Javier Cámara

Acting

Javier Cámara

Born

1967-01-19 (59)

Place of birth

La Rioja, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

76 titles

Javier Cámara Rodríguez (born 19 January 1967) is a Spanish actor. He starred in the Pedro Almodóvar films Talk to Her (2002), Bad Education (2004) and I'm So Excited (2013), and the television series 7 Vidas (Seven Lives). He played Cardinal Bernardo Gutierrez in the HBO series The Young Pope as well as Guillermo Pallomari, the chief accountant of the Cali Cartel, in season 3 of the Netflix series Narcos. He was born in Albelda de Iregua, La Rioja. He later moved to Madrid and graduated from the Dramatic Art School. He worked as an usher at the Figaro Theatre in Madrid. His debut in theatre was in El caballero de Olmedo in 1991. He enjoyed great success in the TV series 7 Vidas and then w…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

Torrente for President poster
6.1

Years have passed since his last adventure, but José Luis Torrente, the most politically incorrect former cop in Spain, still sees himself as a national hero.

Torrente for President

2026

53 Sundays poster
6.0

When three siblings agree to meet and discuss their aging father's future, their reunion spirals into bickering, bantering and reliving old grudges.

53 Sundays

2026

Misión imposible, no... lo siguiente poster
NR

A short film with which the Spanish television program El Hormiguero begins its season.

Misión imposible, no... lo siguiente

2026

The People Upstairs poster
6.4

Julio and Ana have been together for more than fifteen years. They have become a couple who no longer look at nor touch one another, and who have made daily fighting the essence of their relationship. This evening, Ana has invited their upstairs neighbors to come round, Salva and Laura, a couple younger than them, pleasant and friendly, but whose noises are now an annoyance for Julio and Ana... or perhaps a stimulus? The upstairs neighbors will make them an unusual and surprising proposal which will turn the evening into an exaggerated and cathartic experience for all four.

The People Upstairs

2020

Memories of My Father poster
7.5

In the polarized and violent Medellín (Colombia's 'City of Eternal Spring') of the 1970s, doctor Héctor Abad Gómez is concerned about both his children and children from less favored classes. After a devastating loss in the family, Héctor gives himself to the greater cause of public health programs for the poor in Medellín to the consternation of the city's authorities.

Memories of My Father

2020

Stories Not to Be Told poster
5.8

Five tales of human vulnerability and the hilarious, painful, and awkward curveballs life throws us.

Stories Not to Be Told

2022

5 More Minutes poster
NR

An on-the-rocks couple retreat to a secluded countryside home for the weekend in an effort to repair their marriage. They're greeted by the singular head of the real estate agency who shows them around the place and hands over the keys. Just before he leaves, however, the entire world slips into a time loop, and the last five minutes begin to repeat endlessly.

5 More Minutes

2027

Madrid, int. poster
4.6

Madrid, Spain, March 2020. As the merciless disease that plagues the world spreads through the increasingly deserted streets of the city, people barricades themselves in their homes and move on with their lives…

Madrid, int.

2020

2010s · 18 titles

I'm So Excited! poster
5.7

Something has gone wrong with the landing gear of a plane en route from Madrid to Mexico City. The group of eccentric travelers on the flight, defenseless in the face of danger, indulge in colourful confessionals, while the outlandish crew attempts to find ways to entertain them.

I'm So Excited!

2013

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

To Hell With The Ugly poster
5.8

Eliseo is ugly, lame and single. He hasn't met the woman of his life and has never known love. Nati is ugly, missing a breast and separated. She found the man of her life but, even so, has never experienced true love. Eliseo thinks that the worst of his life is still to come. Nati thinks that the best of her life is still to come. The death of Eliseo's mother reunites them twenty years on in a last chance to find happiness and love. But what happens when the woman of your life is married to your brother

To Hell With The Ugly

2010

Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed poster
6.8

Spain, 1966. An English teacher who travels to Almería when he hears that John Lennon is making a film there befriends with a 16-year-old boy who has run away from home and a young girl who also seems to be running away from something.

Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed

2013

Truman poster
7.0

Tomás, who lives in Canada, travels to Madrid, Spain, to visit his old friend Julián. Both of them, accompanied by Truman, Julián's faithful dog, will share many surprising and emotional little moments, triggered by the hard situation Julián is going through, for just a few days.

Truman

2015

Off Course poster
6.3

Two young Spanish men, with a university education, are tired of unemployment and decide to move to Germany. But soon they will find out that finding a better living is not as easy as they expected.

Off Course

2015

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

Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas poster
7.5

When looking at Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography, it becomes evident that women are everywhere; in fact, his work revolves around them. His divas are the best to create a real portrait of Almodóvar and evoke the emotional power of his films. These women are the ideal observers of a cinematic career that, from La Mancha to Hollywood, has changed the image of Spain in the world.

Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas

2016

It's for Your Own Good poster
5.9

Three brothers-in-law try to get their daughters to dump their undesirable boyfriends.

It's for Your Own Good

2017

Bomb Scared poster
5.4

Somewhere in Spain, four ETA terrorists await a phone call before carrying out a mission, while the 2010 FIFA World Cup, where Spanish soccer team is one of the favorites to win, is being held in South Africa.

Bomb Scared

2017

What's a Bear For? poster
5.1

Ecological comedy about two brothers. Alejandro and Guillermo are two Asturian brothers lovers of Nature since they were children. Alejandro is a renowned zoologist who investigates wildlife and lives in the trees like an animal. Guillermo is an internationally renowned biologist, who has received numerous awards. One day he discovers a green sprout in Antarctica and, convinced that the battle is lost, leaves everything and goes back to Asturias. Once there, he looks for his brother Alejandro in the forest where they live. Since the arrival of Guillermo to the forest, the sentimental ecosystems of the characters will be altered.

What's a Bear For?

2011

Crime Wave poster
5.8

Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.

Crime Wave

2018

Off Course to China poster
4.8

Braulio after his misadventures in Berlin, moves to Hong Kong along with Rafa and Hakan in search of new opportunities. However, it is not easy to succeed in a land where language, culture and customs are very different from Europe.

Off Course to China

2019

Yesterday Never Ends poster
5.6

A couple meets at their son’s grave ten years after his death; his plot is to make way for a casino city. Anger, hatred and bitterness erupt. A nightmarish drama that goes far beyond this couple’s private grief and points towards the end of society.

Yesterday Never Ends

2013

The Unexpected Love poster
6.4

Juanito moved to New York to succeed as an actor. Years have gone by but success has not come his way and now he takes an odd jobs to survive. One day he is visited by his apparently successful cousin. However, their life together will discover the reality behind each of them.

The Unexpected Love

2014

Age of Monster poster
4.0

Victor, who claims to have filmed a number of films he's not been able to release, unites around his deathbed his most faithful collaborator to present his posthumous work.

Age of Monster

2016

Siete semillas poster
6.0

This story tells how Ignacio Rodriguez, manager of a textile export company, lives so absorbed in his work that it creates personal crisis which leads to the hospital. After this episode his brother recommends visiting a spiritual guide, beginning a journey of learning that will take him to find the inner peace he needed.

Siete semillas

2016

The Pig poster
5.0

A man scrambles to deal with a tricky financial situation in this short film about a birthday scam gone wrong.

The Pig

2015

2000s · 20 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

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

Sex and Lucía poster
6.7

Lucía is a young waitress in Madrid who seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island after the loss of her longtime boyfriend. Amidst the fresh air, dazzling sun, and glistening deep blue water, Lucía begins to piece together the dark corners of her past relationship.

Sex and Lucía

2001

Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer poster
5.9

In 17th century Spain, Diego Alatriste, a brave and heroic soldier, is fighting in his King's army in the Flandes region. His best mate, Balboa, falls in a trap and, when near to his death, asks Diego to look after his son and teach him to be a soldier.

Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer

2006

Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella poster
6.1

For this second film in the cult comedy series Torrente takes our fat police officer from Madrid to Marbella in Spain to investigate a villain’s plot to destroy the city with a missile. This James Bond style slapstick comedy became the most successful box-office film in Spanish film history beating out only the first Torrente film.

Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella

2001

Torremolinos 73 poster
6.2

Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.

Torremolinos 73

2003

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

Chef's Special poster
5.7

Maxi thinks his life is perfect. He is a famous cook who owns a successful restaurant in Chueca and is living his life as a gay man without much complex. But when his son Edu and his daughter Alba appear, and a new attractive neighbor comes along, it will have a strong effect on his life resulting in his values being challenged for ever.

Chef's Special

2008

Los abajo firmantes poster
6.8

The first actor of a theater company on tour in Spain dies in a car accident. A new actor, Jorge Ruiz, is to relieve you. He's handsome, young and revolutionary. His arrival creates tension, jealousy and distrust in the rest of the cast, is-especially in Mario Soto, which is responsible to lead in the absence of the author of the assembly, busy with an opera for the Teatro Real in Madrid . Already in the first trial of the work concerned the "Play Without a Title" by Federico Garcia Lorca, their personalities collide head. Morante Carmen, leading actress of the company, and Laura G. Reyna, which was secret lover of the deceased, witness the struggle between the two. As if that were not enough, the newcomer brings added conflict: reading at the end of the function of a manifesto for peace. Mario questioned that decision and the company is divided.

Los abajo firmantes

2003

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

Sexo en el plató poster
5.8

How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prepare and feel? Spanish actors and directors talk about the most intimate side of acting, about the tricks and work methods when narrating exposed sex. In Spain the general rule is that there are no rules. Each film, each interpreter, faces it in very different ways.

Sexo en el plató

2007

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

La torre de Suso poster
5.9

Cundo emigrated to Argentina to seek a new life. Ten years later he returns home, to the funeral of an old friend, Suso. The film chronicles the reunion with family and friends and how Cundo wants to fulfill the ultimate dream of Suso. The film is a tribute to friendship. And above all friendship in a age where it is not so clear why you should remain friends with your childhood friends.

La torre de Suso

2007

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

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

Viva Pedro: The Life & Times of Pedro Almodóvar poster
NR

The genius that is Almodóvar is expressed in this film with interviews from his family, co-workers, and Almodóvar experts.

Viva Pedro: The Life & Times of Pedro Almodóvar

2007

Fiction poster
5.1

Alex, a shy and introverted, is a film director trying to finish writing his latest script. Decided to leave a few days of his wife and children to go to the Pyrenees and find there the peace and inspiration. In the town where he is met Monica, a violinist who is on vacation at a friend's house. Love grows between them and will face feelings that have to control and hide. Feelings that may never expressed.

Fiction

2006

Looking for Chencho poster
8.0

When a tourist bus stops at a gas station, Chencho, one of the passengers, decides to go to the toilet.

Looking for Chencho

2002

1990s · 6 titles

Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law poster
6.5

A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.

Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law

1998

Alegre ma non troppo poster
5.1

Pablo is a twenty-year-old man who wants to be a musician in order to be appreciated by his mother and find a male partner he can share his love with. He finds one, but because of his demanding behaviour, he is soon alone again. He tries to become a French horn player in the Youth Spain National Orchestra, but the examiner turns out to be his father, who's been living apart from his family and doesn't really accept Pablo's sexual trends. Once Pablo fails in his exam, he feels very depressed. When another French horn player from Valencia hasn't got a place to sleep, Pablo takes him home to his house. The next morning, however, he finds a girl named Salome inside of his bed.

Alegre ma non troppo

1994

Washington Wolves poster
5.0

Alberto and Miguel have a bar, but things are not going very well. They need to get out of this black hole and they need money to do it. Alberto is divorced and alcoholic, Miguel has a big secret... Their old friend Claudio is very rich. Why not steal some of his money? Troubles grow when Claudio's wife is planning to steal this money too... The Washington wolfs, in a circus near all this, are the silent witnesses of all that happens that night.

Washington Wolves

1999

Havana Quartet poster
5.0

Walter, an aspiring musician from Madrid, has a lot of troubles. After finding a videotape, he learns something which will alter his whole life, and put his Madrid problems on hold. In the tape, a Cuban woman confesses to being his mother. She is waiting for him in Havana. Walter goes to Havana to see his mother. There, the plot thickens with the addition of the mother's daughter, and a Spanish airline crew member, who round out the quartet.

Havana Quartet

1999

Put a Man in Your Life poster
6.3

In a swimming pool accident, Juan and Belinda somehow exchange bodies. Juan is coaching a football team for an important match and Belinda is getting married. They agree to co-operate and continue in their new bodies.

Put a Man in Your Life

1996

Eso poster
4.8

Since he began to work, Domingo lives against the trend: he sleeps during the day, care for her younger sister in the afternoon and at night vacuums in a department store.

Eso

1997

Series credits

El hormiguero poster
4.7

El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.

El hormiguero

2006

Narcos poster
8.1

A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.

Narcos

2015

Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez

2017

Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez

2017

7 vidas poster
6.1

The story of a group of friends in Madrid.

7 vidas

1999

The Young Pope poster
7.7

Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.

The Young Pope

2016

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

The New Pope poster
7.6

As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”

The New Pope

2020

Periodistas poster
4.9

No synopsis available yet.

Periodistas

1998

Rapa poster
7.2

When high school teacher Tomás finds the bloodied, dying mayoress of his hometown high up on his local cliffs, he not only becomes obsessed with the case but turns into its first suspect. Though solving the case is local cop Maite's job, Tomás doesn't care if his own private investigation gets in her way. Solving the case might just give Tomás' life the purpose he has been silently dreaming of for so long. Though clashing more than once, the two of them come close as can be to finding the murderer: Norma, Tomas' very own physiotherapist. She killed the mayoress in a fit of rage after finding out one of her many dark secrets - one that lies many years behind but one that has deeply affected her and her family. A twist of fate has it, however, that Norma remains undiscovered; her former fear and powerlessness turn to empowerment and confidence. Then a second murder stirs up the waters. Now an unlikely team, Maite and Tomás resume the hunt for a murderer who is closer than they imagine.

Rapa

2022

La Noche D poster
3.3

No synopsis available yet.

La Noche D

2021

The Miracle poster
7.2

In Rome, a Virgin Mary statue is found crying blood. Pondering on the implications of the existence of miracles, and eventually, the existence of God, the people involved in the enigma start losing their minds.

The Miracle

2018

Homemade poster
5.5

Acclaimed filmmakers from around the world channel their creativity during COVID-19 isolation with this diverse, genre-spanning collection of short films.

Homemade

2020

Yakarta poster
7.5

José Ramón Garrido is a former Olympic badminton player who makes a living teaching physical education at a public high school in Vallecas. Divorced and without prospects, Joserra has been drifting for years, but he keeps himself afloat with a daily purpose. Joserra believes he has discovered the diamond that will turn his life around at a school tournament: Mar, a teenage player who could be his ticket to fulfilling his dream of competing in Jakarta, the city where former players like him are respected as stars. Joserra and Mar will have to learn to put up with each other on a journey full of dingy guesthouses, run-down sports centers, and gas stations that takes them through Totana, Ponferrada, Torrelavega, and Tardajos before they reach the Indonesian capital. That is, if they ever get there.

Yakarta

2025

Vota Juan poster
6.2

Juan Carrasco is a nondescript Minister of Agriculture who must recognize that he has greater political ambitions due to a series of fortuitous political events, so he decides to run in the primary elections of his party, which may give him the opportunity to opt for the disputed position of President of the Spanish Government.

Vota Juan

2019

Vamos Juan poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Vamos Juan

2020

Venga Juan poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Venga Juan

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Showriano poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Showriano

2023

LEX poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

LEX

2008

The Who poster
3.5

Tell the history of a married couple (María Pujalte and Javier Cámara) that at the beginning of the 80s they become the first divorced family in the democratic Spain.

The Who

2011

Blasco Ibáñez poster
6.8

A biography of a visceral republican, from his literary and political beginnings in Valencia until fame led him to travel the world and enjoy life's pleasures.

Blasco Ibáñez

1997

¡Ay, Señor, Señor! poster
2.7

¡Ay, Señor, Señor! was a 26-episode Spanish television sitcom transmitted by Antena 3 between 1994 and 1995. It tells of the adventures of a modern, open-minded priest, portrayed by the actor Andrés Pajares. The series kick-started several acting careers, including those of Javier Cámara and Neus Asensi. The singer Massiel starred in four episodes and Paloma Cela in nine, with many other actors and actresses making regular or guest appearances.

¡Ay, Señor, Señor!

1994

Behind the camera