Elena Anaya
Also Known As: 엘레나 아나야, エレナ・アナヤ, エレナ・アナヤ・グティエレス, Елена Аная, Ελένα Ανάγια
Biography: Elena Anaya (born July 17, 1975) is a Spanish actress whose career dates back to 1995. Anaya was born in Palencia, Spain on July 17, 1975. She is the youngest of 5 children. She first received international attention in 2001 for her role in the sexually explicit drama Lucía y el sexo (Sex and Lucía) and also appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's Hable con ella (Talk to Her). Her best-known Hollywood film role was as a vampire in 2004's Van Helsing, playing Dracula's bride, Aleera. She is also featured in Justin Timberlake's music video for his 2006 single, SexyBack. In 2004, she was named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elena Anaya, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Palencia, Palencia, Castilla y León, Spain
Birthday: July 17, 1975
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Gender: Female
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Talk to Her
Overview: Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-03-15
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Sex and Lucía
Overview: Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-08-24
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Savage Grace
Overview: This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on Antony, who is homosexual. As Barbara tries to "cure" Antony of his sexuality -- sometimes by seducing him herself -- the groundwork is laid for a murderous tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-18
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Fragile
Overview: Haunted by memories of a patient's death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for children. Soon she learns that the kids fear a ghost that prowls the floors and will not allow anyone to leave. Amy tries to protect them and convince the other staffers of the evil that lurks there.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-14
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Cairo Time
Overview: In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-09
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Van Helsing
Overview: Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
Genres: Horror Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-03
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Walking Vengeance
Overview: Frantic to be free of Felix, her wealthy but drunken and violent drug-lord husband, Ana tricks her fresh-from-prison sister, Aurora, and two other ex-partners in crime into coming to her aid. Now that their crew is reassembled, the women begin planning a heist that will rid Ana of Felix and net them enough cash to be set for life.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-10-31
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In the Land of Women
Overview: After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-20
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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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Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Overview: Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-22
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Two Tough Guys
Overview: Two botcher killers, Paco and Alex carry out a crime caper. Later on, they are joined by Tatiana - a young whore, who shows great love for Alex. In pursuing its objective the losers will face a group of murderers, a butcher with dark business, a nasty gangster and a lot more...
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-09-05
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Point Blank
Overview: Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-11-08
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Hierro
Overview: Traveling on a ferry heading to the island of Hierro where they will spend their holidays, Mary loses her son Diego, and no one can explain what happened. Six months later, Maria struggles to overcome the pain of loss and continue his life. Then, you receive an unexpected phone call: they found the body of a child, so it must return to the island. There, in the suggestive and disturbing landscape, surrounded by disturbing and sinister characters, Mary is forced to confront their worst nightmares. And as he travels this road, he discovers that some mysteries should not be disclosed ...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-09-26
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The Skin I Live In
Overview: A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-08-17
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Room in Rome
Overview: A hotel room in the center of Rome serves as the setting for Alba and Natasha, two sexy and recently acquainted women, to have a physical adventure that touches their very souls.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-05-07
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Dead Fish
Overview: Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. With an all-star cast including Terence Stamp, Elena Anaya, Robert Carlyle and Billy Zane, Dead Fish is a chaotic tale of criminals looking for love, money and revenge that will have you falling out of your chair laughing!
Genres: Thriller Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-11
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Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony
Overview: The political upheaval in North Africa is responsibility of the Western powers —especially of the United States and France— due to the exercise of a foreign policy based on practical and economic interests instead of ethical and theoretical principles, essential for their international politic strategies, which have generated a great instability that causes chaos and violence, as occurs in Western Sahara, the last African colony according to the UN, a region on the brink of war.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-05-18
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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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Rancour
Overview: When Chelo Zamora, middling singer, agreed to spend the summer working in restaurants in the Valencian beach Cullera, could not imagine being reunited with Toni, a guy who shares a dark past. Moved by his desire for revenge, Chelo attempt to ruin his life: get him to break with his girlfriend Esther, who loses his job and returning the police on her trail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-31
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The Blue Room
Overview: A couple meet each other often in a motel room.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-05-04
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The Chalk Line
Overview: After a couple finds a traumatized child of unknown origins, wife Paula must decipher the girl's strange behaviors to unlock her identity and dark past.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-09-09
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Miguel and William
Overview: A romantic comedy inventing a friendship between Cervantes and Shakespeare who both fall in love with a beautiful Spanish woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-02-02
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I Thought It Was a Party
Overview: Ana is a woman who has a love affair with her best friend's ex-husband, in a film about love, friendship, loneliness, fear, guilt, and the world of women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-05-08
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Wiped-Out Footprints
Overview: Manuel is a Spanish writer who has emigrated to Argentina. He hears that his childhood village in Spain is to be turned into a reservoir, and returns for one last trip. There he meets widow Virginia, an old love, and begins to hope that he might reignite the flame between them. As old secrets are revealed, the villagers must come to terms with their imminent loss and the drowning of their home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-11-19
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They Are All Dead
Overview: Just by watching Lupe stuck at home in her robe and slippers, no one would will guess that in the 80's she was a rock star. Gone are the times of concerts, fame and success. Agoraphobia does not let her leave home. She depends entirely on Paquita, his mother, a superstitious Mexican, with a huge heart, which not only takes care of his daughter but also her teenage grandson. The problem is that Paquita is running out of time and she doesn't want to leave without getting her daughter back.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-03-27
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Swung
Overview: David’s life is on the slide: he’s broke, in the middle of a divorce and ‘can’t get it up’. His girlfriend, Alice, is his rock, but the magazine she writes for is going down and the pressure is on to find a story. While job hunting online, David stumbles across the perfect antidote to his boredom: a ‘Swingers’ site. The resulting inbox of lewd invitations on the home-laptop justifiably upsets Alice, until she realises this could be just the ‘story’ she needs. The idea of uncovering the swinging scene causes quite a stir in Alice’s office and, much to David’s chagrin, she is urged to pursue the story. Their first reluctant foray is an hysterically low-rent initiation, however, an unexpected upturn for David’s manhood is all the extra encouragement they need. As events accelerate beyond their control the once adoring couple become lost and fundamental questions are asked of their relationship.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-19
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The Infiltrator
Overview: A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-13
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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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Family
Overview: Santiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it's his birthday. They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry and says he doesn't like it. The boy starts crying and saying that he loves him, but Santiago answers that he doesn't believe him and he tells the boy that he is fired and that he wants another son, who is thinner, who doesn't need glasses and who resembles him more. Written by Pablo Montoya
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-10-01
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Fatum
Overview: After receiving a tip-off, compulsive gambler Sergio returns to the betting house trying to recover all the money he has lost , but another gambler bursts into the place with a gun and a gunshot will change his life forever.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-04-12
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Far from the Sea
Overview: A love story between a terrorist and his victim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-09-18
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The Memory of Water
Overview: After the tragic loss of their 4-year-old son, Javier and Amanda struggle to make sense of their lives together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-08-26
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The Making of The Skin I Live In
Overview: A behind-the scenes featurette documenting the making of Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-06
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Zip & Zap and the Captain's Island
Overview: Naughty brothers Zip and Zap finds themselves in a home for lost children that might just be haunted. Will they ever escape?
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-07-29
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Wonder Woman
Overview: An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-30
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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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África
Overview: Martín (Zoe Berriatúa) is a teenager living in the San Blas district of Madrid. He is upset with his father Arturo (Imanol Arias) because he blames him for his mother's death. With the help of his girlfriend África (Elena Anaya), who will become his stepsister, he tries to get revenge on him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-05-17
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Ana y Manuel
Overview: Ana has just been dumped by her boyfriend Manuel. While living with her, he never let her own a pet because he thought it was cruel for the animal and not very hygienic. Once he even convinced her to get rid of a turtle that was given to her as a birthday present. But now she has decided to get a puppy, partly as revenge for leaving her and partly to help her forget about him. She names him "Man" because he sees him as half "Manuel" but still twice the man he was. Time goes by and the dog grows up but she can't forget her ex-boyfriend, and she doesn't want the dog anymore. So she plans to give him away, as a Christmas present, to her brother. She leaves him in the car and has dinner with her family but when she comes back to get him, the car is gone and so is the dog. She feels very sad and tries to find Man. Until one day, Manuel shows up at her door with him. He tells Ana a story of how he bought the dog at the market they used to visit when they were together, and how ...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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The Summit
Overview: At a summit for Latin American presidents in Chile where the region's geopolitical strategies and alliances are in discussion, Argentine president Hernán Blanco endures political and family drama that will force him to face his own demons.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-08-17
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Overview: A group of people talk about very different subjects, including a strange course that one of them has just completed. There is tension in the air, although it is not quite clear why. They give the impression that they are killing time while waiting for a job that everyone needs for different reasons. Are they actors looking for a role?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-04-27
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El árbol del penitente
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-04-14
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Grandes ocasiones
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-02-06
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What Makes Women Laugh?
Overview: Luci, Graci and Mar, three sisters that make a comedy trio, go to the wedding of their father with a woman who is 45 years younger than him. During the feast Luci's husband dies in an accident. Despite the tragedy, the trio have to fulfill their commitment acting during August in Benidorm. The widow discovers thanks to a notebook that her husband cheated on her, so she decides to flirt with everyone.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-02-25
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Don't Tempt Me
Overview: Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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Rifkin’s Festival
Overview: The story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-01
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Rosebush Pruning
Overview: In the claustrophobic confines of a rural estate, a family struggles with their tangled web of hereditary diseases. Among them is Alessandro, a young man with epilepsy and paranoid tendencies. Feeling burdened by the numerous afflictions that plague his family, he decides to murder them all.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
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