Luis Zahera
Birthday: Born in 1966-05-23 in Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Deathday: Alive
José Luis de Castro Zahera, better known as Luis Zahera, is a Spanish actor, winner of a Goya in 2019 and 2023 for his performance in El reino and As bestas, respectively.
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Entrevías
Character: Ezequiel
When his teenage granddaughter falls victim to the drug dealers overtaking his neighborhood, a fed-up war veteran takes matters into his own hands....
Cuéntame un cuento
Character: Ramiro
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Cuéntame cómo pasó
Character: Mateo Peña
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy....
Círculo rojo
Character: Tamayo
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El chiringuito de Pepe
Character: Teniente Colman
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Buscando el Norte
Character: Roberto
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That's My Jam (España)
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El padre de Caín
Character: Bermejo
The Basque Country, Spain, 1980s. In an atmosphere of tension and fear, where the harassment of separatist nationalism and the violence of ETA terrorist gang are a constant in life, Eloy, a young civil guard from Madrid, arrives at the Intxaurrondo base, in San Sebastián, as a volunteer; a hostile environment that causes havoc among his companions: alcoholism, depression and suicides reign. The so-called “Northern Syndrome” kills as much as bombs do....
Mareas vivas
Character: Celso Puga "Petroleo"
Mareas vivas is located in a ficticious seaside village in Galicia, northwestern Spain, and explores the lives of the local people....
La resistencia
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La última
Character: Madison
Candela works at a logistics company while she pursues her dream of becoming a singer. Her life changes one night when a multinational record company executive hears her sing in a bar. That same night, Candela meets up with Diego, an old high school classmate of hers who is fighting to be a professional boxer....
La unidad
Character: Sergio
A secret unit of cops is assembled to stop a terrorist band from attacking Spain after their leader is arrested there....
Pratos Combinados
Character: Hugo Pastrala
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Operación Marea Negra
Character: Cesáreo
November 2019. A semi-submersible loaded with three tons of cocaine is seized off the Galician coast after having crossed the Atlantic. The captain, Nando, a promising young amateur boxer, travels accompanied by a Brazilian mechanic and a Colombian hitman. Three strangers locked up for almost a month in a claustrophobic handmade boat....
Land Rober Tunai Show
Character:
Land Rober Tunai Show is two continuous hours of humor, guests, music, comedy, collaborators and has the direct participation of the audience in the studio....
La Zona
Character: Lucio
The disastrous meltdown of a nuclear power plant in Northern Spain created a contaminated no-go zone and left the nearby provincial city and inhabitants in a state of shock and mourning. Three years later, while the city prepares for the commemoration ceremony, a mutilated body is found in a warehouse. Police inspector Hector Uria's search for the murderer takes him deep into the no-go zone and into his own past....
Vivir sin Permiso
Character: Ferro
When a Galician shipper and drug lord hiding his Alzheimer's disease plans to retire, his second-in-command plots to steal the empire from the heir....
Víctor Ros
Character: Ángel Sarabia
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Movie Credits
Infiesto
Character: Ricardo Marquinos
As the coronavirus upends their lives, two detectives doggedly pursue those responsible for an abduction they realize is part of a sinister pattern....
La silla
Character: Policía B
A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop....
Cell 211
Character: Releches
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal....
Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer
Character: Pereira
In 17th century Spain Diego Alatriste, a brave and heroic soldier, is fighting in his King's army in the Flandes region. His best mate, Balboa, falls in a trap and, near to death, asks Diego to look after his son and teach him to be a soldier....
The Valdemar Legacy
Character: Lovecraft
Luisa Llorente, an expert on taxation of old buildings, had recently gone to the Victorian mansion Valdemar to conduct an inventory of property ownership. After she mysteriously disappeared, Maximilian, president of her company, engaged the services of a private detective to help find her. But soon they will discover that it is not the first disappearance at Valdemar mansion!...
The Year of the Tick
Character: Sr. Nieto
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The Beasts
Character: Xan
Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic but for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability....
The Contestant
Character: Pizarro
Martín's lucky hit when he wins the most lucrative prize in television history puts his life upside down....
Birds Flying East
Character: Mario
Colombo works at a 24-hour parking lot and tops up his measly wages by selling weed. Mario is a lawyer and a keen birdwatcher, but unfortunately for him, he is unable to drive due to a past accident. Mario offers to pay Colombo to drive him from Valencia to a lake in the Costa Brava (Spain), where he wants to see some cranes. When they reach the lake, the lawyer tells him that the birds have changed their migratory route and are now going to nest in the Danube delta in Constanza (Romania). Mario...
Monkey Business
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Joaquin, Brujo and Luismi, three neighbourhood scoundrels, meet again after twenty years. Brujo and Luismi are still unemployed while Joaquin swears he has become an important businessman. However, one day he receives a notification that his mother's house has been repossessed for a loan. He will try to get the money he neds to avoid eviction, but the brilliant ideas of Brujo and Luismi will end up plunging Joaquin even deeper into misery...
Game of Werewolves
Character: Guardia Civil
After 15 years, Tomas, a not very succesfull writer, comes back to the village in Galicia where his family comes from, Arga, apparently to get an award. But he doesn't know the real reason why he is there, to end with an old curse that is been haunting the village for the last hundred years....
Gutbai, Charly
Character: Xaquín
A small town fisherman is forced to confront himself and his everyday life after making the decision to leave the drug dealing business he was once involved with....
Rated R
Character: Ángel Mota
Madrid, Spain, 1975. Sandra, Lina and Eva are three beautiful women who work as actresses in erotic movies. After meeting during a shoot, they become friends and begin to share experiences, concerns and successes in an era of increasing openness, although true freedom is still far away and demands a price hard to pay....
The Courier
Character: Comisario Manuel Roig
After shrewdly seizing his chance to join a money-laundering scheme, a modest valet dives into a world of fast cash, fast cars — and an inevitable crash....
Combustion
Character: Detective
Mikel will marry Julia, owner of a major jewelry he inherited from his parents. During the party in announcing their commitment, Mikel meets Ari, one of the waitresses catering. The attraction that arises between them will make Mikel is interested in the world of Ari: illegal motor racing. Then, the protagonist of this story decides to leave Julia without knowing the true intentions of the person who has seduced. Ari and her boyfriend, Navas, have hatched a plan to get around Mikel jewelry made ...
Invader
Character: Arturo
Iraq, 2003. Pablo, a Spanish army doctor sent on a peacekeeping mission, is involved in an attack on his convoy during a routine trip through the desert....
Faraday
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Faraday is a weirdo telepath who is starting to lose his faith in the paranormal. His girlfriend, Diana, is a blogger whose highest aspiration in life is to be famous on the internet. When they decide to move in together they opt for a suspiciously cheap flat which turns out to be haunted....
Awareness
Character: Dr
Ian is a teenager who lives with his father on the outskirts by running small scams using Ian's ability to generate visual illusions upon unsuspecting victims. When one of his cons goes awry, his abilities publicly spiral out of control and Ian becomes the target of two rival organizations, each seeking to exploit his powers....
The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow
Character: Lovecraft
A group of friends discover an ancient book, the Necronomicon, the Book of the Deads. They discover that the book is a link between our world and the world of ancients creatures, older than our civilizations....
Table for 3
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Five friends book a table at an exclusive restaurant to discover upon arrival that the establishment can only offer them a table for three, so two of them must stay without dinner. An unforeseen event that will test the friendship and ties between them....
Death of a Fisherman
Character: Jose Arias
One morning, the body of a sailor is found lying on the beach, washed in by the tide.. With no witnesses or any sign of the dead man’s boat, Inspector Leo Caldas begins immersing himself in the town’s seafaring atmosphere as he endeavours to shed light on the crime. He finds himself among men and women who prefer not to reveal their suspicions to him. But a sudden discovery sets him off in an unexpected direction....
Amateur
Character: Ricardo
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Wrap Up
Character: Padre de Miguel
Valeria (Manuela Pal) has changed his native Buenos Aires by Betanzos, a town of Coruña, in Spain from which his family. Eccentric, dreamy and fun, at 25 years old is in the most surreal emotional crossroads in his life: after the sudden death of her mature and attractive lover, Marcelo falls for the son of the deceased. Her friend Adela (Mary Bouzas), owner of the salon where they both work, will help clear up questions. A story about the universal desire to find their own identity, deciphering...
Retribution
Character: Driver
While Carlos, a banking executive, takes his two kids to school in his car, he gets a phone call telling him that there is a bomb under the seats and he must to gather a large amount of money; otherwise, his car will blow up....
Blockbuster
Character:
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Todo es silencio
Character: Malpica
In Brétema, on the Atlantic coast, there was a time when networks of smuggling, drug trafficking converted, achieved so much influence that they were close to control everything: social power, institutions, the lives of its people. Fins, Leda and Frink explore the coast in search of what the sea throws after a wreck, the sea is for them a place of continual discovery. The fate of these young people will be marked by the shadow odious and fascinating at the same time the ubiquitous Marshall, owne...
Diario de un skin
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El Club de los 27
Character: Max
A talented, 25 years old young musician, is tempted by an entertainment businessman to sign a promising contract, which have an unavoidable clause....
Amanece en Samaná
Character: Mario
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May God Save Us
Character: Alonso
Madrid, summer 2011. Economic crisis. 15-M movement and 1.5 million pilgrims waiting for the Pope’s arrival live side by side in a Madrid that’s hotter and more chaotic than ever. In this context, detectives Velarde and Alfaro must find what seems to be a serial killer. Their against-the-clock hunt will make them realise something they’d never imagined: neither of them are so very different from the killer....
The Way I Love You
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Dani is a petty criminal who falls in love with the female police officer who arrests him after a robbery. It is love at first sight, a moment of unexpected brilliance. And above all something new, as Dani had never been in love before....
La Xirgu
Character: Ramón María del Valle-Inclán
1927. Spain under the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship. The great actress, Margarita Xirgu and her company are about to perform "Maria Pineda" by a young Federico Garcia Lorca. The Dictatorship cannot tolerate it, but the actress, Margarita Xirgu, in the name of freedom will stand her ground....
Nothing in Return
Character: Policía municipal
One summer, Dario flees the hellish environment of his home. Luismi, unconditional friend, a poor devil with pretensions of winning, and Antonia, an old woman who collects abandoned his motorcar furniture, become his new family. Three generations living together in a city too big to be alone....
Onde Está a Felicidade?
Character: Anxo
Teodora discovers that her husband was having a virtual relationship and enters a crisis, which results in the loss of her job as a presenter of a culinary program. Disillusioned, she decides to hit the road and sets out on a journey of self-discovery, walking the Way of Santiago de Compostela, in Spain....
Marina
Character: Pablo
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Strangers on the Road
Character: Hombre 1
While carrying a mysterious package, Mikel notices he is being followed by a black car. In an attempt to get away, he ends up at a roadside bar where he meets Sara, a girl who doesn't trust easily....
The App
Character:
'THE APP' is an application that gives to its customers the steps to achieve happiness. One day, Benito a fat and not very bright man, wakes up in his luxurious loft with his girlfriend, a beautiful Nordic model. When he consults the application, THE APP tells him that he must jump off the balcony...
The Realm
Character: Cabrera
Manuel, a Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes him to the public eye. Rather than admit to any wrongdoing, he decides to sell out his whole party in an effort to avoid jail time. It's a decision that will put many lives at risk....
While at War
Character: Atilano
Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position....
Tarkovsky
Character: Client
A man enters a video rental store where some arcane beings as Goran Paskaljevich, Michael Cacoyannis, Ferzan Ozpetek or Andrei Tarkovsky stalk him from the shelves, while the shop manager is reading a book by James Joyce; but he just wants to rent a blockbuster....
La noche que dejó de llover
Character:
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El váter susurra
Character:
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Spanish Movie
Character: Antonio
Large doses of humor, ingenious nods to Spain's most recent national cinema, an artistic cast highly linked to comedy and a high reserve of surprises constitute the ingredients of this crazy comedy: Spanish Movie....
Planeta Azúcar
Character: Hombre
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23-F: la película
Character: Jesús Muñecas Aguilar
The failed coup d'état of February 23, 1981, which began with the capture of the Congress of Deputies and ended with the release of parliamentarians, put at serious risk the Spanish democracy....
Lena
Character: Antonio
Set in Galicia in northwest Spain - an area famed for its beauty and smuggling - this film shows a once-thriving fishing and shipbuilding culture fallen on hard times. Feisty, street smart Lena, 18, lives in semi-penury with her hard-drinking slob of a father, Gorrión, and hopes to escape by getting a grant to study in Portugal. Gorrion is mixed up with local drug-smuggling mafiosi, that includes Lena's godfather, Gitano, their Portugese Cachero, and the strong, silent Milio. One day, Lena retur...
The Silence of the Marsh
Character: Taxi Driver
A successful, cold-blooded crime novelist gets involved in a kidnapping case while uncovering the corrupt ties between politicians and the local mafia in Valencia, Spain....
Xtreme
Character: Urquiza
Two years after the murder of his son and father, a retired hitman sets in motion a carefully crafted revenge plan against the killer: his own brother....
Divine Words
Character:
A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law....
Crazy About Her
Character: Saúl
After a magical night together, Adri voluntarily turns himself into the psychiatric institution where Carla lives....