Fernando Franco

Subsuelo (2025)

Eva and Fabián are twin siblings about to reach adulthood. One summer night, they become involved in a tragic accident. However, their lives and specific circumstances are opaque, and only the two siblings and Mabel, their mother, seem to know them. ...

The Change of the Wheel (2024)

A flat tire shocks a passenger. Stopped at the roadside, she thinks about her life while the driver changes the tire, unsure if this is the right path. ...

Little Loves (2024)

Teresa changes her vacation plans to spend the summer with Ani, her mother. Living together day and night after so many years is not easy for either of them. Accustomed to living alone, it is difficult for them to agree on even the small things of daily li ...

Robot Dreams (2023)

A lonely dog's friendship with his robot companion takes a sad turn when an unexpected malfunction forces him to abandon Robot at the beach. Will Dog ever meet Robot again? ...

One Year, One Night (2022)

Ramón and Céline are a young couple that attended a concert at the Bataclan theatre in Paris on the fateful night of November 13, 2015. They survive the attack, but when they leave the theatre, they are no longer the same. That night leaves a deep scar o ...

The Rite of Spring (2022)

Laura has just arrived in Madrid to study at University. One night, she accidentally meets David, who has cerebral palsy. The relationship with the boy and his mother will give Laura the push she needs to overcome her complexes and insecurities and confide ...

Plastic Touch (2022)

A sex doll called Lucy wakes up in the bedroom of a doll brothel. She lives with Mina, another doll. Together they watch TV: their window to the real world. They imagine themselves living far away. After a while, Lucy wants to escape. But Mina doesn't want ...

Romance (2021)

Laura meets Carlos at a party. They dance, drink and have fun on a night that will be hard to forget. ...

FOMO (2021)

Black Beach (2020)

Carlos, a ruthless Spanish negotiation expert working in Brussels, is tasked with handling the kidnapping of a senior oil company executive in a troubled West African country —with which he has old and deep ties—, torn by ethnic tensions and government ...

Me (2020)

For our hero, every day looks the same. Or maybe they are too much alike: the same routines repeated over, and over again. One day, a simple wooden sign written "Park" will shake everything up. ...

The Moneychanger (2019)

Humberto Brause takes advantage of Uruguay's poor economy by specializing in offshore money laundering. Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the film follows Humberto as he gets increasingly in over his head with multiple shady book-cooking schemes throu ...

Belmonte (2019)

Federico Veiroj's fourth feature examines the many, often contradictory layers that make up one's persona, in this case, a single dad and acclaimed artist who must learn to balance family with creativity. ...

Journey to a Mother's Room (2018)

The movie about a daughter, who leaves home for the first time. Her mother, left behind, doesn't know how to fill the empty place. ...

Dying (2017)

Morir revolves around the couple Luis and Marta, whose lives are paralyzed by the outbreak of a disease that is accompanied by guilt, lies and fear, testing the stability and love between them. ...

May God Save Us (2016)

Madrid, summer 2011. Economic crisis. 15-M movement and 1.5 million pilgrims waiting for the Pope's arrival live side by side in a Madrid that's hotter and more chaotic than ever. In this context, detectives Velarde and Alfaro must find what seems to be a ...

The Romantic Barber (2016)

Victor, a 37 year old hairstylist at Mexico, has a really standard routine: he works, plays domino, watches soccer and cleans his house. He also likes romantic music and old classic mexican movies. But suddenly, he has to break this routine and go to Rio t ...

Campanya (2016)

The stage is set up, the audience waits expectantly, the actors go on stage and the show begins. In CAMPANYA the camera portrays the race for power from an unexpected place. Throughout the film, the doubt about what we are really watching remains. Who is t ...

On Football (2016)

Sergio and his father, Simão, haven't seen each other for over 20 years. On the eve of the 2014 World Cup, Sergio returns to his hometown, São Paulo, hoping to watch the games with Simão, as they used to when he was a kid. It seems to be a perfect plan ...

Money (2016)

Two wealthy businessmen are about to get away with $5 million in ill-gotten money until their plans are revealed by an uninvited house guest. ...

The right place (2015)

Does life, perhaps, consist in being in the right place at the right time? Could it consist in interpreting and following the signs? ...

The Apostate (2015)

A young man navigates the bureaucracy of the Catholic Church when he tries to renounce his faith. ...

The High Pressures (2014)

Miguel travels to Pontevedra, his hometown, with the request of serching for some locations for a movie. His trip takes him back to the place where he grew up, meeting up with some old friends, but also leads him to the possibility of a new relationship: A ...

Tryouts (2013)

After being rejected from cheerleading tryouts because of her headscarf, Nayla, a teenage Muslim American girl, will have to find her own way to follow her dream without compromising her beliefs. ...

Wounded (2013)

The first work from Fernando Franco revolves around Ana, a 30 year old ambulance driver. Though good at her job, Ana has problems relating in her personal life. She doesn't know it, but she suffers from a condition known by psychiatrists as Borderline Pers ...

La media vuelta (2013)

Scorpion in Love (2013)

Julian (Álex González) and his friend Luis (Miguel Angel Silvestre) are two neighborhood boys who are part of a gang of violent neo-Nazis, led by Solis (Javier Bardem). After start training in a gym, Julian is transformed gradually thanks to the discipli ...

Good Morning Resistance! (2013)

Very realistic, almost a morning ritual long, we observe a father getting his children up and ready for school. ...

Blancanieves (2012)

A black and white silent movie, based on the Snow White fairy tale, that is set in a romantic version of 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter. ...

A Story for the Modlins (2012)

After appearing in the film Rosemary's Baby, by Roman Polanski, Elmer Modlin ran away with his family to a distant land, where they shut themselves inside a dark apartment for thirty years. ...

Voice Over (2011)

I won't tell you whose voice over leads us through three extreme situations that are actually the same. Will you survive? ...

Room (2011)

Ana is connected to a chat room, with webcam power on showing her room. Among a seemingly small talk, she begins to show signs that something, in real life, is not going well at all. ...

Don't Be Afraid (2011)

Silvia is a young girl marked by a dark childhood. When she is barely twenty-five, she decides to start over and to face the people, feelings and emotions that keep her bound to the past. In her fight against adversity and against herself, she will learn t ...

Emetreinta (2011)

El idioma imposible (2010)

Fernando, lives in the heart of Barcelona's Chinatown, which seeks life peddling amphetamines and alternating with a peculiar gallery sinister characters. In one of those sunrises stolen life, Fernando meet Elsa, a young teenager, fresh and lively, with a ...

Bon Appétit (2010)

A romantic comedy centered on two young cooks and a female sommelier working in a famous Zurich luxury restaurant. ...

Les variations Dielman (2010)

Found footage using Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman. ...

Basket Bronx (2009)

Alex dreams of playing basketball as his idols. ...

El hombre orquesta (2009)

One man band arrives to a small town to play his music but he is welcomed by an unexpected tough audience. ...

TU(a)MOR (2009)

La banda en la isla de la magia (2008)

The boys of 'La Banda' who are a sensation among children get involved in an adventure to avoid the children's happines to be taken away. ...

The Appeared (2008)

One night Malena and Pablo, a sister and brother traveling together in Argentina, discover a diary that details crimes committed twenty years ago. ...

Historia nº 52785/614-18 (Historias de una historia) (2008)

Dolly (2007)

Dani feels obliged to acknowledge for her best friend that he's in love with her. It's now or never. The 15 minutes can change his life forever. ...

Goodbye, America (2007)

Documentary about Al Lewis. He sits in the make-up chair and remembers part of his 92 years life. ...

Drop down (2007)

Nandi, Grabi and Rober are three unemployed 30-year-olds living with their mothers. They pass their days sitting on a bench waiting for something to happen. ...

Mensajes de voz (2007)

Marta comes back to Madrid after some time abroad, trying to reorganize her life with Luis. ...

Skizo (2006)

A stormy night, a couple, a psychopath, an old house... ...

Cargo (2006)

A young backpacker gets into some trouble in Africa and stows away on a cargo ship heading to Europe. ...

A Esteticista (2005)

What starts out a standard talking head doc about one woman's experience in Auschwitz during WW2 turns into a picture of an aging Hungarian woman - Ms Emmy - and how having red hair saved her life. The filmmakers don't hide their involvement in the making ...

Northeast (2005)

An accidental meeting between a French woman who goes to South America to adopt a baby and an Argentinian woman who with her small son leaves their hopeless village in search for a better life changes both of their lives forever. ...

15 días contigo (2005)

The star-crossed romance between an ex-jailbird and a junkie. ...

Polígono Sur (2003)

Documentary about the marginal neighborhood 'Las tres mil viviendas', in Seville. ...

Howard Hawks, San Sebastián 1972 (2003)

In 1972, the American film director Howard Hawks travelled to San Sebastian to preside over the jury of the Film Festival. Two young film buffs, Jesús Martínez León and José Luis Cuerda, came from Madrid in the hope of interviewing him. After thirty ye ...

Revolución (2002)

Canícula (2002)

A film director with a crisis of creativity, a journalist of Telemadrid, a butcher and a housewife with both legs in plaster, a North African taxi driver, an unemployed publicity manager, a young judge, a child of good family who works as a laborer. Amazin ...

The Best Is Yet to Come (2002)

Your parents are off to the beach, your girlfriend is in for a visit, what can go wrong? ...

Cuatro puntos cardinales (2002)

It tells the story of a long journey: one that makes the immigrant from leaving his country of origin until it reaches its goal, geographical and personal. There are many faces of this person coming from outside, leaving his country abroad for an uncertain ...

Gaudí en la favela (2002)

Portman, a la sombra de Roberto (2001)

More than two thousand years, one hundred thousand slaves worked in the mountains piercing the prosperous Roman colony of Carthage, in search of silver. Portman Bay, then "Portus Magnus", started the galleys to the metropolis, laden with the precious metal ...

La cartera (2001)

Restos de noche (2001)

El Congreso (2000)

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite (2023)

A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances. ...

The Apostate (2015)

A young man navigates the bureaucracy of the Catholic Church when he tries to renounce his faith. ...

Lo que vale un peine (2015)