6 Movies Starring Juan Diego

Cabeza de Vaca

Cabeza de Vaca

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1992-04-17

Languages:

Spanish, Latin

Countries:

Mexico, Spain, USA, UK

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(799 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Nicolès Echevarrèa

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (novel)

Guillermo Sheridan

Fullplot:

An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition founders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.

Jamèn, Jamèn

Jamèn, Jamèn

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-02-01

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (8728 Reviews)

Director:

Bigas Luna

Cast:

Writer:

Cuca Canals

Bigas Luna

Quim Monzè (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia falls pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents. Jose Luis' mother is determined to break her son's engagement to a girl from a lower-class family, and hires Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter to seduce Sylvia.

Tirano Banderas

Tirano Banderas

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-11-19

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Mexico, Cuba, Spain

Runtime:

91 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (49 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Rafael Azcona

Josè Luis Garcèa Sènchez

Ramèn del Valle-Inclèn (novel)

Fullplot:

Between Your Legs

Between Your Legs

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-01-22

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain, France

Runtime:

115 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (2213 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Joaquèn Oristrell (novel)

Joaquèn Oristrell (screenplay)

Yolanda Garcèa Serrano (screenplay)

Juan Luis Iborra (screenplay)

Manuel Gèmez Pereira (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Miranda is a crew member of a nightly radio programmme. She and her husband Felix, a cop, are parents of a girl. Miranda's daily dog walking strolls are excuses to pursue sexual encounters with men, who she readily discards afterwards. In order to deal with her sex addiction, she signs up for therapy. Also in the group is Javier, a successful scriptwriter and producer who is a sex-phone junkie. The two misfits hit off and a steamy affair ensues. But things get a little complicated when Javier finds out that this phone sex trysts have been secretly taped and being distributed all over Madrid, and that his ex-wife is living with his business partner. Elsewhere, while investigating a murder case, Felix discovers Miranda's affair with Javier.

Fugitives

Fugitives

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-10-06

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

98 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (267 Reviews)

Director:

Miguel Hermoso

Cast:

Writer:

Raèl Brambilla

Miguel Hermoso

èscar Plasencia

Fullplot:

Born in a poor neighborhood, Tony hides hides behind the image of a tough woman. She has a boyfriend, Juanjo, and two pals, a strange couple formed by Maxi, who is obsessed with martial arts, and moco, a terminal junkie. They all decide to hold up a Lottery Administration in Madrid. But Juanjo has another plan: he's going to betray his two friends and escape with Tony and the money. They start their runaway to the South with the excuse of taking Laura, Juanjo's seven year old niece, to see her father, a flamenco singer. But at the beginning of the trip, with Maxi, Moco and the police on their tail, Tony is betrayed by her boyfriend who disappears with the money, abandoning her and Laura in a dismal road side restaurant. With their pursuers close behind them, Tony and Laura are forced to keep running. In the course of their journey, the initial distrust between them will turn into a deep friendship.

Torremolinos 73

Torremolinos 73

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-04-30

Languages:

Spanish, Danish

Countries:

Spain, Denmark

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (2764 Reviews)

Director:

Pablo Berger

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

Alfredo Lopez is a tired encyclopedia salesman, and Carmen is his faithful wife. The lives of this married couple change forever when the Montoya publishing house, in which Alfredo works, makes a proposal to them to make erotic films that will sold in the Scandinavian countries, under the guise of being a false encyclopedia about reproduction. Unknown to them both, Carmen has become an adult film star in the Northern countries, and a Danish crew flies in to help Alfredo make an Ingmar Bergman inspired feature film called "Torremolinos 73." Instead of a career in show business, Carmen is eager to have a baby, and the tension between the artist and his muse grows.

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