
Juan Diego
Actor · 1942 – 2022 · Sevilla, Spain
Juan Diego was born on December 14, 1942 in Bormujos, Seville, Andalucía (Spain). He was an actor (cinema, TV and theater) and producer, known for La muerte de un viajante (1972), Cabeza de Vaca (1991), Padre Coraje (2002), Los hombres de Paco (2005), El triunfo (2006) and The Cover (2021). He died on April 28, 2022 in Madrid, Spain.
Movies24
Movie6.2ComedyDramaJosé Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.
Movie6.2DramaHorrorWhile searching for a solution to his serious health condition, David, a renowned neurosurgeon, discovers a sinister secret hidden in the past.
Movie6.3ComedyManoli and Fernando, a couple of communist ideas, want to live their love freely, fleeing from any bourgeois convention. At first, the couple rejects the help of her parents, but soon they will begin to give in and accept all kinds of comforts.
Movie5.7AdventureHistorySpanish soldiers battle indigenous tribes and their own brutal natures as they search for a legendary city built of gold.
Movie6.0ComedySara, Lucía, Sofía and Claudia are sisters, 4 modern women with very different personalities, who come together at their mother's funeral, after which they discover the man they've all called "dad" throughout their lives is not really their father. They embark on a quest to discover who their real fathers are, discovering more about themselves, their mother, and their lives.
Movie6.3ActionAdventureTwo years after the murder of his son and father, a retired hitman sets in motion a carefully crafted revenge plan against the killer: his own brother.
Movie6.3ComedyXVII century Spain. Don Pablo tries to climb position and falls into the hands of students, rogues, whores, fake skilled, executioners, jailers and comedians. Based on "The Buscón called Pablos" Francisco de Quevedo.
El buscón
1979 · 3 votes
Movie6.2ComedyDramaSet 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.
Torremolinos 73
2003 · 82 votes
Movie7.2ComedyDramaConstruction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, a cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often goes to communist rallies, and enjoys the filthy beaches of Ostia. Will the hostile environment pave a way to jealousy?
Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca)
A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)
1970 · 234 votes
Movie5.4DramaRomanceA radio-show assistant meets a budding screenwriter during a group-therapy session for sex addicts.
Movie6.6ComedyDramaThe humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, advances across the continent. As a result of the difficulties the team encounters, disorganization gradually takes over the convoy. Each of the members of the group, little by little, yield to their petty, selfish impulses: violence, power, nostalgia - The breakdown of one of the trucks forces Michele and Nadia to wait at an oasis for the arrival of spare parts. But a starving local tribe settles threateningly near them. The chief of the tribe makes a speech they don't understand, which is followed by a macabre purification ceremony.
- MovieComedyScience Fiction
The film is a television program from a Ugandan satellite in orbit overlooking the decrepit blue planet, where only Seville has been saved. The report we see is made of it, showing it as a world model of a city to be imitated.
Sevilla 2030
2003
Movie6.6DramaIsabel Jimenez is a teenager witnessing a horrible feud between her own family and the Fuentes family, a feud involving broken hearts, property disputes and a mysterious fire that destroyed the Fuentes house. Isabel's uncle is murdered by Jeronimo Fuentes, who later tries to stab her father. After Jeronimo dies in jail, Isabel must look outside of her family for the truth, learning from the village idiot that her father may have set fire to the Fuentes home.
Movie8.0DramaA prestigious, elderly actor performs a monologue about a thespian who is reminiscing about his life. Involuntarily, he begins to recall his own.
Pepe Guindo
1999 · 2 votes
Movie5.6ComedyMusicIn the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage of the artistic caprices of the son of a rich man who supports the regime. They try to stage a Pre-war 'zarzuela' (a sort of Spanish operetta), 'La Corte Del Faraón', which ironically, thirty years later, is too obscene for the regime censorship. They finally manage to perform the 'zarzuela' but end up in the police station where they confirm that justice depends on which side are you on
Movie5.4DramaHistoryA chronicle of the life of Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega, who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of Theater in the 16th century. Lope returns home from war and enters the theater world when a producer's beautiful daughter takes a shine to him. They embark on a passionate affair as his plays begin to win popular acclaim.
Movie5.8DocumentaryTV MovieHow 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.
Sexo en el plató
2007 · 18 votes
Movie6.5WarTV MovieThe two weeks leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 are dramatized from many different locations in Spain, Morocco and London.
Dragon Rapide
1986 · 12 votes
MovieDocumentary4th February 1975. It's the first day of the historic actors strike that would bring the country's theatre activity to a halt for nine days. They demand one day off a week. What started out as a demand develops into political challenge. Concha Velasco, Ana Belén, Tina Sainz, Juan Diego and José Sacristán are some of the artists who risked their careers and their freedom. This is the story, narrated by its protagonists, as it has never been told before.
Movie4.9DramaCrimeTony is a young crook preparing for a bank robbery with her boyfriend Juanjo and their low-life partners Maxi and Moco. Right before they commit the crime, Juanjo informs Tony that his prostitute sister wants him to take her young daughter Laura to visit the girl's father, a flamenco singer in the Spanish southern coastal town of Tarifa. Juanjo persuades the initially reluctant Tony that Laura will provide the couple with a perfect cover after they relieve their partners of the robbery's earnings. Unfortunately, though the robbery comes off without a hitch, the duplicitous Juanjo absconds with the cash, making Tony and Laura fugitives both from the law and from the psychotically angry Maxi and Moco.
Movie7.8DramaIn 60s Extremadura, Paco el Bajo and his relatives work during day in a farmhouse, and silently suffer submission to their masters, who exploit them and treat them almost like animals. Meanwhile, Paco dreams that one day his children will be able to study.
Movie5.1DramaRomanceA coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s.
Movie6.8ActionDramaIn 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.
Cabeza de Vaca
1991 · 37 votes
Movie7.5DramaComedyThe Iniesta-Galván family is a theatre company that goes from town to town offering its performances. Over the years, its members will have to adapt to changes and make decisions, like that of whether or not to continue performing. One day, unexpectedly, a son that he has fathered on his travels presents himself to Carlos Galván.
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TV8.2CrimeDramaThe story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.
The Shield
2002 · 902 votes
TV7.8DramaComedyFollows police officer Francisco "Paco" Miranda and his men through funny cases.
TV3.7DocumentaryRealityThe life of Camarón de la Isla. From his humble gipsy origins to international stardom.
Camarón Revolution
2018 · 3 votes
TV4.0DramaSegunda Enseñanza
1986 · 4 votes
TV4.7Action & AdventureDramaThe story is settled in the Middle Ages when three monotheistic religions coexisted and fought for power in the Spanish Peninsula: Christians, Muslims and Jews. The series mixes action, intrigue and love in the Castilian capital of Toledo. It shows us about all those who lived in the walls of a city full of ups and downs, labyrinths and shady hiding places.
Toledo, cruce de destinos
2012 · 10 votes
TV7.2ComedyIn 17th-century Spain, Lucas Trapaza is a lazy liar and con artist who does everything he can to live off others.
El pícaro
1974 · 5 votes
TV9.0DramaCrime
TV6.8DramaPadre Coraje is a television drama from Spain, based on true events. Its theme song is performed by Paz Martinez. In the early morning of November 22, 1995, in one of the few gas stations that were open at night in the city of Jerez, Juan Delgado was assaulted and murdered by robbers. He was 27 years old. The story of this miniseries portrays the drama of the family and the courage of his father, Francisco Delgado, to bring the murderer to justice. He poses as a drug addict from the San Benito neighborhood and makes the neighbors and friends of the criminals, including himself, believe that he is just a neighbor from the dangerous neighborhood.
Padre Coraje
2002 · 7 votes
TVComedyMr.Manolito and Mr.Estrafalario– characters of Valle-Inclán’s plays– spend the last days of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship chasing the plays written by their admired Valle-Inclán whose works are banned by a Government Law. One day, they find a piece of The Daughter of the Captain, a portrait of the crazy soldiers who returned home after losing the Spanish Colonies. In other occasion, they attend one of the limited performances of Valle-Inclán’s:The deceiving Mr. Friolera. They are just longing for the best premiere ever: the Second Spanish Republic, a drama on for a very short time. It was a beautiful dream thought, like the Esperpentos (strange-looking characters) of Valle-Inclán.
- TVDrama
Un’isola
1986