Imanol AriasFilmography

Salvajes

Actors: Marisa Paredes, Imanol Arias, Manuel Morón, Roger Casamajor, Maria Isasi

Synopsis: One dysfunctional family's problems hold up a mirror to larger issues of racism and misplaced patriotism in this Spanish drama. Berta (Marisa Paredes) is a nurse who is edging into middle age and looking for a husband; she also looks after the three teenage children of her recently deceased Read More

La Voz De Su Amo

Actors: Eduard Fernández, Silvia Abascal, Joaquim de Almeida, Imanol Arias, Ana Otero

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

En Brazos de la Mujer Madura

Actors: Juan Diego Botto, Faye Dunaway, Joanna Pacula, Carmen Elias

Synopsis: A teenage boy comes of age at the hands of several older women while searching for his mother. Based on a best-selling novel by Stephen Vizinczey and set during the course of the Spanish Civil War, the drama begins when callow Andre is sent home to rejoin his mother when war breaks out. En route Read More

Rigor Mortis

Synopsis: This Spanish language psychological/crime thriller explores the situation of a ruthless gangster under interrogation for crimes he has no knowledge of. Imanol Arias plays a mob hitman whose contract was to kill a stool pigeon. This informer takes sadistic pleasure in torturing and tormenting yet Read More

África

Actors: Imanol Arias, Julie Carmen, Elena Anaya

Ilona Arrives with the Rain

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Colombian author Alvaro Mutis, this frothy adventure chronicles the exploits of an unlikely trio of wanderers trying to earn money in Panama City during the 1950s. As the film opens, the three have been separated. The dashing Marqroll is aboard a ship that gets confiscated in Read More

The Flower of My Secret

Actors: Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Imanol Arias, Carmen Elias, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: From Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar (Live Flesh, All About My Mother) comes this offbeat drama about Leo Macías (Marisa Paredes), a romance novelist who writes her trashy tomes under the pseudonym Amanda Gris. When her marriage begins to dissolve, Leo finds herself falling into despair, leading Read More

Todos Los Hombres Sois Iguales

Synopsis: This Spanish sex-comedy comes from director Manuel Gomez Pereira and focuses on a trio of divorced men who agree to swear off relationships with women. Burned to many times by the fairer sex, roommates Juan, Joaquin, and Manolo make a pact that they will stay single forever. However, when they Read More

Intruso

Actors: Victoria Abril, Imanol Arias, Antonio Valero, Alicia Agut, Susana Buen

Synopsis: In this drama, a dying man makes a final, desperate bid to steal his ex-wife away from her new spouse. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

El Amante Bilingüe

Actors: Ornella Muti, Imanol Arias, Loles Leon, Javier Bardem

Synopsis: Juan (Imanol Arias) speaks Catalan and Spanish. He was active in political protests under the Franco regime. He is an astonishingly bad accordian player, and an acceptable ventriloquist, which enables him to scratch a living from the streets as an itinerant musician/entertainer. A long time ago Read More

Tierno Verano de Lujurias Y Azoteas

Una Mujer Bajo la Lluvia

Actors: Ángela Molina, Antonio Banderas, Imanol Arias, Kiti Manver

Synopsis: The name of mystery writer Edgar Neville may be relatively unknown in the U.S., but his novels have been the source for quite a number of films made in Europe. In this humorous story, set in Madrid, a woman (Angela Molina) standing in the rain is offered rides from two different cars. Either ride Read More

Manana Sere Libre

Actors: Imanol Arias, Angel Pardo, Jorge Sanz, Pastora Vega, Blanca Apilanez

Synopsis: El Lute (Imanol Arias) is a rebel prisoner who escapes on New Years Eve to rejoin his family in this historical adventure. He and his brothers evade the Civil Guards as they rob banks and engage in shootouts with the enemy. El Lute is once again captured but is pardoned after the death of Franco. Read More

El Lute - Camina O Revienta

Actors: Imanol Arias, Victoria Abril, Antonio Valero, Diana Penalver

Synopsis: Policemen everywhere are sometimes lampooned for their self-importance and pomposity, and it is not unusual for a particularly impudent thief to become a national hero. However, Spain's Guardia Civil in the 1960s were an unusually self-righteous lot, and the otherwise not particularly Read More

Divinas Palabras

Actors: Ana Belén, Francisco Rabal, Imanol Arias, Esperanza Roy, Aurora Bautista

Synopsis: This somber drama illustrates the cruel lengths some people will go to capitalize on unfortunate human oddities. When a beggar woman dies, her relatives fight over her son who has an enlarged head from having water on the brain. He is taken on tours of county fairs where his condition brings in Read More

Lulu De Noche

Actors: Imanol Arias, Amparo Muñoz, Antonio Resines, Assumpta Serna, Patricia Adriani

Synopsis: Film noir and comedy are successfully thrown together in this off-beat story about Germain (Antonio Resines), a stage producer trying to put together the two leads and backing for his next drama. Germain is looking for a man to play a psychotic obsessed with his mother and a woman to play a Read More

Bandera Negra

Actors: Alfredo Landa, Imanol Arias, Virginia Mataix, Carlos Lucena, Luis Ostalot

Synopsis: Four protagonists carry the action in this adventure story about betrayal, the high seas, and illegal shipping. Patxi (Alfredo Landa) is a widowed sea captain who becomes friends with Esteban, a ship's machinist (Imanol Arias), and the two end up going to Africa where they get in trouble and land Read More

Tiempo De Silencio

Actors: Imanol Arias, Victoria Abril, Charo Lopez, Francisco Rabal, Juan Echanove

Synopsis: Set at the end of the 1940s, this drama about Pedro (Imanol Arias), a medical researcher, and his relationships with his family and women underscores the mood of repression that dominated Spain during Franco's fascist regime. Pedro lives in a boardinghouse and is attracted to Dorita (Victoria Abril Read More

Luces de Bohemia

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Agustin Gonzalez, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Imanol Arias, Berta Riaza

Synopsis: The poetic and iconoclastic lights of Bohemia have been dimmed in this interpretation of the original play by Ramon Valle-Inclan. Set at the turn of the 20th century in Madrid, the focus is on a perpetual drunk, the blind Max Estrella (Francisco Rabal) and his verses, sayings, and total disregard Read More

Camila

Actors: Susú Pecoraro, Héctor Alterio, Mona Maris

Synopsis: Camila O'Gorman (Susan Peccaro) is the daughter of an influential 19th century Argentine diplomat (Hector Alterio). Ladislao Gutierez (Imanol Arias) is a Jesuit priest, also living in Argentina. Tortured by her so-called impure thoughts, Camila confesses these to Gutierez. Flouting tradition Read More

Fuego Eterno

Actors: Ángela Molina, Imanol Arias, François-Eric Gendron, Ovidi Montllor

Synopsis: This routine story of love, murder, and witchcraft is set in 17th century northern Spain (in Basque country). A priest is trying to ferret out the truth in a 20-year-old tragedy involving a woman accused of witchcraft, her husband, and a jealous lover. Through a series of flashbacks, it is Read More

Bearn o la Sala de las Muñecas

Actors: Fernando Rey, Ángela Molina, Amparo Soler Leal, Imanol Arias

Synopsis: In this inconclusive, confusing story about an aristocratic Majorcan family with connections to the Pope and much more darkly, to the secrets of a Masonic Order kept in a doll's room, the patriarch of the family (Fernando Rey) and his wife and cousin come to no good end for reasons that are never Read More

La Muerte de Mikel

Demonios En El Jardin

Actors: Ángela Molina, Ana Belén, Encarna Paso, Imanol Arias, Eusebio Lazaro

Synopsis: Demons in the Garden (Demonios En El Jardin) dwells upon three generations of an agrarian Spanish family. Most or all the family members have come of age since their country's Civil War. Fact becomes legend and legend becomes fact concerning that conflict, while the family is destroyed from within Read More

La Colmena

Actors: Victoria Abril, Ana Belén, Francisco Rabal, Mario Pardo

Synopsis: Based on a 1943 book of the same title by Camilo José Cela, Colmena features the comings and goings of a wide variety of characters, all trying to survive in a poverty-stricken Madrid during World War II. Rather than feature any single story line, these people from all walks of life cross paths Read More

Cecilia

Actors: Daisy Granados, Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Nunez

Synopsis: The story of Cecilia is a story of the society that dominated 19th-century Cuba, a society divided between whites, blacks, and those who were mixed, the mulattos. (Since the Spanish conquistadors killed off the Indian population in Cuba not long after they took over the island, there are no Read More

Labyrinth of Passion

Actors: Cecilia Roth, Imanol Arias, Helga Liné, Fernando Vivanco

Synopsis: Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's films are colorful, sexy, and very funny, and this one is a perfect introduction to his work. An emperor's son, Reza Niro (Imanol Arias), comes to Madrid in disguise and sleeps with Sadeq (Antonio Banderas), an Islamic terrorist with a highly developed sense of Read More