
Directing
Imanol Uribe
Born 1950-02-28 · San Salvador, El Salvador
Imanol Uribe was born on February 28, 1950 in San Salvador, El Salvador as Imanol Karmel Uribe Bilbao. He is a director and writer, known for Días contados (1994), Carol's Journey (2002) and Bwana (1996). Is of Spanish heritage and was raised in Madrid. Gained fame early in his career for his controversial socio-political portraits of the Basque people and their struggle to become a separate nation. Earned a journalism degree and later studied film direction. Lived with actress María Barranco [1982-2004]. They have a daughter, Andrea, born in 1993.
Acting credits
7.4After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988
NRReflections on Spanish cinema, based on seventy interviews with prominent filmmakers, analyzing their work and addressing their views on various general topics such as the industry and the evolution of Spanish cinema, as well as current issues such as the arrival of digital platforms.
Miradas del cine español
2024
NRAn account of the life and work behind the camera of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Olea, whose very personal viewpoint, interested in all kinds of subjects, approached in very different ways, but always with a very characteristic style, has analyzed the social and political life of Spain for more than five decades.
Olea… ¡Más alto!
2020
Behind the camera
7.5Documentary film about visual effects master Emilio Ruiz del Rio. From his early works on films at 1942, to his last contribution at 2007, Emilio Ruiz talks on his film experiences and traditional trickery, using foreground miniatures, glass shots, and painted cut out miniatures. It shows interviews with some of the professionals he has worked with, like, Rafaela de Laurentiis, Ray Harryhausen, Guillermo del Toro, or Enzo Castellari
El último truco
2008
5.8Daniel’s decision to travel to East Berlin in the middle of the Cold War to meet his birth mother turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life because, unbeknownst to him, he will become the essential piece of the KGB’s secret plan to set up their operations center in Francoist Spain, where his identical twin brother Klaus will play a key role, stealing his identity, his family and his entire life.
Sofia's Suspicion
2025
4.7A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media.
With Good Reason
2004
7.0Documentary on the life of Juan Negrín.
Ciudadano Negrín
2010
5.9Days before committing an attack, Antonio, a gunman of the terrorist gang ETA who has dedicated his life to a cause he no longer believes in, meets Charo, a young drug addict who, despite the sordid environment in which she lives, still retains her innocence.
Running Out of Time
1994
5.9Days before committing an attack, Antonio, a gunman of the terrorist gang ETA who has dedicated his life to a cause he no longer believes in, meets Charo, a young drug addict who, despite the sordid environment in which she lives, still retains her innocence.
Running Out of Time
1994
5.9Days before committing an attack, Antonio, a gunman of the terrorist gang ETA who has dedicated his life to a cause he no longer believes in, meets Charo, a young drug addict who, despite the sordid environment in which she lives, still retains her innocence.
Running Out of Time
1994
The movie is based on a popular tale from the Basque Country and tells the story of a woman that becomes a widow the same day she gets married, and decides to keep living with the husband's dead body for 6 years.
Eternal Fire
1985
4.6A love story between a terrorist and his victim.
Far from the Sea
2015
4.6A love story between a terrorist and his victim.
Far from the Sea
2015
5.9Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.
The Dumbfounded King
1991
10.0Beatriz is an attractive young lawyer who enjoys an enviable position thanks to the influence of her father, a prominent businessman. Lucas, a young man with a rather shady past, is struggling to emerge from the unfavorable situation in which life has placed him. When Lucas is arrested with a stash of adulterated cocaine, he becomes a client of Beatrice. He has hidden the pure cocaine with the intent to share it only with his associate Uriarte; and to do so he has had to deceive another one of his accomplices, making him believe that the business has failed.
Bilbao Blues
1986
10.0Beatriz is an attractive young lawyer who enjoys an enviable position thanks to the influence of her father, a prominent businessman. Lucas, a young man with a rather shady past, is struggling to emerge from the unfavorable situation in which life has placed him. When Lucas is arrested with a stash of adulterated cocaine, he becomes a client of Beatrice. He has hidden the pure cocaine with the intent to share it only with his associate Uriarte; and to do so he has had to deceive another one of his accomplices, making him believe that the business has failed.
Bilbao Blues
1986
6.5Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the room where his father was found dead). He is so interested in these mysteries that he starts to investigate all the secrets of these dead people and their stories.
Secrets of the Heart
1997
7.3During a night of 1989, in the middle of the Salvadoran civil war, six Jesuit priests were murdered at the UCA University. The news has an immediate international repercussion since their contribution was key in the foreseeable peace agreement after a decade of bloody war. Who killed them? The government immediately blamed the guerrillas but an eyewitness debunked the official version. Her name is Lucía and she works as a cleaning employee at the UCA. She has seen who were the real killers: the army. Now she will have to choose between testifying for the truth or protecting her family.
What Lucia Saw
2022
5.8Romance and murder walk side by side in this psychological drama from Spain. A serial killer has been plying his grisly trade in a small town in Spain, murdering young girls and leaving their bodies in a nearby forest.
Plenilune
1999
6.2Spain, 1938, during the Spanish Civil War. Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl, arrives in her mother's hometown and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once foreign and completely new.
Carol's Journey
2002
6.2Spain, 1938, during the Spanish Civil War. Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl, arrives in her mother's hometown and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once foreign and completely new.
Carol's Journey
2002
5.0Andalusia in the fifties. Enrique and Carmen just meet and fall deeply in love. Carmen gets him to stay in military service in a court of the city. Enrique, in view of the injustices he witnesses every day, realizes that to change the course of things he has to act. Soon he will be involved in risky actions that endanger their lives and those of their peers.
Orange Honey
2012
8.0Documentary dedicated to the new Basque music.
Ikuska 13: Euskal kanta berria
1982
6.6After experiencing a series of traumatic, seemingly unrelated, accidents, Eva begins to notice that her daughter Luna is behaving in increasingly strange ways.
The Black Moon
1990
6.6After experiencing a series of traumatic, seemingly unrelated, accidents, Eva begins to notice that her daughter Luna is behaving in increasingly strange ways.
The Black Moon
1990
4.8Coy, a sailor without ship, banished from the sea by a navigation accident occurred during his guard, knows in an auction of naval objects in Barcelona to an attractive and mysterious woman, Tangier. This, in hard struggle with an Italian adventurer, Nino Palermo, manages to get a cartographic jewel of eighteen, the Maritime Atlas of Urrutia.
The Nautical Chart
2007
4.8Coy, a sailor without ship, banished from the sea by a navigation accident occurred during his guard, knows in an auction of naval objects in Barcelona to an attractive and mysterious woman, Tangier. This, in hard struggle with an Italian adventurer, Nino Palermo, manages to get a cartographic jewel of eighteen, the Maritime Atlas of Urrutia.
The Nautical Chart
2007
