Najwa Nimri
Also Known As: Najwa Nimri Urruticoechea, Najwa Nimri Urrutikoetxea, Najwajean, Найва Нимри, 나지와 님리, نجوا نِمری
Biography: Najwa Nimri is a Spanish film and television actress, singer and music composer of Jordanian descent. Begins to be recognized in the film world by the hand of director Daniel Calparsoro in films such as Leap into the void, Passages, Blind or Asphalt. After the success of Abre los ojos by Alejandro Amenábar, comes her first Goya nomination for best leading actress with Los Amantes del circulo Polar by Julio Medem, with whom she repeats in Lucía y el Sexo for which she is also nominated for a Goya in the best supporting actress category.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: February 14, 1972
Age: 53 years old
Gender: Female
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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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Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Overview: Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There are things that never end, and Love is one of them.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-09-04
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Open Your Eyes
Overview: A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Genres: Drama Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-12-19
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The Method
Overview: Seven candidates to a high executive position on a multinational company show up for a selection test in a skyscraper at the financial district. Among them, the most disparate personalities: the winner, the aggressive, the insecure, the critic, the indecisive…
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-09-22
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Before Night Falls
Overview: Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-03
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La reina del bar Canalla
Overview: The young wife of a millionaire hears some terrible news on the television. There has been a train accident near her house. It’s such a serious accident that it will be impossible to identify some of the victims. This is a terrible catastrophe for the city but it will mean something completely different for her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Stones
Overview: The stones of the title are the dreams and burdens carried by these five women with interlinked lives. This story of decision and transformation was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-02-08
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Utopia
Overview: Adrian (Leonardo Sbaraglia) is a young man who has spent years running away from himself, constantly changing city and work, looking for people to relate to the least possible and all for one reason: he has the ability to see things that have not yet occurred, is a precog. He learned it when he anticipated the death of his parents and could not do anything about it. Adrian tries, unsuccessfully, to flee from his gift
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-03-21
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Room in Rome
Overview: A hotel room in the center of Rome serves as the setting for Alba and Natasha, two sexy and recently acquainted women, to have a physical adventure that touches their very souls.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-05-07
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Fausto 5.0
Overview: On his way to a medical convention, Dr Fausto runs into a man who claims the Doctor removed his stomach eight years ago in a surgical operation. Against all odds, he is still alive. The man turns up repeatedly and promises Fausto to make all his wishes come true. Reality starts dissolving and Fausto begins to lose control
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-08-30
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Even the Rain
Overview: As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-01-05
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Route Irish
Overview: A private security contractor in Iraq rejects the official explanation of his friend's death and decides to investigate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-16
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Verbo
Overview: Sara is a young woman who fails to understand the world she lives in. Trying to find meaning in life she would come to a mysterious place to undertake an adventure: it is a parallel universe, dark and fantastic, where life and death hang in the balance.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-11-04
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The Red Virgin
Overview: Hildegart is conceived and educated by her mother Aurora to be the woman of the future, to become one of the most brilliant minds of Spain in the 1930s and one of the European references on female sexuality.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-09-27
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A+
Overview: Film difícil de ver y aún más de digerir, "A+" se ha convertido, por méritos propios, en una de las ofertas más innovadoras -a la espera del estreno "Sex" con Nancho Novo y Silke- del panorama cinematográfico español. Aparentemente la historia no puede ser más sencilla. En ella se entrecruzan varios personajes que inician un viaje a un macroconcierto(o a ninguna parte, según se mire) por varias razones.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-28
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Trastorno
Overview: Two estranged sisters, once very close as young girls, get pregnant at the same time. After suffering an abortion, one becomes obsessed with the other’s baby and poses a threat to them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-11-17
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Salto al vacío
Overview: Alex is a young woman who resorts to arms and drug trafficking to support her parents and younger brother in 1990s Basque Country. Alex has her life further complicated by her unrequited love for Javi, a member of her criminal gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-03-03
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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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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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Secret Agents
Overview: From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading for Angola with a load of illegal weaponry. Lisa, Brisseau, Loïc, Tony and Raymond are professionals: they carefully set up their cover, plan all their moves meticulously, and carry out orders without asking questions. Perhaps they should. The code-name of the mission is "Janus"; and just like with the ancient deity, there are two opposite faces for every aspect of the operation: the objective of the French government, the role of each team member, the presumed friend and the assumed foe...
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-03-03
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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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Blinded
Overview: Featuring plenty of two-fisted action with romantic and political overtones, this intelligent thriller from Spanish director Daniel Calparsoro is set in the Basque region of northernmost Spain and centers on the clash between two Basque terrorists whose relationship becomes strained when the female starts refusing to kill their enemies. Unfortunately, for someone like her, leaving terrorism can be as dangerous as remaining in the fray.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-06-27
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Mataharis
Overview: Private detectives Inés, Eva, and Carmen often invade others' privacy but are clueless about confronting their own secrets. While on the job, these three surveillance specialists will have to cross the thin line dividing public and private matters, bringing their own issues to light in order to solve more than just their professional cases.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-09-28
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The Wine of Summer
Overview: A frustrated actor travels to Spain in search of a playwright, a trip that unexpectedly binds him to a group of five previously unconnected people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-13
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Celia's Lives
Overview: The night Celia unsuccessfully attempts suicide, a teenage girl (Melany) is raped and murdered nearby. Miguel Ángel, the police officer in charge of finding the perpetrator of the crime, digs around Celia and her closest circle, including her two sisters (Carmen and Ángela) and her husband Agustín. While the cop suspects about the girl's boyfriend (Pedro), Celia suspects about her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-11-17
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Pasajes
Overview: In this talky Spanish thriller, Gabi, a lesbian gang member seeks to convince her middle-aged heterosexual dreamgirl Carmina to become her new lover and crime partner. The story begins as Gabi and her lover burst into another woman's apartment, tie her up and begin robbing her. The police show up and during a shoot-out, one of the robbers is killed. After she escapes, Gabi returns to her fringy friends and begins dreaming of a soul mate. All Gabi knows is that the right woman will be a pair of green high heels. Carmina owns such a pair, and though she is far from Gabi's physical ideal, a soul mate is a soul mate and so she begins her persistent courtship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-03-15
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Quién te cantará
Overview: Lila, a famous retired singer, loses her memory after suffering an accident, just as she planned her return to the stage.
Genres: Music Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-24
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Express Oviedo
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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The Tree of Blood
Overview: Marc and Rebeca, a young couple, travel to an old country house that used to belong to their family. Once there, they write the shared history of their roots, creating a huge family tree that harbours relationships of love, heartbreak, sex, madness, jealousy and infidelity, and under which also lies a history laden with secrets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-31
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La octava dimensión
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-17
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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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Mi madre
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-05-01
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20 Centimeters
Overview: Colloquially-told story of a few days in the life of Marieta, who's saving money for the last operation in her change from man to woman. She works as a prostitute in Madrid and longs for a legitimate job. Whenever she builds up her savings, her housemate and best friend Tomás finds ways to spend, lose, or cost her those funds. She meets Raúl, whom she likes and who likes her; the trouble is he also likes that part of her she wants removed. If that's not enough, she also has narcolepsy, and when she conks out, she dreams of musical-theater numbers in which she's the singing and dancing star. Are these dreams always going to be 20 centimeters out of reach?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-06-10
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Inseparable From You
Overview: A short movie starring Najwa Nimri addressing the complex world of mental illness and more specifically the bipolar disorder.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-07-12
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Muñequita linda
Overview: After years of hard learning, Estela, a promising young musician, has to face the blinding glare of success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-06-03
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9'8m/s²
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-05-19
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