
Acting
Raúl Arévalo
Born
1979-11-22 (46)
Place of birth
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Known for
Acting
Credits
77 titles
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Raúl Arévalo (born 22 November 1979) is a Spanish film actor, best known by international audiences for his role in the film Summer Rain, directed by Antonio Banderas. Description above from the Wikipedia article Raúl Arévalo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
4.7El 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
7.1Recounts 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez
2017
6.1In 1950s Spain, the heir to a fashion house romances a beautiful seamstress who works for the company, despite the objections of his family.
Velvet
2014
7.4Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
Pain and Glory
2019
6.9The acclaimed film director Esteban Martínez is a legend both for his films and for his past marked by violence and excess. For his new project, he offers his daughter Emilia a role under the pretext of helping her with her stalled acting career. Living together on set will foster a closeness they haven’t shared for years, but it will also reopen old wounds that never healed.
The Beloved
2026
Film credits
2020s · 12 titles
6.9The acclaimed film director Esteban Martínez is a legend both for his films and for his past marked by violence and excess. For his new project, he offers his daughter Emilia a role under the pretext of helping her with her stalled acting career. Living together on set will foster a closeness they haven’t shared for years, but it will also reopen old wounds that never healed.
The Beloved
2026
6.7Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
The Room Next Door
2024
6.7A young agent leaves everything behind to pose as a member of ETA, risking her life to uncover the terrorists' hideouts in the south of France.
She Walks in Darkness
2025
6.6Multiple stories about the oscillating world of couple relationships and how difficult it can be to separate sex from love.
More the Merrier
2021
5.1In the midst of a professional crisis, a couple decides to leave everything behind and start a new business.
Pizza Movies
2026
4.8As a severe drought punishes the vast expanses of rice fields in eastern Spain, the natural region of Laguna Blanca is named a Nature Preserve. A prestigious biologist, Ricardo, arrives in San Pedro to protect it. His family, however, is going through tough times but Ricardo is convinced that a change in their lives will help them move on. And it’s also an opportunity to get back to his roots, to his origins, to where he grew up as a boy and to reclaim this spot that had been buried in his fondest memories. Ricardo’s mission is to hinder the abusive and illegal use that everyone makes of the lagoon. But pressure and threats from the locals just keep getting worse. They consider Ricardo a traitor because all they are trying to do is defend their existence and their livelihood. Ricardo eventually comes to the realization that his life and that of his family are in danger.
Wetland
2021
5.8Carlos, a ruthless Spanish negotiation expert working in Brussels, is tasked with handling the kidnapping of a senior oil company executive in a troubled West African country —with which he has old and deep ties—, torn by ethnic tensions and government abuses.
Black Beach
2020
6.6Valladolid, 1989. David and Layla are 13 years old, they love "Hombres G" and they fall madly in love with each other. Together, they get into trouble, sing and dance to the songs of their favorite group. Valladolid, 2022. After 30 years without a verse, David and Layla finally have the chance to reunite. In both eras, our protagonists fight to keep their first love alive.
Voy a pasármelo bien
2022
6.6No synopsis available yet.
Voy a Pasármelo Mejor
2025
8.0A fleeting, magical relationship blossoms when Diego, abandoned by his wife, meets Amanda, a fanciful teen amputee trampoline jumper. A meek mermaid and a disoriented, free-falling man's unlikely bond.
The Heaven of Animals
2025
5.0Spanish actress Charo López finds it hard to talk about herself; but she only needs to start reminiscing to discover that her life has been truly exceptional. The story of a legendary actress told by herself.
Talking About Myself Is Hard
2021
5.4Spain, 1958. Miguel and Antonio, single and in their thirties, go on a trip to Ibiza, attracted by the European sexual myth and the illusion of freedom. But on the island nothing will be as they expected.
The Europeans
2020
2010s · 27 titles
7.4Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
Pain and Glory
2019
5.7Something has gone wrong with the landing gear of a plane en route from Madrid to Mexico City. The group of eccentric travelers on the flight, defenseless in the face of danger, indulge in colourful confessionals, while the outlandish crew attempts to find ways to entertain them.
I'm So Excited!
2013
7.0The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.
Marshland
2014
6.3Valencia, Spain. On a rainy morning, six armed men in disguise assault a bank. But what seemed like an easy heist, quickly goes wrong with nothing unfolding as planned, and mistrust quickly builds between the two leaders of the gang.
To Steal from a Thief
2016
7.0As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
Even the Rain
2011
6.1Ten-year-old Nico receives a threatening letter and now his life is in danger. No one seems to believe him except one person that he doesn't know.
The Warning
2018
6.6A teacher with paranormal abilities helps a group of ghosts graduate high school.
Ghost Graduation
2012
6.7A trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.
The Last Circus
2010
5.7Spanish soldiers battle indigenous tribes and their own brutal natures as they search for a legendary city built of gold.
Gold
2017
7.3Arturo, the successful owner of an art gallery, and Renzo, a talented but decadent painter, are old friends who cannot stop bickering. One day, Arturo comes up with a solution to all their problems, but the plan they concoct turns out to be crazier and riskier than they originally expected.
My Masterpiece
2018
6.1Three friends who have been fired from the company where they worked and are demoralized because of their unemployment status. In these circumstances, they meet to undertake the plan that mentions the title but there is a problem: the car with which they would travel has broken down and the crane must wait.
The Plan
2019
5.9Five siblings gather to celebrate a wedding at their family estate on the day Spain plays the final of the 2010 World Cup.
Family United
2013
6.8Valeria has just moved to Madrid after her parent's separation. What at first seems a bad start for her new life becomes the beginning of an amazing life experience. New friendships, a city full of possibilities, first love...
The Misfits Club
2014
5.8Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.
Crime Wave
2018
5.9A rural couple in crisis, who have a brother and sister with urban problems, and all of them trying to find a solution.
Sidetracked
2015
5.9An anthology film with 20 stories on the subject of words, communication, linked to one another over a 400-metre stretch: from Madrid's Lavapiés Square to the Sala Mirador. A journey between theatre and cinema, filmed in a single fixed shot running continuously over 80 minutes and half a kilometer, in Madrid's popular Lavapiés district. The characters talk, argue, laugh, cry, threaten, whisper, shout, steal, make dates, get angry with and hug one another, prompting the spectator to reflect on the immense power of words.
Hablar
2015
4.0The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic of voices represented by people who make films, those who write them and those who consume them. The documentary pays tribute to the readers of “Fotogramas” helped by the leading figures of Spanish cinema, who will read to the camera the most representative letters received at its offices in the history of the magazine.
Querido Fotogramas
2018
5.0A fragmented view of contemporary Spain, drawing conclusions about the persistence of the human condition, strangeness, and the chaos within relationships.
People in Places
2013
6.6Three cousins travel to the village where they spent summer vacations as kids.
Cousinhood
2011
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Casting
2013
5.3Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save the Spanish and world economy: kidnap the chairman of the Central Bank and demand that he return everything to the way it used to be.
Dying Beyond Their Means
2014
5.1Paco, a 40-year-old bachelor, realizes a childhood dream: working at home in his pajamas.
Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas
2018
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Urtain
2011
4.0A reimagining of the myth of Faust, in which a documentary director and her producer investigate a number of celebrities.
El cerro de los dioses
2019
6.4Juanito moved to New York to succeed as an actor. Years have gone by but success has not come his way and now he takes an odd jobs to survive. One day he is visited by his apparently successful cousin. However, their life together will discover the reality behind each of them.
The Unexpected Love
2014
6.3Manu Aranguren is a Basque politician who acts as a mediator for the Spanish government in its negotiations with ETA. Far from being a solemn, calculated occasion, unexpected occurrences, slip-ups or misunderstandings soon kick in to influence the dialogue. And the personal relationship between negotiators will be key in solving the conflict.
Negociador
2014
5.0Quim and Yoland rekindle their relationship after an 11-month break-up. For their relationship to work this time, they have decided to be honest and tell each other what they have done during the time they were apart.
Sincerity
2010
2000s · 12 titles
6.6Seven years after his triumph in Cuba, Che winds up in Bolivia, where he tries to ignite the same revolutionary fires as before.
Che: Part Two
2008
6.7Jorge feels suffocated by his menial job but can't break free of the obligations that keep him stuck — until he meets a woman who shakes his life up.
Dark Blue Almost Black
2006
5.1A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s.
Summer Rain
2006
6.1Due to many reasons, ranging from insecurity to trauma, a group of people have gained a lot of weight in recent times.
Fat People
2009
5.8In Madrid, a petty thief who cannot adjust to life outside of jail puts together a theater troupe her friends -- a prostitute, a gypsy, and a Colombian immigrant -- in an attempt to make a go at a relatively straight life.
My Prison Yard
2008
5.6Angela and her young son Guille travel to the big city to see Leo, her father and the boy's grandfather, when he suddenly takes ill. However, they arrive to discover that he has just passed away. Charo, the dead man's lover, explains the dire traits suffered by the paternal business: a hall with seven billiard tables.
Seven Billiard Tables
2007
5.3Men and women deal with different stages of love. Desire, jealousy, longing and melancholy are part of the romantic story of each of the characters, including a teacher, a middle-aged couple and a jealous boyfriend.
8 Dates
2008
6.5Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…
The Blind Sunflowers
2008
5.1Hortensia is a mature officer of the INEM office. She has been abandoned by her husband so she doesn't believe in love anymore. One day Eduardo Fernandez goes to the employment office because after overcoming a deep depression, he has decided that his life has to get better.
Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena
2004
5.4Musical spanish comedy.
Scandalous
2006
6.2A family divided between two continents put their differences aside when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
Touch the Sky
2007
7.5During the wedding of Antonio, the eldest of a family of five brothers, the father suffers a heart attack. The wedding is interrupted and the whole family moves to the hospital, where throughout a tense night of waiting, all the trauma and misery begin to emerge.
Traumalogy
2007
Undated · 1 titles
Series credits
4.7El 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
4.7El 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
7.1Recounts 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez
2017
6.1In 1950s Spain, the heir to a fashion house romances a beautiful seamstress who works for the company, despite the objections of his family.
Velvet
2014
6.1In 1950s Spain, the heir to a fashion house romances a beautiful seamstress who works for the company, despite the objections of his family.
Velvet
2014
7.2After two parents report that their 12-year-old daughter Asunta is missing, the investigation soon turns against them.
The Asunta Case
2024
3.3No synopsis available yet.
La Noche D
2021
7.2A white-collar crook, an itinerant carnival vendor and other colorful characters keep on chugging through life while residing in a campground. They are down on their luck. They live in a campground. But these eccentrics still embrace their own joie de vivre.
Con el culo al aire
2012
8.1Sira Quiroga is a young Spanish dressmaker engaged to a solid suitor when a suave typewriter salesman upends her life. Spain is being upended by a civil war and the new regime's growing alliances with Nazi Germany. Sira, smart, gutsy and resourceful with a Scarlett O'Hara-like ability to whip up designer duds on a moment's notice, Sira has spunk. Sira gains and loses a small fortune, is dumped by her cad of a lover in Morocco, runs guns to get the cash to start her life anew and becomes couturier to the Nazi wives stationed in Madrid. Urged on by her friend, the real-life British spy Rosalinda Fox, Sira, too, aids the British cause.
The Time in Between
2013
7.4A fictionalised look into the human tragedy of riot police and police brutality in Spain.
Riot Police
2020
5.4No synopsis available yet.
Stories to Stay Awake
2021
7.2Madrid, Spain, February 23, 1981. A group of Civil Guards storm into the Congress of Deputies and terrorize those present by firing shots into the air. Only three men remain unmoved: Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez; Vice President Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado; and Santiago Carrillo, leader of the Communist Party.
The Anatomy of a Moment
2025
8.0Gerardo Liesa is a young police inspector who has recently joined the UCRIF (the Central Unit for the Fight against Illegal Immigration Networks and Document Forgery). He and his colleague, Carmen Osés, sense that something is changing in brothels across Spain. Suizo and his associates run several brothels, sexually exploiting sex workers from all over the world. One of these women is Claudia. Aged 18, she has a young son in Colombia and has just arrived in Spain in search of a better future.
The Castle
2026
5.8No synopsis available yet.
El Continental
2018
6.2Luis Salinas, the new ambassador to Thailand, who knows he's going to get his hands dirty in the next four years – if he makes it that long. He's accompanied by his wife, Claudia, and their daughter Ester. Aware that the familiar constellation of life in the embassy is about to change radically, the staff gear up in nervous anticipation. Life does change, but in a way that Luis would never have imagined it. He must not only cope with the chaos and corruption he was expecting, but also with the implosion of his family life, as Claudia and Ester become involved in affairs that might seriously damage relations between Spain and Thailand. Will the glamorous, globe-trotting diplomatic life swallow up Luis or will he continue to fight for integrity and morals?
The Embassy
2016
8.0They say that anyone in the world is connected to another through a chain of no more than six acquaintances. It's called the "Six Degree Theory." Seen like this, no one seems unapproachable. This is precisely what Antonio Díaz thought, ‘El Mago Pop’, the great national signing of Discovery MAX that public opinion has already dubbed ‘El Dynamo español’. In 'El Mago Pop', Antonio Díaz will take his magic to the streets and will connect with several well-known faces on the national and international scene that will serve as intermediate steps to reach his final goal. With Discovery MAX cameras as a witness and magic as a bargaining chip, ‘El Mago Pop’ will weave a chain of contacts in which each of the five links will bring him a little closer to his idol. Who is ‘The Pop Magician’? There is no tux, no top hats. Just a young wizard with overwhelming talent. At 28 years old, Antonio Díaz has been passionate about magic since, when he was four years old, a coin was pulled from his ear.
El Mago Pop: 48 horas con
2015
5.6Two cops must learn to work together to catch the world's most-wanted drug dealer, whose face has never been revealed.
Santo
2022
6.8In 1981, three mechanics from Zaragoza, Alfonso, Jorge, and Salva, overwhelmed by debts and after months without work, decided to kidnap the top scorer of the League, Enrique Castro 'Quini', the forward of FC Barcelona. In exchange for his release, they ask for 100 million pesetas. But soon they discover, the hard way, that life is not like in the movies. And that being bad, when you are good, is not easy at all.
For one hundred million
2026
5.5Toledo, Spain, 1997. The residents of Río Blanco have accepted the settlement of Moroccan seasonal workers in Fuensanta. Coexistence brings tensions, known by Sonia, an NGO leader; Father Ángel, the local priest; and Safir, the imam. What they don't imagine is that Fuensanta's foundations hide something capable of unleashing their worst nightmares, regardless of their beliefs or prayers.
Tell Me Your Name
2025
6.0The true story of bank robber Jaime Giménez Arbe, also known as "El Solitario.”
Soy el solitario
2008
Behind the camera
6.6Quiet Jose woos cafe worker Ana, but she is unaware he has intentions other than the purely romantic.
The Fury of a Patient Man
2016
6.6Quiet Jose woos cafe worker Ana, but she is unaware he has intentions other than the purely romantic.
The Fury of a Patient Man
2016
6.7A few weeks after the blackout, hospital staff face a dramatic reality: without equipment and with few medicines, doctors struggle to save as many lives as possible. When supplies run out, Eva, the director, realizes that the blackout will last for months and that the hospital will have to adapt to survive, facing tough decisions.
Emergencia
2022
6.7A few weeks after the blackout, hospital staff face a dramatic reality: without equipment and with few medicines, doctors struggle to save as many lives as possible. When supplies run out, Eva, the director, realizes that the blackout will last for months and that the hospital will have to adapt to survive, facing tough decisions.
Emergencia
2022

