Xabier Elorriaga

Acting

Xabier Elorriaga

Born 1944-04-01

Acting credits

Thesis poster
7.5

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

Thesis

1996

Street Warriors poster
6.5

Based on the juvenile delinquency of the 1970s and 80s in Spain. Set in Barrio de la Mina in Barcelona, one of the most conflict neighbourhoods in Spain. it follows real juvenile delinquents all with criminal records, used to give the film a realistic touch.

Street Warriors

1977

Black Island poster
8.0

The story of a friendship between two girls of different races, Susana and Rita, in Equatorial Guinea, from 1950 to 1961. Susana discovers with her friend a fascinating but troubled new world in Africa, where she comes of age and experiences love and sex.

Black Island

1996

Reborn poster
4.2

A man discovers that his girlfriend is a "stigmata" (someone whose hands and feet mysteriously bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was crucified) and tries to keep her out of the hands of a greedy TV preacher who plans to exploit her to make money for himself.

Reborn

1981

The Dancer Upstairs poster
6.1

A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.

The Dancer Upstairs

2002

Lenin: The Train poster
6.4

March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take back him. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations....

Lenin: The Train

1988

Sex and Violence poster
4.8

A husband and wife are taken hostage on their boat.

Sex and Violence

1978

Companys, procés a Catalunya poster
4.0

1939: The remains of the Spanish Republican Army crossed the French border. Among the exiles are Lluís Companys, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and also Aguirre, President of the Basque Government. After the invasion of France by Nazi troops, Companys will be arrested by the Gestapo and handed over to the Francoist authorities. Led by the Count of Mayalde, he is transferred to Madrid and later to Barcelona. After a summary trial, Companys is condemned to death and shot.

Companys, procés a Catalunya

1979

Rage poster
5.6

A romantic thriller about a construction worker in hiding for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a maid.

Rage

2009

My Mother Likes Women poster
5.9

Sofia introduces her three adult daughters to her new lover who is their age and happens to be a woman. The women, in particular Elvira find it extremely difficult to accept their mothers sudden apparent sexual reversal. The news pushes the neurotic Elvira to the point of nervous breakdown. Sol, the youngest daughter, writes a lude rock song about it and performs in front of them at a concert. The daughters plot together on how to get their mothers new girlfriend, a native Czech, and brilliant pianist, out of her life. Their plot goes terribly wrong and turns the film from a light-hearted comedy, into mildly amusing drama.

My Mother Likes Women

2002

Red Eagle: The Movie poster
4.7

Early XVII century. A summit between France, England, Portugal and the Pope is to take place in Spain, home of the masked hero known as Red Eagle. The countries are coming together under the guise of looking for a solution to the conflict between Spain and Portugal; however, the ulterior motive is to attack the Kingdom of Spain. The Marchioness of Santillana and her fellow conspirators have hired an assassin to finish off the Red Eagle to guarantee the outcome of their plot. The townspeople and the whole kingdom will be at the mercy of the traitors, but the Red Eagle will be there to help them.

Red Eagle: The Movie

2011

Caps rapats poster
8.0

Andreu is a shy and educated young man who will find in the aesthetics and "skin" behavior an escape valve that will allow him to be a recognized person in his environment. He will find the complicity of Miki, who will become his greatest support. What attracts them is power, fun, and intimidation. They will form a violent, aggressive and intolerant band. Their problems begin when after a beating they steal a large amount of drugs and money.

Caps rapats

2004

El hombre de moda poster
6.0

Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the job as a teacher through an old friend, Bruno Baena, who is the head master of the school. Aurora starts going to Pedro's classes. Pedro will become "El hombre de moda", very soon.

El hombre de moda

1980

Tata Mía poster
5.6

Elvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and returns home to settle in Madrid with his beloved nanny, seeking help to overcome their crisis. However, the country has changed so much in his years of confinement that has little or nothing to do with his childhood memories ...

Tata Mía

1986

Los planes de Cecilia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Los planes de Cecilia

2009

La conquista de Albania poster
5.2

King Carlos II of Spain (r. 1665-1700) once sent his brother Luis to lead a military expedition into Albania and conquer that land for the Spaniards. Since Albania was a part of the dowry of Luis' wife, it seemed like a reasonable idea at the time. While that expedition and its final battle is the subject of this historical film, the scale involved can hardly do justice to the concept. The protagonists talk incessantly, and by the time they get down to the final grand battle, it turns out to be a skirmish between several dozen men.

La conquista de Albania

1983

Hic Digitur Dei poster
NR

A decadent musical set in the last days of Franco's dictatorship.

Hic Digitur Dei

1976

Mikel's Death poster
5.3

Opening at the funeral mass for Mikel, we flashback to those that played a part in Mikel's life and death; his estranged wife, his traditional Basque mother, a female impersonator and friend to Mikel in his coming out, and even the local priest.

Mikel's Death

1984

The Cliff poster
5.2

A mass suicide involving members of a cult takes place in the Canary Islands. Gabriel's younger sister, Cordelia, who he hasn't seen for years, was one of the cult followers. Gabriel decides to travel there and find out what happened.

The Cliff

2016

Felicidades, Tovarich poster
9.0

A grandfather, a veteran communist militant, runs away on his birthday with his granddaughter Adriana.

Felicidades, Tovarich

1995

Bellas durmientes poster
4.0

Lawrence, a renowned writer, comes to Santiago to spend a winter course. There, by his colleague Elijah, finds a very special house on the outskirts of the city, run by a secretive and mysterious woman, Salome. In this house, mature men, old, spend the night with young dormant, seeking to regain his lost youth side.

Bellas durmientes

2001

Relaxing Cup of Coffee poster
1.2

No synopsis available yet.

Relaxing Cup of Coffee

2016

Havanera 1820 poster
4.7

The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods that arrive to Cuba are not always the products that were shipped, in some cases, they simply arrive "lumps" or "coal". As it appears in the logbooks of the ships. 'Havanera 1820' is a film that tells stories of love and adventure in a time when Cuba confronts the Spanish colonizers.

Havanera 1820

1993

Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17 poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17

1983

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