Victoria Abril

Victoria Abril

Born: July 4, 1959
in Madrid, Spain
Victoria Abril (born Victoria Mérida Rojas; 4 July 1959) is a Spanish film actress and singer. She is best known to international audiences for her performance in the movie ¡Átame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!).

Born in Madrid, Abril became widely known in Spain in 1976 when she appeared for two years in the show Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez. Besides working in Spain, she also made films in France, where she resides, Italy, and Iceland. She has been nominated eight times for Goya Awards in the Lead Actress category and has won once. She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival for her role in Amantes. Two years later, she was awarded with the Berlinale Camera at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Victoria Abril performing on stage in 2006.

She is also a singer. In 2005, she made her debut with a bossanova-jazz album called PutchEros do Brasil. She also tried to represent Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1979 with "Bang-Bang-Bang", but Betty Missiego was chosen instead.

Movies for Victoria Abril...

Title: Bosé renacido
Released: September 5, 2023
Type: TV
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Drôle de genre
Title: Drôle de genre
Character: Carla
Released: June 27, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: Save Lisa
Character: Isabel Alvarez
Released: November 16, 2021
Type: TV
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The Grand Restaurant III
Title: The Grand Restaurant III
Character: Une cliente du restaurant
Released: February 3, 2021
Type: Movie
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work” in the form of a fiction offered by M6. Exit the brewery. The artist has chosen to shoot his film at the Froufrou, the restaurant at the Théâtre Édouard-VII, in Paris, a chic establishment with rococo decor, more solemn and therefore more appropriate to important moments in life, to his big announcements that make the subject of a series of sketches. They are interpreted by a cast of stars just as prestigious as that of his comrade Muriel Robin a few weeks ago in I Love you coiffure , on TF1. As a common thread, Pierre Palmade in the role of the host busy satisfying his customers, while ensuring that his mother (Marthe Villalonga), his competitor (Florence Foresti) and her cook husband (Jean Leduc) do not transform the evening in disaster.
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Wishlist
Title: Wishlist
Character: Carmen
Released: July 3, 2020
Type: Movie
Eva and Carmen are two women who meet in the worst place: the doctor’s office, waiting to hear the results of their cancer screenings. So Carmen has an idea: why don’t she and Eva rent an RV with her best pal, Mar, make a list of things they’ve always wanted to do… and do them.
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Title: Three Days of Christmas
Character: María
Released: December 6, 2019
Type: TV
Four sisters celebrate Christmas in their family home at 3 different times in their lives: teen-hood, adulthood and elderly age.
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Bernarda
Title: Bernarda
Character: Josefa
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Bernarda is a loose adaptation of the play La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca . Five women are kidnapped and locked in a strange factory and forced to work as prostitutes.
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On refait les grands duos d'humour
Title: On refait les grands duos d'humour
Released: May 29, 2018
Type: Movie
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Paprika
Title: Paprika
Released: April 3, 2018
Type: Movie
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La Loi de Gloria
Title: La Loi de Gloria
Character: Maître Gloria Mendoza
Released: September 12, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: MasterChef Celebrity
Character: Concursante
Released: November 6, 2016
Type: TV
Spanish version of the reality cooking competition in which celebrities compete to win the coveted cookery competition title.
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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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Born to Win
Title: Born to Win
Character: Victoria
Released: May 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Encarna, a thirtysomething girl of Móstoles (Madrid) is trapped in a life without changes, at the side of her lifelong boyfriend and with a job absent of incentives. Stigmatized by the famous Spanish sketch of the "Empanadillas de Móstoles", Encarna looks for a way to escape her boring life.
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Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous
Title: Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous
Character: la mère de Gilles
Released: February 10, 2016
Type: Movie
At last, Josephine has found her perfect non-smoker-cat-loving-amazing-cook-perfect-man-soulmate. They’ve been in love for two years and everything is peachy. Until she realizes she’s… pregnant. Time for Josephine to transform her life, mature into a responsible adult, not become like her mother, get a job, hold on to her man, refrain from falling out with her friends, and tell her sister, who's been crashing at her place, that she's got to move out. A bunch of overwhelming challenges that Josephine will have to face in her own, special way.
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Title: Sin identidad
Character: Fernanda Duque
Released: May 13, 2014
Type: TV
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Josephine
Title: Josephine
Character: la mère de Gilles
Released: June 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Josephine doesn't like her job and keeps on having relationships without a future. Her sister and parents keep pushing her to find a good husband. To shut them up, she creates a handsome Brazilian millionaire but her little white lie has a flip side - she loses everything to find the love of her life.
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The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears
Title: The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears
Character: Helena
Released: October 3, 2012
Type: Movie
After her son's tragic death, Helena abducts her employee, Lucian, and travels with him and her husband to scatter her son's ashes in Macedonia. Meanwhile, Lucian's lover struggles to provide for their son and break free from her dictatorial father.
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Big is Beautiful
Title: Big is Beautiful
Character: Sophie
Released: March 27, 2012
Type: Movie
A resort for individuals who want to lose weight is helps several women discover friendships, acceptance with body image and hard truths.
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Title: Tony's Revenge
Character: Olga
Released: March 16, 2011
Type: TV
Tony Roucas, a long-term convicted criminal, escapes from prison with Kenz, a small-town big shot. Their run reveals a generational conflict of a new genre. Tony’s quest for truth and desire for vengeance take you to the heart of great French organized crime, from the 50s to today.
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The Great Restaurant
Title: The Great Restaurant
Character: Une cliente du restaurant
Released: February 20, 2010
Type: Movie
Fragments of the lives of the customers of a great restaurant and the inconvenience of its manager.
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Title: Clem
Character: Caroline "Caro" Muñoz
Released: February 16, 2010
Type: TV
Clem follows the life of a young teenager, Clémentine, who becomes a mother at the age of sixteen, at the centre of tensions between her parents and Julien, the father of her child Valentin. It deals with the problems of teenage life and that of a mother with a strong personality.
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Mejor que Nunca
Title: Mejor que Nunca
Character: Isabel Romero
Released: January 23, 2009
Type: Movie
Isabel suffers a disorder after learning that her husband, due to his immaturity, falls in love with a young teenager. She will try to get over it and with the little help of her daughter, a fanatical psychotherapist who only tortures her, she decides to start over and finally enjoy a new life. Something that will lead her to meet a true gentleman...
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A Day at the Museum
Title: A Day at the Museum
Character: Clara
Released: November 19, 2008
Type: Movie
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
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Walking Vengeance
Title: Walking Vengeance
Character: Gloria Duque
Released: October 31, 2008
Type: Movie
Frantic to be free of Felix, her wealthy but drunken and violent drug-lord husband, Ana tricks her fresh-from-prison sister, Aurora, and two other ex-partners in crime into coming to her aid. Now that their crew is reassembled, the women begin planning a heist that will rid Ana of Felix and net them enough cash to be set for life.
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Title: X Femmes
Released: October 26, 2008
Type: TV
X Femmes is a French television series of short films shown on Canal+ in 2008–2009. They were shot by female directors with the goal of producing erotica from a female point of view.
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Leur morale… et la nôtre
Title: Leur morale… et la nôtre
Character: Muriel
Released: August 27, 2008
Type: Movie
On peut être un couple de bons Français, toujours amoureux, parents modèles, travailleurs et économes jusqu'à la manie et écouler au noir dans le sous-sol de sa villa de Béziers hyper sécurisée, des godasses de son ancien magasin et des produits "satisfaits ou remboursés" qu'on détourne dans tous les supermarchés de la région. A chacun sa morale !
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48 Hours a Day
Title: 48 Hours a Day
Character: Anna
Released: June 4, 2008
Type: Movie
A young professional woman takes radical action to force her husband's help with the household chores.
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Oscar. The color of destiny
Title: Oscar. The color of destiny
Released: February 22, 2008
Type: Movie
"Óscar. The Color of Destiny" is a revealing portrayal of a forgotten icon of French Surrealism: Spanish painter Óscar Domínguez, contemporary of Picasso. The film rediscovers the life of a talented artist who was ignored after he committed suicide, fifty years ago, victim of a serious illness which had disfigured his body: the Elephant Man's disease. The film is stirring and touching and compels admiration for the bohemian painter whose fate was self-destruction, after a wild crazy life. Lucas Fernández turns the life of a debauchee, who regarded himself a monster because of his disfiguring disease, into a universal story where art is the product of love and loneliness, of sex and violence before, during and after the Nazi invasion of Paris.
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Summer Rain
Title: Summer Rain
Character: Srta. del Casco Cartaginés
Released: November 23, 2006
Type: Movie
A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s.
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Title: Salut les Terriens !
Character: Self (guest)
Released: November 4, 2006
Type: TV
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Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
Title: Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
Character: Self
Released: October 27, 2006
Type: Movie
What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profession. Thirty-six Spanish actors reflect on their work and contrasted their experiences. As thread, the contrast between the voices of veterans and images of young theater students , for whom everything is still possible. Among the many actors are interviewed Javier Bardem, Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Luis López Vázquez, José Coronado, Emma Suarez, Alberto San Juan, Ariadna Gil, Ana Belén, Pilar Lopez de Ayala and many other.
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Les Aristos
Title: Les Aristos
Character: La duchesse Pilar de Malaga i Benidorm
Released: September 20, 2006
Type: Movie
The Arbac de Neuvilles are one of the oldest families in France. They have inhabited their ancient château for fifty-two generations and are proud of their noble ancestry. But today they are stone broke. When a bailiff turns up notifying them that they owe two million euros in back taxes, these proud aristocrats are understandably shaken to the core of their ancestral seat. Just how are they to find this amount of money when none of them has any capacity for work?
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The Maidens' Conspiracy
Title: The Maidens' Conspiracy
Character: The Peaceful Widow
Released: April 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Constantinople, 1401. The emperor of Byzantium asks the famous knight Tirant lo Blanc to free the city from the siege of the Turks. After his victory, Tirant will have to face a more difficult task: to overcome the natural opposition of Carmesina, heiress to the Ottoman Empire, to surrender her most precious treasure.
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Neon Flesh
Title: Neon Flesh
Character: Pura
Released: November 24, 2005
Type: Movie
Pura, Ricky's mother , just left jail. A simple fact that changes the whole existence of Ricky. In a desperate try to show a regular life, he kicks out of his life to the ones who have become his family in the last ten years. A Junkie, a transvestite with existential problems, a kidnapping; everything seems to go wrong in this very special day.
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Les gens honnêtes vivent en France
Title: Les gens honnêtes vivent en France
Character: Aurore Langlois
Released: March 2, 2005
Type: Movie
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De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Title: De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 24, 2004
Type: Movie
For seven years, Antoine de Caunes and José Garcia made their mark on French comedy history each evening in prime-time on their show, "Nulle part Ailleurs".
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School of Seduction
Title: School of Seduction
Character: Sandra Vega
Released: September 17, 2004
Type: Movie
"Escuela de seducción" is an acceptable comedy which deals, for the umpteenth time, with the war of the sexes using misunderstandings and fake personalities as dramatic resources. The premise is by no means original, but this is something most films lack nowadays, and therefore the result could have been more than acceptable.
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Cause toujours !
Title: Cause toujours !
Character: Jacinthe
Released: July 28, 2004
Type: Movie
This way-offbeat comedy from Gallic director Jeanne Labrune concerns two young French women, best friends Léa and Jacinthe. While Jacinthe develops a fixation with the moths that begin to cluster in frightening quantities throughout her apartment, Léa finds herself drawn to a dim-witted fellow employed by a local supermarket, then impulsively decides to follow him home via train. When Léa mysteriously disappears during the days that follow, Jacinthe naturally grows concerned about her friend and decides to investigate.
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Swindled
Title: Swindled
Character: Pilar
Released: July 9, 2004
Type: Movie
In a flashback, Ernesto, a young con man, tells us how he got to the edge of a big score: childhood in an orphanage, youthful smash-and-grab burglaries until his partner is caught, then tutelage from Lefty, an aging swindler. After some years of success, they're joined by Federico, the best, a true artist. Things go well until Pilar, a woman from Federico's past, re-enters his life with a proposal to con a golden goose - a swindle that will put them all on easy street. A double-cross may be in the cards. The flashback over, can Ernesto hold his own in the present?
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The 7th Day
Title: The 7th Day
Character: Luciana Fuentes
Released: April 23, 2004
Type: Movie
Isabel 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.
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Kaena: The Prophecy
Title: Kaena: The Prophecy
Character: Queen of the Selenites (french voice)
Released: January 2, 2003
Type: Movie
Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena, a rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl will defy the High Priest and her people's ancestral beliefs to take the perilous journey through the Axis and discover what dark secrets lie beyond the clouds.
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Et après?
Title: Et après?
Released: October 9, 2002
Type: Movie
Mustapha, a young Moroccan living on small shots, meets a couple of Spanish tourists. The latter dragged him into a heavy traffic of hashish. Forced to flee his country, he finds himself on a makeshift boat, among other men. They are determined to clandestinely reach the Spanish shores in the hope of a bright future.
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Don't Tempt Me
Title: Don't Tempt Me
Character: Lola Nevado
Released: November 30, 2001
Type: Movie
Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.
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Title: Star Academy
Character: Self
Released: October 20, 2001
Type: TV
Star Academy is a French reality television show produced by the Dutch company Endemol. It consists of a contest of young singers. It spawned an equally successful show in Quebec called Star Académie. It is broadcast on TF1. At the end of each season, selected contestants would go on tour around France, Morocco, Switzerland, Belgium, Tunisia, and other French-speaking countries.
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Our Tropical Island
Title: Our Tropical Island
Character: Sabina
Released: October 12, 2001
Type: Movie
A businessman is leaving for his family vacation in the South Pacific when he finds out that a rival has emptied his bank account. To save face he and his family lock themselves in the house, pretending to have gone on their trip, but it is not so easy to hide from the outside world.
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101 Reykjavik
Title: 101 Reykjavik
Character: Lola
Released: May 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year's Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.
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Title: El Club de la Comedia
Character: Monologuista
Released: September 26, 1999
Type: TV
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My Father, My Mother, My Brothers and My Sisters
Title: My Father, My Mother, My Brothers and My Sisters
Character: Anne
Released: June 16, 1999
Type: Movie
Young single mother has two sons and a daughter by three different fathers who are completely unaware of having fathered them. Anne's mother conjures up a plot to make everyone involved to go on a beach holiday in Mexico at the same time so that her grandchildren could meet their fathers and their new families.
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Between Your Legs
Title: Between Your Legs
Character: Miranda
Released: January 14, 1999
Type: Movie
Miranda, a sex addict, works for a radio station and is married to a cop. She signs up for therapy in order to deal with her sex addiction. Also in the group is Javier, a sex-phone junkie. The two misfits hit it off and a torid affair ensues. But things get a little complicated when Javier finds out that his phone sex trysts have been secretly taped and being distributed all over Madrid and that his ex-wife is living with his business partner. Elsewhere, while investigating a murder case, Felix discovers Miranda's affair with Javier.
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La Femme du cosmonaute
Title: La Femme du cosmonaute
Character: Anna
Released: December 17, 1997
Type: Movie
Anna and her husband Jean-Paul have to face a long and difficult separation since Jean-Paul is a spationaut. Thanks to a video device they can see each other and communicate... But definitely not for the best!
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Title: Joséphine, Guardian Angel
Character: Cécilia Arranz
Released: December 15, 1997
Type: TV
Josephine Delamarre is a guardian angel that Heaven sends to earth. With her psychological insight, ability of persuasion and magical powers, she manages to help people who have problems. She appears at the beginning of each mission; when the mission is completed, she disappears with a click of her fingers.
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Freedomfighters
Title: Freedomfighters
Character: Floren
Released: April 19, 1996
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.
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Title: De pé a pá
Character: Self
Released: January 7, 1996
Type: TV
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Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
Title: Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
Character: Gloria Duque
Released: October 5, 1995
Type: Movie
Escaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime, Gloria (Victoria Abril), a young woman of lower class, comes back to Madrid, Spain and to her family. There she tries to find work and earn some money.
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French Twist
Title: French Twist
Character: Loli
Released: January 18, 1995
Type: Movie
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
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Casque bleu
Title: Casque bleu
Character: Alicia
Released: June 15, 1994
Type: Movie
Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another woman. By way of atonement, he takes his wife back to the Mediterranean island where, 13 years earlier, they spent their honeymoon. Not such a good move, as it turns out. The peacemaking holiday coincides with the outbreak of a bloody civil war. Having failed to leave the country, Patrick, his wife and their eccentric entourage are taken hostage by merciless guerrillas…
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Jimmy Hollywood
Title: Jimmy Hollywood
Character: Lorraine de la Peña
Released: March 30, 1994
Type: Movie
Jimmy Alto is an actor wannabe who stumbles into the role of a lifetime. He becomes a vigilante crime-fighter, aided by his sidekick William, who has suffered a head wound and has problems with short-term memory. Jimmy's vigilante alter ego soon becomes a media wonder--but Jimmy remains a total unknown and his long-suffering girl friend Lorraine is getting fed up with the whole situation.
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Kika
Title: Kika
Character: Andrea Caracortada
Released: October 29, 1993
Type: Movie
When American author Nicholas brings in a cosmetologist named Kika to prepare the corpse of his recently deceased son, she inadvertently revives the young man, then falls in love with him. Forces conspire against the couple, though, as Nicholas wants Kika for himself.
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Intruso
Title: Intruso
Character: Luisa
Released: September 3, 1993
Type: Movie
In childhood and youth, the three were "the inseparables." Luisa married Ángel, then two years later, she left him to marry Ramiro. After ten years, Ángel reappears, back from South America, broke and ill. Luisa is overcome with sentimentality and, over Ramiro's objections, takes Ángel into their house. Ángel is bitter, he and Ramiro have shifted from best friends to enemies. Luisa wants to be in love with both. Ramiro hopes he can wait out Ángel's declining health, and Luisa wants to heal Ángel through force of will. What is Ángel's plan? Observing the roiling emotions are Luisa and Ramiro's precocious young children. Who's in danger here?
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Too Much Heart
Title: Too Much Heart
Character: Ana y Clara
Released: September 18, 1992
Type: Movie
Two twin sisters fall in love for the same man.
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High Heels
Title: High Heels
Character: Rebeca
Released: October 23, 1991
Type: Movie
After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughter begin making up for lost time, when suddenly, a murder occurs...
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Une époque formidable…
Title: Une époque formidable…
Character: Juliette Berthier
Released: June 19, 1991
Type: Movie
Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne, il s'endette pour maintenir le niveau de la famille qu'il couvre de cadeaux. Mais il ne peut bientôt plus mentir et il décide alors de quitter la maison. Après avoir perdu son argent, sa voiture et ses chaussures, il rencontre Toubib, Mimosa et Crayon, trois «Sans Domicile Fixe» qui font leur toilette dans les lavabos de la gare de l'Est. Ils le prennent sous leur aile et l'entraînent à aller cambrioler son ancienne entreprise afin de se munir de duvets et de lits
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Lovers: A True Story
Title: Lovers: A True Story
Character: Luisa
Released: February 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Set in '50s Spain, a young man leaves the army and looks for a job so he and his fiancée can get married. He rents a room from a widow, and shortly begins a torrid affair with her. The fiancée figures it out and decides to win him back by offering herself to him and taking him to meet her family. Ultimately he has to make a decision. Based on a true story.
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Title: Los Jinetes del Alba
Character: Marián
Released: January 9, 1991
Type: TV
Riders of the Dawn is a 1990 Spanish film, written and directed by Vicente Aranda, an adaptation of a novel by Jesús Fernández Santos. It stars Victoria Abril and Jorge Sanz. Made as a five episodes television minisieres, it premiered at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival as two part feature film.
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Title: Les Nuls, l'émission
Character: Self
Released: October 13, 1990
Type: TV
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Alone Together
Title: Alone Together
Character: Gloria
Released: October 5, 1990
Type: Movie
A blind woman is the witness of a murder.
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La mujer lunática
Title: La mujer lunática
Released: February 16, 1990
Type: Movie
A man falls in love with an unusual woman
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Title: Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Character: Marina Osorio
Released: December 12, 1989
Type: Movie
Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.
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If They Tell You I Fell
Title: If They Tell You I Fell
Character: Menchu / Ramona / Aurora Nin
Released: September 19, 1989
Type: Movie
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
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Title: El Lute: The Series
Character: Chelo
Released: July 7, 1989
Type: TV
Eleuterio Sánchez, alias "El Lute", a merchandise trader by birth and a chicken thief at the beginning of his career, is the reason for his first arrest.
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Sans peur et sans reproche
Title: Sans peur et sans reproche
Character: Jeanne
Released: December 14, 1988
Type: Movie
Without fear and beyond reproach: the life of the brave knight de Bayard reviewed and corrected with humorous sauce.
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Baton Rouge
Title: Baton Rouge
Character: Ana Alonzo
Released: October 8, 1988
Type: Movie
Poor gigolo tries to frame his rich mature mistress, but gets tangled in his own wiles.
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Ada in the Jungle
Title: Ada in the Jungle
Character: Carmen
Released: September 28, 1988
Type: Movie
A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.
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El placer de matar
Title: El placer de matar
Released: September 6, 1988
Type: Movie
Two assassins: Luis, young and impulsive and André, married teacher. Fate lets them cross their lines, evident in the same victim. From the beginning they like each other; and both become addicted to killing synchronously.
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El juego más divertido
Title: El juego más divertido
Character: Ada/Sara
Released: January 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Two popular television actors, Ada and Bruno, are filming " Hotel de Fez ", a popular and popular television series that upsets the lives of its two protagonists. Together they will initiate a romance behind the small screen very particular since there will be no time or way to consummate it, which will cause a tremendous tangle sown with nonsense.
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Barrios altos
Title: Barrios altos
Character: Verónica
Released: October 2, 1987
Type: Movie
Veronica, recently divorced with a son, begins to organize her life and adapt to the new situation. Her problems are soon relegated to the back ground when Carlos, her masseuse, is murdered. Knowing himself in danger, Carlos left a final message on her answering machine: she had to retrieve a package hidden in a railway station toilet. From that moment, Veronica will not know peace.
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Lute: Forge On or Die
Title: Lute: Forge On or Die
Character: Chelo
Released: September 19, 1987
Type: Movie
In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed "El Lute", steals some chickens and is condemned to six months in jail. El Lute moves to the slum outskirts of Madrid with his common law wife, Chelo, starting an itinerant life as a peddler of pots and pans and living in a quinqui shantytown. He gradually embarks upon as life of petty criminality, eventually participating in the theft of a jewelry store during which a bystander is killed.
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Law of Desire
Title: Law of Desire
Character: Girl with Juan (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1987
Type: Movie
Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.
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Ternosecco
Title: Ternosecco
Character: Brigida
Released: January 16, 1987
Type: Movie
On a hot summer night, Raffaele, the elderly manager of a Neapolitan counter-lot, is brutally strangled in his own accommodation.
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Max My Love
Title: Max My Love
Character: Maria
Released: October 22, 1986
Type: Movie
The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.
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Nuit d'ivresse
Title: Nuit d'ivresse
Character: La compagne de Jugnot
Released: September 23, 1986
Type: Movie
Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée. He meets up with Frède, just out of prison after a three year sentence and, in between numerous arguments and Jacques' break-up with his girlfriend, the two of them get drunker together, going across Paris in search of more alcohol and adventure.
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Tiempo de silencio
Title: Tiempo de silencio
Character: Dorita
Released: March 13, 1986
Type: Movie
Pedro Martín, a young and ambitious doctor, is studying the effect of cancerous cells on mice, but he has run out of mice in his laboratory, since they do not breed there, and he has no funds to purchase more of these expensive laboratory animals from the United States. Nevertheless, his assistant, Amador, informs him that he gave some of the mice to an old trapper, nicknamed “el Muecas”, who lives in precarious conditions in a shanty town outside Madrid, and that this poor man has successfully bred them with the help of the natural heat of his daughters. The incredulous scientist goes to the shanty town to obtain the mice. There, Pedro meets Muecas, Muecas's wife Ricarda and their two daughters Florita and Conchi. With the warmth of the women’s breasts, as the flirtatious Florita shows Pedro, the mice are able to reproduce.
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Title: Los Pazos de Ulloa
Character: Manolita, ...
Released: December 9, 1985
Type: TV
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The House of Ulloa
Title: The House of Ulloa
Released: December 9, 1985
Type: Movie
Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion, this gloriously comic and gothic story follows the fortunes of an innocent young priest as he enters a world of moral decadence, sexual intrigue and corruption of an aristocratic family in nineteenth-century Galicia.
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The Witching Hour
Title: The Witching Hour
Character: Saga
Released: November 4, 1985
Type: Movie
César and Pilar tour the Spanish countryside with their bus, showing films and doing magic spectacles in small villages. In one of these trips they find Saga, a beautiful young woman who starts to travel with them and changes their lives in unexpected ways.
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Our Father
Title: Our Father
Character: Cardenala
Released: April 21, 1985
Type: Movie
The story of a Spanish Cardinal who is told he only has one more year to live. He decides to return to his hometown, after an absence of 30 years, to sort out his affairs.
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El crimen del capitán Sánchez
Title: El crimen del capitán Sánchez
Character: María Luisa Sánchez
Released: April 19, 1985
Type: Movie
Madrid, Spring 1913. During a visit to the casino, a beautiful 20 year-old woman catches the eye of a 50 year-old rich widower. But the gamble he is about to commit is far greater than he suspects.
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Rouge-gorge
Title: Rouge-gorge
Character: Marguerite
Released: February 6, 1985
Type: Movie
After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with her rich father Louis in his luxurious apartment. She has just begun her studies in history and has a good friend, Frédéric, a medical student who wouldn't mind being more than just that. Around her, strange fellows attract her attention. Who is Philippe, allegedly Louis's stockbroker? And what about Marguerite who presents herself as her father's former secretary? Even more puzzling is the video cassette she finds in her father's place, showing young motorbikers distributing bundles of banknotes. Some time later, Charles, one of the bikers appearing on the video, rings the doorbell: he is wounded.
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After Darkness
Title: After Darkness
Character: Pascale
Released: February 1, 1985
Type: Movie
To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to bring him back to mental competency through one on one contact. Free of the institution he continues to be haunted by dreams of a lost twin and chants the eerie phrase "Do I stand before the king?" It is the elder brother that seems doomed to lose himself in his brother's insanity.
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Title: La Huella del Crimen
Character: María Luisa Sánchez Noguerol
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: TV
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On the Line
Title: On the Line
Character: Engracia
Released: November 7, 1984
Type: Movie
A Border Patrol agent is determined to catch his old nemesis, an American criminal who successfully smuggles illegal aliens across the border from Mexico.
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The Most Beautiful Night
Title: The Most Beautiful Night
Character: Elena
Released: September 24, 1984
Type: Movie
Federico, an executive of national television, begins to suspect that his wife Elena, an actress who retired prematurely after marriage, is cheating him with another man. The symptoms are that Elena sighs, looks far into heaven and is aware of the exact time a comet passes. In other words, she expects her most beautiful night.
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Le voyage
Title: Le voyage
Character: Véronique
Released: September 5, 1984
Type: Movie
The emotional interplay between an arguing couple, in love but not happy with their relationship, is meant to be the sustaining force in this crime drama with little other action. Thomas (Christophe Malavoy) has been blackmailed into carrying a shipment of explosives in his Peugeot to Egypt, where the devices will be forwarded to guerrillas on Cyprus. He brings his lover Veronique (Victoria Abril) along for the dangerous ride from Switzerland to the south, knowing the explosives can be easily detonated by accident and enemy agents as well as government agents are out to capture him. Both protagonists have a short fuse themselves, and as they separate and then come back together, their final destination looms ever closer in more ways than one.
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L'Addition
Title: L'Addition
Character: Patty
Released: April 3, 1984
Type: Movie
For having wanted to defend a young girl accused of theft, a comedian finds himself in prison. Embarked in spite of himself in an escape attempt, he is condemned by a particularly incompetent court which follows without thinking the pleadings of an overzealous public prosecutor! Once incarcerated, the poor comedian has to deal with the harassment of one of the guards, a kind of dangerous sociopath frustrated with life.
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Bicycles Are for the Summer
Title: Bicycles Are for the Summer
Character: Manolita
Released: January 20, 1984
Type: Movie
In Madrid, the family of Don Luis, his wife Dolores and their children, Manolita and Luisito, share the daily life of the Civil War with their maid and neighbours. Despite having failed his exams, Luisito wants his father to buy him a bicycle. However, the situation forces them to delay the purchase and the delay, like the war itself, is to last much longer than expected.
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The Bastard
Title: The Bastard
Released: June 15, 1983
Type: Movie
The erratic life of Patrice who, after having murdered the pimp of his mother to avenge the death of her, goes from town to town.
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The Moon in the Gutter
Title: The Moon in the Gutter
Character: Bella - la maîtresse possessive de Gérard
Released: May 18, 1983
Type: Movie
A dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for two women.
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I Married a Shadow
Title: I Married a Shadow
Character: Fifo
Released: February 16, 1983
Type: Movie
After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.
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No Trace of Sin
Title: No Trace of Sin
Character: Maria da Luz / Lucilia
Released: February 11, 1983
Type: Movie
A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military, which attracts him to meetings without consequences.
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La Guérilléra
Title: La Guérilléra
Character: Bárbara Périsson
Released: December 9, 1982
Type: Movie
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The Beehive
Title: The Beehive
Character: Julita
Released: October 11, 1982
Type: Movie
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.
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Murder in the Central Committee
Title: Murder in the Central Committee
Character: Carmela
Released: August 16, 1982
Type: Movie
The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assassin of the leader of the Spanish Communist party who was stabbed during a blackout while presiding over a meeting of the party's central committee. The film is a thriller with ironic political overtones.
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Entre paréntesis
Title: Entre paréntesis
Character: Carmen
Released: July 21, 1982
Type: Movie
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La casa del paraíso
Title: La casa del paraíso
Character: Victoria
Released: May 31, 1982
Type: Movie
Victoria, a beautiful woman, breaks into a large house, where strage people live without ever leaving the house. There is an enigmatical man who controls the lives of these people and the visit of Victoria will unchain passions and disclose the true feelings represed into their souls.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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The Battle of Reefer
Title: The Battle of Reefer
Character: Violeta
Released: November 23, 1981
Type: Movie
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Comin' at Ya!
Title: Comin' at Ya!
Character: Abilene
Released: July 24, 1981
Type: Movie
A young couple's wedding ceremony is brutally interrupted when a pair of outlaw brothers arrive and massacre almost everyone in sight. They kidnap the beautiful young bride and leave her husband for dead. Luckily, he only sustains a flesh wound and quickly saddles up to track down the brothers before they sell his wife and a group of other women at an auction to a group of Mexican brothel owners.
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Who Is That Splashing in the Mediterranean?
Title: Who Is That Splashing in the Mediterranean?
Character: Mercedes
Released: October 29, 1980
Type: Movie
Two half-brothers have to go on a road trip to find their half-sister and receive a huge inheritance.
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Mater amatísima
Title: Mater amatísima
Released: September 14, 1980
Type: Movie
Clara- an attractive- sophisticated and unmarried woman- and the autistic child who transforms and absorbs her life- astonishingly interpreted by a very young Victoria Abril and autistic actor Julito de la Cruz- Mater Amatsima astonished audiences at Cannes Festival by providing an extreme dissection of the mother-child bond in an uneasily honest and rather confrontational way.
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Le Cœur à l'envers
Title: Le Cœur à l'envers
Character: The hostess
Released: September 9, 1980
Type: Movie
Laure is a 40-year-old psychologist who doesn't know her son, Jean. But the latter comes back to Paris and finds a brand new woman when he sees his mother.
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Girl with the Golden Panties
Title: Girl with the Golden Panties
Character: Mariana
Released: March 28, 1980
Type: Movie
Luys Forest is a writer with a Falangist political past. He lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting his autobiography with the times), and brooding over his failed marriage. His sister is worried about him and decides to send her daughter Mariana to stay with him. Mariana and a seemingly mute and artistic lesbian companion come to town to shake the stable world of Luys with their free and uninhibited ways. Soon begins a game of seduction that ends up exposing the intellectual game of Luys.
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The Shack
Title: The Shack
Released: November 16, 1979
Type: Movie
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez wrote in 1898 "La barraca" (The Shack), a novel with some cultural significance among spanish literature for reflecting rural life at the end of 19th century with specific local color. In 1979, León Klimovsky directed an adaptation in the form of a mini-series .
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Title: La Barraca
Character: Roseta
Released: October 1, 1979
Type: TV
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Doña Perfecta
Title: Doña Perfecta
Character: Rosario
Released: October 24, 1977
Type: Movie
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Esposa y amante
Title: Esposa y amante
Character: Marisa
Released: August 4, 1977
Type: Movie
Luisa's daughter attempted suicide. While attending the clinic and, contemplating the state of his daughter, Luisa recalls the early happy years of her marriage to Pedro, a popular and friendly sports journalist. Soon after came the first deception of her husband.
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Change of Sex
Title: Change of Sex
Character: José María / María José
Released: March 13, 1977
Type: Movie
A seventeen-year-old boy follows the painful path to discovering that he is transsexual.
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Foul Play
Title: Foul Play
Character: Lolita - hermana de Pepi
Released: March 11, 1977
Type: Movie
A 1977 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem that won the Golden Prize the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.
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Caperucita y Roja
Title: Caperucita y Roja
Character: Caperucita
Released: March 7, 1977
Type: Movie
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El hombre que supo amar
Title: El hombre que supo amar
Character: Amelia
Released: September 19, 1976
Type: Movie
The life of Juan de Dios and his struggle against social, political and religious structures.
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Robin Hood, Arrow, Beans and Karate
Title: Robin Hood, Arrow, Beans and Karate
Character: Lady Anne Birdsley
Released: April 15, 1976
Type: Movie
Robin Hood fights the evil Sheriff of Nothingham. Friar Tuck brings his friend Moi Kato, a Kung Fu master. Medival movie meets Italo Eastern.
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Robin and Marian
Title: Robin and Marian
Character: Queen Isabella
Released: March 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
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Obsesión
Title: Obsesión
Character: Angelines
Released: May 13, 1975
Type: Movie
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Title: Le Meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV