
Acting
Blanca Portillo
Born 1963-06-15 · Madrid, Spain
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Acting credits
7.5Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.
Volver
2006
6.6Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.
Goya's Ghosts
2006
6.5When her son's alleged kidnapper is released for lack of solid evidence, a reputable and well-known attorney takes matters into her own hands with unintended and spectacularly disastrous consequences.
Boy Missing
2016
7.2Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Broken Embraces
2009
5.9In 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
5.4A radio-show assistant meets a budding screenwriter during a group-therapy session for sex addicts.
Between Your Legs
1999
6.0Roberto is an unemployed publicist who achieved success when he thought of a famous slogan: "Coca-Cola, the spark of life." Now he is a desperate man, trying to remember the happy days, back to the hotel where he spent the honeymoon with his wife. However, instead of the hotel, he finds a museum built around the Roman theater in the city. While walking through the ruins, he has an accident, an iron rod sticks into his head and leaves him completely paralyzed. If he tries to move he would die. Roberto becomes the focus of the media, which will change his life ...
As Luck Would Have It
2011
5.5A women meets a charming man and falls in love, they get married and start a family. As they age and have children, the man's becomes violent and abusive.
Solo mía
2001
5.3A young man becomes convinced that the solution to all his problems is to live in jail, and he will do whatever it takes to get it.
Escape
2024
6.5Three women. One same age. Three ways to face it.
The Invisible
2020
7.0In the year 2000, Maixabel Lasa’s husband, Juan Maria Jauregi, was killed by ETA. Eleven years later, she receives an incredible request: one of the men who killed Juan wants to meet with her in the Nanclares de la Oca prison in Araba (Spain), where he is serving his sentence after breaking ties with the terrorist group. Despite her reservations and her immense pain, Maixabel Lasa agrees to meet face to face with those who ended the life of the person who had been her companion since she was 16 years old. ‘Everyone deserves a second chance’, she said, when asked why she was willing to confront the man who killed her husband.
Maixabel
2021
7.7When 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
6.0A portrait of film critic Carlos Boyero, one of the most followed and feared figures in Spanish cinema, surrounded by controversy and both love and hate.
The Critic
2022
4.8Madrid, 1974. Former women's jail of Yeserias. Lucia, a girl well situated in society, is condemned to spend ten years in jail due to her relation with a politic militant against Franco's dictatorship. While being in prison she lives with every kind of woman: intelectuals, killers, illiterates, ... All of them must share food, living space, joys and pities; joined by the same fate, lack of freedom, they will have to fight together against desperation. Lucia is willing o live, to learn form that world the fate has given to her where, on the contrary to what she imagines, tenderness and laugh exist. And also the complicity and solidarity of some women living an experience which will mark them for ever.
Women in Prison
1995
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Día de caza
2026
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
At 30 Amelia thinks that time is only an excuse for putting off the arrival of a fate which she has been warned about by fortune tellers and horoscopes.
Love, Money and Health, in This Order
2001
6.6Countess Diana de Belflor is in love with Teodoro, her secretary, but he is engaged to Marcela.
The Dog in the Manger
1996
7.1Teresa, a Carmelite nun, reformer, and mystic of the Roman Catholic Church, has been ostracized for her beliefs. She will meet with the Inquisitor. All kinds of decisions regarding her are possible.
Teresa
2023
8.7TV Movie about Concepción Arenal in his role as visiting women's prisons. His struggle to change the conception that was on criminals and they had to be modern prisons.
Concepción Arenal, la visitadora de cárceles
2012
4.3Since he began to work, Domingo lives against the trend: he sleeps during the day, care for her younger sister in the afternoon and at night vacuums in a department store.
Eso
1997
NRThe theater director Víctor Conde is preparing his jump to the cinema with a science-fiction musical starring Angy Fernández, María Castro, Ricardo Gómez and Santiago Segura, among others.
The Invaders
2016
6.3Clementina befriends Lola’s nerdy lawyer, Valerio, and slowly a romance develops between them. Meanwhile, old fisherman and model-maker Colo has found a consignment of drugs floating in the sea and tries to get rid of them to raise money to save Lola’s house. The adventure element of pic is in a smuggling gang’s attempt to recover the drugs.
The Color of the Clouds
1997