Directing

Xavier Villaverde

A Coruña, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain

Xavier Villaverde was born in 1958 in A Coruña, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain as Francisco Xavier Fernández Villaverde.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Angels of Sex poster
6.3

Carla and Bruno believe they have answers for everything until Rai appears in their lives, an attractive and mysterious young who lives outsidethe rules. In this story about love and friendship, boundaries dissolve by the rhythm of funkyand break to offer a provocative, exciting and deeply touching vision about romantic relationships.

Angels of Sex

2012

No artwork available
NR

From a cloudy sky, a storm erupts, and to the music, a girl gazes at the book of the Great Galician Encyclopedia, transformed into the book of a cannibalistic Galicia that begins with its festivals, the Franco regime, devotion to the saint, and the negotiated transition until the arrival of La Movida.

Cannibal Galicia

1987

No artwork available
NR

This ironic mix of thriller, slapstick, and family funeral drama prioritizes building a story around the music. The film depicts an abusive marriage culminating in murder, and the complicit children's actions only exacerbate the situation. As the saying goes, "raise crows and they'll peck your eyes out."

Widow Gómez

1985

Continental poster
3.8

At the end of the 50s, after assassinating the legendary capo Goncalves and dividing their domains, Ventura and Otálora, rival and old friends, fight with their bands for the control of prostitution and contraband. Anabel, Ventura's favorite prostitute and her young lover, will live their passion among the violence that surrounds the port city.

Continental

1989

Continental poster
3.8

At the end of the 50s, after assassinating the legendary capo Goncalves and dividing their domains, Ventura and Otálora, rival and old friends, fight with their bands for the control of prostitution and contraband. Anabel, Ventura's favorite prostitute and her young lover, will live their passion among the violence that surrounds the port city.

Continental

1989

No artwork available
NR

Among the shadows of the darkest streets, there are bodies that dance and others that wound each other. In this piece, Villaverde intertwines these two nocturnal worlds, populated by fights, death, and trouble, as if in a dance. Tacón is based on a text by Jorge Luis Borges that reflects on tango and, with the poetry of its words, traces a reflection on the passage of time and death. Borges gave several lectures on tango in his native Buenos Aires. The genre fascinated him, as it was a portal to the dark and violent Buenos Aires that had so inspired his verses and prose. A prevailing darkness and tension pervade the visual vision of Tacón, accentuated, also, by the music of the Argentinian Astor Piazzolla.

Heel

1982

No artwork available
NR

Octopus, a few bottles of Ribeiro wine, ambient sound, and hyper-design. In the immediate future, the boundaries between reality and virtuality will be blurred; crossing the screen could mean falling prey to a monster. Or, as it was presented in 1984: “A girl, a boy, desolate spaces, Magritte, King Kong. It could happen to you tomorrow. Subtle New York touches in the look. This girl is… Pure Poison!” A nightmare about the loneliness of everyday life in the cyberworld.

Pure Poison

1984

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Circos

1979

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Circos

1979

13 Curses poster
5.0

Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father eighteen years ago, begin to persecute to him, since his father died by shot gun, peculiarly, when thirteen peals sounded in the cathedral, fact what obsesses to Jacobo. After watching several times, Mateo convinces his son to make the work for the cathedral that his father couldn't finish in life, but what begins as a simple work becomes a madness spiral when Jacobo discovers the true intentions of the ghost of his father: to kill to his son to usurp his body to finish the statue, and after to return to the life.

13 Curses

2002

Gitanos de Buenos Aires poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gitanos de Buenos Aires

2011

Gitanos de Buenos Aires poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gitanos de Buenos Aires

2011

No artwork available
NR

The film explores the abrupt transition between tradition and innovation within the context of carnival. In this work, Xavier Villaverde creates a video narrative about the rapid shifts in the Hispanic mindset during the 1980s, intuitively foreshadowing the new virtual theater of appearances.

Whiplash

1986

María Casares, a muller que viviu mil vidas poster
2.0

A portrait of the Spanish actress María Casares (1922-96).

María Casares, a muller que viviu mil vidas

2023

María Casares, a muller que viviu mil vidas poster
2.0

A portrait of the Spanish actress María Casares (1922-96).

María Casares, a muller que viviu mil vidas

2023

Finisterre, donde termina el mundo poster
4.4

Mario and Berto are brothers and they live in Galicia at the “Finis Terrae”. Their father left them when they were children and they grew up with the idea of finding him someday, without knowing that they were the ones separating from each other. Once reunited they will intent to take up again their mission

Finisterre, donde termina el mundo

1999

Finisterre, donde termina el mundo poster
4.4

Mario and Berto are brothers and they live in Galicia at the “Finis Terrae”. Their father left them when they were children and they grew up with the idea of finding him someday, without knowing that they were the ones separating from each other. Once reunited they will intent to take up again their mission

Finisterre, donde termina el mundo

1999