7 Movies Starring Raèl Arèvalo

The Blind Sunflowers

The Blind Sunflowers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-08-29

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

98 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (903 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Rafael Azcona (adaptation)

Josè Luis Cuerda (adaptation)

Alberto Mèndez (novel)

Fullplot:

Ourense, Spain, 1940. Every time that Elena locks the door, she locks her secrets. Her husband Ricardo spend years hidden in his house with his children (Elenita and Lorenzo), trying to dodge persecution. Salvador, a priest confused after battling in the front, returns to seminary in Ourense.

Fat People

Fat People

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-09-11

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1883 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

Abel is a therapist who regularly meets with a handful of clients struggling to deal with the physical and emotional problems of being overweight. Enrique is an actor best known as the spokesman for weight loss product who loses his job now that he is fat again; he is also wrestling with his sexuality when he begins dating Pilar, the wife of his business partner, after identifying as gay most of his life. Sofia is engaged to Alex, a committed Christian who ignores her sexual needs. While Sofia is able to reawaken her fiancèe's libido, when she begins losing weight she finds he's most attracted to heavy women. Leonor has turned to food for comfort while her boyfriend is in the States. And Andres is a scientist married to Beatriz; they and their daughter are overweight, while their son is not. And as slender Abel tries to guide his clients to healthier and happier lives, he's forced to confront his own issues with fat people when his wife Paula balloons out during pregnancy.

Cousinhood

Cousinhood

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-02-04

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

98 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (2896 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Three cousins travel to the village where they spent summer vacations as kids.

Ghost Graduation

Ghost Graduation

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-08-01

Languages:

Spanish, English

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (2037 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Cristèbal Garrido (screenplay)

Adolfo Valor (screenplay)

Fullplot:

"The Sixth Sense" meets "The Breakfast Club" when a teacher who sees dead people applies for work at a high school haunted by five student poltergeists who died during detention. All his life Modesto has seen dead people walking around like living people and has long accepted the assessment of others that he has a mental problem. Principal Tina Escalonilla turns that around when Modesto describes a detail (known to her) about the school spirits that no others have been able to reveal. With her school poised to be closed due to unrelenting paranormal high jinx, she begs Modesto to stay and see what he can do to ease these spirits into the next life before Founder's Day.

La vida inesperada

La vida inesperada

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-04-25

Languages:

Spanish, English

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (599 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Juanito is an actor who went to New York to succeed. Years have passed, has not achieved the success they expected, and now life working on what can be gained. One day arrives to visit his cousin, apparently a winner that has 'everything one expects to have'. However, the coexistence of both will discover the reality behind each of them.

Marshland

Marshland

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-09-26

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (10263 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Rafael Cobos

Alberto Rodrèguez

Fullplot:

The Spanish deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division - to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ideology, detectives Juan and Pedro must put aside their differences if they are to successfully hunt down a killer who for years has terrorized a community in the shadow of a general disregard for women rooted in a misogynistic past.

Negociador

Negociador

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-09-22

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

79 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (177 Reviews)

Director:

Borja Cobeaga

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

Manu Aranguren (Ramèn Barea) is a Basque politician who is the contact person from the Spanish government in the delicate negotiations with terrorist group ETA. But the dialog, far from a professional and solemn process, is strongly influenced by misunderstandings, errors and chance. Only the personal relationships of the negotiators can save it to get a positive outcome.

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