Mercedes Sampietro
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1947-01-24
Locus Natus: Barcelona, España
Et ut: Mercedes Sampietro Marro
Salvador (Puig Antich)
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
release : 2006.05.23popularis : 9.464
La viuda del capitán Estrada
After the Second World War, the United Nations has declared the blockade of Franco's Spain. In this historical context, for a time little known, lies...
release : 1991.09.06popularis : 1.383
El verano que vivimos
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...
release : 2020.12.04popularis : 4.841
Queens
In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, are entwined: Judge Helena is in...
release : 2005.04.08popularis : 6.438
Northeast
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...
release : 2005.05.13popularis : 1.13
Common Ground
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...
release : 2002.10.04popularis : 3.907
The Silly Age
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...
release : 2006.01.01popularis : 1.053
Unconscious
A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.
release : 2004.08.27popularis : 5.782
Hablar
An anthology film with 20 stories on the subject of words, communication, linked to one another over a 400-metre stretch: from Madrid's...
release : 2015.06.12popularis : 2.339
La herida luminosa
Dr. Molinos, a prestigious cardiologist, and his wife Isabel are going through a serious marital crisis. They live in Oviedo, in the oppressive Spain...
release : 1997.01.01popularis : 3.17
Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos
A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional...
release : 1980.11.17popularis : 2.785
53 Winter Days
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...
release : 2006.09.26popularis : 1.627
Broken Silence
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...
release : 2001.04.27popularis : 5.876
By My Side Again
When three estranged sisters, Gloria, Ana and Lidia, meet up again on the death of their mother, Adela, they find themselves obeying her somewhat...
release : 1999.10.08popularis : 1.75
The Bird of Happiness
While some people need to be surrounded by friends to be happy, Carmen (Mercedes Sampietro) is perfectly content by herself, pursuing her vocation as...
release : 1993.05.05popularis : 3.693
Quatre raons
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...
release : 2023.08.18popularis : 2.069
I Know Who You Are
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...
release : 2000.04.07popularis : 1.564
Second Skin
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...
release : 1999.12.13popularis : 7.223
Montoyas y Tarantos
History about hate and passion between two gypsy families.
release : 1989.10.02popularis : 2.152
Caminos de tiza
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...
release : 1988.02.04popularis : 1.271
Wiped-Out Footprints
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...
release : 1999.11.19popularis : 4.856
Beyond the Walls
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...
release : 1985.09.01popularis : 1.526
What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape
release : 1978.08.16popularis : 3.585
To an Unknown God
José, a fifty-year-old homosexual magician, feels the need to return to Granada, the place where he spent his childhood, perhaps to embrace...
release : 1977.09.16popularis : 1.49
Stories from the Kronen
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...
release : 1995.04.29popularis : 3.607
Violetas
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...
release : 2008.09.01popularis : 2.446
Women
Eight stories about women, adapted from the book "Women" by Isabel-Clara Simó.
release : 2000.08.21popularis : 0.677
Estoy en crisis
Bernabe (José Sacristán) works as an artistic director for a publicity firm but his avocation is fawning after his bosses, sleeping...
release : 1982.02.01popularis : 2.059
Autumn Rain
A writer named Daniel is going through a crisis, aggravated by the unexpected success of his wife in her professional career as an actress.
release : 1989.01.01popularis : 0.514
Werther
This adaptation of Geothe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain,...
release : 1986.09.19popularis : 1.203
Psychophobia
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...
release : 1982.09.15popularis : 2.436
The Furies
A family reunites to discuss the selling of their beloved house, but their secrets threaten to overwhelm them as they come to light.
release : 2016.11.11popularis : 2.742
Freckled Max and the Spooks
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...
release : 1987.10.17popularis : 1.508
La bañera
A man is released from an asylum. He lost his memory and is in search for a woman he might have killed.
release : 1991.06.14popularis : 1.343
The White Dove
The story unfolds in Bilbao. Rocío (Emma Suárez), is in love with Mario (Antonio Banderas), a free rider with a lot of face that, to...
release : 1989.11.23popularis : 1.395
Burn Me
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...
release : 1994.11.25popularis : 0.786
Febrer
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...
release : 2004.12.03popularis : 1.786
Grandfathers
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...
release : 2019.10.11popularis : 5.888
Sinatra
Antonio Castro, Sinatra, is a fighter of life working in an old cabaret in Barcelona imitating Frank Sinatra, accompanied in his show by Groucho...
release : 1988.05.13popularis : 2.783
El Cepa Returns
Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime (1980), directed by Pilar...
release : 2019.05.24popularis : 1.53
La leyenda del tambor
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...
release : 1981.09.17popularis : 2.373
The Crime of Cuenca
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...
release : 1981.08.17popularis : 3.571
Hablamos esta noche
Victor is the engineer who has set up the Nuclear Power Plant Zapater. Alongside his professional problems he also hasa difficult family situation: a...
release : 1982.09.16popularis : 0.329
Lost Bullet
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...
release : 2003.10.01popularis : 1.219