Production

Antonio Chavarrías

Born

1956-01-01 (70)

Place of birth

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Known for

Production

Credits

39 titles

Known for

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Milk of Sorrow poster
6.3

Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.

The Milk of Sorrow

2009

Madeinusa poster
6.2

Madeinusa is a girl who lives in an isolated village in the mountains of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor, and seemingly odd custom: from Good Friday at three o’clock in the afternoon to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like.

Madeinusa

2006

Manila poster
8.0

A petty criminal becomes embroiled in an intrigue between a prostitute and a bank executive.

Manila

1991

Manila poster
8.0

A petty criminal becomes embroiled in an intrigue between a prostitute and a bank executive.

Manila

1991

Neon Flesh poster
5.9

Hoping to earn his mother's respect, a young hustler-turned-businessman tries to open a brothel with his two useless buddies.

Neon Flesh

2010

Another Man poster
6.8

Marc and Eudald have been in a stable relationship for six years. Their life seems to run smoothly but even though together they make a good team, Eudald’s increasing impatience to cement their relationship is starting to get to to Marc, who finds himself caught in an emotional deadlock.

Another Man

2026

Childish Games poster
5.4

Daniel agrees to take Julia, the daughter of an old childhood friend who has just died, into his home.

Childish Games

2012

Childish Games poster
5.4

Daniel agrees to take Julia, the daughter of an old childhood friend who has just died, into his home.

Childish Games

2012

Childish Games poster
5.4

Daniel agrees to take Julia, the daughter of an old childhood friend who has just died, into his home.

Childish Games

2012

Wrap Up poster
3.8

Valeria (Manuela Pal) has changed his native Buenos Aires by Betanzos, a town of Coruña, in Spain from which his family. Eccentric, dreamy and fun, at 25 years old is in the most surreal emotional crossroads in his life: after the sudden death of her mature and attractive lover, Marcelo falls for the son of the deceased. Her friend Adela (Mary Bouzas), owner of the salon where they both work, will help clear up questions. A story about the universal desire to find their own identity, deciphering the collective love and live in a land that has nothing to envy to the boulevards of Paris.

Wrap Up

2007

The Appeared poster
5.1

One night Malena and Pablo, a sister and brother traveling together in Argentina, discover a diary that details crimes committed twenty years ago.

The Appeared

2008

Petra poster
6.2

Petra doesn’t know who her father is. Her entire life, it’s been hidden from her. After the death of her mother, she embarks on a search that leads her to Jaume, a famous artist and a powerful, ruthless man. On her path to uncovering the truth, Petra also meets Jaume’s son, Lucas, as well as Marisa, his mother and Jaume’s wife. That is when the story of these characters begins to intertwine in a spiral of malice, family secrets and violence that drives them all to the edge. But fate’s cruel logic is derailed by a twist that opens a path to hope and redemption.

Petra

2018

The Exiles poster
6.6

A mother-daughter relationship is complicated by unprocessed grief and financial strife.

The Exiles

2025

The Chosen poster
5.8

Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.

The Chosen

2016

The Chosen poster
5.8

Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.

The Chosen

2016

The Chosen poster
5.8

Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.

The Chosen

2016

Devil Between the Legs poster
6.6

Mexico City. Every day, Beatriz is insulted and humiliated by her jealous husband, but she does not flee his side because they have created a codependency and, at least for her, she would not conceive of her life any other way: by dint of feeling humiliated, she feels desired and desirable.

Devil Between the Legs

2019

Campolivar poster
NR

Reality and imagination blend in a descent to the director's childhood during the return to the last space where she stayed with her father, the house in Campolivar.

Campolivar

2025

Pau and His Brother poster
4.9

A death in the family brings a man back to his family and his hometown in this drama. After his brother Alex goes missing under hazy circumstances, Pau gets the bad news that Alex has died after a successful suicide attempt. Pau travels to the village in Spain's Pyrenees mountains where he was born to break the sad news to his mother Merce; hoping to spare her feelings at a difficult time, he tells her that Alex was killed in an auto accident. As Merce mourns the death of her son, she and Pau set out to find Alex's friends and acquaintances and tell them of his sad fate. In their travels, they encounter Sara, Alex's girlfriend, who planned to move away to the city with him; Emil, an engineer who will be putting a highway through the town; Marta, Emil's daughter; and Toni, one of Emil's co-workers. Circumstances bring Pau and Marta together again when Emil disappears, and Marta finds herself searching for her father.

Pau and His Brother

2001

A Thief's Daughter poster
6.1

Sara has been alone all her life. She’s 22, has a baby, and wants to form a normal family with her young brother and the father of her child. Her own father, Manuel, decides to come back into their lives after years of absence and his release from prison. Sara knows he’s the main obstacle to her plans and she makes a difficult decision: to distance him from herself and her brother.

A Thief's Daughter

2019

El año del diluvio poster
6.0

In a particularly hot summer, Sister Consuelo, superior of an order dedicated to caring for the sick, decided to transform the dilapidated hospital into a modern nursing.

El año del diluvio

2004

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Maestras

—

The Island Inside poster
5.2

The story of three siblings who try, each in his or her own way, to fight off the curse they have inherited: schizophrenia. Their father's genetic legacy, which they have schlepped around their entire lives, is exacerbated by the strict and moralistic upbringing they received from their mother.

The Island Inside

2009

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

L’enfonsament del Titanic

1993

Un caso para dos poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un caso para dos

1997

Una ombra en el jardí poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Una ombra en el jardí

1989

Una ombra en el jardí poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Una ombra en el jardí

1989

Holy Mother poster
6.0

In the 9th century, Emma, a 17-year-old girl, is named Abbess in order to repopulate and Christianize border territories in conflict with the Moors. Upon arriving at the Abbey she will have to overcome the mistrust aroused by a woman determined to fulfill her mission, which will lead her to confront nobles, peasants and the nuns themselves. Despite everything, Emma will show that it is possible to challenge established power structures. Although she will pay a high price to get it...

Holy Mother

2024

Holy Mother poster
6.0

In the 9th century, Emma, a 17-year-old girl, is named Abbess in order to repopulate and Christianize border territories in conflict with the Moors. Upon arriving at the Abbey she will have to overcome the mistrust aroused by a woman determined to fulfill her mission, which will lead her to confront nobles, peasants and the nuns themselves. Despite everything, Emma will show that it is possible to challenge established power structures. Although she will pay a high price to get it...

Holy Mother

2024

La doble vida del faquir poster
6.4

La doble vida del faquir (The magicians) returns to the scene of a school in the Catalan town of Sant Julià de Vilatorta where, in 1937, in the midst of civil war, a film-maker in hiding and a group of orphaned children dressed up as sultans and explorers shot an exotic adventure film. The films protagonists relive those childhood days when they were able to switch their school smocks for oriental turbans, while reality imposed its own fancy dress ball with military uniforms and priests dressed in civilian garb.

La doble vida del faquir

2005

Celia's Lives poster
5.9

The night Celia unsuccessfully attempts suicide, a teenage girl (Melany) is raped and murdered nearby. Miguel Ángel, the police officer in charge of finding the perpetrator of the crime, digs around Celia and her closest circle, including her two sisters (Carmen and Ángela) and her husband Agustín. While the cop suspects about the girl's boyfriend (Pedro), Celia suspects about her husband.

Celia's Lives

2006

Celia's Lives poster
5.9

The night Celia unsuccessfully attempts suicide, a teenage girl (Melany) is raped and murdered nearby. Miguel Ángel, the police officer in charge of finding the perpetrator of the crime, digs around Celia and her closest circle, including her two sisters (Carmen and Ángela) and her husband Agustín. While the cop suspects about the girl's boyfriend (Pedro), Celia suspects about her husband.

Celia's Lives

2006

Volverás poster
4.7

Ignacio (Unax Ugalde), a student of arquitectuara with a stable life, for more than six years since he sees his troubled older brother, Carlos (Tristan Ulloa). When the two are reunited, Ignacio learns that Carlos has a gambling problem, so he decides to try to help, even putting his life in danger, before leaving with a scholarship that has managed to go to study in Los Angeles.

Volverás

2002

Dos mujeres poster
9.0

Claudia lives happily married with an architect and is part of a rich family of builders. In a children's party going on an apparently unrelated to it: a clown found hanged.

Dos mujeres

1998

Elisa K poster
4.7

Eleven-year-old Elisa (Claudia Pons) lives with her father (Hans Richter) in Spain following the breakup of her parents. Elisa goes to a fair with her father, and meets one of his friends (Jordi Gracia), a successful jeweler. Days later, a change comes over Elisa -- her mother (Lydia Zimmermann) notices she seems distant and withdrawn, and her teacher (Pep Sais) watches as she grows disinterested in her studies and her grades drop dramatically. Fourteen years later, Elisa (now played by Aina Clotet) is a grown woman who suddenly and unexpectedly recalls the traumatic event changed her life when she was a girl...

Elisa K

2010

Susanna poster
4.2

An irresponsible young Spaniard having spent 6 months in jail for embezzlement gets a job as a waiter in a bar restaurant and becomes involved in a stolen goods racket.

Susanna

1996

Susanna poster
4.2

An irresponsible young Spaniard having spent 6 months in jail for embezzlement gets a job as a waiter in a bar restaurant and becomes involved in a stolen goods racket.

Susanna

1996

Susanna poster
4.2

An irresponsible young Spaniard having spent 6 months in jail for embezzlement gets a job as a waiter in a bar restaurant and becomes involved in a stolen goods racket.

Susanna

1996