
Birthday:
04-26-1951
(73 years)
Birthplace:
Ávila, Castile and León, Spain
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La guerra de papá
Act like Eusebio
event1977 star_border 5.1
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Spain, March 1964: Quico is a very naughty child of three belonging to a wealthy middle-class family. Since Cristina's birth, he feels he has lost the privileged position of "prince" of the house for his eight months old sister. So, with his brother Juan, who is eight years old and is quite disobedient, spend their time committing prank after prank, causing the resulting anger of his mother, the nanny and the old housemaid. The rest of the family members are two much older brothers, his resigned mother and a retrograde father of authoritarian ideas. But many years have passed, and the civil war that won the despot Don Pablo is simply for their children "Dad's war".
Living It Up
Act like Salva
event2000 star_border 5.1
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Lola, a Mexican waitress working in Madrid, befriends a 30-year-old suicidal man who has borrowed $1,000,000 to spend on his last day on Earth, knowing he will be killed anyway if he fails to return the money. After meeting Lola, however, he decides that life might be worth living after all.
A Hipster in Rural Spain
event2024 star_border 4.8
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Quique is dispatched to a village in deep Spain Teruel to lead its politics of recuperation but soon discovers he was sent there so that his girlfriend and leader of his party could spend more time together.
The Fantastic Golem Affairs
event2023 star_border 5.5
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Follows two friends, Juan and David, they will find themselves on a rooftop terrace after an intense party in Madrid. Juan witnesses David falling to the void, and his body disintegrating into ceramic pieces after hitting a car.
Butterfly Wings
Act like Gabriel
event1991 star_border 7.3
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Ami is a 6 year old girl, extremely sensitive. Her mother, Carmen, lives with the obsession of giving a son to her husband, Gabriel. When finally she gets pregnant, the relation between mother and daughter becomes a tragic one, driving the family to an inevitable nightmare.
Self Esteem
Act like Hilario Lanza (as Fernando Valverde)
event1994 star_border 7.6
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A woman married to a bank director sees how her life is destroyed in a matter of hours when the police discovers that her husband has escaped with money from the bank.
15 Years and One Day
Act like Max
event2013 star_border 6.4
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Jon is a troubled teenager who has been expelled from school. His mother decides to teach him a lesson by sending him away with his grandfather Max, a retired military man who lives in a village by the seaside. But the time they will spend together won’t be that simple, Jon likes to flirt with danger and bad companies, and the veteran has now settled down into a comfortable life.
The Most Natural Thing
Act like Iván
event1991 star_border 5
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Following the dissolution of her 20-year marriage to a land developer, a middle-aged woman returns to her law practice and, plotting revenge, accepts as a client a young ecologist who has accused her ex-husband's company of corruption.
Camino de la suerte
Act like Joaquín
event2023 star_border 5.5
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After the death of his wife after a long illness, Joaquín (Tito Valverde) decides to leave the city and take refuge in the small town where he was born. Seventy-five years old and with loneliness as his new and only companion in life, he can only wait for his turn. Poli, his best friend in the village, refuses to let him fall into his own abandonment: he has made a list of single women in the village to meet them and see if something comes up. Joaquín takes him for a madman and rejects his proposal completely. But Poli does not give up and ambushes him to learn that love has no wrinkles.
Esquilache
Act like Bernardo
event1989 star_border 4.9
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In the 18th century in Madrid, the Marquess of Esquilache, King Charles III of Spain's former minister, bans on wearing the popular wide collar with a long coat and brimmed hat. Along with other measures provoke a massive riot in the city.
Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
Act like Intellectual
event1989 star_border 7
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Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.
Shadows in a Conflict
Act like Darío
event1993 star_border 5
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Ana, a former member of the Basque terrorist group ETA who lives in a small village near the Portuguese border working as a veterinarian and sharing her days with her partner Darío and their daughter Amalia, meets José, an attractive man who participated in the dirty anti-terrorist war against ETA criminals who took refuge in France.
Cuerpo escombro
Act like Médico
event2024 star_border 5.8
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Faced with problems finding work and involved with his brother Fermín, Javi pretends to be disabled to get a job he desperately needs. But faking cerebral palsy is more complicated than it seems, especially when love arises between him and his boss.
¡Vaya vacaciones!
event2023 star_border 5.6
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It tells the story of Manuela and José. Even though they are delighted with taking care of their grandchildren, they are a bit fed up with no longer having time to dedicate to themselves.
Black Candles
Act like Steve
event1982 star_border 6.3
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A young woman travels with her partner to England on the unexpected death of her brother. Staying with her sister-in-law, she finds her companion soon drawn into a satanic cult based in the house whose rites seem to centre somewhat on large-scale sexual congress.
Love All Over Your Face
event2024 star_border 8.2
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Dani, a Spaniard with an English mother, and Ana, an American woman with Mexican parents, are friends with benefits. Dani travels to Spain, but cannot return to the USA, so he has to communicate through video calls.
A Stroke of Luck
Act like Augusto
event2016 star_border 5
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Villaviciosa de al Lado is a peaceful town stuck in time, living exclusively of the fame of a 200 years-old spa. Therefore, city hall's debts threatens to close the spa and ruin all town. Their salvation becomes when suddenly mayor Anselmo and the rest of members of city hall realize that they won the Christmas Lottery. But their happiness turns in horror after to discover that the prize belongs to a serial number distributed by the town's brothel, causing the suspicion of the wives and fear of the husbands after a TV interview where Mari, brothel's owner, claims that the almost men of the town will have prize from the lottery. Wanting a way to charge the prize to save the town without having to suffer the anger of their respective women, Anselmo, Ricardo, César, Juandi and Paco plots a plan in order to steal the money from the brothel, meanwhile Mari tries reconcile her stranded life and restore the memory of her deceased father, a former mayor.
Holy Goalie
event2018 star_border 5.6
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A young priest coaches a team of uncoordinated monks in order to win a soccer tournament and save their monastery from being turned into a hotel.
El crimen del expreso de Andalucía
Act like Navarrete
event1991 star_border 3.8
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Madrid, 1924. A ne'er-do-well in his 30s, perpetual disappointment to his aging military father, hatches a plan to rob the mail train to Andalusia. He intends the hit to be bloodless, but complications arise soon.
While at War
Act like Cabanellas
event2019 star_border 7.1
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Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.
El terrorista
Act like Satur
event1978 star_border 2
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Julio is an experienced terrorist. Now he is putting together a new team for the assassination of the prime minister.
Despite Everything
Act like Víctor
event2019 star_border 6
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Sara, Lucía, Sofía and Claudia are sisters, 4 modern women with very different personalities, who come together at their mother's funeral, after which they discover the man they've all called "dad" throughout their lives is not really their father. They embark on a quest to discover who their real fathers are, discovering more about themselves, their mother, and their lives.
Juanita
Act like Mariano
event2018 star_border 6
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An illegal Dominican immigrant and a lonely Spanish farmer start a love affair. Juanita and Mariano, who in Spain clung to each other like two castaways to a raft, will try not to drown in Santo Domingo this Christmas.
The Enchanted Forest
Act like Geraldo
event1987 star_border 6.8
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In a fantastical forest we meet some people who have been transported to this place by a magic force. Now their histories cross one another.
Why Do They Call It Love When They Mean Sex?
Act like Karim
event1993 star_border 5.9
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Gloria is a porn artist that performs live-sex. When his mate gets sick he brings her a young substitute, Manu. The boy works surprisingly well and then Gloria decides to go into business with him. Things get complicated when Gloria discovers that Manu is in trouble because of his gambling debts.
The Devil's Breath
Act like Ginés
event1993 star_border 5.5
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A small family of travelers arrives after a long journey at a village hut, which they claim as home. The family consists of Damian, a mute but skilled hunter, his wife Priscila, and their two children, a mute son named Pablo and a beautiful daughter named Agueda. Before long, Don Rodrigo, the feudal lord of the village, sets his sights on both Priscila and Agueda.
All Men Are the Same
Act like César
event1994 star_border 6.4
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Three divorced men who share a flat live together without trouble until they hire a cleaning lady.
Queens
Act like Héctor
event2005 star_border 5.9
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In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, are entwined: Judge Helena is in charge of the ceremony; the entrepreneur in hotel business Magda is hosting the guests in her hotel and is responsible for the banquet, while facing a strike leaded by her lover and chef; the nymphomaniac Nuria is facing problems due to her disease; the wealthy Reyes is having a crush for the father of her son's mate and her gardener; and the Argentinean cooker Ofelia is facing financial problems and difficulties in with her son's mate. Along three days, they have complicated relationships with their sons and mates, ex-husbands, lovers and employees.
The Color of the Clouds
Act like José María
event1997 star_border 6.2
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Clementina befriends Lola’s nerdy lawyer, Valerio, and slowly a romance develops between them. Meanwhile, old fisherman and model-maker Colo has found a consignment of drugs floating in the sea and tries to get rid of them to raise money to save Lola’s house. The adventure element of pic is in a smuggling gang’s attempt to recover the drugs.
La mujer impuntual
event1994
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The unpunctual woman.
The Frontier Law
Act like Civil Guard Sergeant
event1995 star_border 4.7
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Barbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between Portugal and Galicia a bandit called El Argentino. In her travel she meets two men that say that they belong to his gang.
All in Favor
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Based on the short film of the same name; at a downtown Madrid building, an ordinary meeting of neighbors commune to vote on a change of elevator. However, the event escalates into a full-blown conflict after the unexpected announcement that a new, mentally ill tenant will rent an apartment.
Shout Out
Act like Director de la cadena
event1998 star_border 4
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Miranda Vega is the host of a struggling talk show with a tumultuous off-screen life. In an effort to boost the plummeting ratings, the show welcomes a series of eccentric guests who will bring chaos live on air.
Sin identidad
Act like Enrique Vergel (23 ep.)
event2014 star_border 5.4
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María, a successful lawyer based in Madrid, is shocked to discover she is adopted. A search for her biological parents soon leads to a web of deceit and betrayal. She uncovers a human trafficking operation, which leads her down a dark path.
A Private Affair
Act like Ramírez (8 ep.)
event2022 star_border 7.2
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Marina Quiroga, a daring upper-class girl with a detective's soul, sets off to catch the serial killer that has been terrorizing her town with her faithful butler Hector's help.
Celia
Act like Rodrigo Gálvez (6 ep.)
event1993 star_border 6.4
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Celia is a Spanish children's television series created by José Luis Borau in 1992 for the national Spanish public-service channel Televisión Española. It is based on the classic Spanish children's novels of the same name by Elena Fortún, primarily Celia, lo que dice and Celia en el colegio. The books and television series tell the stories of a wild seven-year-old girl named Celia Gálvez de Moltanbán. In addition to focusing on Celia, the show touched lightly on Spanish life in the 1930s, such as the upcoming civil war, a changing nation, and the social issues and ideas at the time.
Cristina Cruz Mínguez was cast as the titular character, and the script was adapted by author and screenwriter Carmen Martín Gaite. The creator, Borau, directed and produced the series. Though successful when it originally premiered, Celia was cancelled after six episodes. The sixth and final episode ended with a "to be continued", but the following episode has yet to be released.
Alba
Act like Víctor Entrerríos (2 ep.)
event2021 star_border 7
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Alba wakes up on a beach after a rape she doesn't remember. And then she discovers that her rapists are friends of her lover.
Bank Under Siege
(5 ep.)
event2024 star_border 6.6
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Spain, 1981: When armed men hold up a bank and take hundreds hostage, a reporter races against the authorities to uncover the true motive for the heist.
Lorca: Death of a Poet
(6 ep.)
event1987 star_border 5.4
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Lorca, a great Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Nickolas Grace gives a fabulous interpretation in the title role and he even bears a remarkable resemblance to Lorca.
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