Manuel Calvo

Directing

Manuel Calvo

Madrid, Spain

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Sundays poster
7.1

17-year-old Ainara is a student at a Catholic secondary school, and is about to take her final year exams and choose her future university course. To everyone’s surprise, this brilliant young girl announces to her family that she wants to take part in an induction period at a convent in order to embrace the religious life. Nobody was expecting this. While her father seems to be won over by his daughter’s aspirations, for Maite, Ainara’s aunt, this unexpected vocation is the manifestation of a deeper problem.

Sundays

2025

They Say poster
7.0

Not everything that happens on a school playground is play. Short film about LGBT effects in school.

They Say

2011

Nena poster
NR

Javier Gorrigaramendi was the first big who broke Ana s heart. Sixteen years later he appears. Ana Teenager doesn t want to open the door. What does Ana Adult want?

Nena

2014

Wounded poster
5.1

The first work from Fernando Franco revolves around Ana, a 30 year old ambulance driver. Though good at her job, Ana has problems relating in her personal life. She doesn't know it, but she suffers from a condition known by psychiatrists as Borderline Personality Disorder. The situation pushes her to outbreaks of self-destructive behaviour, alcohol abuse and self-harm. Ana is incapable of getting what she wants most: to be happy.

Wounded

2013

The Main Thing poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

The Main Thing

2006

Up to My Neck poster
7.0

One Thursday a month Lucas, Río and Marcos play cards at Xabi's house, the perfect host. It seems like a regular game until Xabi tells them what he has been doing during the last month

Up to My Neck

2021

Lullaby poster
7.2

Amaia has just become a mother, and the challenge is even more significant than she imagined. So when her partner has to leave for several weeks because of his job, she decides to spend time with her parents in a lovely coastal village in the Basque Country and hopefully share the responsibility of looking after her baby. However, she forgot that even when one becomes a parent, one never stops being a daughter.

Lullaby

2022

Ana y Manuel poster
6.0

Ana has just been dumped by her boyfriend Manuel. While living with her, he never let her own a pet because he thought it was cruel for the animal and not very hygienic. Once he even convinced her to get rid of a turtle that was given to her as a birthday present. But now she has decided to get a puppy, partly as revenge for leaving her and partly to help her forget about him. She names him "Man" because he sees him as half "Manuel" but still twice the man he was. Time goes by and the dog grows up but she can't forget her ex-boyfriend, and she doesn't want the dog anymore. So she plans to give him away, as a Christmas present, to her brother. She leaves him in the car and has dinner with her family but when she comes back to get him, the car is gone and so is the dog. She feels very sad and tries to find Man. Until one day, Manuel shows up at her door with him. He tells Ana a story of how he bought the dog at the market they used to visit when they were together, and how ...

Ana y Manuel

2005

Ana y Manuel poster
6.0

Ana has just been dumped by her boyfriend Manuel. While living with her, he never let her own a pet because he thought it was cruel for the animal and not very hygienic. Once he even convinced her to get rid of a turtle that was given to her as a birthday present. But now she has decided to get a puppy, partly as revenge for leaving her and partly to help her forget about him. She names him "Man" because he sees him as half "Manuel" but still twice the man he was. Time goes by and the dog grows up but she can't forget her ex-boyfriend, and she doesn't want the dog anymore. So she plans to give him away, as a Christmas present, to her brother. She leaves him in the car and has dinner with her family but when she comes back to get him, the car is gone and so is the dog. She feels very sad and tries to find Man. Until one day, Manuel shows up at her door with him. He tells Ana a story of how he bought the dog at the market they used to visit when they were together, and how ...

Ana y Manuel

2005

Champions poster
6.0

Khaled is the assistant coach of a top Saudi Arabian football team. One day, after a stressful match, his frustration and bad attitude lands him in disciplinary court. He loses his job and is sentenced to the worst possible punishment for his ego: coaching a group of players with intellectual disabilities. Through their innocence, tenderness and plenty of good humor, they will teach Khaled the things that really matter in life.

Champions

2022

Champions poster
6.0

Khaled is the assistant coach of a top Saudi Arabian football team. One day, after a stressful match, his frustration and bad attitude lands him in disciplinary court. He loses his job and is sentenced to the worst possible punishment for his ego: coaching a group of players with intellectual disabilities. Through their innocence, tenderness and plenty of good humor, they will teach Khaled the things that really matter in life.

Champions

2022

Castañuela 70, el teatro prohibido poster
NR

Spain, 1970. The groups Tábano and Las Madres del Cordero emerge from semi-clandestine and underground to bring to the stages of Madrid a show that revolutionized the theater scene of the time: Castañuela 70.

Castañuela 70, el teatro prohibido

2006

Castañuela 70, el teatro prohibido poster
NR

Spain, 1970. The groups Tábano and Las Madres del Cordero emerge from semi-clandestine and underground to bring to the stages of Madrid a show that revolutionized the theater scene of the time: Castañuela 70.

Castañuela 70, el teatro prohibido

2006