Directing

Adán Aliaga

Known for

Directing

Credits

38 titles

Known for

The Portuguese House poster
6.7

The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he assumes another man’s identity as a gardener on a Portuguese estate, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner, stepping into a new life that isn’t his own.

The Portuguese House

2025

El santo poster
NR

An autobiographical documentary that addresses themes of faith and miracles from a personal and family perspective.

El santo

2025

Rock Bottom poster
3.2

Inspired by the music and life of Robert Wyatt, ​“Rock Bottom” is a self-destructive love story between Bob and Alif, a young couple of artists immersed in the creative whirlwind of the early 70s hippie culture. Drugs will turn a passionate summer into a nightmare in a journey through the themes of Wyatt’s music: the euphoria and anguish of artistic creation, the unconscious fascination with drugs, the disenchantment with routine and physical and mental degradation.

Rock Bottom

2024

The Walker poster
6.0

'The Walker' is Mateo, a civil engineer with a plan: walking each and every one of the streets of New York.

The Walker

2015

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed poster
8.8

The Felpetos have managed a clandestine lottery business for decades. The family enterprise operates in a small housing development. Maribel leads a crew of clerks who log the bets from her living room. Alejandra, her mother, lives in an identicalhouse just a few meters away, which serves as the administrative office. Some lotto bankers have been raided lately, and the atmosphere in the neighborhood has become strage since. There has been talk about police dismissals and big-money movements. Nobody can tell what is true from the rumors or the news on TV

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed

2025

The Cage poster
8.0

Vicente and Elena spend Sunday at their country house on the outside of Alicante. Vicente has bought a new canary because a cat that roams the area ate one of his canaries. Elena does not like birds in cages, but they are Vicente’s favorite pastime and they keep him company. Now they have to teach the new canary to sing.

The Cage

2021

Behind the camera

The Portuguese House poster
6.7

The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he assumes another man’s identity as a gardener on a Portuguese estate, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner, stepping into a new life that isn’t his own.

The Portuguese House

2025

El santo poster
NR

An autobiographical documentary that addresses themes of faith and miracles from a personal and family perspective.

El santo

2025

Rock Bottom poster
3.2

Inspired by the music and life of Robert Wyatt, ​“Rock Bottom” is a self-destructive love story between Bob and Alif, a young couple of artists immersed in the creative whirlwind of the early 70s hippie culture. Drugs will turn a passionate summer into a nightmare in a journey through the themes of Wyatt’s music: the euphoria and anguish of artistic creation, the unconscious fascination with drugs, the disenchantment with routine and physical and mental degradation.

Rock Bottom

2024

The Walker poster
6.0

'The Walker' is Mateo, a civil engineer with a plan: walking each and every one of the streets of New York.

The Walker

2015

The Walker poster
6.0

'The Walker' is Mateo, a civil engineer with a plan: walking each and every one of the streets of New York.

The Walker

2015

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed poster
8.8

The Felpetos have managed a clandestine lottery business for decades. The family enterprise operates in a small housing development. Maribel leads a crew of clerks who log the bets from her living room. Alejandra, her mother, lives in an identicalhouse just a few meters away, which serves as the administrative office. Some lotto bankers have been raided lately, and the atmosphere in the neighborhood has become strage since. There has been talk about police dismissals and big-money movements. Nobody can tell what is true from the rumors or the news on TV

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed

2025

The Cage poster
8.0

Vicente and Elena spend Sunday at their country house on the outside of Alicante. Vicente has bought a new canary because a cat that roams the area ate one of his canaries. Elena does not like birds in cages, but they are Vicente’s favorite pastime and they keep him company. Now they have to teach the new canary to sing.

The Cage

2021

The Cage poster
8.0

Vicente and Elena spend Sunday at their country house on the outside of Alicante. Vicente has bought a new canary because a cat that roams the area ate one of his canaries. Elena does not like birds in cages, but they are Vicente’s favorite pastime and they keep him company. Now they have to teach the new canary to sing.

The Cage

2021

Saturno poster
NR

"In 2018 my grandfather was imprisoned for child sexual abuse and attempted kidnapping. Now I meet him again and confront his gazes, his answers and my own feelings. Meanwhile, my family gathers at the country house and deals with the emotional consequences of growing up under this father figure". (Daniel Tornero)

Saturno

2024

El Eternauta's Wife poster
5.0

El Eternauta's wife is Elsa Sánchez, widow of Héctor Germán Oesterheld, writer of “El Eternauta” (1957), the masterpiece of the Argentinian comic; a woman whose family was taken away by the military dictatorship. A vital and close chronicle of the struggle for survival in the midst of horror and a testimony in which pain and love for life go hand in hand.

El Eternauta's Wife

2011

El arca de Noé poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

El arca de Noé

2014

El arca de Noé poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

El arca de Noé

2014

Posidònia poster
NR

In 1778, a group of genoese merchants settled in Tabarca island. 250 years later, a filmmaker wants to discover the secrets of the posidonia, the longest living being on the planet, but a pandemic turns over the documentary, all inhabitants have disappeared, and the posidonia too.

Posidònia

2021

Posidònia poster
NR

In 1778, a group of genoese merchants settled in Tabarca island. 250 years later, a filmmaker wants to discover the secrets of the posidonia, the longest living being on the planet, but a pandemic turns over the documentary, all inhabitants have disappeared, and the posidonia too.

Posidònia

2021

Stigmata poster
5.7

The story of Bruno, a rough, heavy man overly fond of drinking. His only desire is to be a normal person, but fate would have it otherwise. One day he wakens to find that his hands are starting to bleed, marking the start of a journey of redemption through suffering, pain and death. From now on he'll have to live with his new stigmata.

Stigmata

2009

Cotton Candy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cotton Candy

2026

Cotton Candy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cotton Candy

2026

The Fourth Kingdom poster
5.5

The regular visitors to a recycling center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, run by René, a discreet Mexican who works and sleeps there, and by the Spaniard Ana de Luco, form a community capable of transcending their reality to turn it into a realm of their own, sometimes surreal, outside the great collective swindle of the American dream. (Based on the short film The Fourth Kingdom, 2017.)

The Fourth Kingdom

2019

The Fourth Kingdom poster
5.5

The regular visitors to a recycling center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, run by René, a discreet Mexican who works and sleeps there, and by the Spaniard Ana de Luco, form a community capable of transcending their reality to turn it into a realm of their own, sometimes surreal, outside the great collective swindle of the American dream. (Based on the short film The Fourth Kingdom, 2017.)

The Fourth Kingdom

2019

The Fourth Kingdom poster
3.0

The regular visitors to a recycling center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, run by René, a discreet Mexican who works and sleeps there, and by the Spaniard Ana de Luco, form a community capable of transcending their reality to turn it into a realm of their own, sometimes surreal, outside the great collective swindle of the American dream.

The Fourth Kingdom

2017

The Fourth Kingdom poster
3.0

The regular visitors to a recycling center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, run by René, a discreet Mexican who works and sleeps there, and by the Spaniard Ana de Luco, form a community capable of transcending their reality to turn it into a realm of their own, sometimes surreal, outside the great collective swindle of the American dream.

The Fourth Kingdom

2017

My Grandmother's House poster
5.8

Being 6 years old, and having to live with your grandmother who is 75 years and has very old fashioned ideas, is not easy to say the least. That the situation leads to rebellion only seems logic....

My Grandmother's House

2005

My Grandmother's House poster
5.8

Being 6 years old, and having to live with your grandmother who is 75 years and has very old fashioned ideas, is not easy to say the least. That the situation leads to rebellion only seems logic....

My Grandmother's House

2005

Esquivar y pegar poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Esquivar y pegar

2010

Esquivar y pegar poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Esquivar y pegar

2010

No artwork available
NR

A powerful drug sparks a violent uprising of the homeless aimed at overturning established power, built around the loaded Bogotá slur “disposables” for people living on the streets.

Disposable

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Vida de pau poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vida de pau

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Pies y corazones poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pies y corazones

2020

Pies y corazones poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pies y corazones

2020

The Major Tones poster
7.0

It’s winter holidays and fourteen-year-old Ana discovers that the metal plate she has in her arm from an accident she suffered as a child is now receiving a strange message in Morse code.

The Major Tones

2024

Hardcore poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hardcore

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No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

No me jodas que tu no lo haces

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No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

No me jodas que tu no lo haces

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Beckett y el rinoceronte blanco poster
NR

Juan Carlos suffers from paranoid schizophrenia for more than 30 years. He lives with his mother, and attends the CRIS (Social Reinsertion Center) every day, where he lives with other users with similar diagnoses such as Bea, a hyperactive woman who will become his best friend, or Hippie, who dreams of becoming a rock singer. Together with Miguel, an actor with a serious personal crisis, they create a theatrical show, inspired by texts by Samuel Beckett. What begins as a CRIS workshop, will end up becoming a way to freely express their emotions and feelings.

Beckett y el rinoceronte blanco

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Fishbone poster
10.0

Jan works as a chef in a top restaurant in Manhattan. She is a workaholic without personal attachements. The sudden death of her father, makes her leave NY for a few days and go back to Tabarca, a tiny island in Spain by the Mediterranean Sea. She thought she had no roots, she had changed, but the Island does not think so.

Fishbone

2018

Fishbone poster
10.0

Jan works as a chef in a top restaurant in Manhattan. She is a workaholic without personal attachements. The sudden death of her father, makes her leave NY for a few days and go back to Tabarca, a tiny island in Spain by the Mediterranean Sea. She thought she had no roots, she had changed, but the Island does not think so.

Fishbone

2018

No artwork available
6.3

In Erati (Mozambique) is carried out since 2005 Erati Saude Program, focused on the development of the health network. It involves three Spanish NGO, together with the Ministry of Health of Mozambique, and with funding from the Generalitat Valenciana. In Erati live the protagonists of these three stories: The caneta, The capulana Madalena and glass eye. Three stories inspired by real characters and spaces. They are actually one story: the story of the meeting of two worlds in the struggle for life.

Kanimambo

2012

Flors de plàstic poster
NR

My mother got her first embroidery machine when she was 13. After my father passed away, my mother and my grandmother went to the cemetery to replace the fresh flowers with plastic ones. My mother and my grandmother still embroider to this day.

Flors de plàstic

2024