Victoria Abril
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.228 |
| Birthday | 1959-07-04 |
| Place of Birth | Madrid, Spain |
| Also Known As | Victoria Mérida Rojas, 빅토리아 아브릴, ვიქტორია აბრილი, ویکتوریا آبریل, |
1990
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
6.9/629
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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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
1983
I Married a Shadow
6.4/29
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I Married a Shadow
1995
French Twist
6.075/305
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French Twist
2000
101 Reykjavik
6.169/118
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2018
Paprika
10/1
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Paprika
1994
Jimmy Hollywood
5.2/65
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...
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Jimmy Hollywood
1991
High Heels
7.082/421
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High Heels
1993
Kika
6.5/290
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Kika
2008
Walking Vengeance
5.3/33
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Walking Vengeance
1986
Nuit d'ivresse
6/92
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Nuit d'ivresse
2004
The 7th Day
6.5/42
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The 7th Day
1991
Lovers: A True Story
6.5/58
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Lovers: A True Story
1986
Max My Love
6.2/28
The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.
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Max My Love
2008
48 Hours a Day
4.6/8
A young professional woman takes radical action to force her husband's help with the household chores.
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48 Hours a Day
2001
Don't Tempt Me
5.524/82
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Don't Tempt Me
2008
Leur morale… et la nôtre
4.2/9
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1983
The Moon in the Gutter
5.8/49
A dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for two women.
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The Moon in the Gutter
2006
The Maidens' Conspiracy
4/38
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The Maidens' Conspiracy
2008
A Day at the Museum
4.5/42
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2004
School of Seduction
2.5/5
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School of Seduction
2009
Mejor que Nunca
3.5/4
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Mejor que Nunca
1994
Casque bleu
5.389/55
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Casque bleu
2006
Summer Rain
4.8/15
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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Summer Rain
1991
Une époque formidable
6.394/104
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,...
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1988
Sans peur et sans reproche
5.4/35
Without fear and beyond reproach: the life of the brave knight de Bayard reviewed and corrected with humorous sauce.
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Sans peur et sans reproche
2006
Les Aristos
4.395/58
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Les Aristos
1984
Bicycles Are for the Summer
6.8/28
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Bicycles Are for the Summer
1999
Between Your Legs
5.3/52
A radio-show assistant meets a budding screenwriter during a group-therapy session for sex addicts.
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Between Your Legs
2004
Swindled
6.022/23
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Swindled
1981
Comin' at Ya!
4.563/17
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...
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Comin' at Ya!
2001
Our Tropical Island
5.9/31
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...
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Our Tropical Island
1995
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
7/32
A hit man searches for an alcoholic prostitute who has witnessed a crime and fled to Madrid.
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Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
1996
Freedomfighters
6.3/58
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Freedomfighters
2004
Cause toujours !
4.5/4
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Cause toujours !
1989
If They Tell You I Fell
4.4/13
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If They Tell You I Fell
1977
Esposa y amante
3.8/4
Luisa's daughter attempted suicide. While attending the clinic and, contemplating the state of his daughter, Luisa recalls the early happy years of he...
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Esposa y amante
1993
Intruso
4.2/8
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Intruso
2012
Big is Beautiful
5.8/183
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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1982
The Beehive
6.5/43
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...
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The Beehive
2023
Drôle de genre
8/1
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Drôle de genre
1987
Barrios altos
4.5/4
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...
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Barrios altos
1977
Change of Sex
5.6/16
A seventeen-year-old boy follows the painful path to discovering that he is transsexual.
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Change of Sex
1980
Girl with the Golden Panties
4.8/12
Luys Forest is a writer with a Falangist political past. He lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting hi...
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1982
Murder in the Central Committee
4.3/6
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 assas...
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Murder in the Central Committee
1986
Tiempo de silencio
5/11
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 the...
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Tiempo de silencio
1987
Lute: Forge On or Die
5.806/36
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...
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Lute: Forge On or Die
1999
My Father, My Mother, My Brothers and My Sisters
5.6/11
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...
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My Father, My Mother, My Brothers and My Sisters
1984
On the Line
4.4/5
A Border Patrol agent is determined to catch his old nemesis, an American criminal who successfully smuggles illegal aliens across the border from Mex...
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On the Line
1990
Alone Together
5/1
A blind woman is the witness of a murder.
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Alone Together
1992
Too Much Heart
4.3/7
Two twin sisters fall in love for the same man.
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Too Much Heart
2008
Oscar. The color of destiny
1/1
"Óscar. The Color of Destiny" is a revealing portrayal of a forgotten icon of French Surrealism: Spanish painter Óscar Domínguez, contemporary of Pica...
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Oscar. The color of destiny
1987
Ternosecco
4.7/3
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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Ternosecco
1980
Mater amatísima
5.1/7
Clara- an attractive- sophisticated and unmarried woman- and the autistic child who transforms and absorbs her life- astonishingly interpreted by a ve...
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Mater amatísima
1981
The Battle of Reefer
5.2/2
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The Battle of Reefer
1980
Who Is That Splashing in the Mediterranean?
3.2/13
Two half-brothers have to go on a road trip to find their half-sister and receive a huge inheritance.
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Who Is That Splashing in the Mediterranean?
1988
Baton Rouge
5/9
Poor gigolo tries to frame his rich mature mistress, but gets tangled in his own wiles.
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Baton Rouge
1984
L'Addition
4.8/20
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 i...
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L'Addition
2005
Les gens honnêtes vivent en France
1.5/2
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Les gens honnêtes vivent en France
2003
Kaena: The Prophecy
5.9/91
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...
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Kaena: The Prophecy
1985
Our Father
4.6/9
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...
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Our Father
1983
No Trace of Sin
6.4/5
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, w...
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No Trace of Sin
1985
After Darkness
4.4/7
To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to b...
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After Darkness
1985
The House of Ulloa
0/0
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 mo...
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The House of Ulloa
1988
El placer de matar
3.2/9
Two assassins: Luis, young and impulsive and André, married teacher. Fate lets them cross their lines, evident in the same victim. From the beginning...
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El placer de matar
1988
El juego más divertido
5.3/3
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 p...
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El juego más divertido
2004
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
6.9/32
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 Aill...
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De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
1985
Rouge-gorge
4.9/5
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....
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Rouge-gorge
1984
Le voyage
0/0
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 dr...
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Le voyage
2016
Born to Win
4.3/29
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...
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Born to Win
2012
The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears
5/1
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. Meanw...
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The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears
1997
La Femme du cosmonaute
3.8/3
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 eac...
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La Femme du cosmonaute
1983
The Bastard
0/0
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 Bastard
1980
Le Cœur à l'envers
4.5/2
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 mo...
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Le Cœur à l'envers
1984
The Most Beautiful Night
4.2/5
Federico, an executive of national television, begins to suspect that his wife Elena, an actress who retired prematurely after marriage, is cheating h...
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The Most Beautiful Night
2016
Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous
5.8/271
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...
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Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous
1985
The Witching Hour
4.4/7
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 fi...
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The Witching Hour
1982
La Guérilléra
0/0
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La Guérilléra
2014
Untied! Reflections on Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
0/0
Produced in 2014, this documentary about the making of TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! features interviews with director Pedro Almodóvar; actors Antonio Bande...
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Untied! Reflections on Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
2013
Josephine
5.869/290
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...
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Josephine
2006
Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
8/1
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 w...
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Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
1984
Sous le signe du poisson
0/0
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Sous le signe du poisson
1977
Caperucita y Roja
0/0
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Caperucita y Roja
1977
Foul Play
4.9/18
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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Foul Play
1982
Entre paréntesis
4.5/4
Two men have problems committing to relationships with their partners. They live it up, in town to remain independent, but their heartstrings are pull...
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Entre paréntesis
1976
Robin Hood, Arrow, Beans and Karate
0/0
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 Hood, Arrow, Beans and Karate
1975
Obsesión
5/3
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Obsesión
1985
El crimen del capitán Sánchez
4.8/4
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 a...
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El crimen del capitán Sánchez
1979
The Shack
6/1
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez wrote in 1898 "La barraca" (The Shack), a novel with some cultural significance among Spanish literature for reflecting rural li...
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The Shack
1982
La casa del paraíso
2/2
Victoria, a beautiful woman, breaks into a large house, where strage people live without ever leaving the house. There is an enigmatical man who contr...
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La casa del paraíso
1977
Doña Perfecta
2/1
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Doña Perfecta
1988
Ada in the Jungle
2/1
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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Ada in the Jungle
1976
Robin and Marian
6.284/232
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
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Robin and Marian
2002
Et après?
0/0
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 t...
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Et après?
2018
Bernarda
6/1
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 factor...
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Bernarda
2016
Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
7.5/3
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...
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Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
2005
Neon Flesh
6/1
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 ou...
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Neon Flesh
2020
Wishlist
6.8/26
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 a...
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Wishlist
2010
The Great Restaurant
5.8/13
Fragments of the lives of the customers of a great restaurant and the inconvenience of its manager.
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The Great Restaurant
1976
El hombre que supo amar
2/1
The life of Juan de Dios and his struggle against social, political and religious structures.
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El hombre que supo amar
2018
On refait les grands duos d'humour
0/0
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On refait les grands duos d'humour
1990
La mujer lunática
0/0
A man falls in love with an unusual woman
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La mujer lunática
2017
La Loi de Gloria
0/0
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La Loi de Gloria
1987
Law of Desire
7.2/300
Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring hi...
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Law of Desire
2021
The Grand Restaurant III
5.3/8
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”...
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The Grand Restaurant III
2024
Asesinatos sólo en El Hormiguero
0/0
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Asesinatos sólo en El Hormiguero
2010
Clem
0/0
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Clem
2007
Grupo Corpo: Dance Theatre from Brazil
0/0
One of Brazil's most popular contemporary dance ensembles, Grupo Corpo combines Afro-Brazilian movements with ballet and modern dance to create an inn...
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