Javier Gurruchaga

Javier Gurruchaga

Born: February 12, 1958
in Donostia-San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco, Spain
Ignacio Javier Gurruchaga Iriarte (San Sebastian, February 12, 1958) is a basc singer, actor and showman.

Movies for Javier Gurruchaga...

¡Sálvese quien Putin!
Title: ¡Sálvese quien Putin!
Character: Capitán barco
Released: January 1, 2023
Type: Movie
The 'Europa' is an ocean liner that, governed by the leaders of the Union, sails aimlessly. The European leaders have hired the Vieja del Visillo with a secret mission: to seduce Carlos III to get England to become part of the Union again
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La alarma
Title: La alarma
Released: October 28, 2022
Type: Movie
The alarm tells the strange experiences faced by a group of characters in a near and dystopian future. No one knows exactly why, but it is impossible to go outside. A couple is forced to live with an unknown family while the world beyond the windows of their house seems to disintegrate forever. But the biggest threat of all might be inside, in the exact center of the dining room table. Or at the bottom of the nightstand drawer. Or in the past.
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Title: Stories to Stay Awake
Character: Luis
Released: November 5, 2021
Type: TV
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Title: Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez
Character: Self - Guest
Released: February 27, 2017
Type: TV
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Sex, Maracas & Chihuahuas
Title: Sex, Maracas & Chihuahuas
Character: Self - Musician
Released: May 2, 2016
Type: Movie
A joyful tale filled with music. The rise of radio. The jazz big bands. The legendary clubs and ballrooms. The soundtracks of the great musical films and TV shows. Sex and romance, gangsters, luxury cars and palm trees. From Barcelona to New York, with a stop in Cuba. The birth of Las Vegas. The sound of the maracas. Chihuahuas everywhere. The incredible life story of Xavier Cugat (1900-90).
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New York Shadows
Title: New York Shadows
Released: June 14, 2013
Type: Movie
“New York Shadows” is a psychological drama avant-garde that tackles the tribulations of Julian (Juan Pinzás) a Spanish filmmaker who comes to New York to visit the locations of filming his new movie and meet the American actress Jennifer (Lindsey Ireland) to star in the film. Suddenly something strange happens to the filmmaker who is caught in the story of his own script sharing disturbing illusions with the characters he has created.
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Lost Images: The Other Eye of Juan Pinzás
Title: Lost Images: The Other Eye of Juan Pinzás
Character: Javier
Released: December 17, 2009
Type: Movie
The filmmaker Juan Pinzás goes on a physical and also inner journey, in search of some lost images that he filmed in the 80s. The journey takes him from Madrid to Galicia and on the search for these images he meets with various characters who will help him in his undertaking, such as the actors Paul Naschy and Javier Gurruchaga whose personal worlds will be examined in the film. Finally in Vigo, his home city, of which he presents a remarkable portrait, he finds an old film in Super-8mm with the missing images. The catharsis is produced with the viewing of the old film which turns out to be a tribute to cinema and this means the end of the filmmaker's introspective journey.
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Cuba libre
Title: Cuba libre
Released: January 13, 2006
Type: Movie
An outrageous comedy about a group of radical anarchist squatters who inadvertently overtake the Cuban Embassy in Madrid at the very same time that Fidel Castro announces Cuba's first democratic elections.
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The Outcome
Title: The Outcome
Released: October 6, 2005
Type: Movie
Film director Mikel de Garay and the attractive young producer Andrea Bilbao, who hide an obscure past, are going to make a film based on the latest novel by Rosendo Carballo, a successful writer with homosexual tendencies who has put an end to his marriage of convenience and is sharing his life with a young gay man. Rosendo is going to meet with Mikel and Andrea, and three friends of the writer, Fernando, Beatriz and Nacho, join the group. Conflict arises unexpectedly when the characters start to play a dangerous game: digging around in their respective pasts in the hope that this will produce a catharsis.
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R2 y el caso del cadáver sin cabeza
Title: R2 y el caso del cadáver sin cabeza
Character: Inspector Rupérez "R2"
Released: April 1, 2005
Type: Movie
R2 is going through hard times: his past failures have earned the anger of the Chief Inspector. He finds consolation visiting Didi's bar to cheer listening to music, especially blues. In addition, the Chief Inspector is jealous since he knows that R2 receives letters from the Palacio de la Zarzuela. Aided by his trusty and faithful Inspector Cardenas,he tries to solve all the cases that are presented, using methods rather unorthodox, including the use of disguises. One day, he decides to solve a very interesting case: the blackmail to a rich businessman who is threatened by the kidnapping of his young wife.
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Mala uva
Title: Mala uva
Character: Enólogo
Released: September 10, 2004
Type: Movie
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Torapia
Title: Torapia
Character: Dr. Hipólito
Released: August 6, 2004
Type: Movie
Basilio a pickpocket with no luck, enters a mental institution to retrieve a valuable diamond necklace that briefly passed through his hands and whose value was unable to recognize. Once inside the asylum, Basilio will try to use all the skills of his trade to overcome the threats that keep him from reaching his goal. In the end, the only escape for Basilio will be to undergo the "Torapia", an innovative experimental therapy that connects man with the beast within us all.
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The 3 Wise Men
Title: The 3 Wise Men
Character: Herodes (voz)
Released: December 19, 2003
Type: Movie
A brilliantly animated adaptation of the classic Christian story, 3 WISE MEN features the voices of Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen, and Mexican television star Jaci Velasquez. Created by the same artists who animated FANTASIA 2000, HERCULES, and TARZAN, the family-friendly film artfully brings to life the journey of Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthazar--the Three Kings who traveled to baby Jesus' birthplace under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem.
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Lisístrata
Title: Lisístrata
Character: Ajax
Released: September 13, 2002
Type: Movie
411 BC, Sparta and Athens are in a endless war, but Lisistrata, a beautiful woman has an idea to stop the fight, and convinces all the women to do it: no sex until there is peace.
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Días de voda
Title: Días de voda
Character: Fernando
Released: September 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Sonia, the daughter of a prominent publisher, is about to fulfill her lifelong dream of marrying Rosendo, a promising writer with homosexual tendencies, who pines for his fiancee far less than he does for the brand new literary award launched by his future father-in-law. The wedding shindig will bring its share of unexpected surprises. This is a film is part of the DOGME 95 Movement, described as follows: 'the goal of the Dogme collective is to purify film-making by refusing expensive and spectacular special effects, post-production modifications and other gimmicks. The emphasis on purity forces the filmmakers to focus on the actual story and on the actors' performances. Given these restrictions the story and the action of DIAS DE BODA ('WEDDING DAYS') seem much more immediate and the lapses in fluidity of the story can be forgiven - to a point.
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Esta noche, no
Title: Esta noche, no
Character: Inspector jefe
Released: August 9, 2002
Type: Movie
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Dirty Vivancos III
Title: Dirty Vivancos III
Character: Tomasso
Released: June 7, 2002
Type: Movie
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Manolito Four Eyes: The Mischievous Holidays
Title: Manolito Four Eyes: The Mischievous Holidays
Character: Hipnotizador
Released: June 22, 2001
Type: Movie
This is a hilarious look at contemporary Madrid from the point of view of ten year old Manolito. Witty, funny and moving, the film has crossed-over from Spain to become a classic family entertainment.On this particular occasion, Manolito is in the middle of Chrismas break and ready to celebrate the holidays with his nutty family: his mother, Cata, his father, Manolo, Grandpa and Imbecile. This year holds a big surprise: Uncle Nico, his mother's brother who lives an works in Oslo as a waiter. Uncle Nico shows up in an unbelieveable motor home to spend Christmas Eve with the family. He is accompanied by his flashy Norwegian fiancée, Trudi Bergenkoklass, who is something like part fairy, part Viking and part Pippi Long Stocking. This lady immediately catches Manolito's eye.
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Jara
Title: Jara
Character: D. Gildo
Released: February 25, 2000
Type: Movie
Jara is an enigmatic girl who lives in the forest alone since she was a child. Tato, a lonely young boy, finds her one day and a love and passion story starts.
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The Ugliest Woman in the World
Title: The Ugliest Woman in the World
Character: El presentador
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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París-Tombuctú
Title: París-Tombuctú
Character: Gaby
Released: September 10, 1999
Type: Movie
The frustration and vital weariness of Michel des Assantes, a prestigious plastic surgeon in Paris, is unbearable: he has a wife whom he does not love, a son who is foreign to him and friends whom he despises but, at the same time, he is incapable of taking his own life. One day, he buys a bike from a bizarre cyclist who was to make the Paris-Timbuktu route and sets out to make the journey: then, Timbuktu becomes for him the Promised Land.
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Siempre hay un camino a la derecha
Title: Siempre hay un camino a la derecha
Character: Lanzagorta
Released: August 29, 1997
Type: Movie
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La duquesa roja
Title: La duquesa roja
Character: Antxón
Released: July 17, 1997
Type: Movie
An Andalusian duchess has the dilemma of what to do with a grove, whether to convert it into a natural reserve or to make a luxury urbanization. The duchess, who is torn between her aristocratic privileges and a social commitment that has cost her more than one dislike in the past, must make a decision about her lands, to which she wants to get some money without harming the people. On the other hand, An ambitious Basque financier, Antónón Ibarrondo, intends to build a luxury urbanization in the Marbella style in the grove. Around the duchess, the businessman, environmentalists and other members in the conflict, problems begin to arise and everything will be decided in a referendum, convened with the idea that it is the people who decide, which coincides with the annual celebration of the Pilgrimage del Pueblo.With a cast "
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La noche de Lina
Title: La noche de Lina
Released: December 25, 1995
Type: Movie
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La mujer gafe
Title: La mujer gafe
Released: October 27, 1994
Type: Movie
A woman brings ill luck to the man that loves her.
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Banderas, the Tyrant
Title: Banderas, the Tyrant
Character: Barón de Benicarles
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.
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Supernova
Title: Supernova
Character: Conde Nado
Released: February 26, 1993
Type: Movie
Count Nado, is in love with Fénix, an intergalactic singer. Unable to achieve it with traditional methods, the evil Nado kidnaps the scientist Avelina to make a replica of the singer, creating Supernova.
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The Dumbfounded King
Title: The Dumbfounded King
Character: Valido
Released: November 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.
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If They Tell You I Fell
Title: If They Tell You I Fell
Character: Conrado-Señor Galán
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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Berlin Blues
Title: Berlin Blues
Character: Micky
Released: October 3, 1988
Type: Movie
In Cold War-era West Berlin, Lola (Julia Migenes-Johnson), an American blues singer with a nightclub band, falls for the piano player, David (Jose Coronado). Their romance is cut short when David must return to his native East, and Lola soon begins an affair with Huessler (Keith Baxter), the bandleader. But any guilt Lola may feel for betraying David is assuaged when Huessler saves her from unexpected misfortune.
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La vida alegre
Title: La vida alegre
Character: Ildefonso
Released: April 14, 1987
Type: Movie
Ana starts working as a Doctor in the S.T.I.U. (sexual transmission illnesses unit) at a Hospital. She begins meeting a lot of strange and bizarre characters there, while her jealous husband has to deal with it...
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What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Title: What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Character: Dentista
Released: October 25, 1984
Type: Movie
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.
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Title: La Bola de Cristal
Character: Host
Released: October 6, 1984
Type: TV
La Bola de Cristal was a Spanish TV Show that aired on TVE from 1984 to 1988. The show was the brainchild of Spanish writer Dolores Rico Oliver and was hosted by pop singer Alaska. The show, which was ostensibly targeted at a young audience, reflected the spirit of the times, that of the post-Franco Spanish transition and of the cultural and musical movement known as la movida. In contrast to previous shows, with a very childish use of language, it had continuous puns related to electronics: the Electroduendes puppets included Maese Cámara, Hada Vídeo and Bruja Avería as regular characters.
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Bésame, tonta
Title: Bésame, tonta
Character: Javier
Released: April 5, 1982
Type: Movie
A young bank clerk is transferred, in view of his special way of being, to a branch for misfits, where he will meet a whole series of very strange characters.