Candela Peña
Also Known As: Candela Pena, María del Pilar Peña Sánchez
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. María del Pilar Peña Sánchez, (Candela Peña) (born 14 July 1973 in Gavà, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish actress. She was the only child of a couple who had a bar in Barcelona. When she was four years old she started to learn dance in the city and after finishing high-school she went to Seville to begin theatre classes there and eventually in Madrid. Encouraged by Pedro Almodóvar, she published the novel Pérez Príncipe, María Dolores in 2001. She won the Premio Goya in 2003 (for the movie Te doy mis ojos) after being nominated several times previously. Description above from the Wikipedia article Candela Peña, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gavà, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Birthday: July 14, 1973
Age: 51 years old
Gender: Female
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All About My Mother
Overview: Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-04-16
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Princesses
Overview: Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after she finds her in the bathroom, badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye's xenophobic co-workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-09-02
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Take My Eyes
Overview: One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-10-08
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Després de la pluja
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2007-04-27
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Hi, Are You Alone?
Overview: Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-10-28
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Torremolinos 73
Overview: Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-04-29
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My Prison Yard
Overview: In Madrid, a petty thief who cannot adjust to life outside of jail puts together a theater troupe her friends -- a prostitute, a gypsy, and a Colombian immigrant -- in an attempt to make a go at a relatively straight life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-12-26
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Mouth to Mouth
Overview: For financial reasons an unemployed aspiring actor works for a phone-sex enterprise. One day he receives a call from the mysterious wife of one of his best clients.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-11-10
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No Shame
Overview: A movie script is presented to Isabel. After reading it she realizes it's based on an old love affair she had with movie director Mario Fabra, the author of the script.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-06-29
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The Island Inside
Overview: The story of three siblings who try, each in his or her own way, to fight off the curse they have inherited: schizophrenia. Their father's genetic legacy, which they have schlepped around their entire lives, is exacerbated by the strict and moralistic upbringing they received from their mother.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-10-29
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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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Novios
Overview: Arturo , a successful restaurateur, having an affair with his assistant Cristal, tells her that he will reveal the extent of their relationship to his wife Paz. Not long after Cristal starts dreaming of life as a housewife, their plans fall through. In revenge, Cristal focuses on Arturo's son, Arturito. She will endeavor to make Arturito her bridegroom at Arturo's expense, in all senses.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-09-17
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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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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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Salad Days
Overview: A mixed salad and a trout meet on death row: The cold storage of a restaurant. They decide to unite in a single dish that will lead them to eternal love.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-04
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Running Out of Time
Overview: Days before committing an attack, Antonio, a gunman of the terrorist gang ETA who has dedicated his life to a cause he no longer believes in, meets Charo, a young drug addict who, despite the sordid environment in which she lives, still retains her innocence.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-10-06
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God Is on Air
Overview: Two Spanish pan-handlers soon find themselves in over their heads when they stumble upon an opportunity to redeem themselves and perhaps the entire planet. The world appears to suffer from rampant poverty, violence and spiritual desperation and the relentless news media force-feeds these images to the Spanish people. A popular reality television show lets the audience decide between life or death for suspected felons, and one of the opportunistic pan-handlers attempts to escape poverty through this raucous and sensational TV program.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-05-10
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Chill Out!
Overview: Just Santos, cabaret actor with a talent for imitation, receives the offer of a role in a movie that could change his life and his family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-09-12
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Yesterday Never Ends
Overview: A couple meets at their son’s grave ten years after his death; his plot is to make way for a casino city. Anger, hatred and bitterness erupt. A nightmarish drama that goes far beyond this couple’s private grief and points towards the end of society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-04-26
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A Gun in Each Hand
Overview: J. is depressed. E. lives peacefully. S. tries to get back with his wife. G. resorts to anxiolytics. P. plays seduction games. María and Sara exchange their husbands. L. calls his lover in a peculiar way.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-12-05
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The Last Hammer Blow
Overview: When he first enters the Montpellier Opera House, Victor knows nothing about music. Nor does he know his father, Samuel Rovinski, who is there to conduct Mahler’s 6th symphony. To change the course of his suddenly uncertain future, for Nadia his mother, for Luna whom he has fallen in love with, Victor has decided to step out of the shadows. He’ll go as far as he needs to.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-08-30
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Sidetracked
Overview: A rural couple in crisis, who have a brother and sister with urban problems, and all of them trying to find a solution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-01-30
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Latin Lover
Overview: The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-03-19
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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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Age of Monster
Overview: Victor, who claims to have filmed a number of films he's not been able to release, unites around his deathbed his most faithful collaborator to present his posthumous work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-23
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Kiki: Love to Love
Overview: Through five stories, the movie addresses sex and love: Paco and Ana are a marriage looking for reactivate the passion of their sexual relations, long time unsatisfied; Jose Luis tries to recover the affections of his wife Paloma, sit down on a wheelchair after an accident which has limited her mobility; Mª Candelaria and Antonio are a marriage trying by all way to be parents, but she has the trouble that no get an orgasm when make love with him; Álex try to satisfy Natalia's fantasies, while she starts to doubt if he finally will ask her in marriage; and finally, Sandra is a single woman in a permanent searching for a man to fall in love. All them love, fear, live and explore their diverse sexual paraphilias and the different sides of sexuality, trying to find the road to happiness.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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Alto riesgo
Overview: A police inspector goes to the emergency room looking for the PEP thinking that he may have had a "risky practice".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-20
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Llevo cartas
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-10-08
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La Celestina
Overview: The young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto's servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Celestina to further the romance. However Calisto's other servant Parmeno is suspicious of Celestina, as he knows about her tricks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-11-08
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With Good Reason
Overview: A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-11-12
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Empowered
Overview: Paz seems to have a perfect life. She has a job, a partner and friends but something's missing. In reality, there are things she is unhappy about. She feels anxious and burdened but can't bring herself to express these feelings. Until one day she turns to a strange therapy that will make her say absolutely everything she thinks. How would your life be if you only said what you think?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-03-02
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So My Grandma's a Lesbian!
Overview: Eva, a young and promising Spanish lawyer based in Edinburgh, sees her wedding plans with the heir to an important and ultra-conservative Scottish family in jeopardy when she learns that her grandmother, Sofía, has decided to marry…
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-09-11
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Enterrados
Overview: Five miners buried in a gallery 600 meters deep.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-05-10
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Rosa's Wedding
Overview: Rosa is about to turn 45 and realises that she's always lived her life to serve everyone else. So she decides to leave it all behind, take charge of her life and fulfil her dream of starting her own business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-08-21
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Black Beach
Overview: Carlos, a ruthless Spanish negotiation expert working in Brussels, is tasked with handling the kidnapping of a senior oil company executive in a troubled West African country —with which he has old and deep ties—, torn by ethnic tensions and government abuses.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-25
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En el lado de la vida
Overview: Short film made to promote organ donation in Spain.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-07-20
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Skins
Overview: In a strange world where people share numerous deformities, the same problem we all face challenges each of them: to find someone who accepts you as you are. Sometimes, that means finding yourself first.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-06-09
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