Manuel Manquiña

Acting

Manuel Manquiña

Born

1953-08-02 (73)

Place of birth

Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

67 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

2010s · 13 titles

The Apostle poster
7.4

A recently escaped convict seeks to recover a treasure he hid years ago in a small, secluded Galician village. However once there, he finds out that in the village there is an even worse sentence than the one he fled from.

The Apostle

2012

Relaxing Cup of Coffee poster
1.2

No synopsis available yet.

Relaxing Cup of Coffee

2016

Game of Werewolves poster
5.8

After 15 years, Tomas, a not very succesfull writer, comes back to the village in Galicia where his family comes from, Arga, apparently to get an award. But he doesn't know the real reason why he is there, to end with an old curse that is been haunting the village for the last hundred years.

Game of Werewolves

2011

Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas poster
5.1

Paco, a 40-year-old bachelor, realizes a childhood dream: working at home in his pajamas.

Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas

2018

Poor Sailor poster
NR

Jonás and Raquel live in the field. Their life is happy and in harmony with the envoronment. One day, Néstor, Jonás's brother, visit them. He's captain in a fishing boat that has docked in a near village. Néstor told her brother the wonderful life in the sea, all money that he has won and the adventures that he has lived. Jonas decides go with him although Raquel doesn't accord. Comic book adaptation "Poor Sailor " by Sammy Harkham.

Poor Sailor

2014

Galicia caníbal poster
NR

The documentary tells how, during the 1980s, a cultural phenomenon emerged and developed in Galicia that would eventually become known as the Movida Gallega.

Galicia caníbal

2011

Meow poster
5.0

Four desperately bored retired men yearn for some excitement in their lives to make them feel alive. Whilst trying to occupy his mind by writing a terrible book, Telmo is reunited with his two best friends from school. Mornreal, who is just out of prison, can’t bare to see his old friends fading away so he comes up with a plan to break the daily boredom and to inject excitement into his friends’ lives. With nothing to lose, the old friends embark on a mad, wild adventure that results in a bizarre robbery of a museum.

Meow

2018

Before the Burn poster
5.9

Quique is a successful 30-year-old composer. He does not have the necessary funds to support a broken family. With a sister who is in prison for trafficking drugs and an elderly mother suffering from Alzheimer's, he decides to reconcile his activity with a new job: Drug dealer.

Before the Burn

2019

Siniestro Total: Que parezca un accidente poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Siniestro Total: Que parezca un accidente

2014

Sol y Luna: Dos Mejor Que Una poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Sol y Luna: Dos Mejor Que Una

2019

Toñito Blanco. Só, perdido e vicioso poster
NR

Documentary about the life and work of filmmaker and journalist Antonio "Toñito" Blanco, author of La matanza caníbal de los garrulos lisérgicos.

Toñito Blanco. Só, perdido e vicioso

2013

Rey gitano poster
4.2

Two unemployed detectives with conflicting ideologies meet a rogue and seductive gypsy who proposes them a crazy mission. After that, their luck will change for the worse.

Rey gitano

2015

Neckan poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Neckan

2017

2000s · 21 titles

Beneath Still Waters poster
4.0

Studying under a disciple of Aleister Crowley, the leader of an upper class group invokes a supernatural force that slowly devours the village of Marienbad and its inhabitants, threatening to spread beyond its geographical limits. The mayor from the town nearby commissions the building of a dam which would flood the valley and therefore submerge the village forever sealing the evil force under water after leader and his followers were incapacitated to be kept from escaping. However, fate ensured the leader's freedom as he remained in the depths when the waters covered Marienbad. Now 40 years later an array of disappearances and deaths in mysterious circumstances are threatening the town next to the reservoir that now covers Marienbad.

Beneath Still Waters

2005

April Captains poster
6.6

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.

April Captains

2000

The Hairy Tooth Fairy 2 poster
6.8

Eight year old Lucas would like to know how the Tooth Fairy exchanges coins for teeth without getting caught. He is determined to stay awake all night to find out. Meanwhile, a little mouse falls into a trap set by a dishonest contractor who is desperate to tell the world his secret, that the mouse is the Tooth Fairy. Lucas and his family has to do everything in their power to help the sweet little mouse with its mission, which since time immemorial, is to make children happy...

The Hairy Tooth Fairy 2

2008

Pídele cuentas al rey poster
5.6

Fidel, an Asturian miner, after the closure of the mine where he works, decides to walk to Madrid with his family, to ask the king why the Constitution is not met, specifically the article that points out that all the Spanish citizens have the right to have a decent work. Will the king receive him?

Pídele cuentas al rey

2000

Kill Me Tender poster
4.7

Do all men want the same thing? Nestor, recently widowed, runs a bakery near Barcelona, has a bank account and a bad heart, and swims in the sea every day. He also has a daughter and a two-timing son-in-law. Nestor's maid asks him to hire her 20-something daughter, Maribel, as a shop assistant.

Kill Me Tender

2004

Searching for Love poster
5.8

When Ana married Felix, the leader of a rock band and son of a travel agent, she thought her life would be plenty of excitement and travels. Now, in her forties, she leads a monotonous life with her husband and her daughter, giving cooking lessons and taking French courses. But one day she receives an invitation to give a cooking course in Paris.

Searching for Love

2004

El partido poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El partido

2006

Fish People poster
4.6

A group of guys face the problems of daily life in a shared house

Fish People

2001

Fish People poster
4.6

A group of guys face the problems of daily life in a shared house

Fish People

2001

Año Mariano poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Año Mariano

2000

The Witch Affair poster
5.5

The night of San Juan, Miguel murders his associate. Two elderly people are witness to the crime and predict that all of his dreams will come true thereafter. He will know the price he has to pay when he sees a black cat with a moon shaped mark on its forehead. Twenty-two years later a messenger begins to see all his dreams come true...

The Witch Affair

2003

Los mánagers poster
5.4

Two jobless Forty-somethings: Maca and Rena are in serious need of a financial stroke of luck. When they spot an ad for a TV contest looking for the next Pop Idol, they decide to turn themselves into the MANAGERS of two young hopefuls: Pipo and David. While launching their careers with performances in bars, bingo clubs and other such dives they encounter Rota, a shady old singer who arranges for them to tour the Costa del Sol. Thus begins a frenetic road movie where dreams of success turn into a nightmare inhabited by strange creatures: Tom Jones clones, porn stars, enlightened arabs, psychopathic marines, kitch TV presenters, corrupt politicians and even extra-terrestrials.

Los mánagers

2006

El lápiz del carpintero poster
5.7

A story of love and obsession during the Spanish Civil War

El lápiz del carpintero

2003

A King in Havana poster
6.7

Mr. Arturo, an old rich Spanishman who arrives to Havana to marry Yoli, dies suddenly in bed. Yoli's family, afraid of losing all the money, convinces her ex-boyfriend Papito to go to Spain and get the money. Papito will have to be clever enough to deceive everybody and succeed in Spain

A King in Havana

2005

Siempre Habana poster
NR

Ignacio and his nephew Tomasín are two Galician businessmen sharing a family inheritance bonus with their cousin Divina Luz, cuban-born, but of Galician descent. The division of the property is notarized in Santiago de Compostela, where Divina Luz is received by his unknown family.

Siempre Habana

2006

The Biggest Robbery Ever Told poster
5.9

Lucas Santos, named El Santo is petty thief going continuously in and out of jail. Tired of small thefts, he aims to strike a blow that makes him famous and become the star of all media. His wife Lucia, a comprehensive and sweet woman, while awaiting the return of her husband, works as a stripper at a nightclub. Finally, Lucas gathers a band of petty thieves and decides to steal, from the National Museum of Art Reina Sofía, its most valuable painting: Picasso's Guernica.

The Biggest Robbery Ever Told

2002

Lena poster
5.4

Set in Galicia in northwest Spain - an area famed for its beauty and smuggling - this film shows a once-thriving fishing and shipbuilding culture fallen on hard times. Feisty, street smart Lena, 18, lives in semi-penury with her hard-drinking slob of a father, Gorrión, and hopes to escape by getting a grant to study in Portugal. Gorrion is mixed up with local drug-smuggling mafiosi, that includes Lena's godfather, Gitano, their Portugese Cachero, and the strong, silent Milio. One day, Lena returns from her job to find Gorrion badly beaten up: The gang had accused him of stealing. Lena visits the gangsters and offers to help pay off her father's debt by working for them. After Gorrion forgets to deliver Lena's grant papers, a fragile emotional bond develops between Lena and Milio. When they set off to Portugal to do a job, events start to ramble.

Lena

2001

Lost in Galicia poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Lost in Galicia

2009

Locos por el sexo poster
4.8

Nono is a young schizophrenic who believes himself destined to stop the global arms race. He has always lived alone with his overwhelming mother, now he meets crazy Ramon.

Locos por el sexo

2006

O bonito crime do Carabineiro poster
NR

In the middle of summer, the Serafín trader travels to Compostela's lands and directs his steps to the boarding house in which for every time he visits the city, his companions of social gathering are waiting for him. He already has a few misfortunes behind him but the worst is still to come.

O bonito crime do Carabineiro

2009

Noin poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

Noin

2003

1990s · 13 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

Between Your Legs poster
5.4

A radio-show assistant meets a budding screenwriter during a group-therapy session for sex addicts.

Between Your Legs

1999

Airbag poster
6.6

A man gets involved in a series of mishaps while frantically searching for his lost wedding ring.

Airbag

1997

I Will Survive poster
6.1

After the father of Marga’s unborn child dies, the young woman loses all hope, until she meets a dashing, handsome gentleman who just might be the man of her dreams -- aside from the fact that he happens to be gay…

I Will Survive

1999

Os vixilantes do camiño poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Os vixilantes do camiño

1999

The Ugliest Woman in the World poster
4.6

Somebody has decided to celebrate New Year's Eve 2011 in a very twisted way - by dressing as a nun and brutally dismembering a little old lady. Lt. Arribas, a bald, toothless, one-eyed and lonely detective is called in on the case. His investigations lead him to the door of renegade Doctor Werner, who tells him the strange story of "The Beautiful Otero" the most beautiful woman in the world (former Spanish model Galera) who, before Werner s miraculous surgery, was the ugliest woman in the world! But Lt. Arribas now has a new problem - he is falling in love at a distance with his principle suspect who, because of her traumatic childhood, is planning her vengeance - to sabotage the Miss Spain Beauty Pageant, leaving behind her a trail of dead beauty queens. A super-slick science fiction thriller with a dark and bizarre finale.

The Ugliest Woman in the World

1999

La matanza caníbal de los garrulos lisérgicos poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

La matanza caníbal de los garrulos lisérgicos

1993

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

Matías, juez de línea poster
4.8

Matias is a soccer referee. He promised his dying mother never to lie. When he referees a match of the spanish national team and there is a clear penalty against Spain in the last minute of the game he has no choice and marks the foul. As a result Spain does not qualify for the world championship and Matias is forced to escape from the rage of the people. He hides in the town of his father which he hasn't visited since his childhood.

Matías, juez de línea

1996

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

Atilano, presidente poster
6.0

Atilano Bermejo is a petty crook who gets involved in the scam of his life: to be Prime Minister. His charisma and lack of social concern make him an ideal political candidate for a group of bankers looking for a good public image behind which to hide and disguise their ambitions.

Atilano, presidente

1998

Frontera sur poster
3.9

This historical drama addresses European immigration to the Americas (in this case to Buenos Aires, Argentina) during the last two decades of the 19th century. Among its main characters are a Spanish immigrant, a German one, and an established "Argentine." They compete for the affection of a more established female Spanish immigrant, now a successful businesswoman, albeit a prostitute.

Frontera sur

1998

Mararía poster
4.4

A tempestuous love triangle forms between beautiful local girl Mararía, an English volcanologist and a Basque doctor in the island of Lanzarote in the 1930s.

Mararía

1998

Undated · 3 titles

Series credits

Cuéntame cómo pasó poster
7.1

Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.

Cuéntame cómo pasó

2001

Land Rober Tunai Show poster
NR

Land Rober Tunai Show is two continuous hours of humor, guests, music, comedy, collaborators and has the direct participation of the audience in the studio.

Land Rober Tunai Show

2015

El Club de la Comedia poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

El Club de la Comedia

1999

El Inmortal: Gangs of Madrid poster
7.3

Consists of the fictionalization of the story of 'Los Miami's', a criminal organization led by 'El inmortal' that controlled the cocaine trade in Madrid in the 1990s.

El Inmortal: Gangs of Madrid

2022

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

Silent Cargo poster
6.4

November 2019. A semi-submersible loaded with three tons of cocaine is seized off the Galician coast after having crossed the Atlantic. The captain, Nando, a promising young amateur boxer, travels accompanied by a Brazilian mechanic and a Colombian hitman. Three strangers locked up for almost a month in a claustrophobic handmade boat.

Silent Cargo

2022

Arde Madrid poster
6.8

Madrid, 1961. Ana Mari is single, lame, Francoist and instructor of the Sección Femenina. By order of the dictator Franco, she must go to work as a maid to Ava Gardner's house and spy on her, pretending to be married to Manolo, a hustler who will become the driver of the American actress.

Arde Madrid

2018

Manolo y Benito Corporeision poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Manolo y Benito Corporeision

2006

Antivicio poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Antivicio

2000

Antes de perder poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

Antes de perder

2019

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

London Street

2003