Production

Esther García

Born July 20, 1965 · Cedillo de la Torre, Segovia, Spain (age 61)

Esther García Rodríguez (Cedillo de la Torre, Segovia, July 20, 1956) is a Spanish film producer and production manager, considered one of the most prominent women in Spanish cinema. Since 1986, she has worked with Pedro Almodóvar and is the production manager at El Deseo. She has also distinguished herself by developing a production model associated with auteur independence and by promoting new t…

Known For

The Skin I Live In

The Skin I Live In · 2011

The Skin I Live In

MovieDramaHorror

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

Wild Tales

Wild Tales · 2014

MovieDramaThriller

Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.

Parallel Mothers

Parallel Mothers · 2021

Parallel Mothers

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

Sirāt

MovieDramaThriller

A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last party, in hopes Marina will be there.

Bitter Christmas

Bitter Christmas · 2026

Bitter Christmas

MovieDramaComedy

In 2025 Spain, a celebrated film director struggles to write the screenplay for an autofictional film set in 2004 Spain about an unsuccessful movie director turned director of commercials who suffers a panic attack that forces her to take a break by visiting the Canary Islands, where she begins work on a new film.

Volver

MovieComedyDrama

Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.

The Devil's Backbone

The Devil's Backbone · 2001

The Devil's Backbone

MovieFantasyDrama

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.

All About My Mother

All About My Mother · 1999

All About My Mother

MovieComedyDrama

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.

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The Skin I Live In

The Skin I Live In · 2011

The Skin I Live In

MovieDramaHorror

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

Producer

Wild Tales

Wild Tales · 2014

MovieDramaThriller

Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.

Producer

Parallel Mothers

Parallel Mothers · 2021

Parallel Mothers

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

Executive Producer

Sirāt

MovieDramaThriller

A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last party, in hopes Marina will be there.

Executive Producer

Bitter Christmas

Bitter Christmas · 2026

Bitter Christmas

MovieDramaComedy

In 2025 Spain, a celebrated film director struggles to write the screenplay for an autofictional film set in 2004 Spain about an unsuccessful movie director turned director of commercials who suffers a panic attack that forces her to take a break by visiting the Canary Islands, where she begins work on a new film.

Executive Producer

Volver

MovieComedyDrama

Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.

Producer

The Devil's Backbone

The Devil's Backbone · 2001

The Devil's Backbone

MovieFantasyDrama

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.

Production Director

All About My Mother

All About My Mother · 1999

All About My Mother

MovieComedyDrama

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.

Production Director

The Room Next Door

The Room Next Door · 2024

The Room Next Door

MovieDramaComedy

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

Executive Producer

Pain and Glory

Pain and Glory · 2019

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

Producer

Strange Way of Life

Strange Way of Life · 2023

Strange Way of Life

MovieDramaWestern

After 25 years, a former hired gun visits his old colleague, now a small-town sheriff. Their past relationship is explored, as is how they reflect on it in the present.

Executive Producer

Talk to Her

Talk to Her · 2002

MovieDramaRomance

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Production Director

La Bola Negra

La Bola Negra · 2026

Set across three timelines — Republican Spain in 1932, the Civil War in 1937, and contemporary Spain in 2017 — the film follows a constellation of interconnected lives centered on three young men, whose emotional and political echoes gradually reveal themselves.

Associate Producer

Broken Embraces

Broken Embraces · 2009

Broken Embraces

MovieDramaRomance

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.

Producer

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! · 1990

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

MovieComedyRomance

After being released from a mental hospital, a troubled young man tracks down an actress he once had sex with and forces her into captivity, determined to make her part of his life.

Production Design

I'm So Excited!

I'm So Excited! · 2013

I'm So Excited!

Something has gone wrong with the landing gear of a plane en route from Madrid to Mexico City. The group of eccentric travelers on the flight, defenseless in the face of danger, indulge in colourful confessionals, while the outlandish crew attempts to find ways to entertain them.

Producer

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown · 1988

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

MovieComedyDrama

After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.

Production Manager

Bad Education

Bad Education · 2004

MovieDramaCrime

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

Executive Producer

Live Flesh

Live Flesh · 1997

MovieDramaRomance

When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body... and his desire for vengeance on the man who put him there. After his release and still madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over even if means revenge, for Elena has married David, the cop who sent him to prison!

Producer

High Heels

High Heels · 1991

MovieDramaComedy

After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughter begin making up for lost time, when suddenly, a murder occurs...

Production Manager

Law of Desire

Law of Desire · 1987

MovieDramaRomance

Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.

Production Manager

The Flower of My Secret

The Flower of My Secret · 1995

The Flower of My Secret

MovieDramaRomance

Middle-aged romance author Leo writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works overseas, is distant both physically and emotionally. As she reevaluates her life and writing, Leo is led to an unexpected relationship with Ángel, a sensitive newspaper editor.

Producer

The Clan

The Clan · 2015

MovieDramaHistory

In Argentina, between 1982 and 1985, the Puccios, a well-established family of San Isidro, an upper-class suburb of Buenos Aires, kidnap several people and hold them as hostages for a ransom.

Producer

The Secret Life of Words

The Secret Life of Words · 2005

The Secret Life of Words

MovieRomanceDrama

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

Producer

Fleeting Lies

Fleeting Lies · 2023

SeriesComedyDrama

It follows Lucía an executive of a high-tech company who has fought to get as far away from her humble origins as possible. On the day of her promotion, she is accused of espionage and fired.

Executive Producer