María Ripoll

Directing

María Ripoll

Born

1964-01-01 (62)

Place of birth

Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Known for

Directing

Credits

21 titles

María Ripoll is a Spanish film director from Barcelona, with an international background and eight feature films to her credit. The success of her film It's Now or Never has placed her as the highest-grossing female film director in Spanish history.

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

El fantasma de mi mujer poster
4.8

Fernando's perfect life with wife María and mistress Julia shatters when Julia claims she accidentally killed María. After reporting María missing, Fernando receives a call from her - and his nightmare begins.

El fantasma de mi mujer

2026

El fantasma de mi mujer poster
4.8

Fernando's perfect life with wife María and mistress Julia shatters when Julia claims she accidentally killed María. After reporting María missing, Fernando receives a call from her - and his nightmare begins.

El fantasma de mi mujer

2026

The Man with Rain in His Shoes poster
4.9

Victor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He's got a lousy agent, he has a habit of falling out with directors and he's still in love with his ex-girlfriend. However, Victor is about to embark on an unexpected emotional journey which will make him confront his future and his past mistakes.

The Man with Rain in His Shoes

1998

Tortilla Soup poster
6.4

A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.

Tortilla Soup

2001

War of Likes poster
7.7

In order to advance her career in the dynamic world of publicity in Mexico City, Raquel tries to reunite with her high school friend Cecy who has become the queen of social media. But unlike followers, friendships do not come instantly.

War of Likes

2021

Live Twice, Love Once poster
7.5

A retired academic teacher tries to find the love of his youth after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

Live Twice, Love Once

2019

It's Now or Never poster
5.4

Narrates the preparation for a wedding of a Spanish couple in which everything goes wrong.

It's Now or Never

2015

I Am Not That poster
5.4

Susana wakes up after 20 years in a coma. Now a 90s teenager in a 21st century woman's body, Susana will have to navigate a world in which nothing is familiar to her and she will have to learn to live in it.

I Am Not That

2024

I Am Not That poster
5.4

Susana wakes up after 20 years in a coma. Now a 90s teenager in a 21st century woman's body, Susana will have to navigate a world in which nothing is familiar to her and she will have to learn to live in it.

I Am Not That

2024

Don't Blame Karma on What Happens to You for Being an Asshole poster
5.2

The lives of a Madrid-based feather-fashion designer and her whole family's completely tumbles after the appearance of a musician long-lost high school crush who is involved with her model sister.

Don't Blame Karma on What Happens to You for Being an Asshole

2016

Cromosoma Cinco poster
NR

This story begins with Andrea being born. She is premature, beautiful and different. Her parents start a search that lasts more than a year, trying to get a response and a diagnosis. Lisa Pram, her mother, writes the Little Black Book, a very personal book with texts, drawings and photographs. Chromosome 5 is based on this intimate diary. This is a story of loss and encounter. Andrea is later diagnosed with a rare syndrome called 5p or Cri du Chat. She has lost a small part of her Chromosome 5 and Lisa finds a new way of seeing and accepting light and life.

Cromosoma Cinco

2013

También esto pasará poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

También esto pasará

2025

También esto pasará poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

También esto pasará

2025

We Won't Kill Each Other with Guns poster
5.9

The reunion of a group of friends after years without seeing each other will bring out the alcoholic memory of old loves and wounds, and will push them to travel to a past that they fear and long for.

We Won't Kill Each Other with Guns

2022

Traces of Sandalwood poster
5.8

Despite her fame and fortune, Mina, a successful Indian actress in Mumbai, can't forget her little sister Sita, from whom she was forced to separate after their mother's death in a village. Thirty years later she will finally find out that Sita is alive and well in Barcelona. However, Sita's adoptive parents have erased all traces of her past. She is now called Paula, works as a researcher in Biology and has no recollection of her Indian background, let alone of Mina. Faced with the shocking truths of her past, Paula begins a long journey of self-discovery, aided along the way by her budding romance with the handsome Indian immigrant Prakash. A story of hope and love across Mumbai and Barcelona; from India to the Mediterranean and all the way back.

Traces of Sandalwood

2014

Utopia poster
5.9

Adrian (Leonardo Sbaraglia) is a young man who has spent years running away from himself, constantly changing city and work, looking for people to relate to the least possible and all for one reason: he has the ability to see things that have not yet occurred, is a precog. He learned it when he anticipated the death of his parents and could not do anything about it. Adrian tries, unsuccessfully, to flee from his gift

Utopia

2003

Your Life in 65 Minutes poster
6.5

A Sunday, three young friends read the obituary of a schoolmate with whom long ago they lost contact. They go to the morgue and realize that they are wrong: that burial is not that of their fellow student. From this, the confusion and random weave a story of friendship, love and death.

Your Life in 65 Minutes

2006

El dominio de los sentidos poster
8.0

Five women directors offer their own very idiosyncratic view of sensuality and eroticism through the five senses of sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing.

El dominio de los sentidos

1996

Kill Me Later poster
NR

A young girl gets interrupted in her attempted suicide by a delinquent who is trying to get away from the police.

Kill Me Later

1993