
Xabier Elorriaga
Actor · b. 1944
Movies23
Movie7.5HorrorThrillerWhile working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.
Movie6.6ActionDramaBased on the juvenile delinquency of the 1970s and 80s in Spain. Set in Barrio de la Mina in Barcelona, one of the most conflict neighbourhoods in Spain. it follows real juvenile delinquents all with criminal records, used to give the film a realistic touch.
Movie6.1CrimeDramaA police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
The Dancer Upstairs
2002 · 66 votes
Movie4.8HorrorDramaA husband and wife are taken hostage on their boat.
Movie6.4DramaHistoryMarch/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take back him. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations....
Lenin: The Train
1988 · 11 votes
Movie4.0HistoryDrama1939: The remains of the Spanish Republican Army crossed the French border. Among the exiles are Lluís Companys, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and also Aguirre, President of the Basque Government. After the invasion of France by Nazi troops, Companys will be arrested by the Gestapo and handed over to the Francoist authorities. Led by the Count of Mayalde, he is transferred to Madrid and later to Barcelona. After a summary trial, Companys is condemned to death and shot.
Companys, procés a Catalunya
1979 · 6 votes
Movie8.0DramaTV MovieAndreu is a shy and educated young man who will find in the aesthetics and "skin" behavior an escape valve that will allow him to be a recognized person in his environment. He will find the complicity of Miki, who will become his greatest support. What attracts them is power, fun, and intimidation. They will form a violent, aggressive and intolerant band. Their problems begin when after a beating they steal a large amount of drugs and money.
Caps rapats
2004 · 1 votes
Movie5.9DramaComedySofia introduces her three adult daughters to her new lover who is their age and happens to be a woman. The women, in particular Elvira find it extremely difficult to accept their mothers sudden apparent sexual reversal. The news pushes the neurotic Elvira to the point of nervous breakdown. Sol, the youngest daughter, writes a lude rock song about it and performs in front of them at a concert. The daughters plot together on how to get their mothers new girlfriend, a native Czech, and brilliant pianist, out of her life. Their plot goes terribly wrong and turns the film from a light-hearted comedy, into mildly amusing drama.
Movie8.0DramaThe story of a friendship between two girls of different races, Susana and Rita, in Equatorial Guinea, from 1950 to 1961. Susana discovers with her friend a fascinating but troubled new world in Africa, where she comes of age and experiences love and sex.
Movie5.6DramaThrillerA romantic thriller about a construction worker in hiding for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a maid.
Movie6.0RomancePedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the job as a teacher through an old friend, Bruno Baena, who is the head master of the school. Aurora starts going to Pedro's classes. Pedro will become "El hombre de moda", very soon.
El hombre de moda
1980 · 3 votes
Movie7.0This film is based on the true story of the Catalan lawyer and engineer Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol (Figueres 1819 - Barcelona 1885) who invented the submarine.
Monturiol, el senyor del mar
1993 · 1 votes
Movie5.2RomanceThrillerA mass suicide involving members of a cult takes place in the Canary Islands. Gabriel's younger sister, Cordelia, who he hasn't seen for years, was one of the cult followers. Gabriel decides to travel there and find out what happened.
Movie4.2DramaFantasyA man discovers that his girlfriend is a "stigmata" (someone whose hands and feet mysteriously bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was crucified) and tries to keep her out of the hands of a greedy TV preacher who plans to exploit her to make money for himself.
Reborn
1981 · 12 votes
Movie8.0DramaRomanceLas cerezas del cementerio
2005 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaHistoryIn the middle of the first world war, Barcelona is the center of multiple operations related to war, although Spain is a neutral country.
Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
1983 · 1 votes
Movie4.7DramaThe year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods that arrive to Cuba are not always the products that were shipped, in some cases, they simply arrive "lumps" or "coal". As it appears in the logbooks of the ships. 'Havanera 1820' is a film that tells stories of love and adventure in a time when Cuba confronts the Spanish colonizers.
Havanera 1820
1993 · 3 votes
Movie5.3DramaJosé, a fifty-year-old homosexual magician, feels the need to return to Granada, the place where he spent his childhood, perhaps to embrace the painful memory of tragic experiences, perhaps to bury it definitively.
Movie5.9DramaA drama teacher casts a woman in a play about torture, and the two eventually become lovers. As production of the play develops, the director begins to receive threatening letters.
Movie4.0DramaHistoryVictòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
1983 · 3 votes
Movie5.3DramaCrimeOpening at the funeral mass for Mikel, we flashback to those that played a part in Mikel's life and death; his estranged wife, his traditional Basque mother, a female impersonator and friend to Mikel in his coming out, and even the local priest.
Movie10.0DramaHistoryVictòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
1984 · 1 votes
Movie5.0DramaEl rey y la reina
1986 · 2 votes
Series7
TV7.6Action & AdventureDramaRed Eagle is a series of adventure and intrigue on the courage, nobility, friendship and love. The protagonist is an unsung hero of justice of the seventeenth century, known by the nickname of Red Eagle, who helps the weak and who is determined to uncover the conspiracy behind the murder of his young wife.
TV4.5SoapDramaLa verdad de Laura
2002 · 2 votes
TV6.0War & PoliticsDramaIn March 1917, amidst World War I, a sealed train carries Russian revolutionaries, led by Lenin, from Germany to St. Petersburg. Along the journey, political tensions and personal dramas unfold, culminating in a historic arrival.
TV3.8DramaA young English football player is transferred to a top Spanish team and finds that life there is not as easy as he expected.
All in the Game
1993 · 4 votes
TV6.2ComedyThe series shows the life of Alicia, a girl from the province who moves to Madrid to study and decides to earn an extra salary working as a babysitter for some unruly children. Next to her will live three roommates, the innocent and somewhat groggy Almudena, the American and crazy Sara and the ecologist and bohemian Rita.
TV8.7Action & AdventureBased on Captain James Cook's three voyages. It was on his first voyage, in 1770 (while in the South Pacific region to observe the transit of Venus), that Captain Cook discovered the east coast of Australia. He later recommended Australia as a future British colony. The series was financed by $5 million from Revcom France, $2.25 million from the ABC and the rest from 10BA tax money.
Captain James Cook
1988 · 3 votes
TV8.5Clase media
1987 · 2 votes