Joan Crosas

Acting

Joan Crosas

Born

1947-11-11 (78)

Place of birth

L'Esquirol, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

40 titles

Joan Crosas was born on November 11, 1947 in L'Esquirol, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He is an actor, known for Love In Difficult Times (2005), Ventdelplà (2005) and Carmen (2003).

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 7 titles

Three Steps Above Heaven poster
7.7

Babi, a sheltered upper-class girl, and Hache, a reckless rebel obsessed with illegal motorcycle races, fall into a forbidden love that pulls them deeper into passion and risk.

Three Steps Above Heaven

2010

I Want You poster
7.5

After two years away, Hache returns to Barcelona seeking a fresh start. Falling for Gin while facing unresolved feelings for Babi, he must confront love, loss, and who he's becoming.

I Want You

2012

Laia poster
4.3

"Laia" is located in the imaginary village of Sinera, a fishing village inhabited by a series of extreme characters, indiscriminately diverted to the adversities of destiny. There, Laia lives, a woman marked by a miserable and unhappy childhood, that is debated between her cruel husband and lover who is his best friend and faces the hatred of a whole town while dreaming of a freedom that only the sea can grant.

Laia

2016

14 d'abril. Macià contra Companys poster
6.0

"14 d'abril. Macià contra Companys "is a television drama, allegedly recorded in 1932, but with the methods, style and own means 2010. With this temporary license, the stars of one of the episodes of the Catalan capital twentieth century discussed the facts, in first person, while a nosy camera helps us to relive what happened in Barcelona between 14 and 17 April 1931, the three-day duration of the Catalan Republic. All with the aim of showing the greatness and the precariousness of a gesture, half improvised by Companys key sovereigntist corrected by Macià, and that led to a shouting match.

14 d'abril. Macià contra Companys

2011

Miss Dalí poster
5.7

Anna Maria Dalí is four years younger than her brother Salvador and they love each other. Both enjoy the great progressive atmosphere of republican Spain, fraternizing with great creators, García Lorca, Buñuel.

Miss Dalí

2018

Barcelona 1714 poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Barcelona 1714

2014

A Thousand Fools poster
4.2

Fifteen stories, contemporary and some historical, where humorous, sarcasm and courage passed bills to pain, old age, death and love, but above all with human stupidity, without concessions, watching her face the difficult life balance and human misery.

A Thousand Fools

2011

2000s · 7 titles

Queens poster
6.0

In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, become entwined.

Queens

2005

Boystown poster
5.8

Victor works in a real estate agency in the well-known Chueca neighborhood of Madrid. He hides a terrible secret: he makes apartments available for sale by murdering the old ladies owners that live in them. Then, refurbishes and decorates the apartments to sell them to gay couples with high purchasing power. His ultimate objective is to transform Chueca into a kind of London Soho area.

Boystown

2007

Two Tough Guys poster
5.2

Two botcher killers, Paco and Alex carry out a crime caper. Later on, they are joined by Tatiana - ​a young whore, who shows great love for Alex. In pursuing its objective the losers will face a group of murderers, a butcher with dark business, a nasty gangster and a lot more...

Two Tough Guys

2003

Carmen poster
5.3

A French writer documents the seductive power of the beautiful Carmen, who has enchanted José, a young soldier, awakening his most fervent passions leading to tragedy. A path chained to obsession, jealousy, betrayal, and blood.

Carmen

2003

Nudos poster
8.0

Barcelona, 2002. A coffin is carried to the cemetery of Montjuïc in a chariot drawn by horses. The lifeless is Pep Grau, an old fisherman found drowned and subject to his boat by a complicated knot sailor. The Pep voiceover Grau, portrayed with affection and humor the curious characters he met in life, recounts the difficult moments of his childhood during the Civil War, and finally, we are introduced to Lola, the woman of his life , which has a fish stall in the Boqueria Market beautiful and, after the death of Pep, begins receiving anonymous gifts. Silvia, a teenage ambitious and attractive, is the attorney for the insurance company. Mario, her boss and lover, asked to investigate the strange circumstances surrounding the death of the fisherman. Silvia's inquiries aa allow us to know other characters, like the maverick Dr. Cipriano Mera, Pep old comrade, and his son Gabino Mera.

Nudos

2003

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street poster
NR

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2008

Salted Water poster
3.7

A young Cuban named Olga arrives in Spain with a scholarship convinced that she has landed the chance of a lifetime. Deciding to stay, she eventually becomes an illegal immigrant, suffering the brunt of marginalization and, unable to return home, having to get by as she can. Mari Jo is a young girl from a poor Valencian suburb, born into a family with nothing but problems. Fate has marked her life as she too becomes an outcast. Both end up working illegally in a furniture factory where they earn three times less than the minimum legal salary.

Salted Water

2005

1990s · 13 titles

In Praise of Older Women poster
5.5

In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.

In Praise of Older Women

1997

What's It All About poster
5.2

Minimalistic frieze fifteen episodes about human behavior (desire, submission, love, jealousy, wisdom, honesty, sincerity, passion, faith, ...) located between two fantastic stories about the will and doubt.

What's It All About

1995

Why Not Me? poster
5.8

Four gay French expatriots share a business in Barcelona. When they and their parents are thrown together for a "coming out" party, another French Farce ensues.

Why Not Me?

1998

Escrito en la piel poster
NR

Mauricio is serving time for his political ideals in Barcelona in the 1950s. The only contact he maintains with the outside world are the letters he writes to his partner Helena. These letters are written on the skin of fellow prisoners who are released. One day the messenger who leaves prison has nothing written on his skin. That is the day of Mauricio's execution.

Escrito en la piel

1995

Makinavaja, el último choriso poster
5.7

A movie based on the Spanish comic strip of the same name.

Makinavaja, el último choriso

1992

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

Germans de sang poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Germans de sang

1996

Thanks for the Tip poster
7.1

The story of an odd family in which two uncles, apparently bachelors, play the role of mother and father for their two orphan nephews in the Valencia of the 1960s and 70s.

Thanks for the Tip

1997

Fiesta poster
5.1

A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War.

Fiesta

1995

Mar i cel poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mar i cel

1990

Barcelona, Lament poster
5.5

A young man named Pau Arrese, maintaining a relationship, somewhat deteriorated, with a girl (Gloria), seen as the reins of his life escape him, when, after a series of unfortunate incidents, ends up in jail. Inside prison, he become sortta friend a with David Velasco, a guy who lives on odd jobs done for a certain mobster. After being released, Pau will be involved in some rackets, with David and other gangsters, that will lead him to the lowest point of his existence.

Barcelona, Lament

1990

Captain Escalaborns poster
6.5

After the death of his parents, Juan goes into an adventure to find Captain Escalaborns to whom he must deliver the map of a treasure to be searched together.

Captain Escalaborns

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Al-Andalus: las artes islámicas en España

1992

Series credits

Love in Difficult Times poster
4.2

Amar en tiempos revueltos is a Spanish soap opera set in the times of the Spanish civil war and the early Francoism. The serial has been aired from 2005 and has won prizes in Spain and a Silver Medal in the «New York Festivals». In January 2013 will air on Antena 3 with new name, Amar es para siempre

Love in Difficult Times

2005

Cable Girls poster
7.8

In 1920s Madrid, four women at the National Telephone Company ring in revolution as they deal with romance, envy and the modern workplace.

Cable Girls

2017

Marcians poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Marcians

2017

Los misterios de Laura poster
7.6

With her intuition and instinct, Laura Lebrel del Bosque, an innocent and intelligent police inspector with very original methods, naturally solves impossible crimes, dismantles alibis, and figures out who the murderer in every episode is. Meanwhile, her marriage with inspector Jacobo is not going through its best phase, she has to deal with her duties as a housewife and a mother of two very naughty five-year-old twins, and her workmate Martín cannot help getting into trouble.

Los misterios de Laura

2009

Carlos, rey emperador poster
6.9

As the life of Charles of Habsburg is told since his arrival to Spain, it can be seen how the heir to the crowns of Germany, Burgundy, the Netherlands, the Free County, Artois, Nevers and Rethel, of the territories of the Crown of Aragon and its related Italian territories, and of the territories of the Catholic Monarchs in Castile, North Africa and the Americas, matures as a statesman and gets stronger in face of menaces around him and good and bad advice from his counselors.

Carlos, rey emperador

2015

Acusados poster
3.2

No synopsis available yet.

Acusados

2009

Ventdelplà poster
9.2

No synopsis available yet.

Ventdelplà

2005

Il·luminats poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il·luminats

2020

Bobobobs poster
6.0

A group of nomadic miniature humanoids with psychic powers who live in a part of the universe far away from the Earth. A crew of Bobobobs, led by captain Bob Wouter, sets sail in the Bobular Quest towards Earth to save the humans from dinosaurs. Along the way, they encounter a variety of different alien species, some of which are hostile.

Bobobobs

1988

Antivicio poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Antivicio

2000