Juan EchanoveFilmography

Bienvenido a casa

Actors: Alejo Sauras, Pilar Lopez de Ayala, Ariadna Gil, Juan Echanove, Jorge Sanz

Synopsis: With his gentle ensemble comedy Bienvenido a casa (aka Welcome Home), Spanish director David Trueba meditates on one man's passage from youth to the emotional maturity of adulthood. In the process, Trueba takes a wise and reflective look at the dynamics of contemporary relationships, romantic and Read More

To Die in San Hilario

Actors: Lluís Homar, Ana Fernandez, Ferrán Rañé, Ulises Dumont, Juan Echanove

Arcibel's Game

Actors: Vladimir Cruz, Juan Diego, Juan Echanove, 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

Los Reyes Magos

Actors: Juan Echanove, Jose Coronado, Imanol Arias, Javier Garruchaga, Jose Sancho

Synopsis: The story of the birth of Christ is given a new spin in this family-friendly animated adventure. In the ancient city of Judea, three men are commanded by an unknown voice to follow the North Star in search of a treasure that will be bestowed on a great king, who is soon to be born. Chubby and Read More

Don't Tempt Me

Actors: Victoria Abril, Penélope Cruz, Demián Bichir, Fanny Ardant, Gael García Bernal

Synopsis: Two of Spain's biggest female stars headline this offbeat comedy about the battle of wills between good and evil. Heaven is not getting its fair share of business for the afterlife, so Lola (Victoria Abril), an angel who sings in a nightclub located beyond the pearly gates, is sent to Earth to Read More

Adios Con El Corazon

Actors: Juan Luis Galiardo, Laura Ramos, Jesus Bonilla, Maria Luisa San Jose

Synopsis: The third installment of director Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez's state-of-Spain trilogy, which began in 1995 with Whispers of Spain (and Portugal). Roguish Juan (Juan Luis Galiardo) lives by himself, eking out a dubious living from gambling money and blackmailing various women who were once his Read More

Tangos Are For Two

Actors: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Darío Grandinetti, Juan Echanove, Ulises Dumont

Synopsis: In this musical drama, a tango tribute set in Buenos Aires of the '30s, factory worker Juanita (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) goes with musician Gustavo (Juan Echanove) who plays in a tango combo with singer Renzo (Dario Grandinetti), known for his resemblance to famed tango superstar Carlos Gardel (who Read More

Los Años Bárbaros

Actors: Samuel Le Bihan, Pepon Nieto, Jordi Mollà, Ernesto Alterio, Allison Smith

Synopsis: Fernando Colomo directed this fact-based Spanish comedy-drama about leftist philosophy students Tomas (Jordi Molla) and Jaime (Ernesto Alterio), arrested in 1947 by Francoists and sent away to a Madrid prison for eight years. After their friend Velasco (Pepon Nieto) goes to Paris to enlist the aid Read More

Siempre Hay Un Camino A La Derecha

Actors: Juan Luis Galiardo, Juan Echanove, Rosa María Sardà, Neus Asensi, Javier Garruchaga

Synopsis: In this sequel to the acclaimed Sighs of Spain (and Portugal) (1995), two picaros, slick Juan (Juan Luis Galiardo) and his innocent pal Pepe (Juan Echanove) return to Spain with Angelica (Rosa Maria Sarda) and Carmela (Neus Asensi). Pepe and Juan, both in love with the same woman, are on the brink 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

Madregilda

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Juan Echanove, Barbara Auer, Kamel Cherif, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: Spain, having suffered a civil war in the 1930s, was a neutral country during World War II. Generalissimo Francisco Franco (Juan Echanove) was the sole ruler of what was then deliberately fashioned into a puritanical society. In this satire, the hypocrisy of Madrid society in that period is Read More

Mi Hermano Del Alma

Actors: Juanjo Puigcorbe, Carlos Hipolito, Lydia Bosch, Juan Echanove, Jordi Mollà

Synopsis: Carlos (Carlos Hipolito) is a steady sort of fellow, a law-abiding insurance salesman. Somehow, in his competition with his raffish, gambling-addicted brother Toni (Juanjo Puigcorbe), he has won the hand of Julia (Lydia Bosche) and they have married. For ten years, they have generally gone their Read More

Shooting Elizabeth

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Mimi Rogers, Burt Kwouk, Simon Andrell, Cristina Higueras

Synopsis: When henpecked Harold Pigeon (Jeff Goldblum) becomes fed up with the bullying demands of his wife, Elizabeth (Mimi Rogers), he comes up with a plan to murder her and set himself free. However, when several attempts fail miserably, Harold lures his wife on a second honeymoon, where she inexplicably Read More

Orquesta Club Virginia

Actors: Jorge Sanz, Antonio Resines, Santiago Ramos, Enrique San Francisco, Juan Echanove

Synopsis: In this road movie, a young Spanish teen has formed a band which has been booked to play at the Hilton in Beirut. The group is well versed in mambo and pop classics. When the age-diverse group sets out on its tour, however, they find that they cannot get farther than Cairo and Amman, Jordan. The Read More

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

Ratita Ratita

Yo Soy Esa

Actors: Jose Coronado, Juan Echanove, Loles Leon

Synopsis: The extremely well-loved Flamenco singer Isabel Pantoja makes her screen debut in this feature. Since most of the film consists of her singing, fans of her voice and music will be pleased at this opportunity to see her. In the story, an attractively heavy woman is arriving at a movie theater to Read More

El Vuelo De La Paloma

Actors: Ana Belén, José M. Sacristán, Juan Echanove, Juan Luis Galiardo, Antonio Resines

Synopsis: This wacky comedy depicts a single day in and around the set of a movie on the Spanish Civil War being filmed in a working class Madrid neighborhood. Paloma, (Ana Belen), a bored housewife with a husband who is too concerned about being exploited by "the ruling classes" to work, must evade the Read More

No Hagas Planes Con Marga

Actors: Miguel Molina, Nina Ferrer, Juan Echanove, Antonio Dechent

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, Andres (Miguel Molina) is a young man from Madrid who for years has had his eye on Marga (Nina Ferrer). Andres enjoys feminine companionship with several girlfriends but can't get Marga out of his mind. When the two finally meet, Marga explains her past in a flashback scene Read More

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

Viento de Colera

Miss Caribe

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

Adios, pequena

Actors: Ana Belén, Fabio Testi, Marcel Bozzuffi, Jose Manuel Cervino, Juan Echanove

Synopsis: This crime thriller was produced in association with the Spanish Ministry of Culture. When Lucas (Fabio Testi) is busted on a drug charge, he is visited by his wealthy court-appointed attorney Beatriz (Ana Belen). The two fall in love and she bails Lucas out of jail, but he is soon murdered by 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

El Caso Almeria

Actors: Agustin Gonzalez, Fernando Guillén, Manuel Alexandre, Margarita Calahorra, Pedro Diaz del Corral

Synopsis: In the ancient Phoenician city now known as Almería on the southeastern coast of Spain, three Civil Guards were convicted in 1981 of torturing and then murdering three men that were suspected Basque terrorists. This well-paced and suspenseful docudrama is about that case and how the courageous Read More

Crimen Imperfecto

Synopsis: A taxi driver and a failed actor accept an underworld job that could make them rich in this madcap crime comedy from director Antonio del Real. Down-on-his-luck Augusto drives a cab for a living, and his best friend, Julio, just can't seem to land any good roles. When a local crime kingpin offers Read More