Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

Country: Spain
Total Credits at Criticker: 31 (Actor)
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Something sinister is lurking under the surface of 10 year old Michele's idyllic summer in 1978. While the days in his remote southern Italian village are filled with the familiar routines of childhood, a chance discovery leads to a shocking revelation. (Miramax)
Trevor Reznik has not slept for a year. His every waking minute has become an unremitting nightmare of confusion, paranoia, guilt, anxiety and terror - each of which is part of an escalating series of clues that will lead to the source of his mysterious affliction. (Paramount Classics)
After returning from the war, Paul and a young woman meet on a bus as she's headed home from college to help with the grape harvest and face her Old World domineering dad. The woman has not married but is pregnant and she thinks her father is going to kill her... (imdb)
Ledoyen and Considine play a young married couple at the end of the 1970s, who come to visit a friend (Oldman) who now lives in the Basque region because he has married a woman from there (Sánchez-Gijón). Their tranquil summer turns to horror when they discover a girl with horribly mutilated hands in the forest... (imdb)
For financial reasons an unemployed aspiring actor works for a phone-sex enterprise. One day he receives a call from the mysterious wife of one of his best clients. (imdb)
A theater troupe arrives in the beautiful northern Spanish city of Oviedo to stage an adaptation of Leopoldo Alas' 19th-century classic, "La Regenta." The group includes arrogant egomaniac Benjamin Olmo, married to prima donna Mariola Mayo, and depressive alcoholic Alvaro Mesia, who's hopelessly in love with Mariola. Ernesto de Villamarin is the mayor of Oviedo, married to young doctoral student Emma. Emma's mother, wacky widow Mina, claims Emma's father was an angel... (movies.yahoo.com)
Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Titanic and cannot get a room, asks to share his. They do, chastely; when he awakens, she is gone, but he sees her at the sailing and gets a photo of her. When he returns home, he suspects that his wife Zoe has been sleeping with Simeon, the foundry owner. Horty goes to the bar, where he starts telling an erotic fantasy of what happened with him and Marie. (imdb)
The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries, at a time when Madrid was wobbling through a difficult time and setting the scene for the following Prim vs Crown uprising (imdb)
Manolo (Diego Peretti) is suffering a crisis: unbearable rutine at work, marriage problems with Beatriz (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón) and unsatisfying relationship with his children. One day he meets Antonio (Andoni Hernández) a 15 year-old boy with cancer that changes his life. A Christmas story full of... coincidences.
A Spanish novelist is asked to write captions and commentary for a cache of unsent letters and photos by an Argentinian killed during the Spanish Civil War. Traveling to Argentina, she discovers parallels between herself and the woman who was the subject of the photos/addressee of the unsent letters, especially when she meets people who knew her and the Argentinian.
Barbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between Portugal and Galicia a bandit called El Argentino. In her travel she meets two men that say that they belong to his gang. (imdb)
A liberal interpretation of Henrik Ibsen's play "Little Eyolf." When their only son dies from a sudden accident, a rift breaks Alfred and Rita's seemingly trouble free marriage, and they rush headlong into catastrophe. As they do so, theirs and their friends' lives are changed for forever. (worldscinema.org)
Carmen (Mercedes Sampietro) is a puzzle to all the people who surround her: her parents, her grown son, and a charming literature professor. They cannot understand how she can prefer solitude to being in their company. Her work certainly thrives in solitude, as she is a restorer of old paintings. She is content to care for one of her infant grandchildren and a new puppy in splendid isolation (movies.msn.com)
La muerte de Otilia Ruiz (2011) - Short Film
Otilia Ruiz is the last link in a chain of women, marked by tragedy. Otilia looks desperately for an exit, but she doesn't know that, after entering the dark streets of Tierra Negra, anything will be the same anymore.
Velvet (2013) - TV Series
In this period drama set in the 50s, the heir to the Galerías Velvet fashion house alarms his family when he woos one of the company's seamstresses.
A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta tells Antonio the man's first name. Carmen tells him that the man meant nothing to her, and that the photograph was taken before she met Antonio.
Roulette (1999) - Short Film
Five housewives drink coffee together in a kitchen. They talk about supermarket special offers while playing Russian roulette. (imdb)
Along with her two friends, a determined woman travels to Vietnam to bring home the young girl her recently deceased daughter had planned to adopt. (wikipedia.org)
Two romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers get involved in a caper.
A bored arrogant playboy spends his time seducing other men's wives and dueling. He begins an affair with his friend's wife but soon falls in love with her. She becomes pregnant. Is it his?
A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.
For the young Méte, a graphologist fascinated by the psychology hidden behind writing, it's an embarrassing and difficult situation having to take care of his half-sister Belinda, a seventeen-year-old teenager in the balance between everything and nothing, during the second marriage of Méte's father (the only thing the two have in common). To avoid the situation, Méte pretends to be mostly busy with Damiano, a womanizer friend, and Bruno, colleague and separated father. (imdb)
In Madrid in 1968, the sad daily life of a family whose parents fought for the Republic is interrupted by the appearance of a brother who had to go into exile in Argentina. (FILMAFFINITY)
When a fashion employee thinks she will have to end her promising career after getting pregnant, her boss offers to adopt the child. (imdb)
La regenta (1995) - TV Mini-Series
La Regenta is a realist novel by Spanish author Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, also known as Clarín, published in 1884 and 1885. (imdb)
A Woman's life takes a definitive turn the day that she loses her job as a computer programmer. (imdb)
Breathless (2024) - TV Series
Biel, a resident at a public hospital, has spent months dedicating his life to becoming a doctor. A general strike protesting cuts to public health Biel and residents consider supporting the strike, which could have fatal consequences. (imdb)
In 1947, the Franco regime opened the first film school in Spain. The foundation in Madrid of the Institute of Investigations and Cinematographic Experiences (IIEC) in 1947, has been the most important event in the history of Spanish cinema.