Salvador Calvo (Director)

Los misterios de Laura

Release Date2009-07-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count32

The Adventures of Captain Alatriste

In a society, the proud and arrogant Golden Age Spain, riding blind towards the end of the Empire and in which the honor and loyalty are all, a Spanish soldier who has travelled Europe fighting under the flag of "Tercio Viejo de Cartagena", survives in the Austrias' Madrid as a mercenary swordsman hired four coppers on request. Brave, honest and loyal man, Diego Alatriste will be involved in intrigues and conspiracies of various kinds that require him to make good use of his steel.

Release Date2015-01-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count9

Stories to Stay Awake

Release Date2021-11-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count16

Cuéntame un cuento

Release Date2014-11-10

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count69

Los Nuestros

Two children are imprisoned by the jihadists and hidden in a village while terrorists prepare the conditions for transfer them to the Algerian desert. A group of Spanish Special Forces from the Army is sent to rescue them. To success in the mission the captain and the sniper have put aside their differences, blame and resentment and collaborate together.

Release Date2015-03-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count10

Cain's Father

The Basque Country, Spain, 1980s. In an atmosphere of tension and fear, where the harassment of separatist nationalism and the violence of ETA terrorist gang are a constant in life, Eloy, a young civil guard from Madrid, arrives at the Intxaurrondo base, in San Sebastián, as a volunteer; a hostile environment that causes havoc among his companions: alcoholism, depression and suicides reign. The so-called “Northern Syndrome” kills as much as bombs do.

Release Date2016-12-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count10

Stolen Children

Real life story of babies stolen from their mothers during the 1970s and their struggles during the following decades.

Release Date2013-10-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count10

Mario Conde: los días de gloria

Release Date2013-07-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Los simuladores

Release Date2006-03-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Alakrana

Release Date2011-05-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Valley of Shadows

Quique, Clara and little Lucas are vacationing in northern India. One night, sleeping outside during a storm, they are brutally attacked. Hours later, Quique is rescued by a native and taken to a remote isolated village in the mountains.

Release Date2024-01-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count55

1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines

The Philippines, 1898. Fifty Spanish soldiers arrive in the small village of Baler to rebuild an outpost. Although the war against the Filipinos and their American allies is almost lost, as is the Spanish Empire, the garrison will endure a cruel siege for eleven months. They will be the last to surrender.

Release Date2016-12-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count172

Adú

In a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the holds of an airplane. Not too far away, an environmental activist contemplates the terrible image of an elephant, dead and fangless. Not only do you have to fight against poaching, but you will also have to meet the problems of your newly arrived daughter from Spain. Thousands of kilometers to the north, in Melilla, a group of civil guards prepare to face the furious crowd of sub-Saharan people who have begun the assault on the fence. Three stories linked by a central theme, in which none of its protagonists know that their destinies are doomed to cross and that their lives will no longer be the same.

Release Date2020-01-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count284

Maras

Black and white thriller with a social streak, the energy of Amores perros and expressive music. A story about the life in the world of gangs whose soldiers know only one language – violence. Rape, extortion, brutal beatings… Two families found themselves in the hell from which it is not easy or maybe impossible to escape. Marabunta are extremely dangerous legionary ants that always attack in a group and destroy everything that stands in their way. They also gave the name to maras – ruthless and brutal gangs terrorising the streets in El Salvador as well as Los Angeles.

Release Date2019-03-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Masala

Antonio is the principal of a high school in a downtown immigrant neighborhood. His aim is to avoid the school's closing and the scattering of the students. Along with Antonio's ever-increasing help, Judith the new music teacher, takes on the difficult task of obtaining her student's interest in her subject while helping them become active participants in a common project.

Release Date2007-01-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

El trasplante

El Transplante focuses on the story of "a mature couple" who "sees the need to renew their bodies to avoid being fired from their jobs", but who only have enough money for one of them. That limiting circumstance will force them to make decisions.

Release Date2022-10-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3