Ana Torrent
Also Known As: آنا تورنت
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ana Torrent Bertrán de Lis (born 12 July 1966) is a Spanish film actress. Torrent's debut came in 1973 with the starring role as "Ana" in the film El espíritu de la colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive) directed by Víctor Erice, when she was seven years old. This was followed by another memorable role in which she played the lead character's younger self in Cría cuervos (Raise Ravens) (1976) by director Carlos Saura. In 1989 Torrent performed with Sharon Stone in the film Blood and Sand directed by Javier Elorrieta. In 1996 she received numerous awards and nominations, including a Goya Award nomination for her lead actress role in Alejandro Amenábar's film Tesis (Thesis). By the end of the 1990s, Torrent received critical acclaim when she played a Basque nationalist murdered for quitting ETA, in the film Yoyes (1999) directed by Helena Taberna. In 2008 Torrent portrayed Catherine of Aragon in the film The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), starring Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ana Torrent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, España
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Birthday: July 12, 1966
Age: 58 years old
Gender: Female
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Overview: The second of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper as he works in a cinema, which gives him ample opportunity to cross paths with virtually every artistic device and dramatic character known to man. The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world—92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project by Peter Greenaway includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Genres: War Drama History Adventure Comedy Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-09
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
Overview: The third of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper as he continues his adventures as a professional prisoner during the later years of the Second World War and its aftermath, the Cold War. The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world—92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project by Peter Greenaway includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Genres: War Drama Adventure Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-06
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Overview: The first of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper in three distinct episodes: as a child during the first World War, as an explorer in Mormon Utah, and as a writer in Belgium during the rise of fascism. Packed with stylistic flourishes, it's a dense, comic study of 20th century history, revolving around the contents of one man's suitcases. The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world—92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project by Peter Greenaway includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Genres: War Drama History Adventure Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-24
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Cows
Overview: A film set in the Basque region, beginning in the Carlist war of 1875 and ending during the Spanish Civil war of 1936. The film portrays how one single act of cowardice shapes the life of the next three generations of two families and fuels the intense rivalry which will span the next sixty-one years.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-02-26
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The Spirit of the Beehive
Overview: In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-10-08
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The Other Boleyn Girl
Overview: A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-28
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Thesis
Overview: While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured to death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student at her college...
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-04-11
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The Footprints of a Spirit
Overview: The story of the creation of The Spirit of the Beehive, a film directed by Víctor Erice in 1973.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-10-10
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The Beckoning
Overview: Francesca is a pediatrician who is dedicated to both motherhood and children, married to another physician, Pedro. After the birth of a new child, Francesca begins to suffer from postpartum depression. Following the advice of friend and psychiatrist Jean, the couple move to a new home away from the city…
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-02-07
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Foremost by Night
Overview: Exploring the issue of stolen children in Spain, the plot tracks Vera’s search for her biological son, given in adoption, thereby coming across Cora and her adoptive son Egoz.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-12-01
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There Be Dragons
Overview: Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.While researching the life of Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, the young journalist Robert uncovers hidden stories of his estranged father Manolo, and is taken on a journey through the dark, terrible secrets of his family’s past.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-25
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Puede ser divertido
Overview: Alicia and Carmen are two recently divorced single mothers who become friends after their kids get in a fight at school. Their new friendship is put to the test when they agree to start dating the same man for fun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-08-18
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The Uncovering
Overview: The sudden reappearance of the young Vera in a coastal village makes Jordi decide to undertake the search for his father, who has been presumed dead for over twenty years.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-11-16
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Cria!
Overview: Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death of her mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-06-03
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Blood and Sand
Overview: Remake of the tale of an acclaimed matador who finds himself involved with a beautiful woman, jeopardizing both his marriage and career.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-09-22
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Yoyes
Overview: Yoyes, the first woman to hold responsibility positions within ETA, returns from exile in Mexico and try to rebuild her life. But her return is not easy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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Elisa, My Life
Overview: Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis in her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill. Elisa decides to travel to the countryside of Madrid with Isabel and her brother-in-law Julián and their two children to visit Luis for his birthday. Elisa decides to stay with her father when her sister returns to Madrid with her family and she gets closer to Luis, understanding why he left her mother years ago. Later she tells him that Antonio cheated on her with her best friend Sophie and their relationship has ended. When Antonio unexpectedly arrives in the house, Elisa makes a decision about her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-04-21
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The Nest
Overview: In a town near Salamanca, an eccentric widower, aged 60, is captivated by an imp, a precocious 13 year old. Alejandro is wealthy and alone, passing time with music, chess, and his shotgun. Gregoria (Goyita) the daughter of a weak-willed policeman and his bullying wife, is a budding naturalist who conspires to meet Alejandro. Even though he knows the village is talking, Alejandro spends time with Goyita, on walks, horseback rides, and dinners. He's enchanted and tells his friend the village priest that he's living for the first time. Goyita makes new demands on Alejandro, and he must decide how to be true to his ethics and to this Platonic yet highly-charged relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-09-18
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Luna's Game
Overview: The daughter of a poker player frequents the casinos to earn a living the only way he has learned: playing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-06-21
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Entre rojas
Overview: Madrid, 1974. Former women's jail of Yeserias. Lucia, a girl well situated in society, is condemned to spend ten years in jail due to her relation with a politic militant against Franco's dictatorship. While being in prison she lives with every kind of woman: intelectuals, killers, illiterates, ... All of them must share food, living space, joys and pities; joined by the same fate, lack of freedom, they will have to fight together against desperation. Lucia is willing o live, to learn form that world the fate has given to her where, on the contrary to what she imagines, tenderness and laugh exist. And also the complicity and solidarity of some women living an experience which will mark them for ever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-20
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Una preciosa puesta de sol
Overview: Three women from three different generations meet at last in a trip to a resort in northern Spain.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-09-05
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Iris
Overview: After the failure of her marriage, Iris goes back to her hometown during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), where she becomes a war photographer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-07-16
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14, Fabian Road
Overview: Argentine writer Camila Ponte is on a promotional tour for her first novel, which has become a real success. In one of the acts, Vega, a mysterious woman, approaches her and convinces her to go to a hotel. Camila is thought to be working for her publisher but in reality Vega seeks revenge and kidnaps her. The victim seems to accept the abduction, since between both a history of suspicion, distrust and also love arises.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-04-11
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Things I Forgot to Remember
Overview: A bittersweet comedy in Spanish and English about a Cuban family that migrates to the United States. Robertico, Carmela and Roberto's youngest son, grow up feeling ashamed that his family might not be American enough. He has reached this conclusion by constantly watching American television and forming an opinion as to how Americans really are. Led by his desperation, he literally escapes into an American television sitcom in order to forget about his Cuban past. Not knowing what to do, his family prays to the Virgin Mary to ask for help. When the cultures clash, Robertico has to decide whether he is strong enough to withstand his own self-hatred, and learn not only self-esteem, but how to embrace his Cuban roots.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-06-10
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Sagitario
Overview: A woman finds herself going from having no man in her life to having more suitors than she can handle in this offbeat romantic drama. Rosa is an artist in her early forties who is recently divorced and looking for a new relationship. Unfortunately, few immediate prospects are on the horizon, and Rosa spends much of her free time commiserating with her close friend Jaime, a gay actor her own age. After consulting Andronica, a fortune teller, Rosa is told that relationships with three different men are on the horizon for her, and soon she finds herself falling for Gustavo, an architect from Argentina. While in Spain, Gustavo is staying at a hotel run by Greta, who is the unwitting center of a web of romantic entanglements; her daughter, is involved with Juan, a delivery boy for a pizza parlor who also has his eye on Rosa, while Greta's ex-husband (Bob Wilson) is also hoping to win Rosa's heart, in his case through poetry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-06-22
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Ana, Three Minutes
Overview: Part of the collective feature film 3.11 Sense of Home
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-09-11
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The Third Notebook
Overview: An actress and a filmmaker rehearse a film script. It gathers fragments from the diary that María Dolores González Katarain, Yoyes, wrote during her exile in Mexico between 1980 and 1985, right after she quit ETA, the armed organization she had led for some time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-03-11
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The Huckster
Overview: Locked in a grand nineteenth-century mansion, 9 children are abused by an icy-looking woman who likes to be called 'Mother' by the children. Everything gets complicated with the arrival of a new victim, Teresita.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-05-01
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The Faces of the Moon
Overview: The Faces of the Moon is the story of five women from five different countries (Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, USA and Spain), invited to Mexico City to be the jury of the Third Annual Latin American Women's Film Festival. In six vertiginous days these women share their past experiences, their ghosts and, their expectations. The group views and critiques the festival's film entries, and, in the process, the women reveal their personal, political and national histories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-05-17
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Operation Ogre
Overview: Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-09-28
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Ave María
Overview: In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-11-20
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Close Your Eyes
Overview: Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-08-16
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Overview: Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Fury
Overview: Alex, a young actress, is sexually assaulted at a New Year’s Eve party at a friend’s house. That night, she never manages to see the face of her aggressor, a fact that will end up eating away at her. Throughout the following year, she will have to face feelings of guilt, disgust and shame. While Alex tries to channel all her pain through theatre, where she takes on the role of the famously vengeful Medea, her brother, Adrian, must face the guilt he feels at not having been able to protect his sister and his impulse to let himself be carried away by his own decisions. What were once the typical conflicts you might expect between any siblings, give way to much more extreme and complex emotions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-03-28
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3.11 A Sense of Home
Overview: In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.
Genres: Animation Drama Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-11
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Mir reicht's - ich steig aus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-28
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A Life in Suitcases
Overview: Follows Tulse Luper as he is swept into the ill-fortuned tides of the 20th century and forced to spend his life in a succession of imprisonments.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-20
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Veronica
Overview: In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-08-25
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Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
Overview: Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunned and exiled for crossing a line by insulting the daughter of a prominent family, he finds himself penniless and vagrant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-01-15
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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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Un día después de agosto
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-02-05
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It Snows in Benidorm
Overview: Peter has worked all his life at a Manchester bank. When he is awarded an early retirement, he decides to visit his brother in Benidorm, only to discover that he's disappeared.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-12-11
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The Lost Paradise
Overview: This literary film is imbued with the disenchantment of Spanish exiles who left their homes to protest Franco's fascist regime and then returned after its demise to find that democracy had not instilled either ethics or deep motivation in government leaders. Director Basilio Martin Patino presents his story, and a large part of the film is based on his own life, through the experiences of an exiled heroine played by Charo Lopez. She has returned to Spain to look for meaning in her life, something that she never found living in Germany, not even after having a child. She is also in the process of translating the German lyric poet Friederich Holderlin (see the 1985 Halfte Des Lebens) into Spanish, focusing on his epic Hyperion. Excerpts from the translation are voiced over throughout the film. As she looks up old friends from many, many years ago, even those who have achieved worldly success are suffering from the same ennui that propelled her back home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-13
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Shout Out
Overview: Miranda Vega is the host of a struggling talk show with a tumultuous off-screen life. In an effort to boost the plummeting ratings, the show welcomes a series of eccentric guests who will bring chaos live on air.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-04-24
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