Mariano Barroso (Directing)
Little is known about Mariano Barroso, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Los Farad
The day Oskar, a typical local boy, crosses paths with the mysterious and wealthy Farad family, his life changes forever. Oskar enters a winner-take-all game, the world of international arms trafficking. In Marbella where the Farads live, luxury, adrenaline and intense emotions await him... But also a backside of violence and cynicism that tests his will.
Release Date:2023-12-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:5
Vote Count:49
The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances.
Release Date:2023-11-10
Character:Self - Filmmaker
Vote Count:5
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 Date:2020-04-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:21
Criminal: Spain
Psychological games abound between detectives and suspects in a tense interrogation room, where the search for answers sometimes comes at a moral cost.
Release Date:2019-09-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:87
What the Future Holds
In 1966, Justo Gil arrives in Barcelona as a migrant with the purpose of gaining enough money to give his sick mother the best care. His great charisma allows him to socialize with the youngsters of the upper-class, until an unexpected turn of events makes him become an informer of the political police, in order to pursue communist cells.
Release Date:2018-06-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:21
Todas las mujeres
Tells the story of Nacho, a veterinarian, who faces women who have meant something in his life. Before him appears his lover, his mother, his psychologist, his partner, his ex-girlfriend and her sister. With all of them have outstanding accounts and they all have to face to resolve.
Release Date:2013-10-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:16
Dark Impulse
Eva, an honest and rigorous examining magistrate, investigates the murder of a young stripper in which a powerful businessman is apparently involved, but she is unable to find enough evidence to implicate him… until a mysterious witness appears who makes her an offer she can't refuse.
Release Date:2012-02-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:17
Todas las Mujeres
Release Date:2010-10-10
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Invisibles
A series of short films examining the world's overlooked problems and the people who suffer from them.
Release Date:2007-02-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:14
El oficio de actor
Three of Spain's most renowned actors discuss the acting profession and share experiences and feelings from their different shootings. The ego, the characters, the fears, the preparation and the way each one approaches this profession.
Release Date:2005-10-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Ants in the Mouth
After languishing in a Barcelona prison for nearly a decade, a busted bank robber attempts to find the girl who made off with the cash in this suspenseful tale of revenge and betrayal starring Adriana Gil and Eduard Fernández. Ex-con Martin Losada is out of prison and on the hunt. When he and his band of anti-Franco bank robbers were busted after a botched heist ten years ago, the only member of their team never caught by police was his long-gone ex-girlfriend Julia. Now, on the eve of the 1958 revolution, the recently released ex-con sets his sights on Havana in a determined bid to find Julia, and stake his claim on his rightful share of the take.
Release Date:2005-04-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:7
With Good Reason
A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media.
Release Date:2004-11-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:12
In the Time of the Butterflies
Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops.
Release Date:2001-10-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:38
Kasbah
A young man who lives in Morocco, his father and his half-sister are the characters. When the girl disappears in Kasbah, a night club, her half brother becomes the prime suspect.
Release Date:2000-09-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Washington Wolves
Alberto and Miguel have a bar, but things are not going very well. They need to get out of this black hole and they need money to do it. Alberto is divorced and alcoholic, Miguel has a big secret... Their old friend Claudio is very rich. Why not steal some of his money? Troubles grow when Claudio's wife is planning to steal this money too... The Washington wolfs, in a circus near all this, are the silent witnesses of all that happens that night.
Release Date:1999-08-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:8
What Makes Women Laugh?
Luci, Graci and Mar, three sisters that make a comedy trio, go to the wedding of their father with a woman who is 45 years younger than him. During the feast Luci's husband dies in an accident. Despite the tragedy, the trio have to fulfill their commitment acting during August in Benidorm. The widow discovers thanks to a notebook that her husband cheated on her, so she decides to flirt with everyone.
Release Date:1997-02-25
Character:Mariano
Vote Count:8
Extasis
Rober, Max and Ona, three young people living on the fringes of society, decide to commit a risky robbery.
Release Date:1996-02-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:17
My Soul Brother
Meeting of two very different brothers: Carlos is an ambitious young businessman happily married to Julia, Toni is a nerve that life has given him so many sticks as the people who surrounded him.
Release Date:1994-02-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Sinners
Love is in the air in a small Italian neighborhood of New York. But, is it safe to cheat on your wife, with your cousin, whose brother owns a shotgun and whose hobby is blowing up cars?
Release Date:1990-01-29
Department:Editing
Job:Editor
Vote Count:2
Es que Inclan está loco
Mexican feature film
Release Date:1990-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Coarse Salt
A famous composer creative in crisis and must compose a new album, but is going through a painful separation that prevents him from concentrating. In this situation, your manager will provide a time extension
Release Date:1984-02-06
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Character:Enfermero (uncredited)
Vote Count:2
El niño
The story of Nicasio, an octogenarian who used to go up to the Ortuella cemetery on Thursdays to visit the grave of his grandson, one of the many children who died in a gas explosion in a school in October 1980. This event, which shocked the Basque people and the whole of Spain, will lead us to learn how it affected and changed the lives of this and many other families.
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Soldados de plomo
Andrew returns to his hometown after a long absence. His father was a military high society who abandoned his wife to join the mother of Andrew, one cupletista second row. The reason for his return is to take over an old inheritance left him by his father: A semirruinoso house that is about to be declared a historic monument. But his desire to settle the matter soon are broken by the intrusion of his brother Ramon in buying the house. Andrés relationships with his family and with old attorney Don Dimas and her daughter Whitey complicated.
Release Date:1983-08-12
Department:Directing
Job:Second Assistant Director
Vote Count:2