Najwa NimriFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Composer (Music Score)
Biography:: Pamplona-born actress and vocalist Najwa Nimri divides her time between onscreen roles, recording sessions, and tour bookings. As a musician (on such tracks as "I'll Wait for Us" and "Capable"), Nimri demonstrates stylistic versatility, wafting between a kind of Latin techno-hip-hop and a sensual...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
Mataharis

Actors: Najwa Nimri, Maria Vazquez, Nuria Gonzalez, Tristan Ulloa, Diego Martín

Synopsis: Take My Eyes and Flowers from Another World director Icíar Bollaín takes the helm for this drama concerning a trio of female detective who are forced to turn their attentions inward if they hope to solve their latest cases. Ines, Eva, and Carmen are used to intruding on the privacy of others, but Read More

2007
20 Centimeters

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Monica Cervera, Pablo Puyol, Miguel O'Dogherty, Concha Galan, Lola Dueñas

Synopsis: A fantasy-prone transvestite who is looking to make the leap to transsexual status imagines that he is the star of a lavish universe punctuated by elaborate musical numbers in director Ramon Salazar's stylish sophomore feature. Adolfo (Monica Cervera) is a die-hard romantic who currently shares a Read More

10/27/06
Celia's Lives

Actors: Najwa Nimri, Luis Tosar, Daniel Jiménez Cacho, Alex Casanovas, Mentxu Romero

Synopsis: A detective investigating a brutal rape and murder is drawn into the life of a suicidal woman whose husband he suspects of committing the heinous crime in director Antonio Chavarrías' tense psychological thriller. Depressed and suicidal at the end of a raucous street party, Celia attempts to take Read More

2006
Agents Secrets

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, André Dussollier, Charles Berling, Bruno Todeschini

2004
A+

Actors: Eloy Azorín, Elvira Herreria, Jose Coronado, Christopher Misiano, Ricardo Moya

2004
Utopia

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Najwa Nimri, Tchéky Karyo, José Garcia, Emma Vilarasau

2003
Sex and Lucia

Actors: Paz Vega, Tristan Ulloa, Najwa Nimri, Daniel Freire, Elena Anaya

Synopsis: Following up on his 1998 art-house hit Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Julio Medem spins this audacious film about flesh and forgetting. Lucia (Paz Vega) is a young Madrid waitress who is devastated to hear of the death of her old flame Lorenzo (Tristan Ulloa). Hoping to flee her troubles, she seeks Read More

7/12/02
Piedras

Actors: Antonia San Juan, Najwa Nimri, Vicky Pena, Ángela Molina, Monica Cervera

Synopsis: Stones is a film about shoes which functions on the old Native American proverb, "Never judge a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins." The shoes, in this case, belong to an ensemble of wacky characters whose lives are anchored to a brothel on the outskirts of Madrid. Adela is a Read More

2002
Fausto 5.0

Actors: Miguel Ángel Solá, Eduard Fernández, Najwa Nimri, Juan Fernandez, Raquel Gonzales

Synopsis: A doctor's past comes back to haunt him in an unexpected way in this modern variation on the classic tale of Faust. Dr. Fausto (Miguel Angel Sola) is a respected oncologist whose career has practically taken over his life; he has no wife or children, and he's barely aware of the fact his beautiful Read More

2001
Asfalto

Actors: Najwa Nimri, Juan Diego Botto, Gustavo Salmerón, Alfredo Villa, Antonia San Juan

Synopsis: Noted Basque-born director Daniel Calparsoro spins this high-octane crime thriller set in Madrid. The film opens with a violent car wreck witnessed by stunning Lucia (Najwa Nimri) and her thuggish boyfriend Chino (Gustavo Salmeron). Just before Chino, Lucia, and their buddy Charly (Juan Diego Botto Read More

2000
Before Night Falls

Actors: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn

Synopsis: For his sophomore feature film effort, visual artist Julian Schnabel chronicles the life of one of Cuba's most charismatic literary voices, the late Reinaldo Arenas. Working with Arenas' friends and family, Schnabel recounts the author's impoverished rural upbringing and the intense love and Read More

2000
Open Your Eyes

Actors: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez, Najwa Nimri

Synopsis: The line between dreams and reality become increasingly blurred after a womanizing playboy is nearly killed by a jilted lover in Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar's masterful sophomore effort Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes). It would seem as if Cesar (Eduardo Noriega) has it all. Handsome Read More

4/16/99
The Lovers of the Arctic Circle

Actors: Najwa Nimri, Fele Martínez, Nancho Novo, Maru Valdivielso, Peru Medem

Synopsis: Julio Medem directed this romantic Spanish drama with location scenes in Finland. School children Ana (Sara Valiente) and Otto (Peru Medem) are brought together when a paper airplane flown from a window by Otto unites Ana's mother Olga (Maru Valdiviesio) with Otto's father Alvaro (Nancho Novo). Read More

4/9/99
A Ciegas

Actors: Najwa Nimri, Alfredo Villa, Ramon Barea, Javier Nogueiras, Elena Irureta

Synopsis: Featuring plenty of two-fisted action with romantic and political overtones, this intelligent thriller from Spanish director Daniel Calparsoro is set in the Basque region of northernmost Spain and centers on the clash between two Basque terrorists whose relationship becomes strained when the Read More

1997
Pasajes

Synopsis: In this talky Spanish thriller, Gabi, a lesbian gang member seeks to convince her middle-aged heterosexual dreamgirl Carmina to become her new lover and crime partner. The story begins as Gabi and her lover burst into another woman's apartment, tie her up and begin robbing her. The police show up Read More

1996
Salto al Vacío

Synopsis: This Spanish drama chronicles the struggles of a gang of amoral hoods to survive in a hopelessly violent urban world. The film open inside a crowded getaway car right after a robbery. In is are three men, a woman, and a blindfolded cop, their hostage. Esteban, a robber, is sure that the cop saw Read More

1995