Jan Cornet

Acting

Jan Cornet

Born

1982-02-24 (44)

Place of birth

Tarrasa, Tarragona, Cataluña, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

40 titles

Jan Cornet (born February 24, 1982, in Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish film and television actor. He began his career in Spanish television, gaining early attention for his role in the thriller series Motivos personales (2005). ​Cornet gained international recognition for his breakthrough performance as Vicente in Pedro Almodóvar’s psychological thriller The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito, 2011). His performance earned him the Goya Award for Best New Actor (Mejor Actor Revelación) at the 26th Goya Awards in 2012. ​Following his breakthrough, Cornet appeared in international film productions including Rodrigo Cortés's thriller Red Lights (2012) and Kevin Reynolds's biblical dra…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

Gummy poster
NR

A serial killer goes out one night in search of a new victim and ends up encountering his worst nightmare.

Gummy

2026

Aro berria poster
NR

San Sebastian, 1978. The workers at the water meter factory hold an assembly to discuss a strike, which ultimately fails. Disappointed, the most non-conformist workers turn their aspirations for radical transformation towards more intimate spheres. Some leave the factory to join an isolated community in the mountains, where dozens of young people embarked on an intense journey of shared cathartic experiences.

Aro berria

2025

Visitor poster
5.6

Marga, who’s in the middle of a marital crisis with her husband Daniel, decides to spend a few days alone in her old, family home. Once there, she starts to sense some strange and terrifying phenomena happening around her: an invisible entity seems to know a lot about her, among other things, that she’s having an affair with Carlos, an old friend from college. Marga has fallen pregnant by Carlos and on the day she’s going to have a secret abortion, the entity won’t let her leave the house. On the verge of madness, Marga discovers a portal in the house that leads to another reality. In this reality lives her other self and she’s actually trying to warn herself that something terrible is about to happen to her, unless she makes a decision…

Visitor

2021

Masculine_32 poster
NR

Two men that have never met before arrange to meet at one of them’s house for a sex date. The lack of connection between them generates an increasingly awkward situation.

Masculine_32

2021

2010s · 19 titles

Risen poster
6.3

Clavius, a powerful Roman military tribune, and his aide, Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.

Risen

2016

The Skin I Live In poster
7.5

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

The Skin I Live In

2011

Red Lights poster
6.2

Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origins. Simon Silver, a legendary blind psychic, reappears after an enigmatic absence of 30 years to become the greatest international challenge to both orthodox science and professional sceptics. Tom starts to develop an intense obsession with Silver, whose magnetism becomes stronger with each new manifestation of inexplicable events. As Tom gets closer to Silver, tension mounts, and his worldview is threatened to its core.

Red Lights

2012

There Be Dragons poster
5.1

Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.While researching the life of Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, the young journalist Robert uncovers hidden stories of his estranged father Manolo, and is taken on a journey through the dark, terrible secrets of his family’s past.

There Be Dragons

2011

The Uncovering poster
5.1

The sudden reappearance of the young Vera in a coastal village makes Jordi decide to undertake the search for his father, who has been presumed dead for over twenty years.

The Uncovering

2018

Barcelona Summer Night poster
6.4

In 2012 the comet Rose crossed the skies of the city of Barcelona and its magic that night caused 346 love stories flourish. An atmosphere of dreams, hopes and desire mixed to give a special connection between people. From these stories six are the stars of the film. A dinner among friends with a love of life is coupled with a first time for miles. An encounter that can change their lives and revive old ties that clash with the discovery of a baby on the way. In parallel, the struggle between friendship and love strikes the last story, a clandestine love between gay athletes who have to make a tough decision.

Barcelona Summer Night

2013

Sorry If I Call You Love poster
7.5

A successful, attractive, intelligent and brilliant advertising executive is longing to finally find emotional stability in his life, and decides to propose to his girlfriend. After she refuses his proposal, his life takes a turn when a new young lady enters his life.

Sorry If I Call You Love

2014

For a Handful of Kisses poster
7.0

A girl. A boy. A love story. But also about dreams, fears, life, true love, friendship and how we deal with it. And a secret between them...

For a Handful of Kisses

2014

Tasting Menu poster
4.4

As one of the world's best restaurants opens for its final evening, a couple in the midst of a divorce who made their reservation a year ago (before separating) reunite for a once-in-lifetime meal.

Tasting Menu

2013

The Ways of Man poster
4.6

A contemporary evocation of Judas Iscariot trying to escape from his own guilt after betraying his best friend. He wanders into a forest and lost in himself, meets a mysterious young man. The young companion will accompany him on this path of repentance and penance and help him deal with his feelings, understand his guilt and cope with he has done. This is the story of the last three days of a repentant.

The Ways of Man

2016

Rocambola poster
4.5

Dante is a professional thief who makes ends meet through carefully selected, small jobs. His new target is a secluded big house which he thinks is unoccupied. But he's not alone, he will meet a strange couple whose reaction to his intrusion is to ask him for breakfast. They are hiding other plans.

Rocambola

2019

Getting My Ex-wife Back poster
5.4

When washed-out, has-been actor Francisco, finds out that his ex-wife is about to remarry and take their daughter to live abroad, he'll manipulate everyone around him to stop the wedding and get his family back.

Getting My Ex-wife Back

2018

The Horror Network Vol. 1 poster
5.5

Serial killers, ghostly phone calls, inner demons, otherworld monsters and creepy stalkers collide in this frightening anthology. Six of horror's most promising new directing talents join forces to pay homage to classic horror in the tradition of "Creepshow", "Tales From the Crypt", "Tales From the Darkside", and "Trilogy of Terror," and weave an unforgettable, disturbing tapestry of terror.

The Horror Network Vol. 1

2015

Looking for Eimish poster
5.3

The young Lucas shares a flat with her partner Eimish in Madrid. One day to buy a rose for her, which prevents her crossing the street when she left. When he gets home he finds a letter that says he is going to Germany. It is then that without a second thought, and acting for the first time in his life moved by impulse, decides to take the first train traveling to Berlin to try to convince his girlfriend to come back to his side. When he reach the city he will realize that she is not there, so he decides to take new direction to Verona (Italy). But things get worse in the adventure: she must stand up to certain situations in her past, and he will change his idea about family and love.

Looking for Eimish

2012

The Horror of the Lady of the Lake poster
10.0

At the end of the 19th century, an English couple arrives in an uninhabited Spanish village with the intention of inhabiting a house they have inherited. There they will meet the castle ruled by the Countess of Baltán, her daughters and a couple of scientists who are trying to end their reign of terror.

The Horror of the Lady of the Lake

2010

Animal poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Animal

2019

Summer Solstice poster
8.0

Clara returns to her grandparents' house to celebrate the festivity of San Juan with her younger brothers. Mireia, the youngest, has been living in the house whilst finishing her studies. Despite the siblings' intention to relive their childhood's summer memories, the trip becomes a wheel of tension and silence when they discover that Mireia is prostituting herself with a neighbor from the village that is much older than her.

Summer Solstice

2019

No artwork available
5.7

Julia, an attractive and elegant woman, is a renowned cellist devoted to her music. After years of intermittent pain in different parts of her body, Julia is finally given the diagnosis: fibromyalgia, a chronic medical disorder that has no known cause or cure. She soon finds herself submerged in a personal state of hell, struggling against her own body.

Sonata for Cello

2015

Merry Little Christmas poster
4.3

Cristina and her mother live in an inner world of fear and pain, unable to regain his life after the scars left on them by the brutal beatings of their father and husband.

Merry Little Christmas

2010

2000s · 5 titles

Series credits

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 Gold poster
7.3

On 26 November 1983, six armed men break into the Brink's-Mat security depot, stumbling across gold bullion worth £26m.

The Gold

2023

The Boat poster
7.9

A global cataclysm, caused by a fatal accident in Geneva (Switzerland) during the implementation of the particle accelerator will lead to the crew and students of the school-ship Polar Star to live the greatest adventure of their lives. Isolated and aware that we only have each other, the ship will become their only home.

The Boat

2011

Estoy vivo poster
7.5

A policeman dies chasing a serial killer and is reincarnated in another policeman five years later, granted immortality in exchange of never revealing his true identity.

Estoy vivo

2017

The Mallorca Files poster
6.6

Amongst the vibrant international community of the eponymous Spanish island, a British and a German detective with very different approaches to policing have a clash of personalities. Despite - or perhaps because of - their very different approaches, the sleuths form a perfect complementary partnership as they seek to solve a new crime on the island each week.

The Mallorca Files

2019

Angel or Demon poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Angel or Demon

2011

Motivos personales poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Motivos personales

2005

Hay alguien ahí poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hay alguien ahí

2009

Closed Rooms poster
5.6

Violeta returns to Spain to supervise the works that have to turn the family mansion into a museum. The appearance of a mummified body in a room reveals a secret from the past.

Closed Rooms

2015

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