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Álex de la Iglesia

Álex de la Iglesia

Director, producer, writer and actor · Born December 4, 1965 (60) · Bilbao, Spain

3 Venice awards

Alejandro "Álex" de la Iglesia Mendoza (born December 4, 1965) is a Spanish film director. Most of De La Iglesia's films reached cult status thanks to their weird sense of humour.

Biography from TMDB.

Born
December 4, 1965 (60)
From
Bilbao, Spain
Works as
Director, producer, writer and actor
Titles
40 on MovieCove · 64 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 155 days to Oct 26Down 3% in 30 days

What are Álex de la Iglesia's films like?

Across their 37 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Society.

Genres

Comedy8 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 64th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Comedy movies
Drama8 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 54th percentile
: browse their Drama movies
Action5 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 58th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Action movies
Documentary5 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 87th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Documentary movies
Horror3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 52nd percentile
: browse their Horror movies
Crime2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 45th percentile
: browse their Crime movies
Thriller2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 45th percentile
: browse their Thriller movies

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight
Bonds
31%
Society
16%
Self
13%
Survival
13%
Morality
11%
Power
10%
Ideas
6%
Family bonds12 titles, browse their movies with this themeRomantic love8 titles, browse their movies with this themeSurvival7 titles, browse their movies with this themeIdentity7 titles, browse their movies with this themeGreed4 titles, browse their movies with this themeParenthood4 titles, browse their movies with this themeTruth3 titles, browse their movies with this themeAmbition3 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 35 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Serious: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their serious movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

A split, not a type: Light 11 · Serious 10 · Dark 14

Stylized: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their stylized movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 10 · Stylized 13 · Heightened 12

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

A split, not a type: Gentle 4 · Charged 13 · Intense 18

Shifting: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their shifting movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 9 · Shifting 15 · Whiplash 11

Some laughs: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their some laughs movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

A split, not a type: Straight-faced 15 · Some laughs 14 · Funny 6

Even-paced: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their even-paced movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 10 · Even-paced 23 · Relentless 2

Engaged: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their engaged movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 12 · Engaged 18 · Full focus 5

Affecting: How much it costs you emotionally; whether you need recovery time. Browse their affecting movies.
Demand · Emotional cost
easyheavy

A split, not a type: Easy watch 12 · Affecting 9 · Heavy 14

Open-ended: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their open-ended movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

A split, not a type: Resolved 18 · Open-ended 12 · Ambiguous 5

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
24
Absurd
15
Dread
13
Contemplative
7
Romantic
5
Other
33

How their films linger

Thought-provoking13 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFun13 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling13 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet12 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFeel-good7 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful5 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 4 with a twist

  • Happy6
  • Bittersweet12
  • Tragic1
  • Ambiguous18

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Álex de la Iglesia's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 28 of their 40 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Prime Video (9).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Álex de la Iglesia's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

64 credits, 40 with a MovieCove page; 17 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • Drawn Together(2026)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films

  • Your Fault: London(2026)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films

  • Vincent Finch: 10 años después (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    Show 2 episodes · as Álex de la Iglesia

  • Entrepreneurs(2025)

    Show 3 episodes · Director

    Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all shows

  • Culpa Nuestra(2025)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films

  • The Mortimers(2025)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films

  • My Fault: London(2025)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films

  • Your Fault(2024)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films

  • Santuario (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

    Show 8 episodes · Executive Producer

  • 1992(2024)

    Show 6 episodes · Director · Creator · Executive Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all shows

  • Anatema (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

    Producer

  • Bad Hair Day (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

    Producer

  • My Fault(2023)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films

  • Headless Chickens(2023)

    Show 7 episodes · Idea · Producer

    Midcredits score: 9th percentile of all shows

  • Piety(2022)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films

  • Venus(2022)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all films

  • Four's a Crowd(2022)

    Director · Producer · Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all films

  • The Chalk Line(2022)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films

  • Venicephrenia(2021)

    Director · Producer · Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films

  • 30 Coins(2020)

    Show 16 episodes · Director · Creator · Executive Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all shows

  • 70 Big Ones(2018)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films

  • Up Among the Stars(2018)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films

  • Una vez en la vida (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Director · Writer

  • Errementari(2017)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films

  • Perfect Strangers(2017)

    Director · Producer · Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films

  • The Bar(2017)

    Director · Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films

  • Pieles(2017)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films

  • Heirs of the Beast (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Actor

  • My Big Night(2015)

    Director · Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films

  • Los héroes del mal(2015)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films

  • Words with Gods (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    Director · Writer

  • Torrente 5: Operation Eurovegas(2014)

    Script Consultant

    Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films

  • Shrew's Nest(2014)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films

  • Messi(2014)

    Director

    Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films

  • Siniestro Total: Que parezca un accidente (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    as Álex de la Iglesia

  • 24 cines por segundo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

    Actor

  • Witching and Bitching(2013)

    Director · Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films

  • As Luck Would Have It(2011)

    Director · Writer

    Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films

  • The Last Circus(2010)

    Director · Writer

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films

  • Spanish Movie(2009)

    as Trilero

    Midcredits score: 8th percentile of all films

  • La tragedia de Franco (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

    Director · as Himself

  • Plutón BRB Nero (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)

    Show 12 episodes · Director · Creator

  • Flesh on Flesh (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)

    Actor

  • The Oxford Murders(2008)

    Director · Producer · Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films

  • The Baby's Room(2006)

    Director · Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films

  • The Code (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)

    Director

  • Hitler Lives! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)

    Director

  • The Ferpect Crime(2004)

    Director · Producer · Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films

  • Noin (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

    as Álex de la Iglesia

  • Eight Hundred Bullets(2002)

    Director · Producer · Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films

  • Common Wealth(2000)

    Director · Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films

  • El corazón del guerrero(1999)

    Thanks

    Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all films

  • Dying of Laughter (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)

    Director · Writer

  • Perdita Durango(1997)

    Director · Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films

  • The Day of the Beast(1995)

    Director · Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films

  • Mutant Action(1993)

    Director · Writer

    Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films

  • Killer Mirindas (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)

    Director · Production Design · Screenplay

  • Todo por la pasta (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)

    Production Design

  • Mama (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)

    Art Direction

  • Ages of Madness: The Howling of the Jinn (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Director

  • Congratulations! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Director

  • Ébano (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Producer

  • Hold the Devil (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Director

  • La Cuidadora (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Director · Executive Producer · Writer

Career shape

A full career of 62 titles, 57 of them dated from 1988 to 2026.

Biggest box office

Perfect Strangers (2017)

$33M worldwide

Highest rated

Sad Hill Unearthed (2017)

Midcredits 91st

Most popular right now

Drawn Together (2026)

Film career

  • 2009Screen debut· Spanish Movie

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting7 of 62: 7 only acting, 0 with another roleDirecting32 of 62: 9 only directing, 23 with another role · typical Midcredits score56thWriting24 of 62: 2 only writing, 22 with another role · typical Midcredits score54thProducing28 of 62: 18 only producing, 10 with another role · typical Midcredits score50thOther crew7 of 62: 3 only other crew, 4 with another role

62 titles, 23 with more than one role — directing and producing overlap on 10 of them.

By decade

1980s1 · crew1990s6 · crew2000s13 · 3 acting · 10 crew2010s17 · 3 acting · 14 crew2020s20 · 1 acting · 19 crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

Awards

3 major awards from 5 major nominations, 2010–2014.

WinNomination
  1. 2014
    • Venice award, nominated · Venice Days Award
  2. 2010
    • Venice award, won · Best Director
    • Venice award, won · Best Film in Competition
    • Venice award, won · Best Screenplay
    • Venice award, nominated

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.

How do Álex de la Iglesia's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 51st percentile, the median of all 36; across their 35 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 59th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

59thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 35

Approval · how many liked their films

54thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 35

Reach · how many have seen their films

84thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 35

Midcredits score across 40 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up4
  • 50th to 74th17
  • 25th to 49th13
  • Below 25th6

Shape of the crowd

17 of their 40 titles are Mixed.

  • Cult Classic1
  • Crowd Pleaser15
  • Broadly Agreed7
  • Mixed17

Most divisive · producer

Piety (2022)

87th percentile spread · 41% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · director, writer

The Day of the Beast (1995)

Midcredits 90th · 79% liked

Reviewers score the atmosphere 69/100 and the pacing 51/100 in their films, across 32 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Is Álex de la Iglesia's work okay for kids?

Across up to 19 MovieCove titles with content scores, violence & gore, sex & nudity, profanity and frightening / intense run heavier than most films.

Their medianMedian of all filmsMiddle 80% of their titles
Violence & Gore11 titles46–86 · median 61 · intenseheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 44
Sex & Nudity19 titles16–77 · median 58 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 32
Profanity11 titles31–69 · median 59 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 36
Alcohol & Drugs9 titles20–57 · median 37 · moderatenear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 33
Frightening / Intense10 titles44–77 · median 52 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 39

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.

Who does Álex de la Iglesia work with?

People who share at least 2 of Álex de la Iglesia's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Carolina Bang shares the most, 24.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Composers, cinematographers and editors

Producers