Mabel Rivera

Acting

Mabel Rivera

Born 1952-06-20 · Ferrol, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain

Acting credits

The Sea Inside poster
7.6

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ramón manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.

The Sea Inside

2004

The Orphanage poster
7.2

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

The Orphanage

2007

Goya's Ghosts poster
6.6

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.

Goya's Ghosts

2006

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

El jefe poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El jefe

María Solinha poster
5.0

A famous director arrives in Cangas do Morrazo, in Galicia, to reconstruct in the theater the story of María Solinha, accused of witchcraft and burned by the Inquisition in the 17th century. The protagonist of the play suffers, in the 21st century, sour echoes of the aggression suffered by María Solinha in the 17th century.

María Solinha

2020

Jump! poster
7.2

Oscar and Teo (13 and 11 years old) are two brothers, very different from each other, who will have to face the loss of their mother, a scientist obsessed with wormholes.

Jump!

2023

Wrinkles poster
7.6

At an elder-care facility, a geriatric con artist tries to prevent his new friend with early Alzheimer's symptoms from being transferred to the 'lost causes' floor.

Wrinkles

2011

Drea & Cloe poster
5.5

Two ambitious women, both orchestra conductors, meet in a gothic mansion and are instantly drawn to each other. But their attraction is complicated when they discover they’re rivals for the same prestigious job.

Drea & Cloe

2026

Inevitable poster
2.8

Fabian (Dario Grandinetti) works as a bank executive. After one of his colleagues in the bank dies, he falls into crisis. His wife, Mariela (Carolina Peleritti), is a psychologist and has Olga (Mabel Rivera) , an embittered woman who tries to take her frustration out on her, as one of her patients. Fabian will meet a famous blind author (Federico Luppi), who tries to help him. Following his advice, Fabian embarks himself on a relationship with Alicia (Antonella Costa), a young artist that he considers his inevitable love.

Inevitable

2014

Arima poster
4.9

Arima is the story of four women and a girl whose existence is disrupted by the sudden arrival of two strangers. One of them is fleeing from the other, sneaking around town like an elusive being, a ghostly presence of uncertain existence. The other character —an injured man carrying a gun— will disrupt the women's way of life in different ways. The whole plot takes place on the fine line between reality and imagination, between dreams and nightmares, fear and desire, within a story shrouded in mystery.

Arima

2020

Blackout poster
5.4

Three people from different walks of life find themselves trapped inside a stalled elevator. What at first seems like an inconvenience rapidly escalates into a nightmare.

Blackout

2008

Game of Werewolves poster
5.8

After 15 years, Tomas, a not very succesfull writer, comes back to the village in Galicia where his family comes from, Arga, apparently to get an award. But he doesn't know the real reason why he is there, to end with an old curse that is been haunting the village for the last hundred years.

Game of Werewolves

2011

A-Maniki poster
NR

An elderly woman struggling with the digital world sees her routine interrupted when the television turns blue and an error message appears: "Update required." In search of a solution, she wanders through the aisles of a bazaar until, suddenly, darkness engulfs her and the metallic clang of a shutter announces closing time. She is trapped. A disturbing experience of isolation and oblivion begins.

A-Maniki

2025

Anacos poster
NR

The life of a person can be as easy and straightforward as his recipe for sponge cake.

Anacos

2012

Mataharis poster
5.1

Private detectives Inés, Eva, and Carmen often invade others' privacy but are clueless about confronting their own secrets. While on the job, these three surveillance specialists will have to cross the thin line dividing public and private matters, bringing their own issues to light in order to solve more than just their professional cases.

Mataharis

2007

The Enchanted Forest poster
7.0

In Galicia, in northern Spain, Malvís, a frustrated day laborer who, fed up with his life, has become a clumsy bandit, tries to make a name for himself by robbing travelers passing through a forest inhabited by colorful characters.

The Enchanted Forest

1987

Wedding in New York poster
7.8

A man takes his friend's place at a wedding in New York and falls in love with the bride.

Wedding in New York

2015

Carraxe poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Carraxe

Josephine poster
5.6

Josefina depicts Middle Age Juan's love angle, Juan was a prison guard and the lady he loved's son Sergio was a prisoner in prison, and he loses his job because of his love.

Josephine

2021

Concepción Arenal, la visitadora de cárceles poster
8.7

TV Movie about Concepción Arenal in his role as visiting women's prisons. His struggle to change the conception that was on criminals and they had to be modern prisons.

Concepción Arenal, la visitadora de cárceles

2012

No artwork available
NR

The literary activity of Emilia Pardo Bazán causes the scandal of her husband and conservative circles. Supported by his family, decides to end her marriage to become a professional writer. Doña Emilia is set in Madrid, where he developed an activity tirelessly to get the place in the institutions of culture that deserves for his talent and ability, facing all kinds of slights and exclusions because of their gender. The Countess will become one of the key figures of female emancipation in Spain in the late nineteenth century, leaving a work as extensive as rich and varied.

Emilia Pardo Bazán, la condesa rebelde

2012

Dying to Come Back poster
7.0

At 78 years old, Manuela buys a camera and AR glasses.

Dying to Come Back

2019

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