Ana Álvarez

Acting

Ana Álvarez

Born 1969-11-19 · Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Andalucía, España

Ana Álvarez, is a Spanish actress and a model born on 19 November 1969 in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz. Álvarez moved to Madrid when she was about 13 years old. After she finished her studies, she entered the world of fashion and started in the movie business from being a model. When Ana was only 17, she went to Japan, hired by an agency where she worked for four months, then she moved to Paris and other European capital cities which only strengthened her career as a model. In 1987 the director Antonio Giménez-Rico was searching for a long dark haired Andalusian girl, for the movie Jarrapellejos. In 1989 she then appeared in the Spanish comedy Aquí huele a muerto with a Spanish comedy act called Martes y Trece (Tuesday & 13). The same year Alvarez participated in Sólo o en compañía de otros, from Santiago San Miguel. At the end of 1990, she took part in the Televisión Española production film Don Juan en los infiernos, a free adaptation by Gonzalo Suárez of Molière's Don Juan. Álvarez starred in a film called The dead mother with director Juanma Bajo Ulloa, co-starring Karra Ejalde and Silvia Marsó. The film is about a young intellectually disabled person who sees her mother assassinated in the house after she discovers a thief. In the spring of 1994, Ana worked with director Ricardo Franco in the comedy ¡"Oh, Cielos"! with Jesús Bonilla, el Gran Wyoming and Angela Molina. In 1995 she appeared in the Hispanic-German production Vivir al límite with film director Michael Guman, and later that same year Brujas came out, which starred Penélope Cruz and Beatriz Carvajal. Then 1998 saw the release of Cha, cha, chá with Eduardo Noriega and Jorge Sanz. In 2000, she worked in A galope tendido and 2001 in Las amargas lágrimas de Petra von Kant.

Acting credits

Mátame mucho poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mátame mucho

1998

Rocambola poster
4.5

Dante is a professional thief who makes ends meet through carefully selected, small jobs. His new target is a secluded big house which he thinks is unoccupied. But he's not alone, he will meet a strange couple whose reaction to his intrusion is to ask him for breakfast. They are hiding other plans.

Rocambola

2019

Sinfín poster
5.0

15 years after of its breakdown, a music band have a second chance of exit.

Sinfín

2005

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Alan dies at the end of the movie

2007

Best Seller (El Premio) poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Best Seller (El Premio)

1996

Cuba poster
3.7

1896. Cuba is at a critical juncture. Following the death of Antonio Maceo, one of its independence leaders, the island is torn between two positions: continuing the fight for independence or annexation to the United States. Spain, through its energetic generals, seeks to maintain its hegemony on the island. A difficult period in which, however, strange love stories also occur.

Cuba

2002

GAL poster
4.8

Two journalists investigate the criminal activities of the GAL (Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación), a secret terrorist organization founded in the eighties and financed by leading figures in the Spanish government and security forces to hunt down and exterminate both members and collaborators of the terrorist gang ETA.

GAL

2006

Crusader poster
4.8

A gripping action thriller about a reporter who steals a murdered colleague's news story, and becomes an unwitting pawn in a conspiracy that could cost him his life.

Crusader

2005

No artwork available
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Prime Time

2008

Don Juan in Hell poster
5.4

While the last remnants of the Empire are extinguishing and King Philip II (1559-1598) is dying in the shadow of lost splendor, a man, defying the divine and human justice, turns his passions into fate and his will into law. His fame is as great as his pride. His conviction, eternal. His name, a legend: Don Juan. Free adaptation of "Don Juan" by Moliere.

Don Juan in Hell

1991

The Dead Mother poster
6.2

Ismael breaks into the house of a fine art restorer and shoots the homeowner dead, leaving her daughter orphaned and traumatized for life. Years later, Ismael is working in a bar where he sees the daughter again. Paranoid that she has recognised him and will report him, he kidnaps her and holds her hostage, demanding that her hospital pay a ransom for her release. As he spends more time with her, a strange bond develops that causes him to delay the ransom request or fulfil his threats of throwing her in front of a train. But he can’t delay forever…

The Dead Mother

1993

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cota roja

2004

Tierno verano de lujurias y azoteas poster
5.0

A youngster recently arrived to Spain from Russia falls in love with his own cousin who is an astonishingly beautiful actress and, besides, much older than him.

Tierno verano de lujurias y azoteas

1993

I Get Off at the Next Stop, What About You? poster
5.4

A divorcing couple remembers the best years of their lives.

I Get Off at the Next Stop, What About You?

1992

Light My Passion poster
5.0

The relationship that botanist Angel establishes in his mind between plants, their stems, petals and pistils and the legs and feet of women, is the common thread of a plot that mixes sexual passion, love, greed and picaresque through a study of characters and situations.

Light My Passion

1994

King of the River poster
6.0

An air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby is born, she gives it to her sister that has already two children. The child grows up as another member of the family. Although the adults keep the secret, the children know that he is different.

King of the River

1995

Brujas poster
4.8

Three women from three different generations and walks of life find themselves in a very hot, semi-deserted Spanish town. Patricia is a 17 year old roaming Spain in search for a certain man; Sol is 27, a door-to-door salesgirl in dire economic straits who has just been thrown out of her apartment; and Virginia is a middle aged housewife, who after 20 years decides to start a new life. These three spend a very unique 24 hour period together, often acting, as the title suggests, as modern day "witches".

Brujas

1996

Wings of Darkness poster
NR

The night seems terribly dark, of an unfathomable blackness where the worst nightmares dwell. For the archer Yin, however, the night is made of shadows, brown or reddish, velvety or light, as if it were inhabited by flying beings that cannot be seen during the day, like wings of darkness.

Wings of Darkness

2021

Relaxing Cup of Coffee poster
1.2

No synopsis available yet.

Relaxing Cup of Coffee

2016

The Worst Years of Our Lives poster
5.3

Alberto lives with his parents and his brother Roberto, quite attractive, who tells him there are lots of girls. Alberto is a romantic guy, and doesn't find a girl for his own. He knew he was in love as soon as he saw Maria, although he was not very sure of what she thought. His brother told him he would help with her, but things get difficult when Roberto also likes Maria.

The Worst Years of Our Lives

1994

A Sweet Scent of Death poster
6.0

Ramón is secretly in love with Adela. One morning, he discovers her corpse among the oat fields

A Sweet Scent of Death

1999

Little Spanish Soldier poster
4.1

A young man, son and grandson of soldiers, refuses to perform military service, causing a commotion in the whole family. Finally, social, environmental and family pressures, will force the young to make a decision that will have unforeseeable consequences.

Little Spanish Soldier

1988

Cha Cha Chá poster
5.6

Lucia and Maria are two friends who share everything. Everything except Pablo, Maria's boyfriend. Lucia devises a plan to make Pablo her own while getting María a new boyfriend.

Cha Cha Chá

1998

The convent poster
3.0

Lucía and Ana Ma, two young postulants recently arrived at a small convent, find themselves involved in the strange events that occur there.

The convent

2026