Juan José Ballesta
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Juan José Ballesta debuta en la pequeña pantalla, en 1997, con sólo 8 años en la serie ‘Querido maestro’, protagonizada por Imanol Arias. Dos años después se une al reparto de la ficciónn televisiva ‘Compañeros’. Pero será en el año 2000 cuando empieza a ser popular entre el público tras conseguir el papel protagonista en el drama de Achero Mañas ‘El bola’, por el que se alza con el Goya al mejor actor revelación. En 2003, interpreta a un niño enfermo de cáncer que saca fuerzas para seguir adelante en ‘Planta 4ª’, de Antonio Mercero. Después de un tiempo alejado del cine, regresa en 2005 con ‘7 vírgenes’, por la que gana al Conchad de Plata al mejor actor. En 2010, el actor protagoniza el drama histórico ‘Bruc. El desafío’, y regresa a la pequeña pantalla para unirse al reparto de la ficciónn histórica ‘Hispania’, donde da vida a Paulo.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: November 12, 1987
Age: 37 years old
Gender: Male
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7 Virgins
Overview: Tano is 16-years-old and is already sitting in jail. In 48 hours he’s a free man and off to the wedding of his brother. In the two days he recounts his neighborhood in a section of Sevilla.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-10-14
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Pellet
Overview: El Bola is a 12-year-old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude towards his classmates and friendship. The heart of the story is the change in El Bola's life, at almost all levels, after befriending this new classmate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-10-20
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Thieves
Overview: The main character is a nameless boy (Juan Jose Ballesta) who was taught to steal wallets by his absent mother. He is able to do the trick effortlessly, using his "earnings" to survive while he looks for his mom. As he runs into an antique store owner, he might have found a trace that will lead to her. First, however, he will have to pull off a few "jobs" for the store owner, and he can't do it alone: enter a nameless girl (Maria Valverde) who gets to learn all the secret techniques the young boy has been using all his life.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-08-08
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El asfalto
Overview: Between astonishment and despair, Baldo, a courier, sees how, slowly and inexorably, he sinks into the asphalt.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-10-08
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The 4th Floor
Overview: Three friends in wheelchairs welcome a new patient at a children's hospital. Growing up together. All emotions pass the revue. Friendship and hope survive all.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-10-31
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Spectre
Overview: After the sudden death of his wife, Tomás, a successful elderly writer who has been out of Spain during the last forty years, unexpectedly receives an old tarot card which seems to have for him a disturbing meaning, so he decides to return to the small village where he grew up.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-09-27
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Bruc: The Manhunt
Overview: Spain, 1808. The Napoleonic Army suffers its first defeat at the hands of a single man: a drummer boy who used the Montserrat mountains to echo his drums and send the enemy troops into a panicked retreat. When the news reaches Napoleon, he furiously orders the captain of the Imperial Guard to bring back the head of the young hero responsible for his army's defeat…
Genres: Adventure History Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2010-12-22
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Carol's Journey
Overview: Spain, 1938, during the Spanish Civil War. Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl, arrives in her mother's hometown and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once foreign and completely new.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-09-06
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Among Wolves
Overview: Entre lobos (Among Wolves) tells the remarkable story of a poor country boy named Marcos, who at the age of 7 is handed over to his father's employer, a rich landowner, who in turn delivers him to a life of labor with a hermetic goatherd in an isolated valley. The old man, who lives in a cave, is unused to human company and at first seems not very interested in having a live-in apprentice. The boy, who was abused by his parents, is frightened and equally aloof initially. Despite this, the shepherd begins teaching Marcos how to herd the goats, as well as how to care for himself and how to survive in the wilderness by trapping and fishing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-11-26
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The Shanghai Spell
Overview: A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl. In the neighbourhood an old freedom-fighter pits himself against bad types, a pretty cinema-ticket girl takes to the streets at night and a young anarchist dedicates himself to telling tall stories. Far away, in Shanghai, a hero of the Republic meets a beautiful femme fatal with oriental eyes. Reality and fiction become fused in an embrace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-04-11
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A Man of Action
Overview: Loosely inspired by the life of Lucio Urtubia, explore the figure of the so-called anarchist 'Robin Hood,' who ran a legendary counterfeiting operation in Paris that put him in the crosshairs of America's largest bank, when he managed to obtain a huge amount of money by forging traveler's checks to invest in causes he believed in.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-11-30
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Doghead
Overview: A drama about a boy who lives in a bubble because of a rare brain disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-08-25
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La casa de mi padre
Overview: A businessman returns his family home after eight years in exile avoiding the terrorism of the ETA.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-09-24
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Mi casa es tu casa
Overview: A popular writer looking for a peaceful environment in which to finish his latest novel gets an unexpected surprise upon arriving at the remote summer home he once shared with his ex-wife.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-05-09
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Nueva Tierra
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Genres: Thriller Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-09-06
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Biodiversidad
Overview: Dani and Bea are two young people camping in a nature park. What starts as a typical date in which the pretty girl rejects the nerd becomes the most important moment in history.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Gold
Overview: Spanish soldiers battle indigenous tribes and their own brutal natures as they search for a legendary city built of gold.
Genres: Adventure History Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-11-10
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Lasting
Overview: Lasting is an emotional love story about Michał and Karina, a pair of Polish students who meet and fall in love with each other while working summer jobs in Spain. An unexpected nightmare brutally breaks into their carefree time in the heavenly landscape and throws their lives into chaos.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2013-01-08
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Sexo en el plató
Overview: How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prepare and feel? Spanish actors and directors talk about the most intimate side of acting, about the tricks and work methods when narrating exposed sex. In Spain the general rule is that there are no rules. Each film, each interpreter, faces it in very different ways.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-04-09
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Polígono X
Overview: A neighborhood soccer field. Rana and his team feel humiliated by the Brazilians from the neighborhood next door, who have been beating them for a long time. But today they are not going to allow themselves to lose, especially in front of Alba, Rana's ex, who comes out to play against them in a five-on-five game where everyone has something against everyone else. This is the perfect opportunity for the boys from the Polígono X neighborhood to do something they have been waiting for a long time: expel the Brazilians from their neighborhood.
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Original Language: es
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