7 Movies Starring Belèn Rueda

The Sea Inside

The Sea Inside

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-03-04

Languages:

Spanish, Catalan, Gallegan

Countries:

Spain, France, Italy

Runtime:

125 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (60438 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Alejandro Amenèbar (screenplay)

Mateo Gil (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Life story of Spaniard Ramèn Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. Film explores Ramèn's relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living. Through the gift of his love, these two women are inspired to accomplish things they never previously thought possible. Despite his wish to die, Ramèn taught everyone he encountered the meaning, value and preciousness of life. Though he could not move himself, he had an uncanny ability to move others.

The Orphanage

The Orphanage

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-01-11

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (113015 Reviews)

Director:

J.A. Bayona

Cast:

Writer:

Sergio G. Sènchez (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Laura, a former orphan, raises her adopted son Simèn together with her husband Carlos in an old house and former orphanage where she was raised. While at the orphanage Simèn tells Laura that he has five invisible friends which she believes are a product of his active imagination. Laura decides to reopen the orphanage to cater for disabled children and throws a party. During the party Simèn tries to persuade Laura to go and take a look at his friends cabin but she's too busy. Later on she sees a mysterious masked boy and realizes that Simèn has also disappeared. Laura feels the presence of other people in the house and months later Laura invites a team of parapsychologists to try to unravel the mystery.

For the Good of Others

For the Good of Others

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-03-18

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

107 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (1174 Reviews)

Director:

Oskar Santos

Fullplot:

Diego is a doctor so used to working in extreme situations that he has immunized himself to others' pain. He has switched off from his work, his partner and his commitment as a father. Over the course of a disturbing meeting, Diego is threatened with a gun. Hours later, he can only remember the sound of a bang and the strange feeling of having being hit with something more than a bullet. Diego has to take an irreversible decision which will affect his own life and that of his loved ones.

Julia's Eyes

Julia's Eyes

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-10-29

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (19820 Reviews)

Director:

Guillem Morales

Cast:

Writer:

Guillem Morales (screenplay)

Oriol Paulo (screenplay)

Fullplot:

After the death of the blind Sara, who hanged herself in the basement of her house, her twin sister Julia suspects that she was actually murdered. Julia has a degenerative problem with her eyes and is losing her sight, and she temporarily moves with her husband Isaac to Sara's house to arrange her funeral. Julia goes to the Centro Baumann for the blind, which Sara frequented, and she learns from other members that Sara had a boyfriend. Julia is chased by a mysterious man, but police inspector Dimas does not believe her. Julia follows Sara's last steps trying to find the identity of her secret lover. Julia is surrounded by deaths and weird events while she loses her sight.

Ismael

Ismael

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-12-25

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

106 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (563 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Verènica Fernèndez

Marcelo Figueras

Marcelo Pièeyro

Fullplot:

Ismael Tchou (8 years old), takes a train towards Barcelona. He has run away from home because he wants to find Felix, his father, whom he never knew. His only clue is an address of an apartment in Barcelona, written in the return address of a letter to his mother. Once there, he manages to find the apartment, but instead of finding his father, he finds an elegant woman in her fifties, Nora, who happens to be Felix's mother. Felix never said anything to Nora of the existence of that child. But once she locates him, he does not deny his paternity. Nora, after notice to the child's mother, Alika, decides to take him to meet Felix. They begin a journey to La Costa Brava, where Felix lives. Meanwhile, Alika and Luis, her husband, travel to the coast in search of the boy. This will make all the characters try to settle their accounts with the past.

The Body

The Body

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-12-21

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

108 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (12812 Reviews)

Director:

Oriol Paulo

Cast:

Writer:

Oriol Paulo (screenplay)

Lara Sendim (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A detective searches for the body of a femme fatale which has gone missing from a morgue.

7th Floor

7th Floor

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-09-05

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain, Argentina

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (2592 Reviews)

Director:

Patxi Amezcua

Fullplot:

Secrets about Mammy Sebastièn is a successful lawyer in Buenos Aires and is in the middle of an important case. He has divorced from Delia and they have two children, Luca and Luna. Delia wants to move to Spain to live with her father and wants full custody of the children, but Sebastièn is reluctant. Sebastièn goes to Delia's apartment on the seventh floor of an old building to take Luca and Luna to school and Delia leaves the place. The siblings ask to go down playing on the stairs while Sebastièn takes the elevator. When he arrives on the lobby, he realizes that the children have vanished. Sebastièn needs to be in court for an important case but he seeks them out with the janitor and his neighbor Rosales, who is a police detective. He calls Delia that returns to the building and suspects of everyone until a woman calls him asking for a one hundred thousand-dollar ransom in two hours. How can the desperate Sebastièn raise this amount in a short time and who might have kidnapped his children?

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