9 Movies Starring Aitana Sènchez-Gijèn

Going Down in Morocco

Going Down in Morocco

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-05-05

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

83 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (508 Reviews)

Director:

Fernando Colomo

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Josè Luis Alonso de Santos (play)

Josè Luis Alonso de Santos (screenplay)

Joaquèn Oristrell

Fernando Colomo (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A girl, who lives together with her cousin who earns some money by dealing and her boyfriend who is a policeman, is regularly transporting some drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all of them smoke grass from time to time there is need for more. Deciding to take a friend of hers who has just left home down to Morocco for a transport she gets problems because it is the first time for her friend and this makes it difficult. But as all are very open minded there is no problem they would not try to solve.

Mouth to Mouth

Mouth to Mouth

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-09-05

Languages:

Spanish, English

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (1265 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Manuel Gèmez Pereira (dialogue)

Juan Luis Iborra

Joaquèn Oristrell

Naomi Wise

Fullplot:

For financial reasons an unemployed aspiring actor works for a phone-sex enterprise. One day he receives a call from the mysterious wife of one of his best clients.

A Walk in the Clouds

A Walk in the Clouds

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-08-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Mexico

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (23069 Reviews)

Director:

Alfonso Arau

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Mark Kamen (screenplay)

Mark Miller (screenplay)

Harvey Weitzman (screenplay)

Piero Tellini (story)

Cesare Zavattini (story)

Vittorio de Benedetti (story)

Fullplot:

A Walk in the Clouds depicted a story about a young-married US military soldier, named Paul, who returned home after the World War II. In the middle of the way back home, he accidentally met a girl named Victoria who finished her master's degree. She has not married yet but got pregnant by accident. During the journey they talked a lot. Due to her pregnancy, Victoria was afraid of her father who respected old Mexican tradition. Thus, Paul proposed to pose as her husband to help her face her dad. Paul was not intended to cheat on his wife by pretending to be Victoria's husband. However, when Paul decided to come back to his home and left Victoria, he found his wife cheating on him. Paul then headed back to Victoria's house "Las Nubes" and confessed his true love to Victoria.

Tangos Are for Two

Tangos Are for Two

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-01-23

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Argentina, Spain

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (220 Reviews)

Director:

Jaime Chèvarri

Cast:

Writer:

Raèl Brambilla

èscar Plasencia

Aldo Romero (script)

Fullplot:

A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of Gardel, dumps her boyfriend Gustavo for Renzo, a singer who looks like Gardel. She insists that his trio performs Gardel's tangos, which leads to Renzo recording a Ford commercial when Gardel himself is overbooked. The trio, with Joanna in tow, goes on an ill-fated tour of points north. The couple breaks up: she goes home and he tries to get to New York. Fate steps in, and once again he's called upon to pose as Gardel. Then, legend and a bracelet take over.

The Chambermaid on the Titanic

The Chambermaid on the Titanic

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-08-14

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France, Italy, Germany, Spain

Runtime:

101 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1120 Reviews)

Director:

Bigas Luna

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Cuca Canals (scenario)

Jean-Louis Benoèt (scenario)

Bigas Luna

Didier Decoin (novel)

Fullplot:

Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Titanic and cannot get a room, asks to share his room. They do, chastely; when he awakens, she is gone, but he sees her at the sailing and gets a photo of her. When he returns home, he suspects that his wife Zoe has been sleeping with Simeon, the foundry owner. Horty goes to the bar, where his friends get him drunk and he starts telling an erotic fantasy of what happened with him and Marie, drawing a larger audience each night.

The Machinist

The Machinist

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-12-03

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

Spain, USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (258272 Reviews)

Director:

Brad Anderson

Fullplot:

Trevor Reznik is a machinist in a factory. An extreme case of insomnia has led to him not sleeping in a year, and his body withering away to almost nothing. He has an obsessive compulsion to write himself reminder notes and keep track of his dwindling weight, both scribbled on yellow stickies in his apartment. The only person he lets into his life in an emotional sense is Stevie, a prostitute, although he has an infatuation with Maria, a single mother waitress working in an airport diner. His co-workers don't associate with and mistrust him because of not knowing what is going on in his life that has led to his emaciated physical appearance. A workplace incident further alienates him with his coworkers, and in conjunction with some unfamiliar pieces of paper he finds in his apartment, Trevor believes that someone or some people - probably one or some of his coworkers - are out to get him, using a phantom employee named Ivan as their front. As Trevor goes on a search for evidence as to Ivan's schemes and whereabouts, Trevor may come to a true understanding of what has caused his insomnia.

The Backwoods

The Backwoods

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-02-16

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

France, Spain, UK

Runtime:

97 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (4289 Reviews)

Director:

Koldo Serra

Cast:

Writer:

Jon Sagalè (screenplay)

Koldo Serra (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Ledoyen and Considine play a young married couple at the end of the 1970s, who come to visit a friend (Oldman) who now lives in the Basque region because he has married a woman from there (Sènchez-Gijèn). Their tranquil summer turns to horror when they discover a girl with horribly mutilated hands in the forest. They try to help her by taking her away from the home in which she is locked, but the local villagers, who have to protect the girl, start a pursuit in the forest they know much better than the visitors.

The Backwoods

The Backwoods

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-02-16

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

France, Spain, UK

Runtime:

97 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (4284 Reviews)

Director:

Koldo Serra

Cast:

Writer:

Jon Sagalè (screenplay)

Koldo Serra (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Ledoyen and Considine play a young married couple at the end of the 1970s, who come to visit a friend (Oldman) who now lives in the Basque region because he has married a woman from there (Sènchez-Gijèn). Their tranquil summer turns to horror when they discover a girl with horribly mutilated hands in the forest. They try to help her by taking her away from the home in which she is locked, but the local villagers, who have to protect the girl, start a pursuit in the forest they know much better than the visitors.

Maktub

Maktub

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-12-16

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain, Argentina

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (555 Reviews)

Director:

Paco Arango

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

Manolo's life is in crisis: his marriage is failing, his relationship with his two children is not great,and he hates his monotonous job. However, everything changes when Antonio, a 15-year-old cancer patient comes into his life in this heart-warming Christmas story.

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