Elvira Mínguez
Also Known As: not available
Biography: She is an actress and a writer known for Retribution (2015) and The Invisible Guardian (2017).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: July 23, 1965
Age: 59 years old
Gender: Female
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Solo mía
Overview: A women meets a charming man and falls in love, they get married and start a family. As they age and have children, the man's becomes violent and abusive.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-10-31
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Tapas
Overview: The film centers on a Spanish tapas bar and the love lives of the loosely interconnected people in the neighborhood surrounding the bar. The pairs of lovers include a middle aged woman and a young man; an elderly, drug dealing woman and her terminally ill husband in poor health; the tapas bar owner and his estranged wife; and two Chinese immigrants.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-07-06
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The Reckoning
Overview: In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman being sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors now stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-26
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Cowards
Overview: A young victim of bullying at school realizes that even the adult world is dominated by fear similar to his own. He pays a high price when he decides to fight back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-04-05
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Modesty
Overview: Pudor is about intimacy, about the desires, obsessions, secrets and fears that we keep hidden, even from those we love most. The characters in this story are a man who is going to die, a woman who receives anonymous erotic notes, an older man who is offered a last chance at falling in love, a teenager struggling to handle the doubts generated by puberty and a small boy who sees ghosts. As is the case in many families, in spite of living together, all the characters in Pudor are alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-04-13
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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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Running Out of Time
Overview: Days before committing an attack, Antonio, a gunman of the terrorist gang ETA who has dedicated his life to a cause he no longer believes in, meets Charo, a young drug addict who, despite the sordid environment in which she lives, still retains her innocence.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-10-06
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The Wooden Box
Overview: After the death of don Lucio, his widow Eloísa asks one of her neighbours to use the latter's house in order to hold the dead man's wake, since Eloísa's own house is too small for that. From then on, a series of strange happenings take place during a single day.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-10-27
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Clara Campoamor, the Neglected Woman
Overview: Spain, 1931. Under the Second Republic, women are eligible, but cannot vote. Victoria Kent and Clara Campoamor, the first women in the Spanish Parliament, intend to fight for women's rights, and Clara knows that the first step is to get the women's vote approved…
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-08-03
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¿Dónde está?
Overview: Peter Nueda murdered his pregnant wife, descuartizándola below. A few hours later decide to report the disappearance of his wife, agreeing with cold blood perplexing to be helped by their neighbors to find.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Lucky Star
Overview: Rafael, a lonely 40-something butcher, saves a pregnant Marina from an assault by her boyfriend Daniel. Rafael agrees to take Marina in and they happily raise the child together. Years later, Daniel re-enters their lives and turns them upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-05-30
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Che: Part One
Overview: The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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The Winter of the Anjanas
Overview: A young worker enjoying an affair with an upper class beauty, Adelaida, is drafted by the Spanish Army to fight in the Cuban War of Independence. After Adelaida receives an unusual announcement regarding her lover's death in combat, she refuses to believe the loss of her lover. Her class-conscious family, led by her jealous sister Maria, believes that Adelaida has lost her mind and places Adelaida in an insane asylum. However, Adelaida continues to to live according to her beliefs of passion and freedom. Fellow "inmates" tell her about the wood-nymphs which inhabit the adjacent forest. Adelaida is convinced these nymphs will lead her to her lover and to happiness.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-05-01
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Black Tears
Overview: A mentally unbalanced woman captures the heart of an already-engaged admirer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-10-01
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Retribution
Overview: While Carlos, a banking executive, takes his two kids to school in his car, he gets a phone call telling him that there is a bomb under the seats and he must to gather a large amount of money; otherwise, his car will blow up.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-09-21
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13 Curses
Overview: Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father eighteen years ago, begin to persecute to him, since his father died by shot gun, peculiarly, when thirteen peals sounded in the cathedral, fact what obsesses to Jacobo. After watching several times, Mateo convinces his son to make the work for the cathedral that his father couldn't finish in life, but what begins as a simple work becomes a madness spiral when Jacobo discovers the true intentions of the ghost of his father: to kill to his son to usurp his body to finish the statue, and after to return to the life.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-10-12
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The Goalkeeper
Overview: Ramiro Forteza is a Premier League goalkeeper whom the Civil War and the rigors of the war led to make a living visiting villages and challenging locals to mark him penalty goals. One evening he arrives to a town in Asturias and meets Manuela, a young widow with a son, who survives sewing for Ursula, Andrade's wife, the Civil Guard sergeant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-09-08
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The Dancer Upstairs
Overview: A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-20
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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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Don't Blame Karma on What Happens to You for Being an Asshole
Overview: The lives of a Madrid-based feather-fashion designer and her whole family's completely tumbles after the appearance of a musician long-lost high school crush who is involved with her model sister.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-11-11
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Pasaje al amanecer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-05-05
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Diary for a Tale
Overview: A young man works in the port of Buenos Aires translating the love letters that prostitutes receive and seeks inspiration for his works in them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-11-18
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The Chosen
Overview: Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-09-02
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Everybody Knows
Overview: Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-05-09
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Cachito
Overview: A gypsy girl, when her grandmother dies, goes in search of his mother who abandoned her as a baby
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-03-07
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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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Mi Vida
Overview: Recently retired hairdresser Lou decides it is time to make a longtime dream come true. She sold her hair salon and is off to Spain to learn the language. Inspired by a new sense of freedom and encouraged by her teacher and new friend Andrea, she decides to permanently move to the seaside town of Cádiz. Just when Lou begins to believe that this new adventure is within her reach, her pregnant daughter Barbara shows up unannounced…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2019-11-21
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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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Em dic Sara
Overview: A college professor tries to deal with the frustrations of her life as she drifts uncomfortably into middle age. Elvira Minguez plays Sara, a 40-year-old single mother who teaches at a university while sharing her home with her teenage daughter Virginia (Elena Castells) and her boyfriend Adrian (Francois Eric Gendron). Lately, Sara has not been getting along well with her friends and has very mixed feelings about Virginia's openness about her sex life. These dilemmas are compounded by the death of her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-21
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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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The House of Snails
Overview: A writer secludes himself in the mountains and falls in lust with local Berta. After realizing the oddities of the rural community the author starts to question the lines between reality and fiction.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-06-11
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La cena
Overview: Spain, April 15, 1939. With the Civil War concluded, and with the intention of celebrating his victory, General Franco attends a dinner with his generals at the Palace Hotel.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-10-31
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Grimm
Overview: One cold winter's day, Jacob and his sister Marie are abandoned in a wood by their out of work father. In his jacket Jacob finds a letter from their mother urging them to go to her brother in Spain. Once in Spain, it turns out that their uncle is dead. Marie meets Diego, a wealthy charming Spanish surgeon, and falls in love with him. Diego lives with his sick, domineering sister, Teresa. To Jacob's astonishment, Marie wants to marry Diego. Even after the wedding has taken place, jealous Jacob tries to get his sister away from Diego. When this doesn't succeed, Jacob starts to provoke his brother-in-law. It soon transpires that no one will go unpunished for this.
Genres: Drama Comedy Adventure
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-10-08
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