Javier Calvo

Directing

Javier Calvo

Born 1991-01-21 · Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Francisco Javier Calvo Guirao (born 21 January 1991) known professionally as Javier Calvo is a Spanish actor, stage, film, and television director and writer. He is best known for his role of Fernando "Fer" Redondo in the Antena 3 series Física o Química (2008–2011). Calvo created and directed the musical La llamada together with Javier Ambrossi, with its success leading to a film adaptation (2017). Continuing their work together, Calvo and Ambrossi would develop the television series Paquita Salas (2016–present), Veneno (2020–2023) and its upcoming sequel Vestidas de Azul (2023–2024), and La Mesías (2023). The director pair are also romantic partners commonly referred to as 'Los Javis'. He has received several awards including a pair of wins in both the Feroz Awards and Fotogramas de Plata, and has received nominations for two Goya Awards.

Acting credits

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1.0

A lonely widow infatuated with the local priest will use her son as a lure to bring home the object of her desire.

La viuda

2010

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7.0

Doc Hell, famous gynecologist, wants to control the entire world. His plan: to heal the humanity using a miraculous medicine, in exchange for its complete submission. But his goals will be compromised when an unexpected detail, García Nurse, seeks revenge. The killer sent to her annihilation has failed. Nurse, murderer, one neighbor's boyfriend, the building manager, and a handful of other nasty people will be all involved in a crazy madness under the secret bunker of the Doctor Hell.

Doctor Infierno

2007

Convoy 48 The War Train poster
5.1

Yesterday's Leningrad schoolgirl Masha Yablochkina, after a fierce blockade winter of 1941-1942, comes to the railway courses hoping to survive and gain strength. From there, the girl is sent to the construction of the Shlisselburg highway, which connects the city with the mainland and is in direct sight of German artillery. So the heroine gets into the 48th locomotive column of the special reserve NKPS, which, at the cost of the deadly risk, will have to deliver 75% of all cargo and military equipment to Leningrad.

Convoy 48 The War Train

2019

Looser poster
NR

Looser is "the universal story of all misfits", and is "an emotional journey, a story of friendship, a romantic tale and, above all, a comedy in which 'Soy Una Pringada' will try to discover if what is really happening to her is that no one loves her.

Looser

2018

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NR

A year after their mother's death, Julio, Cleo and Edgar return to the old family house with the intention of getting rid of it. Inside, their past will come back and haunt them in the shape of an unpleasant surprise.

Niebla

2013

El enigma Giacomo poster
NR

The old archaeologist Santiago Sanahuja (José María Blanco) takes half life investigating the veracity of the existence of a treasure, booty won the game by Giacomo Casanova. The archaeologist dies shortly before he could make peace with his son James (Nacho Fresneda), who takes time without speaking. The couple archaeologist, Dominique (Chantal Aimée), and the track of an opera written by a pupil of Mozart and Casanova himself, leading to Jaime to the treasure hunt that his father had wanted to find. He will be joined in this adventure Maiana teenage daughter (Anna Castillo) and Dominique. To further complicate things, appear on their way to ensure an attractive young Giacomo Casanova to be none, and that will be totally captivated Maiana.

El enigma Giacomo

2010

Your Catalyst Cocktail poster
NR

A Super 8 trip through Madrid's Gran Via, its nightlife and subterranean passages.

Your Catalyst Cocktail

2013

Homenaje María Teresa Campos poster
NR

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Homenaje María Teresa Campos

2024

Rotos poster
2.0

There's always someone who teaches us to break up.

Rotos

2012

Behind the camera

La bola negra poster
NR

The intertwined lives of three men in three different eras, three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain, and legacy.

La bola negra

2026

La bola negra poster
NR

The intertwined lives of three men in three different eras, three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain, and legacy.

La bola negra

2026

La bola negra poster
NR

The intertwined lives of three men in three different eras, three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain, and legacy.

La bola negra

2026

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

Paquita Salas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Paquita Salas

2016

Holy Camp! poster
6.8

María and Susana, two rebellious teenagers, spend the summer in a catholic camp. While they are grounded during a weekend, the most unexpected arrival in the most unexpected way will change their feelings about life, love and freedom.

Holy Camp!

2017

Holy Camp! poster
6.8

María and Susana, two rebellious teenagers, spend the summer in a catholic camp. While they are grounded during a weekend, the most unexpected arrival in the most unexpected way will change their feelings about life, love and freedom.

Holy Camp!

2017

I'm Still a Superstar poster
6.2

This documentary explores Yurena's meteoric rise to fame as Tamara, the media frenzy she faced in the 2000s and the present-day lives of her TV rivals.

I'm Still a Superstar

2025

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NR

The routine of a group of trans sex workers is upset when their leader, Aunt Encarna, finds an abandoned baby and decides to adopt him without realizing she is putting everyone around her in danger.

Las Malas

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NR

Vestidas de azul - El especial

2024

Una Navidad con Samantha Hudson poster
7.3

A Christmas tale and musical that proposes to open the doors to the underground and local drag, shaking hands with emerging talent and serving as a platform for young artists.

Una Navidad con Samantha Hudson

2021

Más de Veneno: El Documental poster
5.0

A making-off of the fiction in which we will discover the great secrets of its filming, with the testimonies of its creators, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, as well as statements from its protagonists Daniela Santiago, Lola Rodríguez and Jedet.

Más de Veneno: El Documental

2020