Luis Zahera

Acting

Luis Zahera

Born

1966-05-23 (60)

Place of birth

Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

84 titles

José Luis de Castro Zahera, better known as Luis Zahera, is a Spanish actor, winner of a Goya in 2019 and 2023 for his performance in El reino and As bestas, respectively.

Known for

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 resistencia poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

La resistencia

2018

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

Wrong Side of the Tracks poster
7.2

When his teenage granddaughter falls victim to the drug dealers overtaking his neighborhood, a fed-up war veteran takes matters into his own hands.

Wrong Side of the Tracks

2022

The Beasts poster
7.5

Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic except for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.

The Beasts

2022

Film credits

2020s · 19 titles

The Beasts poster
7.5

Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic except for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.

The Beasts

2022

Boulevard poster
7.4

Hasley, a girl with a list of unfulfilled dreams, and Luke, a complex and vulnerable boy marked by a tragic past, find refuge on the boulevard where they discover if love can conquer all.

Boulevard

2026

Agent Zeta poster
6.7

Four Spanish ex-intelligence officers are assassinated simultaneously worldwide. The CNI discovers all participated in the covert "Operation Ciénaga" decades ago in Colombia. Zeta, the CNI's best operative, must hunt and protect the sole survivor, facing his deadliest global mission yet. Top Colombian agent Alfa will join Zeta, seemingly knowing more about "Ciénaga"'s secrets than him.

Agent Zeta

2026

The Courier poster
6.4

After shrewdly seizing his chance to join a money-laundering scheme, a modest valet dives into a world of fast cash, fast cars — and an inevitable crash.

The Courier

2024

Xtreme poster
6.3

Two years after the murder of his son and father, a retired hitman sets in motion a carefully crafted revenge plan against the killer: his own brother.

Xtreme

2021

Crazy About Her poster
7.2

After a magical night together, Adri voluntarily turns himself into the psychiatric institution where Carla lives.

Crazy About Her

2021

Karma poster
NR

In a village in northern Spain, Jeanne tries to rebuild her life with Daniel, who knows nothing about her troubled past. One day, Jeanne's six-year-old godson mysteriously disappears and Jeanne becomes the main suspect.

Karma

2026

Barren Land poster
6.4

Barren Land is the story of three friends. All three trapped between the abandonment of the institutions, the violent and unstoppable rise of the narco in the province and the dangerous increase of social discontent. Three friends trapped in a powder keg that will test their friendship.

Barren Land

2025

Awareness poster
6.0

Ian is a teenager who lives with his father on the outskirts by running small scams using Ian's ability to generate visual illusions upon unsuspecting victims. When one of his cons goes awry, his abilities publicly spiral out of control and Ian becomes the target of two rival organizations, each seeking to exploit his powers.

Awareness

2023

Infiesto poster
5.9

As the coronavirus upends their lives, two detectives doggedly pursue those responsible for an abduction they realize is part of a sinister pattern.

Infiesto

2023

You Stole My Heart poster
6.5

After robbing a bank, young engineer Eric tricks his dating app fling Vera into becoming his driver in his flight from Madrid to Galicia.

You Stole My Heart

2025

Collision Course poster
NR

Spain, 2013. After robbing a bank, a getaway crash reveals the hidden side of each thief, exposing betrayals and lies that began long before the heist.

Collision Course

2026

Samaná Sunrise poster
5.6

Two couples and friends, Ale and Santi and Natalia and Mario, are celebrating their twenty years together by holidaying in the Caribbean. They catch up with each other's news, drink, reconnect... Ale, tipsy on the rum, decides to admit that the night the four met one another, she had played her hand to end up with Santi, who had initially fancied Natalia. The news doesn't get the expected response. The following morning, Ale gets up with a horrible hangover and absolutely no idea of the extent to which she will have to face the consequences of her action.

Samaná Sunrise

2024

Monkey Business poster
5.5

Joaquin, Brujo and Luismi, three neighbourhood scoundrels, meet again after twenty years. Brujo and Luismi are still unemployed while Joaquin swears he has become an important businessman. However, one day he receives a notification that his mother's house has been repossessed for a loan. He will try to get the money he neds to avoid eviction, but the brilliant ideas of Brujo and Luismi will end up plunging Joaquin even deeper into misery

Monkey Business

2022

RATIÑA poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

RATIÑA

2025

Table for 3 poster
5.0

Five friends book a table at an exclusive restaurant to discover upon arrival that the establishment can only offer them a table for three, so two of them must stay without dinner. An unforeseen event that will test the friendship and ties between them.

Table for 3

2022

Winter Lions poster
NR

Opening with a tragic crime, whose perpetrator attempts to hide his tracks, including his relationship to people in power and organized crime. The father of the victim – his daughter – who thought he had left behind a life marked by violence, decides to seek justice on his own, crossing red lines from which there is no return. If there is anything more dangerous than a father defending his children, is a father who no longer has any children to defend.

Winter Lions

2026

Birds Flying East poster
6.6

Colombo works at a 24-hour parking lot and tops up his measly wages by selling weed. Mario is a lawyer and a keen birdwatcher, but unfortunately for him, he is unable to drive due to a past accident. Mario offers to pay Colombo to drive him from Valencia to a lake in the Costa Brava (Spain), where he wants to see some cranes. When they reach the lake, the lawyer tells him that the birds have changed their migratory route and are now going to nest in the Danube delta in Constanza (Romania). Mario needs to get there, and Colombo needs the money. Neither of them is aware of the other’s story, but at that moment, a new and definitive journey starts for both of them.

Birds Flying East

2024

Il était une fois... "As bestas" poster
6.0

Inspired by a true story, "As bestas", the sixth feature film by Rodrigo Sorogoyen ("Los años nuevos"), enjoyed unexpected box-office success upon its release. The story behind a hit, where thriller elements blend with rural life to reflect contemporary anxieties.

Il était une fois... "As bestas"

2026

2010s · 23 titles

Retribution poster
6.7

While Carlos, a banking executive, takes his two kids to school in his car, he gets a phone call telling him that there is a bomb under the seats and he must to gather a large amount of money; otherwise, his car will blow up.

Retribution

2015

While at War poster
7.1

Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.

While at War

2019

The Realm poster
7.1

Manuel, a Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes him to the public eye. Rather than admit to any wrongdoing, he decides to sell out his whole party in an effort to avoid jail time. It's a decision that will put many lives at risk.

The Realm

2018

May God Save Us poster
6.8

Madrid, summer 2011. Economic crisis. 15-M movement and 1.5 million pilgrims waiting for the Pope’s arrival live side by side in a Madrid that’s hotter and more chaotic than ever. In this context, detectives Velarde and Alfaro must find what seems to be a serial killer. Their against-the-clock hunt will make them realise something they’d never imagined: neither of them are so very different from the killer.

May God Save Us

2016

The Valdemar Legacy poster
5.9

Luisa Llorente, an expert on taxation of old buildings, had recently gone to the Victorian mansion Valdemar to conduct an inventory of property ownership. After she mysteriously disappeared, Maximilian, president of her company, engaged the services of a private detective to help find her. But soon they will discover that it is not the first disappearance at Valdemar mansion!

The Valdemar Legacy

2010

The Silence of the Marsh poster
5.2

A successful, cold-blooded crime novelist gets involved in a kidnapping case while uncovering the corrupt ties between politicians and the local mafia in Valencia, Spain.

The Silence of the Marsh

2019

Nothing in Return poster
6.4

One summer, Dario flees the hellish environment of his home. Luismi, unconditional friend, a poor devil with pretensions of winning, and Antonia, an old woman who collects abandoned his motorcar furniture, become his new family. Three generations living together in a city too big to be alone.

Nothing in Return

2015

The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow poster
5.4

A group of friends discover an ancient book, the Necronomicon, the Book of the Deads. They discover that the book is a link between our world and the world of ancients creatures, older than our civilizations.

The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow

2010

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

Invader poster
5.1

Iraq, 2003. Pablo, a Spanish army doctor sent on a peacekeeping mission, is involved in an attack on his convoy during a routine trip through the desert.

Invader

2012

Death of a Fisherman poster
6.0

One morning, the body of a sailor is found lying on the beach, washed in by the tide.. With no witnesses or any sign of the dead man’s boat, Inspector Leo Caldas begins immersing himself in the town’s seafaring atmosphere as he endeavours to shed light on the crime. He finds himself among men and women who prefer not to reveal their suspicions to him. But a sudden discovery sets him off in an unexpected direction.

Death of a Fisherman

2015

El Premio poster
6.0

Pilar and Manuel are getting ready for what should be a night of celebration and glamour. It should. But they take too long sweeping their relationship under the red carpet...

El Premio

2010

Blockbuster poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Blockbuster

2013

The Change poster
7.0

Luis and Elvira travel to Romania after contact an Eastern European criminal organization. Near their destination, they receive a call that requires them to change the route. They must stop in Budapest and make a collection. Everything seems simple until they discover that it's an eight-year-old girl. From this moment they will have to make the hardest decision of their lives. Stick to the plan or release the girl. Decide what they decide, someone will die.

The Change

2014

Planeta Azúcar poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Planeta Azúcar

2017

El Club de los 27 poster
7.0

A talented, 25 years old young musician, is tempted by an entertainment businessman to sign a promising contract, which have an unavoidable clause.

El Club de los 27

2015

No artwork available
NR

Marina Velasco, tenacious and experienced inspector of the National Police, comes from Madrid to deal with the case of the robbery of the Codex Calixtinus. Although it has the help of the local forces (the relentless Judge Casal and his team) the mission is not easy. It will be a race against the clock full of obstacles and marked by the pressures of the Government and the Church. At the same time, Natalia and Lazarus, two journalists from a local newspaper in crisis, come to the investigation of the theft to get an interesting exclusive that saves their jobs.

Códice

2014

The Way I Love You poster
5.4

Dani is a petty criminal who falls in love with the female police officer who arrests him after a robbery. It is love at first sight, a moment of unexpected brilliance. And above all something new, as Dani had never been in love before.

The Way I Love You

2016

Amateur poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Amateur

2013

Todo es silencio poster
4.3

In Brétema, on the Atlantic coast, there was a time when networks of smuggling, drug trafficking converted, achieved so much influence that they were close to control everything: social power, institutions, the lives of its people. Fins, Leda and Frink explore the coast in search of what the sea throws after a wreck, the sea is for them a place of continual discovery. The fate of these young people will be marked by the shadow odious and fascinating at the same time the ubiquitous Marshall, owner of almost everything in Brétema.

Todo es silencio

2012

Onde Está a Felicidade? poster
5.5

Teodora discovers that her husband was having a virtual relationship and enters a crisis, which results in the loss of her job as a presenter of a culinary program. Disillusioned, she decides to hit the road and sets out on a journey of self-discovery, walking the Way of Santiago de Compostela, in Spain.

Onde Está a Felicidade?

2011

Marina poster
2.7

No synopsis available yet.

Marina

2010

Strangers on the Road poster
6.0

While carrying a mysterious package, Mikel notices he is being followed by a black car. In an attempt to get away, he ends up at a roadside bar where he meets Sara, a girl who doesn't trust easily.

Strangers on the Road

2016

2000s · 15 titles

Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer poster
5.9

In 17th century Spain, Diego Alatriste, a brave and heroic soldier, is fighting in his King's army in the Flandes region. His best mate, Balboa, falls in a trap and, when near to his death, asks Diego to look after his son and teach him to be a soldier.

Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer

2006

Cell 211 poster
7.4

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

Cell 211

2009

Mondays in the Sun poster
7.3

After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and unofficial leader of the group. A court case hangs over him relating to a shipyard lamp he smashed during a protest against the closure. José is bitter that his wife, Ana, is employed when he is not.

Mondays in the Sun

2002

Spanish Movie poster
5.0

Large doses of humor, ingenious nods to Spain's most recent national cinema, an artistic cast highly linked to comedy and a high reserve of surprises constitute the ingredients of this crazy comedy: Spanish Movie.

Spanish Movie

2009

Wrap Up poster
3.8

Valeria (Manuela Pal) has changed his native Buenos Aires by Betanzos, a town of Coruña, in Spain from which his family. Eccentric, dreamy and fun, at 25 years old is in the most surreal emotional crossroads in his life: after the sudden death of her mature and attractive lover, Marcelo falls for the son of the deceased. Her friend Adela (Mary Bouzas), owner of the salon where they both work, will help clear up questions. A story about the universal desire to find their own identity, deciphering the collective love and live in a land that has nothing to envy to the boulevards of Paris.

Wrap Up

2007

Diario de un skin poster
6.1

No synopsis available yet.

Diario de un skin

2005

Rated R poster
5.3

Madrid, Spain, 1975. Sandra, Lina and Eva are three beautiful women who work as actresses in erotic movies. After meeting during a shoot, they become friends and begin to share experiences, concerns and successes in an era of increasing openness, although true freedom is still far away and demands a price hard to pay.

Rated R

2008

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

La noche que dejó de llover poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La noche que dejó de llover

2009

The Year of the Tick poster
5.5

Follows Fran, a young man obsessed with Eurovision, and his eccentric bunch of friends who live the most crazy and bizarre situations.

The Year of the Tick

2004

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

Gutbai, Charly poster
NR

A small town fisherman is forced to confront himself and his everyday life after making the decision to leave the drug dealing business he was once involved with.

Gutbai, Charly

2007

El lápiz del carpintero poster
5.7

A story of love and obsession during the Spanish Civil War

El lápiz del carpintero

2003

La silla poster
10.0

A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.

La silla

2006

El tesoro poster
3.0

When his mother dies, Fran is taken to an orphanage. He soon runs away to Galicia, the land where his parents were born. While taking a coastal walk, he is trapped by the tide, and is unable to get back home.

El tesoro

2008

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 resistencia poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

La resistencia

2018

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

Wrong Side of the Tracks poster
7.2

When his teenage granddaughter falls victim to the drug dealers overtaking his neighborhood, a fed-up war veteran takes matters into his own hands.

Wrong Side of the Tracks

2022

Martínez y hermanos poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Martínez y hermanos

2022

Pratos Combinados poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Pratos Combinados

1995

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

Old Dog, New Tricks poster
6.7

Cash-strapped vet Antón takes a job at a fancy pet store, going from treating rural farm animals to peddling premium treats for pampered pooches.

Old Dog, New Tricks

2025

Live Tides poster
5.5

Mareas vivas is located in a ficticious seaside village in Galicia, northwestern Spain, and explores the lives of the local people.

Live Tides

1999

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

Unauthorized Living poster
7.2

When a Galician shipper and drug lord hiding his Alzheimer's disease plans to retire, his second-in-command plots to steal the empire from the heir.

Unauthorized Living

2018

La unidad poster
7.1

A secret unit of cops is assembled to stop a terrorist band from attacking Spain after their leader is arrested there.

La unidad

2020

The Zone poster
6.4

The disastrous meltdown of a nuclear power plant in Northern Spain created a contaminated no-go zone and left the nearby provincial city and inhabitants in a state of shock and mourning. Three years later, while the city prepares for the commemoration ceremony, a mutilated body is found in a warehouse. Police inspector Hector Uria's search for the murderer takes him deep into the no-go zone and into his own past.

The Zone

2017

Victor Ros poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Victor Ros

2015

El chiringuito de Pepe poster
6.1

No synopsis available yet.

El chiringuito de Pepe

2014

Our Only Chance poster
6.5

Candela works at a logistics company while she pursues her dream of becoming a singer. Her life changes one night when a multinational record company executive hears her sing in a bar. That same night, Candela meets up with Diego, an old high school classmate of hers who is fighting to be a professional boxer.

Our Only Chance

2022

La agencia poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

La agencia

2025

Círculo rojo poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Círculo rojo

2007

That's My Jam (España) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

That's My Jam (España)

2023

Cain's Father poster
6.8

The Basque Country, Spain, 1980s. In an atmosphere of tension and fear, where the harassment of separatist nationalism and the violence of ETA terrorist gang are a constant in life, Eloy, a young civil guard from Madrid, arrives at the Intxaurrondo base, in San Sebastián, as a volunteer; a hostile environment that causes havoc among his companions: alcoholism, depression and suicides reign. The so-called “Northern Syndrome” kills as much as bombs do.

Cain's Father

2016

Cuéntame un cuento poster
6.9

No synopsis available yet.

Cuéntame un cuento

2014

Salaó poster
NR

Joan Roig, a young liberal persecuted by the police, receives a risky job offer: spend a year in Galicia to revive the small Galup salting business, owned by a Catalan businessman. It is a unique opportunity to flee Catalonia and hide from the police.

Salaó

2013

Buscando el Norte poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Buscando el Norte

2016