Daniel Calparsoro (Director)

Mikaela

During the eve of the 6th of January, a record-breaking snowstorm sweeps across Spain. In the midst of its chaos, a group of robbers seizes the opportunity to hijack an armoured van. A few meters away is Leo, a finished policeman who has nothing to lose. With the unexpected aid of a young woman, he will try to stop the band from running away with their loot.

Release Date2025-01-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count59

Bank Under Siege

Spain, 1981: When armed men hold up a bank and take hundreds hostage, a reporter races against the authorities to uncover the true motive for the heist.

Release Date2024-11-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count71

Silent Cargo

November 2019. A semi-submersible loaded with three tons of cocaine is seized off the Galician coast after having crossed the Atlantic. The captain, Nando, a promising young amateur boxer, travels accompanied by a Brazilian mechanic and a Colombian hitman. Three strangers locked up for almost a month in a claustrophobic handmade boat.

Release Date2022-02-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count25

Apaches

A young journalist is forced into a life of crime to save his father and family in this series based on the novel by Miguel Sáez Carral.

Release Date2018-01-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count13

Sky High: The Series

To remain independent of her father, who is a stolen goods trafficker, a newly widowed single mom joins her late husband’s gang of smash-and-grab thieves.

Release Date2023-03-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count7

Vote Count79

The Punishment

Release Date2008-12-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count8

La ira

During a long weekend, Marina and Julian murdered and dismembered a young married couple. Veronica, the agent in charge of the case, dives into their messy memories to uncover the reasons that led them to commit the brutal crime.

Release Date2009-09-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count2

Salvador

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

The Courier

After shrewdly seizing his chance to join a money-laundering scheme, a modest valet dives into a world of fast cash, fast cars — and an inevitable crash.

Release Date2024-01-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count137

All the Names of God

After being implicated in a terrorist attack, Santi, a taxi driver, is taken hostage by one of the perpetrators.

Release Date2023-09-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count140

Centauro

Rafa's hooked on the pure, fiery feelings he gets from speed racing, but when his kid's mom gets mixed up with drug dealers, he burns rubber to save her.

Release Date2022-06-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count123

Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, 2019. Two corpses appear in the crypt of the Old Cathedral. Police officer Unai López de Ayala, an expert in criminal profiling, must hunt down the ritual murderer who has been terrorizing the city for two decades.

Release Date2019-10-25

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count331

Sky High

A commentary on Spanish society dressed as a thriller about the misadventures of a gang of young petty criminals after the real estate crash.

Release Date2020-12-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count224

To Steal from a Thief

Valencia, Spain. On a rainy morning, six armed men in disguise assault a bank. But what seemed like an easy heist, quickly goes wrong with nothing unfolding as planned, and mistrust quickly builds between the two leaders of the gang.

Release Date2016-03-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count378

The Warning

Ten-year-old Nico receives a threatening letter and now his life is in danger. No one seems to believe him except one person that he doesn't know.

Release Date2018-03-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count378

Tormenta

Release Date2013-02-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count2

Inocentes

Three women who were enjoying themselves at a birthday party near a pine forest are kidnapped by a dangerous international organization.

Release Date2010-01-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Asfalto

Three young and desperate inhabitants of Madrid attempt to rise above their circumstances by any means available to them in that sun-drenched city. This tight-knit trio must scramble when their hasty plans become derailed by a demanding matriarch, an abusive older brother, and the entire corrupt underclass with which they deal.

Release Date2000-02-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count26

Warriors

Kosovo, winter 1999. KFOR forces perform their humanitarian task while trying to maintain a difficult neutrality between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs. A platoon of Spanish Army engineers becomes unwittingly caught up in the spiral of violence between the two sides.

Release Date2002-03-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

Invader

Iraq, 2003. Pablo, a Spanish army doctor sent on a peacekeeping mission, is involved in an attack on his convoy during a routine trip through the desert.

Release Date2012-11-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count33

Blinded

Featuring plenty of two-fisted action with romantic and political overtones, this intelligent thriller from Spanish director Daniel Calparsoro is set in the Basque region of northernmost Spain and centers on the clash between two Basque terrorists whose relationship becomes strained when the female starts refusing to kill their enemies. Unfortunately, for someone like her, leaving terrorism can be as dangerous as remaining in the fray.

Release Date1997-06-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

The Absent

Julia and Samuel move with their children to a residential area on the outskirts of the city, a seemingly idyllic place to live.

Release Date2005-09-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count14

Tormenta

Release Date2013-02-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Inocentes

TV miniseries of two episodes. Carla (Lucía Ramos), Sara (Paloma Bloyd) and Adriana (Aura Garrido) enjoy a birthday party without knowing it, hidden in a nearby pine forest, a mysterious young man with binoculars observes everything that happens during the evening, especially the making the three girls, who end up away from the group into the forest. Kidnapped by a dangerous international organization composed of unscrupulous men and veterans of the war in the Balkans linked to a prostitution ring, the three young girls will live the worst nightmare of his life.

Release Date2010-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kalebegiak

Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian.

Release Date2016-09-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Salto al vacío

Alex is a young woman who resorts to arms and drug trafficking to support her parents and younger brother in 1990s Basque Country. Alex has her life further complicated by her unrequited love for Javi, a member of her criminal gang.

Release Date1995-03-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count14

Pasajes

In this talky Spanish thriller, Gabi, a lesbian gang member seeks to convince her middle-aged heterosexual dreamgirl Carmina to become her new lover and crime partner. The story begins as Gabi and her lover burst into another woman's apartment, tie her up and begin robbing her. The police show up and during a shoot-out, one of the robbers is killed. After she escapes, Gabi returns to her fringy friends and begins dreaming of a soul mate. All Gabi knows is that the right woman will be a pair of green high heels. Carmina owns such a pair, and though she is far from Gabi's physical ideal, a soul mate is a soul mate and so she begins her persistent courtship.

Release Date1996-03-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

Combustion

Mikel will marry Julia, owner of a major jewelry he inherited from his parents. During the party in announcing their commitment, Mikel meets Ari, one of the waitresses catering. The attraction that arises between them will make Mikel is interested in the world of Ari: illegal motor racing. Then, the protagonist of this story decides to leave Julia without knowing the true intentions of the person who has seduced. Ari and her boyfriend, Navas, have hatched a plan to get around Mikel jewelry made ​​with his ex-girlfriend.

Release Date2013-04-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count115