Joseba Apaolaza

Acting

Joseba Apaolaza

Born 1960-12-29

Acting credits

The Accordionist's Son poster
5.0

David Imaz had to flee from the Basque Country in the mid-seventies, repudiated by his people, accused of betrayal. Despite having found happiness in California, his past still weighs him down and the feeling of guilt prevents him from being able to settle down and peacefully enjoy the last days of his life. Joseba Altuna, his childhood friend, comes to say goodbye and to settle the score while he's at it. It's been a long time since they saw one another, but the time has come to face the truth.

The Accordionist's Son

2019

Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City poster
5.6

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, 2019. Two corpses appear in the crypt of the Old Cathedral. Police officer Unai López de Ayala, an expert in criminal profiling, must hunt down the ritual murderer who has been terrorizing the city for two decades.

Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cásate conmigo

Sorbeltza poster
NR

A yacht sets sail with three people on board. Two women and a man form a triangle as strange as it is mysterious. Swimming in the high seas, nighttime conversations and sexual tensions. A feverish sleeplessness and the need for freedom will mark the direction of their navigation.

Sorbeltza

2023

Don Miguel poster
NR

The only thing needed for the Bank to lend Eugenio the money he has asked for is a simple signature by Don Miguel.

Don Miguel

2014

Broken Silence poster
5.7

Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, because of his smile and the bravery of those men who continue fighting for their ideas, even at the cost of their own lives. When Manuel is pursued (by Franco's Civil Guard) he flees to the mountain and Lucía discovers the reality of political repression, the silence, the horror and fear.

Broken Silence

2001

Running Out of Time poster
5.9

Days before committing an attack, Antonio, a gunman of the terrorist gang ETA who has dedicated his life to a cause he no longer believes in, meets Charo, a young drug addict who, despite the sordid environment in which she lives, still retains her innocence.

Running Out of Time

1994

Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang poster
5.9

Mischevious twins Zip and Zap are placed in Esperanza, a school where games are prohibited. There, they found the Club of Marble, a resistance to challenge authority. Thanks to intelligence, courage, and unwavering faith in friendship, Zip, Zap and the club will discover a mysterious secret hidden deep in the school and live the most exciting adventure of their lives.

Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang

2013

No artwork available
9.0

Clara is an amnesiac woman who faces the reconstruction of a dark past, connecting your business life with a mobster Iranian drug trafficking, prostitution, arms sales and political corruption.

Clara

2002

The Big Race poster
6.0

The year 1914. The Lasarte racetrack announces a race with a never-before-seen prize for the winning horse. Eight of the best horses and mares in the world have registered. Fans and heavy betters from all the continents gather to participate in the great event: the Half Million Grand Prize.

The Big Race

2010

No artwork available
NR

Ainhoa's career as a pianist is put on hold when she's knocked down in the center of Barcelona. Her love life isn't exactly at its best either. Shortly before the accident she met Imanol, but had been incapable of sharing her life with him due to an inability to show her feelings. The origins of her fears lie in the ETA attack she witnessed at the age of 15.

Perfect Happiness

2009

No artwork available
9.5

Based on a true story. A Spanish soldier hides out with and aids the Saharawi people of the Western Sahara against the injustices of his own army.

Stories from the Sahrawi war

2004

His Master's Voice poster
5.6

Basque Country, Spain, 1980s. In Bilbao, a gray city dominated by political corruption and nationalist terrorism, Charli works as a chauffeur for Oliveira, a businessman engaged in shady deals. Alarmed by a series of threats and attacks, Oliveira decides to entrust Charli with the protection of his daughter Marta.

His Master's Voice

2001

Ander eta Yul poster
6.3

Two former seminarians meet by chance in adulthood: one has become a dealer, the other a terrorist.

Ander eta Yul

1989

27 Hours poster
6.3

Drama on juvenile delinquency, unemployment and drugs. Jon, a boy of twenty, gets up at seven o'clock and from that moment we can see how he lives the friendship, love, family relationships and his dark passion for drugs.

27 Hours

1986

Malena es un nombre de tango poster
5.2

The attractive Malena listen to after telling the history of her life. Her treasure is not just an emerald that she inherits from her grandfather, but the key to discover the path of her existence, the eternal fight with her sister, and the passionate relationships with men. Based on the bestselling novel by Amanda Grandes.

Malena es un nombre de tango

1996

No artwork available
6.2

After the death of the last survivor of a multiple murder, which remained in a coma, a journalist is asked to make an infographic about the case. Her personal involvement with the event will give clues to unexpected connections that shed new research data.

The End of the Night

2006

Perejil Island poster
5.2

Ibrahim, a Moroccan soldier, is sent to a deserted island off the Mediterranean coast of Morocco to monitor the movements of smugglers and illegal immigrants. One day, Ibrahim finds a Sub-Saharan man, Mamadou, washed up on the beach. While the unlikely pair tries to survive on the miniscule island, they inadvertently trigger a diplomatic incident that crescendos into a regional military crisis.

Perejil Island

2016

The House on the Lake poster
6.3

You have been thinking about leaving for years. Look at the photo. Again. You know where it is. A pigsty. Go. Kill him. Don't talk, say nothing. Whiskey. It's midnight. He can't explain it. She can't either. This city is rotten. Where is the life your parents promised you?

The House on the Lake

2011

Zeru horiek poster
NR

Irene, a former member of the terrorist gang ETA recently released from prison in Catalonia, recalls her past during her return trip to the Basque Country.

Zeru horiek

2006

Baztan poster
NR

A film crew travels to the Valley of Baztan to make a film about certain events that occurred in the seventeenth century is the history of discrimination suffered by so-called "agotes", people who were forced to live apart from the rest almost to our days.

Baztan

2012

The Good News poster
6.3

Miguel is appointed parish priest of a socialist town coinciding with the uprising of 1936. In his struggle to defend the reprisals, the young priest will face the ecclesiastical and military hierarchy, putting his own life at stake.

The Good News

2008

Kutsidazu bidea, Ixabel poster
5.7

Juan Martin, a young boy from San Sebastian, decides to spend the summer in a remote hillside farmhouse to improve his Basque. But there he discovers that the language they use has little in common with his classroom learnings.

Kutsidazu bidea, Ixabel

2006

Ehun metro poster
7.0

It's 8 AM in a summer morning from the 70's. Jon, an ETA member, is being chased by the police in the Old Town of San Sebastian. While he runs, he revises his whole life.

Ehun metro

1985