Known For
Complete Filmography
Pedro Páramo
2024
Writer
A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrated love.
We Treat Women Too Well
2024
Executive Producer
Remedios Buendía defends her homeland and will fight for it. This fateful day of 1945, a group of maquis take the post where she tries on her wedding ...
Some Time Later
2018
Second Unit Director
Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the olig...
The Laws of Thermodynamics
2018
Director, Screenplay
Manel, a physicist working on his PhD thesis, accidentally fall in love with Elena, a young model and aspiring actress.
Realive
2016
Screenplay, Director
Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryoge...
Regression
2015
Script Consultant
Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John u...
Blackthorn
2011
Director
In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber an...
Agora
2009
Writer
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his...
El último truco
2008
as Self
Documentary film about visual effects master Emilio Ruiz del Rio. From his early works on films at 1942, to his last contribution at 2007, Emilio Ruiz...
Dime que yo
2008
Director, Idea, Writer
HE and SHE meet exactly at the same time they break up with their own couples... Is it possible for two strangers to begin a conversation full of recr...
Spectre
2006
Director, Writer, Editor
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...
A Christmas Tale
2005
Thanks
Cubelles, Tarragona, Spain, Christmas 1985. Five friends make an unexpected discovery in the forest: a woman disguised as Santa Claus trapped in a dee...
The Method
2005
Screenplay
Seven candidates to a high executive position on a multinational company show up for a selection test in a skyscraper at the financial district. Among...
The Sea Inside
2004
Screenplay
Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to...
Vanilla Sky
2001
Original Film Writer
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribl...
Nobody Knows Anybody
1999
Simón is an aspiring novelist who makes a living designing crossword puzzles for a newspaper. One day he receives a threatening message instructing hi...
Nobody Knows Anybody
1999
Director, Writer
Simón is an aspiring novelist who makes a living designing crossword puzzles for a newspaper. One day he receives a threatening message instructing hi...
Butterfly
1999
Assistant Director
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who...
Allanamiento de morada
1998
Director, Screenplay
Two salesmen arrive at an old woman's house to offer her a great deal.
Open Your Eyes
1997
Screenplay, Second Unit Cinematographer
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigur...
Thesis
1996
Screenplay, Assistant Director
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured to death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former stude...
Luna
1995
as Hitchhicker
An early short by Alejandro Amenábar.
Himenóptero
1992
Cinematography