María Valverde
Also Known As: María Valverde Rodríguez, マリア・バルベルデ , マリア・バルベルデ・ロドリゲス, 마리아 발베르데, ماریا والورده
Biography: María Valverde Rodríguez (born March 24, 1987) is a Spanish actress. She was born María Valverde Rodriguez in Carabanchel, Madrid. She was 16 when she got a leading role with Luis Tosar in a Manuel Martín Cuenca movie, La flaqueza del bolchevique, she won the 2003 Goya Award for this role. She has also taken part in several films, such as Melissa P., a film based on the polemic book One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed by Melissa Panarello. Description above from the Wikipedia article María Valverde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Birthday: March 24, 1987
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Gender: Female
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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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Melissa P.
Overview: An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-11-18
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Cracks
Overview: Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-04
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The King of the Hill
Overview: Quim drives around an isolated rural area through a maze of lanes. When he drives into the woods, he gets lost. Trying to find his direction, he suddenly gets shot from the hill. On his escape from gunshots, he meets Bea, an attractive young woman, who apparently is lost as well. Suspicious of each other, they join forces to run away through the forest, unprotected, cold, hunted...
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-07-16
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The Borgia
Overview: A portrait of the bloody dynasty that spawned a pope, Alexander VI, as well as the role model for Machiavelli's “The Prince,” his son Cesare Borgia, and a legend of femme duplicity, daughter Lucrezia Borgia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-10-06
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The Weakness of the Bolshevik
Overview: After getting into a minor traffic accident, Pablo attempts to make light of the situation by asking the driver of the other car, Sonsoles, out on a date. When she refuses and instead files an injury report, Pablo snaps and begins stalking her. He soon discovers that Sonsoles has a beautiful teenage sister, Maria, with whom Pablo is immediately infatuated -- a lust that soon turns dark. Can Pablo control his obsession, or will it consume him?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-10-31
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Three Steps Above Heaven
Overview: Story of two young people who belong to different worlds. It is the chronicle of a love improbable, almost impossible but inevitable dragging in a frantic journey they discover the first great love. Babi is a girl from upper-middle class that is educated in goodness and innocence . Hache is a rebellious boy, impulsive, unconscious, has a appetite for risk and danger embodied in endless fights and illegal motorbike races, the limit of common sense
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-12-03
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The Sandman
Overview: Two love birds fly out of the cuckoo's nest in a stirring Spanish romance of mad love and doomed passion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-11-09
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Madrid, 1987
Overview: In 1987 Madrid, the unexpected encounter between a seasoned journalist and a young student leads to a profound exploration of love, desire, politics, power, and discovery of each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-04-13
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El último truco
Overview: Documentary film about visual effects master Emilio Ruiz del Rio. From his early works on films at 1942, to his last contribution at 2007, Emilio Ruiz talks on his film experiences and traditional trickery, using foreground miniatures, glass shots, and painted cut out miniatures. It shows interviews with some of the professionals he has worked with, like, Rafaela de Laurentiis, Ray Harryhausen, Guillermo del Toro, or Enzo Castellari
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-11-20
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I Want You
Overview: The sexy Gin is the new love of Hache, but this can not forget his former girlfriend, so the love triangle is inevitable.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-06-22
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The Liberator
Overview: Bolívar was instrumental in Latin America’s struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential politicians and emancipators in American history. Libertador is told from the viewpoint of Bolívar, portrayed by Ramírez, about his quests and epic military campaigns, which covered twice the territory Alexander the Great conquered, and his vision to unify South America.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-09-09
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Exodus: Gods and Kings
Overview: The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-03
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The Cold Call
Overview: The story of salesman Salvador Lozano and his ambiguous relationship with young hostess Inés.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-04-22
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The Mule
Overview: A soldier protects a mule during the Spanish Civil War.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-05-10
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The Anarchist's Wife
Overview: "The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-06-26
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You and I
Overview: During an imaginary tour of David Bisbal, a young woman happens to take refuge in his caravan. That unexpected encounter brings about some emotional consequences that will mark the artist's life forever.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-03-20
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The Load
Overview: Late sixteenth century. A Tameme Indian man and a noble Spanish woman flee through the forests of the New World in search of freedom. Their frantic journey softens the tension between them and dissolves their longstanding differences and creates intimate bonds that threaten their very survival.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-03-09
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It's Now or Never
Overview: Narrates the preparation for a wedding of a Spanish couple in which everything goes wrong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-06-19
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Cuando nadie nos mira
Overview: In a near futures a young woman, Anna, suffers a progressive addiction to a drug which begins to have bizarre side-effects, threatening to ruin the already tenuous relationship she has with her mother. With communication almost non-existent, her mother decides to take an extraordinary step to restore Anna's innocence.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-10-31
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Broken Horses
Overview: The bonds of brotherhood, the laws of loyalty, and the futility of violence in the shadows of the US Mexico border gang wars.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-15
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A Lonely Sun Story
Overview: When Linda can't find a solution to her problems, she decides to run away, but a stranger event will cause her to meet a peculiar boy, Óscar, with whom she will live an experience that will change both of their lives forever.
Genres: Animation Adventure Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-04-07
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Guernica
Overview: The fates of Henry - an American correspondent - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors during the Spanish Civil War.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-26
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Ali and Nino
Overview: Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-27
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The Limehouse Golem
Overview: A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-18
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Back to Burgundy
Overview: Jean left his hometown ten years ago. When his father falls ill, he comes back and reunites with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie. As seasons go by around their vineyard, they'll have to trust each other again.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-06-14
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Galveston
Overview: After a violent encounter, Roy finds Rocky and sees something in her eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees to Galveston, an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-10
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Body Confusion
Overview: Bruno, a young traffic agent of the Spanish Guardia Civil, is abandoned by his wife after having an affair. Bruno, devastated, discovers one night, by chance, a strange passageway that leads him to another level of reality.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-08-13
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Vorvik
Overview: The president of a major biogenetic laboratory crazy for a board and falls down dead. His daughter Sofia inherited, just eighteen years a true empire, and make it impossible to discover the cause of the strange death of his father.
Genres: Action Adventure Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-08-12
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Diving
Overview: A restless photographer leaves her family to "find herself" and takes up deep-sea diving.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-11-29
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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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Spider
Overview: Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-08-15
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Fever Dream
Overview: A woman named Amanda lies stricken, far from home. A young boy named David questions her, trying to make her remember. She's not his mother, he's not her son. As her time is running out, he helps her unravel a powerful, haunting story of obsessive jealousy, an invisible danger, and the power of a mother's love for her child.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-10-06
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Sounds Like Love
Overview: Fashion assistant Maca has just about got her life together after a devastating breakup, when Leo, the man who broke her heart returns. Seeking support from best friends, Adriana and Jime, all three will learn love can be complicated.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-09-29
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