
Cristina Hoyos
Actor · b. 1946 · Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain
Cristina Hoyos Panadero (Seville, Spain 13 June 1946) is a Spanish flamenco dancer, choreographer, and actress. After a successful worldwide career, she opened her own dance company in 1988 that premiered at the Rex Theatre in Paris. She played an important role during the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Hoyos started dancing at the age of twelve in the children's show Galas Juveniles. In 1969, she joined the ballet company of Antonio Gades where she continued her work for more than two decades. During this time, she toured the world demonstrating her art and starred in the film trilogy Blood Wedding, Carmen, and El amor brujo. In 1983, Hoyos played Carmen in the Antonio Gades ballet interpretation of Carmen in Paris. Her performance received rave reviews. Cristina Hoyos has taken flamenco to all corners of the world, using it as a beautiful tool that has crossed borders and with which she has united different and distant peoples and cultures, just using the tail of the gown and her heels. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cristina Hoyos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies20
Movie3.5The American musician Rickie falls in love with the prostitute Sara, who pretends to be a princess. As they escape together, Rickie gets into a dangerous adventure.
Movie5.5ComedySegunda oportunidad
2018 · 2 votes
Movie8.0DramaLarger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1988 · 1 votes
Movie6.6DramaMusicA dance troupe prepares for and completes a dress rehearsal of Federico García Lorca's tragic play "Blood Wedding," which is about a bride who runs away from her wedding with a former boyfriend.
Movie6.7DramaRomanceWhile rehearsing a flamenco ballet adaptation of Bizet's opera “Carmen”, Antonio, the choreographer, falls in love with the main dancer, Carmen, a fiercely independent woman. Antonio is slowly consumed by jealousy and possessiveness towards Carmen, just like Don José in the original opera, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.
Carmen
1983 · 76 votes
Movie6.9MusicDramaIn a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela since he was a boy, is arrested while helping José and unfairly sent to prison. Four years later he is released and declares his love for Candela. However, the woman is cursed by a bewitched love and every night she goes to the place where José died to dance with his ghost.
El amor brujo
1986 · 29 votes
Movie6.9MusicDramaIn the early 19th century, in Seville and the surrounding area, Carmen seduces the sergeant Don José, who deserts the army to be with her. But the beautiful gypsy falls in love with the bullfighter Escamillo, much to Don José’s despair.
Carmen
1984 · 35 votes
Movie7.1DramaBarcelona, Spain, in the late sixties. Eugenio, a young jeweler who has fallen in love with Conchita, a singer, to the point of learning to play the guitar to accompany her in her performances, will first have to learn to overcome his stage fright.
Movie6.5ComedyThree divorced men who share a flat live together without trouble until they hire a cleaning lady.
Movie6.0DocumentaryDocumentary that reconstructs the professional life of the dancer through the thread of his own voice. A work that travels to the fundamental landscapes of the personal history of Gades with unpublished documents and the testimony of those who shared with him many pages of the book of his life and the history of Spanish dance in recent decades.
Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza
2007 · 2 votes
Movie9.7TV MovieDramaCarmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée.
Carmen on Ice
1990 · 3 votes
Movie2.5DramaThrillerA bar in the middle of nowhere. A girl facing her demons. Her twin brother. An incestuous relationship. A mother they never met. A violent, alcoholic father. The nomads' periodic visitations.
El secadero de iguanas
2018 · 5 votes
Movie6.4DramaA flamenco dancer (Antonio Gades) reflects on his life and career when he is surprised to be honored on a television show telling his life story. The memories stir up controversy, and an old friend seeks retribution as Antonio had once stolen his girl.
Movie5.6DramaRomanceHistory about hate and passion between two gypsy families.
Montoyas y Tarantos
1989 · 7 votes
Movie5.9DramaThis tragic drama is based on the ballet by famed composer Manuel De Falla. A young woman is caught between the violent struggle of two rival suitors who love her passionately. Candelas (La Polaca) is pursued by kind-hearted Antonio (Antonio Gades) and the evil diablo Diego (Rafael Cordova). Lucia (Morucha) is the cryptic gypsy fortune teller, with Fernando Sanchez Polack as Candela's beloved father.
Movie4.1Experimental film consisting of images of young women handling automatic handguns and rifles.
X Is Y
1990 · 14 votes
Movie4.3DramaThrillerA rock star falls in love with a common pickpocket without any personal history. But soon she finds herself in a contraband of drugs and both try to escape it.
Antártida
1995 · 7 votes
Movie6.7DocumentaryHistoryA portrait of the actress and singer Pepa Flores, an incarnation of the recent history of Spain, who, in just twenty-five years of intense career, went from being Marisol, child prodigy of the Franco dictatorship, to being one of the first communist militants, icon of the Transition; an idol of the masses who became a discreet person after having claimed her right to remain silent.
Marisol: llámame Pepa
2024 · 3 votes
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Samuel returns to town after many years after fleeing for drug problems. Life has not gone well and things do not change back. He has inherited the old hotel of Leo, an old friend, who had dealings with André, a drug dealer who stole before he died. Now he claims the drug André Samuel, but he knows nothing and with the help of Matthew lays out a plan where all are revealed.
MovieDocumentary
Series1
TV6.6DramaThe world of bullfighting seen through the unforgettable adventures of a likeable rogue. A serious goring forced José Álvarez "Juncal", a famous bullfighter from the 1950s, to leave the bullfighting world, but it left him with a distinguished limp.
Juncal
1989 · 5 votes