Isabel Coixet

The film tells the true story of Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, two women in 1901 Spain who fell deeply in love. To overcome societal and legal barriers to their relationship, Elisa assumes a male identity, enabling the pair to marry in secret. Their daring act makes them the first recorded same-sex couple to marry in Spain, but their love is tested as they face relentless persecution and sacrifice.

Dir. Isabel Coixet · With Natalia de Molina, Greta Fernández, Sara Casasnovas

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

Dir. Isabel Coixet · With Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Javier Cámara

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

Dir. Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Bruno Podalydès · With Steve Buscemi, Natalie Portman, Willem Dafoe

Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

Dir. Isabel Coixet · With Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.

Dir. Isabel Coixet · With Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson

As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.

Dir. Isabel Coixet · With Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Jake Weber

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

Dir. Isabel Coixet · With Sarah Polley, Amanda Plummer, Scott Speedman

A teenager finds her perfect life upended when she's stalked by a mysterious doppelganger who has her eyes set on assuming her identity.

Dir. Isabel Coixet · With Sophie Turner, Claire Forlani, Rhys Ifans