Ernesto Alterio

Acting

Ernesto Alterio

Born

1970-09-25 (56)

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Known for

Acting

Credits

70 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 12 titles

Unknown Origins poster
6.2

In Madrid, Spain, a mysterious serial killer ruthlessly murders his victims by recreating the first appearance of several comic book superheroes. Cosme, a veteran police inspector who is about to retire, works on the case along with the tormented inspector David Valentín and his own son Jorge Elías, a nerdy young man who owns a comic book store.

Unknown Origins

2020

More the Merrier poster
6.6

Multiple stories about the oscillating world of couple relationships and how difficult it can be to separate sex from love.

More the Merrier

2021

Four's a Crowd poster
6.3

Julián, a divorced man with financial problems, uses a cell phone application to share his car with strangers.

Four's a Crowd

2022

Karateka poster
NR

At 39, Spanish karateka Sandra Sánchez sets her sights on Olympic gold in Tokyo, pushing her career toward its defining test. Her coach and life partner, Jesús del Moral, remains beside her throughout, a bond that turns each step toward the Games into a shared act of commitment.

Karateka

2026

I Love You, Stupid poster
6.4

Marcos' life turns upside down after he loses the same day his girlfriend and his job. Marcos' life turns wild after to meet Raquel.

I Love You, Stupid

2020

Death at a Funeral poster
5.6

The members of a family come to say goodbye to the recently deceased patriarch. But what should have been a heartfelt wake turns into a crazy gathering when one of the attendees reveals the deceased's best kept secret.

Death at a Funeral

2025

Every Side of the Bed poster
4.7

After decades without seeing each other, Javier and Carlota are furious when they discover that their children are planning to get married. Who at their age has a heteronormative and exclusive relationship in 2025 with all they have left to experience? Have they been taught nothing as parents?

Every Side of the Bed

2025

Flies poster
6.3

Mr. Machi is a businessman fond of luxuries, easy money and women. A despicable person who abuses his power and position, but suddenly finds himself in an extreme situation: one morning, in broad daylight, he punctures a tire. But his surprise comes when he discovers the disfigured corpse of a stranger in his trunk. Someone has set a trap for him. There he begins a desperate route to get rid of the body, discover his identity and know who is behind all this. One of the many enemies that he has cultivated over the years, from his own wife to co-workers, bodyguards and politicians. It could have been any of those that he has stepped on during these years to continue climbing or to consolidate his power, because for Luis Machi, people are so insignificant that from afar they look like flies.

Flies

2023

Co-Husbands poster
5.1

Emilio and Tono both receive phone calls that their wives are in comas after a ski-resort avalanche. At the hospital desk, they make a shocking discovery: their wives are, in fact, the same person … Laura. Forced to wait together until Laura regains consciousness, Emilio and Toni battle to prove who is her one and only true husband.

Co-Husbands

2023

Crónica De Una Tormenta poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Crónica De Una Tormenta

2021

A Normal World poster
5.8

Ernesto learns that his mother has passed and yet worse that they plan to bury her in a graveyard. Determined to fulfill his late mum's wishes, he plans to steal the coffin.

A Normal World

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Perfectos conocidos

2027

2010s · 14 titles

Easy Sex, Sad Movies poster
5.5

Buenos Aires, Argentina. Pablo, a screenwriter, is hired to write a new romantic comedy.

Easy Sex, Sad Movies

2014

Gun City poster
6.3

Barcelona, ​​Spain, 1921. A tough cop from Madrid arrives in the city to locate, under the suspicious scrutiny of corrupt local police officers, a significant amount of military weaponry stolen from a train, allegedly by revolutionary anarchists.

Gun City

2018

Clandestine Childhood poster
6.9

Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true events, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love.

Clandestine Childhood

2012

Advantages of Travelling by Train poster
6.5

After interning her insane husband in a remote psychiatric hospital, book editor Helga Pato returns home by train, where she meets a mysterious man who identifies himself as a psychiatrist.

Advantages of Travelling by Train

2019

Perfect Strangers poster
6.7

During a lunar eclipse, seven friends gather for dinner and decide to play a game in which they must share with each other the content of every message, email or phone call they receive throughout the evening.

Perfect Strangers

2017

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

I Can Quit Whenever I Want poster
6.3

Pedro, Arturo and Eligio are three college professors who lost their job because of economic crisis. Accidentally they find a solution for all of their problems; a multi-vitamin that allows them to party all night long without any side effects. The three professors will be launched into the world of nightclubs and the shady business, in order to market the merchandise. Of course, it seems that they are not as prepared for it as they thought.

I Can Quit Whenever I Want

2019

Stranded poster
4.8

The last train travel of the year from Barcelona to Madrid, suddenly stops by a voltage drop in the middle of nowhere during a fierce snowstorm. Because of the peculiarity of its passengers, will begin to emerge hilarious conflicts between them.

Stranded

2015

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

La montaña rusa poster
5.0

Three childhood friends meet again many years later, a woman and two men. A triangle. In one corner, sex, in another, love, and in the middle ... the protagonist in a mess. Romantic and sentimental comedy about sex, love and its many complicated combinations.

La montaña rusa

2012

Legalize It! poster
7.2

The meeting between two young guys, Marcelo —in the future, Marcelo D2— and Skunk , who sold t-shirts and cassette tapes in the center of Rio de Janeiro to survive, resulted in one of the most popular bands in Brazil in the 1990’s, Planet Hemp. Suppressed by a prejudiced society, the two made of their music a cry of alertness and resistance, conquering the hearts and minds of an entire generation.

Legalize It!

2017

Amigos... poster
5.3

The strong friendship between three friends is to be tested at the moment they learn that an old childhood companion has died and has left them his entire estate. To get it they must participate in a pre-planned wager devised by the deceased. This results in a mad spiral of competitiveness that will make the lives of the protagonists transformed forever.

Amigos...

2011

Rumbos poster
6.1

During a long night of August, some people have different experiences that leave a deep impression in them. Linked by a radio night show, all them cross the city of Barcelona, not knowing that their fates will collide with each other in unexpected ways.

Rumbos

2016

Pain poster
6.2

A couple, a forest, a lot of pain.

Pain

2013

2000s · 18 titles

The Other Side of the Bed poster
6.0

When Paula leaves her mate Pedro, he misses her and looks for comfort with his best friends, Javier and Sonia. Paula is having an affair with Javier. Pedro tries to find who is the secret lover of Paula, and hires a private eye. Meanwhile, while comforting Pedro, Sonia has a one night stand with him and Javier thinks she is cheating on him with her lesbian friend Luzia.

The Other Side of the Bed

2002

The Method poster
6.7

Seven candidates to a high executive position on a multinational company show up for a selection test in a skyscraper at the financial district. Among them, the most disparate personalities: the winner, the aggressive, the insecure, the critic, the indecisive…

The Method

2005

Soccer Days poster
6.0

A comedic romp that celebrates the power of friendship to turn your life around, Dias de Futbol introduces us to Antonio, an ex-convict and amateur shrink who convinces his pals that the best way to overcome their midlife crises and lack of success with women is to reassemble their old soccer team and win something in life, even if only a local championship. Directed by David Serrano. Starring Alberto San Juan, Natalia Verbeke (Dot the I, Son of the Bride), Pere Ponce, and Fernando Tejero.

Soccer Days

2003

Semen, a History of Love poster
4.6

A biologist in an insemination clinic unexpectedly falls in love with a free-spirited trapeze artist and the idea of fathering her child. A hilarious romantic comedy about love at first sight, with complications to follow...and more laughs than you could possibly conceive!

Semen, a History of Love

2005

Swindled poster
6.2

In a flashback, Ernesto, a young con man, tells us how he got to the edge of a big score: childhood in an orphanage, youthful smash-and-grab burglaries until his partner is caught, then tutelage from Lefty, an aging swindler. After some years of success, they're joined by Federico, the best, a true artist. Things go well until Pilar, a woman from Federico's past, re-enters his life with a proposal to con a golden goose - a swindle that will put them all on easy street. A double-cross may be in the cards. The flashback over, can Ernesto hold his own in the present?

Swindled

2004

Bunuel and King Solomon's Table poster
5.4

The old Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83) imagines a movie plot, set in Toledo in the future 2002, about the fantastic adventure of three actors, who play him and his friends, the painter Salvador Dalí (1904-89) and the poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), and their search for King Solomon's table, a mythical artifact capable of revealing the past, present and future.

Bunuel and King Solomon's Table

2001

Muertos comunes poster
5.5

Pamplona, 1973. Eusebio Luquin, a police inspector who never loses any sleep over his work, is asked to solve, along with his new detective, Fermín, the rape and murder of a young woman near the army barracks. The army, however, offers them little support in their investigations. Nevertheless, a recent photograph of the victim uncovers a vital clue, and the prime suspect turns out to be the husband of Elvira, a kitchen worker at the barracks. But just as it appears that everything has been resolved, a shocking series of events re-opens a case in which it seems some people are keen to keep quiet while the rest are keen that no questions are asked.

Muertos comunes

2004

The Widows of Thursdays poster
5.5

The closed community of a private neighborhood of high-priced houses, is moved by the discovery of three corpses that appear floating in a pool and rushes to frame it as an accident.

The Widows of Thursdays

2009

Salad Days poster
7.5

A mixed salad and a trout meet on death row: The cold storage of a restaurant. They decide to unite in a single dish that will lead them to eternal love.

Salad Days

2001

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

7 pasos y medio

2009

The 2 Sides of the Bed poster
5.4

Three years have passed and the boys seem to have matured. Javier is going to marry Marta and Pedro is very much in love with his new girlfriend Raquel. Rafa has also found happiness with Pilar, who loves him too and treats him in a very particular way. It can seem that everything is perfect in their lives. But what do the girls think? Marta and Raquel have different plans that will put their relationship with their boyfriends in danger. Even Pilar has got a lover and is being unfaithful to Rafa. But that's not all: a new woman, Carlota, appears in Javier and Pedro's lives

The 2 Sides of the Bed

2005

Rivales poster
5.8

A history of rivalries: Madrid and Catalans, parents and children, couples, families ... all united and faced by football.

Rivales

2008

El balancín de Iván poster
6.8

Ana is a woman of thirty-something, goes back to the house where she spent of her childhood during the Argentine dictatorship.

El balancín de Iván

2002

Desire poster
5.6

In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.

Desire

2002

Luna's Game poster
6.6

The daughter of a poker player frequents the casinos to earn a living the only way he has learned: playing.

Luna's Game

2001

Rain poster
5.5

Buenos Aires. It rains. Alma is in her car, stuck in Buenos Aires' traffic. She has recently broken-up with her boyfriend, and she has been living in her little car since then. Suddenly, Roberto gets into the car. He's wet and hurt, he's tired of the rain, of broken dreams. He has come back after thirty years abroad. In this new city he has nothing and nobody, just a father in coma, whom he has no relationship. He promises to leave the car as soon as the rain ceases. Alma, not knowing exactly why lets him in. That night will be different. And the next few days too. There's something new to find in the depth of their hearts.

Rain

2008

Yoyes poster
5.6

Yoyes, the first woman to hold responsibility positions within ETA, returns from exile in Mexico and try to rebuild her life. But her return is not easy.

Yoyes

2000

Kasbah poster
8.2

A young man who lives in Morocco, his father and his half-sister are the characters. When the girl disappears in Kasbah, a night club, her half brother becomes the prime suspect.

Kasbah

2000

1990s · 10 titles

Shooting Elizabeth poster
5.5

Before a man can kill his nagging wife as planned, she disappears and he's charged with murder.

Shooting Elizabeth

1992

Wild Tango poster
6.4

A biopic based on the life of one of the pioneer argentine rock stars 'Tanguito'. The movie tells the story of his rise and fall from grace, encompassed in violent times of a military regime.

Wild Tango

1993

Tengo una casa poster
6.2

Several misfits at a crossroads in their lives converge in an isolated log cabin in the woods after a number of twists of fate.

Tengo una casa

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

Zafarinas poster
6.0

International Award Winning Actor Jorge Sanz, star of the Academy Award© winning picture, "Belle Epoque", stars in this action packed film in which a corporal of the guard is teamed with a young prisoner to solve the strange killings that have occurred in the walled city of Zafarinas. The young team finds themselves plunged into a world of drugs, deceit and passion where they find that all is not what it seems.

Zafarinas

1995

Washington Wolves poster
5.0

Alberto and Miguel have a bar, but things are not going very well. They need to get out of this black hole and they need money to do it. Alberto is divorced and alcoholic, Miguel has a big secret... Their old friend Claudio is very rich. Why not steal some of his money? Troubles grow when Claudio's wife is planning to steal this money too... The Washington wolfs, in a circus near all this, are the silent witnesses of all that happens that night.

Washington Wolves

1999

Havana Quartet poster
5.0

Walter, an aspiring musician from Madrid, has a lot of troubles. After finding a videotape, he learns something which will alter his whole life, and put his Madrid problems on hold. In the tape, a Cuban woman confesses to being his mother. She is waiting for him in Havana. Walter goes to Havana to see his mother. There, the plot thickens with the addition of the mother's daughter, and a Spanish airline crew member, who round out the quartet.

Havana Quartet

1999

The Stolen Years poster
5.6

Two students are arrested for painting revolutionary graffiti on the university walls. They escape from the camp and flee with two American girls, disguised as rich young men who are showing Spain to two tourists.

The Stolen Years

1998

My Name Is Shadow poster
6.5

Doctor Beiral, torn apart by the internal struggle between his social persona and the dark instincts that torment him, manages to use his investigations to give life to the monster that he has long held within him.

My Name Is Shadow

1996

Not Love, Just Frenzy poster
5.8

A group of enthusiastic teenagers embark on a journey to find love in Madrid's hottest discotheques but find themselves tangled in a web of sex, drugs and crime.

Not Love, Just Frenzy

1996

Series credits

El hormiguero poster
4.7

El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.

El hormiguero

2006

La Revuelta poster
4.5

David Broncano, along with Jorge Ponce, Ricardo Castella and his other collaborators, lead La Revuelta, a comedy show that includes multiple sections and interviews from the Teatro Príncipe Gran Vía in Madrid.

La Revuelta

2024

Narcos: Mexico poster
7.9

See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.

Narcos: Mexico

2018

Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez

2017

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

Someone Has to Die poster
7.0

In 1950s Spain, a couple summon their son home from Mexico to introduce him to his fiancée, but are shocked when he returns with a ballerino.

Someone Has to Die

2020

El Club de la Comedia poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

El Club de la Comedia

1999

Her Majesty poster
6.7

Spain, 2024. After a scandal involving Alfonso XVI damages the monarchy's reputation, the king temporarily takes a backseat and his daughter and heir to the throne of Spain, the irresponsible Princess Pilar, takes over the monarchical institution to show that she is up to the task.

Her Majesty

2025

Colegio Mayor poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Colegio Mayor

1994

Santa Evita poster
7.8

After Eva Perón’s death in 1952, her corpse is held for three years awaiting the construction of a mausoleum — a resting place that would never be built. In 1955, the military seized control of Argentina and hid Perón’s body from the public, fearing that it would unite the country against them. But they never imagined that in doing so she would become more dangerous in death than she was in life.

Santa Evita

2022

You Shall Not Lie poster
5.8

The peaceful life of the residents of the coastal urbanization of Belmonte changes radically the day a sex video of Macarena, a school teacher, and Iván, one of her adult students, appears on the networks. This event shakes the lives of all of them, especially Macarena, who is repudiated by her family and neighbors, including Ana, her best friend and Iván's mother. Things in the town get even more complicated when the lifeless body of one of Belmonte's inhabitants appears on the cliff. Whose body is it? Does this death have something to do with the sex video of the teacher and the student?

You Shall Not Lie

2022

Vientos de agua poster
7.8

It tells two parallel stories: that of José Olaya, a young Asturian miner who is forced to emigrate to Argentina in 1934, using his brother Andrés’s identity and documents; and that of his son, Ernesto Olaya, a middle-aged Argentine architect who emigrates to Spain in 2001, also against his will, seeking a way out of the economic problems affecting his family.

Vientos de agua

2006

La chica de ayer poster
8.5

La Chica de Ayer is a Spanish television series which first aired on the channel Antena 3 between 26 April and 14 June 2009. A detective show, it was based on the British series Life on Mars which featured a policeman suddenly transported back to 1973. The Spanish version of the show was set four years later, in 1977, and took its name from the Spanish song "La Chica de Ayer" by Nacha Pop in a similar manner to the British version which was named after the David Bowie song "Life on Mars". It featured Ernesto Alterio in the role of Samuel Santos, a modern-day police officer who finds himself in 1977 post-Franco Spain under the command of Quin Gallardo, a tough old-school policeman contemptuous of his modern methods.

La chica de ayer

2009

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Veredicto

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El joven Picasso poster
3.8

No synopsis available yet.

El joven Picasso

1993