Carmelo GómezFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: The career of Spanish leading man Carmelo Gomez is closely associated with director Julio Medem. Born and raised in the Spanish countryside, Gomez came to epitomize rural values. He made his feature film debut in Viaje a Ninguna Parte (1986). His best known film is Imanol Uribe's Numbered Days...Read More

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The Method

Actors: Eduardo Noriega, Najwa Nimri, Eduard Fernández, Pablo Echarri

Synopsis: The question as to how far a corporate drone would go to land a high-level position at a multinational corporation is explored in Argentinian director Marcelo Piñeyro's back-stabbing boardroom drama that takes its name from a mysterious human-resources strategy imported from the United States as a Read More

7/6/07
The Night Of The Sunflowers

Actors: Carmelo Gómez, Judith Diakhate, Celso Bugallo, Manuel Morón, Mariano Alameda

Synopsis: Director Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo's Goya-nominated rural film noir employs a Rashomon-like storytelling technique to detail the journey of a Speleologist and an experienced potholer who emerge from a cave expedition to make a horrifying discovery. Castilla-León is a dying rural village in the middle Read More

2006
Grimm

Actors: Halina Reijn, Jacob Derwig, Carmelo Gómez, Elvira Mínguez, Ulises Dumont

Synopsis: Written and directed by Alex van Warmerdam, Grimm is an absurdist, decidedly black take on the Hansel and Gretel story. Set in modern day Holland, Grimm centers around siblings Marie (Halina Reijn) and Jacob (Jacob Derwig), who were sent to the forest under the pretext of gathering firewood while Read More

2003
La Playa De Los Galgos

Actors: Carmelo Gómez, Claudia Gerini, Miguel Ángel Solá, Ingrid Rubio, Gustavo Salmerón

Synopsis: Veteran Spanish filmmaker Mario Camus directed La Playa De Los Galgos (The Beach of the Greyhounds) from his own script. Pablo (Gustavo Salmeron) tends to his elderly mother and is forever taking steps to find his missing brother. One day he meets Berta (Claudia Gerini), whom he becomes involved Read More

2002
Nos Miran

Actors: Carmelo Gómez, Icíar Bollaín, Manuel Lozano, Carolina Petterson, Massimo Ghini

Synopsis: Norberto Lopez Amado's They're Watching Us is about a cop who becomes obsessed with a case. Juan (Carmelo Gomez) is ordered to head up an investigation concerning a businessman who has been missing for almost three years. The officer who worled on the case previously now resides in a mental Read More

2002
Carol's Journey

Actors: Clara Lago, Juan José Ballesta, Alvaro de Luna, Maria Barranco, Rosa María Sardà

Synopsis: Spanish director Imanol Uribe examines social upheaval as it relates to a young prepubescent's life in his 2002 coming-of-age tale Carol's Journey. Twelve-year-old Carol (Clara Lago) is accompanying her mother Aurora (Maria Barranco) to Spain to visit her mother's native village as the Civil War Read More

2002
La Gran Vida

Actors: Fernando Valverde, Salma Hayek, Carmelo Gómez, Alicia Agut

Synopsis: Antonio Cuadri's La Gran Vida tells the story of a suicidal man who, after falling in love, decides not to end it all. Now he must survive the gangsters he owes money. If only he hadn't borrowed the money to give himself a memorable going-away trip. Salma Hayek co-stars in this film. La Gran Vida Read More

2000
The Goalkeeper

Actors: Carmelo Gómez, Maribel Verdú, Roberto Alvarez, Eduard Fernández, Elvira Mínguez

Synopsis: A former football star finds himself weighing difficult options in this period drama from Spain. Ramiro Forteza (Carmelo Gomez) was once the goalie for a championship soccer team in Madrid, but as Spain struggles to get back on its feet following the Civil War, he's reduced to traveling the Read More

2000
Extranos

Actors: Carmelo Gómez, Maria Casal, Ingrid Rubio, Sergi Mateu, Bruno Bichir

Synopsis: In this atmospheric psychological thriller from Spain, Lamarca (Carmelo Gomez) is a private detective who has been haunted by vivid dreams of his own death. One day, a wealthy gentleman named Eduardo (Sergi Mateu) hires him to trail his wife, Sofia (Maria Casal), who has not been herself since the Read More

1999
Between Your Legs

Actors: Victoria Abril, Javier Bardem, Carmelo Gómez, Juan Diego, Sergi López

Synopsis: Often referred to as a cousin to Pedro Almodovar or Bigas Luna, Manuel Gomez Pereira has been covering up his sharp social satire behind nice exteriors in his previous five films. No more nice guy, says Pereira, in an erotic tale of sex-o-mania. And with who else but ravishing Victoria Abril in Read More

1998
Mararia

Actors: Carmelo Gómez, Iain Glen, Goya Toledo, Mirta Ibarra, Jose Manuel Cervino

Synopsis: Set amidst the austere volcanic splendor of Spain's island of Lanzarote, this period piece successfully vacillates between drama and high tragedy as it follows the romantic obsession felt by two very different men for an innocent but seductive local girl. The tale is set in a ramshackle island Read More

1998
Territorio Comanche

Actors: Cecilia Dopazo, Bruno Todeschini

Synopsis: In the midst of the danger and destruction of Sarajevo during the Bosnian conflict, a brave, dedicated group of war correspondents from all over the world gathered to bring the terrifying war into the lives of others. In the name of ratings and personal glory, these newshounds regularly risk their Read More

9/10/97
Secrets of the Heart

Actors: Carmelo Gómez, Andoni Erburu, Inigo Garces

Synopsis: A young boy's fascination with the deaths of several people close to him spark his growth from boyhood in this Spanish drama from writer-director Montxo Armendáriz. The hometown of nine-year-old Javi (Andoni Erburu and his brother Juan (Alvaro Nagone) is a rural farming village in the early 1960s. Read More

1997
Tu Nombre Envenena Mis Suenos

Synopsis: Love leads to vengeance in this thriller that is based on a novel by Joaquin Leguina. Inspector Paco attends a funeral where he encounters his former police partner Angel. This inspires a flashback. The year was 1942, the Spanish Civil War raged, and Paco and Angel were investigating a triple Read More

1996
El Perro Del Hortelano

Synopsis: A prominent 17th-century Spanish noblewoman throws social convention to the wind and pursues a romance with her low-born personal secretary in this romantic and lavish costume thriller. The trouble begins when the young Countess Diana discovers that the secretary Teodoro is engaged to one of her Read More

1996
Tierra

Synopsis: Dressed in blinding white, carrying a strange pack upon his back and a toxin-spewing wand, comes exterminating Angel and his similarly clad army to the scorched, crimson earth of Aragon wine country, to destroy the insects that give the wine it's unique flavor. There Angel fines himself falling in Read More

1996
El Detective y la Muerte

Actors: Javier Bardem, Maria de Medeiros, Carmelo Gómez, Héctor Alterio, Charo Lopez

Synopsis: This surreal Spanish film offers a liberal re-tooling of Hans Christian Andersens' tale "The Story of the Mother," which follows a mother's quest through a maze-like forest as she seeks to retrieve her child from Death. This version of the tale is set in a violent and crime filled European city. Read More

1994
Cancion de Cuna

Actors: Fiorella Faltoyano, Alfredo Landa, Maria Massip

Synopsis: This uplifting film, set in a 19th-century Spanish convent, quietly comments upon the limitations of leading the spiritual and isolated life of a nun. The peaceful routine of the nuns is interrupted by the sudden arrival of an abandoned baby girl. The girl, whom they named Teresa after the Mother Read More

1994
Running Out of Time

Actors: Carmelo Gómez, Ruth Gabriel, Candela Peña, Karra Elejalde, Javier Bardem

Synopsis: Imanol Uribe's Dias Contados recieved widespread critical acclaim for its compassionate but unsentimental, multi-layed analysis of the tumultuous relationship between a Basque terrorist assigned to bomb a Madrid police station and the neighboring prostitute with whom he falls in love. ~ Sandra Read More

1994
La Ardilla Roja

Actors: Emma Suarez, Maria Barranco, Karra Elejalde

Synopsis: When he sees a motorcycle go over the side of the boardwalk at San Sebastian, crashing onto the beach, Jota goes to see what happened. He discovers that the vehicle was being driven by an attractive young woman. He calls an ambulance and gets onto it with her. When the emergency medical staff Read More

1993
Despues Del Sueno

Actors: Carmelo Gómez, Ana Belén, Fernando Rey, Eulalia Ramon

Synopsis: In this mystery, a Picasso painting has been stolen. Various people are involved in the resolution of the story, including a lawyer with an eye for the women, and that lawyer's diffident shy client who winds up with the lawyer's gorgeous girlfriend. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Vacas

Actors: Emma Suarez, Carmelo Gómez, Ana Torrent

Synopsis: In Basque country, feuds, governments, and wars come and go, while cows placidly observe the strange behaviors of the humans who care for them. In 1875, during a massacre inspired by an out-of-control family feud, a farmer and his friend find themselves in a ditch together. One of them dies, and Read More

1992
Bajarse Al Moro

Actors: Verónica Forqué, Antonio Banderas, Juan Echanove, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Chus Lampreave

Synopsis: Chusa is a fashionable and party-loving denizen of modern-day Madrid. Some of her flashy lifestyle is paid for by her amateur hashish-smuggling operation. Like many others, she often flies down to Morocco to score some of this marijuana-derived drug and then smuggles it back in various places on Read More

1988
Viaje A Ninguna Parte

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Laura del Sol, Juan Diego, Maria Luisa Ponte, Gabino Diego

Synopsis: The spirit, hopes, and failures of a troupe of itinerant performers in the 1950s create a poignant, humorous leitmotif in this drama by Fernando Fernan-Gomez. The story of the wandering players is told in flashbacks, as Carlos Galvan (Jose M. Sacristan) reminisces about the good times while under Read More

1986
Amor y Venganza