María Galiana

Acting

María Galiana

Born

1935-05-31 (91)

Place of birth

Seville, Andalucía, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

43 titles

María Galiana was born on May 31, 1935 in Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain. She is an actress, known for Cuéntame cómo pasó (2001), Solas (1999) and Tapas (2005). She was previously married to Rafael.  She worked many years as a teacher in a public high school. She began her career as an actress in the 80s, when she was 50 years old. She won the 1999 Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of the mother in Solas.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 9 titles

My Dearest Señorita poster
6.5

A young woman from a traditional family learns she's intersex, sparking a journey of self-discovery, gender identity and love found in unexpected places.

My Dearest Señorita

2026

La luz poster
7.0

A beloved parish priest, Manuel, is ready to leave the clergy and start anew. But when his past threatens to surface, he must face the consequences, beginning a journey that leads him to challenge the institution that protected him.

La luz

2026

Roba estesa poster
NR

A very sharp-witted, lonely grandmother manages to get a little company from time to time.

Roba estesa

2025

Criaturas poster
NR

Two fictional characters from very different stories meet by chance. This will give them the opportunity to reflect on their own existence and the nature of their reality.

Criaturas

2024

Upiro poster
NR

Spain, 1755. Ana is sent to a cloistered monastery where several nuns are afflicted by a mysterious disease. With the help of an unorthodox priest, the young novice uncovers an ancient legend and malevolent force: a bloodthirsty upiro.

Upiro

2027

Cinema España poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cinema España

2024

On the Second Floor poster
10.0

Aurora is an elderly woman who lives alone in an apartment in Madrid. Since her husband passed away, and most of her friends, her only visitor is a small bird. She feels neglected as she looks at all the things that constantly remind her of her past.

On the Second Floor

2021

Black Society poster
4.0

LIANG HUAN is a young man with a Chinese mother and a Spanish father who grew up in the suburbs of Barcelona. He makes a living giving as a kung fu teacher and dealing with his neighborhood friends: PARDALES, a thief by profession who is like a cat with nine lives, and TRACAS, a drug dealer who is dim-witted, but with a big heart. Liang's great love is PEI LAN, a beautiful and mysterious student who attends his classes. What LIANG doesn't know is that Pei Lan is the daughter of SOONG, head of the Chinese mafia in Barcelona, whom she hopes to succeed one day. In order to get Pardales out of his regular prison visits, Liang acts as a confidant of MONTSE GELABERT, a police inspector who is after the Chinese mafia for having killed her family years ago.

Black Society

2024

Until We Bury Them! poster
NR

A group of neighbours has been evicted from the communal housing where they had lived all their lives. They decide to take revenge on the speculator responsible for the injustice.

Until We Bury Them!

2025

2000s · 9 titles

Fugitives poster
4.9

Tony is a young crook preparing for a bank robbery with her boyfriend Juanjo and their low-life partners Maxi and Moco. Right before they commit the crime, Juanjo informs Tony that his prostitute sister wants him to take her young daughter Laura to visit the girl's father, a flamenco singer in the Spanish southern coastal town of Tarifa. Juanjo persuades the initially reluctant Tony that Laura will provide the couple with a perfect cover after they relieve their partners of the robbery's earnings. Unfortunately, though the robbery comes off without a hitch, the duplicitous Juanjo absconds with the cash, making Tony and Laura fugitives both from the law and from the psychotically angry Maxi and Moco.

Fugitives

2000

Roma poster
6.5

Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.

Roma

2004

Young Blood poster
8.0

A fateful attempt to reconcile an estranged family relationship offers a moving portrait of love blunted by tragedy in this affecting family drama from director Leo Ricciardi. Little Santiago is traveling into the countryside with his parents when a sudden tragedy prevents the trio from extending the olive branch to the boy's curmudgeonly grandfather Juan. A man whose long and difficult life gradually turned his heart to stone, Juan soon finds the companionship of his wide-eyed grandson offering new hope for a world he previously dismissed as callous and cruel.

Young Blood

2007

Tapas poster
5.9

The film centers on a Spanish tapas bar and the love lives of the loosely interconnected people in the neighborhood surrounding the bar. The pairs of lovers include a middle aged woman and a young man; an elderly, drug dealing woman and her terminally ill husband in poor health; the tapas bar owner and his estranged wife; and two Chinese immigrants.

Tapas

2006

The Wooden Box poster
7.0

After the death of don Lucio, his widow Eloísa asks one of her neighbours to use the latter's house in order to hold the dead man's wake, since Eloísa's own house is too small for that. From then on, a series of strange happenings take place during a single day.

The Wooden Box

2006

No Pain, No Gain poster
6.2

David is a teenager who feels he doesn't belong to a life where his family, friends and the girl he loves seem not to understand him.

No Pain, No Gain

2001

Una pasión singular poster
3.7

Spain, August 1936, the first days of the Spanish Civil War. During the painful pilgrimage of the Andalusian writer Blas Infante (1885-1936) from prison to prison, always on the verge of death, various images cross his mind: people, dreams, remnants of his past.

Una pasión singular

2003

No artwork available
NR

A colorfully yet emotional comedy, filled with provoking political criticism, placed in a contemporary scenario, where salmons and frogs coexist with the inhabitants of a small village, near a beautiful river. This year though, the river and its inhabitants are about to stir things up. The twin brothers Jaime and Nacho find themselves challenging each other for the most important political seat in the nation

Dos rivales casi iguales

2007

Viva Sapato! poster
5.1

A light-hearted and high-spirited story, full of spice, sensuality and romance, Viva Zapato tells the tale of Dolores, a beautiful Cuban dancer who decides to leave her failing marriage and open a restaurant by the beach with her aunt from Brazil. When her aunt sends her a pair of shoes instead of the money to start up the restaurant, she angrily sells the useless gift for spare change. Her dream fades away - until she discovers that the money was hidden in the heel. The zany search for the shoes begins, as she follows the footsteps through the lively streets of Havana, running into the quirky, colorful characters that bring Viva Zapato and Dolores' dream.

Viva Sapato!

2003

1990s · 15 titles

Belle Époque poster
6.7

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.

Belle Époque

1992

Más allá del jardín poster
5.0

Palmira, a woman belonging to the Sevillian aristocracy, as well known for her decrepitude and hypocrisy as the rest of her population, enters into an emotional crisis when she reaches maturity.

Más allá del jardín

1996

The Longest Night poster
6.8

Fifteen years after the plot a lawyer and a military ex-attorney meet and recall the intense days of 1975 when both participated in the decission of war or peace. The film is told in flashbacks of the two protagonists.

The Longest Night

1991

Banderas, the Tyrant poster
5.4

In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.

Banderas, the Tyrant

1993

Alone poster
7.1

Maria has just moved into a decaying flat in a poor neighbourhood. She left her family in the countryside because she could no longer stand her father's authority. Pregnant by a man who refuses to see her, Maria gets by as a cleaning-woman. When her father is brought to the city for an operation, her mother moves into her flat.

Alone

1999

Yerma poster
4.2

Yerma is desperate to have children, so when a psychic advises her to look outside her marriage to conceive, what can she say but yes?

Yerma

1999

Freedomfighters poster
6.5

At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.

Freedomfighters

1996

La duquesa roja poster
5.3

An Andalusian duchess has the dilemma of what to do with a grove, whether to convert it into a natural reserve or to make a luxury urbanization. The duchess, who is torn between her aristocratic privileges and a social commitment that has cost her more than one dislike in the past, must make a decision about her lands, to which she wants to get some money without harming the people. On the other hand, An ambitious Basque financier, Antónón Ibarrondo, intends to build a luxury urbanization in the Marbella style in the grove. Around the duchess, the businessman, environmentalists and other members in the conflict, problems begin to arise and everything will be decided in a referendum, convened with the idea that it is the people who decide, which coincides with the annual celebration of the Pilgrimage del Pueblo.With a cast "

La duquesa roja

1997

The Seducer poster
4.6

Cosme, a 15-year-old boy, sets his sights and his libido on his new neighbor, Merche. After giving her a lift on his moped, and getting a glimpse of her underwear, he begins to look for excuses to wander next door. He manufactures illnesses to stay home from school and uses his free time to ogle her while she sunbathes outside. His efforts to sustain a relationship that leads to the bedroom are hampered by his amusing family, sabotaged by the maid, and jealously noted by his high school girlfriend.

The Seducer

1995

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

Suspiros de España (y Portugal) poster
5.3

After the death of the abbot of a small convent the two monks who are left discover among the papers of the passed away abbot letters from the mother of one of them indicating that he is the natural son of a landowner in Extremadura. In order to claim the legacy of his friend the monk who has lived outside the convent for some time plans their voyage to the property of his father picking up on their way his daughter and lover. Once in Extremadura things look a little different to what the plans say.

Suspiros de España (y Portugal)

1995

The Lame Pigeon poster
5.1

Little Felipe has been sick for a long time. To hasten his recovery, his parents send him to spend the summer of 1958 in the villa of his grandparents, located in the wealthy quarter of Cadiz. The warm climate of southern Spain is good for the boy, but the inhabitants of the great home may be a different story as all the relatives within are a tad strange. There Felipe meets his great-grandmother and her tough nurse Adoracion who patiently listens to grandmama's reminiscence's of the bandoleros who died for her. Felipe is not allowed to leave his bed, but his hours pass pleasantly thanks to the ministrations of the sexy Mari, a virgin, who loves to tease her four strapping aspiring lovers. As the summer progresses, Felipe interacts with all of his relatives and from their strange behavior finds himself learning an awful lot about life and love.

The Lame Pigeon

1995

La seducción del caos poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La seducción del caos

1990

Plenilune poster
5.8

Romance and murder walk side by side in this psychological drama from Spain. A serial killer has been plying his grisly trade in a small town in Spain, murdering young girls and leaving their bodies in a nearby forest.

Plenilune

1999

Ojos verdes poster
6.0

The longing and critical review of the copla is lived through the history of the marqués de Almodóvar, a passionate ambassador who organized Franco's folkloric festivals; generous, womanizer, excessive, wasteful, himself the protagonist of his own copla. In love in his youth with a Concha Piquer chorus girl, he dedicated his life to collecting fetishes and memories of all the cante divas with which to organize a sentimental museum in his decaying castle, filling it with showcases where he could store his longings. When he died, destitute, in the pension of his last mistress, also a cupletist, she disputes her legacy with the housekeeper who took care of him and her picturesque collections all her life. family castle. A dear diplomatic friend recalls his fanciful existence emotionally. An aesthetic that is part of the feeling of the Andalusian people. And as a common thread "Ojos Verdes", the most beautiful song of songs of his rich songbook.

Ojos verdes

1997

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