Manuel Manquiña

Manuel Manquiña

Born: August 2, 1953
in Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain

Movies for Manuel Manquiña...

Title: Atasco
Released: May 24, 2024
Type: TV
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A Hipster in Rural Spain
Title: A Hipster in Rural Spain
Released: March 2, 2024
Type: Movie
Quique is dispatched to a village in deep Spain Teruel to lead its politics of recuperation but soon discovers he was sent there so that his girlfriend and leader of his party could spend more time together.
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O home e o can
Title: O home e o can
Character: Manuel
Released: October 20, 2023
Type: Movie
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Jump!
Title: Jump!
Character: Manuel
Released: September 1, 2023
Type: Movie
Oscar and Teo (13 and 11 years old) are two brothers, very different from each other, who will have to face the loss of their mother, a scientist obsessed with wormholes.
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El tirabeque
Title: El tirabeque
Released: November 25, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: The Immortal
Released: October 28, 2022
Type: TV
Consists of the fictionalization of the story of 'Los Miami's', a criminal organization led by 'El inmortal' that controlled the cocaine trade in Madrid in the 1990s.
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Title: Silent Cargo
Character: Antón
Released: February 25, 2022
Type: TV
November 2019. A semi-submersible loaded with three tons of cocaine is seized off the Galician coast after having crossed the Atlantic. The captain, Nando, a promising young amateur boxer, travels accompanied by a Brazilian mechanic and a Colombian hitman. Three strangers locked up for almost a month in a claustrophobic handmade boat.
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El cuarto de Mona
Title: El cuarto de Mona
Character: Apolo
Released: November 19, 2021
Type: Movie
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Before the Burn
Title: Before the Burn
Character: El Gallego
Released: June 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Quique is a successful 30-year-old composer. He does not have the necessary funds to support a broken family. With a sister who is in prison for trafficking drugs and an elderly mother suffering from Alzheimer's, he decides to reconcile his activity with a new job: Drug dealer.
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Sol y Luna: Dos Mejor Que Una
Title: Sol y Luna: Dos Mejor Que Una
Character: Tío Arturo
Released: May 16, 2019
Type: Movie
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Title: Antes de perder
Released: March 7, 2019
Type: TV
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Meow
Title: Meow
Released: October 19, 2018
Type: Movie
Four desperately bored retired men yearn for some excitement in their lives to make them feel alive. Whilst trying to occupy his mind by writing a terrible book, Telmo is reunited with his two best friends from school. Mornreal, who is just out of prison, can’t bare to see his old friends fading away so he comes up with a plan to break the daily boredom and to inject excitement into his friends’ lives. With nothing to lose, the old friends embark on a mad, wild adventure that results in a bizarre robbery of a museum.
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Neckan
Title: Neckan
Character: Saldaña
Released: March 3, 2017
Type: Movie
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Relaxing Cup of Coffee
Title: Relaxing Cup of Coffee
Character: Padre de Jaime
Released: December 2, 2016
Type: Movie
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Rey gitano
Title: Rey gitano
Character: Primitivo
Released: July 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Two unemployed detectives with conflicting ideologies meet a rogue and seductive gypsy who proposes them a crazy mission. After that, their luck will change for the worse.
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Title: Land Rober Tunai Show
Released: January 21, 2015
Type: TV
Land Rober Tunai Show is two continuous hours of humor, guests, music, comedy, collaborators and has the direct participation of the audience in the studio.
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Siniestro Total: Que parezca un accidente
Title: Siniestro Total: Que parezca un accidente
Character: Manuel Manquiña
Released: January 28, 2014
Type: Movie
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Poor Sailor
Title: Poor Sailor
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Jonás and Raquel live in the field. Their life is happy and in harmony with the envoronment. One day, Néstor, Jonás's brother, visit them. He's captain in a fishing boat that has docked in a near village. Néstor told her brother the wonderful life in the sea, all money that he has won and the adventures that he has lived. Jonas decides go with him although Raquel doesn't accord. Comic book adaptation "Poor Sailor " by Sammy Harkham.
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Toñito Blanco. Só, perdido e vicioso
Title: Toñito Blanco. Só, perdido e vicioso
Released: May 24, 2013
Type: Movie
Documentary about the life and work of filmmaker and journalist Antonio "Toñito" Blanco, author of La matanza caníbal de los garrulos lisérgicos.
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The Apostle
Title: The Apostle
Character: Salustiano (voice)
Released: October 31, 2012
Type: Movie
A recently escaped convict seeks to recover a treasure he hid years ago in a small, secluded Galician village. However once there, he finds out that in the village there is an even worse sentence than the one he fled from.
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Game of Werewolves
Title: Game of Werewolves
Character: Evaristo
Released: October 7, 2011
Type: Movie
After 15 years, Tomas, a not very succesfull writer, comes back to the village in Galicia where his family comes from, Arga, apparently to get an award. But he doesn't know the real reason why he is there, to end with an old curse that is been haunting the village for the last hundred years.
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Galicia caníbal
Title: Galicia caníbal
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 2011
Type: Movie
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O bonito crime do Carabineiro
Title: O bonito crime do Carabineiro
Released: June 17, 2009
Type: Movie
In the middle of summer, the Serafín trader travels to Compostela's lands and directs his steps to the boarding house in which for every time he visits the city, his companions of social gathering are waiting for him. He already has a few misfortunes behind him but the worst is still to come.
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Lost in Galicia
Title: Lost in Galicia
Character: Gerónimo
Released: March 13, 2009
Type: Movie
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The Hairy Tooth Fairy 2
Title: The Hairy Tooth Fairy 2
Character: Gil Penkoff
Released: December 12, 2008
Type: Movie
Eight year old Lucas would like to know how the Tooth Fairy exchanges coins for teeth without getting caught. He is determined to stay awake all night to find out. Meanwhile, a little mouse falls into a trap set by a dishonest contractor who is desperate to tell the world his secret, that the mouse is the Tooth Fairy. Lucas and his family has to do everything in their power to help the sweet little mouse with its mission, which since time immemorial, is to make children happy...
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Title: Manolo y Benito Corporeision
Character: Don Julián
Released: December 25, 2006
Type: TV
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Siempre Habana
Title: Siempre Habana
Character: Anxo
Released: October 26, 2006
Type: Movie
Ignacio and his nephew Tomasín are two Galician businessmen sharing a family inheritance bonus with their cousin Divina Luz, cuban-born, but of Galician descent. The division of the property is notarized in Santiago de Compostela, where Divina Luz is received by his unknown family.
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Locos por el sexo
Title: Locos por el sexo
Character: Míster
Released: August 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Nono is a young schizophrenic who believes himself destined to stop the global arms race. He has always lived alone with his overwhelming mother, now he meets crazy Ramon.
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Los mánagers
Title: Los mánagers
Character: Alfonso
Released: July 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Two jobless Forty-somethings: Maca and Rena are in serious need of a financial stroke of luck. When they spot an ad for a TV contest looking for the next Pop Idol, they decide to turn themselves into the MANAGERS of two young hopefuls: Pipo and David. While launching their careers with performances in bars, bingo clubs and other such dives they encounter Rota, a shady old singer who arranges for them to tour the Costa del Sol. Thus begins a frenetic road movie where dreams of success turn into a nightmare inhabited by strange creatures: Tom Jones clones, porn stars, enlightened arabs, psychopathic marines, kitch TV presenters, corrupt politicians and even extra-terrestrials.
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Beneath Still Waters
Title: Beneath Still Waters
Character: Luis
Released: November 2, 2005
Type: Movie
Studying under a disciple of Aleister Crowley, the leader of an upper class group invokes a supernatural force that slowly devours the village of Marienbad and its inhabitants, threatening to spread beyond its geographical limits. The mayor from the town nearby commissions the building of a dam which would flood the valley and therefore submerge the village forever sealing the evil force under water after leader and his followers were incapacitated to be kept from escaping. However, fate ensured the leader's freedom as he remained in the depths when the waters covered Marienbad. Now 40 years later an array of disappearances and deaths in mysterious circumstances are threatening the town next to the reservoir that now covers Marienbad.
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A King in Havana
Title: A King in Havana
Character: Policía
Released: May 27, 2005
Type: Movie
Mr. Arturo, an old rich Spanishman who arrives to Havana to marry Yoli, dies suddenly in bed. Yoli's family, afraid of losing all the money, convinces her ex-boyfriend Papito to go to Spain and get the money. Papito will have to be clever enough to deceive everybody and succeed in Spain
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Searching for Love
Title: Searching for Love
Character: Félix
Released: December 10, 2004
Type: Movie
When Ana married Felix, the leader of a rock band and son of a travel agent, she thought her life would be plenty of excitement and travels. Now, in her forties, she leads a monotonous life with her husband and her daughter, giving cooking lessons and taking French courses. But one day she receives an invitation to give a cooking course in Paris.
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Kill Me Tender
Title: Kill Me Tender
Character: Benito (Beni)
Released: February 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Do all men want the same thing? Nestor, recently widowed, runs a bakery near Barcelona, has a bank account and a bad heart, and swims in the sea every day. He also has a daughter and a two-timing son-in-law. Nestor's maid asks him to hire her 20-something daughter, Maribel, as a shop assistant.
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El lápiz del carpintero
Title: El lápiz del carpintero
Character: Benito Mallo
Released: April 25, 2003
Type: Movie
A story of love and obsession during the Spanish Civil War
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The Witch Affair
Title: The Witch Affair
Character: Rafael
Released: January 17, 2003
Type: Movie
The night of San Juan, Miguel murders his associate. Two elderly people are witness to the crime and predict that all of his dreams will come true thereafter. He will know the price he has to pay when he sees a black cat with a moon shaped mark on its forehead. Twenty-two years later a messenger begins to see all his dreams come true...
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Title: London Street
Character: Balbino
Released: January 7, 2003
Type: TV
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The Biggest Robbery Never Told
Title: The Biggest Robbery Never Told
Character: Zorba "El Greco"
Released: October 31, 2002
Type: Movie
Lucas Santos, named El Santo is petty thief going continuously in and out of jail. Tired of small thefts, he aims to strike a blow that makes him famous and become the star of all media. His wife Lucia, a comprehensive and sweet woman, while awaiting the return of her husband, works as a stripper at a nightclub. Finally, Lucas gathers a band of petty thieves and decides to steal, from the National Museum of Art Reina Sofía, its most valuable painting: Picasso's Guernica.
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Title: Cuéntame cómo pasó
Character: Inspector Pereira
Released: September 13, 2001
Type: TV
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
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Fish People
Title: Fish People
Released: August 3, 2001
Type: Movie
A group of guys face the problems of daily life in a shared house
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Fish People
Title: Fish People
Character: Vecino
Released: August 3, 2001
Type: Movie
A group of guys face the problems of daily life in a shared house
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Lena
Title: Lena
Character: Gorrión
Released: May 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Set in Galicia in northwest Spain - an area famed for its beauty and smuggling - this film shows a once-thriving fishing and shipbuilding culture fallen on hard times. Feisty, street smart Lena, 18, lives in semi-penury with her hard-drinking slob of a father, Gorrión, and hopes to escape by getting a grant to study in Portugal. Gorrion is mixed up with local drug-smuggling mafiosi, that includes Lena's godfather, Gitano, their Portugese Cachero, and the strong, silent Milio. One day, Lena returns from her job to find Gorrion badly beaten up: The gang had accused him of stealing. Lena visits the gangsters and offers to help pay off her father's debt by working for them. After Gorrion forgets to deliver Lena's grant papers, a fragile emotional bond develops between Lena and Milio. When they set off to Portugal to do a job, events start to ramble.
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Año Mariano
Title: Año Mariano
Character: Sargento Pablo Talavera
Released: August 11, 2000
Type: Movie
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April Captains
Title: April Captains
Character: Gabriel
Released: April 21, 2000
Type: Movie
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
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Title: Antivicio
Released: April 18, 2000
Type: TV
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Pídele cuentas al rey
Title: Pídele cuentas al rey
Character: Padre intruso
Released: February 10, 2000
Type: Movie
Fidel, an Asturian miner, after the closure of the mine where he works, decides to walk to Madrid with his family, to ask the king why the Constitution is not met, specifically the article that points out that all the Spanish citizens have the right to have a decent work. Will the king receive him?
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I Will Survive
Title: I Will Survive
Character: Rolando
Released: November 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Marga is having a streak of bad luck. Through her friendship with Rosa, she tries to regain her self-confidence, but love interests again create conflict. It is while developing a relationship with a handsome gay sculptor ten years her junior: Iñaqui, that she starts to improve. However, Marga and Iñaqui go beyond friendship, but are frustrated by their limitations. Ultimately, the two may have to settle for an "impossible" love relationship, as their unique best road to happiness
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The Ugliest Woman in the World
Title: The Ugliest Woman in the World
Character: Tipo tics
Released: November 5, 1999
Type: Movie
Somebody has decided to celebrate New Year's Eve 2011 in a very twisted way - by dressing as a nun and brutally dismembering a little old lady. Lt. Arribas, a bald, toothless, one-eyed and lonely detective is called in on the case. His investigations lead him to the door of renegade Doctor Werner, who tells him the strange story of "The Beautiful Otero" the most beautiful woman in the world (former Spanish model Galera) who, before Werner s miraculous surgery, was the ugliest woman in the world! But Lt. Arribas now has a new problem - he is falling in love at a distance with his principle suspect who, because of her traumatic childhood, is planning her vengeance - to sabotage the Miss Spain Beauty Pageant, leaving behind her a trail of dead beauty queens. A super-slick science fiction thriller with a dark and bizarre finale.
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Title: El Club de la Comedia
Character: Monologuista
Released: September 26, 1999
Type: TV
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Os vixilantes do camiño
Title: Os vixilantes do camiño
Character: Max (voice)
Released: July 25, 1999
Type: Movie
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Between Your Legs
Title: Between Your Legs
Character: Manuel
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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Finisterre, donde termina el mundo
Title: Finisterre, donde termina el mundo
Character: Comisario
Released: January 8, 1999
Type: Movie
Mario and Berto are brothers and they live in Galicia at the “Finis Terrae”. Their father left them when they were children and they grew up with the idea of finding him someday, without knowing that they were the ones separating from each other. Once reunited they will intent to take up again their mission
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Mararía
Title: Mararía
Character: Geito
Released: October 30, 1998
Type: Movie
Fermín (Carmelo Gómez) is a Basque doctor who arrives on the island of Lanzarote. Meet a beautiful girl named Mararía (Goya Toledo), which falls in love in silence. One day a handsome Englishman named Beltrahn (Iain Glen) appears, who will win the love of Mararía and unleash the wrath of Fermín, who will lead the lovers to misfortune, destroying himself at the same time and becoming another kind of person, capable to get to kill for love.
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Atilano, presidente
Title: Atilano, presidente
Character: Atilano Bermejo
Released: September 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Atilano Bermejo is a petty crook who gets involved in the scam of his life: to be Prime Minister. His charisma and lack of social concern make him an ideal political candidate for a group of bankers looking for a good public image behind which to hide and disguise their ambitions.
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Frontera sur
Title: Frontera sur
Character: Cassoulet
Released: June 24, 1998
Type: Movie
This historical drama addresses European immigration to the Americas (in this case to Buenos Aires, Argentina) during the last two decades of the 19th century. Among its main characters are a Spanish immigrant, a German one, and an established "Argentine." They compete for the affection of a more established female Spanish immigrant, now a successful businesswoman, albeit a prostitute.
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Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
Title: Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
Character: Francés
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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Sleepless in Madrid
Title: Sleepless in Madrid
Character: Camarero Bar
Released: February 13, 1998
Type: Movie
Eva, Alba y Juan are the protagonist of the story. Eva gives birth to Marina, Alba has just been left by her boyfriend. And Juan is happily married. Their paths intersect one night and their lifes will change forever.
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Airbag
Title: Airbag
Character: Pazos
Released: June 20, 1997
Type: Movie
Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prostitute. Mafioso whorehouse owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends femme fatale Fatima to check things out. Juantxo and his friends are trying to get the ring back and in the process get involved in the war between gangs.
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Matías, juez de línea
Title: Matías, juez de línea
Character: Don Aurelio, el párroco
Released: April 12, 1996
Type: Movie
Matias is a soccer referee. He promised his dying mother never to lie. When he referees a match of the spanish national team and there is a clear penalty against Spain in the last minute of the game he has no choice and marks the foul. As a result Spain does not qualify for the world championship and Matias is forced to escape from the rage of the people. He hides in the town of his father which he hasn't visited since his childhood.
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La matanza caníbal de los garrulos lisérgicos
Title: La matanza caníbal de los garrulos lisérgicos
Character: Martín Seijas Machado
Released: December 23, 1993
Type: Movie
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Chichi e máis eu
Title: Chichi e máis eu
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
When someone dies, there are always unanswered questions. Here, we explore the life and work of Xesús "Chichi" Campos, a pioneer in Galician comics, anti-Franco activist, gallery owner, and humorist. In short, one of the most forgotten figures in Galician culture. When he passed away, he left behind a son who was only eleven years old with many questions. Thirty years later, those questions are answered in this documentary.