José Ángel Egido

Acting

José Ángel Egido

Born

1951-11-30 (74)

Place of birth

Redondela, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 12 titles

Everybody Knows poster
6.5

Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.

Everybody Knows

2018

The Silence of the Marsh poster
5.2

A successful, cold-blooded crime novelist gets involved in a kidnapping case while uncovering the corrupt ties between politicians and the local mafia in Valencia, Spain.

The Silence of the Marsh

2019

Red Eagle: The Movie poster
4.7

Early XVII century. A summit between France, England, Portugal and the Pope is to take place in Spain, home of the masked hero known as Red Eagle. The countries are coming together under the guise of looking for a solution to the conflict between Spain and Portugal; however, the ulterior motive is to attack the Kingdom of Spain. The Marchioness of Santillana and her fellow conspirators have hired an assassin to finish off the Red Eagle to guarantee the outcome of their plot. The townspeople and the whole kingdom will be at the mercy of the traitors, but the Red Eagle will be there to help them.

Red Eagle: The Movie

2011

María (and Everybody Else) poster
5.6

Ever since her mum died when she was fifteen, Maria has taken care of her father and her siblings. Responsible and in control, she's always been a rock for the family and feels proud of her efforts. That's why her father's sudden love for his nurse and the announcement of their marriage brings Maria's world crashing down around her. At the age of 35 and unable to find a steady partner, she'll have to take the plunge and dare to change her own fate.

María (and Everybody Else)

2016

Who Killed Bambi? poster
5.5

The story of two young friends, a lawyer, a rich man and a group of kidnappers end up in a series of strange circumstances all to discover; Who Killed Bambi?

Who Killed Bambi?

2013

Paper Birds poster
6.7

At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the members of a group of vaudeville performers have been stripped of everything: all they have left is hunger and the instinct to survive. Day after day, agonizingly, lost and helpless between the victors and the vanquished, the musician Jorge, the ventriloquist Enrique, the couplet singer Rocío and the orphan Miguel search tirelessly for something to eat and a safe place to live.

Paper Birds

2010

For the Good of Others poster
5.2

Diego is a doctor so used to working in extreme situations that he has immunized himself to others' pain. He has switched off from his work, his partner and his commitment as a father. Over the course of a disturbing meeting, Diego is threatened with a gun. Hours later, he can only remember the sound of a bang and the strange feeling of having being hit with something more than a bullet. Diego has to take an irreversible decision which will affect his own life and that of his loved ones.

For the Good of Others

2010

Dreamland poster
5.4

An affluent city is covered in snow, all seems perfect – on the surface. Divorcé Rolf is doing his best to rebuild his relationship with his daughter. Pregnant Lena appears to be living a faultless family life with her husband and son. Social worker Judith has a tough job and escapes it through her fantasies, whilst widowed Maria has finally built up the courage to invite her male acquaintance to a romantic dinner. In the course of one day, all of them will cross paths with the Bulgarian Mia, who works in the red-light trade and their seemingly perfect lives will never be the same…

Dreamland

2013

People in Places poster
5.0

A fragmented view of contemporary Spain, drawing conclusions about the persistence of the human condition, strangeness, and the chaos within relationships.

People in Places

2013

Wedding in New York poster
7.8

A man takes his friend's place at a wedding in New York and falls in love with the bride.

Wedding in New York

2015

Fort Ross: In Search of Adventure poster
3.4

A group of journalists are traveling through the different places and different times trying to solve historical mystery.

Fort Ross: In Search of Adventure

2014

The Cold Call poster
5.9

The story of salesman Salvador Lozano and his ambiguous relationship with young hostess Inés.

The Cold Call

2012

2000s · 12 titles

Mondays in the Sun poster
7.3

After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and unofficial leader of the group. A court case hangs over him relating to a shipyard lamp he smashed during a protest against the closure. José is bitter that his wife, Ana, is employed when he is not.

Mondays in the Sun

2002

GAL poster
4.8

Two journalists investigate the criminal activities of the GAL (Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación), a secret terrorist organization founded in the eighties and financed by leading figures in the Spanish government and security forces to hunt down and exterminate both members and collaborators of the terrorist gang ETA.

GAL

2006

Eyes of Crystal poster
5.8

While hunting a cultured and vicious psychopath, detective Amaldi faces the physical and moral decay of his city as well as the ghosts of his past.

Eyes of Crystal

2004

Spectre poster
5.2

After the sudden death of his wife, Tomás, a successful elderly writer who has been out of Spain during the last forty years, unexpectedly receives an old tarot card which seems to have for him a disturbing meaning, so he decides to return to the small village where he grew up.

Spectre

2006

Napoleon and Me poster
6.1

Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.

Napoleon and Me

2006

Chill Out! poster
6.7

Just Santos, cabaret actor with a talent for imitation, receives the offer of a role in a movie that could change his life and his family.

Chill Out!

2003

The Night of the Brother poster
4.4

The Night of the brother ("La Noche del Hermano") is a chiaroscuro tale in which the characters' not always explicit feelings cover the gamut from darkness to light through the thin line between love and fear. Because the events of life are often less astonishing than the way they are shown to us.

The Night of the Brother

2005

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

Elsa & Fred poster
7.7

When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance.

Elsa & Fred

2005

Hours of Light poster
5.2

September 1987. In a shootout with police, Juan Jose Garfia makes a triple murder. Sentenced to more than one hundred years, is a rebel prisoner, clever and elusive that it has nothing to lose and nobody to worry about. In 1991, manages to escape from a police van jumping up. Stopped after two months of robberies and shootings, Garfia leads several prison riots, against which the authorities takes as a measure subjecting prisoners to a more contentious special isolation regime. Garfia, the prisoner with the highest IQ, avoiding drugs, which seems immune to punishment, and lives two years without seeing anyone, held in a tiny cell and subjected to continuous harassment. There he meets Marimar, a nurse I can barely speak, but between both of a current of mutual understanding.

Hours of Light

2004

No artwork available
10.0

In the middle of nowhere, along a secondary road, a small old gas station interrupts the arid countryside. Its owner is José, a man of about fifty years marked by the tragic death of his wife.

En ninguna parte

2004

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pablo

2009

Series credits

Red Queen poster
7.0

A gifted woman's intellect brings chance to lead covert European police force. But it backfires, costing her everything. Following murder at her home and kidnapped heiress, her ex-supervisor enlists a policeman's aid to reinstate her.

Red Queen

2024

The Ministry of Time poster
7.6

A soldier from the 15th century, a university student from the 19th century and a nurse from the present join the secret 'Department of Time', a secret department within the Spanish government with the ability to travel through time. Their mission is prevent changes in history.

The Ministry of Time

2015

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

Gran Reserva: el origen poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gran Reserva: el origen

2013

Atasco poster
6.6

A major traffic jam throws thousands of citizens on the outskirts of Madrid into chaos, disrupting their plans. This everyday situation will be the starting point for unexpected, comical, and emotional plots.

Atasco

2024

Colegio Mayor poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Colegio Mayor

1994

Bajo sospecha poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Bajo sospecha

2015

Criminal: Spain poster
6.6

Psychological games abound between detectives and suspects in a tense interrogation room, where the search for answers sometimes comes at a moral cost.

Criminal: Spain

2019

Cuenta atrás poster
2.2

No synopsis available yet.

Cuenta atrás

2007

El mundo de Juan Lobón poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

El mundo de Juan Lobón

1989

Besos al aire poster
7.0

Eight interlinked stories of lockdown love sparked during Spain’s first national lockdown during the pandemic.

Besos al aire

2021

Guante blanco poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Guante blanco

2008

The Assassination of Carreto Blanco poster
6.2

December 20, 1973. Carrero Blanco is assassinated. ETA strikes Madrid for the first time, blowing up the car of the Prime Minister himself. The miniseries tells how the terrorist group planned and carried out the attack against Franco's right-hand man.

The Assassination of Carreto Blanco

2011

48 horas poster
3.5

In an unspecified location in the French Basque Country, a man with his back turned writes a note on a piece of paper: it is an order to "kidnap a PP councilor," giving a 48-hour ultimatum linked to the transfer of prisoners to prisons in the Basque Country. If the government does not comply, the hostage will be killed. July 10, 1997, 2:10 p.m. Miguel Ángel Blanco Garrido, a PP councilor in Ermua, eats lunch at home with his mother and leaves for work in Eibar as he does every day. Miguel Ángel is approached by a woman who manages to get him to accompany her a few meters before forcing him at gunpoint into a car driven by her accomplice.

48 horas

2008