Michel Gaztambide

Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores

Spain. 1978. Year of the first democratic elections following the dictatorship, and of the birth cine quinqui (delinquent movies): films that rapidly became a big commercial success, showing things that were banned by the censorship not too long before.

Release Date2018-04-15

Charactersd Self

Vote Count3

The Invisible Line

The birth of the Basque terrorist gang ETA and its first attack, of which José Antonio Pardines, a Guardia Civil traffic officer, was the victim.

Release Date2020-04-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count22

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

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count10

Libertad

Set in the 19th century, the series tracks a mother and her son following their release after spending the first seventeen years of the boy’s life in prison together. Having been granted their freedom, the two just want to live in peace. Unfortunately, they find themselves between conflicting interests of two bandit clans and the local governor, fighting over trade routes.

Release Date2021-03-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count25

The Vault

Madrid, Spain, 2010. While the whole city follows the national team's successful participation in the World Cup, a group of daring thieves look for a way into one of the most secure and guarded places on the planet.

Release Date2021-03-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count997

Flight 8714: Take Off to Disaster

A dramatic re-creation of a 2008 airplane crash in Madrid that killed 154 people.

Release Date2010-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Cows

A film set in the Basque region, beginning in the Carlist war of 1875 and ending during the Spanish Civil war of 1936. The film portrays how one single act of cowardice shapes the life of the next three generations of two families and fuels the intense rivalry which will span the next sixty-one years.

Release Date1992-02-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count62

No Rest for the Wicked

Madrid, the beginning of the century. One day, the police inspector Santos Trinidad coming home very drunk, is involved in a triple murder. But there is a witness who managed to escape and that could incriminate him. Santos undertakes an investigation to locate and eliminate the witness. Meanwhile, Chacón a judge in charge of investigating the triple murder, meticulously advances in the search for the murderer. Santos and Chacon soon discover that what seemed a simple case of drug trafficking is actually something far more dangerous.

Release Date2011-09-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count138

Close Your Eyes

Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.

Release Date2023-08-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count97

The Influence

After moving back to her family home to care for her dying mother, a nurse haunted by her childhood memories must struggle with an evil force in the house.

Release Date2019-06-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count257

Box 507

Modesto, an honest and responsible professional, is a manager of a small bank branch in Costa del Sol. His daughter died in a forest fire which he had thought to be accidental. One day he wakes up in his bank, after being locked and dragged by unknown men, and finds out in a safety-deposit box that the fire was plotted. From that day on, he sets on a personal crusade for justice.

Release Date2002-08-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count73

Petra

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.

Release Date2018-10-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count38

Chatarra

Zabu was a dancer in a small cabaret in Bilbao. Twelve years later she is living with her daughter Lola and a small delinquent called Lino in a squalid suburb of an industrial city. She dreams of leaving for Australia.

Release Date1991-10-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Amama

The story of a family; the story of a conflict. The rural and the urban, the past and the present, parents and their offspring: opposing ways of life struggle against one another whilst, in eloquent silence, the grandmother ('amama') watches her family’s destiny unfold.

Release Date2015-10-16

DepartmentCrew

JobScript

Vote Count12

Kalebegiak

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

Release Date2016-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Libertad

Libertad is a combination of intense drama, villainy , betrayal , romance , heroism and redemption . Dealing with revenge, justice , ambition and redemption that turns out to be the main axis of the plot . This is a Bandoleros movie regarding outlaws in 19th century Andalucía, Spain, who alone or in bands , engulfed the region with merciless assaults and ominous murders , while authorities carried out terrible punishments and bloody executions

Release Date2021-03-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

La vida mancha

Fito (Juan Sanz) is a poker addict truck driver and labor problems that his wife Juana (Zay Nuba) tries to overcome. A day will come Pedro (Jose Coronado), the brother Fito, absent from his life for 13 years.

Release Date2003-05-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count18

Baztan

A film crew travels to the Valley of Baztan to make a film about certain events that occurred in the seventeenth century is the history of discrimination suffered by so-called "agotes", people who were forced to live apart from the rest almost to our days.

Release Date2012-10-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Neckan

Release Date2017-03-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

Santa Cruz, the guerrilla priest

Juán Auzmendi, sacristan of a small Spanish village, decides to emigrate to America in search of new horizons. To pay for the trip, he steals the saving of his parish priest and begins the journey to the city of Pasajes, where he hopes to get on a ship. But Spain is again on the verge of a Civil War and the trip to the coast gets complicated.

Release Date1990-07-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

El idioma imposible

Fernando, lives in the heart of Barcelona's Chinatown, which seeks life peddling amphetamines and alternating with a peculiar gallery sinister characters. In one of those sunrises stolen life, Fernando meet Elsa, a young teenager, fresh and lively, with a passionate and self-destructive personality who unwittingly become the most addictive. Together they try to survive in a shadowy villain and Barcelona at the end of the day is taken by the renegades of society and their particular codes.

Release Date2010-11-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

A Tram in SP

In a small town in the Basque country, Lucas and Maria are an elderly brother and sister. They share a house with their memories and the ghosts of the people they have loved throughout their lifes. They know that sooner or later they will buy their ticket for their final journey. Marcos and Roma are young and alone. She's a nurse and paints windows that embellish the views from her room. Marcos is a street performer with no home of his own, clinging to his accordion and a pile of questions. They don't know that sooner or later they will all set out on a journey together.

Release Date2008-04-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count7

Me

A handyman named Hans moves to a small town in Majorca where his his presence strikes a discord with the local residents.

Release Date2007-07-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

Muerto de amor

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Hombre sin Hombre

Release Date2001-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector