Mercedes Sampietro

My Friend Eva (2025)

Eva has just turned 50. She's been married for over 20 years and has two, teenage children. So far, nothing remarkable. But on a business trip to Rome something happens that turns her life upside down. She meets Alex, a scriptwriter who's spending a few da ...

Quatre raons (2023)

A woman who is 27 weeks pregnant is the victim of an attack and since then she has remained in a coma, hovering between life and death. In such a situation of unconsciousness, bad memories and episodes of violence stir in her mind. ...

El verano que vivimos (2020)

Year 1998. Isabel, a journalism student, is forced to do her internship in the newspaper of a small Galician coastal town in order to finish her degree. When she arrives, she wants to start investigating as soon as possible, to demonstrate everything she h ...

El crèdit (2020)

Grandfathers (2019)

In a globalized world where youth and technology reign supreme, three aged friends refuse to give up and dare to launch a business from scratch: a daycare center. But is modern society ready enough to embrace their venture? ...

El Cepa Returns (2019)

Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime (1980), directed by Pilar Miró, returns to the various locations where the shooting of the mythical film, narrating the infamous Grimaldos case (1910), ...

The Furies (2016)

A family reunites to discuss the selling of their beloved house, but their secrets threaten to overwhelm them as they come to light. ...

Hablar (2015)

An anthology film with 20 stories on the subject of words, communication, linked to one another over a 400-metre stretch: from Madrid's Lavapiés Square to the Sala Mirador. A journey between theatre and cinema, filmed in a single fixed shot running contin ...

Historias Robadas (2012)

La noche que dejó de llover (2009)

Violetas (2008)

Emma is 50 years old and twenty who acts corrections officer. Her life revolves around the jail where he works and her home. Without leaving his loneliness, her order and her almost obsessive routine, lives locked in a reality that has been built for she. ...

Family Life (2007)

This is a story based on true events that tells the misadventures of Martha, a woman who is near 40 years old and wants to have a child. She will encounter many problems, some due to their sexual status (she is lesbian) and by the age difference between he ...

Va a ser que nadie es perfecto (2006)

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53 Winter Days (2006)

Three characters meet on a winter night at a bus stop and attend to the abandonment of a dog. Mila, a teacher who has been a year off after being attacked by one of his students. Celso, security guard, married, father of a child with serious economic probl ...

Salvador (Puig Antich) (2006)

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974. ...

The Silly Age (2006)

The "edad de la peseta" or silly age is the term used in Cuba for the pre-adolescent period from the age of seven to the age of eleven. Set in 1958 in Havana, the year that culminates the Revolution, ten-year-old Samuel has just arrived in town with his re ...

Obaba (2005)

A rural drama set in Obaba, a mythical region in northern Spain, where a young filmmaker struggled to capture the feel of the area, which in turn leads to a wealth of self-discovery. ...

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. ...

Proyecto Cassandra (2005)

Queens (2005)

In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, become entwined. ...

Febrer (2004)

A metaphorical tale about pain and loss. Sela, a famous writer, committed suicide. Lars, her ex-lover, tries to find out why she did it. In the process, he discovers an unknown world of feelings and sense of guiltiness. ...

Unconscious (2004)

A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation. ...

Lost Bullet (2003)

Daniel, an ex-convict, tries to get back at his corrupt father-in-law by kidnapping his own son and hiding him in an abandoned town where they are producing American westerns. Daniel will have to face a vile father-in-law, an ex-wife that stalks him, as we ...

Common Ground (2002)

In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live wi ...

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 ...

Women (2000)

Eight stories about women, adapted from the book "Women" by Isabel-Clara Simó. ...

I Know Who You Are (2000)

Paloma is a young psychiatrist, who is hired to work as a director of a clinic in Galicia, and is attracted to Mario, her very first patient. He suffers from a rare form of amnesia, commonly known as Korsakov's syndrome. As a result, both his short and lon ...

Second Skin (1999)

When Elena finds a hotel bill in her husband's pocket, she begins to suspect that he's having an affair — but not that it's with a man. ...

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 ...

By My Side Again (1999)

When three estranged sisters, Gloria, Ana and Lidia, meet up again on the death of their mother, Adela, they find themselves obeying her somewhat eccentric last wishes. Though their mother has spent the last 30 years without uttering a single word, she has ...

Saíd (1999)

Bert (1998)

Albert Teixidó (Bert) travels to the island of Mallorca after receiving a mysterious letter from his childhood friend Bernardo, who disappeared months earlier in the Tramontana mountains. On the island, he searches for clues to locate his friend, clues th ...

La herida luminosa (1997)

Dr. Molinos, a prestigious cardiologist, and his wife Isabel are going through a serious marital crisis. They live in Oviedo, in the oppressive Spain of the 50s, in the company of two maids: Escolástica and Jovita. His only daughter, Maribel, entered a co ...

Stories from the Kronen (1995)

Carlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers ...

Burn Me (1994)

Dengue is a shy, innocent and passionate boy. Without realizing it, he becomes victim of a plot to extort his father. The cause is Candela who lures him into fall in love with her. ...

The Bird of Happiness (1993)

While some people need to be surrounded by friends to be happy, Carmen (Mercedes Sampietro) is perfectly content by herself, pursuing her vocation as an art restorer. But her bubble of isolation is punctured when she becomes the survivor of a violent assau ...

La viuda del capitán Estrada (1991)

Adaptation of a novel by Pedro García Montalvo that tells a story of destructive passion conditioned by social components that takes place during the 1940s. ...

La bañera (1991)

A man is released from an asylum. He lost his memory and is in search for a woman he might have killed. ...

The White Dove (1989)

Rocío, is in love with Mario, a free rider with a lot of face that, to top it all, is partner of the business of her father, Domingo with whom she maintains incestuous relations. When Domingo passes away, both Mario and Rocío's mother have to put to the ...

Montoyas y Tarantos (1989)

History about hate and passion between two gypsy families. ...

Autumn Rain (1989)

A writer named Daniel is going through a crisis, aggravated by the unexpected success of his wife in her professional career as an actress. ...

Sinatra (1988)

Antonio Castro, Sinatra, is a fighter of life working in an old cabaret in Barcelona imitating Frank Sinatra, accompanied in his show by Groucho Marx, Marlene Dietrich and Lola Flores. But one day, the sky dresses in gray for him; his wife, who works as a ...

Caminos de tiza (1988)

A nun teacher that is going to die decides to travel around Spain to meet her 3 favorite students to ask if she learned something from her teaching period. ...

Qui t’estima, Babel? (1988)

Freckled Max and the Spooks (1987)

A parody of Frankensteinian stories. It is a story of a little boy, an orphan who arrives at the Castle of Count Frankenstein - a world inhabited by mysterious and sometimes a bit ridiculous scary creatures. Although each one of them is different, they all ...

Werther (1986)

This adaptation of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. The boy's m ...

El anillo de niebla (1985)

Beyond the Walls (1985)

This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued by the radical Christian Inquisition, one of a plethora of difficulties Spaniards faced at the time. Spanish super star Carmen Maura plays a nun who agree ...

Vivir mañana (1983)

Hablamos esta noche (1982)

Victor is the engineer who has set up the Nuclear Power Plant Zapater. Alongside his professional problems he also hasa difficult family situation: a divorce, a teenage homosexual son, a relationship that is not satisfactory, the emergence of a new woman. ...

Psychophobia (1982)

A woman recovering from the death of her husband suspects that her house has been invaded by demonic spirits. She summons a paranormal expert to help her get rid of them. ...

Estoy en crisis (1982)

Bernabe (José Sacristán) works as an artistic director for a publicity firm but his avocation is fawning after his bosses, sleeping with whomever might advance his career, and ignoring his wife. Life continues on in this vein until he meets a young model ...

La leyenda del tambor (1981)

In June 1808, Napoleon's troops invade Spain. A boy named Isidro will beat his drum in the mountains of El Bruc, making the French army believe that thousands of armed men are waiting to confront them. ...

The Crime of Cuenca (1981)

Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier. ...

Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven (1980)

A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to reconsider her life--work, family, friendships, men-- causing a psychol ...

What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1978)

Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape ...

To an Unknown God (1977)

José, a fifty-year-old homosexual magician, feels the need to return to Granada, the place where he spent his childhood, perhaps to embrace the painful memory of tragic experiences, perhaps to bury it definitively. ...

Usted puede ser un asesino (1977)