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Mateo Gil has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Thesis.
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Thesis
1996 · Movie · Writer
Top 2%AMC+ · Included

Open Your Eyes
1997 · Movie · Writer
Top 14%Max · Included

Agora
2009 · Movie · Writer
Top 20%Netflix · Included

Blackthorn
2011 · Movie · Director
Top 41%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Minions of Midas
2020 · Mini · Creator
Top 80%Netflix · Included

The Laws of Thermodynamics
2018 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 82%Netflix · Included
While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.
Dir. Alejandro Amenábar · With Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ramón manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.
Dir. Alejandro Amenábar · With Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas

Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.
Dir. Alejandro Amenábar · With Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
Dir. Alejandro Amenábar · With Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac

In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
Dir. Mateo Gil · With Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea
Seven candidates to a high executive position on a multinational company show up for a selection test in a skyscraper at the financial district. Among them, the most disparate personalities: the winner, the aggressive, the insecure, the critic, the indecisive…
Dir. Marcelo Piñeyro · With Eduardo Noriega, Najwa Nimri, Eduard Fernández

Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryogenically freeze himself. The love of his life is devastated. Seventy years later, Marc becomes the first cryogenic resuscitated person in history. But this doesn't happen in the idealized way he dreamt of.
Dir. Mateo Gil · With Tom Hughes, Charlotte Le Bon, Oona Chaplin

Victor Genovés, an influential businessman, is blackmailed: if he doesn't agree to pay a large sum of money, the self-styled Midas favorites will kill a person at random at a designated place and time and add a new victim periodically until they achieve their goal. How many deaths will he be able to carry on his shoulders?
Dir. Mateo Gil, Miguel Barros · With Luis Tosar, Marta Belmonte, Marta Milans

Manel, a physicist working on his PhD thesis, accidentally fall in love with Elena, a young model and aspiring actress.
Dir. Mateo Gil · With Vito Sanz, Berta Vázquez, Chino Darín
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