Juan DiegoFilmography

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Rose et noir

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, Bernard Le Coq, Juan Diego

10/14/09
Casual Day

Actors: Juan Diego, Javier Rios, Luis Tosar, Estibaliz Gabilondo, Alberto San Juan

Synopsis: An clever but somewhat aimless twenty-five year old finds a weekend trip to the country suddenly threatening to determine the outcome of his entire life in the sophomore feature from Spanish filmmaker Max Lemcke. Imported to Spain from the USA, Casual Day is a company practice in which the Read More

2007
En Tu Ausencia

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gonzalo Sánchez Salas, Ana Tutor, Francisco Alfonsín, Anabel Azuar

Synopsis: A young boy teetering on the edge of adulthood enters into an ill-advised friendship that will ultimately lead to tragedy in this melancholy tale of innocence lost. Thirteen year old Pablo (Gonzalo Sanchez Salas) is a withdrawn adolescent with a troubled past. As summer draws near, Pablo begins Read More

2007
Remake

Actors: Juan Diego, Silvia Munt, Eusebio Poncela, Mercedes Morán, Mario Paolucci

Synopsis: Four years after cresting the pinnacle of cinematic acclaim with his comic festival hit Smoking Room (2002), Spanish writer-director Roger Gual returns with a sophomore outing, Remake (2006). Though this film will inevitably earn critical comparisons to such prior efforts as The Big Chill and Read More

2006
The Way of the English

Actors: Alberto Amarilla, María Ruiz, Félix Gómez, Raúl Arévalo, Fran Perea

Synopsis: Director Antonio Banderas's reflective sophomore drama follows nascent poet Miguelito (Alberto Amarilla) and his best friends, Paco (Félix Gómez) and Babirusa (Raúl Arévalo), as they confront their pasts and ponder their futures while coming of age in 1970s-era southern Spain. Based on the novel Read More

2006
Out of Here

Actors: Juan Diego, Juan Diego Botto

2006
Go Away From Me

Actors: Juan Diego, Juan Diego Botto, Cristina Plazas, Esperanza Roy, Antonio Zabalburu

Synopsis: A professional actor shocked at the unexpected appearance of his grown, but long estranged son finds his life suddenly thrown into chaos with the arrival of the handsome seducer in director Victor Garcia León's bitterly funny comedy drama. Santiago (Juan Diego) makes a modest living as an actor Read More

2006
Torremolinos 73

Actors: Javier Camára, Candela Peña, Juan Diego, Thomas Bo Larsen, Fernando Tejero

Synopsis: The sexual revolution meets a bumbling door-to-door salesman and his beautician wife in the form of "educational" sex films in this satiric comedy, set in Spain in 1973. Alfredo Lopez (Javier Cámara) is an encyclopedia salesman whose work has not been going especially well lately, which is Read More

4/8/05
El Triunfo

Actors: Juan Diego, Antonio Fernández "Farruco" Montoya, Pep Cruz, Marieta Orozco, Cheto, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: For her sophomore feature, El Triunfo (aka El Triunfo: The Beat of the Streets), filmmaker Mireia Ros (La Moños, 1997) crafts a somewhat gentle, evocative crime drama -- a period piece -- laden with heavy doses of colorful Spanish rumba music and dance, but undergirded with the ever-present threat Read More

2005
The 7th Day

Actors: Juan Diego, José Luis Gómez, José Garcia, Victoria Abril, Yohana Cobo

2004
La Vida Que te Espera

Actors: Juan Diego, Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Clara Lago, Celso Bugallo

Synopsis: La Vida Que te Espera stars Juan Diego as Gildo, a farmer who becomes the prime suspect of the authorities when an associate of his is murdered. His rural life does not appeal to his two daughters, and their lack of enthusiasm is compounded when the son of the dead man arrives with motives of his Read More

2004
Dearest Maria

Actors: Pilar Bardem, María Botto, Alex O'Dogherty, Maria Galiana, Juan Diego

2004
Arcibel's Game

Actors: Juan Diego, Juan Echanove, Vladimir Cruz, Alejandro Trejo, Gabriel Rovito, Enrique Quinones, Darío Grandinetti, Diego Torres, Rebeca Cobos

Synopsis: A wrongly imprisoned political prisoner orchestrates a revolution in this drama from director Alberto Lecchi. After is accused of using his newspaper chess column to attack the fascist government, Arcibel (Dario Grandinetti) finds himself behind bars and separated from his daughter. Eventually Read More

2003
Noviembre

Actors: Oscar Jaenada, Ingrid Rubio, Paloma Lorena, Juan Diaz, Juan Margallo

2003
Smoking Room

Actors: Antonio Dechent, Juan Diego, Ulises Dumont, Eduard Fernández, Francesco Garrido

Synopsis: Heated office politics boil quickly to the surface as a tobacco-loving employee make a desperate plea for a smoking room in this observant comedy from writer/directors Julio Wallovits and Roger Gual. Working his days away in a Spanish branch of a large U.S.-based company, salary-man Ramirez (Eduard Fernandez Read More

2002
La Virgen de la lujuria

Actors: Luis Felipe Tovar, Ariadna Gil, Patricia Reyes Spindola, Juan Diego, Julian Pastor

Synopsis: Legendary Mexican director Arturo Ripstein explores the mundane and sexual obsession in 1940s Mexico in his 2002 film The Virgin of Lust. Introverted Ignacio "Nacho" Jurado (Luis Felipe Tovar) spends his days waiting tables at the Cafe Ofelia and his nights amongst his voluminous porno collection. Read More

2002
Una Pasión Singular

Actors: Daniel Freire, Marisol Membrillo, Juan Diego, Maria Galiana

2002
El Invierno De Las Anjanas

Actors: Elena Anaya, Eduardo Noriega, Juan Diego, Elvira Mínguez, Ana Gracia

Synopsis: Somewhere in 19th-century Cantabria, Adelaida (Elena Anaya) meets and falls in love with Eusebio (Eduardo Noriega). Unfortunately, Eusebio is drafted for the Spanish-Cuban war. When news comes that he has died, Adelaida refuses to believe it, and her repressive family throws her into the local Read More

2000
Fugitivas

Actors: Laia Marull, Juan Diego, Maria Galiana

Synopsis: Tony (Laia Marull) is a young crook preparing for a bank robbery with her boyfriend Juanjo (Jesus Olmedo) and their low-life partners Maxi (Miguel Hermoso Arnao) and Moco (Roberto Cairo). Right before they commit the crime, Juanjo informs Tony that his prostitute sister wants him to take her young Read More

2000
You're The One (Una Historia De Entonces)

Actors: Lydia Bosch, Juan Diego, Ana Fernandez, Manuel Lozano

Synopsis: Set in post-Spanish Civil War 1947, this tale of spiritual renewal centers on Julia (Lydia Bosch), a writer and bank owner's daughter who becomes deeply depressed following the political incarceration of her boyfriend, painter Jose Miguel. Leaving her family's bourgeois home, Julia travels to the Read More

2000
ER: The Visit

Synopsis: Sally Field makes the first of several appearances in the Emmy-winning role of Maggie Wyczenski, the bipolar mother of ER nurse Abby Lockhart (Maura Tierney). Off her medication, a hyper Maggie tries to pay a visit to Abby -- who refuses to see her. Meanwhile, Kovac (Goran Visnjic) looks into a Read More

2000
Paris-Tombuctu

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Concha Velasco, Amparo Soler Leal, Juan Diego, Eusebio Lazaro

Synopsis: Veteran Spanish director Luis Garcia Berlanga created this anarchic black comedy about sexual impotence and millennial anxiety. Though a Paris-based plastic surgeon spends much of his time and wealth on prostitutes, he is plagued by impotence. Despondent, he plans to commit suicide. After Read More

1999
Yerma

Actors: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Juan Diego, Irene Papas

Synopsis: Upon learning that her husband may be the reason why she has been unable to conceive, a woman desperate to bear children finds her moral values and her yearning for motherhood in conflict in this drama based on the tale by Federico Garcia Lorca and directed by Pilar Tavora. Yerma (Sanchez-Gijon) 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
La Novia De Medianoche

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Nancho Novo, Juan Diego, Esperanza Roy, Clara Sanchis

Synopsis: Director Antonio Simon and writer Lino Braxe based this period mystery on a '40s screenplay by Luis Buñuel and Jose Rubia Braxe. In northern Spain, Wenceslao Corredoira (Francisco Rabal) negotiates property at Galicia with engineer Oscar Marsal (Nancho Novo). Wenceslao's sister is a bitter widow (Esperanza Roy Read More

1997
Tirano Banderas

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Ana Belén, Juan Diego, Ignacio Tarso, Fernando Guillén

Synopsis: This historical drama, set in the '20s examines the strange, brief reign of a Latin American dictator. It was alternately shot in Havana and Mexico. The story is set in an unspecified Latin country and chronicles the daily life of the tyrannical dictator. One of his day's highlights is the signing Read More

1994
Cabeza de Vaca

Actors: Juan Diego, Roberto Sosa, Carlos Castanon, Gerardo Villarreal

Synopsis: With little dialog and exquisite, almost documentary-like images, Cabeza de Vaca offers a fascinating (if not mystical and at times just plain puzzling) foray back to early 16th-century America as it chronicles the exploits of the explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca as he spends eight years Read More

5/15/92
El Beso del Sueño

Actors: Maribel Verdú, Juan Diego, Eusebio Poncela, Tony Isbert

1992
Jamón Jamón

Actors: Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Juan Diego, Jordi Mollà

Synopsis: Class, sex, and food are the obsessions of this Spanish comedy drama, an international hit from writer and director J.J. Bigas Luna that plays like a cross between the lusty Like Water for Chocolate (1992) and the early work of Pedro Almodovar. In a small town in Spain's arid Monegros region Read More

1992
El Rey Pasmado

Actors: Gabino Diego, Laura del Sol, Joaquim de Almeida, Maria Barranco, Juan Diego

Synopsis: It is 1620, and the young King of Spain (Gabino Diego) is technically a married man, because the great churchmen have conducted a grand public wedding ceremony joining him with a wife. However, as the real rulers of the state, they have perversely kept him completely innocent in matters of sex, so Read More

1992
La Noche Mas Larga

Actors: Juan Echanove, Carmen Conesa, Juan Diego, Gabino Diego

Synopsis: It is an interesting fact that Generalissimo Francisco Franco did not relinquish even a tiny bit of his hold on the reins of power in Spain until he had quelled all that country's many separatist and terrorist groups to his satisfaction. It is also quite remarkable that, having done so, he readily Read More

1991
Jarrapellejos

Actors: Antonio Ferrandis, Juan Diego, Lydia Bosch, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Amparo Larranaga

Synopsis: Pedro Jarrapellejos (Antonio Ferrandis) is a ladies man who cannot turn the heads of Isabel (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) or her beautiful daughter. When both peasant women are found raped and murdered in a brutal scene, a schoolteacher is falsely accused. Pedro knows his own nephew and his friend Read More

1989
La Noche Oscura

Actors: Juan Diego, Julie Delpy, Fernando Guillén, Manuel de Blas

Synopsis: Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989's La Noche Oscura (The Dark Night). Juan Diego stars as San Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross), the legendary 16th-century poet-prophet. Galvanized into action by the spirit of Santa Teresa de Jesus, San Juan Read More

1989
Laura

Actors: Ángela Molina, Juan Diego, Sergi Mateu, Terele Pavez, Alfredo Luchetti

Synopsis: Laura (Angela Molina) is caught in a love triangle with her husband Tomas (Juan Diego) and his half-brother Adrian (Sergi Mateu) in this routine melodrama. When Tomas ignores her, Laura finds love in the arms of a local textile manufacturer, only to discover later that the man is her husband's Read More

1988
Y'a Bon Les Blancs

Actors: Maruschka Detmers, Michele Placido, Juan Diego, Michel Piccoli, Jean-François Stévenin

Synopsis: A European humanitarian organization tries to bring relief to the famine-stricken Sahel region of North Africa in this satirical comedy. The convoy of five trucks is victimized by rebel guerillas and marauding tribes and is soon lost in the desert. When two party members try to leave, they end up Read More

1988
Pasodoble

Actors: Fernando Rey, Juan Diego, Antonio Resines, Caroline Grimm, Cassen

Synopsis: In this romantic farce, Macarena is a pretty French girl who has come to Cordoba in southern Spain in search of a man she believes may be her father. She finally tracks him and his clan down in a minor city museum: they have become squatters there during one of the museum curator's brief absences. Read More

1987
Eulalia

Actors: Juan Diego, Antonio Banderas, Nina Van Pallandt

Synopsis: The problems encountered by the sixteen-year-old beauty in this comedy might not strike north-of-the-border feminists as particularly amusing. One of six children, Eulalia leaves her country home to work as a maid in a rich person's house in the city. She lives with her young male cousin, who has Read More

1987
Asi Como Habian Sido

Actors: Massimo Ghini, Juan Diego, Antonio Banderas, Nina Van Pallandt

Synopsis: Three college friends are reunited after 10 years in this routine drama. Told in a series of flashbacks, Tomas (Massimo Ghini) is a concert pianist who returns to Spain in hopes of looking up his two old friends. He finds one working in a recording studio, while the other has lost the use of his Read More

1987
Hermano Bastardo De Dios

Actors: Lucas Martin, Paco Rabal Cerezales, Francisco Rabal, Asuncion Balaguer, Maria Luisa Ponte

Synopsis: This drama concerns a seven-year-old boy, Pepe Luis (Lucas Martin, as the younger Pepe and Paco Rabal Cerezales as Pepe at ten) who lives through the rise of Franco and the ensuing years under the fascist dictator. Presented from the perspective of the young Pepe, the Civil War and Franco are Read More

1986
Dragon Rapide

Actors: Juan Diego, Victoria Pena, Manuel de Blas, Saturno Cerra, Eduardo McGregor

Synopsis: This is a comprehensive docudrama (focusing more on truth than fiction) on the two weeks in 1936 that preceded Francisco Franco's war for control of Spain. The "Dragon Rapide" was the name of the plane that carried the fascist Generalissimo to Morocco and the beginning of the end of the Republican Read More

1986
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
La Corte de Faraon

Actors: Ana Belén, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Antonio Banderas, Josema Yuste, Agustin Gonzalez

Synopsis: La Corte de Faraon is a romp of a zarzuela ("operetta" is a loose translation) that first appeared in 1910 (original libretto by Guillermo Perrin and Miguel de Palacios, original music by Vicente Lleó). The Pharaoh rewards his victorious general Putifar (Josema Yuste) with a new bride, Lota (Ana Belen Read More

1985
Golfo De Vizcaya

Actors: Omero Antonutti, Silvia Munt, Amaia Lasa, Patxi Bisquert, Mario Pardo

Synopsis: The Basque country lies around the Gulf of Biscay, and one of its cities, Bilboa, is the setting for this turgid story of political intrigue. The Basque separatist movement has always been a point of contention in Spanish politics and provides the shady backdrop for this story about Lucas (Omero Antonutti Read More

1985
De Tripas Corazon

1985
Los Paraisos Perdidos

Actors: Charo Lopez, Miguel Narros, Alfredo Landa, Juan Diego, Ana Torrent

Synopsis: This literary film is imbued with the disenchantment of Spanish exiles who left their homes to protest Franco's fascist regime and then returned after its demise to find that democracy had not instilled either ethics or deep motivation in government leaders. Director Basilio Martin Patino presents Read More

1985
Los Santos Inocentes

Actors: Alfredo Landa, Francisco Rabal, Agustin Gonzalez, Juan Diego

Synopsis: Meant to reflect the harsh realities of segments of society in 1960s, Franco-era Spain, this slow-moving, drawn-out story is about a struggling, impoverished family who work on the estate of a wealthy aristocrat. Paco (Alfredo Landa) is the head of his small family who constantly tries to placate Read More

1984
La Criatura

Actors: Ana Belén, Juan Diego, Claudia Gravy, Manuel Pereiro

Synopsis: Ana Belen plays a woman, married to a television announcer, who is increasingly dissatisfied with her life and her marriage. After being horribly scared by a dog, she has a miscarriage. Later, she finds a similar dog and makes him her pet and, it is suggested, her lover. Her husband, somewhat Read More

1978
Colorin, Colorado

Actors: Jose Sazatornil, Mary Carrillo, Teresa Rabal, Juan Diego, Fiorella Faltoyano

Synopsis: In this comedy, an unmarried couple who imagine themselves to be politically very radical, vex their respective genuinely conservative parents by refusing to marry. They are happy enough to receive financial support, though, and after a baby is born to them, they begin to rethink their supposed Read More

1976
Un Largo Retorno

Actors: Mark Burns, Lynne Frederick, Charo Lopez, Ricardo Merino, Juan Diego

Synopsis: In this melodramatic science-fiction romance, an architect finally finds his true love after a lifetime of searching. They marry, and soon afterward discover that the woman has an incurable disease. She is frozen until the day her condition is curable. That day does not come until 40 years later. Read More

1975
Dramma della Gelosia - Tutti i Particolari in Cronaca

Actors: Hercules Cortes, Monica Vitti, Marcello Mastroianni, Giancarlo Giannini, Marisa Merlini

Synopsis: The Pizza Triangle is a freewheeling satire of Italian mores, hilarious despite its outwardly morbid plotline. The murder of flower girl Monica Vitti triggers a long flashback involving Vitti, middle-aged Communist bricklayer Marcello Mastrioanni, and young pizza chef Giancarlo Giannini. The Read More

4/30/70

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