Juan Diego Botto

Juan Diego Botto

Born: August 29, 1975
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Juan Diego Botto-Rota (born August 29, 1975, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine-Spanish actor.

Botto's father disappeared during the Argentine Dirty War when Juan Diego was only two years old. With his mother and older sister María, also an actress, he moved to Madrid, Spain, where he currently resides.

Botto started acting at the age of 5 in the film Juego de poder (Power Game). His role in the 1999 film Sobreviviré (I will survive), about a woman who falls in love with a man who, unknown to her, is homosexual, got him more national and international recognition.

Botto has appeared on stage in Spain in several critically acclaimed plays. He also directed a play called Privilegio de ser perro (Privilege of Being a Dog), about the tough life immigrants are subjected to while trying to sneak into and live in a new country.

Currently Botto lives in Madrid with his partner, the Spanish journalist and writer Olga Rodríguez. He is also active in politics, protesting the 2003 war in Iraq several times with fellow Spaniards and taking part in a support group for fellow children of the disappeared. Description above from the Wikipedia article Juan Diego Botto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Title: I Don’t Like Driving
Character: Pablo Lopetegui
Released: November 25, 2022
Type: TV
A college professor in his forties decides to get his first driver's license.
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Staring at Strangers
Title: Staring at Strangers
Character: Sergio O'Kane
Released: November 4, 2022
Type: Movie
Carpenter Sergio runs away and hides in a closet after his boss fired him. When the closet arrives at its buyer's house, he decides to stay there, hiding in his new home living with an unknown family.
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On the Fringe
Title: On the Fringe
Released: October 7, 2022
Type: Movie
A day in the life of Azucena, who is running out of time to keep herself and her family from being evicted; Rafael, a lawyer who sets out to reunite a mother with her daughter; and Teodora, a sick old woman who searches for her long-lost son before it is too late.
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Title: You Shall Not Lie
Character: Sergio
Released: January 28, 2022
Type: TV
The peaceful life of the residents of the coastal urbanization of Belmonte changes radically the day a sex video of Macarena, a school teacher, and Iván, one of her adult students, appears on the networks. This event shakes the lives of all of them, especially Macarena, who is repudiated by her family and neighbors, including Ana, her best friend and Iván's mother. Things in the town get even more complicated when the lifeless body of one of Belmonte's inhabitants appears on the cliff. Whose body is it? Does this death have something to do with the sex video of the teacher and the student?
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The Suicide Squad
Title: The Suicide Squad
Character: Presidente General Silvio Luna
Released: July 28, 2021
Type: Movie
Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.
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The Europeans
Title: The Europeans
Character: Antonio
Released: November 20, 2020
Type: Movie
Spain at the end of the 50s. Miguel and Antonio, both single and in their early 30s, go on a trip to Ibiza, lured by the European sexual myth and the illusion of freedom. But on the island, nothing will be as they expected.
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Title: White Lines
Character: Oriol Calafat
Released: May 15, 2020
Type: TV
Zoe Walker leaves her quiet life behind to investigate her brother's disappearance in Ibiza, where she quickly heads down a decadent and dangerous path.
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Rocambola
Title: Rocambola
Character: Saeta
Released: October 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Dante is a professional thief who makes ends meet through carefully selected, small jobs. His new target is a secluded big house which he thinks is unoccupied. But he's not alone, he will meet a strange couple whose reaction to his intrusion is to ask him for breakfast. They are hiding other plans.
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Title: Instinto
Released: May 10, 2019
Type: TV
Marco Mur is an attractive, successful businessman, but a trauma from his past prevents him from getting emotionally involved with women. Instead, he has intimate encounters in a club where no one knows anyone else. But his past returns and now Marco must face it and all the other conflicts of his life.
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A night with Juan Diego Botto
Title: A night with Juan Diego Botto
Released: August 16, 2018
Type: Movie
Cristina has been dreaming of sleeping with Juan Diego Botto for twenty years. He's been dreaming of a fairer world his whole life.
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Title: Pounding Instincts
Character: Rodrigo Ugarte
Released: January 10, 2017
Type: TV
The greatest surgeon in Spain starts seeing his donor's memories after a heart transplant.
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Title: Good Behavior
Character: Javier Pereira
Released: November 15, 2016
Type: TV
Letty Dobesh is a thief and con artist fresh out of prison whose life is always one wrong turn and bad decision from implosions — just how she likes it. But when she overhears a hitman being hired to kill a man’s wife, she sets out to derail the job, launching her on a collision course with the killer, entangling them in a dangerous and seductive relationship.
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Los comensales
Title: Los comensales
Released: April 27, 2016
Type: Movie
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Though You May Not Know
Title: Though You May Not Know
Character: Self
Released: April 23, 2016
Type: Movie
An account of the life and work of the Spanish poet Luis García Montero; a journey through his experiences, his mentors, his influences and his contact with other artists, both from the literary world and from other disciplines.
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Hablar
Title: Hablar
Character: El Explotador
Released: June 12, 2015
Type: Movie
An anthology film with 20 stories on the subject of words, communication, linked to one another over a 400-metre stretch: from Madrid's Lavapiés Square to the Sala Mirador. A journey between theatre and cinema, filmed in a single fixed shot running continuously over 80 minutes and half a kilometer, in Madrid's popular Lavapiés district. The characters talk, argue, laugh, cry, threaten, whisper, shout, steal, make dates, get angry with and hug one another, prompting the spectator to reflect on the immense power of words.
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The Ignorance of Blood
Title: The Ignorance of Blood
Character: Falcón
Released: November 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Javier Falcón, Chief of the Sevilla Homicide Division, must solve two different cases in a short time. In the first case he is personally involved. An old friend of his infiltrated an Islamic terrorist cell and now the group is trying to recruit his young son for their cause. The same case hits even closer at home. A war is raging between two clans in the Russian Mafia. When an important mobster tries to defect, he gets killed in a car crash. On the scene, the police find an encrypted USB stick with highly explosive information. Then the son of Falcon’s girlfriend Consuelo is kidnapped. They are contacted by both Mafia clans claiming they have the kid and wanting to get their hands on the information. And both say they will kill him if Falcon doesn’t give them the stick
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Asier ETA biok
Title: Asier ETA biok
Character: Self
Released: January 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. But one day he disappeared, later I found out he had joined ETA.
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Ismael
Title: Ismael
Character: Luis
Released: December 26, 2013
Type: Movie
An aging couple follows after Ismael Tchou, an 8-year-old, who is trying to find his way to his estranged biological father all by himself.
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Franco's Settlers
Title: Franco's Settlers
Character: Narrator
Released: October 23, 2013
Type: Movie
Explores Llanos del Caudillo, a town from La Mancha founded in 1955 by the dictator Franco; a discreet and calm attempt to dissect recent Spanish history and to review how some Spaniards deal with the cruel heritage of their past. A reflection on what to do with the Francoist legacy in towns, streets and squares in Spain.
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Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent
Title: Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent
Released: December 5, 2012
Type: Movie
This documentary looks at the life of Jordi Dauder through an interview with the actor a few weeks before his death. From her interventions and people who knew him, the play explores the experiences of actor, from his artistic side as from his political convictions and life.
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God Loves Caviar
Title: God Loves Caviar
Character: Lefentarios
Released: August 4, 2012
Type: Movie
The true-life, stranger-than-fiction tale of eighteenth-century Greek pirate turned merchant Ioannis Varvakis, who rose from humble beginnings to become the head of one of the largest mercantile empires in Europe.
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Childish Games
Title: Childish Games
Character: Daniel
Released: March 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Daniel agrees to take Julia, the daughter of an old childhood friend who has just died, into his home.
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Frozen Silence
Title: Frozen Silence
Character: Arturo Andrade
Released: January 20, 2012
Type: Movie
Russian front, winter 1943. Soldier Arturo Andrade and Sergeant Fernando Espinosa are commissioned to investigate a mysterious murder while the Spanish Blue Division of the German Army endures the fierce counterattack of the Red Army.
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The Mexican Suitcase
Title: The Mexican Suitcase
Character: Himself
Released: November 11, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of the recovery of the negatives of thousands of photos taken by three photographers during the Spanish Civil War that were found seventy years later in a suitcase, inside a closet in Mexico City.
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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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The Widows of Thursdays
Title: The Widows of Thursdays
Character: Gustavo
Released: September 10, 2009
Type: Movie
The closed community of a private neighborhood of high-priced houses, is moved by the discovery of three corpses that appear floating in a pool and rushes to frame it as an accident.
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The Anarchist's Wife
Title: The Anarchist's Wife
Character: Justo
Released: June 26, 2008
Type: Movie
"The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.
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El Greco
Title: El Greco
Character: Niño de Guevara
Released: October 11, 2007
Type: Movie
The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
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Bordertown
Title: Bordertown
Character: Marco Antonio Salamanca
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: Movie
American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
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Va a ser que nadie es perfecto
Title: Va a ser que nadie es perfecto
Released: October 27, 2006
Type: Movie
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Vete de mí
Title: Vete de mí
Character: Guillermo
Released: September 26, 2006
Type: Movie
Santiago is a gray man who works as a supporting actor. However, his attitude towards life will change when he lodges his thirty-year-old son Guillermo in his house for a few days. "Go away from me" is a family masquerade ball, of encounters and disagreements between two congenital egoists: a compulsive liar, who manages to alter the already fragile mental state of the relatives that surround him, and a supporting actor who has come Unless, he suddenly discovers that his life is a lie.
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The Feast of the Goat
Title: The Feast of the Goat
Character: Amadito García Guerrero
Released: February 11, 2006
Type: Movie
Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.
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Obaba
Title: Obaba
Character: Miguel
Released: September 16, 2005
Type: Movie
A rural drama set in Obaba, a mythical region in northern Spain, where a young filmmaker struggled to capture the feel of the area, which in turn leads to a wealth of self-discovery.
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Manolito Espinberg: une vie de cinéma
Title: Manolito Espinberg: une vie de cinéma
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 2005
Type: Movie
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Roma
Title: Roma
Character: Manuel Cueto/ Joaco
Released: April 15, 2004
Type: Movie
Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.
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Augustus: The First Emperor
Title: Augustus: The First Emperor
Character: Iullus Antonius
Released: November 30, 2003
Type: Movie
Caesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following the death of her husband Agrippa.
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Title: Augusto - Il primo imperatore
Character: Iullo
Released: November 30, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: Augusto - Il primo imperatore
Character: Iullus Antonius
Released: November 30, 2003
Type: TV
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Los abajo firmantes
Title: Los abajo firmantes
Character: Jorge
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: Jacobo
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: Sucre
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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El balancín de Iván
Title: El balancín de Iván
Character: Roberto
Released: April 12, 2002
Type: Movie
Ana is a woman of thirty-something, goes back to the house where she spent of her childhood during the Argentine dictatorship.
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Broken Silence
Title: Broken Silence
Character: Manuel
Released: April 27, 2001
Type: Movie
Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, because of his smile and the bravery of those men who continue fighting for their ideas, even at the cost of their own lives. When Manuel is pursued (by Franco's Civil Guard) he flees to the mountain and Lucía discovers the reality of political repression, the silence, the horror and fear.
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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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Ave María
Title: Ave María
Character: Miguel
Released: November 20, 1999
Type: Movie
In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.
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I Will Survive
Title: I Will Survive
Character: Iñaqui
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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Novios
Title: Novios
Character: Arturito
Released: September 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Arturo , a successful restaurateur, having an affair with his assistant Cristal, tells her that he will reveal the extent of their relationship to his wife Paz. Not long after Cristal starts dreaming of life as a housewife, their plans fall through. In revenge, Cristal focuses on Arturo's son, Arturito. She will endeavor to make Arturito her bridegroom at Arturo's expense, in all senses.
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Plenilune
Title: Plenilune
Character: Asesino
Released: August 15, 1999
Type: Movie
Romance and murder walk side by side in this psychological drama from Spain. A serial killer has been plying his grisly trade in a small town in Spain, murdering young girls and leaving their bodies in a nearby forest.
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In Praise of Older Women
Title: In Praise of Older Women
Character: Andrés
Released: April 11, 1997
Type: Movie
In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.
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Martin (Hache)
Title: Martin (Hache)
Character: Hache
Released: March 31, 1997
Type: Movie
An emotionally distant father attempts to reconnect with the son he abandoned. After his estranged son (Juan Diego Botto) tries to commit suicide, Argentine expat Martín (Federico Luppi) brings the troubled teen to live with him in Spain. But though Martín tries to reach out to his son, he's unable to bond with anyone in his life -- including his much-younger girlfriend
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Not Love, Just Frenzy
Title: Not Love, Just Frenzy
Character: Carlos
Released: November 15, 1996
Type: Movie
From the land of Almodovar comes a hot new film about drugs, sex & everything else!
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La Celestina
Title: La Celestina
Character: Calisto
Released: November 8, 1996
Type: Movie
The young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto's servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Celestina to further the romance. However Calisto's other servant Parmeno is suspicious of Celestina, as he knows about her tricks.
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La sal de la vida
Title: La sal de la vida
Character: Charly
Released: February 9, 1996
Type: Movie
The film tells in a funny way the ups and downs of a widower who would like to marry again. But his choice to take a young woman as the bride does not conform with what his three daughters want as stepmother. Naturally this will cause all kinds of irritation and problems
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Stories from the Kronen
Title: Stories from the Kronen
Character: Carlos
Released: April 29, 1995
Type: Movie
Carlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers. And more each time, each adventure is chained to the next, as if it were a continuous night. A long description of people: grandfather, parents, sister, girlfriend, friends. And, among that, the obscure will of living every minute as if it were the last one. But something which happens puts Carlos and his friend against a reality they have been trying to ignore.
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1492: Conquest of Paradise
Title: 1492: Conquest of Paradise
Character: Diego
Released: October 9, 1992
Type: Movie
1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
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How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt
Title: How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt
Character: Sergio
Released: April 5, 1991
Type: Movie
Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company when she prefers solitude, his treating her work as less important than his, his casual and cruel dismissal of her opinions, her boss assigning her an incompetent editor, bartenders ignoring her, her passage into middle age. She can be feisty and edgy, which sometimes gets in the way of what would make her happy. And she regularly threatens to leave Antonio. Will she, and on what terms? What will he do?
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Ovejas negras
Title: Ovejas negras
Character: Adolfo, niño
Released: May 4, 1990
Type: Movie
Adolfo reunites with his old teacher, Father Benito, to confess him the crimes he committed when he was a young boy just to save the soul of the people he loved.
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Zorro: The Legend Begins
Title: Zorro: The Legend Begins
Released: January 10, 1990
Type: Movie
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Title: Zorro
Character: Felipe
Released: January 5, 1990
Type: TV
Zorro, also known as The New Zorro, New World Zorro, and Zorro 1990, is an American action-adventure drama series featuring Duncan Regehr as the character of Zorro. Regehr portrayed the fearless Latino hero and fencer on The Family Channel from 1990 to 1993. The series was shot entirely in Madrid, Spain and produced by New World Television, The Family Channel, Ellipse Programme of Canal Plus, Beta TV, and RAI. 88 episodes of the series were produced, 10 more than the first Zorro television series, which was produced by Disney in the late 1950s. Since 2011, the series is currently airing in the United States on the Retro Television Network as The New Zorro. Peter Rodgers Organization is the distributor for this version of Zorro.
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If They Tell You I Fell
Title: If They Tell You I Fell
Character: Sarnita
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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El río de oro
Title: El río de oro
Character: Miguel
Released: February 27, 1986
Type: Movie
During a long summer, the tranquility of a couple and their three children resting in a country house is altered with the arrival of the children's uncle, a character who exerts a curious influence on the boys and a morbid and strange attraction the wife. Twelve years after 'Los viajes escolares' (1973), his first commercial feature film, the Madrid director Jaime Chávarri returns to the same estate in the province of Segovia to shoot a new family story, about his own plot and script. Like its predecessor, 'The Golden River' contains a strong autobiographical charge and is full of personal resonances. But this new history of family ties is narrated from a perspective in which adultery manifests itself openly. Endowed with a slow narrative rhythm, the film presents an international cast headed by Ángela Molina, Bruno Ganz, Francesca Annis and Stefan Gubser. The film also has the presence of a very young Juan Diego Botto, in one of his first appearances on the big screen.
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Berta's Motives
Title: Berta's Motives
Character: Niño
Released: September 1, 1984
Type: Movie
The life of a young girl who plays with little animals and insects is suddenly changed with the arrival of a film crew and a strange man.
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Power Game
Title: Power Game
Released: April 27, 1983
Type: Movie
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Ni te cases ni te embarques
Title: Ni te cases ni te embarques
Character: Niño
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie