Julián Villagrán

Acting

Julián Villagrán

Born

1973-05-24 (53)

Place of birth

Trebujena, Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 12 titles

You Keep the Kids poster
7.1

Flora and Victor are fun, modern, caring parents. That is, until they decide to get a divorce, and the perfect job opportunity turns up for them. They now have one problem: custody.

You Keep the Kids

2021

Mala Persona poster
5.9

Pepe is the best person in the world, until he discovers that he has a terminal illness and has months to live. To avoid suffering for his loved ones, Pepe decides to become the worst person in the world and thus keep them away from him so that they don't miss him when he dies.

Mala Persona

2024

Undercover Wedding Crashers poster
6.0

Geeky-looking Sebas is a surprisingly good classical musician. He’s also a complete unknown in the criminal underworld, and as a new newbie on the police force, that makes him the perfect man for a dangerous mission: to go undercover as a keyboard player for “Los Lolos”, a cheesy flamenco-trap band, who have been hired to play at the wedding of a local mafia boss’ daughter that a major drug trafficker will be attending. Sebas is keen to take on the mission, blissfully unaware that he will turn out to be even cheesier than Lolo, the band’s lead singer, and fall in love with his sister, Luci. Now Sebas will face a tough choice: remain loyal to his new friends or complete his police mission.

Undercover Wedding Crashers

2021

The Good Daughter poster
6.4

After her parents’ separation, Carmela and her mother move into her grandmother’s home. As Carmela struggles to adjust to her new reality, she longs to spend more time at her father’s place, a visual artist she both admires and idolizes. His presence looms over the three generations of women, pushing them to confront and decide the future they each deserve.

The Good Daughter

2026

How to Be a Modern Man poster
5.8

Andres Cuadrado is an old-fashioned civil servant. Conservative and somewhat macho, he takes his job at the Ministry of Finance very seriously. He considers himself above all a person "as God commands" and, consequently, he takes it for granted that everything responds to a natural, hierarchical and immovable order. After an unfortunate confrontation with a colleague, Andrés is disciplined and transferred to the Ministry of Equality. There everything is totally new to him: there are no assigned places, no schedules, and everyone is a vegan. Andres will have a lot of catching up to do to adapt to this new order of things.

How to Be a Modern Man

2023

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

Desmontando a Lucía poster
5.0

Lucía is arrested while driving her boyfriend Héctor's car at 200 km/h, dazed and bloody. She was sharing a weekend at the beach with him and Elena, her best friend. Now they are both missing and Lucía only remembers a “little” argument that ended with a bottle broken on Héctor’s head, but that’s all. This complicates Simon’s life. A private investigator? No. , thank you. Simon prefers to consider himself a simple “judicial expert”. When his partner Oliver, a lawyer with financial problems due to gambling, asks him to investigate Lucía and the disappearances, Simon does not know that he is about to take the Expertise on another level. Obsessed with Bogart's film noir, Simón will go beyond all limits when he falls in love with Lucía, the amnesiac suspect in the murder he is investigating.

Desmontando a Lucía

2024

Cool Books poster
NR

Hilario is a frustrated 40-year-old writer, trapped between nostalgia for classic literature and cynicism about the contemporary publishing world. While his novel is rejected by all Spanish publishers, he makes a living selling books at the bookstore La Ménsula and teaching an online writing workshop for older ladies, although his caustic attitude and disdain for sentimental stories only serve to alienate them.

Cool Books

2026

We Treat Women Too Well poster
6.4

Remedios Buendía defends her homeland and will fight for it. This fateful day of 1945, a group of maquis take the post where she tries on her wedding dress. She will show how far she can go defending her values.

We Treat Women Too Well

2024

Not Such An Easy Life poster
5.6

Today Isaías runs back and forward between the park where he plays with his kids and his architecture studio, where he complains to his colleague Nico. No matter where he is, Isaías feels he should be somewhere else. And when he's with Ainhoa, his wife, they realise just how tiring children can be when they're so young. In the park, he makes friends with Sonia, the mother of another child, from whom he learns that raising children and coming of age isn't that easy. It never was.

Not Such An Easy Life

2023

Counting Sheep poster
3.3

Ernesto is unappreciated by those around him, but all of that will change when three, peculiar, new friends appear on the scene. They will do anything to help him get his self-esteem back, even if it leads him to prison... or an early grave.

Counting Sheep

2022

Fed Up poster
10.0

On her birthday, Carmela, a 12-year-old girl, is forced to meet her father in a family meeting centre, due to the case of gender violence that he has brought up against her mother.

Fed Up

2021

2010s · 23 titles

The Promise poster
6.8

Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.

The Promise

2016

The Queen of Spain poster
5.2

After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to The Girl of Your Dreams, 1998.)

The Queen of Spain

2016

Open Windows poster
5.1

Nick is excited to discover he's won a dinner date with his favorite actress, Jill Goddard. But when Jill refuses to honor the contest, he receives an offer he can't refuse: the ability to view Jill secretly via computer. Nick begins watching the unknowing star on her webcam, not realizing that this decision will put himself and Jill at risk as they enter a terrifying world of cat-and-mouse.

Open Windows

2014

Quién te cantará poster
7.1

Lila, a famous retired singer, loses her memory after suffering an accident, just as she planned her return to the stage.

Quién te cantará

2018

Ciudad delirio poster
6.4

A Colombian dancer teaches a Spanish doctor how to dance salsa.

Ciudad delirio

2014

Guernica poster
5.8

The fates of Henry - an American correspondent - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors during the Spanish Civil War.

Guernica

2016

Abracadabra poster
5.3

A housewife struggles with her husband after he is possessed by a ghost.

Abracadabra

2017

María (and Everybody Else) poster
5.6

Ever since her mum died when she was fifteen, Maria has taken care of her father and her siblings. Responsible and in control, she's always been a rock for the family and feels proud of her efforts. That's why her father's sudden love for his nurse and the announcement of their marriage brings Maria's world crashing down around her. At the age of 35 and unable to find a steady partner, she'll have to take the plunge and dare to change her own fate.

María (and Everybody Else)

2016

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

Walkie Talkie poster
NR

A man awakens confused in an unknown desert area; his head has been heavily beaten. He doesn't know where--or who--he actually is. A young lady's dead body and a broken Land-Rover lie nearby. Inside the car the man finds a walkie-talkie; coming from it is a woman's voice calling for help.

Walkie Talkie

2012

When the Angels Sleep poster
5.5

Germán, an honest family man, sees how his whole world wobbles the night when, driving home, accidentally runs over two teenage girls. From that moment, Germán will have to do everything in his power to prevent his life from being destroyed forever.

When the Angels Sleep

2018

Unit 7 poster
6.1

Angel, a young intelligent and kind, aims to be a police inspector. Rafael instead is an expeditious, forceful and arrogant policeman. Meanwhile, Miguel and Mateo are part of Group 7, a group of rogue cops ready to do anything to achieve their goals.

Unit 7

2012

You Disappear poster
5.5

Frederik is the headmaster of a private school and one day he is being accused of stealing 12 million Danish crowns from the school. But everything is not as simple as it might seem. Frederik has been living with a tumor in his brain for the last 3 years and it has changed his personality. Now his wife Mia and the defense lawyer Bernard have to try and get Frederik acquitted of all charges.

You Disappear

2017

Impávido poster
6.4

Ray, a man without family addicted to the game, dedicated to steal cars and for love will end up in jail.

Impávido

2012

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

Extraterrestrial poster
5.5

Everyone knows what to do if one morning the sky would be absolutely full of UFOs: run as fast as you can. However, what would happen if the invasion started while you are in the flat of the girl of your dreams, the one you have just met?

Extraterrestrial

2011

Chrysalis poster
6.8

Interwoven emotions and struggles of three women of different generations aiming to build the lives they desire, their own future, love and dreams. All of them lose the love of their lives and they will have to pursue their happiness and fight for their dignity in a dark and hostile word.

Chrysalis

2011

Violeta Doesn't Take the Elevator poster
5.4

Violeta is in her early twenties and is doomed to spend the summer in Madrid doing an internship in a publishing house. During those weeks, she will make new friends, and she will make decisions, some good, some bad. And, above all, she will learn that failure is more an art than a tragedy.

Violeta Doesn't Take the Elevator

2019

Ali poster
4.8

In a role reversal that is challenging for any young adult, Ali has become a caretaker to her mother’s delicate mental health. Scarred by the past, she chain smokes, refuses to learn to drive, and is terrified of falling in love. Ali spends her days working in a supermarket and the rest of her time off on misadventures with her friend. But when she meets Julio, her tough veneer starts to crack and she may have to amend her strict rules of non-engagement.

Ali

2012

Quatretondeta poster
6.0

The wife of senior Tomás (José Sacristán) passed away, but they don't let him bury her, because the family of the deceased wants to repatriate the body to Paris. So Tomás steals the corpse to be able to bury it in Quatretondeta, a little village in the region of Alicante (Spain), as his wife had wanted.

Quatretondeta

2016

Ultraviolet poster
5.7

Lola, an art restorer, has to work through the night to reveal a painting hidden beneath another painting. Her obsession with the task and her squandering of energy will bring her more than she bargained for.

Ultraviolet

2014

An Entire Future Together poster
NR

Two men at the bar. They work in banking and have sold preferred securities in an undetermined amount. One of them, the general manager, is being harassed at his home. After several days of harassment, he finally has a revelation.

An Entire Future Together

2014

The Zebra poster
5.2

During the Mexican Revolution, Leandro and Odón, two war vultures, find a zebra. They mistakenly believe this to be an American horse and thus begin a journey in search of General Obregón, who they assume, will appoint them as colonels given their peculiar beast of burden. They partake in several adventures during their journey.

The Zebra

2011

2000s · 12 titles

Dark Blue Almost Black poster
6.7

Jorge 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

7 Virgins poster
6.1

It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in the South of Spain. Tano, a teenager currently serving a sentence in a juvenile reform center, is given a 48-hour leave to attend his brother’s wedding.

7 Virgins

2005

Hipnos poster
5.3

Dr Sánchez Blanch owns and operates a psychiatric hospital where he specializes in hypnotizing his severely emotionally disturbed patients.

Hipnos

2004

Under the Stars poster
6.0

Selfish, opportunistic Benito returns to his home in Navarre when he learns that his father is dying. There, he reconnects with his younger brother Lalo, a metal sculptor who is emotionally needy. Benito also develops a surprising bond with Ainara, the young daughter of his brother's girlfriend, Nines.

Under the Stars

2007

Bienvenido a casa poster
5.3

Young couple Samuel and Eva move to Madrid and start living together when he finds work as a photographer. Although Samuel doesn't knows, Eva's expecting a baby.

Bienvenido a casa

2006

To the Other Side poster
6.5

This drama features three stories about the bonds between children and absent parents. A Cuban boy who lives in poverty with his mother longs to visit his father in the United States, a Moroccan girl attempts to reunite with her father, and in Mexico, and a boy disobeys his father to visit a strange lagoon. These related vignettes showcase the powerful hold that parents have upon their children, which often remains strong despite their absence.

To the Other Side

2005

Elsa & Fred poster
7.7

When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance.

Elsa & Fred

2005

Doghead poster
5.6

A drama about a boy who lives in a bubble because of a rare brain disease.

Doghead

2006

El examinador poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

El examinador

2005

Computer assault poster
7.0

Each of the members of a group of hackers is willing to fight against system. Their messages and attacks are political, socially demmanding but also playful. Each of them have reasons to have moved to that virtual side, where they can be who they can't in real life. However, the sudden implication of authorities (pressed by goverment to be tougher against hackers)and of a wise and dangerous cracker will cause a turn in their crusade. Will they use the enemy's means or their ideological motivations imply a respect for law and human life?

Computer assault

2002

Carlos contra el mundo poster
7.0

Carlos, a boy from a proletarian neighbourhood in Malaga, loses his father in an accident and his family demands that he becomes the head of the family. Carlos does not want to accept this role and the only way he can think of to avoid the situation is to lie: every morning he goes out in his father's old suit to an imaginary job. Of course, to get the money his mother asks for, he will have to feed this farce day by day. And the lie will grow as tall but as weak as a house of cards.

Carlos contra el mundo

2003

Segundo Aniversario poster
NR

Everything you can do on a hot summer night in Madrid when your girlfriend has thrown you out of house.

Segundo Aniversario

2007

1990s · 1 titles

Series credits

The Ministry of Time poster
7.6

A soldier from the 15th century, a university student from the 19th century and a nurse from the present join the secret 'Department of Time', a secret department within the Spanish government with the ability to travel through time. Their mission is prevent changes in history.

The Ministry of Time

2015

Once Upon a Time... Happily Never After poster
6.7

A couple forced to separate must find each other in another life to break a spell on their town, where no one can fall in love.

Once Upon a Time... Happily Never After

2022

The Snow Girl poster
7.2

When a girl disappears in Málaga, a young journalist becomes fiercely determined to uncover the truth, risking everything to bring closure to the family.

The Snow Girl

2023

The Plague poster
7.0

Plague decimates late 16th century Seville, a crowded city where many have arrived to embark for the New World to seek their fortune.

The Plague

2018

Angel or Demon poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Angel or Demon

2011

Love You to Death poster
6.7

Raúl's world is unraveling. Marta's unexpectedly pregnant. After a funeral meet-cute brings them together, they stumble through the chaos of life and love.

Love You to Death

2025

Arde Madrid poster
6.8

Madrid, 1961. Ana Mari is single, lame, Francoist and instructor of the Sección Femenina. By order of the dictator Franco, she must go to work as a maid to Ava Gardner's house and spy on her, pretending to be married to Manolo, a hustler who will become the driver of the American actress.

Arde Madrid

2018

Superstar poster
6.2

Set deep in the chaos of the early 2000s, this series reimagines the life of pop icon Tamara — and her metamorphosis into Yurena — as never seen before.

Superstar

2025

33 días poster
7.8

No synopsis available yet.

33 días

2026

El síndrome de Ulises poster
3.8

No synopsis available yet.

El síndrome de Ulises

2007

Padre Coraje poster
6.8

Padre Coraje is a television drama from Spain, based on true events. Its theme song is performed by Paz Martinez. In the early morning of November 22, 1995, in one of the few gas stations that were open at night in the city of Jerez, Juan Delgado was assaulted and murdered by robbers. He was 27 years old. The story of this miniseries portrays the drama of the family and the courage of his father, Francisco Delgado, to bring the murderer to justice. He poses as a drug addict from the San Benito neighborhood and makes the neighbors and friends of the criminals, including himself, believe that he is just a neighbor from the dangerous neighborhood.

Padre Coraje

2002

Fenómenos poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Fenómenos

2012

Web Therapy poster
2.0

Rebecca Miller, a tired therapist judicious therapies and unnecessary childhood regression decides to launch a revolutionary new method: Express online therapy sessions three minutes.

Web Therapy

2016

Historias robadas poster
3.2

No synopsis available yet.

Historias robadas

2012