Juanjo Puigcorbé

Acting

Juanjo Puigcorbé

Born

1955-07-22 (71)

Known for

Acting

Credits

86 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 6 titles

As Luck Would Have It poster
6.0

Roberto is an unemployed publicist who achieved success when he thought of a famous slogan: "Coca-Cola, the spark of life." Now he is a desperate man, trying to remember the happy days, back to the hotel where he spent the honeymoon with his wife. However, instead of the hotel, he finds a museum built around the Roman theater in the city. While walking through the ruins, he has an accident, an iron rod sticks into his head and leaves him completely paralyzed. If he tries to move he would die. Roberto becomes the focus of the media, which will change his life ...

As Luck Would Have It

2011

L'enigma Verdaguer poster
NR

Jacint Verdaguer, poet and priest, had an exciting life, lived literary glory and became the most prestigious poet of his time. But circumstances and his indomitable and proud character caused his downfall.

L'enigma Verdaguer

2019

No artwork available
NR

Two clumsy policemen, Kiko and Castro find during a routine patrol in the forest a dead body without feet and head. After several inquiries, they discover that it belongs to a prominent member of the union, frowned upon by the officers. To solve the case they choose Elias, an agent with little experience who will investigate the case with the help of Conda, the medical examiner, and the clumsy agents that discovered the body.

Ni pies ni cabeza

2012

Family Games poster
3.2

In this Spanish comedy-drama, a man befriends his wife's lover in an attempt to understand what has happened to their marriage and win her back.

Family Games

2016

Fassman, l'increïble home radar poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fassman, l'increïble home radar

2015

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

2000s · 11 titles

Amnèsia poster
5.7

On the Spanish island of Ibiza, porn filmmaker Sandro and Angelino, the manager of a beachside watering hole, find their very different lives overlapping. Meanwhile, the island police chief, who is currently at odds with his rebellious son Jorge, is investigating the death of a drug dealer (which was accidentally brought on by Angelino). Jorge's plans to move to America have so far been thwarted by his father, but when he finds out about the affair his dad had been having with a male nightclub dancer, he uses it as blackmail fodder.

Amnèsia

2002

Unconscious poster
6.9

A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.

Unconscious

2004

Lost Bullet poster
5.2

Daniel, an ex-convict, tries to get back at his corrupt father-in-law by kidnapping his own son and hiding him in an abandoned town where they are producing American westerns. Daniel will have to face a vile father-in-law, an ex-wife that stalks him, as well as a falling actor in order to carry out his vengeful plan.

Lost Bullet

2003

Trileros poster
6.7

Two disgraceful fifty year old men accept the job of their lives by carrying drugs to Perpignan in exchange for a million Euros. A whole mess comes about as the journey starts...

Trileros

2003

Rivales poster
5.8

A history of rivalries: Madrid and Catalans, parents and children, couples, families ... all united and faced by football.

Rivales

2008

La conjura de El Escorial poster
4.7

16th century ruler King Philip II of Spain maneuvers within a court of deceit and betrayal

La conjura de El Escorial

2008

Cita mortal a l’Up & Down poster
7.0

Carvalho is investigating the murder of a prison officer. The police suspect a young delinquent who had threatened to kill the officer. But Carvalho and Biscuter are on the trail of a friend and ex-cell partner of the defendant called "el Navajas" ("the penknife"). He is a pusher in the discotheque Up & Down. Things get worse when "el Navajas" turns out to be the main suspect of the murder in cold blood of a boy from a good family in the discotheque. Carvalho must find the pusher before the police in order to avoid that his client is sentenced to life imprisonment.

Cita mortal a l’Up & Down

2003

Les mers du sud poster
7.0

Long ago, the architect Stuart Pedrell told his family that he was going to the South Seas. However, his daughter Yes has recently received a postcard from her father that comes from a far less exotic place: L'Hospitalet. Carvalho goes to Bellvitge in order to find Yes' father and to discover why he lied to his family. Pedrell never went indeed to the South Seas. He took refuge in Bellvitge where he was murdered.

Les mers du sud

2004

Besos de gato poster
5.0

Fran, a successful lawyer with a comfortable life but lacking in communication with his family, arrives at his house for dinner. That night his daughter Carlota has not returned yet, somewhat unusual for her, so Fran, pressed by his wife, goes out to search for her.

Besos de gato

2003

La rose d'Alexandrie poster
7.0

When the corpse of Encarna Abellan appears destroyed on a beach in Barcelona, the detective Pepe Carvalho begins the research and travels to A Coruña. She was married to a wealthy owner belonging to a well-known A Coruña family and had traveled to Barcelona to undergo a fertility treatment, but had previously had relations with Ginés Larios, a merchant navy officer and ex-boyfriend, whom he had left to marry the rich heir The suicide of the latter seems to be the case by closed, however Carvalho decides to try to clarify everything.

La rose d'Alexandrie

2004

El crimen de los marqueses de Urquijo poster
4.5

August 1, 1980. Two aristocrats are murdered while sleeping in their palace outside Madrid.

El crimen de los marqueses de Urquijo

2009

1990s · 25 titles

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

Airbag poster
6.6

A man gets involved in a series of mishaps while frantically searching for his lost wedding ring.

Airbag

1997

The Naked Eye poster
4.9

Begoña is a thirty something consultant who has rebelled against her upper middle class background and has overdone it with sex ever since her youth. On recommendation of her psychoanalyst she keeps a video diary of her encounters using a palm-sized video gadget called "The Owl". On Christmas Eve, reluctantly, Begoña goes to have dinner with her dysfunctional family: her stern mother, her married brother and her younger sister. Soon, Begoña, the family’s black sheep, clash with her relatives. She leaves abruptly in disharmony, only her sister seems sympathetic towards her. The same night in a bar, Begoña is befriended by Daniel a solitary handsome man in his late teens. The attractive and self assure Begoña draws his attention, but when her on and off ex boyfriend Elio, and adventurous biker, shows up at the bar, an argument ensures between Elio and Daniel.

The Naked Eye

1998

Justino, un asesino de la tercera edad poster
6.4

Justino was working in a bull-ring but now he is retired. For him it is very difficult to adapt to the new situation although he will find soon a hobby without forgetting his profession.

Justino, un asesino de la tercera edad

1994

To the Limit poster
6.4

A radio station receives a call from a psychopath who claims to have murdered many women. He leaves a series of clues that lead to his next victim, propelling the cops to find him before he kills her.

To the Limit

1997

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt poster
6.0

Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company when she prefers solitude, his treating her work as less important than his, his casual and cruel dismissal of her opinions, her boss assigning her an incompetent editor, bartenders ignoring her, her passage into middle age. She can be feisty and edgy, which sometimes gets in the way of what would make her happy. And she regularly threatens to leave Antonio. Will she, and on what terms? What will he do?

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

1991

Un paraguas para tres poster
9.0

Having just split up with their respective partners, Maria and Daniel meet in a shop where they argue over a bed. From then on, they keep running into each other in all sorts of strange places and in all sorts of circumstances. They are mutually attracted and begin to intrepret the coincidences of their meeting as sign of fate, but they are hesitant to take the plunge. This little game of love and fate becomes even more complicated when Pierre, a French teacher, and Alicia, Maria's friend, become involved..Who will seduce whom?...Who will be seduced by whom?...After a series of misunderstandings, love settles the question.

Un paraguas para tres

1992

Ho sap el ministre? poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ho sap el ministre?

1991

Padre, patrón poster
10.0

Mister Joaquim Pelletier and his wife request the services of the private detective Pepe Carvalho to find the murderer of their only son, Mariano. As the investigations progress, Pepe finds out that Mariano was not such a model son as his father thought. He had a double life: a banker at daytime, a thug at night; he was cooperating with Jesús Arquimedes, the boss of the underworld, by doing illegal works for him. But Mariano had decided to betray Arquímedes, embezzling $500 000 of the money he was laundering in Bank Pelletier, to start a new life in the USA. Arquímedes puts pressure on Carvalho to find his money. Surprisingly enough for the detective, the guilty one is not Arquímedes, but the father of Mariano. Mister Jaoquim had a passionate relationship with his son since childhood, he wanted to mold his son as he had always dreamed, and never admitted that Mariano was someone different and a rebel who wanted to run away from Barcelona for ever.

Padre, patrón

1999

Novios poster
5.7

Arturo, a successful restaurateur, is having an affair with his kitchen assistant Cristal. When he doesn't keep his promise of leaving his wife Paz, Cristal plots to seduce his sweet, simple son Arturito in retaliation.

Novios

1999

Suerte poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Suerte

1997

Una chica entre un millón poster
8.2

Miguel is a rich heir who is robbed shortly before his wedding. The appearance of a mysterious woman saves him. Since then he has been obsessed with finding her.

Una chica entre un millón

1994

El crimen de Perpignan poster
3.8

Perpignan, 1971. A toy factory supervisor becomes obsessed with a newly hired employee. To be with her, he plans the perfect crime: Training his lover to murder his wife.

El crimen de Perpignan

1991

The Diary of Lady M poster
4.6

She's a beautiful gifted performer, but her work is not the sort that invites popular acclaim. Despite the fact that she is unlikely to become famous, she enjoys her life as a performer who lives just outside the mainstream. Awaiting her backstage one evening is a Spanish painter who has seen her show and wants to make her acquaintance. They walk around Paris getting to know one another, and then the painter returns to Spain. Something about the man has moved Lady M to passion: she flies to meet him in Barcelona and he shows her his beloved Catalonia. This time, however, their relationship is as much about passionate lovemaking as it is about compatibility. So smitten is Lady M with her new man that when she discovers that the painter has a black wife and child, she is only a little bit taken aback and she invites his whole family to join her in Paris. Surprisingly, they do, and the number of people sharing their love and sexual appetites changes from two to three.

The Diary of Lady M

1993

The Window Over the Way poster
9.0

A Turkish consul travels to a Soviet city in the worst times of Stalinism. There, he falls in love with his secretary, a fervent communist.

The Window Over the Way

1993

All Men Are the Same poster
6.5

Three divorced men who share a flat live together without trouble until they hire a cleaning lady.

All Men Are the Same

1994

No artwork available
8.5

Consuelo is a bored housewife. Her husband is away on business in Berlin, and her only company would be a mysterious neighbor, a science professor who spends a lot of time gardening (?) One fine morning, Consuelo is compelled to find an excuse to speak with her neighbor. She asks him for some sugar, and then starts discussing gardening. During the rest of the film we find out what may be below the well-manicured flowers, and what secrets involving everyone, these may conceal.

Amores que matan

1996

El hermano pequeño poster
8.0

Leo Minués, who used to be a classmate of Carvalho, is found dead the same day he had to testify in a case of corruption and someone asks Carvalho to investigate it. He accepts the case and finds out that Leo was collecting illegal funds for his political party. From that moment, a number of signs appear. This allows Carvalho to discover that Mínguez had made a list of the people involved in the case of corruption. Some videotapes appear, which makes things even more complicated, and Carvalho finds himself walking on shifting land, surrounded by celebrities in the highest spheres. Why did Mínguez die? Who has got the list?

El hermano pequeño

1999

La soledad del manager poster
8.0

Carvalho is investigating the murder of a man by a prostitute, according to the job the man's wife has given him. But he cannot imagine that the issue goes far beyond and is at a much bigger scale than anyone may think. There is a large multinational behind all the deaths that happen while the investigation is taking place, and economic interests will put Carvalho and his friends in danger.

La soledad del manager

1999

Buscando a Sherezade poster
4.7

Carvalho becomes involved in the search for a missing young dancer, daughter of a famous artist. The search for the dancer's last steps in Barcelona leads him to Italy, where she is supposed to have taken a cruise on the Mediterranean.

Buscando a Sherezade

1999

Pink Sauce poster
5.4

Ana's husband is the perfect wealthy middle-class man. Koro's husband is a cook with no more ambitions. One day, Ana meets Koro in a night club and she proposes Ana to seduce each others husbands. The following morning Ana thinks this was a joke, but things are not always what it seems.

Pink Sauce

1992

El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer poster
7.0

To revive its sagging fortunes, Barcelona FC has bought the services of Jack Mortimer, European Footballer of the Year. No sooner has Mortimer taken possession of his company Porsche than death threats start arriving. Are they a hoax, the work of a loner or are they connected to the awesome real estate speculation that is tearing Barcelona apart? While Catalan pimps and racketeers are being hustled off the streets by crime syndicates from the Middle East, Pepe Carvalho is thinking of retirement, but the need to save the soul of his beloved Barcelona forces him to take on a case that can only end in disaster.

El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer

1999

No se puede tener todo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

No se puede tener todo

1997

El dedo en la llaga poster
7.2

Eduardo Peña and Angel Ruiz are two Spanish actors who are on tour in Argentina. They try to achieve success there with a play that speaks of man and his passage through life, but the spectators are becoming increasingly scarce. One day his old car breaks down and they stop at Zapallares, a lost town. There, on the eve of the municipal elections, they meet an old friend, Professor Roberto Tolosa (Dario Grandinetti), critical of the construction of a new hotel and with the political class of the place and that will try to reopen a theater with the help of their fifth-year students, despite opposition from politicians.

El dedo en la llaga

1996

My Soul Brother poster
4.0

Meeting of two very different brothers: Carlos is an ambitious young businessman happily married to Julia, Toni is a nerve that life has given him so many sticks as the people who surrounded him.

My Soul Brother

1994

1980s · 12 titles

Un genio en apuros poster
4.2

Not published writer, a sculptor who does not expose, a filmmaker who does not make movies ... amateur and professional around anything. His daughter, which is to care, is the only one who understands. A film producer who bombarded daily with an overview, each more extravagant reproaches his fantasy and challenges to look carefully for 24 hours whichever comes around to check that everything that happens follows a rigorous logic .

Un genio en apuros

1983

The Heifer poster
6.7

During the Spanish Civil War a platoon of mismatched Republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on the local holiday of the nearby village. In addition to ruining the Nationalist faction's celebration they want the animal in order to butcher it and feed their famished troops. They get caught in the process and have to go through a series of funny and pathetic incidents before they can get back to their side.

The Heifer

1985

Últimas tardes con Teresa poster
6.0

Adapted from the novel by Juan Marse, the film shows two distant worlds in the Spain of the 50's, the suburban and the bourgeois, which are related through two characters, Manolo Reyes, vulgar motorcycle thief who aspires to escape poverty and Teresa Serrat, university student of bourgeois extraction seduced by the revolutionary cause.

Últimas tardes con Teresa

1984

El acto poster
8.0

This is a Spanish Drama starring Antonio Banderas

El acto

1989

La quinta del porro poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

La quinta del porro

1981

Mi general poster
5.3

A group of generals of the army meet for a course about NATO and new weapons. In the beginning everything is normal but as the time passes they behave more and more like school children.

Mi general

1987

Barcelona sur poster
4.4

Obsessed with finding her old boyfriend, Gumer, a 25-year-old girl, is released from jail in Barcelona, one of Europe's most sought-after port cities for drug trafficking and prostitution. Charo, her best friend, tries to help her, although she is not free, since depends on her pimp "Toni". But Gumer will persuade Charo to abandon Toni and form, along with other friends, a band to start businesses on their own.

Barcelona sur

1981

La diputada poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

La diputada

1988

Material urbà poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Material urbà

1987

Barrios altos poster
5.0

Veronica, recently divorced with a son, begins to organize her life and adapt to the new situation. Her problems are soon relegated to the back ground when Carlos, her masseuse, is murdered. Knowing himself in danger, Carlos left a final message on her answering machine: she had to retrieve a package hidden in a railway station toilet. From that moment, Veronica will not know peace.

Barrios altos

1987

Pasión lejana poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pasión lejana

1987

The Most Beautiful Night poster
4.3

Federico, an executive of national television, begins to suspect that his wife Elena, an actress who retired prematurely after marriage, is cheating him with another man. The symptoms are that Elena sighs, looks far into heaven and is aware of the exact time a comet passes. In other words, she expects her most beautiful night.

The Most Beautiful Night

1984

1970s · 3 titles

Series credits

Dreams of Freedom poster
6.1

Begoña Montes is a woman who lives trapped in a toxic marriage and seeks the long-awaited freedom in Spain in 1958.

Dreams of Freedom

2024

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

Alpha Males poster
7.6

Pedro, Luis, Raúl and Santi are four friends who feel a bit lost in the new world of empowered women, each trying to adjust in their own haphazard way.

Alpha Males

2022

Love in Difficult Times poster
4.2

Amar en tiempos revueltos is a Spanish soap opera set in the times of the Spanish civil war and the early Francoism. The serial has been aired from 2005 and has won prizes in Spain and a Silver Medal in the «New York Festivals». In January 2013 will air on Antena 3 with new name, Amar es para siempre

Love in Difficult Times

2005

Aquí no hay quien viva poster
8.4

A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.

Aquí no hay quien viva

2003

Carlos, rey emperador poster
6.9

As the life of Charles of Habsburg is told since his arrival to Spain, it can be seen how the heir to the crowns of Germany, Burgundy, the Netherlands, the Free County, Artois, Nevers and Rethel, of the territories of the Crown of Aragon and its related Italian territories, and of the territories of the Catholic Monarchs in Castile, North Africa and the Americas, matures as a statesman and gets stronger in face of menaces around him and good and bad advice from his counselors.

Carlos, rey emperador

2015

Between Lands poster
7.2

To protect her sister and save her family from ruin, a selfless woman navigates an arranged marriage with a wealthy man who hides dark secrets.

Between Lands

2023

Lo Siguiente poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lo Siguiente

2018

Villarriba y Villabajo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Villarriba y Villabajo

1994

A tortas con la vida poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

A tortas con la vida

2005

Sofía poster
2.0

Telefilm on the Spanish Queen Sofia. It all starts in Corfu (Greece), in the summer of 1961. The Royal Palace of Mon Repos, summer residence of the Greek royal family, he wakes up at work. The service strives to prepare the house for some illustrious guests: the “Barcelona”, which are none other than the Spanish royal family in exile. The purpose of the visit is to formalize the relationship between Sofia, the eldest daughter of the kings of Greece Paul and Frederika, with Juan Carlos, the son of Juan de Borbón and Maria de las Mercedes. Both young intimated in London, at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Kent.

Sofía

2011

Ágata y Lola poster
9.3

No synopsis available yet.

Ágata y Lola

2026

La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català

2019

Cuñados poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cuñados

2012

Goya poster
8.0

The life of the artist, who was born in 1746 and spent his childhood in Fuendetodos, a small village near Zaragoza.

Goya

1985

La Huella del Crimen poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Huella del Crimen

1985

Miguel Servet (La Sangre y La Ceniza) poster
8.5

The series recreates the life of the Spanish scientist Miguel Servet from his birth until his execution for blasphemy in 1553.

Miguel Servet (La Sangre y La Ceniza)

1989

Proceso a Mariana Pineda poster
5.8

Mariana Pineda is a liberal activist in 19th Century Spain who gets arrested and tried for conspiracy in 1831.

Proceso a Mariana Pineda

1984

Pepe Carvalho poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pepe Carvalho

1999

Felipe y Letizia poster
5.0

Dramatization of King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain's relationship before their marriage.

Felipe y Letizia

2010

Behind the camera