Movies: Isabel Coixet

A joyful tale filled with music. The rise of radio. The jazz big bands. The legendary clubs and ballrooms. The soundtracks of the great musical films and TV shows. Sex and romance, gangsters, luxury cars and palm trees. From Barcelona to New York, wi...

It follows Olga, a writer forced to give up her artistic ambitions when her husband suddenly leaves her and their two young daughters....

MAREA BLANCA is a Corona Save The Beach documentary directed by Isabel Coixet. It is a tribute to the thousands of anonymous heroes who left everything to save the Galician coast. An example for all of us who fight for the recovery and conservation o...

"This short film is a letter to a person whom I haven't seen for a long time. Since I couldn't find the words to explain to him what had happened in my life that time, I thought I'd show him in pictures what my days had been like without him."...

Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet travels to Siberia to attend a film festival where an unknown man —with whom she cannot communicate and who reminds her of her father— hands her a box containing the photographs of a lifetime. In Barcelona, she tries t...

Follows a couple, Marta and Antonio, who split up after what seems like an trivial argument....

"Parler de Rose" (Talking about Rose), narrated by Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche and directed by Isabel Coixet examines the life and death of Rose Lokissim a prisoner of Hissène Habré, the former dictator of Chad. Survivors of Habré's jails ...

Advertising surrounds us. It is part of our lives, our memory and our culture: it is a pure reflection of our society. However, those who think and create ads are unknown people. Playing with the mechanisms of publicity as a narrative resource, we en...

A scientist has discovered a formula that brings the dead back to life. Meanwhile, a prostitute, who dreams of writing a book in a brothel, meets a true writer with whom she falls in love. A satanic sect will cross into their lives....

Nora's sister Rosa sends her letters explaining how she's living in Bolivia to keep Nora updated about her family and the famous illness among poor latinoamerican families....

The film is based on Ridley Scott’s Life in a Day — which already has English and Italian versions — and will be a collective project using social media that sees everyday Spaniards contribute one-to15-minute clips from their lives all shot on the sa...

A series of short films examining the world's overlooked problems and the people who suffer from them....

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More than two hundred thousand women work as maids in Spain, and perform a task as fundamental as invisible in the hospitality sector. Our documentary covers the life, problems and struggle of the Kellys (the ones that clean the hotels). While the go...

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Daisy Brown is a thirteen year old girl with an unusual condition: her teeth won't stop growing. But that's the least of her problems....

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Documentary made for the exhibition that the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Quiang made in the Prado Museum. The film reveals all the secrets of the work of Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the great international contemporary artists, famous for his original explosion...

Sara lives in a foster-care facility. Her youth days seem to slip through her fingers while she awaits for her father to come back....

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