Vicky Peña
Also Known As: ויקי פנייה
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: January 11, 1954
Age: 71 years old
Gender: Female
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The Good Life
Overview: Tristan is about to turn fifteen. He enjoys the good life his parents have built for him. And yet, it won't be long before his environment of protection, affection and comfort crumbles. From then on, he will learn the taste of loneliness, sadness and that survival is often more important than life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-12-13
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The Hands
Overview: The priest Mario Pantaleo discovers he has some power to diagnose and cure diseases through the laying on of hands. But the police and the church hierarchy will against him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-08-10
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The Consul of Sodom
Overview: Fascinating journey through the life and work of the prestigious Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, both marked by sexuality and eroticism. Charismatic and somewhat eccentric, brilliant intellectual with extraordinary sensitivity and member of Barcelona's 'gauche divine' in the 60s, Gil de Biedma liked to describe himself as a 'poet of experience' while he suffered dreadfully from the dichotomy strangling him: bourgeois and executive for a multinational by day, communist and homosexual poet by night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-01-08
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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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Dragon Rapide
Overview: The two weeks leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 are dramatized from many different locations in Spain, Morocco and London.
Genres: War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-07-10
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Las voces de la noche
Overview: Spain, fifties. In a town grew around a living factory Jorge (Tristan Ulloa), the youngest son of the founder, and Elisa (Laia Marull), daughter of accounting. The two live with their families and are able to endure the monotony of their lives because they spend the afternoon on Wednesdays and Saturdays at a hotel in the city. This secret life together is essential for both. The small room in the city where encounters occur has become the only place where they can be themselves. That little space, a little sinister, find it more cozy, warm and near the home of Elisa gorgeous, spoiled by the mother, or the great house of George, full of family memories. Both are aware of the type of relationship they have created, and not demand more. Until Elisa decides to break the rules.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-29
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Change of Sex
Overview: A seventeen-year-old boy follows the painful path to discovering that he is transsexual.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-03-13
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Germanes de sang
Overview: Marga, a well-known television presenter, organizes a dinner with old friends from boarding school to which he has not seen for 30 years. But the meeting hidden other motives. Marga projects an old super 8 film shot where they can guess the murderer of a friend by one of the dinner guests. After a night of surprises and serious accusations, the truth comes out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2001-10-05
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I Know Who You Are
Overview: Paloma is a young psychiatrist, who is hired to work as a director of a clinic in Galicia, and is attracted to Mario, her very first patient. He suffers from a rare form of amnesia, commonly known as Korsakov's syndrome. As a result, both his short and long term memories are affected, and he has temporary lapses of perception. However, Paloma finds Mario to be a fascinating individual, not just a regular patient. Intrigued, she decides to explore Mario's past and, through their dialogues, their relationship takes an unexpected turn.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-04-07
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La quinta dimensión
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Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-01-16
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Stained-Glass Windows
Overview: The filmmaker visits the house of his ancestors with the invocation of family photographs and the voice of his parents. A journey into memory through everyday objects and spaces which seem to remain untouched by the passage of time.
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Original Language: ca
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Winter Diary
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-09-29
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An Afternoon in Geneva
Overview: In 1973, towards the end of the Franco regime, the famous catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda bumped into the literary critic Josep Maria Castellet in Geneva where she lived exiled and she invited him to tea at her house. The writer was a most discrete person and maintained everything that concerned her wrapped in secrecy. Indeed she herself had become a secret or perhaps, even a maker of secrets. However that afternoon, strangely, she opened up and shared many intimacies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2013-12-18
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Alemania
Overview: Sixteen-year-old Lola is studying for her resits when the possibility of a semester in Germany comes up. Lola wants to go, but her family, bogged down by her elder sister's psychiatric problems, don't want her to make the trip. The lack of stability and exhaustion in the ties with her family prompt Lola to go ahead with her idea and set out to find new experiences that make her see both herself and the circumstances that surround her with different eyes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-02-09
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Secrets of the Heart
Overview: Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the room where his father was found dead). He is so interested in these mysteries that he starts to investigate all the secrets of these dead people and their stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-03-19
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20-N: Los últimos días de Franco
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-11-20
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The House of Bernarda Alba
Overview: After the death of her husband Bernarda Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-04-03
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La manzana de oro
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-09-01
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Em dic Sara
Overview: A college professor tries to deal with the frustrations of her life as she drifts uncomfortably into middle age. Elvira Minguez plays Sara, a 40-year-old single mother who teaches at a university while sharing her home with her teenage daughter Virginia (Elena Castells) and her boyfriend Adrian (Francois Eric Gendron). Lately, Sara has not been getting along well with her friends and has very mixed feelings about Virginia's openness about her sex life. These dilemmas are compounded by the death of her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-21
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Little Ashes
Overview: About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-06
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Jumping The Fence
Overview: Ibrahim came to Spain from Guinea Conakry and now his roots are in Madrid, where he lives with Mariama and works as a bricklayer. One day, the police arrest him and Ibrahim, who lacks a residence permit, is deported to his country. From that moment on, his only objective will be to return to Spain to reunite with Mariama and her daughter about to be born. After managing to cross Africa, he settles with some companions in Mount Gurugú, an immigrant camp that separates Africa from Europe. There he meets Aminata, a girl determined to jump the fence and reach Spain. But that is a physical feat that is not within everyone's reach.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-04-12
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Olor de colònia
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2012-10-14
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The Apostate
Overview: A young man navigates the bureaucracy of the Catholic Church when he tries to renounce his faith.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-10-02
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Overview: In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Drama Music Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-10-15
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Werther
Overview: This adaptation of Geothe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. The boy's mother is a surgeon and therefore a rather uncommon woman for her society. She and Werther gradually become romantically involved, and his feelings for her begin to run much deeper than is apparent on the surface.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-09-19
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Pavlovsky
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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Waiting for Dali
Overview: Fernando, a talented chef, arrives to the village of Cadaqués during the 70s, residence of the internationally renowned Salvador Dalí. The paths of the chef and the artist will cross and cause the birth of a new culinary genius.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-06-15
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Overview: In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1995-10-31
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L’orgia
Overview: A group of boys and girls are locked up a weekend in a friends house in which they do a party that little to little is converted in an orgy. But not everything is sex, there are also cinematographic digressions, chocolate and churros, and good humor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1978-11-26
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Laia
Overview: "Laia" is located in the imaginary village of Sinera, a fishing village inhabited by a series of extreme characters, indiscriminately diverted to the adversities of destiny. There, Laia lives, a woman marked by a miserable and unhappy childhood, that is debated between her cruel husband and lover who is his best friend and faces the hatred of a whole town while dreaming of a freedom that only the sea can grant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2016-09-15
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Borrasca
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-07-23
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Stones
Overview: The stones of the title are the dreams and burdens carried by these five women with interlinked lives. This story of decision and transformation was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-02-08
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The Bigger, the Better
Overview: The lower part of Barcelona’s best district is a quiet and stately neighbourhood. The House of Columns hides many secrets, and has witnessed many events. The Catalan capital’s multiculturalism has a lot to offer. It’s better to laugh than to cry!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2017-03-03
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The Pianist
Overview: Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past where the younger Rossell (Pere Ponce) rejoins Teresa (Paulina Galvez) after having spent years in prison for helping anti-Franco anarchists. The story continues into Paris of the '30s, the period when Doria and Rossell first met, sharing a mutual interest in music and Teresa, before civil war sent them in different directions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-09-13
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Family Games
Overview: In this Spanish comedy-drama, a man befriends his wife's lover in an attempt to understand what has happened to their marriage and win her back.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-06-09
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The Bilingual Lover
Overview: Joan Mares obsession for the lovely and luscious Norma Valenti takes epic proportions because he cannot let go of her. After he is injured by some skin heads, he uses his scars to pursue his life as a street musician. He devices a plan to get to Norma and she never catches on to his deceit, except she realizes that as Juan Faneca his performance in bed is exactly what she had experienced with Joan Mares because she concludes they were taught sex by the same prostitute.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-04-02
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Laia, el regal d’aniversari
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Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1995-11-01
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The Dead Man and Being Happy
Overview: A Spaniard in Argentina becomes aware of his approaching death while staying at a hospital, so he decides to run away from Buenos Aires and start a trip up North, heading nowhere in particular.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-01-11
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7 Reasons to Run Away (from Society)
Overview: The family, the tenant, the wedding, the businessman, the neighbors, the poor child and the run over. 7 black comedy stories of a dysfunctional society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2019-04-05
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Be Happy!
Overview: A contemporary love story about Peter, a Freudian psychiatrist married to the Finnish Mika, David, a young British gay who lives in Banyoles, addicted to the Grinder, and Coco Lamour, a French actress from Paris.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-16
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El asesino dentro del círculo
Overview: Castellón, 1997. A convicted rapist on probation becomes a serial killer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-03-08
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Libertad
Overview: The Vidal family is spending a summer on Catalonia’s gorgeous Costa Brava with their Alzheimer-affected grandmother Ángela. Overprotected and shy, 14 year-old Nora goes through a difficult time after her parents’ separation, but what looked like another tedious, sad summer for Nora, turns into a dangerous coming of age experience with the arrival of Libertad, the wild 15-year daughter of Ángela’s Colombian caretaker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-10-04
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El principio de Arquímedes
Overview: Sonia and Rocio are two friends who are not happy with their lives. Sonia is a fashion executive who hardly sees her son and husband, while Rocio wants to find a good job. Both believe that the life of the other would make them happier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-03-26
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To Die (Or Not)
Overview: If one person's destiny were altered (in this case, not dying), how might that event change the lives of numerous other people, or in this case, prevent seven others from dying.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-01-18
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Amaren eskuak
Overview: Nerea is 37, is married and has a daughter. Professionally Nerea is a journalist and has to spend most of the day in the newspaper, subtracting much time to her family. The difficulty in balancing work and personal life greatly overwhelms the protagonist and the problem does not get worse when her mother, Luisa, Alzheimer patient is admitted to hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: eu
Release Date: 2013-09-26
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The Long Winter
Overview: In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in the intervening years. The only person he can find who is able to remember those years clearly is his family's old butler Claudio.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-02-15
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Breaking and Entering
Overview: Imad is a young Arab man who comes from a very poor neighborhood. He has a secret date with Angel, the son of a rich family, whom he met via a dating app. In Angel's fancy house, they'll be alone and no one will discover their secret.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-08
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The Silly Ones and the Stupid Ones
Overview: A group of movie professionals go into a studio to, over a single day, read / test/ count / live the story of 'The Silly Ones and The Stupid Ones'. Sitting around a table and following the directions of the director, the actors show us the evolution of the creating process and how the characters through the trials, indications, lighting or props, that at first were just a story captured on a script becomes a film, in cinema, the great optical illusion, the visual lies that allows us to enjoy the stories we see on the screen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-10-03
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