Icíar Bollaín

The Critic (2022)

A portrait of film critic Carlos Boyero, one of the most followed and feared figures in Spanish cinema, surrounded by controversy and both love and hate. ...

The Night of the Brother (2005)

The Night of the brother ("La Noche del Hermano") is a chiaroscuro tale in which the characters' not always explicit feelings cover the gamut from darkness to light through the thin line between love and fear. Because the events of life are often less asto ...

The Stone Raft (2002)

An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residen ...

They're Watching Us (2002)

Norberto Lopez Amado's They're Watching Us is about a cop who becomes obsessed with a case. Juan (Carmelo Gomez) is ordered to head up an investigation concerning a businessman who has been missing for almost three years. The officer who worled on the case ...

Leo (2000)

Salva working as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a girl who makes a living collecting cardboard. Gradually Salva be falling in love for the young, but the life of Leo holds a dark past. ...

Subjúdice (1998)

An advocate for progressive takes the case of a conservative politician to accuse you of sexual harassment. ...

Niño nadie (1997)

Unbenownst to a middle-aged teacher of handicapped children, his long-term suffering girlfriend is pregnant with his child. The film philosophically explores the ideas of free will and destiny as they relate to the characters and their life choices. ...

Menos que cero (1996)

Hi, Are You Alone? (1995)

Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a ...

Land and Freedom (1995)

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betra ...

Tocando fondo (1993)

Andres de Granada, a forty-benefit trade more clear, believed that the first months of 1993 are the best time to do business. It also has the help of his nephew Fulgencio, who has arrived in Madrid with the idea of ​​learning the trade. ...

Dime una mentira (1993)

Sublet (1992)

Laura is a young woman from Madrid who lives in the most degraded area of ​​New York. ...

Un paraguas para tres (1992)

Having just split up with their respective partners, Maria and Daniel meet in a shop where they argue over a bed. From then on, they keep running into each other in all sorts of strange places and in all sorts of circumstances. They are mutually attracted ...

Doblones de a ocho (1990)

El Mejor de los Tiempos (1989)

Daniel arrives at a port under police surveillance while transporting drugs. There, he meets a woman and aspires to settle down for a more stable existence. ...

Misadventure (1988)

An intrigue based on a failed relationship with touches of dreams and magic filmed on the streets of Seville. ...

Al acecho (1987)

Mientras haya luz (1987)

Marisa, a 38 years old woman, tells a stranges story to her daughter while they're walking through a level crossing in Madrid. An anthropologist, Jaime, is chased by a mysterious jeep. In the course of the chase, he takes shelter in a small motel. When he ...

Las dos orillas (1987)

El Sur (1983)

A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father. ...

I Am Nevenka (2024)

In the year 2000, Nevenka Fernández, 24 years old, Councilor for Finance in the Ponferrada City Council, suffered relentless persecution, both sentimental and professional, by the mayor, a man accustomed to doing his will politically and personally. She n ...

Maixabel (2021)

In the year 2000, Maixabel Lasa's husband, Juan Maria Jauregi, was killed by ETA. Eleven years later, she receives an incredible request: one of the men who killed Juan wants to meet with her in the Nanclares de la Oca prison in Araba (Spain), where he is ...

Rosa's Wedding (2020)

Rosa is about to turn 45 and realises that she's always lived her life to serve everyone else. So she decides to leave it all behind, take charge of her life and fulfil her dream of starting her own business. ...

Yuli (2018)

Yuli is the nickname given to Carlos Acosta by his father, Pedro, who considers him the son of Ogun, an African god and a fighter. As a child Yuli avoids discipline and education, learning from the streets of an impoverished and abandoned Havana. His fathe ...

The Olive Tree (2016)

Alma's family has been producing quality olive oil in the Baix Maestrat area of Spain's Castellón for generations. Yet changing pressures in the industry have made their traditional practices economically untenable, and the family is now in the mass-produ ...

En tierra extraña (2014)

A documentary about the life of young Spanish immigrants in Edinburgh, Scotland, who had to leave Spain due to recession and unemployment. ...

1,2,3...Casa (2012)

Lorenzo del Escorial (Madrid), where normally, protection and improvement are much more than words. A tale of fears and anxieties, dreams and illusions, games and entertainment, full of nostalgia and the harshness of a reality that was not always happy. Ac ...

Kathmandu Lullaby (2011)

Kathmandu, Nepal, early 1990s. Laia, a young teacher from Catalonia, Spain, works at a local school in the slums of the city where poverty reigns. Her personal path, besieged by a harsh sum of indescribable social conditions, will be a struggle against a n ...

Even the Rain (2011)

As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply. ...

Mataharis (2007)

Private detectives Inés, Eva, and Carmen often invade others' privacy but are clueless about confronting their own secrets. While on the job, these three surveillance specialists will have to cross the thin line dividing public and private matters, bringi ...

With Good Reason (2004)

A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media. ...

Take My Eyes (2003)

One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"... ...

Poniente (2002)

After living in Madrid for many years as a teacher, Lucia returns to her hometown after her father's death results in the inheritance of his tomato farm. While fighting the community's racism toward the new illegal workers, Lucia falls in love with the far ...

A Love That Kills (2000)

The two million Spanish women who are victims of domestic violence and the death each week of a woman at the hands of her partner is not fiction but pure reality. ...

Flowers From Another World (1999)

Patricia, a woman from Dominican Republic, needs a home and an economic security that her illegal status in Madrid does not provide her. Milady, twenty, born in Havana and dying to travel the world. Marirosi has a job, a home, and the most complete solitud ...

Hi, Are You Alone? (1995)

Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a ...

Sexo oral (1994)

Sixty people, including those who have worked making the film, talk about sex: what's it, how was their first time, when did they masturbate for the first time, what do they think about pornography, relation between sex and love, and so on. ...

Friendly Dead (1994)

Carlos is 50 years old. It has a cake with candles and seven friends to celebrate him. The police have one dead and seven suspected murder. All they have reasons to kill Carlos, and they all are... friends of the deceased. ...

Dime una mentira (1993)

Baja corazón (1992)

A touch of horn is enough for the girl to meet with her boyfriend... ...