Acting

Xosé Manuel Olveira

Born 1955-01-01 · A Coruña, Galicia, Spain

Xosé Manuel Olveira 'Pico' was born in 1955 in Muros, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain as Xosé Manuel Oliviera Gallardo. He was an actor, known for Pratos combinados (1995), Mar adentro (2004) and O Apóstolo (2012). He died on June 13, 2013 in Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña.

Acting credits

The Sea Inside poster
7.6

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ramón manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.

The Sea Inside

2004

Cell 211 poster
7.4

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

Cell 211

2009

No artwork available
7.0

The story of Salvador, a Galician family man addicted to alcohol.

Esperanza

Maratón poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Maratón

2013

The Apostle poster
7.3

A recently escaped convict seeks to recover a treasure he hid years ago in a small, secluded Galician village. However once there, he finds out that in the village there is an even worse sentence than the one he fled from.

The Apostle

2012

Entre Bateas poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Entre Bateas

2002

Butterfly poster
7.3

The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.

Butterfly

1999

Doentes poster
NR

It tells the story of Valeriano and Cañete, two marked characters that complement and feed each other in a unique scenario, the Compostela of the fifties. The dismantling of the old Royal Hospital to transform it into a luxury hotel fills the streets of Santiago de Compostela with the sick, perpetual pilgrims and the poor. It happens that the night is black, like the future, like the hearts of men, like the country, and it becomes long, very long. Thus, a night of peaceful wandering turns into a mad race for survival of two strangers, friends in pain, who, unable to change the world, no matter how hard they try, struggle, at least, and with all their strength, to see it again tomorrow.

Doentes

2011

Huidos poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Huidos

1993

Todo es silencio poster
4.3

In Brétema, on the Atlantic coast, there was a time when networks of smuggling, drug trafficking converted, achieved so much influence that they were close to control everything: social power, institutions, the lives of its people. Fins, Leda and Frink explore the coast in search of what the sea throws after a wreck, the sea is for them a place of continual discovery. The fate of these young people will be marked by the shadow odious and fascinating at the same time the ubiquitous Marshall, owner of almost everything in Brétema.

Todo es silencio

2012

The Pianist poster
7.8

This music-themed drama is set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past, where the younger Rossell rejoins Teresa after having spent years in prison for helping anti-Franco anarchists. The story continues into Paris of the '30s, the period when Doria and Rossell first met, sharing a mutual interest in music and Teresa, before civil war sent them in different directions.

The Pianist

1998

King of the River poster
6.0

An air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby is born, she gives it to her sister that has already two children. The child grows up as another member of the family. Although the adults keep the secret, the children know that he is different.

King of the River

1995

Fútbol de alterne poster
NR

The story based on an idea by Antón Reixa and inspired by a real case, describes the adventures of a modest football team that, due to various ups and downs, has been sponsored by a girls club. What follows, is the imaginable scandal on the part of the traditional sector of the town, and the subsequent reaction of "living forces." The three main ingredients of this comedy are soccer, with a constant presence in our lives, prostitution and other activities condemned by established morality, and love.

Fútbol de alterne

2009

The Blind Sunflowers poster
6.5

Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…

The Blind Sunflowers

2008

Eu, o tolo poster
9.0

A surreal and metaphysical story around an extravagant character, "Eu" [I/Me]. "Eu" marries his beloved and well-loved bicycle. Accused of the murder of the vehicle, he escapes from prison and becomes president of the government.

Eu, o tolo

1978

18 Meals poster
5.7

Food, glorious food! Some of the most sumptuous and involving films revolve around that most common of acts: eating. 18 MEALS is an omnibus film of criss-crossing stories divided into three segments; breakfast, lunch and dinner. Jorge Coira's debut feature, shot over nine days in Santiago de Compostela has enough tasty portions to please audiences. Amongst Coira's expansive ensemble are aging street musician Edu, a pair awaking from a one-night stand, a businessman visiting his closeted homosexual brother and a lonely housewife, Sol. Victor and Sol are two of 18 MEALS' most fascinating characters as they each hide something - his sexuality, her depression - from those around them. Best of all is Pedro Alsono as Vladimir, a local celebrity actor who makes a meal for a mystery woman who never arrives. Who hasn't gone to a lot of trouble to do something extra special for someone just to have it go unappreciated?

18 Meals

2010

La noche que dejó de llover poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La noche que dejó de llover

2009

Here's the Deal poster
5.0

Suso and Manuel, two-parent family and lifelong friends, met fifty years, they become unemployed. When the situation is no longer tenable, an unusual fact: one day, while fishing, find a package with ten kilos of cocaine.

Here's the Deal

2013

Retornos poster
6.0

Álvaro, before escaping from himself during ten years, return to his town, a small village in Galicia, to attend to his father's funeral. There he will try to make it up with his brother and to recoup his daugther Mar. Everything gets complicated when he finds a dead woman in the road, the woman is Lidia, a Mar's friend who works as a prostitute.

Retornos

2010

No artwork available
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Blanca Madison

1998

El espejo poster
3.5

The protagonist of this chilling story, Sonia, going through a crisis in their marriage when buying at auction an old mirror from a hotel. The mirror will show images of the murder of a woman in a hotel room where he was ...

El espejo

2008

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sinbad

2011