Najwa Nimri

Najwa Nimri

Born: February 14, 1972
in Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
​Najwa Nimri is a Spanish film and television actress, singer and music composer of Jordanian descent. Begins to be recognized in the film world by the hand of director Daniel Calparsoro in films such as Leap into the void, Passages, Blind or Asphalt. After the success of Abre los ojos by Alejandro Amenábar, comes her first Goya nomination for best leading actress with Los Amantes del circulo Polar by Julio Medem, with whom she repeats in Lucía y el Sexo for which she is also nominated for a Goya in the best supporting actress category.

Movies for Najwa Nimri...

Title: Berlin
Character: Alicia Sierra
Released: December 29, 2023
Type: TV
During his glory days, Berlin and a gang assembled in Paris for one of his greatest plans ever: stealing 44 million euros' worth of jewels in one night.
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Title: Holy Family
Character: Gloria Román / Julia Santos
Released: October 14, 2022
Type: TV
A family hiding a shocking secret starts over in Madrid, where new relationships complicate their plans and the past begins to catch up with them.
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Title: Insiders
Character: Self - Host
Released: October 21, 2021
Type: TV
Twelve people think they're in the final casting round for a reality show. In fact, they're already being secretly filmed, with 100,000 euros at stake.
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Title: Money Heist: From Tokyo to Berlin
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 2021
Type: TV
The filmmakers and actors behind "Money Heist" characters like Tokyo and the Professor talk about the emotional and artistic process of filming Money Heist.
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Muñequita linda
Title: Muñequita linda
Character: Claudia
Released: June 3, 2021
Type: Movie
After years of hard learning, Estela, a promising young musician, has to face the blinding glare of success.
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Title: 30 Coins
Character: Haruka
Released: November 29, 2020
Type: TV
Father Vergara—an exorcist, boxer and ex-convict—lives in a remote village in Spain. Hoping to be lost and forgotten, Vergara’s demons catch up to him.
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Title: Locked Up: The Oasis
Character: Zulema Zahir
Released: April 20, 2020
Type: TV
After a few years dedicating themselves to robbing jewelers, banks and casinos, it is time for Macarena and Zulema to separate.
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Title: Una vida una cena
Released: December 17, 2019
Type: TV
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The Tree of Blood
Title: The Tree of Blood
Character: Macarena
Released: October 31, 2018
Type: Movie
Marc and Rebeca, a young couple, travel to an old country house that used to belong to their family. Once there, they write the shared history of their roots, creating a huge family tree that harbours relationships of love, heartbreak, sex, madness, jealousy and infidelity, and under which also lies a history laden with secrets.
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Quién te cantará
Title: Quién te cantará
Character: Lila
Released: October 24, 2018
Type: Movie
Lila, a famous retired singer, loses her memory after suffering an accident, just as she planned her return to the stage.
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La octava dimensión
Title: La octava dimensión
Character: Olga
Released: October 17, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: La resistencia
Character: Invitada
Released: February 1, 2018
Type: TV
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Title: Money Heist
Character: Alicia Sierra
Released: May 2, 2017
Type: TV
To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, every probability - culminate in eleven days locked up in the National Coinage and Stamp Factory of Spain, surrounded by police forces and with dozens of hostages in their power, to find out whether their suicide wager will lead to everything or nothing.
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Title: Locked Up
Character: Zulema Zahir
Released: April 20, 2015
Type: TV
Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller.
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10,000 Nights Nowhere
Title: 10,000 Nights Nowhere
Character: Claudia
Released: November 10, 2013
Type: Movie
The story of a son who is afraid of everything. Overwhelmed by his dull life, one day he decides to flee. He starts a journey to nowhere, living other lives. And he finds out that if one day you no longer want to grow, it's not all that bad. You just have to learn to fly, to fly far away. It's a story about taking important decisions; and about how each time we make a choice, somewhere within us we make exactly the opposite one.
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The Wine of Summer
Title: The Wine of Summer
Character: Ana
Released: September 13, 2013
Type: Movie
A frustrated actor travels to Spain in search of a playwright, a trip that unexpectedly binds him to a group of five previously unconnected people.
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Verbo
Title: Verbo
Character: Inés
Released: November 4, 2011
Type: Movie
Sara is a young woman who fails to understand the world she lives in. Trying to find meaning in life she would come to a mysterious place to undertake an adventure: it is a parallel universe, dark and fantastic, where life and death hang in the balance.
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Route Irish
Title: Route Irish
Character: Marisol
Released: March 16, 2011
Type: Movie
A private security contractor in Iraq rejects the official explanation of his friend's death and decides to investigate.
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Even the Rain
Title: Even the Rain
Character: Isabel (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 2011
Type: Movie
As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
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Anything You Want
Title: Anything You Want
Released: September 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Leo is immediately set adrift by his new found responsibilities as a single parent, a feeling that is made doubly distressing when Dafne, herself understandably confused and heartbroken by her mother's absence, asks for an "artificial" mother to help her fall asleep at night. It is here that Mañas takes the road less traveled, but to write any more about the plot line he introduces would be unfair to both the viewer and filmmaker alike. Suffice it to say that Leo's actions are both surprising and potentially dangerous, as they require Leo to subsume his own identity to the point where he nearly loses it.
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Inseparable From You
Title: Inseparable From You
Released: July 12, 2010
Type: Movie
A short movie starring Najwa Nimri addressing the complex world of mental illness and more specifically the bipolar disorder.
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Room in Rome
Title: Room in Rome
Character: Edurne
Released: May 7, 2010
Type: Movie
A hotel room in the center of Rome serves as the setting for Alba and Natasha, two sexy and recently acquainted women, to have a physical adventure that touches their very souls.
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Express Oviedo
Title: Express Oviedo
Character: Bárbara
Released: October 31, 2007
Type: Movie
All hell breaks loose when an eccentric theatrical ensemble arrives in Oviedo, Spain to stage a production of the Leopoldo Alas play -La Regenta.
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Mataharis
Title: Mataharis
Character: Eva
Released: September 28, 2007
Type: Movie
Private detectives Inés, Eva, and Carmen often invade others' privacy but are clueless about confronting their own secrets. While on the job, these three surveillance specialists will have to cross the thin line dividing public and private matters, bringing their own issues to light in order to solve more than just their professional cases.
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Sexo en el plató
Title: Sexo en el plató
Character: Herself
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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Celia's Lives
Title: Celia's Lives
Character: Celia
Released: November 17, 2006
Type: Movie
The night Celia unsuccessfully attempts suicide, a teenage girl (Melany) is raped and murdered nearby. Miguel Ángel, the police officer in charge of finding the perpetrator of the crime, digs around Celia and her closest circle, including her two sisters (Carmen and Ángela) and her husband Agustín. While the cop suspects about the girl's boyfriend (Pedro), Celia suspects about her husband.
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Trastorno
Title: Trastorno
Character: Natalia
Released: November 17, 2006
Type: Movie
Two estranged sisters, once very close as young girls, get pregnant at the same time. After suffering an abortion, one becomes obsessed with the other’s baby and poses a threat to them.
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The Method
Title: The Method
Character: Nieves
Released: September 22, 2005
Type: Movie
In Madrid seven candidates report for a job interview that uses "the Grönholm method" of selection, as protestors rise up in public protest in the street over the IMF-World Bank Summit attempting globalisation of workers' unions.
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20 Centimeters
Title: 20 Centimeters
Character: La Conejo
Released: June 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Colloquially-told story of a few days in the life of Marieta, who's saving money for the last operation in her change from man to woman. She works as a prostitute in Madrid and longs for a legitimate job. Whenever she builds up her savings, her housemate and best friend Tomás finds ways to spend, lose, or cost her those funds. She meets Raúl, whom she likes and who likes her; the trouble is he also likes that part of her she wants removed. If that's not enough, she also has narcolepsy, and when she conks out, she dreams of musical-theater numbers in which she's the singing and dancing star. Are these dreams always going to be 20 centimeters out of reach?
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A+
Title: A+
Character: Dam
Released: May 28, 2004
Type: Movie
Film difícil de ver y aún más de digerir, "A+" se ha convertido, por méritos propios, en una de las ofertas más innovadoras -a la espera del estreno "Sex" con Nancho Novo y Silke- del panorama cinematográfico español. Aparentemente la historia no puede ser más sencilla. En ella se entrecruzan varios personajes que inician un viaje a un macroconcierto(o a ninguna parte, según se mire) por varias razones.
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Secret Agents
Title: Secret Agents
Character: Maria Menendez
Released: March 3, 2004
Type: Movie
From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading for Angola with a load of illegal weaponry. Lisa, Brisseau, Loïc, Tony and Raymond are professionals: they carefully set up their cover, plan all their moves meticulously, and carry out orders without asking questions. Perhaps they should. The code-name of the mission is "Janus"; and just like with the ancient deity, there are two opposite faces for every aspect of the operation: the objective of the French government, the role of each team member, the presumed friend and the assumed foe...
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Utopia
Title: Utopia
Character: Ángela
Released: March 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Adrian (Leonardo Sbaraglia) is a young man who has spent years running away from himself, constantly changing city and work, looking for people to relate to the least possible and all for one reason: he has the ability to see things that have not yet occurred, is a precog. He learned it when he anticipated the death of his parents and could not do anything about it. Adrian tries, unsuccessfully, to flee from his gift
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La reina del bar Canalla
Title: La reina del bar Canalla
Character: Linda
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
The young wife of a millionaire hears some terrible news on the television. There has been a train accident near her house. It’s such a serious accident that it will be impossible to identify some of the victims. This is a terrible catastrophe for the city but it will mean something completely different for her.
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Stones
Title: Stones
Character: Leire
Released: February 8, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Fausto 5.0
Title: Fausto 5.0
Character: Julia
Released: August 30, 2001
Type: Movie
On his way to a medical convention, Dr Fausto runs into a man who claims the Doctor removed his stomach eight years ago in a surgical operation. Against all odds, he is still alive. The man turns up repeatedly and promises Fausto to make all his wishes come true. Reality starts dissolving and Fausto begins to lose control
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Sex and Lucía
Title: Sex and Lucía
Character: Elena
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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Before Night Falls
Title: Before Night Falls
Character: Fina Zorilla Ochoa
Released: September 3, 2000
Type: Movie
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
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Asfalto
Title: Asfalto
Released: February 4, 2000
Type: Movie
Three young and desperate inhabitants of Madrid attempt to rise above their circumstances by any means available to them in that sun-drenched city. This tight-knit trio must scramble when their hasty plans become derailed by a demanding matriarch, an abusive older brother, and the entire corrupt underclass with which they deal.
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Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Title: Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Character: Young Ana
Released: September 4, 1998
Type: Movie
Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There are things that never end, and Love is one of them.
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Open Your Eyes
Title: Open Your Eyes
Character: Núria
Released: December 19, 1997
Type: Movie
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
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Blinded
Title: Blinded
Character: Marrubi
Released: June 27, 1997
Type: Movie
Featuring plenty of two-fisted action with romantic and political overtones, this intelligent thriller from Spanish director Daniel Calparsoro is set in the Basque region of northernmost Spain and centers on the clash between two Basque terrorists whose relationship becomes strained when the female starts refusing to kill their enemies. Unfortunately, for someone like her, leaving terrorism can be as dangerous as remaining in the fray.
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Pasajes
Title: Pasajes
Released: March 15, 1996
Type: Movie
In this talky Spanish thriller, Gabi, a lesbian gang member seeks to convince her middle-aged heterosexual dreamgirl Carmina to become her new lover and crime partner. The story begins as Gabi and her lover burst into another woman's apartment, tie her up and begin robbing her. The police show up and during a shoot-out, one of the robbers is killed. After she escapes, Gabi returns to her fringy friends and begins dreaming of a soul mate. All Gabi knows is that the right woman will be a pair of green high heels. Carmina owns such a pair, and though she is far from Gabi's physical ideal, a soul mate is a soul mate and so she begins her persistent courtship.
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Salto al vacío
Title: Salto al vacío
Character: Alex
Released: March 3, 1995
Type: Movie
Alex is a young woman with a shaved head and the word 'Void' written in her head that faces an extremely hard social environment thanks to her strong personality. She keeps all her family thanks to arms and drug trafficking, but she is also in love with Javi, a boy from her gang who ignores her.
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Mi madre
Title: Mi madre
Character: Madre
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Hildegart
Title: Hildegart
Character: Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Title: Breathless
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV