Ernesto Chao

María (and Everybody Else) (2016)

Ever since her mum died when she was fifteen, Maria has taken care of her father and her siblings. Responsible and in control, she's always been a rock for the family and feels proud of her efforts. That's why her father's sudden love for his nurse and the ...

Breadcrumbs (2016)

When Liliana decides to return to Uruguay she will have to face up to a new dilemma, perhaps the last great dilemma of her life: To choose between supporting a collective case for female prisoners, raped during the time of the dictatorship, or to reconcile ...

Death of a Fisherman (2015)

One morning, the body of a sailor is found lying on the beach, washed in by the tide.. With no witnesses or any sign of the dead man's boat, Inspector Leo Caldas begins immersing himself in the town's seafaring atmosphere as he endeavours to shed light on ...

The Value of Time (2012)

Alfredo Méndez, 40, keeps his wife's cryogenically preserved corpse in his country house. This unusual behavior stems from his love for her and his medical ambition. However, in recent years his health has been declining, forcing him to seek the care of C ...

Lost in Galicia (2009)

13 Curses (2002)

Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father eightee ...

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 ...

La novia de medianoche (1997)

A wealthy woman twice widowed, lives with his family and two servants in a shady country house in Galicia in the late nineteenth century isolated from the world to hide a serious incident occurred in the family ten years earlier. This event is subject to c ...

A noiva de medianoite (1997)

Based on an original argument by Luis Buñuel, this is a love story mixed with tragedy in a Galician noble family. ...

The Frontier Law (1995)

Barbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between Portugal and Galicia a bandit called El Argentino. In her travel she meets two men that say that they belong to his gang. ...

A metade da vida (1994)

History of a love triangle between a musician named H. Eire, a friend of him and the latter's companion. In the life of Eire there appears in addition an uncle and his niece, the first anchored in his interest in literature and the second, to become a very ...

Huidos (1993)

El juego de los mensajes invisibles (1992)

Based on the novel "Adopted son" of Álvaro Pombo. Pancho, a seventy years old man lives isolated in a Galician country house, not far from the sea, which is served by an old maid. Suddenly, the past bursts in his life with the unexpected visit of a man w ...

Divine Words (1987)

A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law. ...

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 ...