Javier Cámara

Javier Cámara

Born: January 19, 1967
in La Rioja, Spain
Javier Cámara Rodríguez (born 19 January 1967) is a Spanish actor. He starred in the Pedro Almodóvar films Talk to Her (2002), Bad Education (2004) and I'm So Excited (2013), and the television series 7 Vidas (Seven Lives). He played Cardinal Bernardo Gutierrez in the HBO series The Young Pope as well as Guillermo Pallomari, the chief accountant of the Cali Cartel, in season 3 of the Netflix series Narcos.

He was born in Albelda de Iregua, La Rioja. He later moved to Madrid and graduated from the Dramatic Art School. He worked as an usher at the Figaro Theatre in Madrid.

His debut in theatre was in El caballero de Olmedo in 1991. He enjoyed great success in the TV series 7 Vidas and then with Almodóvar. His awards include 12 wins and 22 nominations.

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Across the River and Into the Trees
Title: Across the River and Into the Trees
Released: October 11, 2023
Type: Movie
In post WW2 Venice Italy, American Army Col. Richard Cantwell, haunted by the war, is a bona fide hero who faces news of his illness with stoic disregard. Determined to spend a weekend in quiet solitude, he commandeers a military driver to facilitate a visit to his old haunts in Venice. As Cantwell's plans begin to unravel, a chance encounter with a remarkable young woman begins to rekindle in him the hope of renewal.
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Title: Showriano
Released: March 1, 2023
Type: TV
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Stories Not to be Told
Title: Stories Not to be Told
Character: David (segment "Me has hecho muy feliz estos meses")
Released: November 25, 2022
Type: Movie
Five tales of human vulnerability and the hilarious, painful, and awkward curveballs life throws us.
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Title: Rapa
Character: Tomás Hernández
Released: May 19, 2022
Type: TV
When high school teacher Tomás finds the bloodied, dying mayoress of his hometown high up on his local cliffs, he not only becomes obsessed with the case but turns into its first suspect. Though solving the case is local cop Maite's job, Tomás doesn't care if his own private investigation gets in her way. Solving the case might just give Tomás' life the purpose he has been silently dreaming of for so long. Though clashing more than once, the two of them come close as can be to finding the murderer: Norma, Tomas' very own physiotherapist. She killed the mayoress in a fit of rage after finding out one of her many dark secrets - one that lies many years behind but one that has deeply affected her and her family. A twist of fate has it, however, that Norma remains undiscovered; her former fear and powerlessness turn to empowerment and confidence. Then a second murder stirs up the waters. Now an unlikely team, Maite and Tomás resume the hunt for a murderer who is closer than they imagine.
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Title: Martínez y hermanos
Character: Self - Guest
Released: April 21, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: La Noche D
Character: Invitado
Released: January 26, 2021
Type: TV
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The People Upstairs
Title: The People Upstairs
Character: Julio
Released: October 30, 2020
Type: Movie
Julio and Ana have been together for more than fifteen years. They have become a couple who no longer look at nor touch one another, and who have made daily fighting the essence of their relationship. This evening, Ana has invited their upstairs neighbors to come round, Salva and Laura, a couple younger than them, pleasant and friendly, but whose noises are now an annoyance for Julio and Ana... or perhaps a stimulus? The upstairs neighbors will make them an unusual and surprising proposal which will turn the evening into an exaggerated and cathartic experience for all four.
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Memories of My Father
Title: Memories of My Father
Character: Héctor Abad Gómez
Released: August 22, 2020
Type: Movie
In the polarized and violent Medellín (Colombia's 'City of Eternal Spring') of the 1970s, doctor Héctor Abad Gómez is concerned about both his children and children from less favored classes. After a devastating loss in the family, Héctor gives himself to the greater cause of public health programs for the poor in Medellín to the consternation of the city's authorities.
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Title: Homemade
Character: Pope (voice)
Released: June 30, 2020
Type: TV
Acclaimed filmmakers from around the world channel their creativity during COVID-19 isolation with this diverse, genre-spanning collection of short films.
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Madrid, int.
Title: Madrid, int.
Released: May 9, 2020
Type: Movie
Madrid, Spain, March 2020. As the merciless disease that plagues the world spreads through the increasingly deserted streets of the city, people barricades themselves in their homes and move on with their lives…
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Title: The New Pope
Character: Cardinal Gutierrez
Released: January 10, 2020
Type: TV
As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”
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Off Course to China
Title: Off Course to China
Released: February 15, 2019
Type: Movie
Braulio after his misadventures in Berlin, moves to Hong Kong along with Rafa and Hakan in search of new opportunities. However, it is not easy to succeed in a land where language, culture and customs are very different from Europe.
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Title: Vote for Juan
Character: Juan Carrasco
Released: January 25, 2019
Type: TV
Set in the world of Spanish politics, Vota Juan revolves around the character of Juan Carrasco (Javier Cámara), an uninspiring Minister of Agriculture who, after finding his political ambitions awoken by a series of chance political events, decides to take part in his party's primary elections thereby giving himself a chance to eventually run for the position of President of the Government. Party intrigues, jealousy, crises... as he undertakes this none too easy task he will count on the invaluable help of his press chief, his secretary and his personal advisor. His campaign team, much like him, try to make up for their lack of experience and political expertise through a mixture of guile and a whole host of other shenanigans. Will Juan Carrasco manage to make it all the way to the top?
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Crime Wave
Title: Crime Wave
Character: Father
Released: October 4, 2018
Type: Movie
Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.
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Title: The Miracle
Character: Dottor López
Released: May 8, 2018
Type: TV
In Rome, a Virgin Mary statue is found crying blood. Pondering on the implications of the existence of miracles, and eventually, the existence of God, the people involved in the enigma start losing their minds.
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Bomb Scared
Title: Bomb Scared
Character: Martín
Released: December 8, 2017
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Spain, four ETA terrorists await a phone call before carrying out a mission, while the 2010 FIFA World Cup, where Spanish soccer team is one of the favorites to win, is being held in South Africa.
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Title: Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez
Character: Self - Guest
Released: February 27, 2017
Type: TV
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It's for Your Own Good
Title: It's for Your Own Good
Character: Chus
Released: February 24, 2017
Type: Movie
Three brothers-in-law try to get their daughters to dump their undesirable boyfriends.
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The Queen of Spain
Title: The Queen of Spain
Character: Pepe Bonilla
Released: November 25, 2016
Type: Movie
After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to The Girl of Your Dreams, 1998.)
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Siete semillas
Title: Siete semillas
Character: Ignacio Rodríguez
Released: October 21, 2016
Type: Movie
This story tells how Ignacio Rodriguez, manager of a textile export company, lives so absorbed in his work that it creates personal crisis which leads to the hospital. After this episode his brother recommends visiting a spiritual guide, beginning a journey of learning that will take him to find the inner peace he needed.
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Title: The Young Pope
Character: Cardinal Gutierrez
Released: October 21, 2016
Type: TV
Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.
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Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
Title: Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 2016
Type: Movie
When looking at Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography, it becomes evident that women are everywhere; in fact, his work revolves around them. His divas are the best to create a real portrait of Almodóvar and evoke the emotional power of his films. These women are the ideal observers of a cinematic career that, from La Mancha to Hollywood, has changed the image of Spain in the world.
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Age of Monster
Title: Age of Monster
Character: Víctor
Released: April 23, 2016
Type: Movie
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Truman
Title: Truman
Character: Tomás
Released: September 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Tomás, who lives in Canada, travels to Madrid, Spain, to visit his old friend Julián. Both of them, accompanied by Truman, Julián's faithful dog, will share many surprising and emotional little moments, triggered by the hard situation Julián is going through, for just a few days.
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Title: Narcos
Character: Guillermo Pallomari
Released: August 28, 2015
Type: TV
A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
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Off Course
Title: Off Course
Character: Próspero
Released: March 3, 2015
Type: Movie
Two young Spanish men, with a university education, are tired of unemployment and decide to move to Germany. But soon they will find out that finding a better living is not as easy as they expected.
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The Unexpected Love
Title: The Unexpected Love
Character: Juan
Released: April 25, 2014
Type: Movie
Juanito moved to New York to succeed as an actor. Years have gone by but success has not come his way and now he takes an odd jobs to survive. One day he is visited by his apparently successful cousin. However, their life together will discover the reality behind each of them.
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Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
Title: Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
Character: Antonio
Released: October 31, 2013
Type: Movie
Spain, 1966. An English teacher who travels to Almería when he hears that John Lennon is making a film there befriends with a 16-year-old boy who has run away from home and a young girl who also seems to be running away from something.
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Yesterday Never Ends
Title: Yesterday Never Ends
Released: April 26, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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I'm So Excited!
Title: I'm So Excited!
Character: Joserra
Released: March 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Something has gone wrong with the landing gear of a plane en route from Madrid to Mexico City. The group of eccentric travelers on the flight, defenseless in the face of danger, indulge in colourful confessionals, while the outlandish crew attempts to find ways to entertain them.
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A Gun in Each Hand
Title: A Gun in Each Hand
Character: S.
Released: December 5, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Who
Character: Gustavo Peña
Released: May 2, 2011
Type: TV
Tell the history of a married couple (María Pujalte and Javier Cámara) that at the beginning of the 80s they become the first divorced family in the democratic Spain.
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What's a Bear For?
Title: What's a Bear For?
Character: Guillermo
Released: April 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Ecological comedy about two brothers. Alejandro and Guillermo are two Asturian brothers lovers of Nature since they were children. Alejandro is a renowned zoologist who investigates wildlife and lives in the trees like an animal. Guillermo is an internationally renowned biologist, who has received numerous awards. One day he discovers a green sprout in Antarctica and, convinced that the battle is lost, leaves everything and goes back to Asturias. Once there, he looks for his brother Alejandro in the forest where they live. Since the arrival of Guillermo to the forest, the sentimental ecosystems of the characters will be altered.
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To Hell With The Ugly
Title: To Hell With The Ugly
Character: Eliseo
Released: April 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Eliseo is ugly, lame and single. He hasn't met the woman of his life and has never known love. Nati is ugly, missing a breast and separated. She found the man of her life but, even so, has never experienced true love. Eliseo thinks that the worst of his life is still to come. Nati thinks that the best of her life is still to come. The death of Eliseo's mother reunites them twenty years on in a last chance to find happiness and love. But what happens when the woman of your life is married to your brother
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The Blind Sunflowers
Title: The Blind Sunflowers
Character: Ricardo
Released: August 29, 2008
Type: Movie
Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…
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Title: LEX
Character: Mario Estrada
Released: June 5, 2008
Type: TV
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Chef's Special
Title: Chef's Special
Character: Maxi
Released: April 11, 2008
Type: Movie
Maxi thinks his life is perfect. He is a famous cook who owns a successful restaurant in Chueca and is living his life as a gay man without much complex. But when his son Edu and his daughter Alba appear, and a new attractive neighbor comes along, it will have a strong effect on his life resulting in his values being challenged for ever.
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La torre de Suso
Title: La torre de Suso
Character: Cundo
Released: November 9, 2007
Type: Movie
Cundo emigrated to Argentina to seek a new life. Ten years later he returns home, to the funeral of an old friend, Suso. The film chronicles the reunion with family and friends and how Cundo wants to fulfill the ultimate dream of Suso. The film is a tribute to friendship. And above all friendship in a age where it is not so clear why you should remain friends with your childhood friends.
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Sexo en el plató
Title: Sexo en el plató
Character: Himself
Released: April 9, 2007
Type: Movie
How 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.
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Fiction
Title: Fiction
Character: Santi
Released: November 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Alex, a shy and introverted, is a film director trying to finish writing his latest script. Decided to leave a few days of his wife and children to go to the Pyrenees and find there the peace and inspiration. In the town where he is met Monica, a violinist who is on vacation at a friend's house. Love grows between them and will face feelings that have to control and hide. Feelings that may never expressed.
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Title: El hormiguero
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 24, 2006
Type: TV
El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.
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Alatriste
Title: Alatriste
Character: Conde Duque de Olivares
Released: September 1, 2006
Type: Movie
In 17th century Spain Diego Alatriste, a brave and heroic soldier, is fighting in his King's army in the Flandes region. His best mate, Balboa, falls in a trap and, near to death, asks Diego to look after his son and teach him to be a soldier.
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Paris Je T'aime
Title: Paris Je T'aime
Character: Le cancérologue (Bastille)
Released: June 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
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Paris Je T'aime
Title: Paris Je T'aime
Character: Le docteur (Bastille)
Released: June 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
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The Secret Life of Words
Title: The Secret Life of Words
Character: Simon
Released: December 15, 2005
Type: Movie
A touching story of a deaf girl who is sent to an oil rig to take care of a man who has been blinded in a terrible accident. The girl has a special ability to communicate with the men on board and especially with her patient as they share intimate moments together that will change their lives forever.
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Hard Times
Title: Hard Times
Character: Mikel
Released: November 18, 2005
Type: Movie
When the troubled son of an NGO worker refuses to take a test and announces that he is not leaving his room, his concerned mother asks one of her clients, a Cuban exile, for help in setting the boy straight. Gonzalo has decided to drop out of school, and his mother Ana isn't sure how to convince the boy that he's making a crucial mistake. Ana's client Carlos is a Cuban exile who makes his living selling cigars and artwork on the black market. When Carlos learns of Ana's dilemma, he calls on recently released convict Mikel to teach the boy how to play chess. Perhaps is young Gonzalo can master the game, he can learn to start living again. As the lessons get underway, each of these characters learns that in order to truly move on with their lives they much first break free of the bonds that prevent them from being who they really are.
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Bad Education
Title: Bad Education
Character: Paca/Paquito
Released: March 19, 2004
Type: Movie
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.
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Los abajo firmantes
Title: Los abajo firmantes
Character: Mario
Released: October 17, 2003
Type: Movie
The first actor of a theater company on tour in Spain dies in a car accident. A new actor, Jorge Ruiz, is to relieve you. He's handsome, young and revolutionary. His arrival creates tension, jealousy and distrust in the rest of the cast, is-especially in Mario Soto, which is responsible to lead in the absence of the author of the assembly, busy with an opera for the Teatro Real in Madrid . Already in the first trial of the work concerned the "Play Without a Title" by Federico Garcia Lorca, their personalities collide head. Morante Carmen, leading actress of the company, and Laura G. Reyna, which was secret lover of the deceased, witness the struggle between the two. As if that were not enough, the newcomer brings added conflict: reading at the end of the function of a manifesto for peace. Mario questioned that decision and the company is divided.
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Torremolinos 73
Title: Torremolinos 73
Character: Alfredo López
Released: April 29, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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Looking for Chencho
Title: Looking for Chencho
Character: Intxausti – The Olympist
Released: October 17, 2002
Type: Movie
When a tourist bus stops at a gas station, Chencho, one of the passengers, decides to go to the toilet.
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Talk to Her
Title: Talk to Her
Character: Benigno
Released: March 15, 2002
Type: Movie
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
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Sex and Lucía
Title: Sex and Lucía
Character: Pepe
Released: August 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
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Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella
Title: Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella
Character: Rafi
Released: March 30, 2001
Type: Movie
For this second film in the cult comedy series Torrente takes our fat police officer from Madrid to Marbella in Spain to investigate a villain’s plot to destroy the city with a missile. This James Bond style slapstick comedy became the most successful box-office film in Spanish film history beating out only the first Torrente film.
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Title: 7 vidas
Character: Paco
Released: January 17, 1999
Type: TV
The story of a group of friends in Madrid.
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Havana Quartet
Title: Havana Quartet
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Walter, an aspiring musician from Madrid, has a lot of troubles. After finding a videotape, he learns something which will alter his whole life, and put his Madrid problems on hold. In the tape, a Cuban woman confesses to being his mother. She is waiting for him in Havana. Walter goes to Havana to see his mother. There, the plot thickens with the addition of the mother's daughter, and a Spanish airline crew member, who round out the quartet.
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Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
Title: Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
Character: Rafi
Released: March 13, 1998
Type: Movie
Torrente, The Stupid Arm of The Law by Santiago Segura stars Javier Cámara as a corrupt, poor, delusional, sexist, egocentric, drunk and right-winged Madrid cop named Torrente. This over the top comedy shows Torrente on his search for heroin drug dealers and the outrageous characters he passes on his way. A cult film and one of the funniest Spanish films was the most successful box-office film.
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Title: Periodistas
Released: January 13, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Blasco Ibáñez
Character: Soriano
Released: November 8, 1997
Type: TV
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Eso
Title: Eso
Character: Miguel Ángel
Released: June 5, 1997
Type: Movie
Since he began to work, Domingo lives against the trend: he sleeps during the day, care for her younger sister in the afternoon and at night vacuums in a department store.
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Put a Man in Your Life
Title: Put a Man in Your Life
Character: Miguel
Released: August 23, 1996
Type: Movie
In a swimming pool accident, Juan and Belinda somehow exchange bodies. Juan is coaching a football team for an important match and Belinda is getting married. They agree to co-operate and continue in their new bodies.
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Title: ¡Ay, Señor, Señor!
Character: Padre Ángel Murillo
Released: April 4, 1994
Type: TV
¡Ay, Señor, Señor! was a 26-episode Spanish television sitcom transmitted by Antena 3 between 1994 and 1995. It tells of the adventures of a modern, open-minded priest, portrayed by the actor Andrés Pajares. The series kick-started several acting careers, including those of Javier Cámara and Neus Asensi. The singer Massiel starred in four episodes and Paloma Cela in nine, with many other actors and actresses making regular or guest appearances.
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53 domingos
Title: 53 domingos
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Three brothers meet to discuss what to do with their 86-year-old father.