Isabel Coixet

Burdened with the secret that she is dying of cancer, but liberated by her new sense of control, a young woman's emotional journey leads her to unexpected places and gives her life new meaning. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Isabel Coixet's intensely perceptive, cathartic love story is about the need for human interdependence and the power of silence and speech to transcend trauma. (Strand Releasing)

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.

Ann's boyfriend calls her from Prague. 25 days after leaving her at the airport he confess that he does not love her any more and that he is with another girl. Ann calls a phone line for desperate people finding Don at the other side of the line, a guy that seems unable to understand her problems. They meet by chance... (imdb)

A beautifully shot classic love story set in Tokyo. A successful businessman finds out his daughter has committed suicide after having her heart broken by an older Spanish man and hires a contracted killer to execute him. Problems arise when the killer starts to develop feelings for her target while tricking him into trusting her before she makes her move.

A couple reunites after 5 years of not seeing each other and after going through some tragic incidents in their past in their lives. She stayed in Spain while he moved to Germany. Two ways of facing the current economic crisis: she preferred the idealism of staying and struggling to change the situation, and he left everything behind, a more lucid and logical point of view. When they both feel that the past is no longer important, it suddenly comes back. (mubi.com)

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. (imdb)

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

Greenland, 1909. Josephine Peary is a mature, proud, determined and naive woman, in love with celebrated Arctic adventurer Robert Peary, a man who prefers glory and ice to the comforts of an upper-class home. For him she will face all danger, even risk her own life. Allaka - young but wise, brave and humble - is in love with the same man, and expecting his child. The relentless icy landscape both separates and draws these two women together during the long, tense wait for the man they both love.

A secret and deep passion marks the life of a young doctor, and threatens the existence of those around him. (imdb)

Set in a small town in 1959 England, it is the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield. (imdb)

In 1901, Marcela Gracia Ibeas took on the identity of Mario Sánchez to marry her lover of fifteen years, Elisa Sanchez Loriga. (imdb)

Barcelona: two friends just find any temporary jobs to get by. One of them quits his job as a waiter to move to work as a messenger; the other is working as a taxi driver. The messenger, in his comings and goings at night, go through many offices, private homes and bars and will be in the most varied situations: some of them dark, sometimes sinister and pathetic and some even pleasant. (jsanchez)

Peter has worked all his life at a Manchester bank. When he is awarded an early retirement, he decides to visit his brother in Benidorm, only to discover that he's disappeared (imdb).