Cristina Hoyos

Acting

Cristina Hoyos

Born 1946-06-13 · Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain

Cristina Hoyos Panadero (Seville, Spain 13 June 1946) is a Spanish flamenco dancer, choreographer, and actress. After a successful worldwide career, she opened her own dance company in 1988 that premiered at the Rex Theatre in Paris. She played an important role during the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Hoyos started dancing at the age of twelve in the children's show Galas Juveniles. In 1969, she joined the ballet company of Antonio Gades where she continued her work for more than two decades. During this time, she toured the world demonstrating her art and starred in the film trilogy Blood Wedding, Carmen, and El amor brujo. In 1983, Hoyos played Carmen in the Antonio Gades ballet interpretation of Carmen in Paris. Her performance received rave reviews. Cristina Hoyos has taken flamenco to all corners of the world, using it as a beautiful tool that has crossed borders and with which she has united different and distant peoples and cultures, just using the tail of the gown and her heels. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cristina Hoyos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Angels poster
3.5

The American musician Rickie falls in love with the prostitute Sara, who pretends to be a princess. As they escape together, Rickie gets into a dangerous adventure.

Angels

1990

Carmen poster
6.7

While rehearsing a flamenco ballet adaptation of Bizet's opera “Carmen”, Antonio, the choreographer, falls in love with the main dancer, Carmen, a fiercely independent woman. Antonio is slowly consumed by jealousy and possessiveness towards Carmen, just like Don José in the original opera, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.

Carmen

1983

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway poster
8.0

Larger-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

Segunda oportunidad poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Segunda oportunidad

2018

Carmen poster
6.9

In the early 19th century, in Seville and the surrounding area, Carmen seduces the sergeant Don José, who deserts the army to be with her. But the beautiful gypsy falls in love with the bullfighter Escamillo, much to Don José’s despair.

Carmen

1984

Blood Wedding poster
6.6

A dance troupe prepares for and completes a dress rehearsal of Federico García Lorca's tragic play "Blood Wedding," which is about a bride who runs away from her wedding with a former boyfriend.

Blood Wedding

1981

Jokes & Cigarettes poster
7.1

Barcelona, Spain, in the late sixties. Eugenio, a young jeweler who has fallen in love with Conchita, a singer, to the point of learning to play the guitar to accompany her in her performances, will first have to learn to overcome his stage fright.

Jokes & Cigarettes

2023

El amor brujo poster
7.0

In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela since he was a boy, is arrested while helping José and unfairly sent to prison. Four years later he is released and declares his love for Candela. However, the woman is cursed by a bewitched love and every night she goes to the place where José died to dance with his ghost.

El amor brujo

1986

Bewitched Love poster
5.9

This tragic drama is based on the ballet by famed composer Manuel De Falla. A young woman is caught between the violent struggle of two rival suitors who love her passionately. Candelas (La Polaca) is pursued by kind-hearted Antonio (Antonio Gades) and the evil diablo Diego (Rafael Cordova). Lucia (Morucha) is the cryptic gypsy fortune teller, with Fernando Sanchez Polack as Candela's beloved father.

Bewitched Love

1967

Carmen on Ice poster
9.7

Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée.

Carmen on Ice

1990

El Secadero De Iguanas poster
2.5

A bar in the middle of nowhere. A girl facing her demons. Her twin brother. An incestuous relationship. A mother they never met. A violent, alcoholic father. The nomads' periodic visitations.

El Secadero De Iguanas

2018

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

The Last Meeting poster
6.4

A flamenco dancer (Antonio Gades) reflects on his life and career when he is surprised to be honored on a television show telling his life story. The memories stir up controversy, and an old friend seeks retribution as Antonio had once stolen his girl.

The Last Meeting

1967

Marisol: llámame Pepa poster
6.7

A portrait of the actress and singer Pepa Flores, an incarnation of the recent history of Spain, who, in just twenty-five years of intense career, went from being Marisol, child prodigy of the Franco dictatorship, to being one of the first communist militants, icon of the Transition; an idol of the masses who became a discreet person after having claimed her right to remain silent.

Marisol: llámame Pepa

2024

Montoyas y Tarantos poster
5.6

History about hate and passion between two gypsy families.

Montoyas y Tarantos

1989

Antártida poster
4.3

A rock star falls in love with a common pickpocket without any personal history. But soon she finds herself in a contraband of drugs and both try to escape it.

Antártida

1995

No artwork available
NR

Samuel returns to town after many years after fleeing for drug problems. Life has not gone well and things do not change back. He has inherited the old hotel of Leo, an old friend, who had dealings with André, a drug dealer who stole before he died. Now he claims the drug André Samuel, but he knows nothing and with the help of Matthew lays out a plan where all are revealed.

La balada del estrecho

2010

Fosforito: una historia de flamenco poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fosforito: una historia de flamenco

2021

"El brujo" frente al espejo poster
6.0

The sporting career of Enrique Castro "Quini" took him to the top of his profession of football. But what really makes it special and unique is its ability to self-improvement, overcoming life experiences very hard and complicated.

"El brujo" frente al espejo

2013

X Is Y poster
4.1

Experimental film consisting of images of young women handling automatic handguns and rifles.

X Is Y

1990

Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza poster
6.0

Documentary that reconstructs the professional life of the dancer through the thread of his own voice. A work that travels to the fundamental landscapes of the personal history of Gades with unpublished documents and the testimony of those who shared with him many pages of the book of his life and the history of Spanish dance in recent decades.

Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza

2007