Birthday:
02-28-1950
(74 years)
Birthplace:
San Salvador, El Salvador
Biography
Imanol Uribe was born on February 28, 1950 in San Salvador, El Salvador as Imanol Karmel Uribe Bilbao. He is a director and writer, known for Días contados (1994), Carol's Journey (2002) and Bwana (1996).
Is of Spanish heritage and was raised in Madrid. Gained fame early in his career for his controversial socio-political portraits of the Basque people and their struggle to become a separate nation. Earned a journalism degree and later studied film direction. Lived with actress María Barranco [1982-2004]. They have a daughter, Andrea, born in 1993.
Is of Spanish heritage and was raised in Madrid. Gained fame early in his career for his controversial socio-political portraits of the Basque people and their struggle to become a separate nation. Earned a journalism degree and later studied film direction. Lived with actress María Barranco [1982-2004]. They have a daughter, Andrea, born in 1993.
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Act like Husband
event1988 star_border 7.4
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Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Olea… ¡Más alto!
Act like Self - Filmmaker
event2020
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An account of the life and work behind the camera of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Olea, whose very personal viewpoint, interested in all kinds of subjects, approached in very different ways, but always with a very characteristic style, has analyzed the social and political life of Spain for more than five decades.
Ochéntame... otra vez
Act like Self - Interviewee (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 6
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Documentary series that reviews cultural, social and political events that took place during the 80s in Spain.
What Lucia Saw
Director (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 7
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During a night of 1989, in the middle of the Salvadoran civil war, six Jesuit priests were murdered at the UCA University. The news has an immediate international repercussion since their contribution was key in the foreseeable peace agreement after a decade of bloody war. Who killed them? The government immediately blamed the guerrillas but an eyewitness debunked the official version. Her name is Lucía and she works as a cleaning employee at the UCA. She has seen who were the real killers: the army. Now she will have to choose between testifying for the truth or protecting her family.
The Nautical Chart
Director (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 5.1
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Coy, a sailor without ship, banished from the sea by a navigation accident occurred during his guard, knows in an auction of naval objects in Barcelona to an attractive and mysterious woman, Tangier. This, in hard struggle with an Italian adventurer, Nino Palermo, manages to get a cartographic jewel of eighteen, the Maritime Atlas of Urrutia.
Plenilune
Director (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 5.2
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Romance and murder walk side by side in this psychological drama from Spain. A serial killer has been plying his grisly trade in a small town in Spain, murdering young girls and leaving their bodies in a nearby forest.
Carol's Journey
Director (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 6.5
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Spain, 1938, during the Spanish Civil War. Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl, arrives in her mother's hometown and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once foreign and completely new.
Orange Honey
Director (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 5
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Andalusia in the fifties. Enrique and Carmen just meet and fall deeply in love. Carmen gets him to stay in military service in a court of the city. Enrique, in view of the injustices he witnesses every day, realizes that to change the course of things he has to act. Soon he will be involved in risky actions that endanger their lives and those of their peers.
El último truco
Producer (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 7.3
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Documentary film about visual effects master Emilio Ruiz del Rio. From his early works on films at 1942, to his last contribution at 2007, Emilio Ruiz talks on his film experiences and traditional trickery, using foreground miniatures, glass shots, and painted cut out miniatures. It shows interviews with some of the professionals he has worked with, like, Rafaela de Laurentiis, Ray Harryhausen, Guillermo del Toro, or Enzo Castellari
Bilbao Blues
Director (1 ep.)
event1986
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Beatriz is an attractive young lawyer who enjoys an enviable position thanks to the influence of his father, a prominent businessman. Lucas, a young guy with a rather shady past, struggling to emerge from the unfavorable situation in which life has placed him. When Lucas is arrested with a stash of cocaine adulterated becomes a client of Beatrice. The pure cocaine has hidden with intent to distribute it only with your partner Uriarte, for it has had to deceive another of his buddies into thinking that the business has failed.
Bwana
Director (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 5.8
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Antonio, a taxi driver, his wife, and two chidren arrive one fine afternoon at a solitary beach, looking for sea-shells. However, they will find more than expected: namely, Ombasi and Yambo, two illegal African immigrants, apparently thrown back to the ocean from where they came, in search of a better life in Spain. The sun sets, and the evening, night and morning which follow see other bizarre characters entering the scene, before the Africans' and the other characters' fates are finally decided.
The Dumbfounded King
Director (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 5.9
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Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.
Extraños
Director (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 2.2
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Sofia receives the news of her mother's suicide with apparent calmness. From this moment on, her husband Eduardo finds her behavior suspicious, and hires a detective, Lamarca. Lamarca is a lone investigator obsessed by a recurring dream. He tries to figure out this mysterious dream by involving those connected with his current investigation in it.
Escape From Segovia
Director (1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 6
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In the summer of 1977, a political prisoner, living in exile, recounts the circumstances of his escape to a journalist: in April 76, a group of ETA members planned to escape from prison, but the project fails when, due to a tip-off, the guards discover the tunnel they are digging. The inmates, far from being discouraged, start a second tunnel.
Running Out of Time
Director (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 6
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Days before committing an attack, Antonio, a gunman of the terrorist gang ETA who has dedicated his life to a cause he no longer believes in, meets Charo, a young drug addict who, despite the sordid environment in which she lives, still retains her innocence.
The Black Moon
Director (1 ep.)
event1990 star_border 6.9
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After experiencing a series of traumatic, seemingly unrelated, accidents, Eva begins to notice that her daughter Luna is behaving in increasingly strange ways.
Mikel's Death
Director (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 5.4
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Opening at the funeral mass for Mikel, we flashback to those that played a part in Mikel's life and death; his estranged wife, his traditional Basque mother, a female impersonator and friend to Mikel in his coming out, and even the local priest.
Ciudadano Negrín
Director (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 7
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Documentary on the life of Juan Negrín.
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Director (1 ep.)
event1977
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Reflecting the struggle of the Basque environmental movement of the time against the construction of the Lemoiz nuclear power plant, the documentary directed by Imanol Uribe won the Silver Mikeldi of the XIX Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival.
Far from the Sea
Director (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 4.9
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A love story between a terrorist and his victim.
After All These Years
Producer (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 4.9
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Twenty years after having talked about death, the world and their problems in "El desencanto", the Panero brothers reflect about their actual situation at the moment and what has happened since the last movie.
Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
Thanks (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 8
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What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profession. Thirty-six Spanish actors reflect on their work and contrasted their experiences. As thread, the contrast between the voices of veterans and images of young theater students , for whom everything is still possible. Among the many actors are interviewed Javier Bardem, Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Luis López Vázquez, José Coronado, Emma Suarez, Alberto San Juan, Ariadna Gil, Ana Belén, Pilar Lopez de Ayala and many other.
The Good Boy
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 4.8
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The story follows Angel (González), twenty years old and barely employed, a man of few friends and a not too promising boxing career. Angel and his mother scrape out a living in Madrid. Enter Vidal, a professional bank robber and a real charmer, just back from Argentina. A former boxer with past ties to Angel's mother and his deceased father, he offers Angel a way out of his dead-end life. Along the way, Angel will have to decide who he truly wants to be and, more importantly, what he's willing to give up.
With Good Reason
Director (1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 4
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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.
Kalebegiak
Director (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 7
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Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian.
El crimen del expreso de Andalucía
Director (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 3.8
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Madrid, 1924. A ne'er-do-well in his 30s, perpetual disappointment to his aging military father, hatches a plan to rob the mail train to Andalusia. He intends the hit to be bloodless, but complications arise soon.
Autumn Rain
Associate Producer (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 6
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A writer named Daniel is going through a crisis, aggravated by the unexpected success of his wife in her professional career as an actress.
Eternal Fire
Producer (1 ep.)
event1985
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The movie is based on a popular tale from the Basque Country and tells the story of a woman that becomes a widow the same day she gets married, and decides to keep living with the husband's dead body for 6 years.
Ikuska 13: Euskal kanta berria
Editor (1 ep.)
event1982
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Documentary dedicated to the new Basque music.
Ikuska 15: Euskaldunberriak
Editor (1 ep.)
event1983
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The troubles of learning Basque in adults.
Cachito
Writer (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 5.1
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A gypsy girl, when her grandmother dies, goes in search of his mother who abandoned her as a baby
Secrets of the Heart
Producer (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 6.5
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Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the room where his father was found dead). He is so interested in these mysteries that he starts to investigate all the secrets of these dead people and their stories.
La mujer gafe
Director (1 ep.)
event1994
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A woman brings ill luck to the man that loves her.
Sabbath
Script (1 ep.)
event1989
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Exploring perspectives on witches from different angles, ranging from historical accounts to popular folklore, shedding light on the complex narratives surrounding these notorious figures.
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