Fernando León de Aranoa

The Talent (2025)

A gifted young cellist from a fallen aristocratic family must make an impossible choice when her best friend's powerful father offers a solution to her family's desperate situation. ...

Feeling It (2022)

An intimate portrait of Spanish singer-songwriter Joaquín Sabina without his signature bowler hat, at night and with malice aforethought. Rugged, direct, and unflinching, director Fernando León de Aranoa captures Sabina's hidden side over 13 years of fil ...

The Good Boss (2021)

Julio Blanco is the proprietor of Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town, which awaits the imminent visit from a committee that will decide if they merit a local Business Excellence award: everything h ...

Loving Pablo (2017)

The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart. ...

Politics, Instructions Manual (2016)

In 2015, a new spanish political party, named Podemos, made history by becoming the third force of the parliament, just two years after its creation. This is how it happened. ...

A Perfect Day (2015)

Somewhere in the Balkans, 1995. A team of aid workers must solve an apparently simple problem in an almost completely pacified territory that has been devastated by a cruel war, but some of the local inhabitants, the retreating combatants, the UN forces, m ...

A Perfect Family (2012)

Leone is a rich and powerful man whose loneliness drives him to hire a cast of actors to play the family he never had. On Christmas Eve, reality and make-believe start to get blurred. ...

Amador (2010)

A drama centered on a young woman who takes a summer job caring for a bed-ridden older man, and the intimate secrets they begin to share with one another. ...

Invisibles (2007)

A series of short films examining the world's overlooked problems and the people who suffer from them. ...

Princesses (2005)

Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after she finds her in the bathroom, badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye's xen ...

L'uomo perfetto (2005)

Lucia is a young and talented advertiser but is out of luck when it comes to love. Madly in love with her best friend's boyfriend, she struggles with her feelings when they are set to get married. ...

Mondays in the Sun (2002)

After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and unofficia ...

La guerrilla de la memoria (2002)

The Story of the maquis, those fighters who resisted the Spanish Civil War after the victory of Franco's side and went from Mount struggle against fascism. ...

Fausto 5.0 (2001)

On his way to a medical convention, Dr Fausto runs into a man who claims the Doctor removed his stomach eight years ago in a surgical operation. Against all odds, he is still alive. The man turns up repeatedly and promises Fausto to make all his wishes com ...

Caminantes (2001)

In 2001, a group of Zapatista Mexicans marched to Mexico D.F. to protest against the oppression of the indigenous population of rural Mexico. ...

Living It Up (2000)

Lola, a Mexican waitress working in Madrid, befriends a 30-year-old suicidal man who has borrowed $1,000,000 to spend on his last day on Earth, knowing he will be killed anyway if he fails to return the money. After meeting Lola, however, he decides that l ...

The Back of the World (2000)

This documentary looks at "the back of the world": small children working as quarrymen in Peru, Kurdish political refugees from Turkey, and families and inmates awaiting the end on Mississippi's Death Row. ...

Barrio (1998)

Bored 15-year-old school chums Rai Manu and Javi dream of sexual adventures and exotic resorts while the well-off population of Madrid flock to the beaches on a summer holiday. The youths hang around the concrete wasteland killing time by reading the sex c ...

Cha Cha Chá (1998)

Lucia and Maria are two friends who share everything. Everything except Pablo, Maria's boyfriend. Lucia devises a plan to make Pablo her own while getting María a new boyfriend. ...

Sleepless in Madrid (1998)

Eva, Alba y Juan are the protagonist of the story. Eva gives birth to Marina, Alba has just been left by her boyfriend. And Juan is happily married. Their paths intersect one night and their lifes will change forever. ...

Corazón loco (1997)

Félix (Juanjo Puigcorbé), a likeable and careerist flat salesman, wants to be the commercial director of his company at all costs. The bad thing is that this position is deserved by Lola (Cristina Marcos), a young and efficient saleswoman, with whom Fél ...

Family (1996)

Santiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it's his birthday. They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry ...

Sirenas (1995)

Antonio saved his own life on a sinking boat. He is deaf and so that he can't hear the singing of the sirens from the bottom of the sea. ...

Los hombres siempre mienten (1995)

When Martin is about to be expelled from some literature courses, an unexpected event gives a turn to his uncertain future as a writer. Taking advantage of the absence of his neighbor, a consecrated novelist who entrusts him with the care of his cat, Mart� ...

Alone, at Last! (1994)

Arturo is married to Elena and they have four grown children, they are wonderfull but they are still living at home. Arthur is writer and that's a job that requires peace, silence and concentration, something imposible at Arturo's home. His editor convince ...

Feeling It (2022)

An intimate portrait of Spanish singer-songwriter Joaquín Sabina without his signature bowler hat, at night and with malice aforethought. Rugged, direct, and unflinching, director Fernando León de Aranoa captures Sabina's hidden side over 13 years of fil ...

24 horas en la vida de Querejeta (2012)

Caminantes (2001)

In 2001, a group of Zapatista Mexicans marched to Mexico D.F. to protest against the oppression of the indigenous population of rural Mexico. ...