Juan Echanove

Acting

Juan Echanove

Born

1961-04-01 (65)

Known for

Acting

Credits

75 titles

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

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

The Legend of El Cid poster
7.2

The story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, a Castilian nobleman and war hero in medieval Spain.

The Legend of El Cid

2020

Lo + plus poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lo + plus

1995

Un paso adelante poster
6.0

Un Paso Adelante was a Spanish TV drama similar to the American 1980’s TV series Fame. It was originally broadcast on Spanish channel Antena 3 from 2002 to 2005. It has also been a huge success in Spanish-speaking countries, in Germany, Italy, Serbia, Montenegro and in France. It began airing on Séries+ in Canada in 2011.

Un paso adelante

2002

Disappeared poster
7.7

A group of six police officers solve disappearance cases that everyone else has already given up on.

Disappeared

2020

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

The Replacement poster
6.1

Spain, 1982. Andrés Expósito, a young police inspector, accepts a posting in Denia, a small town on the Mediterranean coast, in the hope of leading a quieter life and that the natural environment will help improve the fragile health of his daughter; but once in his new post he becomes involved by chance in the investigation of the strange death of the inspector he has come to replace.

The Replacement

2021

This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers) poster
10.0

When her father and uncles die, Jone (Josemi's daughter) decides to make a documentary about the Ibarretxe Brothers. Pioneers in the Basque audiovisual sector, creative, cheeky and always up to something, they were devoted to cinema made in Euskadi long before it was a reality. Analysing their films and talking to people who accompanied them (Stephen Fry, Echanove, Ramon Barea, Santiago Segura, José Luis Rebordinos), Jone gradually comes to realise that their cinema is nothing more than a faithful reflection of their own selves.

This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers)

2024

Enlorquecido: Solo el misterio nos hace vivir poster
NR

Miguel Poveda embarks on an intimate and personal journey following the footsteps of Federico García Lorca. Rather than a standard tribute, the film is a quest to illuminate forgotten places—from Granada and Madrid to Montevideo and Havana—and understand the artist's own connection to the poet's legacy. Through music, memory, and poetry, Enlorquecido explores the bond between two artists united by passion and art as a form of resistance.

Enlorquecido: Solo el misterio nos hace vivir

2026

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Club Virginia

2021

Curro Romero, Maestro del Tiempo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Curro Romero, Maestro del Tiempo

2021

2010s · 4 titles

2000s · 15 titles

Don't Tempt Me poster
5.6

Two angels, one from Heaven and one from Hell, come to Earth to save the soul of a boxer.

Don't Tempt Me

2001

A Matador's Mistress poster
5.8

Scandal erupts over a famous bullfighter's affair with a left-wing actress.

A Matador's Mistress

2008

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

Goodbye from the Heart poster
6.4

Juan is now in his fifties, has a protruding belly, dyes his hair gray and lives alone with a cat who has urinary problems, but despite this, women still find him attractive.

Goodbye from the Heart

2000

The 3 Wise Men poster
6.0

A brilliantly animated adaptation of the classic Christian story, 3 WISE MEN features the voices of Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen, and Mexican television star Jaci Velasquez. Created by the same artists who animated FANTASIA 2000, HERCULES, and TARZAN, the family-friendly film artfully brings to life the journey of Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthazar--the Three Kings who traveled to baby Jesus' birthplace under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem.

The 3 Wise Men

2003

Arcibel's Game poster
6.4

A chess columnist ends in prison when one of his columns is mistakenly seen as a subversive attack. From there he invents a game of war and strategy and a cellmate who escapes uses it initiating a real revolution.

Arcibel's Game

2003

El elefante del rey poster
6.4

North Sudan, summer 1923. King Alfonso XIII of Spain captures an enormous African elephant, an apparently irrelevant act that, however, will be paramount to understand the Spain of 20th century; an animal from far lands that will become a symbol of the Second Spanish Republic, the communist movement and many other things; a royal hunting that marks the beginning of a bizarre story of jealousy, passion, political intrigues and taxidermy.

El elefante del rey

2003

To Die in San Hilario poster
6.0

The inhabitants of San Hilario make their living from funerals. They are awaiting their first customer in a long time.

To Die in San Hilario

2005

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

Jara poster
3.9

Jara is an enigmatic girl who lives in the forest alone since she was a child. Tato, a lonely young boy, finds her one day and a love and passion story starts.

Jara

2000

Trileros poster
6.7

Two disgraceful fifty year old men accept the job of their lives by carrying drugs to Perpignan in exchange for a million Euros. A whole mess comes about as the journey starts...

Trileros

2003

Quiéreme poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Quiéreme

2007

No artwork available
6.0

In Paris, a young Argentine screenwriter attempts to escape his daily routine through a fictional story set in Argentina. This attracts the attention of those around him, including Alice, a young actress. But his story gradually escapes him and he becomes inextricably entangled in dreams and reality.

Stolen Tangos

2002

Amb el 10 a l’esquena poster
10.0

A father wants his son to become a basketball star, by all means, in order to alleviate the loss of his eldest son, died ten years earlier.

Amb el 10 a l’esquena

2004

No artwork available
NR

The film tells the story of Lay, a young woman who belongs to a terrible criminal gang and who, after the death of her great love Hivern, is isolated from the world in a small sea village.

Winter Days

2005

1990s · 20 titles

Shooting Elizabeth poster
5.5

Before a man can kill his nagging wife as planned, she disappears and he's charged with murder.

Shooting Elizabeth

1992

The Flower of My Secret poster
6.8

Middle-aged romance author Leo writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works overseas, is distant both physically and emotionally. As she reevaluates her life and writing, Leo is led to an unexpected relationship with Ángel, a sensitive newspaper editor.

The Flower of My Secret

1995

The Longest Night poster
6.8

Fifteen years after the plot a lawyer and a military ex-attorney meet and recall the intense days of 1975 when both participated in the decission of war or peace. The film is told in flashbacks of the two protagonists.

The Longest Night

1991

House out of Town poster
4.7

Daniel is a yuppie that hasn't been been able to lead a satisfactory sentimental life. One day he meets Yolanda, a beautiful young woman who has a daughter, Patricia, and who hasn't been very lucky in life either. They decide to get together and they go to live in his house, an old and eerie mansion. Soon enough, their relationship starts to become difficult; the isolation of the house and Daniel's mysterious past transform Yolanda's illusions of happiness into an existence of fear and distrust. Finally Yolanda decides to find out who the person she's living with really is, and in doing so she puts her life and her daughter's at risk.

House out of Town

1995

Alone Together poster
6.0

A blind woman is the witness of a murder.

Alone Together

1990

Tales of the Stinking Military Service poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Tales of the Stinking Military Service

1994

Memorias del ángel caído poster
6.3

A group of parishioners die poisoned upon receiving communion, during the investigation of the event the priests of the parish begin to have visions. Everything rushes when the dead are resurrected in the autopsy room, these strange events seem to be related to an old book enacting a new religion.

Memorias del ángel caído

1997

Tangos Are for Two poster
5.9

A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of Gardel, dumps her boyfriend Gustavo for Renzo, a singer who looks like Gardel. She insists that his trio performs Gardel's tangos, which leads to Renzo recording a Ford commercial when Gardel himself is overbooked. The trio, with Joanna in tow, goes on an ill-fated tour of points north. The couple breaks up: she goes home and he tries to get to New York. Fate steps in, and once again he's called upon to pose as Gardel. Then, legend and a bracelet take over. Written by

Tangos Are for Two

1998

Rateta, Rateta poster
7.0

She wanted to be rich, to have lovers, to go to Barcelona: but Montserrateta had to make do with living in a village in the Pyrenees, with her boyfriend, and milking cows on her parents' farm, until one day, she finds a lottery ticket.

Rateta, Rateta

1990

Siempre hay un camino a la derecha poster
9.0

"There's Always a Way to the Right" is the name of a sensational television program with a large audience. The host portrays the lives of unfortunate people, trying to convince them that their fortunes can change whenever they set their minds to it.

Siempre hay un camino a la derecha

1997

El sueño de Tánger poster
4.2

Three friends get involved with arms traffickers in Tangiers.

El sueño de Tánger

1991

Orquesta Club Virginia poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Orquesta Club Virginia

1992

The Stolen Years poster
5.6

Two students are arrested for painting revolutionary graffiti on the university walls. They escape from the camp and flee with two American girls, disguised as rich young men who are showing Spain to two tourists.

The Stolen Years

1998

Suspiros de España (y Portugal) poster
5.3

After the death of the abbot of a small convent the two monks who are left discover among the papers of the passed away abbot letters from the mother of one of them indicating that he is the natural son of a landowner in Extremadura. In order to claim the legacy of his friend the monk who has lived outside the convent for some time plans their voyage to the property of his father picking up on their way his daughter and lover. Once in Extremadura things look a little different to what the plans say.

Suspiros de España (y Portugal)

1995

Yo soy ésa poster
5.0

Carmen Torres, a famous and renowned singer, lives the fame aware of what it implies, but Jorge Olmedo, her shadow partner, succumbs to a world in which drugs and poker games reign. Husband and wife travel to Seville to see the premiere of "Yo soy ésa", a film in which both see their lives captured long ago, a dose of reality that will help them realize that they no longer love each other the same.

Yo soy ésa

1990

La mujer cualquiera poster
8.0

The whatever woman.

La mujer cualquiera

1994

Madregilda poster
5.2

Madrid, Spain. On Monday, December 22, 1947, Charles Vidor's Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford, premieres. That same week, as every first Friday of the month, Hauma organizes a peculiar card game in an old tavern.

Madregilda

1993

My Soul Brother poster
4.0

Meeting of two very different brothers: Carlos is an ambitious young businessman happily married to Julia, Toni is a nerve that life has given him so many sticks as the people who surrounded him.

My Soul Brother

1994

Ana Belén y Víctor Manuel: mucho más que dos poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ana Belén y Víctor Manuel: mucho más que dos

1994

La mujer infiel poster
8.0

A man in love with an unfaithful woman.

La mujer infiel

1990

1980s · 12 titles

The Witching Hour poster
4.6

César and Pilar tour the Spanish countryside with their bus, showing films and doing magic spectacles in small villages. In one of these trips they find Saga, a beautiful young woman who starts to travel with them and changes their lives in unexpected ways.

The Witching Hour

1985

Going Down in Morocco poster
5.8

Chusa shares a flat in central Madrid with her cousin Jaime and her lover Alberto. The group makes ends meet by smuggling and selling drugs from Morocco. They take in a naive young woman, Elena, and decide to include her in their next scheme although this will prove complicated.

Going Down in Morocco

1989

El caso Almería poster
6.5

When a Spanish judge has the courage to look into a political murder...

El caso Almería

1984

Tiempo de silencio poster
5.6

Pedro Martín, a young and ambitious doctor, is studying the effect of cancerous cells on mice, but he has run out of mice in his laboratory, since they do not breed there, and he has no funds to purchase more of these expensive laboratory animals from the United States. Nevertheless, his assistant, Amador, informs him that he gave some of the mice to an old trapper, nicknamed “el Muecas”, who lives in precarious conditions in a shanty town outside Madrid, and that this poor man has successfully bred them with the help of the natural heat of his daughters. The incredulous scientist goes to the shanty town to obtain the mice. There, Pedro meets Muecas, Muecas's wife Ricarda and their two daughters Florita and Conchi. With the warmth of the women’s breasts, as the flirtatious Florita shows Pedro, the mice are able to reproduce.

Tiempo de silencio

1986

Divine Words poster
5.2

A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law.

Divine Words

1987

The Flight of the Dove poster
6.2

A film team arrives at a more authentic and old square in Madrid to shoot a film. The area is full of children, working families and simple people who see the cinema as something unattainable. From his balcony, Paloma, does not lose detail of the shooting, nor of the movements of the gallant, for which he feels a strong attraction.

The Flight of the Dove

1989

El caso del cadáver descuartizado poster
4.0

May 1, 1929. A decomposing headless body is found inside an abandoned wooden box in Madrid's Atocha train station. The victim is later identified as a Barcelona businessman that vanished six months before.

El caso del cadáver descuartizado

1985

The Most Beautiful Night poster
4.3

Federico, an executive of national television, begins to suspect that his wife Elena, an actress who retired prematurely after marriage, is cheating him with another man. The symptoms are that Elena sighs, looks far into heaven and is aware of the exact time a comet passes. In other words, she expects her most beautiful night.

The Most Beautiful Night

1984

No artwork available
10.0

One night, as in an apparition, Andres meets Marga, his first and only love. But before it can reach her it evaporates again. This appearance makes Andres remember with nostalgia the past times in which he met her. But, at the same time, the reunion with Marga, or better, her memory upsets her relationships with other girls. After a while, he comes back to Marga, again in a casual way ... casual...

No hagas planes con Marga

1988

Viento de cólera poster
4.3

Two soldiers accompanied by two women enter the Baztán valley on horseback. They are deserters from the army of the Indies who are fleeing to Italy. They arrive to claim the inheritance of one of them, León de Balanza, Captain in Peru and soldier without fortune. They are looking for old Balanzategui who works the land of his ancestors. The old man's refusal to distribute the farmland's land causes a serious conflict.

Viento de cólera

1988

Bilbao Blues poster
10.0

Beatriz is an attractive young lawyer who enjoys an enviable position thanks to the influence of her father, a prominent businessman. Lucas, a young man with a rather shady past, is struggling to emerge from the unfavorable situation in which life has placed him. When Lucas is arrested with a stash of adulterated cocaine, he becomes a client of Beatrice. He has hidden the pure cocaine with the intent to share it only with his associate Uriarte; and to do so he has had to deceive another one of his accomplices, making him believe that the business has failed.

Bilbao Blues

1986

Miss Caribe poster
5.3

A woman's father dies in a Central American country and leaves her a bizarre inheritance: a ship which acts as a floating brothel under the appearance of being a restaurant. Alejandra, our heroine, decides to put an end to the ship's dissolute activities and use her inheritance as a school. Customers, cooks, waiters and the girls will meet her idea with considerable resistance.

Miss Caribe

1988

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

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

The Legend of El Cid poster
7.2

The story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, a Castilian nobleman and war hero in medieval Spain.

The Legend of El Cid

2020

Lo + plus poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lo + plus

1995

Un paso adelante poster
6.0

Un Paso Adelante was a Spanish TV drama similar to the American 1980’s TV series Fame. It was originally broadcast on Spanish channel Antena 3 from 2002 to 2005. It has also been a huge success in Spanish-speaking countries, in Germany, Italy, Serbia, Montenegro and in France. It began airing on Séries+ in Canada in 2011.

Un paso adelante

2002

Disappeared poster
7.7

A group of six police officers solve disappearance cases that everyone else has already given up on.

Disappeared

2020

Paquita Salas poster
7.0

One of Spain's best talent agents in the '90s, Paquita now finds herself searching desperately for new stars after suddenly losing her biggest client.

Paquita Salas

2016

Memento Mori poster
6.5

A police thriller, exploring the relationship between a murderer and the police officer, who pursues him in a life-or-death duel.

Memento Mori

2023

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

Like brothers poster
4.2

Two friends raised together as brothers, share a flat despite having opposite personalities.

Like brothers

1994

Ochéntame... otra vez poster
6.0

Documentary series that reviews cultural, social and political events that took place during the 80s in Spain.

Ochéntame... otra vez

2014

Un País Para Comerselo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un País Para Comerselo

2010

Turno de Oficio poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Turno de Oficio

1986

El mundo de Juan Lobón poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

El mundo de Juan Lobón

1989

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La vida de Rita

2003

Las Chicas de Hoy en Día poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Las Chicas de Hoy en Día

1991

Déjate querer poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Déjate querer

2022

Camino de Santiago poster
7.0

Lieutenant Pereira is puzzled by the mysterious murder of a prostitute: it's the second time a woman has been found with her nose cut off, and a special plant known as a "goosefoot" placed beneath her corpse. Suspecting that the killer is basing his actions on the medieval board game of the Oca Brothers, Pereira asks Professor Rinaldi for help. His insight comes too late however: Tea, a young girl on a pilgrimage with a group of young offenders and their minder Leyva, is found murdered.

Camino de Santiago

1999

Mi madre cocina mejor que la tuya poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mi madre cocina mejor que la tuya

2014