Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

Acting

Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

Born 1968-11-05 · Rome, Lazio, Italy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (born 5 November 1968 in Rome, Italy) is a Spanish-Italian film actress. Best known for playing dramatic roles in Spain, Sánchez-Gijón is known in the United States for her portrayal of Victoria Aragon, a pregnant and abandoned Mexican-American winegrower's daughter who is helped by travelling salesman Paul Sutton (Keanu Reeves) in A Walk in the Clouds (1995). She has since built a reputation as an international star in films such as Manuel Gomez Pereira's Boca a Boca (1996), Bigas Luna's The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997), Jaime Chavarri's Sus Ojos Se Cerraron (1998), Gabriele Salvatores' adaptation of the Niccolò Ammaniti novel I'm not scared (2003) and Brad Anderson's The Machinist (2004). Description above from the Wikipedia article Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

The Machinist poster
7.5

Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.

The Machinist

2004

Bitter Christmas poster
6.3

After her mother dies in December, advertising director Elsa immerses herself in work to cope. When a panic attack forces her to take a break, she decides to travel to Lanzarote with her friend Patricia. The story of these women run parallel to that of a screenwriter and film director, exploring how life and fiction are inseparably linked, sometimes painfully so.

Bitter Christmas

2026

A Walk in the Clouds poster
7.4

World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.

A Walk in the Clouds

1995

Parallel Mothers poster
6.8

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

Parallel Mothers

2021

Querido Fotogramas poster
4.0

The 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

Drifters poster
5.8

A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee.

Drifters

2011

Fish Bones poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fish Bones

2021

Under Her Control poster
5.3

When a fashion employee thinks she will have to end her promising career after getting pregnant, her boss offers to adopt the child.

Under Her Control

2022

The Backwoods poster
5.4

An English couple's holiday in Spain is interrupted when they discover a girl imprisoned in a cabin.

The Backwoods

2006

The Low Land poster
5.9

Carmen, a well-known writer on her fifties, has returned a year ago to a farmhouse in the small town where she was born, in Bajo Aragón (Teruel, Spain). Her vital crisis is complicated when Eduardo, a film producer with whom she had a love affair twenty years ago reappears in her life.

The Low Land

2025

Casanova poster
4.1

The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he's viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and families of the women he seduces.

Casanova

1987

I'm Not Scared poster
7.1

In a tiny community enclosed by wheat fields, the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. Exploring a dilapidated and uninhabited farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dares not tell anyone about it...

I'm Not Scared

2003

Wounded Animals poster
4.9

Silvio is a well-to-do business executive who is seemingly happily married to Marcia. However, Silvio is convinced Marcia is cheating on him, and frequently spies on her -- ironically enough, he usually does so during assignations with his mistress, posh interior designer Claudia. Meanwhile, Daniel, who works with Claudia, is enjoying a vacation with his wife Irina, a front desk clerk at the hotel where Silvio usually romps with Claudia. Daniel is hoping the getaway will help put the spark back into their marriage, but he soon discovers Irina's head has been turned by a trainer from a nearby health spa. And finally, Mariela, Silvio's housekeeper, has stated dating Jorge Washington, who has only recently come to Spain from Peru. While Mariela has fallen hard for Jorge, he's impressed by the romantic and material opportunities his new hometown provides.

Wounded Animals

2006

Volaverunt poster
5.8

The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries, at a time when Madrid was wobbling through a difficult time and setting the scene for the following Prim vs Crown uprising.

Volaverunt

1999

Love Walked In poster
4.8

Two romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers get involved in a caper.

Love Walked In

1997

Hombres felices poster
4.8

A sharp comedy about a group of men who seek happiness at any cost. They are immature, sexist, and obsessed with sex, especially oral sex. On the other hand, we encounter a group of strong, intelligent, and determined women who are unable to live without the men around them. A story about couples who break up and those who are left to pick up the pieces.

Hombres felices

2001

Jealousy poster
5.5

A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta tells Antonio the man's first name. Carmen tells him that the man meant nothing to her, and that the photograph was taken before she met Antonio. She loves Antonio and sets out to wipe the photograph from his mind through exuberant sex, but her ploy backfires and Antonio remains fixated. Slowly he finds out about the man, and about Carmen's past. Will jealousy consume this couple or can they find a way to kill the green-eyed monster?

Jealousy

1999

The Whore and the Whale poster
5.2

A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War, and of a woman. Her quest for answers brings Vera to the Argentine Patagonia.

The Whore and the Whale

2004

La Regenta poster
NR

The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's life unbearable and inevitably tragic.

La Regenta

1995

Rowing with the Wind poster
5.8

In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the personification of her imagination is the cause. Against this backdrop, Claire has Byron's baby then is estranged from him and barred from her daughter. Byron and Percy continue their friendship, the one self-centered and decadent, the other wildly idealistic. The Shelleys take up residence near Pisa.

Rowing with the Wind

1988

The Misfits Club poster
6.8

Valeria 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

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health poster
6.1

Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health

1997

Velvet Colección: Grand Finale poster
5.7

Christmas 1969: the upcoming sale of Velvet brings the former and current staff together in Madrid for good memories, a second chance and a new beginning.

Velvet Colección: Grand Finale

2020

My Other Jon poster
7.2

Merche, about to turn 76, is told that she doesn't have long left to live. Unable to travel to watch the sea for last time, she accepts a medical experimental process to get it.

My Other Jon

2023