Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (born 5 November 1968 in Rome, Italy) is a Spanish-Italian film actress. Best known for playing dramatic roles in Spain, Sánchez-Gijón is known in the United States for her portrayal of Victoria Aragon, a pregnant and abandoned Mexican-American winegrower's daughter who is helped by travelling salesman Paul Sutton (Keanu Reeves) in A Walk in the Clouds (1995). She has since built a reputation as an international star in films such as Manuel Gomez Pereira's Boca a Boca (1996), Bigas Luna's The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997), Jaime Chavarri's Sus Ojos Se Cerraron (1998), Gabriele Salvatores' adaptation of the Niccolò Ammaniti novel I'm not scared (2003) and Brad Anderson's The Machinist (2004). Description above from the Wikipedia article Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 05, 1968
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
2023-11-17
Overview: After losing her job as a computer programmer, Lucía decides to become a cab driver.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-11-17
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2004-09-24
Overview: Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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2007-08-31
Overview: Coy, a sailor without ship, banished from the sea by a navigation accident occurred during his guard, knows in an auction of naval objects in Barcelona to an attractive and mysterious woman, Tangier. This, in hard struggle with an Italian adventurer, Nino Palermo, manages to get a cartographic jewel of eighteen, the Maritime Atlas of Urrutia.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-08-31
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1995-05-27
Overview: World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-27
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2006-09-24
Overview: An English couple's holiday in Spain is interrupted when they discover a girl imprisoned in a cabin.
Genres: Horror Thriller Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-09-24
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2023-03-26
Overview: Malvivir tells in first person the secret life of the rogue Elena de Paz, a free, rebellious, thieving, ingenious, deceitful and fugitive woman who defies all the conventions of her time and pays the price of her freedom. A tragicomic journey to the dark side of the Golden Age, a reflection on freedom and survival and a rescue of the female picaresque literature of the Baroque.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-03-26
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1995-11-10
Overview: For financial reasons an unemployed aspiring actor works for a phone-sex enterprise. One day he receives a call from the mysterious wife of one of his best clients.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-11-10
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2009-09-16
Overview: A couple's marriage falls apart after the death of their son. Based on Henrik Ibsen's "Little Eyolf"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-09-16
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1995-01-17
Overview: The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's life unbearable and inevitably tragic.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-01-17
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2011-12-16
Overview: The title refers to those strange coincidences that happen to us sometimes and that seem inevitable, like a product of destiny. Inspired by the experience of a Canarian child victim of cancer, the film is conceived as a Christmas story.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-12-16
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1999-10-01
Overview: The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries, at a time when Madrid was wobbling through a difficult time and setting the scene for the following Prim vs Crown uprising.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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2007-10-31
Overview: All hell breaks loose when an eccentric theatrical ensemble arrives in Oviedo, Spain to stage a production of the Leopoldo Alas play -La Regenta.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-10-31
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2008-02-14
Overview: Sasha is a 25-year-old orphan who asks Nicole, a married Frenchwoman in her forties, for advice to seduce Benedetta, his long-unrequited love. The two eventually bond over their shared past traumas and pains of love, until...
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-02-14
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1999-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-01
Popularity:
2004-04-01
Overview: A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War, and of a woman. Her quest for answers brings Vera to the Argentine Patagonia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-04-01
Popularity:
2003-12-01
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-12-01
Popularity:
2021-11-05
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-11-05
Popularity:
1999-09-03
Overview: A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta tells Antonio the man's first name. Carmen tells him that the man meant nothing to her, and that the photograph was taken before she met Antonio. She loves Antonio and sets out to wipe the photograph from his mind through exuberant sex, but her ploy backfires and Antonio remains fixated. Slowly he finds out about the man, and about Carmen's past. Will jealousy consume this couple or can they find a way to kill the green-eyed monster?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-09-03
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2006-02-10
Overview: Silvio is a well-to-do business executive who is seemingly happily married to Marcia. However, Silvio is convinced Marcia is cheating on him, and frequently spies on her -- ironically enough, he usually does so during assignations with his mistress, posh interior designer Claudia. Meanwhile, Daniel, who works with Claudia, is enjoying a vacation with his wife Irina, a front desk clerk at the hotel where Silvio usually romps with Claudia. Daniel is hoping the getaway will help put the spark back into their marriage, but he soon discovers Irina's head has been turned by a trainer from a nearby health spa. And finally, Mariela, Silvio's housekeeper, has stated dating Jorge Washington, who has only recently come to Spain from Peru. While Mariela has fallen hard for Jorge, he's impressed by the romantic and material opportunities his new hometown provides.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2006-02-10
Popularity:
1997-10-10
Overview: Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Titanic and cannot get a room, asks to share his room. They do, chastely; when he awakens, she is gone, but he sees her at the sailing and gets a photo of her. When he returns home, he suspects that his wife Zoe has been sleeping with Simeon, the foundry owner. Horty goes to the bar, where his friends get him drunk and he starts telling an erotic fantasy of what happened with him and Marie, drawing a larger audience each night.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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1989-06-15
Overview: Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different from the one he left: they live under the sadness of being the losers of the war, Marcela, before a beautiful young woman, is now an alcoholic, and the youngest can not even understand them. Jesus wants to start a new life in Spain but he feels out of place; Time has turned him into an inhabitant of the other side of the 'puddle'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-06-15
Popularity:
1993-05-05
Overview: While some people need to be surrounded by friends to be happy, Carmen (Mercedes Sampietro) is perfectly content by herself, pursuing her vocation as an art restorer. But her bubble of isolation is punctured when she becomes the survivor of a violent assault. Shaken by the incident, Carmen decides she needs a break from it all. So begins a soul-searching journey that takes Carmen back to her hometown in southern Spain, where she contemplates the joys and sorrows of her past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-05-05
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2023-10-20
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-10-20
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1997-01-18
Overview: Two romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers get involved in a caper.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-18
Popularity:
2023-10-23
Overview: The foundation in Madrid of the Institute of Investigations and Cinematographic Experiences (IIEC) in 1947, has been the most important event in the history of Spanish cinema. From there would come directors such as Luis García Berlanga, Juan Antonio Bardem, Carlos Saura, Miguel Picazo, José Luis Borau, Mario Camus, Antonio Mercero and Víctor Erice. Through their first film practices, we will learn about the history of the school and an entire country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-10-23
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1998-01-23
Overview: A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of Gardel, dumps her boyfriend Gustavo for Renzo, a singer who looks like Gardel. She insists that his trio performs Gardel's tangos, which leads to Renzo recording a Ford commercial when Gardel himself is overbooked. The trio, with Joanna in tow, goes on an ill-fated tour of points north. The couple breaks up: she goes home and he tries to get to New York. Fate steps in, and once again he's called upon to pose as Gardel. Then, legend and a bracelet take over. Written by
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-01-23
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2006-02-28
Overview: A watchmaker from Soweto finds a shoebox out of which he makes an improvised camera, aligns two lenses, and by looking through them, discovers images from the past. These are from the same places that, 35 years earlier, director Gonzalo Suárez, along with his brother Carlos, made the film Aoom.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-28
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2001-06-15
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-06-15
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2004-11-12
Overview: A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-11-12
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2023-11-10
Overview: A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-11-10
Popularity:
2022-04-29
Overview: When a fashion employee thinks she will have to end her promising career after getting pregnant, her boss offers to adopt the child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-04-29
Popularity:
1994-06-29
Overview: A young heiress, Bianca, blind following an accident, stays in a beautiful hotel in the Caribbean. The business is managed by Anna and her beautiful nephew Max, entangled in dubious circles of clandestine gambling dens and drug trafficking. Sylvia, a writer in crisis (and looking for new inspiration) also stays in the guesthouse accompanied by Joan, a young woman with whom Sylvia maintains an ambiguous relationship. Also staying there are Christine, a hysterical woman with a criminal record and her husband Dominic, a listless and parasitic man. Finally, Dr. Ruby, a young and distinguished doctor who is preparing to hold a conference in Miami and who seems to have known Bianca before the accident that caused her blindness, also arrived a few days ago.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-06-29
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2014-12-25
Overview: Valeria has just moved to Madrid after her parent's separation. What at first seems a bad start for her new life becomes the beginning of an amazing life experience. New friendships, a city full of possibilities, first love...
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-12-25
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1989-04-11
Overview: A girl who lives with her dealer cousin and her policeman boyfriend who is a policeman regularly transports drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all of them smoke grass from time to time there is need for more. Deciding to take a friend of hers who has just left home down to Morocco for a transport she gets problems because it is the first time for her friend and this makes it difficult. But as all are very open-minded there is no problem they would not try to solve.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-04-11
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2001-03-23
Overview: A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-03-23
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2011-04-02
Overview: Otilia Ruiz is the last link in a chain of women, marked by tragedy. Otilia looks desperately for an exit, but she doesn't know that, after entering the dark streets of Tierra Negra, anything will be the same anymore.
Genres: Thriller Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-04-02
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2015-08-31
Overview: An infernal civil servant is on a mission to rescue her boss. But the Devil is not ready to get back to her daily routine.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-31
Popularity:
1987-02-09
Overview: 4,000 tons of oil have been stolen from a Galician deposit. The alleged thieves are defended by the lawyer Ramos, but the witnesses die and suspicions point to Franco's brother.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-02-09
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2003-02-08
Overview: While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell about his discovery, eventually spilling the beans to his closest friend. Michele's parents learn of his discovery and warn him to forget what he saw
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-02-08
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2015-11-17
Overview: A new vision of the figure of Saint Teresa through the eyes of a young woman of our day who reads one of the main works written by the saint, The Book of Life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-11-17
Popularity:
1988-01-01
Overview: Two soldiers accompanied by two women enter the Baztán valley on horseback. They are deserters from the army of the Indies who are fleeing to Italy. They arrive to claim the inheritance of one of them, León de Balanza, Captain in Peru and soldier without fortune. They are looking for old Balanzategui who works the land of his ancestors. The old man's refusal to distribute the farmland's land causes a serious conflict.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
Popularity:
1993-06-02
Overview: Dostoevsky-inspired drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men's wives and dueling. He begins an affair with his friend's wife, but falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-06-02
Popularity:
1995-08-23
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-08-23
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2018-01-12
Overview: After losing her daughter in an accident, Carmen loses all incentive to keep going, until she receives an unexpected letter from the adoption agency: her daughter was finally granted the Vietnamese girl she had asked for adoption and whose name is Thi Mai.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-01-12
Popularity:
1991-02-20
Overview: Perpignan, 1971. A toy factory supervisor becomes obsessed with a newly hired employee. To be with her, he plans the perfect crime: Training his lover to murder his wife.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-02-20
Popularity:
1993-01-08
Overview: Two Frenchmen, Bernadette and Lebrum, arrive in Barcelona and hire detective Bardon to find Alekos, the former Greek lover of the woman.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-01-08
Popularity:
1988-09-11
Overview: Pedro Jarrapellejos is a ladies man who cannot turn the heads of Isabel or her beautiful daughter. When both peasant women are found raped and murdered in a brutal scene, a schoolteacher is falsely accused. Pedro knows his own nephew and his friend participated in the killings, but he uses his considerable influence over the police and courts to intimidate the witnesses into silence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-09-11
Popularity:
1990-01-17
Overview: In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. But when he discovers the beautiful Matilda hidden in his own monastery, all his repressed passions begin to show themselves, and he is soon using the girl, and her powers, in his lust for more innocent prey.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-17
Popularity:
1986-04-29
Overview: Biography of Julian Gayarre (1844-1890), one of the best tenors of all times. At 19, a professor at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid heard him singing for the first time and offered him a scholarship to continue his studies. His artistic life runs between continued success, becoming the world's greatest tenor. But in 1890, while singing at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a failure in his voice is like a cruel reminder of what would happen a few days later: his death at a young age. The doctors gave a diagnosis, but his friends know that Julian Gayarre died because he could not sing anymore.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-04-29
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2018-10-05
Overview: The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic of voices represented by people who make films, those who write them and those who consume them. The documentary pays tribute to the readers of “Fotogramas” helped by the leading figures of Spanish cinema, who will read to the camera the most representative letters received at its offices in the history of the magazine.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-05
Popularity:
1993-05-21
Overview: The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods that arrive to Cuba are not always the products that were shipped, in some cases, they simply arrive "lumps" or "coal". As it appears in the logbooks of the ships. 'Havanera 1820' is a film that tells stories of love and adventure in a time when Cuba confronts the Spanish colonizers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-05-21
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2011-09-09
Overview: A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-09-09
Popularity:
1988-10-10
Overview: One night, as in an apparition, Andres meets Marga, his first and only love. But before it can reach her it evaporates again. This appearance makes Andres remember with nostalgia the past times in which he met her. But, at the same time, the reunion with Marga, or better, her memory upsets her relationships with other girls. After a while, he comes back to Marga, again in a casual way ... casual...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-10-10
Popularity:
1996-04-22
Overview: At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young pupil, Balthasar,is castrated to preserve the purity and beauty of his voice. The Duchess dies and her son, the Duke of Arcos, takes charge of the inheritance, which includes Balthasar. With the entrance of Maria Loffredo, former lover of the Duke, a triangle is established that unchains tragic consequences to the allegedly callous life of Balthasar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-04-22
Popularity:
2001-05-04
Overview: Laura is a fifteen-year-old teenager who receives a letter from her mother, of which she had no news a decade ago. Laura decides to try to go to Holland to meet her, in need of answers and alternatives to the hostile environment that surrounds her. For that, he will have to face Angela, his older sister, a young policewoman who, as a child, was forced to take the reins of the family when she was orphaned. Angela will try, by all means, to keep Laura with her and not be alone. Little by little the violence that surrounds him will make him lose control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-05-04
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1992-05-11
Overview: Short film shot in 1992 starring Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Toni Castro.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-05-11
Popularity:
1989-07-01
Overview: In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the personification of her imagination is the cause. Against this backdrop, Claire has Byron's baby then is estranged from him and barred from her daughter. Byron and Percy continue their friendship, the one self-centered and decadent, the other wildly idealistic. The Shelleys take up residence near Pisa.
Genres: Horror Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-07-01
Popularity:
2010-12-28
Overview: Tv movie adaptation of "The Widow from Valencia",a play written by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. It was written circa 1600 as a result of Lope's visit to the city with his new patron, the future Count of Lemos. They were there for the marriage of the King Philip III with Margaret of Austria.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-12-28
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1992-06-13
Overview:
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-06-13
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1999-02-26
Overview: Yerma is desperate to have children, so when a psychic advises her to look outside her marriage to conceive, what can she say but yes?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-02-26
Popularity:
2018-10-21
Overview: Carlota has an open war with the caretaker of her community, Candela, whom she considers a person at risk. Carlota did not always know that HIV does not understand social status, gender or sexual orientation, she had to learn it by having it closer than she could ever have imagined.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-21
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1997-07-01
Overview: Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-07-01
Popularity:
2020-06-26
Overview: After a long time, Alexandra is reunited with her father Álex, a Spanish-Maghrebi businessman, and accompanies him on a business trip to Jaisalmer, in India, where an unfortunate event threatens to separate them forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-06-26
Popularity:
2020-03-06
Overview: Christmas 1969: the upcoming sale of Velvet brings the former and current staff together in Madrid for good memories, a second chance and a new beginning.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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2003-05-28
Overview: A shy computer expert falls in love with a beautiful colleague while trying to become a film director. Five years later, they have two children, she has become a successful executive, his career has gone nowhere, and their relationship is coming to an end.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-28
Popularity:
2020-11-20
Overview: An account of the life and work of genius Spanish writer Francisco Umbral (1932-2007), author of almost 200 books and more than 1000 articles; as well as an analysis of his both hieratic and strambotic public figure and certain unresolved personal enigmas in order to find an answer to what a real dandy is in this modern and convoluted times.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-11-20
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1994-10-20
Overview: The unpunctual woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-10-20
Popularity:
2021-10-08
Overview: Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-10-08
Popularity:
2025-01-31
Overview: Carmen, a well-known writer on her fifties, has returned a year ago to a farmhouse in the small town where she was born, in Bajo Aragón (Teruel, Spain). Her vital crisis is complicated when Eduardo, a film producer with whom she had a love affair twenty years ago reappears in her life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-01-31
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