Elvira Mínguez

Elvira Mínguez

Born: July 23, 1965
in Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain
She is an actress and a writer known for Retribution (2015) and The Invisible Guardian (2017).

Movies for Elvira Mínguez...

Title: Marbella
Released: May 2, 2024
Type: TV
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The House of Snails
Title: The House of Snails
Character: Carmen
Released: June 11, 2021
Type: Movie
A writer secludes himself in the mountains and falls in lust with local Berta. After realizing the oddities of the rural community the author starts to question the lines between reality and fiction.
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Offering to the Storm
Title: Offering to the Storm
Character: Flora Salazar
Released: July 24, 2020
Type: Movie
Inspector Amaia Salazar confronts the origins of her nightmares as she unfolds the darkest secrets of the Baztan valley. Part 3 in the Baztan Trilogy.
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Title: Disappeared
Character: Carmen Fuentes
Released: June 19, 2020
Type: TV
A group of six police officers solve disappearance cases that everyone else has already given up on.
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Title: Veneno
Character: Blanca
Released: March 29, 2020
Type: TV
Adored for her charisma and her free, explicit and fun way of expressing herself, La Veneno gained popularity thanks to her television appearances in the 90s. However, her life and especially her death remain an enigma.
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The Legacy of the Bones
Title: The Legacy of the Bones
Character: Flora Salazar
Released: December 5, 2019
Type: Movie
Inspector Amaia Salazar must return to the Baztan valley in order to solve a series of suicides that seem to follow a similar pattern.
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Mi Vida
Title: Mi Vida
Character: Andrea Cruz
Released: November 21, 2019
Type: Movie
Recently retired hairdresser Lou decides it is time to make a longtime dream come true. She sold her hair salon and is off to Spain to learn the language. Inspired by a new sense of freedom and encouraged by her teacher and new friend Andrea, she decides to permanently move to the seaside town of Cádiz. Just when Lou begins to believe that this new adventure is within her reach, her pregnant daughter Barbara shows up unannounced…
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Everybody Knows
Title: Everybody Knows
Character: Mariana
Released: May 9, 2018
Type: Movie
Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
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Pasaje al amanecer
Title: Pasaje al amanecer
Character: Carmen
Released: May 5, 2017
Type: Movie
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The Invisible Guardian
Title: The Invisible Guardian
Character: Flora Salazar
Released: March 3, 2017
Type: Movie
When the naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán, it is quickly linked to a similar murder one month before. Soon, rumours are flying in the nearby village of Elizondo. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or is it the basajaun, the ‘invisible guardian’ of Basque mythology? Inspector Amaia Salazar leads the investigation, taking her back to the heart of the Basque country where she was born, and where she hoped never to return. Shrouded in mist and surrounded by impenetrable forests, it is a place of unresolved conflicts and a terrible secret from Amaia’s childhood that will come back to haunt her. Faced with the superstitions of the village, Amaia must fight the demons of her past to confront the reality of a serial killer on the loose. But as she is drawn deeper into the investigation, she feels the presence of something darker lurking in the shadows…
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Don't Blame Karma on What Happens to You for Being an Asshole
Title: Don't Blame Karma on What Happens to You for Being an Asshole
Character: Úrsula
Released: November 11, 2016
Type: Movie
The lives of a Madrid-based feather-fashion designer and her whole family's completely tumbles after the appearance of a musician long-lost high school crush who is involved with her model sister.
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The Chosen
Title: The Chosen
Character: Caridad Mercader
Released: September 2, 2016
Type: Movie
Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.
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Truman
Title: Truman
Character: Gloria
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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Retribution
Title: Retribution
Character: Belén
Released: September 21, 2015
Type: Movie
While Carlos, a banking executive, takes his two kids to school in his car, he gets a phone call telling him that there is a bomb under the seats and he must to gather a large amount of money; otherwise, his car will blow up.
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Title: The Time in Between
Character: Dolores Quiroga
Released: October 21, 2013
Type: TV
Sira Quiroga is a young Spanish dressmaker engaged to a solid suitor when a suave typewriter salesman upends her life. Spain is being upended by a civil war and the new regime's growing alliances with Nazi Germany. Sira, smart, gutsy and resourceful with a Scarlett O'Hara-like ability to whip up designer duds on a moment's notice, Sira has spunk. Sira gains and loses a small fortune, is dumped by her cad of a lover in Morocco, runs guns to get the cash to start her life anew and becomes couturier to the Nazi wives stationed in Madrid. Urged on by her friend, the real-life British spy Rosalinda Fox, Sira, too, aids the British cause.
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Title: Imperium
Character: Antonia
Released: September 5, 2012
Type: TV
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Clara Campoamor, the Neglected Woman
Title: Clara Campoamor, the Neglected Woman
Character: Clara Campoamor
Released: August 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Spain, 1931. Under the Second Republic, women are eligible, but cannot vote. Victoria Kent and Clara Campoamor, the first women in the Spanish Parliament, intend to fight for women's rights, and Clara knows that the first step is to get the women's vote approved…
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Che: Part One
Title: Che: Part One
Character: Celia Sánchez
Released: September 5, 2008
Type: Movie
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
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Cowards
Title: Cowards
Released: April 5, 2008
Type: Movie
A young victim of bullying at school realizes that even the adult world is dominated by fear similar to his own. He pays a high price when he decides to fight back.
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Modesty
Title: Modesty
Character: Julia
Released: April 13, 2007
Type: Movie
Pudor is about intimacy, about the desires, obsessions, secrets and fears that we keep hidden, even from those we love most. The characters in this story are a man who is going to die, a woman who receives anonymous erotic notes, an older man who is offered a last chance at falling in love, a teenager struggling to handle the doubts generated by puberty and a small boy who sees ghosts. As is the case in many families, in spite of living together, all the characters in Pudor are alone.
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The Wooden Box
Title: The Wooden Box
Released: October 27, 2006
Type: Movie
After the death of don Lucio, his widow Eloísa asks one of her neighbours to use the latter's house in order to hold the dead man's wake, since Eloísa's own house is too small for that. From then on, a series of strange happenings take place during a single day.
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Tapas
Title: Tapas
Character: Raquel Merino
Released: July 6, 2006
Type: Movie
The film centers on a Spanish tapas bar and the love lives of the loosely interconnected people in the neighborhood surrounding the bar. The pairs of lovers include a middle aged woman and a young man; an elderly, drug dealing woman and her terminally ill husband in poor health; the tapas bar owner and his estranged wife; and two Chinese immigrants.
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Title: Abuela de verano
Character: Carmen
Released: September 6, 2005
Type: TV
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The Reckoning
Title: The Reckoning
Character: Martha
Released: February 26, 2004
Type: Movie
In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman being sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors now stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.
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Los abajo firmantes
Title: Los abajo firmantes
Character: Carmen
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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13 Curses
Title: 13 Curses
Character: Carmen
Released: October 12, 2002
Type: Movie
Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father eighteen years ago, begin to persecute to him, since his father died by shot gun, peculiarly, when thirteen peals sounded in the cathedral, fact what obsesses to Jacobo. After watching several times, Mateo convinces his son to make the work for the cathedral that his father couldn't finish in life, but what begins as a simple work becomes a madness spiral when Jacobo discovers the true intentions of the ghost of his father: to kill to his son to usurp his body to finish the statue, and after to return to the life.
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The Dancer Upstairs
Title: The Dancer Upstairs
Character: Llosa
Released: September 20, 2002
Type: Movie
A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
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¿Dónde está?
Title: ¿Dónde está?
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Peter Nueda murdered his pregnant wife, descuartizándola below. A few hours later decide to report the disappearance of his wife, agreeing with cold blood perplexing to be helped by their neighbors to find.
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Solo mía
Title: Solo mía
Character: Andrea
Released: October 31, 2001
Type: Movie
A women meets a charming man and falls in love, they get married and start a family. As they age and have children, the man's becomes violent and abusive.
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The Goalkeeper
Title: The Goalkeeper
Character: Úrsula
Released: September 8, 2000
Type: Movie
Ramiro Forteza is a Premier League goalkeeper whom the Civil War and the rigors of the war led to make a living visiting villages and challenging locals to mark him penalty goals. One evening he arrives to a town in Asturias and meets Manuela, a young widow with a son, who survives sewing for Ursula, Andrade's wife, the Civil Guard sergeant.
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The Winter of the Anjanas
Title: The Winter of the Anjanas
Character: María
Released: May 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A young worker enjoying an affair with an upper class beauty, Adelaida, is drafted by the Spanish Army to fight in the Cuban War of Independence. After Adelaida receives an unusual announcement regarding her lover's death in combat, she refuses to believe the loss of her lover. Her class-conscious family, led by her jealous sister Maria, believes that Adelaida has lost her mind and places Adelaida in an insane asylum. However, Adelaida continues to to live according to her beliefs of passion and freedom. Fellow "inmates" tell her about the wood-nymphs which inhabit the adjacent forest. Adelaida is convinced these nymphs will lead her to her lover and to happiness.
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Em dic Sara
Title: Em dic Sara
Character: Sara
Released: May 21, 1999
Type: Movie
A college professor tries to deal with the frustrations of her life as she drifts uncomfortably into middle age. Elvira Minguez plays Sara, a 40-year-old single mother who teaches at a university while sharing her home with her teenage daughter Virginia (Elena Castells) and her boyfriend Adrian (Francois Eric Gendron). Lately, Sara has not been getting along well with her friends and has very mixed feelings about Virginia's openness about her sex life. These dilemmas are compounded by the death of her father.
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Diary for a Tale
Title: Diary for a Tale
Character: Dolly
Released: November 18, 1998
Type: Movie
A young man works in the port of Buenos Aires translating the love letters that prostitutes receive and seeks inspiration for his works in them.
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Black Tears
Title: Black Tears
Character: Marta
Released: October 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A mentally unbalanced woman captures the heart of an already-engaged admirer.
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Lucky Star
Title: Lucky Star
Character: Ana Mari
Released: May 30, 1997
Type: Movie
Marina, a woman with a glass eye, has the bad luck to be the victim of an assault witnessed by Rafael, a goodhearted butcher, who rescues her from her attacker, a man named Daniel. Rafael has physical problems of his own, but the two stay together as a couple. A baby not Rafael's, for he lost his testicles in an accident is born. Rafael looks forward to raising the child as his own if Marina will consent.
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Cachito
Title: Cachito
Character: Nati
Released: March 7, 1996
Type: Movie
A gypsy girl, when her grandmother dies, goes in search of his mother who abandoned her as a baby
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Running Out of Time
Title: Running Out of Time
Character: Lourdes
Released: October 6, 1994
Type: Movie
Days before committing an attack, Antonio, a gunman of the terrorist gang ETA who has dedicated his life to a cause he no longer believes in, meets Charo, a young drug addict who, despite the sordid environment in which she lives, still retains her innocence.
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Title: Ena
Character: María Cristina
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV