Luis Zahera
Also Known As: Luís Zahera, Luis Castro, Luís Castro, X. Luís Castro, Luis C. Zahera, Luis Castro Zahera
Biography: José Luis de Castro Zahera, better known as Luis Zahera, is a Spanish actor, winner of a Goya in 2019 and 2023 for his performance in El reino and As bestas, respectively.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: May 23, 1966
Age: 58 years old
Gender: Male
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Infiesto
Overview: As the coronavirus upends their lives, two detectives doggedly pursue those responsible for an abduction they realize is part of a sinister pattern.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-02-03
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La silla
Overview: A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-08-02
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Cell 211
Overview: The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-11-06
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Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer
Overview: In 17th century Spain Diego Alatriste, a brave and heroic soldier, is fighting in his King's army in the Flandes region. His best mate, Balboa, falls in a trap and, near to death, asks Diego to look after his son and teach him to be a soldier.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-09-01
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The Valdemar Legacy
Overview: Luisa Llorente, an expert on taxation of old buildings, had recently gone to the Victorian mansion Valdemar to conduct an inventory of property ownership. After she mysteriously disappeared, Maximilian, president of her company, engaged the services of a private detective to help find her. But soon they will discover that it is not the first disappearance at Valdemar mansion!
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-01-22
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The Year of the Tick
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-08-20
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The Beasts
Overview: Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic but for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: gl
Release Date: 2022-07-20
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The Contestant
Overview: Martín's lucky hit when he wins the most lucrative prize in television history puts his life upside down.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-03-16
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Birds Flying East
Overview: Colombo works at a 24-hour parking lot and tops up his measly wages by selling weed. Mario is a lawyer and a keen birdwatcher, but unfortunately for him, he is unable to drive due to a past accident. Mario offers to pay Colombo to drive him from Valencia to a lake in the Costa Brava (Spain), where he wants to see some cranes. When they reach the lake, the lawyer tells him that the birds have changed their migratory route and are now going to nest in the Danube delta in Constanza (Romania). Mario needs to get there, and Colombo needs the money. Neither of them is aware of the other’s story, but at that moment, a new and definitive journey starts for both of them.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-04-05
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Monkey Business
Overview: Joaquin, Brujo and Luismi, three neighbourhood scoundrels, meet again after twenty years. Brujo and Luismi are still unemployed while Joaquin swears he has become an important businessman. However, one day he receives a notification that his mother's house has been repossessed for a loan. He will try to get the money he neds to avoid eviction, but the brilliant ideas of Brujo and Luismi will end up plunging Joaquin even deeper into misery
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-04-01
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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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Gutbai, Charly
Overview: A small town fisherman is forced to confront himself and his everyday life after making the decision to leave the drug dealing business he was once involved with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-09-15
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Rated R
Overview: Madrid, Spain, 1975. Sandra, Lina and Eva are three beautiful women who work as actresses in erotic movies. After meeting during a shoot, they become friends and begin to share experiences, concerns and successes in an era of increasing openness, although true freedom is still far away and demands a price hard to pay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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The Courier
Overview: After shrewdly seizing his chance to join a money-laundering scheme, a modest valet dives into a world of fast cash, fast cars — and an inevitable crash.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-01-19
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Combustion
Overview: Mikel will marry Julia, owner of a major jewelry he inherited from his parents. During the party in announcing their commitment, Mikel meets Ari, one of the waitresses catering. The attraction that arises between them will make Mikel is interested in the world of Ari: illegal motor racing. Then, the protagonist of this story decides to leave Julia without knowing the true intentions of the person who has seduced. Ari and her boyfriend, Navas, have hatched a plan to get around Mikel jewelry made with his ex-girlfriend.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-04-26
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Invader
Overview: Iraq, 2003. Pablo, a Spanish army doctor sent on a peacekeeping mission, is involved in an attack on his convoy during a routine trip through the desert.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-11-30
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Faraday
Overview: Faraday is a weirdo telepath who is starting to lose his faith in the paranormal. His girlfriend, Diana, is a blogger whose highest aspiration in life is to be famous on the internet. When they decide to move in together they opt for a suspiciously cheap flat which turns out to be haunted.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-10-12
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Awareness
Overview: Ian is a teenager who lives with his father on the outskirts by running small scams using Ian's ability to generate visual illusions upon unsuspecting victims. When one of his cons goes awry, his abilities publicly spiral out of control and Ian becomes the target of two rival organizations, each seeking to exploit his powers.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Thriller Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-03-16
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The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow
Overview: A group of friends discover an ancient book, the Necronomicon, the Book of the Deads. They discover that the book is a link between our world and the world of ancients creatures, older than our civilizations.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-10-07
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Table for 3
Overview: Five friends book a table at an exclusive restaurant to discover upon arrival that the establishment can only offer them a table for three, so two of them must stay without dinner. An unforeseen event that will test the friendship and ties between them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-06-29
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The Change
Overview: Luis and Elvira travel to Romania after contact an Eastern European criminal organization. Near their destination, they receive a call that requires them to change the route. They must stop in Budapest and make a collection. Everything seems simple until they discover that it's an eight-year-old girl. From this moment they will have to make the hardest decision of their lives. Stick to the plan or release the girl. Decide what they decide, someone will die.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-28
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Salaó
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2013-09-24
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Death of a Fisherman
Overview: One morning, the body of a sailor is found lying on the beach, washed in by the tide.. With no witnesses or any sign of the dead man’s boat, Inspector Leo Caldas begins immersing himself in the town’s seafaring atmosphere as he endeavours to shed light on the crime. He finds himself among men and women who prefer not to reveal their suspicions to him. But a sudden discovery sets him off in an unexpected direction.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: gl
Release Date: 2015-10-09
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Amateur
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-11-01
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Wrap Up
Overview: Valeria (Manuela Pal) has changed his native Buenos Aires by Betanzos, a town of Coruña, in Spain from which his family. Eccentric, dreamy and fun, at 25 years old is in the most surreal emotional crossroads in his life: after the sudden death of her mature and attractive lover, Marcelo falls for the son of the deceased. Her friend Adela (Mary Bouzas), owner of the salon where they both work, will help clear up questions. A story about the universal desire to find their own identity, deciphering the collective love and live in a land that has nothing to envy to the boulevards of Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-11-23
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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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Blockbuster
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-11-30
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Todo es silencio
Overview: In Brétema, on the Atlantic coast, there was a time when networks of smuggling, drug trafficking converted, achieved so much influence that they were close to control everything: social power, institutions, the lives of its people. Fins, Leda and Frink explore the coast in search of what the sea throws after a wreck, the sea is for them a place of continual discovery. The fate of these young people will be marked by the shadow odious and fascinating at the same time the ubiquitous Marshall, owner of almost everything in Brétema.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-10-26
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El Premio
Overview: Pilar and Manuel are getting ready for what should be a night of celebration and glamour. It should. But they take too long sweeping their relationship under the red carpet...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-01
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Diario de un skin
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Genres: History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-06-13
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El Club de los 27
Overview: A talented, 25 years old young musician, is tempted by an entertainment businessman to sign a promising contract, which have an unavoidable clause.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-03-10
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Amanece en Samaná
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-11-08
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May God Save Us
Overview: Madrid, summer 2011. Economic crisis. 15-M movement and 1.5 million pilgrims waiting for the Pope’s arrival live side by side in a Madrid that’s hotter and more chaotic than ever. In this context, detectives Velarde and Alfaro must find what seems to be a serial killer. Their against-the-clock hunt will make them realise something they’d never imagined: neither of them are so very different from the killer.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-10-28
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The Way I Love You
Overview: Dani is a petty criminal who falls in love with the female police officer who arrests him after a robbery. It is love at first sight, a moment of unexpected brilliance. And above all something new, as Dani had never been in love before.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-05-26
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La Xirgu
Overview: 1927. Spain under the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship. The great actress, Margarita Xirgu and her company are about to perform "Maria Pineda" by a young Federico Garcia Lorca. The Dictatorship cannot tolerate it, but the actress, Margarita Xirgu, in the name of freedom will stand her ground.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2015-06-30
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Nothing in Return
Overview: One summer, Dario flees the hellish environment of his home. Luismi, unconditional friend, a poor devil with pretensions of winning, and Antonia, an old woman who collects abandoned his motorcar furniture, become his new family. Three generations living together in a city too big to be alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-05-08
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Onde Está a Felicidade?
Overview: Teodora discovers that her husband was having a virtual relationship and enters a crisis, which results in the loss of her job as a presenter of a culinary program. Disillusioned, she decides to hit the road and sets out on a journey of self-discovery, walking the Way of Santiago de Compostela, in Spain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-08-19
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Marina
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-04-10
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Strangers on the Road
Overview: While carrying a mysterious package, Mikel notices he is being followed by a black car. In an attempt to get away, he ends up at a roadside bar where he meets Sara, a girl who doesn't trust easily.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-10-25
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The App
Overview: 'THE APP' is an application that gives to its customers the steps to achieve happiness. One day, Benito a fat and not very bright man, wakes up in his luxurious loft with his girlfriend, a beautiful Nordic model. When he consults the application, THE APP tells him that he must jump off the balcony
Genres: Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-10-25
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The Realm
Overview: Manuel, a Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes him to the public eye. Rather than admit to any wrongdoing, he decides to sell out his whole party in an effort to avoid jail time. It's a decision that will put many lives at risk.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-09-28
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While at War
Overview: Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-09-27
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Tarkovsky
Overview: A man enters a video rental store where some arcane beings as Goran Paskaljevich, Michael Cacoyannis, Ferzan Ozpetek or Andrei Tarkovsky stalk him from the shelves, while the shop manager is reading a book by James Joyce; but he just wants to rent a blockbuster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-12-21
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La noche que dejó de llover
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-11-20
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El váter susurra
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Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-11-20
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Spanish Movie
Overview: Large doses of humor, ingenious nods to Spain's most recent national cinema, an artistic cast highly linked to comedy and a high reserve of surprises constitute the ingredients of this crazy comedy: Spanish Movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-12-03
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Planeta Azúcar
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-01-12
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23-F: la película
Overview: The failed coup d'état of February 23, 1981, which began with the capture of the Congress of Deputies and ended with the release of parliamentarians, put at serious risk the Spanish democracy.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-02-23
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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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The Silence of the Marsh
Overview: A successful, cold-blooded crime novelist gets involved in a kidnapping case while uncovering the corrupt ties between politicians and the local mafia in Valencia, Spain.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-11-08
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Xtreme
Overview: Two years after the murder of his son and father, a retired hitman sets in motion a carefully crafted revenge plan against the killer: his own brother.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-06-04
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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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Códice
Overview: Marina Velasco, tenacious and experienced inspector of the National Police, comes from Madrid to deal with the case of the robbery of the Codex Calixtinus. Although it has the help of the local forces (the relentless Judge Casal and his team) the mission is not easy. It will be a race against the clock full of obstacles and marked by the pressures of the Government and the Church. At the same time, Natalia and Lazarus, two journalists from a local newspaper in crisis, come to the investigation of the theft to get an interesting exclusive that saves their jobs.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: gl
Release Date: 2014-12-23
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Crazy About Her
Overview: After a magical night together, Adri voluntarily turns himself into the psychiatric institution where Carla lives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-02-26
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O matachín
Overview: Two small-time dealers, Fran and Tuto, go to the airport to look for Lola, Fran's girlfriend. Lola comes from Venezuela carrying cocaine in her stomach. When it seems that everything has gone well, he begins to feel bad and dies on the spot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: gl
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Zeta
Overview: Five former Spanish spies, who, decades ago, participated in a secret operation in Colombia, are assassinated at the same time in different parts of the world.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
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Barren Land
Overview: Barren Land is the story of three friends. All three trapped between the abandonment of the institutions, the violent and unstoppable rise of the narco in the province and the dangerous increase of social discontent. Three friends trapped in a powder keg that will test their friendship.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-03-28
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Karma
Overview: Plot under wraps.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2026-10-21
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