Daniel Calparsoro (Directing)
Little is known about Daniel Calparsoro, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
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 Date:2025-01-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
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 Date:2024-11-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:5
Vote Count:58
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 Date:2024-01-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:121
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 Date:2023-09-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:128
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 Date:2023-03-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:7
Vote Count:77
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 Date:2022-06-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:123
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 Date:2022-02-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:20
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 Date:2020-12-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:223
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 Date:2019-10-25
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:325
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 Date:2018-03-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:370
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 Date:2018-01-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:12
Kalebegiak
Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian.
Release Date:2016-09-20
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
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 Date:2016-03-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:369
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 Date:2013-04-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:112
Tormenta
Release Date:2013-02-28
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
Tormenta
Release Date:2013-02-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
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 Date:2012-11-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:30
Inocentes
Three women who were enjoying themselves at a birthday party near a pine forest are kidnapped by a dangerous international organization.
Release Date:2010-01-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
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 Date:2010-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
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 Date:2009-09-08
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:2
The Punishment
Release Date:2008-12-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:8
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 Date:2005-09-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:14
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 Date:2002-03-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:16
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 Date:2000-02-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:26
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 Date:1997-06-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:10
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 Date:1996-03-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:6
Salto al vacío
Alex is a young woman with a shaved head and the word 'Void' written in her head that faces an extremely hard social environment thanks to her strong personality. She keeps all her family thanks to arms and drug trafficking, but she is also in love with Javi, a boy from her gang who ignores her.
Release Date:1995-03-03
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:14
Salvador
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1