Asunción Balaguer
Know for: Acting
Born: 1925-11-08
Place of birth: Manresa, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
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Solo mía (2001)
A women meets a charming man and falls in love, they get married and start a family. As they age and have children, the man's becomes violent and...
Enloquecidas (2008)
Blanca confesses to her aunt Barbara she met the man of her live and he disappeared. By chance in a charming old couples house for sale, they find...
Mouth to Mouth (1995)
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...
Stork Day (2004)
Filippo is a star on the Italian TV. He works for a documentary series about wild animals and nature. He is sent to Tenerife (Spain) to shot an issue...
How to Be Miserable and Enjoy It (1994)
Carmen, an attractive 40 year old woman, suddenly belongs a widow. For her, the emptiness feeling is new and disorienting. Trying to rebuild her...
El canto del gallo (1955)
A Catholic priest lives in a communist country where all religious are being killed. When trying to escape is stopped by a commissioner who had been...
Lulú de noche (1986)
German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While...
How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt (1991)
Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her...
La niña de tus sueños (1995)
Film centred around a mother, Françoise, who is HIV positive and her young daughter Ana.
Peixe-Lua (2000)
The story of a family of bull fighters.
Ciudadano Villanueva (2012)
The spanish Javier Villanueva is imprisoned with the false accusation of murder of a prosecutor in Bolivia. His father fight to uncover a plot...
Wiped-Out Footprints (1999)
Manuel is a Spanish writer who has emigrated to Argentina. He hears that his childhood village in Spain is to be turned into a reservoir, and returns...
Luisa Is Not Home (2012)
Luisa’s washing machine has stopped working. After the initial misfortune this will represent, it will actually become her perfect alibi to...
Una mujer sin sombra. Asunción Balaguer (2015)
The Challenges (1969)
Los desafíos presents three separate stories that are linked by an American presence in Spain in the 1960s, with Dean Selmier playing the role...
Nights of Constantinople (2001)
The triumph of a young man in an important erotic literature contest reaches the ears of his grandmother.
Barcelona Christmas Night (2015)
Multiple love stories unfold in Barcelona during Christmas's Eve.
La otra imagen (1973)
A blind couple's marriage is tested when the wife is drawn to a blind writer.
María Rosa (1965)
In order to get María Rosa, the woman he is deeply in love with, Marsal murders a moneylender hated by all the people and casts suspicion on...
El hermano bastardo de Dios (1986)
This drama concerns a seven-year-old boy, Pepe Luis (Lucas Martin, as the younger Pepe and Paco Rabal Cerezales as Pepe at ten) who lives through the...
Abstenerse agencias (2011)
A young couple visits a widow named Amparo on Christmas Eve to possibly buy her floor. But Amparo seems more interested in their lives than a flat...
What the Eye Doesn't See (2012)
All families have secrets and lies, and at some point everyone has thought of confessing everything. But when? How? One by one? Suddenly at a family...
Twisted Obsession (1989)
An American writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and...
Brain Drain (2009)
Emilio, a shy, not too brilliant pupil at a humble local secondary school, has always harboured a secret love for Natalia, the cutest, brightest girl...
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin (2015)
"Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one that I prefer." "As inexplicable as the...
Exorcism's Daughter (1971)
Tania, an asylum patient, is under the doctor's care while suffering raging behavioral effects that follow the death of her exorcised mother.
The Baby's Room (2006)
Juan and Sonia arrive at a large old house, an ideal place to raise their newborn son. When, one night before going to bed, they check the operation...
Divine (1998)
"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of...
Sweet (2011)
In the window of the house, where some say the sweetness dwells, is reflected, every night, a delicious story.
Myway (2008)
Small-scale hustler Marc is stretched to the limit when a drug deal goes wrong and runs him afoul of the mob, which only exacerbates his existing...
El crimen del expreso de Andalucía (1991)
Madrid, 1924. A ne'er-do-well in his 30s, perpetual disappointment to his aging military father, hatches a plan to rob the mail train to Andalusia....
O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador (2003)
One bad thing never comes alone, says the people. The village Estrela is threatened by the waters of the new Alqueva dam. It will become an "island"....
The Man Who Lost His Shadow (1992)
Paul has left his wife and children. Now his wife and ex-mistress is on the hunt for him.
Socarrat (2009)
We all have secrets. We all have family. We all search for happiness. What if we share our secrets and search for happiness together?
Memorias del ángel caído (1997)
A group of parishioners die poisoned upon receiving communion, during the investigation of the event the priests of the parish begin to have visions....
Rosario (2005)
Story of a mother who unconditionally loves her son.
Días de voda (2002)
Sonia, the daughter of a prominent publisher, is about to fulfill her lifelong dream of marrying Rosendo, a promising writer with homosexual...
The Long Winter (1992)
In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and...
Police Calling 091 (1960)
A police inspector makes his service in a patrol car attenging emergency calls. A memory hauns him, the death of her daughter, who was killed hit by...
The Witching Hour (1985)
César and Pilar tour the Spanish countryside with their bus, showing films and doing magic spectacles in small villages. In one of these trips...
El camino (1964)
Shortly before leaving his small town to go to the big city to study, young Daniel recalls his childhood, surrounded by family and friends.
Caiman's Dream (2001)
Iñaki, a petty thief, is forced to leave Spain because of a crime that got complicated. He decides to go to Mexico to meet his father, and...
Paper Birds (2010)
At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the members of a group of vaudeville performers have been stripped of everything: all they have left is hunger...
First and Last Love (2002)
An elderly man returns to his native town with the hope of finding his childhood love.