Ana Belén
Also Known As: Ana Belen, María del Pilar Cuesta
Biography: María del Pilar Cuesta Acosta, better known as Ana Belén, is a Spanish actress and singer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Birthday: May 27, 1951
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Official Competition
Overview: When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-09-04
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FFG, el último gran conversador
Overview: Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being an excellent conversationalist, capable of hypnotizing and seducing those who listened to him.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-08-27
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Demons in the Garden
Overview: Juan is the handsome, irresponsible, best-loved second son. When his older brother, who runs the family's black-market business with their steel-willed mother, marries Juan's lover Ana, Juan heads for Madrid to work for Franco. Juan also leaves behind his impoverished cousin, Ángela, pregnant with his son. Jump ten years. Juanito, the lad, has rheumatic fever. The doctor says to pamper the boy. Ángela, Ana, and his grandmother comply. As Juanito recovers, his father returns in desperate need of cash; Juanito witnesses a theft blamed on his innocent mother. Things come to a head at a saint's-name party for father and son. Jealousies, betrayals, and a bullet converge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-10-18
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Turkish Passion
Overview: A young woman’s passion forms the basis of this erotic Spanish drama adapted from a popular novel by Antonio Gala. The night before Desideria’s marriage, her girl friends give her some valuable advice on sex. The marriage takes place, and while it is generally happy, her husband Ramiro suffers from sexual dysfunction and Desideria is frustrated. The two end up on holiday in Istanbul with two friends. Desideria falls madly in love with the sensual ambiance of the ancient, teeming city. She begins a passionate affair with a handsome Turkish guide, Yaman. Upon her return home, she learns that she is pregnant. Ramiro agrees to support the child, but unfortunately it dies in infancy and the grieving Desideria flees for Istanbul to find her lover. She finds him and they renew their torrid affair. Later she learns some distressing things about Yaman, but this does not stop her from becoming his sexual slave and a call girl for wealthy carpet sellers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-11-18
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The Court of the Pharaoh
Overview: In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage of the artistic caprices of the son of a rich man who supports the regime. They try to stage a Pre-war 'zarzuela' (a sort of Spanish operetta), 'La Corte Del Faraón', which ironically, thirty years later, is too obscene for the regime censorship. They finally manage to perform the 'zarzuela' but end up in the police station where they confirm that justice depends on which side are you on
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-09-26
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Cruce de caminos
Overview: An account of the life and work of the singer and songwriter Miguel Ríos, pioneer and true icon of Spanish rock music.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-03-20
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Raphael: 50 años después - En directo y al completo
Overview: Performed at Las Ventas Spain, In celebration of Raphael's 50th anniversary as a performer, this comprehensive collection offers incredible videos from throughout his career. The vaunted Spanish singer and actor first hit the stage as a toddler, and has since played with the biggest Latin artists such as Juanes, Rocio Jurado, Miguel Bose, and many more. 50 ANOS DESPUES features 18 hits including "A Mia Minera," "Cantares," and "Adoro."
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-05-07
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Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
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
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Freedomfighters
Overview: At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-04-19
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Morbidness
Overview: Newlyweds have decided to spend the honeymoon in the middle of a forest and sheltered in a caravan. Relations between the two start to get confused, especially when she begins to obsess over a nearby house and with eyes that seem to spy on her with lust.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-09-15
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Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena
Overview: Hortensia is a mature officer of the INEM office. She has been abandoned by her husband so she doesn't believe in love anymore. One day Eduardo Fernandez goes to the employment office because after overcoming a deep depression, he has decided that his life has to get better.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-11-26
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Move Over, Mrs. Markham
Overview: Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him use his house for a love tryst while Fernando wines and dines Adela. At the same time, Paco's wife, Carmen, will be taking her lover to Rosa's house. From here on the rout begins, as Paco tries to get rid of Silvia, his secretary, and Carmen, her husband. Fernando thinks Rosa is cheating on him with Oscar, who thinks Fernando is gay and having an affair with his partner, while the soldier thinks his girlfriend is a professional...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-12-05
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The House of Bernarda Alba
Overview: After the death of her husband Bernarda Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-04-03
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Bilbao Blues
Overview: Beatriz is an attractive young lawyer who enjoys an enviable position thanks to the influence of his father, a prominent businessman. Lucas, a young guy with a rather shady past, struggling to emerge from the unfavorable situation in which life has placed him. When Lucas is arrested with a stash of cocaine adulterated becomes a client of Beatrice. The pure cocaine has hidden with intent to distribute it only with your partner Uriarte, for it has had to deceive another of his buddies into thinking that the business has failed.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-31
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The Beehive
Overview: As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-10-11
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El buscón
Overview: XVII century Spain. Don Pablo tries to climb position and falls into the hands of students, rogues, whores, fake skilled, executioners, jailers and comedians. Based on "The Buscón called Pablos" Francisco de Quevedo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-11-27
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The Creature
Overview: After a heartbreaking miscarriage, a couple adopts a stray male dog in hopes of saving their rocky marriage. But as the wife develops an obsessive bond with her new companion, it will trigger jealousies and rivalries that may lead to the most inconceivable act of all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-11-30
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Spaniards in Paris
Overview: Four Spanish women of very different origins and motivations work in Paris as handmaids.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-04-26
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Divine Words
Overview: A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-09-15
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The Flight of the Dove
Overview: A film team arrives at a more authentic and old square in Madrid to shoot a film. The area is full of children, working families and simple people who see the cinema as something unattainable. From his balcony, Paloma, does not lose detail of the shooting, nor of the movements of the gallant, for which he feels a strong attraction.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-02-14
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Miss Caribe
Overview: A woman's father dies in a Central American country and leaves her a bizarre inheritance: a ship which acts as a floating brothel under the appearance of being a restaurant. Alejandra, our heroine, decides to put an end to the ship's dissolute activities and use her inheritance as a school. Customers, cooks, waiters and the girls will meet her idea with considerable resistance.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-04-13
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Banderas, the Tyrant
Overview: In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-11-19
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El viaje de Julieta
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-01-09
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Antigua vida mía
Overview: An abused wife (Cecilia Roth) seeks information about her dead mother, a freedom fighter buried in Antigua.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-05-03
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Zampo y yo
Overview: Ana Belén, motherless and daughter of a powerful businessman, lives in a luxurious mansion; but she is not happy, until she attends a circus performance, where she meets Zampo, an old clown with whom she becomes close friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-07-04
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Aunque la hormona se vista de seda...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-09-09
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To the Devil, with Love
Overview: On an island buffeted by storms, the seamen are confined with no desire to abandon the life by the sea. They spend days and nights drunk in the tavern. The young woman who serves them has one desire: to go far away. This sets the stage for a musical in the open, and will frame a story of love and adventure, reminiscent of the director's film Aoom.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-09-24
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With Good Reason
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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The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
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
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Tormento
Overview: A rich emigrant returns to Madrid where he meets the beautiful Amparo . The girl, however, lives a secret affair with a priest
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-09-02
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La petición
Overview: An ambitious young woman from a wealthy family, but unsatisfied with her social position, will not hesitate to use all that is within her reach to achieve her ascent in society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-09-21
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Vida conyugal sana
Overview: Enrique is a thirty-year-old lawyer who is married to Ana. Apparently he is a normal man who has only one obsession: the commercials. He feels a real passion for the erotic world of the ads either in billboards, trash cans, public transport, magazines or television. The continuous publicity bombardment ends up leading him towards a neurosis that changes his personality.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-02-11
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The Love of Captain Brando
Overview: During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old republican exile, returns to his home in a small Castilian village and befriends Aurora, a young and attractive teacher.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-11-28
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Emilia... parada y fonda
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-08-15
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Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
Overview: What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profession. Thirty-six Spanish actors reflect on their work and contrasted their experiences. As thread, the contrast between the voices of veterans and images of young theater students , for whom everything is still possible. Among the many actors are interviewed Javier Bardem, Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Luis López Vázquez, José Coronado, Emma Suarez, Alberto San Juan, Ariadna Gil, Ana Belén, Pilar Lopez de Ayala and many other.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-10-27
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A flor de piel (C)
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-04-07
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The Perfect Husband
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
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Erotic Stories
Overview: A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-03-13
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Check to the Queen
Overview: After Paula's suicide, her best friend, Ana, recalls the circumstances that united both women in the past and how they lived a close relationship that could have become more than just a friendship if social conventions had not prevented it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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¡Jo, papá!
Overview: With the purpose of recalling a youthful adventure, Enrique, a well-placed merchant, decides to travel around Spain in the company of his wife Alicia and his two daughters, Pilar and Carmen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-11-21
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La oscura historia de la prima Montse
Overview: Paco, a middle-class young man, tells his lover the shady story of his cousin Montse, a social worker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-08-18
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Ana Belén y Víctor Manuel: mucho más que dos
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Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-06-04
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El gusto es nuestro
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-08-04
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Rosa Rosae
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-10-28
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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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Conciertos: Ana Belén y Víctor Manuel
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Original Language: es
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2014 Hijos de puta
Overview: The story will begin with the suicide of a finance man on a golf course. After the death of the banker, the chain effect will lead to the emergence of the true social natures of the elite class. A journey from the most humble to the most powerful, and like all of them, deep down, they are made of the same material. A social film that offers a different approach to the components of life in society.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
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Somnambulists
Overview: Ana works side by side with her mother Maria Rosa in the fight to save the anti-Franco militants from the death penalty during the process of Burgos. Ana's mother is a former actress and Ana, her mother and a few other actors prepare an act of protest in the theater where an international festival on Strinberg is being held. But there are more things in Ana's life. The mother lives with her uncle, the brother of his father, Norman, an old doctor of devious methods. Helped by Fatima, an old nurse who loves her father, the doctor will try to experiment with Ana's ideas and feelings as well
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-09-18
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Romeo y Julieta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-10-06
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Separación matrimonial
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Querido Fotogramas
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
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Mi Querida Cecilia
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Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-12-24
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¡Ay, Carmen!
Overview: The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant artist in her own right.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-29
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Dolores
Overview: Based on the life of Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria), president of the PCE. The film is a documentary, prepared over three years with archive material from Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Havana, Yugoslavia and Basque and Spanish film libraries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-03-27
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País S. A.
Overview: A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-10-27
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La parrilla
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-09-05
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After the Dream
Overview: Amós is a sailor and owner of a ship. He is impatient with the arrival of his uncle who returns from the Soviet Union, after having exiled there after the Civil War. They have no time to meet because the old man unexpectedly dies. Amos knows, thanks to the letters his mother received, that his uncle had a treasure. However, this one is not among the objects that were in the old man's room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-09-09
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La corte de Ana
Overview: She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a girl who, in time, would become a symbol of freedom and a total artist. Actress, singer, friend, lover. This is the story of Ana Belén.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-03-19
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Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado
Overview: A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely opportunistic, who brought it to a successful conclusion in the tribunes and offices; on the other hand, the citizens who, in the streets, supported it sincerely or fought it with ferocity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-11-07
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Stories of Our Cinema
Overview: In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country are projected. From that event, the Spanish actor Antonio Resines intends to compile a series of anecdotes to shape the amazing history of Spanish cinema, holding several conversations with prominent figures of the Spanish film industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-11-22
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Aute retrato
Overview: A journey through the different creative facets of Luis Eduardo Aute: singer and songwriter, painter, poet, filmmaker. Collaborators and friends tell the life of this total artist and reveal the impact his work has had in the past, has in the present and will have in the future.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-09-13
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Víctor Manuel: el abuelo Víctor
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-07-09
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Olea… ¡Más alto!
Overview: An account of the life and work behind the camera of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Olea, whose very personal viewpoint, interested in all kinds of subjects, approached in very different ways, but always with a very characteristic style, has analyzed the social and political life of Spain for more than five decades.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-11-06
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Las cartas perdidas
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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Break a Leg
Overview: 4th February 1975. It's the first day of the historic actors strike that would bring the country's theatre activity to a halt for nine days. They demand one day off a week. What started out as a demand develops into political challenge. Concha Velasco, Ana Belén, Tina Sainz, Juan Diego and José Sacristán are some of the artists who risked their careers and their freedom. This is the story, narrated by its protagonists, as it has never been told before.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-02-07
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