Mateo Gil (Writer)
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Works
Nobody Knows Anybody
Simón is an aspiring novelist who makes a living designing crossword puzzles for a newspaper. One day he receives a threatening message instructing him to include the word "adversary" in a puzzle as Seville gets hit by a series of violent attacks.
Release Date1999-11-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Vote Count43
Luna
An early short by Alejandro Amenábar.
Release Date1995-01-01
Charactersd Hitchhicker
Vote Count2
El último truco
Documentary 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
Release Date2008-11-20
Charactersd Self
Vote Count3
The Minions of Midas
Victor Genovés, an influential businessman, is blackmailed: if he doesn't agree to pay a large sum of money, the self-styled Midas favorites will kill a person at random at a designated place and time and add a new victim periodically until they achieve their goal. How many deaths will he be able to carry on his shoulders?
Release Date2020-11-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count130
In Love All Over Again
Ever since they met, Irene and Julio have been falling in love, splitting up, and then trying again. Will they ever find their happy ending?
Release Date2023-02-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count38
Vanilla Sky
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.
Release Date2001-12-14
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count4328
Regression
Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is brought in to help him relive his memories and what they discover unmasks a horrifying nationwide mystery.
Release Date2015-10-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Consultant
Vote Count1821
Pedro Páramo
A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrated love.
Release Date2024-09-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count68
Open Your Eyes
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Release Date1997-12-19
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1097
Agora
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
Release Date2009-05-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1472
The Sea Inside
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.
Release Date2004-09-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count955
Thesis
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured to death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student at her college...
Release Date1996-04-11
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count863
Blackthorn
In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
Release Date2011-07-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count272
Butterfly
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.
Release Date1999-09-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count234
Realive
Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryogenically freeze himself. The love of his life is devastated. Seventy years later, Marc becomes the first cryogenic resuscitated person in history. But this doesn't happen in the idealized way he dreamt of.
Release Date2016-12-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count201
The Method
Seven candidates to a high executive position on a multinational company show up for a selection test in a skyscraper at the financial district. Among them, the most disparate personalities: the winner, the aggressive, the insecure, the critic, the indecisive…
Release Date2005-09-22
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count214
The Laws of Thermodynamics
Manel, a physicist working on his PhD thesis, accidentally fall in love with Elena, a young model and aspiring actress.
Release Date2018-04-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count164
Spectre
After the sudden death of his wife, Tomás, a successful elderly writer who has been out of Spain during the last forty years, unexpectedly receives an old tarot card which seems to have for him a disturbing meaning, so he decides to return to the small village where he grew up.
Release Date2006-09-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count44
We Treat Women Too Well
Remedios Buendía defends her homeland and will fight for it. This fateful day of 1945, a group of maquis take the post where she tries on her wedding dress. She will show how far she can go defending her values.
Release Date2024-03-15
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count20
Some Time Later
Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the slums built around it.
Release Date2018-12-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Unit Director
Vote Count82
A Christmas Tale
Cubelles, Tarragona, Spain, Christmas 1985. Five friends make an unexpected discovery in the forest: a woman disguised as Santa Claus trapped in a deep hole dug in the middle of nowhere.
Release Date2005-10-27
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
Vote Count71
Allanamiento de morada
Two salesmen arrive at an old woman's house to offer her a great deal.
Release Date1998-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Dime que yo
HE and SHE meet exactly at the same time they break up with their own couples... Is it possible for two strangers to begin a conversation full of recriminations, arguing until they get hoarse, and passionately reconcile as if they were a couple in the end?
Release Date2008-11-10
DepartmentWriting
JobIdea
Vote Count3
Himenóptero
Release Date1992-01-01
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
Vote Count5