Ramon Agirre

Acting

Ramon Agirre

Born

1954-01-01 (72)

Place of birth

Donostia, Gipuzkoa, Euskadi, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

67 titles

Ramon Agirre Lasarte is an actor, comedian, writer and Spanish painter who has developed the vast majority of his work in his mother tongue, Basque. However, he has also participated in different international productions in other languages. He was born in the neighborhood of Amara, Donosti-San Sebastián. Although he studied architecture at the University of Valladolid and his hometown, after studying acting at the School of Dramatic Art of the Basque Government his working life has been linked to the field of performance since 1983. Among the most recognized films in which he has participated are Handia, winner of ten Goya Awards in 2018 and the San Sebastian International Film Festival Awa…

Known for

Cuéntame cómo pasó poster
7.1

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.

Cuéntame cómo pasó

2001

Money Heist poster
8.2

To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, every probability - culminate in eleven days locked up in the National Coinage and Stamp Factory of Spain, surrounded by police forces and with dozens of hostages in their power, to find out whether their suicide wager will lead to everything or nothing.

Money Heist

2017

Aquí no hay quien viva poster
8.4

A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.

Aquí no hay quien viva

2003

The Boarding School: Las Cumbres poster
7.5

In an inaccessible place between the mountains and isolated from the world, a school is located next to an old monastery. The students are rebellious and problematic young people who live under the strict and severe discipline imposed by the center to reintegrate them into society. The surrounding forest is home to ancient legends, threats that are still valid and that will immerse them in terrifying adventures.

The Boarding School: Las Cumbres

2021

[REC]³ Genesis poster
5.3

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

[REC]³ Genesis

2012

The Day of the Beast poster
7.3

When a rogue priest discovers the exact date the Antichrist will be born, he enlists a Death Metal record store clerk and a cheesy TV psychic for an urban spree of gore, sacrilege and twisted humor to prevent the Apocalypse.

The Day of the Beast

1995

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

Irati poster
6.6

Western Pyrenees, year 778. When his land is threatened by the ruthless armies of the Frankish emperor, a Basque warlord asks for help from his ancestral gods.

Irati

2023

The Teacher Who Promised the Sea poster
7.7

The buried memories of the Spanish Civil War are unearthed as a woman searches for the remains of her grandfather's father and discovers the story of an idealistic young teacher from Tarragona.

The Teacher Who Promised the Sea

2023

Black Is Beltza II: Ainhoa poster
7.2

Ainhoa is born by chance in La Paz (Bolivia); but she grows up in Cuba and, at the age of 21, in 1988, she travels to the Basque Country (Spain) to discover the land of Manex, her father. In the midst of political struggle, she meets Josune, a committed journalist, and her group of friends.

Black Is Beltza II: Ainhoa

2022

Ombuaren itzala poster
NR

A film about the life and work of the bertsolari Pedro Mari Otaño. A journey through the exile and the rebirth of an oppressed people.

Ombuaren itzala

2024

Nina poster
6.5

After thirty years, Nina decides to return to the seaside town where she grew up to confront the man who changed her life and to whom the town now pays homage. The reunion with her origins, with her memories and with Blas, a childhood friend, will make her question whether revenge is the only way.

Nina

2024

Summer in Red poster
5.4

Madrid, summer of 2010. Commissioner María Ruiz investigates the sinister crime of a young man. With no visible identity and no clues or apparent motive, María will begin an investigation that will become more and more complicated.

Summer in Red

2023

Norbert(a) poster
6.1

A working-class couple in their 60s plan a heist to finance the husband's gender-affirming surgery.

Norbert(a)

2024

Ehiza poster
NR

Basque Country, late 19th century. In a small village, the parish priest Mateo disappears without a trace. Faced with the gossip of the locals, the Archbishopric sends two priests to investigate the truth of the matter.

Ehiza

2024

2010s · 26 titles

[REC]³ Genesis poster
5.3

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

[REC]³ Genesis

2012

Amour poster
7.7

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

Amour

2012

Palm Trees in the Snow poster
7.4

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.

Palm Trees in the Snow

2015

Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City poster
5.7

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, 2019. Two corpses appear in the crypt of the Old Cathedral. Police officer Unai López de Ayala, an expert in criminal profiling, must hunt down the ritual murderer who has been terrorizing the city for two decades.

Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City

2019

The Queen of Spain poster
5.2

After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to The Girl of Your Dreams, 1998.)

The Queen of Spain

2016

Julieta poster
7.0

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.

Julieta

2016

Giant poster
6.6

Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.

Giant

2017

Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil poster
6.4

Basque Country, Spain, 1843. A police constable arrives at a small village in Álava to investigate a mysterious blacksmith who lives alone deep in the woods.

Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil

2018

Operation Golden Shell poster
4.6

A con artist owner of a bankrupt film company tries to lure in an investor by hiring a movie star's look-alike and passing him off as the real deal.

Operation Golden Shell

2017

Getaway Plan poster
5.5

A thief expert with blowtorch is hired by a group of the Russian mob for a bank assault.

Getaway Plan

2017

Wounded poster
5.1

The first work from Fernando Franco revolves around Ana, a 30 year old ambulance driver. Though good at her job, Ana has problems relating in her personal life. She doesn't know it, but she suffers from a condition known by psychiatrists as Borderline Personality Disorder. The situation pushes her to outbreaks of self-destructive behaviour, alcohol abuse and self-harm. Ana is incapable of getting what she wants most: to be happy.

Wounded

2013

Black Is Beltza poster
5.6

New York City, October 10, 1965. A group of wooden giant figures from Pamplona, representing Basque culture and traditions, parade down the street; but the local authorities have not allowed the appearance of all of them: due to the racial prejudices that persist in many sectors of society, the participation of two black giants has been banned.

Black Is Beltza

2018

Igelak (Frogs) poster
4.7

Pello, a bank branch manager, is arrested on charges of embezzlement. Abandoned by his superior (who got him involved in the heist), Pello escapes from the court room and goes on the run. With no papers, no money and no family or friends he can trust, he changes identity so that he can stay undercover for a time. By chance he ends up hiding in a building that has been occupied by a group of people evicted from their homes who are fighting his bank. Pello gains their trust, all the time planning to steal money from them to pay for false documentation so that he can escape abroad and start a new life.

Igelak (Frogs)

2016

The Deer poster
6.0

Khalil is a young man torn from his roots who lives on the edge of town, where the industrial estates merge into the river and the marshes. Khalil gets by as best he can and spends his time with an old poacher, who shares a house on the riverbank with a brother he hasn't spoken to in years. On the banks of the marshes, the tides mark the time of love and heartbreak, of friendship and revenge.

The Deer

2018

Mystikal poster
4.1

In a last era, in an imaginary world dominated by shadows, three get conquer evil wizards and place in three boxes of Pandora. Every magician must save their life and protect each of the boxes containing: war, plague and famine. If the ghosts manage to break free, will open the gates of hell.

Mystikal

2010

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

Alaba zintzoa poster
NR

The story of Susana, a young woman who works as a house cleaner. Susana's life is anything but easy; on the contrary, it is full of problems. The constant work and complications that Susana has to face almost daily mean that she urgently needs a break. So when she sees that her employers' house is empty because they have gone on vacation, Susana sees her chance: she moves in for a while to enjoy the luxuries of the rich, so far removed from her daily life.

Alaba zintzoa

2013

Kalebegiak poster
7.0

Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian.

Kalebegiak

2016

For the Good Times poster
8.0

On the birthday of the patriarch of the family, one of his sons decides to come out of the closet and test the tolerance of his nearest and dearest. But the surprises that he has up his sleeve do not end there.

For the Good Times

2017

Bye Bye Mr. Etxebeste! poster
7.4

Patrizio Etxebeste decides to resign from the office of mayor for health problems, but few know the real reason: the recent corruption scandals uncovered in nearby towns lead him to believe that his may be the next head to roll. Who better to take up the reins and maintain the control than Mª Luisa, his faithful wife? But it won’t all be quite as simple as it once might have been. His decorative wife decides not to be quite so decorative and starts taking action.

Bye Bye Mr. Etxebeste!

2019

Baztan poster
NR

A film crew travels to the Valley of Baztan to make a film about certain events that occurred in the seventeenth century is the history of discrimination suffered by so-called "agotes", people who were forced to live apart from the rest almost to our days.

Baztan

2012

Deus et Machina poster
NR

The employee comes to the factory every day. He is the only person who is qualified to do his particular job. It is precise, mundane, and repetitive work. Every morning he goes through the same drill, starting up each machine. Today, though, he has made a decision...

Deus et Machina

2012

Txarriboda poster
5.0

The story of Fran, a young businessman who, seeing his fortune threatened by his marital problems, decides to devise a complex plan to get rid of his wife. What he doesn't know is that he will have to face Klara, a police officer specializing in serial killers, who has very personal reasons for pursuing murderers of women.

Txarriboda

2015

The Stone poster
NR

Arriya (La piedra) is a look at our time, our people ... a nod to hope from this stuck in the past, on the bus, in a heavy stone behind from the start of memory. Maria runs after Peru through the streets of the village with the beret that has lost on the road. The family of Peru and Mary seal a clash, a dispute, which accounts, on a journey of no return, the future of the village and its inhabitants. A mule, a horse ... And a stone, the stone

The Stone

2011

Arconada poster
NR

Jon wants to be Arconada, the mythical goalkeeper of Real Sociedad, but is the substitute goalkeeper of the school soccer team.

Arconada

2013

No artwork available
9.0

A group of children are playing on the train tracks, challenging each other to see who stays longer on the tracks before the train comes. Ander stays a bit longer than what he should have and, grazed by the train, he was thrown out of the tracks, leaving him with a number of important physical and neurological injuries, which will disrupt his future and his family's, turning their lives into the same harsh and dramatic 'ZEINEK GEHIAGO IRAUN' game that changed them for good.

Who Lasts Longer

2011

2000s · 9 titles

The 13 Roses poster
6.6

True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed without even a trace of evidence of any wrong doing.

The 13 Roses

2007

Go!azen poster
10.0

Beñat has failed 7 subjects in school, so his parents have decided to send him to a summer camp. Irati is shy and a good student, but has been having a difficult time since her parents decided to get a divorce. As soon as Beñat and Irati look at each other, it will be love at first sight, which will completely change the summer for both of them.

Go!azen

2008

King of the Farm poster
8.0

In a distant galaxy, Neuronia controls the minds of the inhabitants until one of them escapes with the sphere.

King of the Farm

2002

Aupa Etxebeste! poster
5.6

The same day that the Etxebeste Family are leaving for their holidays, they lost all their money. They have to keep up appearances in front of the residents, so they will hide them selves at home. During their stay at home the Etxebestes will throw each other miserys and lies but later they will enjoy the best holidays in their life.

Aupa Etxebeste!

2005

No artwork available
6.2

After the death of the last survivor of a multiple murder, which remained in a coma, a journalist is asked to make an infographic about the case. Her personal involvement with the event will give clues to unexpected connections that shed new research data.

The End of the Night

2006

Lucio poster
7.5

There are plenty of anarchists in the world. Many have committed robbery or smuggling for their cause. Fewer have discussed strategies with Che Guevara or saved the skin of Eldridge Cleaver, the leader of the Black Panthers. There is only one who has done all that, and also brought to its knees the most powerful bank on the planet by forging travellers cheques, without missing a single day of work in his construction job. He is Lucio Urtubia, from a tiny village in Navarra in North of Spain. Lucio, 75, now lives in Paris, still raising anarchist hell.

Lucio

2007

Mi hijo Arturo poster
10.0

Arturo is obsessed with cleanliness and order. This trait interferes with his normal life and raises problems with those around him, specially with his mother and bride. A doctor suggests he should make a treatment with gamma rays, in his private practice.

Mi hijo Arturo

2001

Sukalde kontuak poster
NR

The entertaining and absurd story of a dilapidated cooking school and its students during a day in which they discover a hidden treasure.

Sukalde kontuak

2009

Tercero B poster
7.4

A woman entrusts her belongings to a stranger while she goes into the sea to take a swim. But when she comes out again, the stranger has disappeared, taking everything with him, including the keys to her house.

Tercero B

2002

1990s · 9 titles

The Day of the Beast poster
7.3

When a rogue priest discovers the exact date the Antichrist will be born, he enlists a Death Metal record store clerk and a cheesy TV psychic for an urban spree of gore, sacrilege and twisted humor to prevent the Apocalypse.

The Day of the Beast

1995

Suerte poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Suerte

1997

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

Menos que cero poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Menos que cero

1996

The People at Universal poster
7.0

Former Sergeant Diogenes Hernandez owns the Universal, a precarious detective agency private in the Centre of Bogotá, which is based in the same apartment where he and his wife Fabiola inhabit. His nephew, Clemente Fernández, who works at the Agency, maintains a romance with Fabiola, without trying to hurt the feelings of his uncle, but driven by the need to alleviate their empty urban and anonymous man.

The People at Universal

1991

Off-eko maitasuna poster
10.0

Ana, a young Basque woman whose husband, Tomás, is serving a sentence for terrorism in Puerto de Santa María, finds love again with Luis. Although Tomás, aware that his chances of regaining his freedom are nil, encourages her to rebuild her love life, this new relationship is met with rejection by those close to the prisoner.

Off-eko maitasuna

1992

Santa Cruz, the guerrilla priest poster
10.0

Juán Auzmendi, sacristan of a small Spanish village, decides to emigrate to America in search of new horizons. To pay for the trip, he steals the saving of his parish priest and begins the journey to the city of Pasajes, where he hopes to get on a ship. But Spain is again on the verge of a Civil War and the trip to the coast gets complicated.

Santa Cruz, the guerrilla priest

1990

Hotel y domicilio poster
3.3

Ángel works as a forensic doctor in a medium-sized city. Abandoned by his partner, a psychiatrist friend and neighbor helps him, induces him to play sports, and directs him to a dating agency to solve his most pressing problem. This is how Ángel meets Bruno, a hustler in his early twenties , and Mavi, a prostitute with whom he maintains a friendly relationship. But in Bruno's past there is Guillermo, a former police officer who was his pimp until a conviction separated them...

Hotel y domicilio

1995

Zapico poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zapico

1996

1980s · 6 titles

Series credits

Cuéntame cómo pasó poster
7.1

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.

Cuéntame cómo pasó

2001

Money Heist poster
8.2

To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, every probability - culminate in eleven days locked up in the National Coinage and Stamp Factory of Spain, surrounded by police forces and with dozens of hostages in their power, to find out whether their suicide wager will lead to everything or nothing.

Money Heist

2017

Aquí no hay quien viva poster
8.4

A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.

Aquí no hay quien viva

2003

The Boarding School: Las Cumbres poster
7.5

In an inaccessible place between the mountains and isolated from the world, a school is located next to an old monastery. The students are rebellious and problematic young people who live under the strict and severe discipline imposed by the center to reintegrate them into society. The surrounding forest is home to ancient legends, threats that are still valid and that will immerse them in terrifying adventures.

The Boarding School: Las Cumbres

2021

Go!azen poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Go!azen

2008

Gaupasa poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gaupasa

2026

Gente Hablando poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Gente Hablando

2018

On Death Row poster
6.5

The lifeless bodies of a man and two women appear in a house in Miami. Some images recorded by a video camera lead the police to believe that the murderer is the Spaniard Pablo Ibar, who will be tried and sentenced to death.

On Death Row

2019

Mouths of Sky poster
5.0

Nerea Garcia is having a rough time of it; it’s four years since she was thrown out of the Basque Ertzaintza police force and she now leads a solitary life in her Bilbao home. The appearance of a woman’s corpse, murdered in some kind of ritual, prompts her former boss to ask her for help with the investigation. What Nerea hadn’t realised is that ghosts from the past and present would lead her down into the bowels of the city, where nothing and nobody is what it seems.

Mouths of Sky

2025