Manuel Manquiña
Also Known As: Manuel Prieto 'Manquiña', Manuel 'Manquiña', Manuel Prieto Manquiña, Manquiña, Manuel Juan Francisco del Cristo de la Victoria Prieto Comesaña
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Birthday: August 02, 1953
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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El tirabeque
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-11-25
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El cuarto de Mona
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-11-19
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Jump!
Overview: Oscar and Teo (13 and 11 years old) are two brothers, very different from each other, who will have to face the loss of their mother, a scientist obsessed with wormholes.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-09-01
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Beneath Still Waters
Overview: Studying under a disciple of Aleister Crowley, the leader of an upper class group invokes a supernatural force that slowly devours the village of Marienbad and its inhabitants, threatening to spread beyond its geographical limits. The mayor from the town nearby commissions the building of a dam which would flood the valley and therefore submerge the village forever sealing the evil force under water after leader and his followers were incapacitated to be kept from escaping. However, fate ensured the leader's freedom as he remained in the depths when the waters covered Marienbad. Now 40 years later an array of disappearances and deaths in mysterious circumstances are threatening the town next to the reservoir that now covers Marienbad.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-02
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The Hairy Tooth Fairy 2
Overview: Eight year old Lucas would like to know how the Tooth Fairy exchanges coins for teeth without getting caught. He is determined to stay awake all night to find out. Meanwhile, a little mouse falls into a trap set by a dishonest contractor who is desperate to tell the world his secret, that the mouse is the Tooth Fairy. Lucas and his family has to do everything in their power to help the sweet little mouse with its mission, which since time immemorial, is to make children happy...
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-12-12
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La matanza caníbal de los garrulos lisérgicos
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Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-12-23
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Año Mariano
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-08-11
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April Captains
Overview: Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-04-21
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A Hipster in Rural Spain
Overview: Quique is dispatched to a village in deep Spain Teruel to lead its politics of recuperation but soon discovers he was sent there so that his girlfriend and leader of his party could spend more time together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-03-02
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I Will Survive
Overview: Marga is having a streak of bad luck. Through her friendship with Rosa, she tries to regain her self-confidence, but love interests again create conflict. It is while developing a relationship with a handsome gay sculptor ten years her junior: Iñaqui, that she starts to improve. However, Marga and Iñaqui go beyond friendship, but are frustrated by their limitations. Ultimately, the two may have to settle for an "impossible" love relationship, as their unique best road to happiness
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-11-19
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The Witch Affair
Overview: The night of San Juan, Miguel murders his associate. Two elderly people are witness to the crime and predict that all of his dreams will come true thereafter. He will know the price he has to pay when he sees a black cat with a moon shaped mark on its forehead. Twenty-two years later a messenger begins to see all his dreams come true...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-01-17
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Game of Werewolves
Overview: After 15 years, Tomas, a not very succesfull writer, comes back to the village in Galicia where his family comes from, Arga, apparently to get an award. But he doesn't know the real reason why he is there, to end with an old curse that is been haunting the village for the last hundred years.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-10-07
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Searching for Love
Overview: When Ana married Felix, the leader of a rock band and son of a travel agent, she thought her life would be plenty of excitement and travels. Now, in her forties, she leads a monotonous life with her husband and her daughter, giving cooking lessons and taking French courses. But one day she receives an invitation to give a cooking course in Paris.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-12-10
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The Biggest Robbery Ever Told
Overview: Lucas Santos, named El Santo is petty thief going continuously in and out of jail. Tired of small thefts, he aims to strike a blow that makes him famous and become the star of all media. His wife Lucia, a comprehensive and sweet woman, while awaiting the return of her husband, works as a stripper at a nightclub. Finally, Lucas gathers a band of petty thieves and decides to steal, from the National Museum of Art Reina Sofía, its most valuable painting: Picasso's Guernica.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-10-31
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Atilano, presidente
Overview: Atilano Bermejo is a petty crook who gets involved in the scam of his life: to be Prime Minister. His charisma and lack of social concern make him an ideal political candidate for a group of bankers looking for a good public image behind which to hide and disguise their ambitions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-09-24
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The Apostle
Overview: A recently escaped convict seeks to recover a treasure he hid years ago in a small, secluded Galician village. However once there, he finds out that in the village there is an even worse sentence than the one he fled from.
Genres: Animation Mystery Horror
Original Language: gl
Release Date: 2012-10-31
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Mararía
Overview: Fermín (Carmelo Gómez) is a Basque doctor who arrives on the island of Lanzarote. Meet a beautiful girl named Mararía (Goya Toledo), which falls in love in silence. One day a handsome Englishman named Beltrahn (Iain Glen) appears, who will win the love of Mararía and unleash the wrath of Fermín, who will lead the lovers to misfortune, destroying himself at the same time and becoming another kind of person, capable to get to kill for love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-10-30
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Siempre Habana
Overview: Ignacio and his nephew Tomasín are two Galician businessmen sharing a family inheritance bonus with their cousin Divina Luz, cuban-born, but of Galician descent. The division of the property is notarized in Santiago de Compostela, where Divina Luz is received by his unknown family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-10-26
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Siniestro Total: Que parezca un accidente
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-01-28
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Lost in Galicia
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-03-13
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Airbag
Overview: Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prostitute. Mafioso whorehouse owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends femme fatale Fatima to check things out. Juantxo and his friends are trying to get the ring back and in the process get involved in the war between gangs.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-06-20
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Chichi e máis eu
Overview: When someone dies, there are always unanswered questions. Here, we explore the life and work of Xesús "Chichi" Campos, a pioneer in Galician comics, anti-Franco activist, gallery owner, and humorist. In short, one of the most forgotten figures in Galician culture. When he passed away, he left behind a son who was only eleven years old with many questions. Thirty years later, those questions are answered in this documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: gl
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Fish People
Overview: A group of guys face the problems of daily life in a shared house
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-08-03
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Fish People
Overview: A group of guys face the problems of daily life in a shared house
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-08-03
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Toñito Blanco. Só, perdido e vicioso
Overview: Documentary about the life and work of filmmaker and journalist Antonio "Toñito" Blanco, author of La matanza caníbal de los garrulos lisérgicos.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-05-24
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Lena
Overview: Set in Galicia in northwest Spain - an area famed for its beauty and smuggling - this film shows a once-thriving fishing and shipbuilding culture fallen on hard times. Feisty, street smart Lena, 18, lives in semi-penury with her hard-drinking slob of a father, Gorrión, and hopes to escape by getting a grant to study in Portugal. Gorrion is mixed up with local drug-smuggling mafiosi, that includes Lena's godfather, Gitano, their Portugese Cachero, and the strong, silent Milio. One day, Lena returns from her job to find Gorrion badly beaten up: The gang had accused him of stealing. Lena visits the gangsters and offers to help pay off her father's debt by working for them. After Gorrion forgets to deliver Lena's grant papers, a fragile emotional bond develops between Lena and Milio. When they set off to Portugal to do a job, events start to ramble.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-05-11
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Rey gitano
Overview: Two unemployed detectives with conflicting ideologies meet a rogue and seductive gypsy who proposes them a crazy mission. After that, their luck will change for the worse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-07-17
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Locos por el sexo
Overview: Nono is a young schizophrenic who believes himself destined to stop the global arms race. He has always lived alone with his overwhelming mother, now he meets crazy Ramon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-08-25
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O home e o can
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: gl
Release Date: 2023-10-20
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Finisterre, donde termina el mundo
Overview: Mario and Berto are brothers and they live in Galicia at the “Finis Terrae”. Their father left them when they were children and they grew up with the idea of finding him someday, without knowing that they were the ones separating from each other. Once reunited they will intent to take up again their mission
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-08
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Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
Overview: A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-03-13
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A King in Havana
Overview: Mr. Arturo, an old rich Spanishman who arrives to Havana to marry Yoli, dies suddenly in bed. Yoli's family, afraid of losing all the money, convinces her ex-boyfriend Papito to go to Spain and get the money. Papito will have to be clever enough to deceive everybody and succeed in Spain
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-05-27
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Frontera sur
Overview: This historical drama addresses European immigration to the Americas (in this case to Buenos Aires, Argentina) during the last two decades of the 19th century. Among its main characters are a Spanish immigrant, a German one, and an established "Argentine." They compete for the affection of a more established female Spanish immigrant, now a successful businesswoman, albeit a prostitute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-06-24
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Leo & Lou
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
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Neckan
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-03-03
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El lápiz del carpintero
Overview: A story of love and obsession during the Spanish Civil War
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-04-25
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Los mánagers
Overview: Two jobless Forty-somethings: Maca and Rena are in serious need of a financial stroke of luck. When they spot an ad for a TV contest looking for the next Pop Idol, they decide to turn themselves into the MANAGERS of two young hopefuls: Pipo and David. While launching their careers with performances in bars, bingo clubs and other such dives they encounter Rota, a shady old singer who arranges for them to tour the Costa del Sol. Thus begins a frenetic road movie where dreams of success turn into a nightmare inhabited by strange creatures: Tom Jones clones, porn stars, enlightened arabs, psychopathic marines, kitch TV presenters, corrupt politicians and even extra-terrestrials.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-07-07
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Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas
Overview: Paco, a 40-year-old bachelor, realizes a childhood dream: working at home in his pajamas.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-04-14
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Os vixilantes do camiño
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Genres: Animation Fantasy Family
Original Language: gl
Release Date: 1999-07-25
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Meow
Overview: Four desperately bored retired men yearn for some excitement in their lives to make them feel alive. Whilst trying to occupy his mind by writing a terrible book, Telmo is reunited with his two best friends from school. Mornreal, who is just out of prison, can’t bare to see his old friends fading away so he comes up with a plan to break the daily boredom and to inject excitement into his friends’ lives. With nothing to lose, the old friends embark on a mad, wild adventure that results in a bizarre robbery of a museum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-19
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Between Your Legs
Overview: A radio-show assistant meets a budding screenwriter during a group-therapy session for sex addicts.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-01-14
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Matías, juez de línea
Overview: Matias is a soccer referee. He promised his dying mother never to lie. When he referees a match of the spanish national team and there is a clear penalty against Spain in the last minute of the game he has no choice and marks the foul. As a result Spain does not qualify for the world championship and Matias is forced to escape from the rage of the people. He hides in the town of his father which he hasn't visited since his childhood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-04-12
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Before the Burn
Overview: Quique is a successful 30-year-old composer. He does not have the necessary funds to support a broken family. With a sister who is in prison for trafficking drugs and an elderly mother suffering from Alzheimer's, he decides to reconcile his activity with a new job: Drug dealer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-06-07
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Poor Sailor
Overview: Jonás and Raquel live in the field. Their life is happy and in harmony with the envoronment. One day, Néstor, Jonás's brother, visit them. He's captain in a fishing boat that has docked in a near village. Néstor told her brother the wonderful life in the sea, all money that he has won and the adventures that he has lived. Jonas decides go with him although Raquel doesn't accord. Comic book adaptation "Poor Sailor " by Sammy Harkham.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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O bonito crime do Carabineiro
Overview: In the middle of summer, the Serafín trader travels to Compostela's lands and directs his steps to the boarding house in which for every time he visits the city, his companions of social gathering are waiting for him. He already has a few misfortunes behind him but the worst is still to come.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: gl
Release Date: 2009-06-17
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Sleepless in Madrid
Overview: Eva, Alba y Juan are the protagonist of the story. Eva gives birth to Marina, Alba has just been left by her boyfriend. And Juan is happily married. Their paths intersect one night and their lifes will change forever.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-02-13
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The Ugliest Woman in the World
Overview: Somebody has decided to celebrate New Year's Eve 2011 in a very twisted way - by dressing as a nun and brutally dismembering a little old lady. Lt. Arribas, a bald, toothless, one-eyed and lonely detective is called in on the case. His investigations lead him to the door of renegade Doctor Werner, who tells him the strange story of "The Beautiful Otero" the most beautiful woman in the world (former Spanish model Galera) who, before Werner s miraculous surgery, was the ugliest woman in the world! But Lt. Arribas now has a new problem - he is falling in love at a distance with his principle suspect who, because of her traumatic childhood, is planning her vengeance - to sabotage the Miss Spain Beauty Pageant, leaving behind her a trail of dead beauty queens. A super-slick science fiction thriller with a dark and bizarre finale.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-11-05
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Pídele cuentas al rey
Overview: Fidel, an Asturian miner, after the closure of the mine where he works, decides to walk to Madrid with his family, to ask the king why the Constitution is not met, specifically the article that points out that all the Spanish citizens have the right to have a decent work. Will the king receive him?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-02-10
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Sol y Luna: Dos Mejor Que Una
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-05-16
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Relaxing Cup of Coffee
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-12-02
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Kill Me Tender
Overview: Do all men want the same thing? Nestor, recently widowed, runs a bakery near Barcelona, has a bank account and a bad heart, and swims in the sea every day. He also has a daughter and a two-timing son-in-law. Nestor's maid asks him to hire her 20-something daughter, Maribel, as a shop assistant.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-02-13
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Galicia caníbal
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-04-01
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