Direction: Julio Medem

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Julio Medem. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Lovers of the Arctic Circle

1998 · Movie · 114 min. · Spain

Direction Julio Medem

Cast Fele Martínez · Najwa Nimri · Nancho Novo · Maru Valdivielso

Synopsis Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place (Círculo polar) where the day...

7.4

52K votes

7.4

52K votes

Tierra (Earth)

1996 · Movie · 120 min. · Spain

Direction Julio Medem

Cast Carmelo Gómez · Emma Suárez · Silke · Nancho Novo

Synopsis Angel has a broad imagination and double personality; he thinks that he is half man, half angel. He arrives at a winemaking region to exterminate the plague of grubs whose presence causes the wine to acquire an earthy flavour. There...

7.0

11K votes

7.0

11K votes

Vacas (Cows)

1992 · Movie · 96 min. · Spain

Direction Julio Medem

Cast Carmelo Gómez · Emma Suárez · Ana Torrent · Karra Elejalde

Synopsis A film set in the Basque region, beginning in the Carlist war of 1875 and ending during the Spanish Civil war of 1936. The film portrays how one single act of cowardice shapes the life of the next three generations...

6.9

11K votes

6.9

11K votes

The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone

2003 · Documentary · 115 min. · Spain

Direction Julio Medem

6.8

13K votes

6.8

13K votes

The Red Squirrel

1993 · Movie · 114 min. · Spain

Direction Julio Medem

Cast Nancho Novo · Emma Suárez · Carmelo Gómez · Karra Elejalde

Synopsis Jota is about to commit suicide. As he fighting against himself, trying to jump off a bridge, a girl riding a motorcycle falls off the bridge. He runs to help her, and goes with her to the hospital. She has...

6.7

10K votes

6.7

10K votes

Sex and Lucia

2001 · Movie · 123 min. · Spain

Direction Julio Medem

Cast Paz Vega · Tristán Ulloa · Najwa Nimri · Daniel Freire

Synopsis Lucia is a waitress who lives and works in Madrid. After what she believes to be the loss of her boyfriend, the tortured writer Lorenzo, she flees to a secluded island that he had often told her about. There she...

6.3

44K votes

6.3

44K votes

The Tree of Blood

2018 · Movie · 135 min. · Spain

Direction Julio Medem

Cast Úrsula Corberó · Álvaro Cervantes · Najwa Nimri · Patricia López Arnaiz

Synopsis Rebeca and Marc make a travel to discover their mutual family pasts in Rebeca's grandparents house.

6.0

4K votes

6.0

4K votes

Hay motivo

2004 · Documentary · 100 min. · Spain

Direction Joaquín Oristrell · Pere Portabella · Álvaro del Amo · David Trueba

Cast Laura Aparicio · José María Aznar · Pilar Bardem · Críspulo Cabezas

Synopsis A multipart 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.

5.9

2K votes

5.9

2K votes

Chaotic Ana

2007 · Movie · 119 min. · Spain

Direction Julio Medem

Cast Manuela Vellés · Bebe · Charlotte Rampling · Lluís Homar

Synopsis Chaotic Ana is the story - journey of Ana over four years of her life, from 18 to 22. A countdown from 10 to 0, as in hypnosis,through which Ana comes to see that she doesn't alone. Her existence seems...

5.7

13K votes

5.7

13K votes

5.6

29 votes

7 Days in Havana

2012 · Movie · 125 min. · Spain

Direction Laurent Cantet · Benicio del Toro · Julio Medem · Gaspar Noé

Cast Josh Hutcherson · Emir Kusturica · Daniel Brühl · Jorge Perugorría

Synopsis A young American boy is trying to break into the acting business, and goes to Cuba during a film festival.

5.6

2K votes

5.6

2K votes

ma ma

2015 · Movie · 111 min. · Spain

Direction Julio Medem

Cast Penélope Cruz · Luis Tosar · Asier Etxeandia · Teo Planell

Synopsis Nervously waiting a few months after finding a lump in one breast, Magda (Penelope Cruz) finally drags herself to see her gynecologist, Julian (Asier Etxeandia), who soon delivers the bad news: She will need a mastectomy, preceded by debilitating chemo...

5.5

4K votes

5.5

4K votes

Room in Rome

2010 · Movie · 109 min. · Spain

Direction Julio Medem

Cast Elena Anaya · Natasha Yarovenko · Enrico Lo Verso · Najwa Nimri

Synopsis A hotel room in the centre of Rome sets the interior scene where two young women, who have just met, go on a physical journey which will touch their souls.

5.3

11K votes

5.3

11K votes

Martín

1988 · Movie · 27 min. · Spain

Direction Julio Medem

Cast Miguel Ángel García Fuentes · Laura Bayonas · Paloma Cela · José Segura

Synopsis The young Martin reluctantly supports the hot summer of Madrid with his parents, who are janitors of an estate in the center of the city in which they live. One day, Julia comes to spend a few days on the...

5.2

75 votes

5.2

75 votes

Kalebegiak

2016 · Movie · 100 min. · Spain

Direction Koldo Almandoz · Asier Altuna · Luiso Berdejo · Daniel Calparsoro

Cast Ramón Agirre · Marta Etura · Bárbara Goenaga · Paco Sagarzazu

Synopsis Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian. Historic names and young promises in the field of movies made in Gipuzkoa come together in his film promoted by San Sebastian, European Capital of Culture 2016.

5.1

87 votes

5.1

87 votes

Las seis en punta (Six on the Dot) (S)

1987 · Movie · 16 min. · Spain

Direction Julio Medem

Cast Nicola Beller · Eneko Irizar · Kontxu Odriozola

Synopsis To celebrate her 30th anniversary, Paula invites small Ignacio, a neighbor who lives two floors below. After blowing out the candles on the cake, Ignacio gives her a beautiful watch. Ignacio takes away the crystal glass and uses it as...

4.2

110 votes

4.2

110 votes

Direction Julio Medem

Cast Will More · Carmen Barrera · Maria del Mar Pérez de Olarra

Synopsis "Nutty As a Fruitcake" talks about a man who uses a common friend to give continuous and nerve messages to the girl who is the object of his desires. Between the messenger and the sender a curious relationship is established.

4.2

112 votes

4.2

112 votes

Love of Lesbian

2013 · Movie · 3 min. · Spain

Direction Julio Medem

Cast Love of Lesbian

Synopsis "Everything depends on the how, and the how only depends on you". Friends, beers, games, laughs, lunch, toasts, after-dinner drinks, dips in the pool, kisses, music... The story of a summer afternoon of Love of Lesbian and their friends that...

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Direction Julio Medem

Cast Astrid Bergès-Frisbey · Enrique Arce · Pablo Derqui · Sebastian Kahuna

Synopsis Follows Picasso's personal, professional, and political condition in the spring of 1937.

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