bloodthirsty wolf that he, perhaps, can hunt. ...

El hermano bastardo de Dios (1986)

This drama concerns a seven-year-old boy, Pepe Luis (Lucas Martin, as the younger Pepe and Paco Rabal Cerezales as Pepe at ten) who lives through the rise of Franco and the ensuing years under the fascist dictator. Presented from the perspective of the you ...

Lulú de noche (1986)

German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While looking for the protagonist, Rufo appears, an introvert jazz musician. He could play Jack the ripper. ...

The Witching Hour (1985)

César and Pilar tour the Spanish countryside with their bus, showing films and doing magic spectacles in small villages. In one of these trips they find Saga, a beautiful young woman who starts to travel with them and changes their lives in unexpected way ...

La otra imagen (1973)

A blind couple's marriage is tested when the wife is drawn to a blind writer. ...

Exorcism's Daughter (1971)

Tania, an asylum patient, is under the doctor's care while suffering raging behavioral effects that follow the death of her exorcised mother. ...

The Challenges (1969)

Los desafíos presents three separate stories that are linked by an American presence in Spain in the 1960s, with Dean Selmier playing the role of the American male in all three. ...

María Rosa (1965)

In order to get María Rosa, the woman he is deeply in love with, Marsal murders a moneylender hated by all the people and casts suspicion on his friend Andrés, the husband of his beloved María Rosa. After being imprisoned Andrés, Marsal becomes the pro ...

El camino (1964)

Shortly before leaving his small town to go to the big city to study, young Daniel recalls his childhood, surrounded by family and friends. ...

Police Calling 091 (1960)

A police inspector makes his service in a patrol car attenging emergency calls. A memory hauns him, the death of her daughter, who was killed hit by a car that fled. The car is located and the inspector goes there and confrontation will be violent. ...

El canto del gallo (1955)

A Catholic priest lives in a communist country where all religious are being killed. When trying to escape is stopped by a commissioner who had been a fellow student. ...

Perseguidos (1951)