Álex Angulo

Acting

Álex Angulo

Born — Died

1953-04-12 — 2014-07-20

Place of birth

Erandio, Vizcaya, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

69 titles

Alejandro Angulo León (April 12, 1953–July 20, 2014) was a Spanish Basque actor who performed in over sixty films during his career, spanning more than thirty years.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 16 titles

Los muertos no se tocan, nene poster
4.8

Logroño, 1959. The death of a local authority creates a double expectation in his family, the coming of the TV set the deceased bought and the mayor to attend the funeral. His grandson (Airas Brispo) will witness the grotesque situations.

Los muertos no se tocan, nene

2011

Hidden Away poster
7.5

At the age of 14 the world around you changes at a dizzying speed. But what if actually it's you that changing? What if these changes take you away from what up until now, has been your world? Ibrahim and Rafa are going to suffer these changes for themselves, experiencing first love in a way they never could have imagined. And having to keep it Hidden away.

Hidden Away

2014

Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang poster
5.9

Mischevious twins Zip and Zap are placed in Esperanza, a school where games are prohibited. There, they found the Club of Marble, a resistance to challenge authority. Thanks to intelligence, courage, and unwavering faith in friendship, Zip, Zap and the club will discover a mysterious secret hidden deep in the school and live the most exciting adventure of their lives.

Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang

2013

La princesa de Éboli poster
5.5

Ana de Mendoza y de Silva, Princess of Éboli, is accused of treason and imprisoned in 16th Century Spain.

La princesa de Éboli

2010

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

La conspiración poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La conspiración

2012

Possessed poster
6.2

Trini, a world-renowned flamenco dancer, abandons the stage after suffering a personal tragedy.

Possessed

2015

The Great Vazquez poster
5.9

Is it possible to live aside of the system, thinking only about the present and oneself? A feature film about Manuel Vázquez, the best comic book author in Barcelona during the sixties, but, mainly, a man with a very particular way of living his life.

The Great Vazquez

2010

Namnala poster
5.5

Jose is an obsolete man who owns an obsolete business. His store, a technical reparation center that made him feel alive when he was young, it is going to close very soon. One of his last work days, Jose receives the visit of a strange customer.

Namnala

2014

Área de descanso poster
NR

Road movie in which a woman helps the Polish driver of a tourist bus waiting at the foot of the road, next to your disabled vehicle arrival of a replacement. Will hellish 14 days in which to find a stowaway who was traveling in the bus, and will meet truckers and law enforcement.

Área de descanso

2012

No artwork available
3.0

Raising children has never been a simple task.

Water!

2012

No artwork available
NR

Sick family relationships, three lovers separated by an ocean and a forbidden pregnancy. The destruction of a daily life puzzle that conceals an incest for 30 years between the Spanish countryside and the great Latin American metropolis.

Refuges

2015

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La mujer del hatillo gris

2011

Un mundo casi perfecto poster
4.0

Ismael is not doing very well lately. He is a screenwriter in his low hours, has gained twenty kilos, his girlfriend left him and his accounts are zero. All he needed was to witness a violent robbery and be pressured by police to identify a dangerous offender, which in turn intimidates him not to do so. Then he meets Deborah, a young prostitute who has not lost all the innocence and a natural sweetness, which is for Ismael the closest thing to redemption. But the commissioner Iturrioz does not rest ...

Un mundo casi perfecto

2011

Justi&Cia poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Justi&Cia

2014

Los años dirán poster
5.0

Spain 2012. As many other people of their generation, Ana and Iván are going to buy a new flat in the suburbs of the city, which is still under construction. They go there with Ana’s parents in order to know their opinion before buying it. Despite of all the dreams set on this new stage of their lives, Ana doubts if this is really the life she wants. Will she be brave enough to run away or will she have to accept her fate of "correction and normality"?

Los años dirán

2013

2000s · 20 titles

Pan's Labyrinth poster
7.8

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.

Pan's Labyrinth

2006

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

Brain Drain poster
5.1

Emilio, a shy, not too brilliant pupil at a humble local secondary school, has always harboured a secret love for Natalia, the cutest, brightest girl in the class. On the last day of the school year, when he finally decides to declare his love, Natalia is awarded a scholarship to study Medicine at Oxford. It would seem that all is lost for Emilio, but his drop-out school-pals are not ready to throw in the towel. After faking qualifications and scholarships, this band of brainless nuts land in Oxford, causing havoc in the normally peaceful campus existence.

Brain Drain

2009

Isi/Disi - Amor a lo bestia poster
4.8

Will love compromise one man's devotion to heavy rock? That's the all-important question behind this broad comedy from Spain. Isi (Santiago Segura) and Disi (Florentino Fernandez) are two best friends who live in a lower middle-class neighborhood near Madrid. Isi and Disi aren't especially bright, but their devotion to heavy metal is complete and unquestioned, and they wouldn't be caught dead listening to a lame pop singer like, say , Joaquin Sabina. However, one day Isi sees Vane (Jaydy Michel), a beautiful girl who attends a nearby college, and immediately falls head over heels in love.

Isi/Disi - Amor a lo bestia

2004

No artwork available
5.7

An extremely patient man shares a sleeping car on a overnight express train with a complete hypochondriac. Anxious for his berth mate to reveal any habits which might disturb his delicate sleep, the neurotic man subjects the other to an absurd interrogation.

Night Express

2003

Compassionate Sex poster
5.8

Dolores is a mature and kind woman whose husband abandons her because he can't stand her uncanny generosity. Desperate to get her husband back, she devotes her life to works of charity, which is to go to bed with the other men of the town. Dolores, now "Lolita", becomes so famous that all men seek out her help now. It is through her compassionate sex that she brings back the colour and the happiness to a town that was immersed in sadness. Written by HoMordomo.

Compassionate Sex

2000

Imago Mortis poster
4.5

They say that in 1600s, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Fumagalli, was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing his eyeballs it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on the person's retina. He named such tecnique "Thanatography". Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crimes r

Imago Mortis

2009

Otros días vendrán poster
6.8

Alicia (Cecilia Roth) is a school teacher in his forties who begins a relationship online with Zaz (Nacho Aldeguer), 17. When the affair begins to leak, the story takes a turn of 180 degrees. At that time Zaz's father (Antonio Resines) will take the center of the stage

Otros días vendrán

2005

Moscow Gold poster
5.5

In an odd destiny coincidence and hospital employee reiceives some important and confident information from a dying old man. He shares it with one friend and both start a crazy and extravangant adventure.

Moscow Gold

2003

My Mother Likes Women poster
5.9

Sofia introduces her three adult daughters to her new lover who is their age and happens to be a woman. The women, in particular Elvira find it extremely difficult to accept their mothers sudden apparent sexual reversal. The news pushes the neurotic Elvira to the point of nervous breakdown. Sol, the youngest daughter, writes a lude rock song about it and performs in front of them at a concert. The daughters plot together on how to get their mothers new girlfriend, a native Czech, and brilliant pianist, out of her life. Their plot goes terribly wrong and turns the film from a light-hearted comedy, into mildly amusing drama.

My Mother Likes Women

2002

La casa de mi padre poster
5.4

A businessman returns his family home after eight years in exile avoiding the terrorism of the ETA.

La casa de mi padre

2008

Poniente poster
6.0

After living in Madrid for many years as a teacher, Lucia returns to her hometown after her father's death results in the inheritance of his tomato farm. While fighting the community's racism toward the new illegal workers, Lucia falls in love with the farm's accountant, Curro, a man who shares her cause. The couple is forced to confront the racism of the town and as tensions come to head, they will have to make some decisions that could cost them everything.

Poniente

2002

The Pedal Push Car poster
6.7

During Holy Week of 59 in the tragicomic social landscape of Franco's Spain, takes place the sentimental chronicle of a nine years old boy: Pablito. Pablito wants the pedal car he sees in a shop near his home. His family -middle class with bad luck - silently suffers the pressure of the other part of the family- middle class with good luck and best influences. The desire of the car and the hope to get it encourage his parents to take the child, piggy bank in hand, through a strange journey to the colorful and surprisingly familiar world full of lies and blackmail. Pablito emotionally survives in that environment thanks to his ability to get from his imagination the answers that parents and teachers do not give him. And that way, Pablito will create his own happy ending.

The Pedal Push Car

2004

Manolito Espinberg: une vie de cinéma poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Manolito Espinberg: une vie de cinéma

2005

Todo menos la chica poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Todo menos la chica

2002

Animal Crisis poster
4.2

Thanks to the Vegetarian Pact, all animals live in peace and harmony. All but one: the hippen Crevel, who lives with the anguished feeling of not re-testing the meat. Decided to calm his hatred, one night Crevel goes to the cemetery ready to devour the corpses, but he can not do it, because there is none. The lion Persius and his consigliere, the tiger Altaicus, organized a whole nutritional network with the dead to keep their carnivorous habits. When discovered, they accuse Crevel of the brutal desecration, forcing him to flee from the wrath of the herbivores.

Animal Crisis

2007

No artwork available
3.0

A child wants one of those planes that can fly to the top of the Himalayas. A puppet wishes to go away with a dancer, together, far away. The train is about to leave ... Only the puppet master knows that, sometimes, you must learn to live without things that you love.

Tristan Boj's Hollow

2008

God Is on Air poster
7.7

Two Spanish pan-handlers soon find themselves in over their heads when they stumble upon an opportunity to redeem themselves and perhaps the entire planet. The world appears to suffer from rampant poverty, violence and spiritual desperation and the relentless news media force-feeds these images to the Spanish people. A popular reality television show lets the audience decide between life or death for suspected felons, and one of the opportunistic pan-handlers attempts to escape poverty through this raucous and sensational TV program.

God Is on Air

2002

No artwork available
3.0

Three stories of the West.

Limoncello

2007

A falta de pan poster
6.0

A short by Martín Rosete.

A falta de pan

2004

1990s · 19 titles

Live Flesh poster
7.0

When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body... and his desire for vengeance on the man who put him there. After his release and still madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over even if means revenge, for Elena has married David, the cop who sent him to prison!

Live Flesh

1997

The Day of the Beast poster
7.3

When a rogue priest discovers the exact date the Antichrist will be born, he enlists a Death Metal record store clerk and a cheesy TV psychic for an urban spree of gore, sacrilege and twisted humor to prevent the Apocalypse.

The Day of the Beast

1995

Mutant Action poster
6.3

Waging war against all things glamorous and beautiful, crippled terrorists Acción Mutante plot a series of attacks on society's elite, and attempt the kidnapping of a wealthy socialite at her elaborate wedding reception.

Mutant Action

1993

Grandes ocasiones poster
5.7

Antonio, a television scriptwriter, decides to separate from Ana, his wife, with whom he has three children in common.

Grandes ocasiones

1998

Friendly Dead poster
4.0

Carlos is 50 years old. It has a cake with candles and seven friends to celebrate him. The police have one dead and seven suspected murder. All they have reasons to kill Carlos, and they all are... friends of the deceased.

Friendly Dead

1994

The Dumbfounded King poster
5.9

Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.

The Dumbfounded King

1991

The Worst Years of Our Lives poster
5.3

Alberto lives with his parents and his brother Roberto, quite attractive, who tells him there are lots of girls. Alberto is a romantic guy, and doesn't find a girl for his own. He knew he was in love as soon as he saw Maria, although he was not very sure of what she thought. His brother told him he would help with her, but things get difficult when Roberto also likes Maria.

The Worst Years of Our Lives

1994

Dying of Laughter poster
6.4

Nino and Bruno are two comedians who reach the heights of success with their duo act, turning them into huge TV celebrities. However, the hate between them grows fast, as much as their fame.

Dying of Laughter

1999

Matías, juez de línea poster
4.8

Matias is a soccer referee. He promised his dying mother never to lie. When he referees a match of the spanish national team and there is a clear penalty against Spain in the last minute of the game he has no choice and marks the foul. As a result Spain does not qualify for the world championship and Matias is forced to escape from the rage of the people. He hides in the town of his father which he hasn't visited since his childhood.

Matías, juez de línea

1996

Todo por la pasta poster
5.3

After a robbery at a bingo hall, Azucena, the girlfriend of one of the thieves, decides to seize the money for herself. On the run she stumbles upon Verónica, the manager of a nursing home that wants a cut in exchange of helping her to evade the criminals and the cops.

Todo por la pasta

1991

El anónimo... ¡vaya papelón! poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

El anónimo... ¡vaya papelón!

1990

Brujas poster
4.8

Three women from three different generations and walks of life find themselves in a very hot, semi-deserted Spanish town. Patricia is a 17 year old roaming Spain in search for a certain man; Sol is 27, a door-to-door salesgirl in dire economic straits who has just been thrown out of her apartment; and Virginia is a middle aged housewife, who after 20 years decides to start a new life. These three spend a very unique 24 hour period together, often acting, as the title suggests, as modern day "witches".

Brujas

1996

Muerto de amor poster
9.0

A middle-aged widower, who lives surrounded by memories of his marriage, receives a letter from the City Council informing him that his wife's remains are going to be moved to the communal ossuary.

Muerto de amor

1996

Killer Mirindas poster
6.1

A man with a suspicious attitude enters a bar where only a bartender and another customer are present and orders an orange soda, a Mirinda, very cold; but later refuses to pay by offering a surprising argument.

Killer Mirindas

1992

Second hand’s Lourdes poster
7.5

Luciano (Álex Angulo), a sewner from a small provincial city, will cause a series of incidents that will end the suspension of the feasts of the Virgin. All for an omelet sandwich that his mother prepared for him to go to work.

Second hand’s Lourdes

1995

Hi, Are You Alone? poster
5.3

Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain.

Hi, Are You Alone?

1995

Sólo se muere dos veces poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Sólo se muere dos veces

1996

Sálvate si puedes poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sálvate si puedes

1994

Pecata minuta poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pecata minuta

1999

1980s · 3 titles

Series credits