Chete Lera

Acting

Chete Lera

Born

1949-01-01 (77)

Place of birth

A Estrada, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Known for

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

Open Your Eyes poster
7.5

Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.

Open Your Eyes

1997

The Price of Freedom poster
4.3

Mario, a member of the terrorist group ETA during Franco's dictatorship, drastically changes the course of his life when, with democracy in place, the organization decides to continue killing.

The Price of Freedom

2011

Sicarivs: The Night and the Silence poster
7.2

A hit man receives the assignment to kill a woman. But what seems as another job complicates when he is about to execute her, but does not. He will have to go after those who gave him the contract, for, in his profession, those who do not comply with their duty end up dead. But the question remains, why did he not kill the woman?

Sicarivs: The Night and the Silence

2015

Barrio poster
6.7

Bored 15-year-old school chums Rai Manu and Javi dream of sexual adventures and exotic resorts while the well-off population of Madrid flock to the beaches on a summer holiday. The youths hang around the concrete wasteland killing time by reading the sex classifieds and pushing their luck. They masturbate, thieve, fight with their families and get involved in a drug bust. Finally Rai, the most daring and restless of the trio - gets shot while trying to steal stereo gear from a car. Each adolescent faces a dreary home life but when they get together they enjoy each other's company to the full. The film is an engaging mixture of comedy drama and the pathos of life in a Madrid neighborhood.

Barrio

1998

Somne poster
5.1

A group of doctors that investigate the capacities of the human brain and the dreams discover that the reality can be more dangerous that the nightmares.

Somne

2005

Film credits

2010s · 3 titles

2000s · 20 titles

Somne poster
5.1

A group of doctors that investigate the capacities of the human brain and the dreams discover that the reality can be more dangerous that the nightmares.

Somne

2005

The Galíndez File poster
4.4

On March 12, 1956, Basque Nationalist Jesús de Galíndez Suarez disappears from his apartment in New York, never heard from again. He had been working with the FBI and was about to publish a book critical of Dominican strongman, Trujillo. In 1988, a graduate student, Muriel Colber, wants to make Galíndez the subject of her dissertation. She's in Spain doing research; finding little, she goes to Santo Domingo. At every turn, the CIA, in the person of agent Robards, tries to thwart her; and, at each turn, as she considers abandoning the project, someone offers new information, often contradictory. She wants the truth behind the Galíndez mystery; will she find it?

The Galíndez File

2003

The Contestant poster
5.8

Martín's lucky hit when he wins the most lucrative prize in television history puts his life upside down.

The Contestant

2007

Smoking Room poster
5.8

The Spanish branch of an American company is obliged to enforce the ban on smoking in their offices. From now on, those who want to smoke during working hours must do so in the street. Ramirez, one of the employees of this small office composed mainly of men, decides to begin collecting signatures against what he considers unfair. What Ramirez intends is to be use an unoccupied office as smoking room

Smoking Room

2002

The Mudboy poster
5.8

Police try to hunt down a serial killer in 1912 Buenos Aires.

The Mudboy

2007

The Wretched Life of Juanita Narboni poster
8.0

The daughter of an Englishman and an Andalusian woman, Juanita rejects the historical changes taking place in Tangier.She lives alone in this "Paradise lost", surrounded by her sister Elena; Esther, her close friend who dedicates her entire life to an impossible love affair with a Moroccan; and Hamruch the housemaid, who disappears one day without saying a word. The Spanish Civil War, WWII with the arrival of refugees from Europe, and the Moroccan independence finally returns the city to its Arab origins. Juanita's tragedy lies in not realizing that her world is destined to disappear by the destructive and rejuvenating force of History.

The Wretched Life of Juanita Narboni

2005

La noche que dejó de llover poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La noche que dejó de llover

2009

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Arde amor

2001

Cascabel poster
7.0

Cascabel is the nickname of a 19-year-old girl from a small town who dreams of going to Madrid to try her luck. After the failure of her friend Luz, who has not managed to succeed as a singer in the capital and has to return to town, Cascabel will try to impress a musical representative who is hunting in the vicinity.

Cascabel

2000

No artwork available
NR

In a hotel of Amsterdam, the police coordinates the arrests of Enrique Souto, against him there's a search and seizure international order. Johanes, his office lawyer, informs him that spanish autorities considers him the responsable of the disappearance of Cristina Durán, his girlfriend.

Mentint a la vida

2004

Mi casa es tu casa poster
6.7

A popular writer looking for a peaceful environment in which to finish his latest novel gets an unexpected surprise upon arriving at the remote summer home he once shared with his ex-wife.

Mi casa es tu casa

2003

The Impatient Alchemist poster
5.2

The body of a naked man tied to a bed appears in a roadside motel. Sergeant Ruben Bevilacqua (Vila) and his colleague Virginia Chamorro assigned to investigate the case, which is especially delicate because Trinidad Soler, the dead, is a nuclear engineer and have sparked alarmist speculation in the press.

The Impatient Alchemist

2002

Lost in Galicia poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Lost in Galicia

2009

Touch the Sky poster
6.2

A family divided between two continents put their differences aside when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.

Touch the Sky

2007

La promesa poster
6.2

A psychological thriller about an obsessive compulsive, deeply religious woman who flees her abusive husband and accepts a nanny position for a weatlhy family in a different town. The woman's state of mind is extremely fragile, and is made worse by her visits to a Gothic church where things are not as they seem

La promesa

2004

Canciones de invierno poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Canciones de invierno

2004

No artwork available
9.0

The story revolves around a love story between an older woman and a young man struggling to change a future that not excited.

Fragments

2003

Ilegal poster
9.0

Two reporters undertake a dangerous investigative job: expose the mafia that transports immigrants from Africa to Europe illegally. Its intention is to denounce the drama of immigration and the proliferation of clandestine and criminal networks of human trafficking.

Ilegal

2003

No artwork available
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Secuestrados en Georgia

2003

Ecos poster
5.5

After the unexpected death of her husband, Alba (Núria Prim), a young woman, tries to rebuild her life with her daughter. However, when they move at their new home, the child dies in the pool. In an attempt to save her daughter, Alba suffers an accident and is unconscious in the hospital for a while. When she awakes, she learns that she has gone deaf and, when she tries to return to her daily live, she discovers that is able to hear conversations from people who are dead.

Ecos

2006

1990s · 14 titles

Open Your Eyes poster
7.5

Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.

Open Your Eyes

1997

Barrio poster
6.7

Bored 15-year-old school chums Rai Manu and Javi dream of sexual adventures and exotic resorts while the well-off population of Madrid flock to the beaches on a summer holiday. The youths hang around the concrete wasteland killing time by reading the sex classifieds and pushing their luck. They masturbate, thieve, fight with their families and get involved in a drug bust. Finally Rai, the most daring and restless of the trio - gets shot while trying to steal stereo gear from a car. Each adolescent faces a dreary home life but when they get together they enjoy each other's company to the full. The film is an engaging mixture of comedy drama and the pathos of life in a Madrid neighborhood.

Barrio

1998

Secrets of the Heart poster
6.5

Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the room where his father was found dead). He is so interested in these mysteries that he starts to investigate all the secrets of these dead people and their stories.

Secrets of the Heart

1997

Family poster
7.4

Santiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it's his birthday. They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry and says he doesn't like it. The boy starts crying and saying that he loves him, but Santiago answers that he doesn't believe him and he tells the boy that he is fired and that he wants another son, who is thinner, who doesn't need glasses and who resembles him more. Written by Pablo Montoya

Family

1996

Finisterre, donde termina el mundo poster
4.4

Mario and Berto are brothers and they live in Galicia at the “Finis Terrae”. Their father left them when they were children and they grew up with the idea of finding him someday, without knowing that they were the ones separating from each other. Once reunited they will intent to take up again their mission

Finisterre, donde termina el mundo

1999

Flowers From Another World poster
5.4

Patricia, a woman from Dominican Republic, needs a home and an economic security that her illegal status in Madrid does not provide her. Milady, twenty, born in Havana and dying to travel the world. Marirosi has a job, a home, and the most complete solitude... just like Alfonso, Damián and Carmelo, men from the St. Eulalia, a village lacking both marrying women and future. A bachelors' party forces the encounter between them and the beginning of this bittersweet story of sharing a living.

Flowers From Another World

1999

Sleepless in Madrid poster
5.1

Eva, Alba y Juan are the protagonist of the story. Eva gives birth to Marina, Alba has just been left by her boyfriend. And Juan is happily married. Their paths intersect one night and their lifes will change forever.

Sleepless in Madrid

1998

Todo por la pasta poster
5.3

After a robbery at a bingo hall, Azucena, the girlfriend of one of the thieves, decides to seize the money for herself. On the run she stumbles upon Verónica, the manager of a nursing home that wants a cut in exchange of helping her to evade the criminals and the cops.

Todo por la pasta

1991

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

The open luggage poster
8.0

Amanda is a melancholic prostitute, in love with a regular client, a disenchanted doctor. Since the day Amanda met this man, he has become, without knowing it, her only client. This explains why Amanda, since then, has been stealing suitcase in a bus station in order to live. One day Amanda steals a suitcase which is different than the other. Its content will change her life.

The open luggage

1999

El niño invisible poster
4.2

A group of children find a magic stone that transports them to the XII century.

El niño invisible

1995

Em dic Sara poster
9.0

A college professor tries to deal with the frustrations of her life as she drifts uncomfortably into middle age. Elvira Minguez plays Sara, a 40-year-old single mother who teaches at a university while sharing her home with her teenage daughter Virginia and her boyfriend Adrian. Lately, Sara has not been getting along well with her friends and has very mixed feelings about Virginia's openness about her sex life. These dilemmas are compounded by the death of her father.

Em dic Sara

1999

Zapico poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zapico

1996

Give Me Something poster
9.0

Young Benigno is institutionalized after witnessing his mother murder his father. Years later, Benigno is released back into the world, now considered sane, intelligent and literary man. He leads a peaceful life in a mission for the homeless run by nuns until one day, on his birthday, something snaps.

Give Me Something

1997

Series credits