Miguel Rellán

La bala (2025)

The Captive (2025)

In 1575, the young soldier Miguel de Cervantes is captured on the high seas by Barbary pirates and taken to Algiers as a hostage. Aware that a cruel death awaits him if his family does not pay his ransom soon, he finds refuge in his passion for storytellin ...

The House (2024)

After the death of their father, three siblings return to the family home where they grew up. They intend to sell it and follow their very different paths. But as memories surface in every corner, a fear of getting rid of the past and an impulse to reunite ...

La paz de los cementerios (2024)

Checkmates (2024)

Candela, the headmistress of an elite school, after a traumatic divorce, returns to her old high school to lead a group of rebellious students through chess. There she will learn that in chess, and in life, it doesn't matter if you are a king or a pawn, be ...

Matusalén (2024)

The story of a forty-something rapper considered a boy by his parents and a grandfather by his classmates. They send him to the university to change and he changes everyone else. This is Matusalen's history. ...

A Hipster in Rural Spain (2024)

Quique is dispatched to a village in deep Spain Teruel to lead its politics of recuperation but soon discovers he was sent there so that his girlfriend and leader of his party could spend more time together. ...

Caleta Palace (2023)

Eight foreign characters recall their exploits and fears in Malaga, a paradise city that starts a revolution on July 18th 1936, as the military coup is stopped by popular rebellion, until February 9th 1937, when Mussolini troops take Malaga and put it unde ...

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. ...

I've Gone Viral (2023)

Mabel has gone viral. And in the least desirable way possible. During her flight to Polynesia, she unlocks her sleeping husband's cell phone with innocent intent, but what she finds is proof of infidelity. ...

El viaje de Julieta (2023)

Voy a pasármelo bien (2022)

Valladolid, 1989. David and Layla are 13 years old, they love "Hombres G" and they fall madly in love with each other. Together, they get into trouble, sing and dance to the songs of their favorite group. Valladolid, 2022. After 30 years without a verse, D ...

Code Name: Emperor (2022)

Juan, a secret service agent, approaches Wendy, a young Filipina who works as a maid for a suspicious couple. ...

8:19 (2022)

8:19' is a smart gallery of characters living, unknowingly, their last 8 minutes and 19 seconds in absolutely rutinary situations, letting time go by, delaying decisions, postponing meetings and pleasures. Characters who think there is a future to be reach ...

Cómplices (2020)

Madrid, int. (2020)

Madrid, Spain, March 2020. ...

Some Time Later (2018)

Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the slums bu ...

Minor Key (2018)

Upon coming home for dinner with his dad, a young man realizes that his father's grief over a tragic loss may be evolving into something more complex. ...

Toc Toc (2017)

A group of patients meet at a prestigious psychologist's office. Apart from the day and time of the appointment, something else unites them all: all six suffer from OCD. But the plane bringing the doctor is unexpectedly delayed, which forces them to spend ...

A Stroke of Luck (2016)

Villaviciosa de al Lado is a peaceful town stuck in time, living exclusively of the fame of a 200 years-old spa. Therefore, city hall's debts threatens to close the spa and ruin all town. Their salvation becomes when suddenly mayor Anselmo and the rest of ...

La española inglesa (2015)

In 1596, a Spanish girl, Isabel, is kidnapped by the English during the Capture of Cádiz and sent to England, where, already an adult woman, she falls in love with her kidnapper's son. ...

Nothing in Return (2015)

One summer, Dario flees the hellish environment of his home. Luismi, unconditional friend, a poor devil with pretensions of winning, and Antonia, an old woman who collects abandoned his motorcar furniture, become his new family. Three generations living to ...

Sidetracked (2015)

A rural couple in crisis, who have a brother and sister with urban problems, and all of them trying to find a solution. ...

40th Anniversary (2014)

A couple's anniversary turns into a competitive confessional. ...

Ilusión (2013)

Daniel, a Spanish filmmaker would like to give his country back some of the hope it has lost due to the financial crisis. He's determined to shoot an inspirational movie about the Moncloa Pact, the agreement that brought back Democracy to Spain after the F ...

Historias Robadas (2012)

¿Estás ahí? (2011)

Fran and Anna are in love, have recently moved in together and have the typical troubles of any couple that is beginning: living together, personal bad habits, jealousy… Only that in their case, it must add a little additional problem: Ana is dead and is ...

Don't call it love... call it x (2011)

Sin palabras (2010)

Elderly author Guzmán is tasked with taking care of his teenage grandson David for a few days while his mother is out of town. The two are virtual strangers, having met only a few times during the boy's whole life, as a consequence of a deep rift between ...

Animales de compañía (2009)

Blood of May (2008)

Revolution in Spain, around the events of 2 May 1808, when the people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. ...

Días de cine (2007)

Comedy set in 1977, in which a renowned playwright (Alberto San Juan) tries to shoot a social protest drama starring a doldrums folk, former child star (Natalie Poza) and produced by a producer and shameless liar (Miguel Rellán). Inexperience, ambition, l ...

Ekipo Ja (2007)

The Ekipo Ja, a group of sane gypsies led by the gypsy Juan De Dios, is in possession, unknowingly, of a sacred seal able to make wishes to him who possesses it. And who wants to possess above all is the Marquesa, a wealthy stranger who does not hesitate t ...

Spectre (2006)

After the sudden death of his wife, Tomás, a successful elderly writer who has been out of Spain during the last forty years, unexpectedly receives an old tarot card which seems to have for him a disturbing meaning, so he decides to return to the small vi ...

Ninette (2005)

Andrés, a dowdy Spaniard, goes to Paris on holiday, hoping to meet a pretty French girl. His wishes may come true after meeting Ninette, his landlord's sensual and possessive young daughter. ...

El chocolate del loro (2004)

Merry-Go-Round c. 1950 (2004)

This movie doesn't have any coherent plot. It's the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how they manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: La colmena or Roma (Fellini ...

Revolución (2002)

Everything in Place (2002)

Ignacio and Paul are father and son. The first is fifty-five, and the second is about thirty. In recent months, none of them have lived in the family home in which the two were the only occupants, Ignacio because emigrated to another city in search of empl ...

No te fallaré (2001)

"FRIENDS...THREE YEARS LATER" School is finally out. Valle and Quimi, a couple since childhood, decide to celebrate with their gang on a trip to the coast. They feel free and swear that they will always be together. But three years later, everything is qui ...

¡Ja me maaten...! (2000)

An honest and humble gypsy lives in a poor neighborhood with his family until something unexpected changes his life forever. ...

The Dog in the Manger (1996)

Countess Diana de Belflor is in love with Teodoro, her secretary, but he is engaged to Marcela. ...

La Regenta (1995)

The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's life unbearable and inevitably tragic. ...

Everyone Off to Jail (1993)

A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco's reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended. ...

The Fencing Master (1992)

A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before he is fascinated by her and agrees. She wishes to learn a particular thrust which he is famous for. When a local nobl ...

El día que nací yo (1991)

A gypsy who sells fish in a market, sings on weekends in a tablao. One day, a professor, exiled in Cádiz for her political ideas, offers the cantaora a job. ...

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt (1991)

Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company wh ...

Ovejas negras (1990)

Adolfo reunites with his old teacher, Father Benito, to confess him the crimes he committed when he was a young boy just to save the soul of the people he loved. ...

La mujer inesperada (1990)

A man wakes up in a train to Malaga. A mysterious woman helps him get in time to his marriage, which is a few hours later. ...

Ay, Carmela! (1990)

During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner. ...

Crazy Poison (1989)

Verónica (Maru Valdivielso) is a young executive who works in a dairy company. One day before going on holiday to the carnivals of Rio Janeiro, the company is blackmailed by a batch of poisoned yogurts. The president of the company gives a heart attack an ...

Going Down in Morocco (1989)

A girl who lives with her dealer cousin and her policeman boyfriend who is a policeman regularly transports drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all of them smoke grass from time to time there is need for more. Deciding to take a friend of hers who has ju ...

The Flight of the Dove (1989)

A film team arrives at a more authentic and old square in Madrid to shoot a film. The area is full of children, working families and simple people who see the cinema as something unattainable. From his balcony, Paloma, does not lose detail of the shooting, ...

Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing (1989)

Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year. ...

Scent of a Crime (1988)

Spain, 1950s. The corpse of an unknown person appears in the town square of Bocentellas, within the mythical territory of Región. The inhabitants will ask for help to Captain Medina, young officer in command of a nearby military fort, until the arrival of ...

Little Spanish Soldier (1988)

A young man, son and grandson of soldiers, refuses to perform military service, causing a commotion in the whole family. Finally, social, environmental and family pressures, will force the young to make a decision that will have unforeseeable consequences. ...

Jarrapellejos (1988)

Pedro Jarrapellejos is a ladies man who cannot turn the heads of Isabel or her beautiful daughter. When both peasant women are found raped and murdered in a brutal scene, a schoolteacher is falsely accused. Pedro knows his own nephew and his friend partici ...

Pasodoble (1988)

A family, expelled from their shack, occupies the museum in Cordoba where once lived the prince who, in his youth, was the grandmother's lover. The curators and administrators of the museum, aided by a couple of inexperienced policemen, harass the squatter ...

El juego más divertido (1988)

Two popular television actors, Ada and Bruno, are filming " Hotel de Fez ", a popular and popular television series that upsets the lives of its two protagonists. Together they will initiate a romance behind the small screen very particular since there wil ...

Terroristas (1987)

The Enchanted Forest (1987)

In Galicia, in northern Spain, Malvís, a frustrated day laborer who, fed up with his life, has become a clumsy bandit, tries to make a name for himself by robbing travelers passing through a forest inhabited by colorful characters. ...

La vida alegre (1987)

Ana starts working as a Doctor in the S.T.I.U. (sexual transmission illnesses unit) at a Hospital. She begins meeting a lot of strange and bizarre characters there, while her jealous husband has to deal with it... ...

Silver-beet Face (1987)

On a road in the deep Spain, a wanderer with no fixed course and light luggage awaits someone to take him somewhere. His name is Antonio and this is how he will end up in a small provincial town, where he will be involved in a plan to steal a canvas of inc ...

Voyage to Nowhere (1986)

The Iniesta-Galván family is a theatre company that goes from town to town offering its performances. Over the years, its members will have to adapt to changes and make decisions, like that of whether or not to continue performing. One day, unexpectedly, ...

Tata Mía (1986)

Elvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and returns home to settle in Madrid with his beloved nanny, seeking help to overcome their crisis. However, the country has changed so much in his years of confineme ...

Move Over, Mrs. Markham (1985)

Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him u ...

Marbella (1985)

Comedy thriller directed by Miguel Hermoso. ...

A la pálida luz de la luna (1985)

Carmen leaves her husband Julio to go live with an intellectual who has made a career in the United States. While, Julio goes away to live of rent to house of an aristocrat come to less. After meeting several colorful characters, Julio decides to recover C ...

La vieja música (1985)

The new coach of the basketball team of Lugo arrives from Uruguay. He really knows nothing about training a basketball team so he keeps the previous coach on and in the meantime tries to learn from videos and books, but his real reason for coming to Spain ...

Café, coca y puro (1985)

Dos mejor que uno (1984)

Rafa and Jeromo are a curious couple of friends. Their friendship began in childhood as well as his love for Silvia, which have been in love since childhood. Silvia Jeromo elected, and Rafa decided to disappear. Years later he returns and finds that the co ...

Tasio (1984)

The childhood, love adventures, and ordinary life of Tasio, a coal maker in rural Navarre. ...

Todo va mal (1984)

Bicycles Are for the Summer (1984)

In Madrid, the family of Don Luis, his wife Dolores and their children, Manolita and Luisito, share the daily life of the Civil War with their maid and neighbours. Despite having failed his exams, Luisito wants his father to buy him a bicycle. However, the ...

Los caraduros (1983)

Parody of a real event, the expropriation of RUMASA holding, owned by businessman Jose Maria Ruiz Mateos by the government led by Felipe González. The film chronicles the adventures of three friends José María (Antonio Ozores), Ruiz (Juanito Navarro) an ...

El crack dos (1983)

Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo investigates the life of a gay man who has apparently abandoned his partner. When they both turn up dead, it seems one killed the other before committing suicide, but Areta is not convinced. ...

Power Game (1983)

J.R. contraataca (La dinastía de J.R.) (1983)

J.R. has been shot in his sensitive parts. After spending a season in the hospital, and anxious for revenge, he returns to find the culprit. He is accompanied by a bodyguard that prevents the presence of women who could approach him, thus delaying his reco ...

Total (1983)

"Total" opens the trilogy that close "Amanece que no es poco" and "Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra" Year 2598. Three days ago, the world has come to the end in London, a lost and a small Castilian village atmosphere. Lorenzo, a shepherd, tells a series ...

Le llamaban J.R. (1982)

A Spanish "Dallas" parody. ...

Femenino singular (1982)

The Beehive (1982)

As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, survi ...

Pares y nones (1982)

Comedy on the effects of affect and impersonal relationships in unmarried couples, couples who cease to be, they should be and never should have been. All focused on ten main characters in that age does not always accompanied by the corresponding maturity. ...

Paper Heart (1982)

Ups and downs of a news agency led by Antonio Borja, a veteran journalist formed during the Franco regime, with the help of his godson and protegé Tomás. The threat of economic bankruptcy, the appearance of Julia, a young journalist from last university ...

Murder in the Central Committee (1982)

The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assassin of the leader of the Spanish Communist party who was stabbed during a blackout while presiding over a ...

Las chicas del bingo (1982)

The movie tells the story of four beautifull and young girls: María, Pilar, Patricia and Virginia. They all work at the bingo and while they sell bingo cars they fill the room with smiles, happyness and excitement. But not all in their lifes is a game. Th ...

National Adultery (1982)

A man falls in love with his friend's wife and plots the different ways to get rid of his current wife and also his friend so he can have his new found love all to himself. ...

Otra vez adiós (1982)

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 ...

Copy Zero (1982)

A film director deals with the frustration of not having achieved anything in his life. ...

The Adventures of Enrique and Ana (1981)

Enrique is a gym teacher who along with his sister want to start a musical career with the support of their grandfather, a great scientist who wants to stop an evil despot from getting an artifact that would endanger the entire world. ...

Too Much for Galvez (1981)

Gálvez is a bumbling journalist investigating a real state shady business. ...

Exit: Dead End (1981)

"El Rata" is released from prison after having served a sentence for "political" crimes during Franco's dictatorship. Now, on the street and with very few opportunities to work, he decides to commit a crime again. ...

The Vocational Masseur (1981)

A soccer player is injured and decides to recuperate at a secluded villa accompanied by a sexy masseuse. ...

El crack (1981)

Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies. ...

Habibi, amor mío (1981)

Young Stefano falls in love with a Spanish girl, Habibi. The two become engaged, but after a happy period, Stefano will discover the girl's betrayals. This will lead the protagonists to drift apart and seek new paths; this will be an opportunity for them t ...

El hombre de moda (1980)

Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the ...

Viva la clase media (1980)

Drama based on the true life of a group of middle class and members of the Communist Party of Spain, who were involved in clandestine political activities during the sixties. ...

Check to the Queen (1979)

After Paula's suicide, her best friend, Ana, recalls the circumstances that united both women in the past and how they lived a close relationship that could have become more than just a friendship if social conventions had not prevented it. ...

Soldados (1978)

Dramatic portrait of men and women discouraged in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, after the odyssey of a group of Republican soldiers trying to reach the east coast to go into exile. Agustín must bear that his libertine father lives with the ironer Re ...

Alone in the Small Hours (1978)

Jose, a journalist and radio broadcaster, runs a daily program which has garnered a huge national audience as a satirical chronicle of Spanish society in the democratic transition of the late 1970s. Married and separated from Elena, Jose has two children, ...

A Dog Called... Vengeance (1977)

A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog. ...

Mala Racha (1977)

Unknown Origins (2020)

In Madrid, Spain, a mysterious serial killer ruthlessly murders his victims by recreating the first appearance of several comic book superheroes. Cosme, a veteran police inspector who is about to retire, works on the case along with the tormented inspector ...

40th Anniversary (2014)

A couple's anniversary turns into a competitive confessional. ...