Paco Plaza is a Spanish film director, best known for writing and directing [•REC] and [•REC]² with Jaume Balagueró. He subsequently directed solo the third installment of the REC series: [•REC]³: Génesis, which is a sequel to the first two films.
A young auditor live peacefully in a residential block consisting of identical townhouses. However, a purely casual visit to the veterinarian on duty with his dog, causes a chain of lies under which the auditor notices the hidden face of all his daily life, starting with the true meaning of the silence of his wife .
Release Date1996-08-08
Charactersd Marido
Vote Count4
The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.
Release Date2009-09-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Zombie (uncredited)
Vote Count2119
Large doses of humor, ingenious nods to Spain's most recent national cinema, an artistic cast highly linked to comedy and a high reserve of surprises constitute the ingredients of this crazy comedy: Spanish Movie.
Release Date2009-12-03
Charactersd Municipal
Vote Count186
Release Date2020-01-10
Charactersd Camarero
Vote Count18
Barcelona, Spain, in the late sixties. Eugenio, a young jeweler who has fallen in love with Conchita, a singer, to the point of learning to play the guitar to accompany her in her performances, will first have to learn to overcome his stage fright.
Release Date2023-11-01
Charactersd Chicho
Vote Count54
In recent years, horror cinema has become an unavoidable phenomenon whether in America, Asia or Europe. Zombies, viruses and apocalypses have become familiar elements of popular culture. What do the horror films of the 2000's reveal about our world, about our politics, about ourselves? Why such a revival of horror today?
Release Date2010-01-01
Charactersd Himself
How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to do with his own? Since to understand the secrets of an artist it is essential to know the person behind, his family, his friends, his collaborators, as well as prestigious filmmakers and actors trace a collective portrait of a creator as singular as he is universal.
Release Date2021-10-26
Charactersd Self - Filmmaker
Vote Count1
On the Spanish version of RuPaul's Drag Race, Supremme de Luxe presides as Spain's most talented queens compete to be crowned Spain's Next Drag Superstar.
Release Date2021-05-30
Charactersd Self - Guest Judge
Episode Count1
Vote Count23
Release Date2014-10-10
Charactersd Self
Vote Count2
The horror film [REC] — directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, and released in 2007 — was an unprecedented triumph for Spanish fantasy cinema. Fifteen years later, those responsible for the creation and worldwide success of this cinematic milestone decode its keys and resurrect the myth.
Release Date2022-10-28
Charactersd Self - Filmmaker
Vote Count22
Release Date2017-11-16
Charactersd Self - Interviewee
Episode Count1
A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephilia, in search of genre specialists, fans and filmmakers who speak of their shared passion for fantastic cinema; a whole international spiritual community united under the cathartic shadow of horror.
Release Date2017-10-14
Charactersd Self - Filmmaker
Vote Count5
High Tension, Inside, Martyrs, Frontier(s) and Them. In the years of 2003 to 2008, those sensational and innovative horror movies were made and left huge impact around the world. This movement is called New Wave of French Horror. This film explores the meaning and hidden secrets of this significant movement.
Release Date2019-08-23
Charactersd Self
In the late sixties, Spanish cinema began to produce a huge amount of horror genre films: international markets were opened, the production was continuous, a small star-system was created, as well as a solid group of specialized directors. Although foreign trends were imitated, Spanish horror offered a particular approach to sex, blood and violence. It was an extremely unusual artistic movement in Franco's Spain.
Release Date2014-06-20
Charactersd Self - Director
Vote Count2
A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival.
Release Date2025-09-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count158
A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.
Release Date2012-03-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1571
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
Release Date2007-11-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4714
Horror short
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A terror is stalking the land: people are disappearing daily, their bodies appearing covered in savage gashes coupled with precise surgical cuts. The legend of the 'Werewolf of Allariz' spreads across the land like wildfire. When Barbara (Elsa Pataky) falls in love with travelling vendor Manuel Romasanta, she is at first besotted with him - but soon begins to be suspicious of him. What has happened to her sister, who - after being escorted by Romasanta to the city - seems to have disappeared forever.
Release Date2004-05-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count103
Canal + and Vértice 360 performed on April 16 and 17, the first 3D recording of a live concert in Spain, the protagonist was the Aragonese Enrique Bunbury as part of his "The Consequences" tour. He directed Paco Plaza, director of [REC].
Release Date2010-04-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
A female driver picks up an elderly man at the airport. During the journey, she realizes she has picked up the wrong man...
Release Date2007-04-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobCrowd Assistant Director
Vote Count1035
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count73
In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.
Release Date2017-08-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1821
Release Date2021-11-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count19
Mario, an exemplary man, lives in a village on the Galician coast. In the old people’s home, where he works as a nurse, everyone appreciates him. When the best known narco in the area, Antonio Padín, recently released from prison, enters the residence, Mario tries to make Antonio feel at home. Now, Padín's two sons, Kike and Toño, are in charge of the family business. The failure of an operation will put Kike in jail and cause them to owe a large debt to a Colombian supplier. Toño will turn to the nurse to try to convince his father to assume the debt. But Mario has his own plans.
Release Date2019-08-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count321
Spain, 1949. Narcisa, a novice, arrives at an old convent, converted into a girls' school, to work as a teacher.
Release Date2023-10-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count346
Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.
Release Date2014-10-31
DepartmentWriting
JobCreative Producer
Vote Count1230
A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
Release Date2008-10-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1324
Taxi driver David becomes the chauffeur for a famous bullfighter known as El Maestro, who is attempting a comeback after years away from the ring. El Maestro's perspective changes, and he starts seeing David as a good luck charm.
Release Date2025-10-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count9
Susana leaves her life in Paris, where she works as a model, and returns to Madrid to take care of her grandmother Pilar.
Release Date2022-01-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count472
Completely desperate, an unemployed actress resorts to her agent looking to help her to make an important decision.
Release Date2010-10-26
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Now with Mugaritz, the Valencian will document what happens behind closed doors in this restaurant and record the creation process, conceptualisation and commentary of the dishes, but not the making of the dishes themselves. Because the creation of Mugaritz is more to do with expressing ideas through food than with the cuisine itself, according to its creators.
Release Date2024-09-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Lola, an art restorer, has to work through the night to reveal a painting hidden beneath another painting. Her obsession with the task and her squandering of energy will bring her more than she bargained for.
Release Date2014-09-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Release Date1999-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Maria is 30 years old, she is a peculiar person and has one goal: become a normal person. But first of all she must discover what is exactly this. Which kind of person is she? Is she a normal person? What does exactly means? That question goes deeper into her mind. After she lists every requirements, she proposes to reach them. In that journey she will find her brother's help, Alex, a 25 years old boy who is mentally challenged and achieves every list requirements. She meets Borja as well, a boy obsessed with diets and lose weight. They will make a curious pact: she helps him to live an active and healthy live, and he helps her to meet her goal: become a normal person.
Release Date2015-06-04
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count134
After the suicide of her beloved father, the biologist Daniella Logan visits her catatonic mother in a mental institution to tell the tragic event and her mother calls her "Josephine". Daniella goes to the cemetery and finds that her father's grave had been opened and his corpse was profaned. She decides to investigate, and receives a message of a diabetic priest, Father Elias, who tells her about an ancient fanatic religious sect of followers of Abraham that kills the first child. Later, she meets a weird man, Toby Harris, who claims to be his legitimate father. Daniella continues seeking the truth about her origins and discloses very dark secrets about her family and friends.
Release Date2002-11-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count45
Hand-picked by Fantasias Mitch Davis, SMALL GAUGE TRAUMA is an extraordinary collection of 13 award-winning shorts from 8 countries. It represents some of the strongest and most eccentric highlights from the festivals trailblazing history with the form and is a veritable must-have for lovers of the unusual, aficionados of the fantastic and anyone with an interest in world cinema.
Release Date2006-07-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Focuses on the life of the singers from the first series of the Spanish reality TV talent show "Operación Triunfo" during the tour they made throughout Spain.
Release Date2002-09-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
We live anesthetized, isolated, immune to pain. What would happen if one day that emotional anesthesia disappeared?
Release Date2013-10-23
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
A hymn to life and a tribute "to those who left" in this difficult year are the messages that the company Campofrío launches in its traditional Christmas advertisement, which stars Quique San Francisco and Silvia Abril, among others, and is directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo and Paco Plaza. D.E.V ("Enjoy life") are the initials of Campofrío's 2020 Christmas campaign, a hymn to life in the form of a tribute to those who left and to "all those who continue trying every day to enjoy the gift of life", as the ad itself shows in its final part.
Release Date2020-12-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A kidnapped bride is expecting to die. A psycho is approaching, but anything can happen in one minute.
Release Date2010-10-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The story of the making and subsequent success of The Day of the Beast, the Spanish cult film directed by Álex de la Iglesia and released in 1995.
Release Date2016-10-10
Vote Count3
