
Acting
Pedro Díez del Corral
Born — Died
1951-11-05 — 2014-03-15
Place of birth
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Known for
Acting
Credits
37 titles
Known for
7.0After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughter begin making up for lost time, when suddenly, a murder occurs...
High Heels
1991
6.9Celia is a Spanish children's television series created by José Luis Borau in 1992 for the national Spanish public-service channel Televisión Española. It is based on the classic Spanish children's novels of the same name by Elena Fortún, primarily Celia, lo que dice and Celia en el colegio. The books and television series tell the stories of a wild seven-year-old girl named Celia Gálvez de Moltanbán. In addition to focusing on Celia, the show touched lightly on Spanish life in the 1930s, such as the upcoming civil war, a changing nation, and the social issues and ideas at the time. Cristina Cruz Mínguez was cast as the titular character, and the script was adapted by author and screenwriter Carmen Martín Gaite. The creator, Borau, directed and produced the series. Though successful when it originally premiered, Celia was cancelled after six episodes. The sixth and final episode ended with a "to be continued", but the following episode has yet to be released.
Celia
1993
9.7In the late 15th century, the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, the last Muslim stronghold in Spain after eight centuries of splendor, faces its final days. As the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella launch their campaign to conquer the Emirate, internal rivalries, palace intrigues, and power struggles within the Nasrid dynasty — particularly between Sultan Muley Hacén, his son Boabdil, and the rival factions of the Abencerrajes and Zegríes — accelerate the kingdom’s downfall. Blending historical events with drama, romance, and epic battles, Réquiem por Granada recounts the tragic and glorious history of the fall of Granada from a perspective centered on its Muslim rulers and people, capturing the cultural richness, betrayals, and human cost of one of the defining moments in Spanish history.
Requiem for Granada
1991
6.5The two weeks leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 are dramatized from many different locations in Spain, Morocco and London.
Dragon Rapide
1986
10.0A journalist, overwhelmed by problems, contemplates suicide. He then finds a way out of his desperate situation by fleeing to a mountain village haunted by the legend of a bloodthirsty wolf that he, perhaps, can hunt.
Quimera
1988
6.2Given the proximity of death, the experiences of the past come to the memory of Juan. In a fragmented, sometimes confused way, Juan relives the crucial moments of his life, always linked to the names of women. Moments that remind him of having missed numerous opportunities to be happy.
To Die... To Sleep... Perchance to Dream
1976
Film credits
2010s · 1 titles
1990s · 6 titles
7.0After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughter begin making up for lost time, when suddenly, a murder occurs...
High Heels
1991
5.3After 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
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Huidos
1993
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Quince
1998
5.4In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in the intervening years. The only person he can find who is able to remember those years clearly is his family's old butler Claudio.
The Long Winter
1992
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Les aparences enganyen
1991
1980s · 13 titles
6.5The two weeks leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 are dramatized from many different locations in Spain, Morocco and London.
Dragon Rapide
1986
6.5The two weeks leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 are dramatized from many different locations in Spain, Morocco and London.
Dragon Rapide
1986
10.0A journalist, overwhelmed by problems, contemplates suicide. He then finds a way out of his desperate situation by fleeing to a mountain village haunted by the legend of a bloodthirsty wolf that he, perhaps, can hunt.
Quimera
1988
4.8Poor gigolo tries to frame his rich mature mistress, but gets tangled in his own wiles.
Baton Rouge
1988
8.0This is a Spanish Drama starring Antonio Banderas
El acto
1989
8.0Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1988
5.8This is the story of a man fighting with all his might for his life and his freedom. Eleuterio (”El Lute”) embarks upon an action-packed future, fuelled by the notions of freedom and dreams of living just as his countrymen, ever-growing in his mind. Nothing and no-one can stop him. After escaping the Puerto de Santa María prison, the reunion with his family is just the beginning of what will become an endless escape.
El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free
1988
7.0A writer, a professional journalist currently working for his father-in-law's company, has a bad relationship with his wife and is dumped by her. He then decides to return to his real profession and moves to a new city. While there, he begins a relationship with a young woman...
Las trampas del matrimonio
1982
4.1A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.
Erotic Stories
1980
7.0Don Martin, the owner of a repair company, hires Jamaican Ali to fix television antennas. The boy, besides being an excellent professional, causes a furor among the neighbors because of his great attractiveness, so the men will do everything possible to make him leave and stop competing with them.
El rey del mambo
1989
5.2Ana, abandoned by her husband, who confessed her having fallen in love with another woman, tries to restructure her life with another man, Andrés, but thinking of not getting married yet. They decide that they'll experience their relationship with full freedom of feelings, until their love lasts. Andrés is often emotionally ignorant but believes he's doing things well, cursed by the old ways he's been educated into. Ana herself is not even ready for anything new in her life, yet discontented with her new situation. The problems between the couple are not just financial, but more subtle, and inevitably disenchantment appears.
Mis relaciones con Ana
1980
4.0No synopsis available yet.
Ragdolls
1984
6.5After a period of inactivity, Crisanto, a police inspector, returns to the service. When a friend of his is murdered, he decides to take over the investigation.
The Arrangement
1983
1970s · 12 titles
6.2Given the proximity of death, the experiences of the past come to the memory of Juan. In a fragmented, sometimes confused way, Juan relives the crucial moments of his life, always linked to the names of women. Moments that remind him of having missed numerous opportunities to be happy.
To Die... To Sleep... Perchance to Dream
1976
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Mortal Sin
1977
6.1Spain, 1977. The first general elections are about to take place after the long dictatorship and the progressive environment of Madrid is easily palpable. Protagonists, Carmen and Juan were once married and now living separately, both have a child. It's one of the only reasons they maintain cordial to one another. Their separation, the political context and the contradictions of the progressives of the time will not defeat the affinity between the two.
Paper Tigers
1977
4.0After Paula's suicide, her best friend, Ana, recalls the circumstances that united both women in the past and how they lived a close relationship that could have become more than just a friendship if social conventions had not prevented it.
Check to the Queen
1979
6.3José is a happily married executive, with children, a flat in Madrid and a house in the suburbs. It's Friday and the weekend seems to follow the usual pattern: football match with mates, travel to the mountains and family visit. Nevertheless, José feels no motivated by his routine, he no longer distinguishes leisure from their obligations, all of which result in an unexpected final decision by his attentive wife.
Las verdes praderas
1979
4.0Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape
What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
1978
4.5In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the return of politician B. from exile. However private trucker Pal can't afford to strike, so he's beaten up and his truck burned. In the headlines he's described as strike-breaker. This is only part of an intrigue which shall get him to murder B.
B. Must Die
1975
No synopsis available yet.
Presto Agitato
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Una historia
1978
5.4Madrid 1933. Aurora Rodriguez kills her daughter Hildegart and turn herself over to the police. In jail she remember the circumstances that made her committing the crime...
My Daughter Hildegart
1977
6.3In the year 2000, in a world where nations exercise strict control over their populations, Dr. Ulop is researching a way to transfer human memories to another brain.
Memoria
1978
8.0A wealthy Spanish landowner invites his son, a seminary student, to visit his home. During the visit the son falls in love with his father's fiancée, the young widow Pepita Jiménez, and must choose between his religious vocation, his love for her and his loyalty to his father.
Bride to Be
1975
1960s · 3 titles
6.8Guillermo, who is twelve years old, is in love with Margarita, a girl who is a year older than him and who prefers to date more mature boys. Valentín and Josefa, who are in their seventies, dream of escaping together from the retirement home where they live so they can get married.
From Pink to Yellow
1963
5.6A group of pre-university boys and girls experience all kinds of problems and joys that arise in their lives. Among other worries, they have to deal with the pressure of their studies, difficulties with their families and, of course, their first loves.
Los chicos del Preu
1967
10.0The lieutenant Miguel Aguirre's dream is to become a military pilot, but a dispute with a superior is about to make him abandon his studies, had it not been for the intervention of his mother and his girlfriend, Luisa. Miguel's first destination is Granada Air Base. There he meets an attractive young woman, Patricia, whom he takes for an American tourist.
No le busques tres pies...
1968
Series credits
6.9Celia is a Spanish children's television series created by José Luis Borau in 1992 for the national Spanish public-service channel Televisión Española. It is based on the classic Spanish children's novels of the same name by Elena Fortún, primarily Celia, lo que dice and Celia en el colegio. The books and television series tell the stories of a wild seven-year-old girl named Celia Gálvez de Moltanbán. In addition to focusing on Celia, the show touched lightly on Spanish life in the 1930s, such as the upcoming civil war, a changing nation, and the social issues and ideas at the time. Cristina Cruz Mínguez was cast as the titular character, and the script was adapted by author and screenwriter Carmen Martín Gaite. The creator, Borau, directed and produced the series. Though successful when it originally premiered, Celia was cancelled after six episodes. The sixth and final episode ended with a "to be continued", but the following episode has yet to be released.
Celia
1993
9.7In the late 15th century, the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, the last Muslim stronghold in Spain after eight centuries of splendor, faces its final days. As the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella launch their campaign to conquer the Emirate, internal rivalries, palace intrigues, and power struggles within the Nasrid dynasty — particularly between Sultan Muley Hacén, his son Boabdil, and the rival factions of the Abencerrajes and Zegríes — accelerate the kingdom’s downfall. Blending historical events with drama, romance, and epic battles, Réquiem por Granada recounts the tragic and glorious history of the fall of Granada from a perspective centered on its Muslim rulers and people, capturing the cultural richness, betrayals, and human cost of one of the defining moments in Spanish history.
Requiem for Granada
1991

