Manolo Solo

Acting

Manolo Solo

Born — Died

1964-01-01 — 2026-07-30

Place of birth

Algeciras, Cádiz, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

81 titles

Born in Algeciras in 1964, he was raised in neighbouring Los Barrios until age 6, later moving to Seville with his family. Part of the Sevillian musical scene in his youth, he was bassist-singer of Hacienda Somos Todos and Libertad Provisional. He later joined Arden Lágrimas and became the vocalist of rock band La Turmix/Relicarios, sharing stage with Santi Amodeo. Relicarios managed to release a full album, Detentebala. Solo earned a licentiate degree in Education Sciences from the University of Seville and trained his acting chops at the Seville's Instituto de Teatro. After debuting as a stage actor in 1989 and making a number of television appearances, he landed his feature film debut in…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 18 titles

Official Competition poster
6.6

When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?

Official Competition

2021

The Marked Woman poster
5.6

When a woman is found in a shipping container with no memory of who she is, two detectives race to figure out her identity — and who wants her dead.

The Marked Woman

2026

The Good Boss poster
6.9

Julio Blanco is the proprietor of Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town, which awaits the imminent visit from a committee that will decide if they merit a local Business Excellence award: everything has to be perfect when the time comes. Working against the clock, Blanco pulls out all the stops to address and resolve issues with his employees, crossing every imaginable line in the process.

The Good Boss

2021

The Portuguese House poster
6.7

The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he assumes another man’s identity as a gardener on a Portuguese estate, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner, stepping into a new life that isn’t his own.

The Portuguese House

2025

Wild Flowers poster
6.3

Julia, a 22-year-old mother of two, falls in love with Óscar, a troubled boy with whom she embarks on a love affair. The more time they spend together, the more Julia asks herself if Óscar is the person she really needs by her side, prompting her to set out on a personal journey to find happiness for herself and for her family.

Wild Flowers

2022

Close Your Eyes poster
7.0

Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.

Close Your Eyes

2023

Full of Grace poster
6.5

Sister Marina, a very unorthodox nun, is sent during the summer of 1994 to El Parral, a boarding school for boys threatened to be closed soon. Even though the kids welcome Marina with all kinds of pranks, they will, little by little, become something very close to the family they never had.

Full of Grace

2022

Nothing Personal poster
6.3

Lina, a well-known TV host, appears at Pedro’s doorstep to confront him about a cruel message he posted about her online. What begins as a showdown soon turns into an awkward living arrangement that quietly reshapes them both.

Nothing Personal

2026

The Boogeyman: Origins poster
6.2

Explores the Spanish origins of the character's story, where he is a tuberculosis patient from Almeria who will do anything to get well, even consuming the blood of the kids he kidnaps in a sack.

The Boogeyman: Origins

2023

Velintonia 3 poster
NR

The memory of the poet Vicente Aleixandre remains silent at No. 3 Velintonia Street. Home of a Nobel Prize in Literature 1977, it also recalls the joy of Lorca and other members of Generation´27, the pain of civil war and post-war, and became a meeting point for most writers in 20th century Spanish Literature, now is abandoned and for sale. This documentary recreates its story and spirit.

Velintonia 3

2025

When Brooklyn Met Seville poster
5.7

Young Ana, a Sevillian girl sick of her family and her neighborhood, starts a relationship with the African-American boy her mum is hosting to avoid eviction.

When Brooklyn Met Seville

2021

The Heaven of Animals poster
8.0

A fleeting, magical relationship blossoms when Diego, abandoned by his wife, meets Amanda, a fanciful teen amputee trampoline jumper. A meek mermaid and a disoriented, free-falling man's unlikely bond.

The Heaven of Animals

2025

Girl Unknown poster
5.0

Carolina and Leo, who have met through a chat room, agree to meet in person in a secluded city park.

Girl Unknown

2023

La Alameda 2018 poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Alameda 2018

2020

Face to Face poster
7.3

Lina doesn't mind people insulting her. But if they do, they should do it face to face.

Face to Face

2020

The Fortress poster
5.2

The heirs of a mansion are thrust into a spectacular game planned by their late patriarch that will uncovrt something more brutal than their ambition.

The Fortress

2023

Josephine poster
5.6

Josefina depicts Middle Age Juan's love angle, Juan was a prison guard and the lady he loved's son Sergio was a prisoner in prison, and he loses his job because of his love.

Josephine

2021

Me poster
6.5

For our hero, every day looks the same. Or maybe they are too much alike: the same routines repeated over, and over again. One day, a simple wooden sign written "Park" will shake everything up.

Me

2020

2010s · 30 titles

Marshland poster
7.0

The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.

Marshland

2014

Biutiful poster
7.2

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

Biutiful

2010

The Legacy of the Bones poster
6.6

Inspector Amaia Salazar must return to the Baztan valley in order to solve a series of suicides that seem to follow a similar pattern.

The Legacy of the Bones

2019

The Invisible Guardian poster
6.5

When the naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán, it is quickly linked to a similar murder one month before. Soon, rumours are flying in the nearby village of Elizondo. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or is it the basajaun, the ‘invisible guardian’ of Basque mythology? Inspector Amaia Salazar leads the investigation, taking her back to the heart of the Basque country where she was born, and where she hoped never to return. Shrouded in mist and surrounded by impenetrable forests, it is a place of unresolved conflicts and a terrible secret from Amaia’s childhood that will come back to haunt her. Faced with the superstitions of the village, Amaia must fight the demons of her past to confront the reality of a serial killer on the loose. But as she is drawn deeper into the investigation, she feels the presence of something darker lurking in the shadows…

The Invisible Guardian

2017

The Fury of a Patient Man poster
6.6

Quiet Jose woos cafe worker Ana, but she is unaware he has intentions other than the purely romantic.

The Fury of a Patient Man

2016

Elisa & Marcela poster
7.3

The film tells the true story of Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, two women in 1901 Spain who fell deeply in love. To overcome societal and legal barriers to their relationship, Elisa assumes a male identity, enabling the pair to marry in secret. Their daring act makes them the first recorded same-sex couple to marry in Spain, but their love is tested as they face relentless persecution and sacrifice.

Elisa & Marcela

2019

Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City poster
5.7

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, 2019. Two corpses appear in the crypt of the Old Cathedral. Police officer Unai López de Ayala, an expert in criminal profiling, must hunt down the ritual murderer who has been terrorizing the city for two decades.

Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City

2019

Gun City poster
6.3

Barcelona, ​​Spain, 1921. A tough cop from Madrid arrives in the city to locate, under the suspicious scrutiny of corrupt local police officers, a significant amount of military weaponry stolen from a train, allegedly by revolutionary anarchists.

Gun City

2018

Cannibal poster
5.8

Carlos is a respectable man, the most prestigious tailor in Granada, Spain. His life is reduced to work and his main hobby is eating; but not just anything.

Cannibal

2013

7 Reasons to Run Away (from Society) poster
5.9

The family, the tenant, the wedding, the businessman, the neighbors, the poor child and the run over. 7 black comedy stories of a dysfunctional society.

7 Reasons to Run Away (from Society)

2019

Who Killed Bambi? poster
5.5

The story of two young friends, a lawyer, a rich man and a group of kidnappers end up in a series of strange circumstances all to discover; Who Killed Bambi?

Who Killed Bambi?

2013

It's for Your Own Good poster
5.9

Three brothers-in-law try to get their daughters to dump their undesirable boyfriends.

It's for Your Own Good

2017

Some Time Later poster
6.2

Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the slums built around it.

Some Time Later

2018

522. A Cat, a Chinese Guy and My Father poster
5.4

George, an agoraphobic young woman, cannot go more than 522 steps away from her home. One day, a personal tragedy forces her to embark on a journey from Spain to her native Portugal. Along the way, George's whole world begins to widen…

522. A Cat, a Chinese Guy and My Father

2019

Carmina and Amen poster
6.2

After her husband dies, Carmina keeps it a secret until a check that he had been expecting comes in.

Carmina and Amen

2014

14 d'abril. Macià contra Companys poster
6.0

"14 d'abril. Macià contra Companys "is a television drama, allegedly recorded in 1932, but with the methods, style and own means 2010. With this temporary license, the stars of one of the episodes of the Catalan capital twentieth century discussed the facts, in first person, while a nosy camera helps us to relive what happened in Barcelona between 14 and 17 April 1931, the three-day duration of the Catalan Republic. All with the aim of showing the greatness and the precariousness of a gesture, half improvised by Companys key sovereigntist corrected by Macià, and that led to a shouting match.

14 d'abril. Macià contra Companys

2011

Amador poster
5.7

A drama centered on a young woman who takes a summer job caring for a bed-ridden older man, and the intimate secrets they begin to share with one another.

Amador

2010

The Tunnel poster
4.4

The thirteen survivors of a catastrophe by a tunnel's collapse tries to balance their experience trapped along 15 days inside it with their day-by-day outside it.

The Tunnel

2017

Impávido poster
6.4

Ray, a man without family addicted to the game, dedicated to steal cars and for love will end up in jail.

Impávido

2012

Prim: el asesinato de la calle del Turco poster
4.9

Madrid, Spain, December 27, 1870. General Juan Prim i Prats, president of the Council of Ministers and Minister of War gets involved in a treacherous ambush, is mortal injured and dies three days later. A mystery, a conspiracy, a murder that was never solved.

Prim: el asesinato de la calle del Turco

2014

Verbo poster
4.6

Sara is a young woman who fails to understand the world she lives in. Trying to find meaning in life she would come to a mysterious place to undertake an adventure: it is a parallel universe, dark and fantastic, where life and death hang in the balance.

Verbo

2011

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

Wounded poster
5.1

The first work from Fernando Franco revolves around Ana, a 30 year old ambulance driver. Though good at her job, Ana has problems relating in her personal life. She doesn't know it, but she suffers from a condition known by psychiatrists as Borderline Personality Disorder. The situation pushes her to outbreaks of self-destructive behaviour, alcohol abuse and self-harm. Ana is incapable of getting what she wants most: to be happy.

Wounded

2013

B poster
7.1

July 15, 2013 Luis Barcenas - Old party treasurer was transferred from prison to National Court to testify. Previously, he had denied everything. Today he will tell the truth.

B

2015

To Kill a Child poster
5.7

It is Sunday. A beautiful dawn on a doomed day. At ten o'clock, a happy child is going to die.

To Kill a Child

2011

Estocolmo poster
4.0

Adela has just settled in Madrid with her father, Claudio, a retired concert musician and a hermit. Both teach piano to small children in a quiet, sparsely-furnished flat in the centre of town.

Estocolmo

2010

No artwork available
7.0

After many years, three childhood friends meet casually on the street and decide to have a beer to celebrate.

Three

2011

La rueda poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La rueda

2013

Tarkovsky poster
3.7

A man enters a video rental store where some arcane beings as Goran Paskaljevich, Michael Cacoyannis, Ferzan Ozpetek or Andrei Tarkovsky stalk him from the shelves, while the shop manager is reading a book by James Joyce; but he just wants to rent a blockbuster.

Tarkovsky

2010

No artwork available
NR

The literary activity of Emilia Pardo Bazán causes the scandal of her husband and conservative circles. Supported by his family, decides to end her marriage to become a professional writer. Doña Emilia is set in Madrid, where he developed an activity tirelessly to get the place in the institutions of culture that deserves for his talent and ability, facing all kinds of slights and exclusions because of their gender. The Countess will become one of the key figures of female emancipation in Spain in the late nineteenth century, leaving a work as extensive as rich and varied.

Emilia Pardo Bazán, la condesa rebelde

2012

2000s · 11 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

Cell 211 poster
7.4

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

Cell 211

2009

7 Virgins poster
6.1

It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in the South of Spain. Tano, a teenager currently serving a sentence in a juvenile reform center, is given a 48-hour leave to attend his brother’s wedding.

7 Virgins

2005

The Weakness of the Bolshevik poster
6.5

After getting into a minor traffic accident, Pablo attempts to make light of the situation by asking the driver of the other car, Sonsoles, out on a date. When she refuses and instead files an injury report, Pablo snaps and begins stalking her. He soon discovers that Sonsoles has a beautiful teenage sister, Maria, with whom Pablo is immediately infatuated -- a lust that soon turns dark. Can Pablo control his obsession, or will it consume him?

The Weakness of the Bolshevik

2003

The Consul of Sodom poster
5.6

Fascinating journey through the life and work of the prestigious Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, both marked by sexuality and eroticism. Charismatic and somewhat eccentric, brilliant intellectual with extraordinary sensitivity and member of Barcelona's 'gauche divine' in the 60s, Gil de Biedma liked to describe himself as a 'poet of experience' while he suffered dreadfully from the dichotomy strangling him: bourgeois and executive for a multinational by day, communist and homosexual poet by night.

The Consul of Sodom

2009

El Tren de la Bruja poster
6.3

A man volunteers to take part in an experiment that attempts to analyse human behaviour under extreme conditions of terror. His mission is to remain seated inside a dark room for a length of time of 15 minutes. If he manages to hold on, he will receive in return a generous sum of money. Is it possible to terrify an individual who knows beforehand that everything is a farce?

El Tren de la Bruja

2003

Elsa & Fred poster
7.7

When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance.

Elsa & Fred

2005

Modesty poster
4.1

Pudor is about intimacy, about the desires, obsessions, secrets and fears that we keep hidden, even from those we love most. The characters in this story are a man who is going to die, a woman who receives anonymous erotic notes, an older man who is offered a last chance at falling in love, a teenager struggling to handle the doubts generated by puberty and a small boy who sees ghosts. As is the case in many families, in spite of living together, all the characters in Pudor are alone.

Modesty

2007

Heterosexuales y casados poster
5.0

My sister and Charly met as children. We lived on the floor above and them downstairs...

Heterosexuales y casados

2008

Everything in Place poster
6.2

Ignacio and Paul are father and son. The first is fifty-five, and the second is about thirty. In recent months, none of them have lived in the family home in which the two were the only occupants, Ignacio because emigrated to another city in search of employment, his son, who was admitted to a detoxification center. The chance that father and son wants to return to the people the same day. A Ignacio, in their new company, we have taken early retirement and has run out of excuses to prolong his absence the people and what was his family home. To Paul, meanwhile, have been discharged in the center and, from now on, you can continue your treatment in the outpatient own people

Everything in Place

2002

Recambios poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Recambios

2004

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

La Revuelta poster
4.5

David Broncano, along with Jorge Ponce, Ricardo Castella and his other collaborators, lead La Revuelta, a comedy show that includes multiple sections and interviews from the Teatro Príncipe Gran Vía in Madrid.

La Revuelta

2024

Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez

2017

The Ministry of Time poster
7.6

A soldier from the 15th century, a university student from the 19th century and a nurse from the present join the secret 'Department of Time', a secret department within the Spanish government with the ability to travel through time. Their mission is prevent changes in history.

The Ministry of Time

2015

30 Coins poster
7.3

Father Vergara—an exorcist, boxer and ex-convict—lives in a remote village in Spain. Hoping to be lost and forgotten, Vergara’s demons catch up to him.

30 Coins

2020

City of Shadows poster
6.6

A gruesome crime has taken place in La Pedrera – Casa Milà: a burned body is found on the facade of Gaudí's iconic building. Inspector Milo Malart, previously suspended for misconduct by the Mossos d'Esquadra (Mossos of the Squadron), returns to Barcelona to find the perpetrator along with Sub-Inspector Rebeca Garrido.

City of Shadows

2025

Los misterios de Laura poster
7.6

With her intuition and instinct, Laura Lebrel del Bosque, an innocent and intelligent police inspector with very original methods, naturally solves impossible crimes, dismantles alibis, and figures out who the murderer in every episode is. Meanwhile, her marriage with inspector Jacobo is not going through its best phase, she has to deal with her duties as a housewife and a mother of two very naughty five-year-old twins, and her workmate Martín cannot help getting into trouble.

Los misterios de Laura

2009

The Plague poster
7.0

Plague decimates late 16th century Seville, a crowded city where many have arrived to embark for the New World to seek their fortune.

The Plague

2018

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

La Fortuna poster
6.8

Young diplomat Álex Ventura teams with a combative public official and a brilliant American lawyer to recover treasure stolen by Frank Wild, who travels the world plundering historic items from the ocean.

La Fortuna

2021

The Anatomy of a Moment poster
7.2

Madrid, Spain, February 23, 1981. A group of Civil Guards storm into the Congress of Deputies and terrorize those present by firing shots into the air. Only three men remain unmoved: Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez; Vice President Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado; and Santiago Carrillo, leader of the Communist Party.

The Anatomy of a Moment

2025

Capítulo 0 poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Capítulo 0

2018

El Continental poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

El Continental

2018

El Continental poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

El Continental

2018

Vota Juan poster
6.2

Juan Carrasco is a nondescript Minister of Agriculture who must recognize that he has greater political ambitions due to a series of fortuitous political events, so he decides to run in the primary elections of his party, which may give him the opportunity to opt for the disputed position of President of the Spanish Government.

Vota Juan

2019

Justo antes de Cristo poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Justo antes de Cristo

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Las vecinas

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Gente Hablando poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Gente Hablando

2018

Hermanos y detectives poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hermanos y detectives

2007

Celeste poster
7.6

Celeste is a huge star of the Latin music world. Her songs are a global phenomenon, and her concerts pack out stadiums. But this series is not about her. The real star of Celeste is Sara Santano, a Tax inspector who has spent her life collecting taxes. Having dedicated more than thirty years to inland revenue, and on the point of retiring, she receives the most important assignment of her career: to demonstrate that Celeste must pay tax in Spain.

Celeste

2024

Mario Conde: los días de gloria poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mario Conde: los días de gloria

2013