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
Wild Tales · 2014Wild Tales
★ 7.92014
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.
La bola negra · 2026La bola negra
★ 8.42026
MovieDramaWar
The intertwined lives of three men in three different eras, three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain, and legacy.
Parallel Mothers · 2021Parallel Mothers
★ 6.82021
MovieDrama
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.
Pain and Glory · 2019Pain and Glory
★ 7.42019
MovieDrama
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.
Broken Embraces · 2009Broken Embraces
★ 7.22009
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.
The Skin I Live In · 2011The Skin I Live In
★ 7.52011
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.
All About My Mother · 1999All About My Mother
★ 7.61999
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.
Live Flesh · 1997Live Flesh
★ 7.01997
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!
