Javier Cámara
Also Known As: Javier Cámara Rodríguez, Javier Camara, Javi
Biography: Javier Cámara Rodríguez (born 19 January 1967) is a Spanish actor. He starred in the Pedro Almodóvar films Talk to Her (2002), Bad Education (2004) and I'm So Excited (2013), and the television series 7 Vidas (Seven Lives). He played Cardinal Bernardo Gutierrez in the HBO series The Young Pope as well as Guillermo Pallomari, the chief accountant of the Cali Cartel, in season 3 of the Netflix series Narcos. He was born in Albelda de Iregua, La Rioja. He later moved to Madrid and graduated from the Dramatic Art School. He worked as an usher at the Figaro Theatre in Madrid. His debut in theatre was in El caballero de Olmedo in 1991. He enjoyed great success in the TV series 7 Vidas and then with Almodóvar. His awards include 12 wins and 22 nominations. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: La Rioja, Spain
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Talk to Her
Overview: Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-03-15
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Bad Education
Overview: An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-03-19
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The Secret Life of Words
Overview: A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-15
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Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
Overview: A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-03-13
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Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella
Overview: For this second film in the cult comedy series Torrente takes our fat police officer from Madrid to Marbella in Spain to investigate a villain’s plot to destroy the city with a missile. This James Bond style slapstick comedy became the most successful box-office film in Spanish film history beating out only the first Torrente film.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-03-30
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Sex and Lucía
Overview: Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-08-24
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Paris Je T'aime
Overview: Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-21
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Torremolinos 73
Overview: Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-04-29
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Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer
Overview: In 17th century Spain Diego Alatriste, a brave and heroic soldier, is fighting in his King's army in the Flandes region. His best mate, Balboa, falls in a trap and, near to death, asks Diego to look after his son and teach him to be a soldier.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-09-01
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La torre de Suso
Overview: Cundo emigrated to Argentina to seek a new life. Ten years later he returns home, to the funeral of an old friend, Suso. The film chronicles the reunion with family and friends and how Cundo wants to fulfill the ultimate dream of Suso. The film is a tribute to friendship. And above all friendship in a age where it is not so clear why you should remain friends with your childhood friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-11-09
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Chef's Special
Overview: Maxi thinks his life is perfect. He is a famous cook who owns a successful restaurant in Chueca and is living his life as a gay man without much complex. But when his son Edu and his daughter Alba appear, and a new attractive neighbor comes along, it will have a strong effect on his life resulting in his values being challenged for ever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-04-11
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To Hell With The Ugly
Overview: Eliseo is ugly, lame and single. He hasn't met the woman of his life and has never known love. Nati is ugly, missing a breast and separated. She found the man of her life but, even so, has never experienced true love. Eliseo thinks that the worst of his life is still to come. Nati thinks that the best of her life is still to come. The death of Eliseo's mother reunites them twenty years on in a last chance to find happiness and love. But what happens when the woman of your life is married to your brother
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-04-23
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What's a Bear For?
Overview: Ecological comedy about two brothers. Alejandro and Guillermo are two Asturian brothers lovers of Nature since they were children. Alejandro is a renowned zoologist who investigates wildlife and lives in the trees like an animal. Guillermo is an internationally renowned biologist, who has received numerous awards. One day he discovers a green sprout in Antarctica and, convinced that the battle is lost, leaves everything and goes back to Asturias. Once there, he looks for his brother Alejandro in the forest where they live. Since the arrival of Guillermo to the forest, the sentimental ecosystems of the characters will be altered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-04-01
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The Blind Sunflowers
Overview: Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-08-29
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Eso
Overview: Since he began to work, Domingo lives against the trend: he sleeps during the day, care for her younger sister in the afternoon and at night vacuums in a department store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-06-05
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Hard Times
Overview: When the troubled son of an NGO worker refuses to take a test and announces that he is not leaving his room, his concerned mother asks one of her clients, a Cuban exile, for help in setting the boy straight. Gonzalo has decided to drop out of school, and his mother Ana isn't sure how to convince the boy that he's making a crucial mistake. Ana's client Carlos is a Cuban exile who makes his living selling cigars and artwork on the black market. When Carlos learns of Ana's dilemma, he calls on recently released convict Mikel to teach the boy how to play chess. Perhaps is young Gonzalo can master the game, he can learn to start living again. As the lessons get underway, each of these characters learns that in order to truly move on with their lives they much first break free of the bonds that prevent them from being who they really are.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-11-18
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Havana Quartet
Overview: Walter, an aspiring musician from Madrid, has a lot of troubles. After finding a videotape, he learns something which will alter his whole life, and put his Madrid problems on hold. In the tape, a Cuban woman confesses to being his mother. She is waiting for him in Havana. Walter goes to Havana to see his mother. There, the plot thickens with the addition of the mother's daughter, and a Spanish airline crew member, who round out the quartet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Put a Man in Your Life
Overview: In a swimming pool accident, Juan and Belinda somehow exchange bodies. Juan is coaching a football team for an important match and Belinda is getting married. They agree to co-operate and continue in their new bodies.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-08-23
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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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Fiction
Overview: Alex, a shy and introverted, is a film director trying to finish writing his latest script. Decided to leave a few days of his wife and children to go to the Pyrenees and find there the peace and inspiration. In the town where he is met Monica, a violinist who is on vacation at a friend's house. Love grows between them and will face feelings that have to control and hide. Feelings that may never expressed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2006-11-10
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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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Yesterday Never Ends
Overview: A couple meets at their son’s grave ten years after his death; his plot is to make way for a casino city. Anger, hatred and bitterness erupt. A nightmarish drama that goes far beyond this couple’s private grief and points towards the end of society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-04-26
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A Gun in Each Hand
Overview: J. is depressed. E. lives peacefully. S. tries to get back with his wife. G. resorts to anxiolytics. P. plays seduction games. María and Sara exchange their husbands. L. calls his lover in a peculiar way.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-12-05
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Looking for Chencho
Overview: When a tourist bus stops at a gas station, Chencho, one of the passengers, decides to go to the toilet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-10-17
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Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
Overview: Spain, 1966. An English teacher who travels to Almería when he hears that John Lennon is making a film there befriends with a 16-year-old boy who has run away from home and a young girl who also seems to be running away from something.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-10-31
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The Unexpected Love
Overview: Juanito moved to New York to succeed as an actor. Years have gone by but success has not come his way and now he takes an odd jobs to survive. One day he is visited by his apparently successful cousin. However, their life together will discover the reality behind each of them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-04-25
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Off Course
Overview: Two young Spanish men, with a university education, are tired of unemployment and decide to move to Germany. But soon they will find out that finding a better living is not as easy as they expected.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-03-03
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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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Stories Not to be Told
Overview: Five tales of human vulnerability and the hilarious, painful, and awkward curveballs life throws us.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-11-25
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53 Sundays
Overview: Three brothers meet to discuss what to do with their 86-year-old father.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
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Siete semillas
Overview: This story tells how Ignacio Rodriguez, manager of a textile export company, lives so absorbed in his work that it creates personal crisis which leads to the hospital. After this episode his brother recommends visiting a spiritual guide, beginning a journey of learning that will take him to find the inner peace he needed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-10-21
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It's for Your Own Good
Overview: Three brothers-in-law try to get their daughters to dump their undesirable boyfriends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-02-24
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The Queen of Spain
Overview: After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to The Girl of Your Dreams, 1998.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-11-25
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Paris Je T'aime
Overview: Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-21
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Sexo en el plató
Overview: How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prepare and feel? Spanish actors and directors talk about the most intimate side of acting, about the tricks and work methods when narrating exposed sex. In Spain the general rule is that there are no rules. Each film, each interpreter, faces it in very different ways.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-04-09
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Bomb Scared
Overview: Somewhere in Spain, four ETA terrorists await a phone call before carrying out a mission, while the 2010 FIFA World Cup, where Spanish soccer team is one of the favorites to win, is being held in South Africa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-12-08
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Crime Wave
Overview: Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-04
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Age of Monster
Overview: Victor, who claims to have filmed a number of films he's not been able to release, unites around his deathbed his most faithful collaborator to present his posthumous work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-23
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Off Course to China
Overview: Braulio after his misadventures in Berlin, moves to Hong Kong along with Rafa and Hakan in search of new opportunities. However, it is not easy to succeed in a land where language, culture and customs are very different from Europe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-02-15
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Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
Overview: When looking at Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography, it becomes evident that women are everywhere; in fact, his work revolves around them. His divas are the best to create a real portrait of Almodóvar and evoke the emotional power of his films. These women are the ideal observers of a cinematic career that, from La Mancha to Hollywood, has changed the image of Spain in the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-09-11
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Memories of My Father
Overview: In the polarized and violent Medellín (Colombia's 'City of Eternal Spring') of the 1970s, doctor Héctor Abad Gómez is concerned about both his children and children from less favored classes. After a devastating loss in the family, Héctor gives himself to the greater cause of public health programs for the poor in Medellín to the consternation of the city's authorities.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-08-22
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Madrid, int.
Overview: Madrid, Spain, March 2020. As the merciless disease that plagues the world spreads through the increasingly deserted streets of the city, people barricades themselves in their homes and move on with their lives…
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-05-09
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The People Upstairs
Overview: Julio and Ana have been together for more than fifteen years. They have become a couple who no longer look at nor touch one another, and who have made daily fighting the essence of their relationship. This evening, Ana has invited their upstairs neighbors to come round, Salva and Laura, a couple younger than them, pleasant and friendly, but whose noises are now an annoyance for Julio and Ana... or perhaps a stimulus? The upstairs neighbors will make them an unusual and surprising proposal which will turn the evening into an exaggerated and cathartic experience for all four.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-10-30
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Deconstructing Almodóvar
Overview: A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection that deconstructs his career through interviews with many of his frequent collaborators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-30
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Directed by Almodóvar
Overview: A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection featuring interviews with many of his frequent collaborators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-30
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Viva Pedro: The Life & Times of Pedro Almodóvar
Overview: The genius that is Almodóvar is expressed in this film with interviews from his family, co-workers, and Almodóvar experts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-30
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The Pig
Overview: A man scrambles to deal with a tricky financial situation in this short film about a birthday scam gone wrong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-12-04
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