Icíar Bollaín
Also Known As: Icíar Bollaín Pére, Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez
Biography: Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez (born June 12, 1967; Madrid) is a Spanish actress, director and writer. Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother was a music teacher. She made her début when she was 15 years old. She is a member of the Academia Española de Cinematografía. She began her work in cinema at the age of fourteen as part of the cast in Victor Erice's film El Sur (1983). Since then she has acted in fourteen films. Hola, estas sola? (Hi, are you alone? in English) (1995) was her first feature film as director, a story about two young girls who dream of finding an earthly paradise, and undertake a long trip towards the sea. Flores de otro mundo (Flowers from another world in English) (1999) was her second feature film, which she co-wrote with Julio Llamazares. It is the story of four women who travel to rural Spain with the hopes of finding love. Her latest film as writer and director is Te Doy Mis Ojos (I'll give you my eyes in English) (2003) which won seven Goya awards including Best Film. The movie is about the abusive marriage relationship between Pilar and Antonio. Her 2010 film Even the Rain was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. In January 2011, the film made the final nine shortlist.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Birthday: June 12, 1967
Age: 57 years old
Gender: Female
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Hi, Are You Alone?
Overview: Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-10-28
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Rage
Overview: A romantic thriller about a construction worker in hiding for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a maid.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-08-12
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Land and Freedom
Overview: David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-07
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El Sur
Overview: A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-05-18
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They're Watching Us
Overview: Norberto Lopez Amado's They're Watching Us is about a cop who becomes obsessed with a case. Juan (Carmelo Gomez) is ordered to head up an investigation concerning a businessman who has been missing for almost three years. The officer who worled on the case previously now resides in a mental institution and is unable to say anything other than, "They're watching us." A priest (Roberto Alvarez) explains how a series of disappearances in the area have supernatural underpinnings. As Juan is absorbed deeper and deeper into the case, his mother is concerned for him.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-08
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Tocando fondo
Overview: Andres de Granada, a forty-benefit trade more clear, believed that the first months of 1993 are the best time to do business. It also has the help of his nephew Fulgencio, who has arrived in Madrid with the idea of learning the trade.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-08-26
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The Night of the Brother
Overview: The Night of the brother ("La Noche del Hermano") is a chiaroscuro tale in which the characters' not always explicit feelings cover the gamut from darkness to light through the thin line between love and fear. Because the events of life are often less astonishing than the way they are shown to us.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-08-26
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Leo
Overview: Salva working as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a girl who makes a living collecting cardboard. Gradually Salva be falling in love for the young, but the life of Leo holds a dark past.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-09-01
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Niño nadie
Overview: Unbenownst to a middle-aged teacher of handicapped children, his long-term suffering girlfriend is pregnant with his child. The film philosophically explores the ideas of free will and destiny as they relate to the characters and their life choices.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-04-04
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Mientras haya luz
Overview: Marisa, a 38 years old woman, tells a stranges story to her daughter while they're walking through a level crossing in Madrid. An anthropologist, Jaime, is chased by a mysterious jeep. In the course of the chase, he takes shelter in a small motel. When he settles down, he keeps writing in his personal diary, reflecting his impressions about his work in it.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-09-01
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Subjúdice
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-06-19
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The Critic
Overview: A portrait of film critic Carlos Boyero, one of the most followed and feared figures in Spanish cinema, surrounded by controversy and both love and hate.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-09-16
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The Stone Raft
Overview: An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residents attempting to escape. When Spain and Portugal physically separate from the continent, the detached Iberian peninsula aimlessly floats off to sea, becoming home to a group of god-like humans.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-09-19
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Sublet
Overview: Laura is a young woman from Madrid who lives in the most degraded area of New York. There he lives a series of anecdotes that make up his day-to-day life in the United States
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-20
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Misadventure
Overview: An intrigue based on a failed relationship with touches of dreams and magic filmed on the streets of Seville.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-10-06
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El Mejor de los Tiempos
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-21
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Un paraguas para tres
Overview: Having just split up with their respective partners, Maria and Daniel meet in a shop where they argue over a bed. From then on, they keep running into each other in all sorts of strange places and in all sorts of circumstances. They are mutually attracted and begin to intrepret the coincidences of their meeting as sign of fate, but they are hesitant to take the plunge. This little game of love and fate becomes even more complicated when Pierre, a French teacher, and Alicia, Maria's friend, become involved..Who will seduce whom?...Who will be seduced by whom?...After a series of misunderstandings, love settles the question.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-04-03
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Dime una mentira
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-04-16
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Las dos orillas
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Al acecho
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-10-30
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Menos que cero
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-11-10
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Doblones de a ocho
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Sara, una estrella
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-02-15
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Borau y el cine
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-06-27
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