Isabel Coixet
Directing
Born April 9, 1960 · Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona, Spain
Isabel Coixet Castillo (Catalan: [izəˈβɛl kuˈʃɛt]; born 9 April 1960; Sant Adrià del Besòs) is a Spanish filmmaker. She is one of the most prolific film directors of contemporary Spain, having directed twelve feature-length films since the beginning of her film career in 1988, in addition to documentary films, shorts, and commercials. Her films depart from the traditional national cinema of Spain, and help to “untangle films from their national context ... clearing the path for thinking about national film from different perspectives.” The recurring themes of “emotions, feelings, and existential conflict” coupled with her distinct visual style secure the “multifaceted (she directs, writes, produces, shoots, and acts)” filmmaker's status as a “Catalan auteur.”
Directed (41)
Three Goodbyes
2025
Un amor
2023
The Yellow Ceiling
2022
It Snows in Benidorm
2020
Elisa & Marcela
2019
The Bookshop
2017
The Spirit of the Painting
2017
Project Time
2017
It's Not That Cold Siberia
2016
Spain in a Day
2016
'Normal'
2016
Broken Heart is not Like a Broken Vase or a Vase
2016
Endless Night
2015
Talking about Rose. Prisoner of Hissène Habré
2015
Learning to Drive
2014
Another Me
2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
Yesterday Never Ends
2013
White Tide
2012
Listening to Judge Garzón
2011
Aral, the Lost Sea
2010
Dear John
2010
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
2009
Women, a Thing for Men
2009
Elegy
2008
Letters to Nora
2007
Invisibles
2007
Paris Je T'aime
2006
The Secret Life of Words
2005
With Good Reason
2004
Journey to the Heart of Torture
2003
My Life Without Me
2003
Those Who Love
1998
Things I Never Told You
1996
Too Old to Die Young
1989
Mira y verás
1984
Light on Broken Glass
The Days of Abandonment
This Man, This Woman
Nobody’s Heart
Bike Me Up
Acting (16)
La vida és Verdi
2026
God Sees It
2025
L’Énigme Velázquez
2025
¿Qué (diablos) es España?
2022
Luis García Berlanga: pasado, presente y futuro del cine español
2021
El cerro de los dioses
2019
Querido Fotogramas
2018
It's Not That Cold Siberia
2016
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
2016
Toni Segarra: The Ads Writer
2016
Sex, Maracas & Chihuahuas
2016
Words, Maps, Secrets and Other Things
2015
El culo del mundo
2014
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
Kill Me Tender
2004
Journey to the Heart of Torture
2003