Luis Miñarro

Production

Luis Miñarro

Luis Miñarro was born in 1949 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives poster
6.6

Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

2010

Sidewalls poster
7.5

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?

Sidewalls

2011

No artwork available
NR

“Cinéclub” is the story of a small art and rehearsal cinema. The cinema dies with all its workers: the projectionist, the blockbuster, the viewers...One of the few spectators of this little film falls for the blockbuster, which feels no interest in it. The decay of this relationship parallels the decline of the theater, which is disappearing in absolute silence, always empty, apparently without any future, but perhaps they can find a way out.

Cinéclub

2009

Still the Water poster
6.7

On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito suffers from the absence of his father, who moved to Tokyo after his birth, Kyoko must come to grips with her mother’s terminal illness.

Still the Water

2014

Cábala caníbal poster
5.7

Villamediana uses his family history to unravel hidden memories of kabbala in Spain. With contemporary images, found footage, archival material, film, literature and ancient Hebrew texts, he creates a new cinematic language for unearthing cultural history.

Cábala caníbal

2015

No artwork available
5.7

Étienne is an old man who refuses to leave his home because he is convinced that the spirits of his wife and daughter still live there. Nevertheless, the apartment's owner will try to throw him away by any means.

La lapidation de Saint Étienne

2013

Emergency Exit poster
4.0

It tells how 14 characters travel in a mysterious vehicle that they cannot easily get out of. Along the way, they fabricate about their identity and travel through unreal landscapes on a journey between life and death, sleep and wakefulness. According to the synopsis, "a tragicomedy with no certainties".

Emergency Exit

2025

Emergency Exit poster
4.0

It tells how 14 characters travel in a mysterious vehicle that they cannot easily get out of. Along the way, they fabricate about their identity and travel through unreal landscapes on a journey between life and death, sleep and wakefulness. According to the synopsis, "a tragicomedy with no certainties".

Emergency Exit

2025

Falling Star poster
5.9

During a brief rule towards the end of the 19th century, the Italian duke Amadeo of Savoy occupied the Spanish throne. However, confined to the safety of life within the palace walls, the lonely, frustrated king and his servants succumb to playful adventures focused more on pleasure than his duties.

Falling Star

2014

Falling Star poster
5.9

During a brief rule towards the end of the 19th century, the Italian duke Amadeo of Savoy occupied the Spanish throne. However, confined to the safety of life within the palace walls, the lonely, frustrated king and his servants succumb to playful adventures focused more on pleasure than his duties.

Falling Star

2014

Falling Star poster
5.9

During a brief rule towards the end of the 19th century, the Italian duke Amadeo of Savoy occupied the Spanish throne. However, confined to the safety of life within the palace walls, the lonely, frustrated king and his servants succumb to playful adventures focused more on pleasure than his duties.

Falling Star

2014

Liverpool poster
6.8

A sailor takes a short leave to visit his hometown and see if his mother is still alive.

Liverpool

2008

The Mosquito Net poster
5.5

Maria suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Luis, Maria's fifteen-year-old grandson, doesn't say very much either; he shuts himself off in his own silent world to escape his parent's marital crisis, spending time instead picking up stray cats and dogs off the street. His father, Miguel, wants to put a stop to this eccentric behavior, but his protective mother Alice indulges him. Nevertheless, the animals begin to appear at home in increasing numbers, making life complicated for the family in their flat.

The Mosquito Net

2010

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl poster
6.2

On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

2009

Finisterrae poster
7.4

Two ghosts walk along the Camino of Santiago.

Finisterrae

2010

Mighty Flash poster
6.1

Isa uses a tape recorder to record messages to herself and then reads them out. She is hoping for change to come, which isn’t surprising. She lives in a small community in southwest Spain where nothing ever happens. All the young people have left. For those who stay behind, time seems to stand still.

Mighty Flash

2021

Les Unwanted de Europa poster
6.4

In February 1939, the paths of those fleeing Francoist Spain on one side and the advancing Nazis on the other crossed along the Pyrenees. Anarchists and socialists, Jews and partisans, in an exodus with no safe destination. Among them Walter Benjamin, one of the greatest European intellectuals of the 20th century.

Les Unwanted de Europa

2018

Honour of the Knights poster
7.2

Trusting in fate, Don Quixote and Sancho pursue their travels in search of adventure day and night. They ride through fields, talking about subjects as varied as spirituality, chivalry and daily life. A growing bond of friendship unites them.

Honour of the Knights

2006

Vamps poster
NR

Arielle and Myriam contemplate and philosophize — their eyes fixed beyond, into the star-strewn darkness. They reflect on love, the sacrifices it demands, and the madness it can inspire. Two divas in a tribute to the very origins of cinema.

Vamps

2025

Vamps poster
NR

Arielle and Myriam contemplate and philosophize — their eyes fixed beyond, into the star-strewn darkness. They reflect on love, the sacrifices it demands, and the madness it can inspire. Two divas in a tribute to the very origins of cinema.

Vamps

2025

The Strange Case of Angelica poster
6.5

A photographer, Isaac, is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From that moment, he will be haunted by Angélica day and night.

The Strange Case of Angelica

2010

In the City of Sylvia poster
6.7

A man returns to a city to try to track down a woman he met six years earlier.

In the City of Sylvia

2007

Love Me Not poster
4.3

A powerful international army assigns a regiment the task of guarding a mysterious man, held in a maximum security prison in the middle of the desert. Soldier Salome, daughter of Commander Antipas, becomes obsessed with him... Eros and Thanatos together reminding us that truth is based on beauty and love.

Love Me Not

2019

Familystrip poster
NR

The Spain that fades. We assist to the painting of a family portrait that reveals a generation away: our elders. Two survivors of the civil war and postwar tell us about their most intimate secrets, which are none other than the commitment to life. Another view of our collective memory ...

Familystrip

2009