Leonor Watling

Acting

Leonor Watling

Born

1975-07-28 (51)

Place of birth

Madrid, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

67 titles

Leonor Elizabeth Ceballos Watling (born July 28, 1975) is an award-winning Spanish film actress and singer.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

2010s · 12 titles

Another Me poster
5.4

A teenager finds her perfect life upended when she's stalked by a mysterious doppelganger who has her eyes set on assuming her identity.

Another Me

2013

Muse poster
5.8

Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered in a strange ritual. Suddenly, the same woman who appears every night in his dreams is found dead in exactly the same circumstances. Samuel sneaks into the crime scene and there he meets Rachel who has also dreamed about the murder. Together, they will do whatever they can to discover the identity of the mystery woman, entering a terrifying world controlled by the figures who have inspired artists throughout time: the Muses.

Muse

2017

Magic Journey to Africa poster
4.3

Jana’s magical journey to Africa contains a deep message about friendship, love, passion, nature and imagination. It is a spiritual journey for adults and a magical one for kids, full of mysteries, adventures and discoveries

Magic Journey to Africa

2010

A Gun in Each Hand poster
5.9

J. is depressed. E. lives peacefully. S. tries to get back with his wife. G. resorts to anxiolytics. P. plays seduction games. María and Sara exchange their husbands. L. calls his lover in a peculiar way.

A Gun in Each Hand

2012

The Food Guide to Love poster
5.4

A dysfunctional love story about an Irish food writer and a politically committed Spanish woman.

The Food Guide to Love

2013

Mujeres, de Coque Malla poster
5.8

Coque Malla meets with a number of female artists during the creative process of his new musical work. Intimate essays, confidences, complicity, sense of humour and creative passion that will culminate in the live recording of the album "Mujeres" ("Women"). A journey through the life of an artist with songs and women as absolute protagonists, with the exception of his close friend, Antonio Dyaz.

Mujeres, de Coque Malla

2019

If I Were You poster
6.6

When a woman tries to outwit her husband's sexy young mistress, the unexpected consequences include starring as King Lear in a very amateur production - with the mistress, an aspiring actress, playing The Fool.

If I Were You

2013

Dark Impulse poster
4.6

Eva, an honest and rigorous examining magistrate, investigates the murder of a young stripper in which a powerful businessman is apparently involved, but she is unable to find enough evidence to implicate him… until a mysterious witness appears who makes her an offer she can't refuse.

Dark Impulse

2012

Querido Fotogramas poster
4.0

The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic of voices represented by people who make films, those who write them and those who consume them. The documentary pays tribute to the readers of “Fotogramas” helped by the leading figures of Spanish cinema, who will read to the camera the most representative letters received at its offices in the history of the magazine.

Querido Fotogramas

2018

Asesinato en la Universidad poster
5.1

In 1543, at the University of Salamanca, in Spain, Fray Antonio Román, an Augustinian monk who spreads humanist ideas, considered heretical, among his more inquisitive students, a clandestine group of four led by the brilliant novice Luis de León, mysteriously dies in unspeakable circumstances. In the present day, the historian Lara Cabanes is hired to find out if the monk was murdered, as is suspected and she is told, but the task will not be easy to achieve.

Asesinato en la Universidad

2018

Lope: The Outlaw poster
5.4

A chronicle of the life of Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega, who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of Theater in the 16th century. Lope returns home from war and enters the theater world when a producer's beautiful daughter takes a shine to him. They embark on a passionate affair as his plays begin to win popular acclaim.

Lope: The Outlaw

2010

My Brother Juan poster
6.0

Ana is a 6-year-old girl who goes to therapy. Through games and drawings, she tells the psychologist about her family, specially about her older brother, Juan. She describes what he is like, how he feels about her, how they play together. But soon, it will be revealed that things are not always exactly what they seem.

My Brother Juan

2019

2000s · 25 titles

Paris Je T'aime poster
6.8

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

Paris Je T'aime

2006

Bad Education poster
7.4

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

Bad Education

2004

Talk to Her poster
7.6

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Talk to Her

2002

My Life Without Me poster
6.1

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

My Life Without Me

2003

The Oxford Murders poster
6.0

At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.

The Oxford Murders

2008

Mean Spirit poster
4.1

Vincent Poirel, a multinational executive, has won the contract to build an Olympic stadium. The original design, however, was by young architect Simon Variot. When he discovers it, he goes to the construction site and is run over by Poirel. Simon dies, but is resurrected in the body of Poirel's son, who doesn't understand why the little boy hates him so much.

Mean Spirit

2003

Salvador (Puig Antich) poster
6.9

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.

Salvador (Puig Antich)

2006

The Maidens' Conspiracy poster
4.1

Constantinople, 1401. The emperor of Byzantium asks the famous knight Tirant lo Blanc to free the city from the siege of the Turks. After his victory, Tirant will have to face a more difficult task: to overcome the natural opposition of Carmesina, heiress to the Ottoman Empire, to surrender her most precious treasure.

The Maidens' Conspiracy

2006

The Secret Life of Words poster
7.0

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

The Secret Life of Words

2005

The Baby's Room poster
6.8

Juan and Sonia arrive at a large old house, an ideal place to raise their newborn son. When, one night before going to bed, they check the operation of the monitoring device installed in the baby's room, they discover that someone is sitting next to the crib.

The Baby's Room

2006

Sound of the Sea poster
5.9

A new literature teacher, Ulises, comes to a small town near the sea and falls in love with a young woman, Martina. This woman is loved by a rich businessman named Alberto but chooses Ulises. Soon after their marriage and the birth of their son, Ulises vanishes while fishing at sea. In the meanwhile Martina marries Alberto, but all is not what it seems...

Sound of the Sea

2001

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired poster
6.3

Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

2008

Unconscious poster
6.9

A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.

Unconscious

2004

Lecture 21 poster
6.1

A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.

Lecture 21

2008

Theresa: The Body of Christ poster
4.5

In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader.

Theresa: The Body of Christ

2007

Hard Times poster
5.6

When the troubled son of an NGO worker refuses to take a test and announces that he is not leaving his room, his concerned mother asks one of her clients, a Cuban exile, for help in setting the boy straight. Gonzalo has decided to drop out of school, and his mother Ana isn't sure how to convince the boy that he's making a crucial mistake. Ana's client Carlos is a Cuban exile who makes his living selling cigars and artwork on the black market. When Carlos learns of Ana's dilemma, he calls on recently released convict Mikel to teach the boy how to play chess. Perhaps is young Gonzalo can master the game, he can learn to start living again. As the lessons get underway, each of these characters learns that in order to truly move on with their lives they much first break free of the bonds that prevent them from being who they really are.

Hard Times

2005

Crónicas poster
6.4

A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."

Crónicas

2004

El elefante del rey poster
6.4

North Sudan, summer 1923. King Alfonso XIII of Spain captures an enormous African elephant, an apparently irrelevant act that, however, will be paramount to understand the Spain of 20th century; an animal from far lands that will become a symbol of the Second Spanish Republic, the communist movement and many other things; a royal hunting that marks the beginning of a bizarre story of jealousy, passion, political intrigues and taxidermy.

El elefante del rey

2003

My Mother Likes Women poster
5.9

Sofia introduces her three adult daughters to her new lover who is their age and happens to be a woman. The women, in particular Elvira find it extremely difficult to accept their mothers sudden apparent sexual reversal. The news pushes the neurotic Elvira to the point of nervous breakdown. Sol, the youngest daughter, writes a lude rock song about it and performs in front of them at a concert. The daughters plot together on how to get their mothers new girlfriend, a native Czech, and brilliant pianist, out of her life. Their plot goes terribly wrong and turns the film from a light-hearted comedy, into mildly amusing drama.

My Mother Likes Women

2002

In the City poster
6.1

A group of eight thirtysomethings search for happiness in their relationships.

In the City

2003

Directed by Almodóvar poster
NR

A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection featuring interviews with many of his frequent collaborators.

Directed by Almodóvar

2007

Behind God's Back poster
5.0

Rosa’s calm existence is disrupted by the arrival of the charming adventurer Ivan. Blinded by unconditional and self-destructive love for him, she leaves everything behind to follow him to the end.

Behind God's Back

2001

Deconstructing Almodóvar poster
NR

A documentary produced for Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection that deconstructs his career through interviews with many of his frequent collaborators.

Deconstructing Almodóvar

2007

Desire poster
5.6

In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.

Desire

2002

Miguel Bosé: Papitour poster
5.0

Three-time Latin Grammy nominee Miguel Bosé celebrates 30 years of making music in a landmark concert held in Spain's Plaza de Toros de las Ventas. With the help of special guest artists Alaska, Bimba Bose, Rafa Sanchez and Ana Torroja, the Panamanian-born singer plows through a set list of his most beloved and popular songs, including a pair of hit singles from his 2007 album "Papito": "Morena Mia" and "Nena."

Miguel Bosé: Papitour

2007

1990s · 6 titles

Outlaw Justice poster
6.4

In the tradition of THE WILD BUNCH and THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN comes this fast paced, action filled western with unforgettable performances by an all star cast: Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Travis Tritt and Waylon Jennings. All hell breaks loose in this riveting story when a group of former outlaws with bad attitudes teams up to catch a killer with murder and revenge on his mind. After Tobey(Jennings), a retired member of the group, is brutally gunned down by a former member and killer, Clinton Reese, our band of reformed gunslingers, Lee (Nelson, Tarence (Kristofferson), and Dalton (Tritt), sets out on Clinton's Trail. They are joined by Tobeys reluctatant young son Bryce (Willett).

Outlaw Justice

1999

Grandes ocasiones poster
5.7

Antonio, a television scriptwriter, decides to separate from Ana, his wife, with whom he has three children in common.

Grandes ocasiones

1998

La primera noche de mi vida poster
6.5

The story is about a couple that sets out for a dinner party on the millennium eve. The woman is pregnant, the guy has no money and no car and has borrowed one from a friend of his. The car of course is not exactly top class and crashes down after few miles. And that's where the film really starts. The couple start fighting and trying to find a way to the parents' house before midnight, hitchhiking on the way and getting into several cars and get themselves involved in the funniest situations.

La primera noche de mi vida

1998

A Time for Defiance poster
6.5

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.

A Time for Defiance

1998

No respires, el amor está en el aire poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

No respires, el amor está en el aire

1999

No artwork available
7.5

Sartorius returns to his hometown in search of his wife, after spending fifteen years imprisoned in a concentration camp. On the train, he meets Beatriz and Bruno, a newlywed couple, and together they head to the mansion of an eccentric architect, where the former prisoner is supposed to meet his wife; but things don't go as planned...

Everybody hurts

1998

Series credits

La Revuelta poster
4.5

David Broncano, along with Jorge Ponce, Ricardo Castella and his other collaborators, lead La Revuelta, a comedy show that includes multiple sections and interviews from the Teatro Príncipe Gran Vía in Madrid.

La Revuelta

2024

Martínez y hermanos poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Martínez y hermanos

2022

MasterChef poster
6.0

MasterChef is a Spanish competitive reality television cooking show based on the British television cooking game show of the same title.

MasterChef

2013

Salvador poster
6.7

During a violent confrontation arranged between radical fans of two football clubs, Salvador Aguirre, an ambulance driver, rescues his injured daughter Milena, a member of the ultra group, which defends racist, violent and homophobic values, totally opposed to those he instilled in her.

Salvador

2026

Unauthorized Living poster
7.2

When a Galician shipper and drug lord hiding his Alzheimer's disease plans to retire, his second-in-command plots to steal the empire from the heir.

Unauthorized Living

2018

Cites Barcelona poster
7.3

In the 21st Century, when dating has become a matter of texting, smartphone apps and virtual experiences, couples that have met via the internet go on a series of first dates. Catalan adaptation of the 2013 British series "Dates"

Cites Barcelona

2023

En Fin poster
5.9

After the Apocalypse doesn't happen, Tomas tries to recover his past life, with little success, while Julia sees in the Non-End of the World a second chance to change her life. Their paths, opposites, will have to converge in the only thing that unites them right now: their daughter Noa.

En Fin

2024

The Vineyard poster
5.8

Mauro Larrea and Soledad Montalvo are two strangers whose destinies cross in the second half of the 19th century, leading to their lives changing forever. A history of glories and defeats, of silver mines, family intrigues, vineyards, wineries, and fascinating cities whose splendor faded over time.

The Vineyard

2021

Like brothers poster
4.2

Two friends raised together as brothers, share a flat despite having opposite personalities.

Like brothers

1994

Pedro x Javis poster
NR

A three-part review of Pedro Almodóvar's life and filmography, tracing his path from La Mancha to global filmmaking prominence and examining recurring themes that define his cinematic vision.

Pedro x Javis

2025

Nasdrovia poster
5.3

Edurne and Julián are two successful lawyers. They decided to quit their careers and open a Russian restaurant: the Nasdrovia. Unfortunately, it's so great that it becomes a favorite of the Russian mafia.

Nasdrovia

2020

The Short Life poster
7.1

Like any young man, Louis is about to experience great changes. He is married to an unknown cousin and is to inherit the throne of Spain. In the middle of the 18th century, this would be a happy episode in the life of any prince, but things are not going to be easy for Louis. With a rebellious wife, an alienated father and a conspiring stepmother, Louis I has to begin his reign. Luckily for him, the problems will soon end.

The Short Life

2025

Querido maestro poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Querido maestro

1997

Raquel busca su sitio poster
6.0

Raquel busca su sitio was a Spanish television series produced by Tesauro S.A.. It consisted of 25 chapters of one hour each. It was broadcast by TVE between 2000 and 2001. TVE decided to extend the original planned run of 13 episodes to 25 due to favorable reviews from the press and from social workers, whose work serves as the theme of the show. It has been rebroadcast by Cosmopolitan TV, Canal Extremadura Televisión and Cubavisión.

Raquel busca su sitio

2000

Besos al aire poster
7.0

Eight interlinked stories of lockdown love sparked during Spain’s first national lockdown during the pandemic.

Besos al aire

2021

Entrepreneurs poster
6.4

Gonzalo, a bar owner's son, keeps failing at nightlife ventures funded by his father. Given one last chance with a new space, he partners with a self-proclaimed guru to open a coworking space, supervised by his sister Julia.

Entrepreneurs

2025

I Don’t Like Driving poster
7.1

A college professor in his forties decides to get his first driver's license.

I Don’t Like Driving

2022

Pounding Instincts poster
5.7

The greatest surgeon in Spain starts seeing his donor's memories after a heart transplant.

Pounding Instincts

2017

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

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