Juan Diego Botto
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Juan Diego Botto-Rota (born August 29, 1975, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine-Spanish actor. Botto's father disappeared during the Argentine Dirty War when Juan Diego was only two years old. With his mother and older sister María, also an actress, he moved to Madrid, Spain, where he currently resides. Botto started acting at the age of 5 in the film Juego de poder (Power Game). His role in the 1999 film Sobreviviré (I will survive), about a woman who falls in love with a man who, unknown to her, is homosexual, got him more national and international recognition. Botto has appeared on stage in Spain in several critically acclaimed plays. He also directed a play called Privilegio de ser perro (Privilege of Being a Dog), about the tough life immigrants are subjected to while trying to sneak into and live in a new country. Currently Botto lives in Madrid with his partner, the Spanish journalist and writer Olga Rodríguez. He is also active in politics, protesting the 2003 war in Iraq several times with fellow Spaniards and taking part in a support group for fellow children of the disappeared. Description above from the Wikipedia article Juan Diego Botto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: August 29, 1975
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Known For
Bordertown
2007-02-22
Bordertown
Overview: American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-22
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Va a ser que nadie es perfecto
2006-10-27
Va a ser que nadie es perfecto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-10-27
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The Dancer Upstairs
2002-09-20
The Dancer Upstairs
Overview: A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-20
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Though You May Not Know
2016-04-23
Though You May Not Know
Overview: An account of the life and work of the Spanish poet Luis García Montero; a journey through his experiences, his mentors, his influences and his contact with other artists, both from the literary world and from other disciplines.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-23
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El Greco
2007-10-11
El Greco
Overview: The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-11
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Martin (Hache)
1997-03-31
Martin (Hache)
Overview: An emotionally distant father attempts to reconnect with the son he abandoned. After his estranged son tries to commit suicide, Argentine expat Martín brings the troubled teen to live with him in Spain. But though Martín tries to reach out to his son, he's unable to bond with anyone in his life -- including his much-younger girlfriend
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-03-31
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Roma
2004-04-15
Roma
Overview: Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.
Genres: Drama History Romance Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-04-15
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The Widows of Thursdays
2009-09-10
The Widows of Thursdays
Overview: The closed community of a private neighborhood of high-priced houses, is moved by the discovery of three corpses that appear floating in a pool and rushes to frame it as an accident.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-09-10
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The Suicide Squad
2021-07-28
The Suicide Squad
Overview: Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-28
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The Mexican Suitcase
2011-11-11
The Mexican Suitcase
Overview: The story of the recovery of the negatives of thousands of photos taken by three photographers during the Spanish Civil War that were found seventy years later in a suitcase, inside a closet in Mexico City.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-11-11
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Plenilune
1999-08-15
Plenilune
Overview: Romance and murder walk side by side in this psychological drama from Spain. A serial killer has been plying his grisly trade in a small town in Spain, murdering young girls and leaving their bodies in a nearby forest.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-08-15
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I Will Survive
1999-11-19
I Will Survive
Overview: Marga is having a streak of bad luck. Through her friendship with Rosa, she tries to regain her self-confidence, but love interests again create conflict. It is while developing a relationship with a handsome gay sculptor ten years her junior: Iñaqui, that she starts to improve. However, Marga and Iñaqui go beyond friendship, but are frustrated by their limitations. Ultimately, the two may have to settle for an "impossible" love relationship, as their unique best road to happiness
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-11-19
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Frozen Silence
2012-01-20
Frozen Silence
Overview: Russian front, winter 1943. Soldier Arturo Andrade and Sergeant Fernando Espinosa are commissioned to investigate a mysterious murder while the Spanish Blue Division of the German Army endures the fierce counterattack of the Red Army.
Genres: War Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-01-20
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If They Tell You I Fell
1989-09-19
If They Tell You I Fell
Overview: In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-09-19
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Augustus: The First Emperor
2003-11-30
Augustus: The First Emperor
Overview: Caesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following the death of her husband Agrippa.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-30
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Not Love, Just Frenzy
1996-11-15
Not Love, Just Frenzy
Overview: A group of enthusiastic teenagers embark on a journey to find love in Madrid's hottest discotheques but find themselves tangled in a web of sex, drugs and crime.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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Novios
1999-09-17
Novios
Overview: Arturo , a successful restaurateur, having an affair with his assistant Cristal, tells her that he will reveal the extent of their relationship to his wife Paz. Not long after Cristal starts dreaming of life as a housewife, their plans fall through. In revenge, Cristal focuses on Arturo's son, Arturito. She will endeavor to make Arturito her bridegroom at Arturo's expense, in all senses.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-09-17
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Stories from the Kronen
1995-04-29
Stories from the Kronen
Overview: Carlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers. And more each time, each adventure is chained to the next, as if it were a continuous night. A long description of people: grandfather, parents, sister, girlfriend, friends. And, among that, the obscure will of living every minute as if it were the last one. But something which happens puts Carlos and his friend against a reality they have been trying to ignore.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-04-29
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Childish Games
2012-03-09
Childish Games
Overview: Daniel agrees to take Julia, the daughter of an old childhood friend who has just died, into his home.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-03-09
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La sal de la vida
1996-02-09
La sal de la vida
Overview: The film tells in a funny way the ups and downs of a widower who would like to marry again. But his choice to take a young woman as the bride does not conform with what his three daughters want as stepmother. Naturally this will cause all kinds of irritation and problems
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-09
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God Loves Caviar
2012-08-04
God Loves Caviar
Overview: The true-life, stranger-than-fiction tale of eighteenth-century Greek pirate turned merchant Ioannis Varvakis, who rose from humble beginnings to become the head of one of the largest mercantile empires in Europe.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2012-08-04
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13 Curses
2002-10-12
13 Curses
Overview: Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father eighteen years ago, begin to persecute to him, since his father died by shot gun, peculiarly, when thirteen peals sounded in the cathedral, fact what obsesses to Jacobo. After watching several times, Mateo convinces his son to make the work for the cathedral that his father couldn't finish in life, but what begins as a simple work becomes a madness spiral when Jacobo discovers the true intentions of the ghost of his father: to kill to his son to usurp his body to finish the statue, and after to return to the life.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-10-12
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Broken Silence
2001-04-27
Broken Silence
Overview: Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, because of his smile and the bravery of those men who continue fighting for their ideas, even at the cost of their own lives. When Manuel is pursued (by Franco's Civil Guard) he flees to the mountain and Lucía discovers the reality of political repression, the silence, the horror and fear.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-04-27
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Obaba
2005-09-16
Obaba
Overview: A rural drama set in Obaba, a mythical region in northern Spain, where a young filmmaker struggled to capture the feel of the area, which in turn leads to a wealth of self-discovery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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Vete de mí
2006-09-26
Vete de mí
Overview: Santiago is a gray man who works as a supporting actor. However, his attitude towards life will change when he lodges his thirty-year-old son Guillermo in his house for a few days. "Go away from me" is a family masquerade ball, of encounters and disagreements between two congenital egoists: a compulsive liar, who manages to alter the already fragile mental state of the relatives that surround him, and a supporting actor who has come Unless, he suddenly discovers that his life is a lie.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-09-26
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Los abajo firmantes
2003-10-17
Los abajo firmantes
Overview: The first actor of a theater company on tour in Spain dies in a car accident. A new actor, Jorge Ruiz, is to relieve you. He's handsome, young and revolutionary. His arrival creates tension, jealousy and distrust in the rest of the cast, is-especially in Mario Soto, which is responsible to lead in the absence of the author of the assembly, busy with an opera for the Teatro Real in Madrid . Already in the first trial of the work concerned the "Play Without a Title" by Federico Garcia Lorca, their personalities collide head. Morante Carmen, leading actress of the company, and Laura G. Reyna, which was secret lover of the deceased, witness the struggle between the two. As if that were not enough, the newcomer brings added conflict: reading at the end of the function of a manifesto for peace. Mario questioned that decision and the company is divided.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-17
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La Celestina
1996-11-08
La Celestina
Overview: The young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto's servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Celestina to further the romance. However Calisto's other servant Parmeno is suspicious of Celestina, as he knows about her tricks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-11-08
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Asfalto
2000-02-04
Asfalto
Overview: Three young and desperate inhabitants of Madrid attempt to rise above their circumstances by any means available to them in that sun-drenched city. This tight-knit trio must scramble when their hasty plans become derailed by a demanding matriarch, an abusive older brother, and the entire corrupt underclass with which they deal.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-02-04
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Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent
2012-12-05
Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent
Overview: This documentary looks at the life of Jordi Dauder through an interview with the actor a few weeks before his death. From her interventions and people who knew him, the play explores the experiences of actor, from his artistic side as from his political convictions and life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-05
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Ismael
2013-12-26
Ismael
Overview: An aging couple follows after Ismael Tchou, an 8-year-old, who is trying to find his way to his estranged biological father all by himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-12-26
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Staring at Strangers
2022-11-04
Staring at Strangers
Overview: Carpenter Sergio runs away and hides in a closet after his boss fired him. When the closet arrives at its buyer's house, he decides to stay there, hiding in his new home living with an unknown family.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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In Praise of Older Women
1997-04-11
In Praise of Older Women
Overview: In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-04-11
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The Anarchist's Wife
2008-06-26
The Anarchist's Wife
Overview: "The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-06-26
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Franco's Settlers
2013-10-23
Franco's Settlers
Overview: Explores Llanos del Caudillo, a town from La Mancha founded in 1955 by the dictator Franco; a discreet and calm attempt to dissect recent Spanish history and to review how some Spaniards deal with the cruel heritage of their past. A reflection on what to do with the Francoist legacy in towns, streets and squares in Spain.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-10-23
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Anything You Want
2010-09-10
Anything You Want
Overview: Leo is immediately set adrift by his new found responsibilities as a single parent, a feeling that is made doubly distressing when Dafne, herself understandably confused and heartbroken by her mother's absence, asks for an "artificial" mother to help her fall asleep at night. It is here that Mañas takes the road less traveled, but to write any more about the plot line he introduces would be unfair to both the viewer and filmmaker alike. Suffice it to say that Leo's actions are both surprising and potentially dangerous, as they require Leo to subsume his own identity to the point where he nearly loses it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-09-10
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The Ignorance of Blood
2014-11-14
The Ignorance of Blood
Overview: Javier Falcón, Chief of the Sevilla Homicide Division, must solve two different cases in a short time. In the first case he is personally involved. An old friend of his infiltrated an Islamic terrorist cell and now the group is trying to recruit his young son for their cause. The same case hits even closer at home. A war is raging between two clans in the Russian Mafia. When an important mobster tries to defect, he gets killed in a car crash. On the scene, the police find an encrypted USB stick with highly explosive information. Then the son of Falcon’s girlfriend Consuelo is kidnapped. They are contacted by both Mafia clans claiming they have the kid and wanting to get their hands on the information. And both say they will kill him if Falcon doesn’t give them the stick
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-11-14
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1492: Conquest of Paradise
1992-10-09
1492: Conquest of Paradise
Overview: 1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-09
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On the Fringe
2022-10-07
On the Fringe
Overview: A day in the life of Azucena, who is running out of time to keep herself and her family from being evicted; Rafael, a lawyer who sets out to reunite a mother with her daughter; and Teodora, a sick old woman who searches for her long-lost son before it is too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-10-07
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Hablar
2015-06-12
Hablar
Overview: An anthology film with 20 stories on the subject of words, communication, linked to one another over a 400-metre stretch: from Madrid's Lavapiés Square to the Sala Mirador. A journey between theatre and cinema, filmed in a single fixed shot running continuously over 80 minutes and half a kilometer, in Madrid's popular Lavapiés district. The characters talk, argue, laugh, cry, threaten, whisper, shout, steal, make dates, get angry with and hug one another, prompting the spectator to reflect on the immense power of words.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-06-12
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Ni te cases ni te embarques
1982-01-01
Ni te cases ni te embarques
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Ave María
1999-11-20
Ave María
Overview: In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-11-20
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The Feast of the Goat
2006-02-11
The Feast of the Goat
Overview: Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-02-11
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My Friend Eva
My Friend Eva
Overview: Eva has just turned 50. She’s been married for over 20 years and has two, teenage children. So far, nothing remarkable. But on a business trip to Rome something happens that turns her life upside down. She meets Alex, a scriptwriter who’s spending a few days in the Italian city. The instant attraction she feels for him, the butterflies in her tummy, the seductive hint of possibility… After all this time, she remembers what it feels like to fall in love and it shifts something inside of her. It reignites a fire that had long been extinguished.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
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Los comensales
2016-04-27
Los comensales
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-27
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Los aitas
2025-03-21
Los aitas
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-03-21
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Asier ETA biok
2014-01-17
Asier ETA biok
Overview: Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. But one day he disappeared, later I found out he had joined ETA.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-01-17
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The Room Next Door
2024-10-07
The Room Next Door
Overview: Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-10-07
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Am I Beautiful?
1998-09-17
Am I Beautiful?
Overview: Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing each other or colliding head-on. They are all, without knowing it, at a pivotal moment in their lives...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-09-17
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El río de oro
1986-02-27
El río de oro
Overview: During a long summer, the tranquility of a couple and their three children resting in a country house is altered with the arrival of the children's uncle, a character who exerts a curious influence on the boys and a morbid and strange attraction the wife. Twelve years after 'Los viajes escolares' (1973), his first commercial feature film, the Madrid director Jaime Chávarri returns to the same estate in the province of Segovia to shoot a new family story, about his own plot and script. Like its predecessor, 'The Golden River' contains a strong autobiographical charge and is full of personal resonances. But this new history of family ties is narrated from a perspective in which adultery manifests itself openly. Endowed with a slow narrative rhythm, the film presents an international cast headed by Ángela Molina, Bruno Ganz, Francesca Annis and Stefan Gubser. The film also has the presence of a very young Juan Diego Botto, in one of his first appearances on the big screen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-02-27
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Zorro: The Legend Begins
1990-01-10
Zorro: The Legend Begins
Overview: The story of Don Diego de la Vega, a young man who returns to his home in Spanish California to find the town under the oppressive rule of a corrupt Alcalde, forcing him to take on the secret identity of Zorro to fight for justice and protect the people from the tyrannical regime, with the help of his loyal servant Felipe.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-10
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Ovejas negras
1990-05-04
Ovejas negras
Overview: Adolfo reunites with his old teacher, Father Benito, to confess him the crimes he committed when he was a young boy just to save the soul of the people he loved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-05-04
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Berta's Motives
1984-09-01
Berta's Motives
Overview: The life of a young girl who plays with little animals and insects is suddenly changed with the arrival of a film crew and a strange man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-09-01
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El balancín de Iván
2002-04-12
El balancín de Iván
Overview: Ana is a woman of thirty-something, goes back to the house where she spent of her childhood during the Argentine dictatorship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-04-12
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A night with Juan Diego Botto
2018-08-16
A night with Juan Diego Botto
Overview: Cristina has been dreaming of sleeping with Juan Diego Botto for twenty years. He's been dreaming of a fairer world his whole life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-08-16
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Rocambola
2019-10-25
Rocambola
Overview: Dante is a professional thief who makes ends meet through carefully selected, small jobs. His new target is a secluded big house which he thinks is unoccupied. But he's not alone, he will meet a strange couple whose reaction to his intrusion is to ask him for breakfast. They are hiding other plans.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-10-25
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The Europeans
2020-11-20
The Europeans
Overview: Spain at the end of the 50s. Miguel and Antonio, both single and in their early 30s, go on a trip to Ibiza, lured by the European sexual myth and the illusion of freedom. But on the island, nothing will be as they expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-11-20
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Power Game
1983-04-27
Power Game
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-27
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How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt
1991-04-05
How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt
Overview: Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company when she prefers solitude, his treating her work as less important than his, his casual and cruel dismissal of her opinions, her boss assigning her an incompetent editor, bartenders ignoring her, her passage into middle age. She can be feisty and edgy, which sometimes gets in the way of what would make her happy. And she regularly threatens to leave Antonio. Will she, and on what terms? What will he do?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-04-05
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Manolito Espinberg: une vie de cinéma
2005-01-12
Manolito Espinberg: une vie de cinéma
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Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-01-12
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