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Pepo Oliva

Pepo Oliva

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#1Cuéntame cómo pasó

Drama Series - 2001, 16 episodes as Gregorio Forneda

7.1 / 10
ComedyDrama

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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#2Compañeros

Drama Series - 1998, 16 episodes as Luis

5.7 / 10
ComedyDrama

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#3La Señora

Drama Series - 2008, 16 episodes as Justo Sanz

2.7 / 10
Drama

In the 1920s Victoria and Ángel fall in love in a small town, northern Spain. They are two people both from a different social class, she is the daughter of a wealthy businessman and he comes from a poor family. They are so in love but social norms and circumstances of the era force them to break up. Several years later, they meet again, Victoria as a powerful businesswoman and Ángel as a priest.

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#4La unidad

Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes as Alberto Torres

7.1 / 10
DramaAction & Adventure

A secret unit of cops is assembled to stop a terrorist band from attacking Spain after their leader is arrested there.

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#5Vidas pequeñas

Movie - 2011, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.5 / 10
DramaRomance

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#6The Countryside

Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes as Señor Mediavilla

7.7 / 10
Comedy

A group of urbanites flee the city for different reasons: existential, economic crisis, need for fresh air, search for peace, inspiration to compose ... The intention of these strangers is to settle in an abandoned town and start their lives from scratch, but when they arrive they discover that there are still some neighbors: rural people with a very different way of seeing life.

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#7Soccer Days

Movie - 2003, 2h 15m as Tomás

6.0 / 10
Comedy

A comedic romp that celebrates the power of friendship to turn your life around, Dias de Futbol introduces us to Antonio, an ex-convict and amateur shrink who convinces his pals that the best way to overcome their midlife crises and lack of success with women is to reassemble their old soccer team and win something in life, even if only a local championship. Directed by David Serrano. Starring Alberto San Juan, Natalia Verbeke (Dot the I, Son of the Bride), Pere Ponce, and Fernando Tejero.

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#8Pídele cuentas al rey

Movie - 2000, 2h 15m as Ismael

5.6 / 10

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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#9Mario Conde: los días de gloria

Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes as Luis María Ansón

2.0 / 10
Drama

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#10Broken Silence

Movie - 2001, 2h 15m as Cosme

5.7 / 10
Drama

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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#11Jealousy

Movie - 1999, 2h 15m as Padre

5.4 / 10
Drama

A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta tells Antonio the man's first name. Carmen tells him that the man meant nothing to her, and that the photograph was taken before she met Antonio. She loves Antonio and sets out to wipe the photograph from his mind through exuberant sex, but her ploy backfires and Antonio remains fixated. Slowly he finds out about the man, and about Carmen's past. Will jealousy consume this couple or can they find a way to kill the green-eyed monster?

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#12Sidetracked

Movie - 2015, 2h 15m as Manolo

5.9 / 10
Comedy

A rural couple in crisis, who have a brother and sister with urban problems, and all of them trying to find a solution.

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#13Código fuego

Drama Series - 2003, 16 episodes as Enrique Porcela

5.0 / 10
Action & AdventureDrama

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#14Impávido

Movie - 2012, 2h 15m as Manrique

6.4 / 10
CrimeComedy

Ray, a man without family addicted to the game, dedicated to steal cars and for love will end up in jail.

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#15Soy el solitario

Drama Series - 2008, 16 episodes as Jaime Giménez Arbe

6.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

The true story of bank robber Jaime Giménez Arbe, also known as "El Solitario.”

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#16Mondays in the Sun

Movie - 2002, 2h 15m as Samuel

7.2 / 10
DramaComedy

After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and unofficial leader of the group. A court case hangs over him relating to a shipyard lamp he smashed during a protest against the closure. José is bitter that his wife, Ana, is employed when he is not.

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#17Historia De Estrella

Movie - 2003, 2h 15m as Padre de Estrella

10.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#18The Dark Hour

Movie - 2006, 2h 15m as Judas

5.5 / 10
HorrorMysterySci-Fi

The eight years boy Jesús has been living in a crumbling underground facility since he was born with eight survivors of an apocalyptical war: the leader Maria and her lover Pablo; the gays Lucas and Mateo; the astronomer Magdalena and the teenager Ana; the soldier Pedro and the lonely Judas. They are permanently is state of surveillance, threatened by the contaminated mutants The Strangers and once a day they have to lock themselves in their rooms without heating to protect against the dangerous ghosts The Invisibles that attack in the Cold Hour. They cannot go to the surface, destroyed by a nuclear war. When they need supplies, medications and ammunitions, they organize expeditions to a store. When the menace of The Invisibles affects the safety of the group of survivors, they need to reach the surface. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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#19Brujas

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m as Marido Virginia

4.8 / 10
DramaComedy

Three women from three different generations and walks of life find themselves in a very hot, semi-deserted Spanish town. Patricia is a 17 year old roaming Spain in search for a certain man; Sol is 27, a door-to-door salesgirl in dire economic straits who has just been thrown out of her apartment; and Virginia is a middle aged housewife, who after 20 years decides to start a new life. These three spend a very unique 24 hour period together, often acting, as the title suggests, as modern day "witches".

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#20A Love That Kills

Movie - 2000, 2h 15m as José

6.5 / 10
Drama

The two million Spanish women who are victims of domestic violence and the death each week of a woman at the hands of her partner is not fiction but pure reality.

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#21His Master's Voice

Movie - 2001, 2h 15m as Sierra

5.6 / 10
DramaThriller

Basque Country, Spain, 1980s. In Bilbao, a gray city dominated by political corruption and nationalist terrorism, Charli works as a chauffeur for Oliveira, a businessman engaged in shady deals. Alarmed by a series of threats and attacks, Oliveira decides to entrust Charli with the protection of his daughter Marta.

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#22Un buen novio

Movie - 1998, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.0 / 10
Comedy

A young police inspector investigates the bank robbery and subsequent murder of one of the robbers, while discovering that his girlfriend has a lover, an old friend of hers and now their neighbor.

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#23No te fallaré

Movie - 2001, 2h 15m as Luis Bermejo

3.3 / 10
DramaActionRomance

"FRIENDS...THREE YEARS LATER" School is finally out. Valle and Quimi, a couple since childhood, decide to celebrate with their gang on a trip to the coast. They feel free and swear that they will always be together. But three years later, everything is quite different. A party at the high school unites them all again. They haven't seen each other for years and the tension is thick. Something unexpected changed the course of their lives. Valle is a dancer at a club and attracted to Ray, the owner, who is also an art dealer under pressure to use his nightspot to peddle drugs.

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#24A Time for Defiance

Movie - 1998, 2h 15m as Jefe de Brigadilla

6.5 / 10
WarRomanceDrama

After the Spanish Civil War breaks out, the Prado Museum is being evacuated. One of the guards finds a painting by the master, Goya, and takes it to prevent damage to the work of art. In the interim, he meets a young lady with whom he falls in love. Assisted by her and her family members, the soldier attempts to save Goya's masterpiece intact amidst the war and violence.

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#25The Night of the Brother

Movie - 2005, 2h 15m as Padre

4.4 / 10
Drama

The Night of the brother ("La Noche del Hermano") is a chiaroscuro tale in which the characters' not always explicit feelings cover the gamut from darkness to light through the thin line between love and fear. Because the events of life are often less astonishing than the way they are shown to us.

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#26The Stolen Years

Movie - 1998, 2h 15m as Requena

5.6 / 10
DramaAdventure

Two students are arrested for painting revolutionary graffiti on the university walls. They escape from the camp and flee with two American girls, disguised as rich young men who are showing Spain to two tourists.

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#27My Brother's Gun

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m as Director del colegio

4.7 / 10
DramaCrimeRomance

Based on the powerful novel by Ray Loriga. A young man and a young girl's lives are united under dramatic circumstances. He has just shot a security guard in the face who had accused him of robbing at a local mall. When he steals a car to escape, he meets the girl who, regardless of her suicidal inclinations, is attracted by her new companion. Together they embark on a journey in search for a true meaning in their lives.

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#28Cachito

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m as Lucas

5.5 / 10
AdventureCrimeDrama

A gypsy girl, when her grandmother dies, goes in search of his mother who abandoned her as a baby

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#29Adolfo Suarez, El Presidente

Movie - 2010, 2h 15m as Herrero Tejedor

8.8 / 10

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#30Barrio

Movie - 1998, 2h 15m as Padre de Rai

6.7 / 10
Drama

Bored 15-year-old school chums Rai Manu and Javi dream of sexual adventures and exotic resorts while the well-off population of Madrid flock to the beaches on a summer holiday. The youths hang around the concrete wasteland killing time by reading the sex classifieds and pushing their luck. They masturbate, thieve, fight with their families and get involved in a drug bust. Finally Rai, the most daring and restless of the trio - gets shot while trying to steal stereo gear from a car. Each adolescent faces a dreary home life but when they get together they enjoy each other's company to the full. The film is an engaging mixture of comedy drama and the pathos of life in a Madrid neighborhood.

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#31Tu novia está loca

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Paquito

6.0 / 10
Comedy

Amaya is a modern girl, independent, who runs an advertising gency. The business is doing well and is enmaorada of her boyfriend, a lawyer of lost causes somewhat confused. Its stable and happy life is shattered with the appearance of a famous movie star, party animal and womanizer.

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#32Todo por la pasta

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m as Pereda

5.3 / 10
CrimeThriller

After a robbery at a bingo hall, Azucena, the girlfriend of one of the thieves, decides to seize the money for herself. On the run she stumbles upon Verónica, the manager of a nursing home that wants a cut in exchange of helping her to evade the criminals and the cops.

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#33Héctor

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m as Tomás

6.0 / 10
Drama

Adolescent Hector faces a major lifestyle change after moving into his aunt's flat in a blue-collar suburb of Madrid.

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#34The Good Boy

Movie - 2005, 2h 15m as Paco "El Tigre"

5.0 / 10
Drama

The story follows Angel (González), twenty years old and barely employed, a man of few friends and a not too promising boxing career. Angel and his mother scrape out a living in Madrid. Enter Vidal, a professional bank robber and a real charmer, just back from Argentina. A former boxer with past ties to Angel's mother and his deceased father, he offers Angel a way out of his dead-end life. Along the way, Angel will have to decide who he truly wants to be and, more importantly, what he's willing to give up.

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#35Manos de seda

Movie - 1999, 2h 15m as Charly

4.5 / 10
Thriller

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#36Torapia

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m as Tomás

4.7 / 10
Comedy

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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#37Hitting Bottom

Movie - 1998, 2h 15m as Toni

4.8 / 10
Drama

Juan Gutiérrez, 44, an electrician, has been unemployed for a long time. He decides to leave his family to go find work in Madrid, believing that in the big city the opportunities will be greater. Once there, he discovers that things are not as he believed. He is an electrician. He doesn't want to clean windshields at stoplights or clean cabarets at dawn. He wants to work as an electrician. Occasionally she meets Andy, a Caribbean mulatto who boasts bulletproof optimism. With his sharp wit, he manages as best he can, trying not to be found by the immigration authorities. Despite the distances, "Gallego" and "Sudaca" become friends.

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