Juan Diego Botto
Date of Birth: 29 Aug 1975
Country: Argentina
Total Credits at Criticker: 33 (Actor), 1 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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As a Latin American nation nears collapse under a highly organized terrorist movement, idealistic policeman Agustin Rejas (Bardem) faces the greatest challenge of his career: to catch the mysterious guerilla leader Ezequiel. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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Marga is having a streak of bad luck. Through her friendship with Rosa, she tries to regain her self-confidence, but love interests again create conflict. It is while developing a relationship with a handsome gay sculptor ten years her junior: Iñaqui, that she starts to improve. However, Marga and Iñaqui go beyond friendship, but are frustrated by their limitations. Ultimately, the two may have to settle for an "impossible" love relationship, as their unique best road to happiness.
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Lauren (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned American reporter for the Chicago Sentinel heads to Juarez, a Mexican bordertown, in order to investigate a series of mysterious slayings involving young factory women from all over Mexico. As she discovers hundreds of victims, she gains the trust of local factory workers but falls into danger. (imdb)
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19-year-old Argentina Martin has a nearly fatal drug overdose. After that his mother sends him to Madrid, where his film director father (also called Martin) lives with his new much younger lover Alicia and gay actor friend Dante. (imdb)
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In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women. (imdb)
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Carlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers. And more each time, each adventure is chained to the next, as if it were a continuous night. A long description of people: grandfather, parents, sister, girlfriend, friends. (imdb)
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A rural drama set in Obaba, a mythical region in northern Spain, where a young filmmaker struggled to capture the feel of the area, which in turn leads to a wealth of self-discovery.(imdb)
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"The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again. (imdb)
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Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma. (imdb)
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An epic tale of an uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as «El Greco». Set in the 16th century, El Grecos search for freedom, and love, ranges from the courts of Crete and Venice to Toledo in Spain. Here he is confronted by his greatest adversary the Holy Inquisition. Never backing down in his fight with the establishments of his day El Grecos story is one of unusual heroism, betrayal, love, and the power of one man and his creative consciou (imdb)
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With beautiful Madrid as a backdrop, this stylish thriller chronicles the escapades of winsome Lucía (Najwa Nimri), her thuggish beau, Chino (Gustavo Salmerón), and their pal Charly (Juan Diego Botto) as the trio pursues a lucrative life of crime. All the while, Chino's bluecoat brother (Alfredo Villa) attempts to keep his sibling on the right side of the law -- a scenario Chino exploits to rat out his two comrades for personal profit. (Netflix)
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In the gated community of Altos de la Cascada, idyllic life goes on as usual, from imitation mansions houses with large gardens and heated swimming pools. Separated from reality by walls and cameras that watch everything, the country of Altos is a perfect bubble in a country bristling with thorns. One morning comes a gruesome discovery three corpses are floating in a pool. The finding is disturbing to this closed community, which is quick to label and define accident as a tragedy and misfortune. (from DVD)
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The young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto's servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Celestina to further the romance. However Calisto's other servant Parmeno is suspicious of Celestina, as he knows about her tricks. After Celestina convinces Melibea of Calisto's love and arranges a brief clandestine meeting between them, Calisto gives Celestina a valuable chain of gold...
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Leo is immediately set adrift by his new found responsibilities as a single parent, a feeling that is made doubly distressing when Dafne, herself understandably confused and heartbroken by her mother's absence, asks for an "artificial" mother to help her fall asleep at night. It is here that Mañas takes the road less traveled, but to write any more about the plot line he introduces would be unfair to both the viewer and filmmaker alike. (imdb)
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When flaky novelist Mario turns up one day at the school where Daniel teaches, the educator is convinced the writer is a spirit from his repressed past, buried deep in his subconscious. As children, the two might almost have been brothers. But the marriage between Daniel's father and Mario's mother never materialized. (mubi.com)
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This majestic epic tells the true-life, stranger-than-fiction tale of eighteenth-century Greek pirate turned merchant Ioannis Varvakis, who rose from humble beginnings to become the head of one of the largest mercantile empires in Europe. (tiff.net)
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The film tells in a funny way the ups and downs of a widower who would like to marry again. But his choice to take a young woman as the bride does not conform with what his three daughters want as stepmother. (Written by Volker Boehm (imdb)
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A veteran actor lives with his girlfriend in a small apartment. But suddenly, appears his thirty years old son, perturbing the home's tranquility.
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Adapted from a novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina. A police inspector is assigned to a small provincial town. He must face a difficult case: a girl has appeared brutally murdered. (Filmaffinity)
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Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She meets Manuel again, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, because of his smile and the bravery of those men who continue fighting for their ideas, even at the cost of their own lives. (Written by Anonymous (imdb)
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The life of a young girl who plays with little animals and insects is suddenly changed with the arrival of a film crew and a strange man. (imdb)
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Zorro (1990) - TV Series
Set in Spanish California, this often-refilmed story chronicles the adventures of Don Diego de la Vega, a young nobleman who lives a double live as El Zorro ('the Fox'), protector of the people of the Pueblo de Los Angeles during the early 1800s. Hiding behind the mannerisms of a bookish fop, Diego keeps his second identity hidden from everyone but his servant, Felipe. Zorro's greatest enemy is always the Alcalde, who personifies the distant Spanish government in Los Angeles. Cantina-owner (and (imdb)
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Ismael Tchou (8 years old), takes a train towards Barcelona. He has run away from home because he wants to find Felix, his father, whom he never knew. His only clue is an address of an apartment in Barcelona, written in the return address of a letter to his mother. (imdb)
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Good Behavior (2016) - TV Series
Letty Raines is a thief and con artist whose life is always one wrong turn, one bad decision, from implosion. Which is just how she likes it. Fresh out of prison, she's attempting to stay afloat. But when she overhears a hit man being hired to kill a man's wife, she sets out to derail the job, sending her on a wild collision course with the charming killer, and entangling them in dangerous, seductive relationship.
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A young sculptor named Jacobo comes back to his natal village after twenty years from auto-exile because of the bad health of his mother. Once there she will discover dark and hide secrets that will start to unravel after one night when he thinks he heard a thirteenth bell at midnight.
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Set amidst the gender-bending tumult of the Madrid nightclub scene, this black and twisted Spanish comedy features excerpts from the lives of a number of offbeat characters. First there is Max, a gigolo who has returned to Madrid to rekindle an affair with Yeye, the lover he betrayed. Max is a murder suspect and is pursued by a psychotic cop... (All Movie Guide)
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In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis". These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback (imdb).
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White Lines (2020) - TV Series
A woman tries to solve the mysterious death of her brother, a famous DJ who disappeared from Ibiza many years ago. (imdb)
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In this World War II murder mystery, a series of bodies signal a serial killer on the loose. A cop turned soldier goes on a personal mission to find the sadistic, cunning killer. (imdb)
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No me gusta conducir (2022) - TV Series
Pablo, at 40 years old, must learn to drive, and as a classmate, he will have one of his university students. (imdb)
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Martha's strained relationship with her mother fractures completely when a misunderstanding drives them apart. Their mutual friend Ingrid sees both sides of the rift. (imdb)
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