Susi Sánchez
Also Known As: Susy Sánchez, Susana Sánchez, Susi Sanchez, Asuncion Sanchez, Asuncion Sanchez Abellan, Asunción Sánchez Abellán, Asunción Sánchez, María Asunción Sánchez Abellán
Biography: Susi Sánchez is best known for her roles in the Vicente Aranda film Mad Love, where she gives life to Queen Isabella I, and in the plays Cara de plata and Mujeres soñaron caballos. For these three roles she was nominated for the Spanish Actors and Actresses Union Awards, winning as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Cara de plata. In 2015 she joined the cast of the TV series Carlos, rey emperador, playing Louise of Savoy.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Valencia, Spain
Birthday: March 21, 1955
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Gender: Female
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Loli Tormenta
Overview: Lola, the modern and chaotic grandmother of Edgar and Robert, took care of them after the death of her daughter a few years ago. The three live in a modest house of the outskirts in Barcelona, and nothing makes them suspect that their quiet life is about to change dramatically. Lola has entered an advanced Alzheimer's process and children, who are not willing to separate them and end up in a host place, will take care of her with great ingenuity and overflowing fantasy, hiding her disease. For this they will have to face, like Robert in their athletics competitions, more than 3,000 obstacles.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-03-31
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Wetland
Overview: As a severe drought punishes the vast expanses of rice fields in eastern Spain, the natural region of Laguna Blanca is named a Nature Preserve. A prestigious biologist, Ricardo, arrives in San Pedro to protect it. His family, however, is going through tough times but Ricardo is convinced that a change in their lives will help them move on. And it’s also an opportunity to get back to his roots, to his origins, to where he grew up as a boy and to reclaim this spot that had been buried in his fondest memories. Ricardo’s mission is to hinder the abusive and illegal use that everyone makes of the lagoon. But pressure and threats from the locals just keep getting worse. They consider Ricardo a traitor because all they are trying to do is defend their existence and their livelihood. Ricardo eventually comes to the realization that his life and that of his family are in danger.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-12-10
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The Milk of Sorrow
Overview: Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-02-13
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On the Far Side of the Tunnel
Overview: Miguel and Aurelio are two film writers who decide to lock in a monastery in Aragon to finish the script for a movie. Strolling through the beautiful neighborhood, they meet a young and very attractive baker, with whom they maintain a loving relationship and she becomes, without realizing it, the protagonist of the script.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-02-25
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Nobody's Life
Overview: With a prestigious job and a loving family, Emilio (José Coronado) has the kind of life someone would kill for. But beneath it all is a horrible lie. Emilio's wife, Ágata (Adriana Ozores), becomes suspicious when Emilio picks up a guest pass to enter the Bank of Spain -- where, ostensibly, he works as an economist. But the house of cards starts crashing down when Emilio meets a needy college student, Rosana (Marta Etura), and begins an affair that proves disastrous.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-10-27
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The Skin I Live In
Overview: A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-08-17
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Malena es un nombre de tango
Overview: The attractive Malena listen to after telling the history of her life. Her treasure is not just an emerald that she inherits from her grandfather, but the key to discover the path of her existence, the eternal fight with her sister, and the passionate relationships with men. Based on the bestselling novel by Amanda Grandes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-04-12
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The Replacement
Overview: Spain, 1982. Andrés Expósito, a young police inspector, accepts a posting in Denia, a small town on the Mediterranean coast, in the hope of leading a quieter life and that the natural environment will help improve the fragile health of his daughter; but once in his new post he becomes involved by chance in the investigation of the strange death of the inspector he has come to replace.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-10-29
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The Rats
Overview: In the mid-fifties, El Nini lives in the poorest and most forgotten rural Castile (Spain). He is a child with no more knowledge than those provided by nature. El Nini lives with his father in a cave, and with him he devotes himself to the hunting of water rats, the only means of subsistence they know. But when they are tried to deprive them of their roof and their livelihood, violence will erupt uncontrollably.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-06-04
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10,000 Nights Nowhere
Overview: The story of a son who is afraid of everything. Overwhelmed by his dull life, one day he decides to flee. He starts a journey to nowhere, living other lives. And he finds out that if one day you no longer want to grow, it's not all that bad. You just have to learn to fly, to fly far away. It's a story about taking important decisions; and about how each time we make a choice, somewhere within us we make exactly the opposite one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-10
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La fotógrafa
Overview: During a visit to her grandparents´ house, Kath finds some pictures of the Argentinian civil unrests in 2001. Upon her return to Buenos Aires she will attempt to discover the link between these photographs and her deceased mother, the author of the images.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-05-17
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Backstage
Overview: There's nothing you can't tell your mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-12-08
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Queens
Overview: Surrounded by social and political chaos in Lima during the summer of 1992, Lucia, Aurora, and their mother, Elena, plan to leave and seek opportunities in the United States. Their farewell involves reconnecting with their estranged father, Carlos, adding turbulence to the regrets, hopes, and fears of their emotional departure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-08-22
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Vasil
Overview: Vasil is a Bulgarian immigrant who lives on the street in Spain. Intelligent and charismatic, he has an amazing talent for chess and bridge, so much so, in fact, that despite being homeless, he manages to make a name for himself in an exclusive and prestigious club in the city.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-10-16
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My Prison Yard
Overview: In Madrid, a petty thief who cannot adjust to life outside of jail puts together a theater troupe her friends -- a prostitute, a gypsy, and a Colombian immigrant -- in an attempt to make a go at a relatively straight life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-12-26
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También esto pasará
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-05-09
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Julieta
Overview: The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-08
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Sólo se muere dos veces
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Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-03-10
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The Invisible Guardian
Overview: When the naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán, it is quickly linked to a similar murder one month before. Soon, rumours are flying in the nearby village of Elizondo. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or is it the basajaun, the ‘invisible guardian’ of Basque mythology? Inspector Amaia Salazar leads the investigation, taking her back to the heart of the Basque country where she was born, and where she hoped never to return. Shrouded in mist and surrounded by impenetrable forests, it is a place of unresolved conflicts and a terrible secret from Amaia’s childhood that will come back to haunt her. Faced with the superstitions of the village, Amaia must fight the demons of her past to confront the reality of a serial killer on the loose. But as she is drawn deeper into the investigation, she feels the presence of something darker lurking in the shadows…
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-03-03
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Sunday's Illness
Overview: Annabel is a successful businesswoman with a wealthy husband. At a reception in her villa she meets a woman, a member of the catering staff who has been hired for the evening. This woman is none other than her own daughter Chiara, whom she had left over thirty years ago. Chiara was just eight years old at the time. She now approaches her mother with an unusual request: to spend ten days together with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-02-23
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I'm Not Scared
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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Mad Love
Overview: The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-09-28
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I'm So Excited!
Overview: Something has gone wrong with the landing gear of a plane en route from Madrid to Mexico City. The group of eccentric travelers on the flight, defenseless in the face of danger, indulge in colourful confessionals, while the outlandish crew attempts to find ways to entertain them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-03-08
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A Love to Keep
Overview: Spain, the era of dictator Franco. Two female teachers are in love, but in those years and in that regime the love is not only forbidden but also a crime. To avoid their child been in prison, the parents of the one teacher, force her to be confined in a clinic for mental diseases, where she is heavily abused, the main treatment been electroshocks. After Franco's fall, and the change of things, she is free to return to her home, under the surveillance of her mother. Her father, more compassionate, helps her escape and find her lover. But the years of been under electroshocks have damaged her health, and make it impossible to live a normal life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-03-19
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Felicidades, Tovarich
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Sleeping Voice
Overview: Finished the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, in November 1940, while Spain is being crushed by the ruthless boot of dictator Franco, Pepita travels from rural Córdoba to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia, who is seven months pregnant and imprisoned, haunted by the shadow of a death sentence.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-10-21
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Pain and Glory
Overview: Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-03-22
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Zapico
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Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-11-03
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Offering to the Storm
Overview: Inspector Amaia Salazar confronts the origins of her nightmares as she unfolds the darkest secrets of the Baztan valley. Part 3 in the Baztan Trilogy.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-07-24
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The Legacy of the Bones
Overview: Inspector Amaia Salazar must return to the Baztan valley in order to solve a series of suicides that seem to follow a similar pattern.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-12-05
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Truman
Overview: Tomás, who lives in Canada, travels to Madrid, Spain, to visit his old friend Julián. Both of them, accompanied by Truman, Julián's faithful dog, will share many surprising and emotional little moments, triggered by the hard situation Julián is going through, for just a few days.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-09-24
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Una pareja... distinta
Overview: Zoraida is a single mother and bearded woman in a circus, while Charly works in transvestite shows. Together they will live a difficult and unusual love story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-12-16
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15 Years and One Day
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-09-21
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Lullaby
Overview: Amaia has just become a mother, and the challenge is even more significant than she imagined. So when her partner has to leave for several weeks because of his job, she decides to spend time with her parents in a lovely coastal village in the Basque Country and hopefully share the responsibility of looking after her baby. However, she forgot that even when one becomes a parent, one never stops being a daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-05-17
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The Cover
Overview: In Benidorm, a mecca for impersonators of live singers, Dani doesn't want to be just a cover. He will meet Sandra and discover authenticity, love and what it means not to be one more.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-07-23
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