Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Popularity:0.681
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1968-11-05
Place of Birth:Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Also Known As:Aitana Sanchez Gijo, Aitana Sanchez Gijon, Aitana Sánchez Gijón, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón de Angelis, Айтана Санчес-Хихон, 埃塔娜·桑切斯·吉永

Something Is About to Happen (2023)
After losing her job as a computer programmer, Lucía decides to become a cab driver.

The Machinist (2004)
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to...

The Nautical Chart (2007)
Coy, a sailor without ship, banished from the sea by a navigation accident occurred during his guard, knows in an auction of naval objects in...

A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she...

The Backwoods (2006)
An English couple's holiday in Spain is interrupted when they discover a girl imprisoned in a cabin.

Survivor's Day (2023)
Malvivir tells in first person the secret life of the rogue Elena de Paz, a free, rebellious, thieving, ingenious, deceitful and fugitive woman who...

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...

The Frost (2009)
A couple's marriage falls apart after the death of their son. Based on Henrik Ibsen's "Little Eyolf"

La Regenta (1995)
The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's...

Maktub (2011)
The title refers to those strange coincidences that happen to us sometimes and that seem inevitable, like a product of destiny. Inspired by the...

Volaverunt (1999)
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...

Express Oviedo (2007)
All hell breaks loose when an eccentric theatrical ensemble arrives in Oviedo, Spain to stage a production of the Leopoldo Alas play -La Regenta.

Tell Me About Love (2008)
Sasha is a 25-year-old orphan who asks Nicole, a married Frenchwoman in her forties, for advice to seduce Benedetta, his long-unrequited love. The...

The Whore and the Whale (2004)
A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War, and of a woman. Her quest for...

Jealousy (1999)
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...

Wounded Animals (2006)
Silvio is a well-to-do business executive who is seemingly happily married to Marcia. However, Silvio is convinced Marcia is cheating on him, and...

The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997)
Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the...

The Sea and the Weather (1989)
Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different from the one he left: they live under the sadness of...

The Bird of Happiness (1993)
While some people need to be surrounded by friends to be happy, Carmen (Mercedes Sampietro) is perfectly content by herself, pursuing her vocation as...

Love Walked In (1997)
Two romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers get involved in a caper.

The First Look (2024)
In Spain, a poor country ruined by the recent Civil War (1936-39), and in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a film school was created in Madrid in...

Tangos Are for Two (1998)
A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story...

El genio tranquilo (2006)
A watchmaker from Soweto finds a shoebox out of which he makes an improvised camera, aligns two lenses, and by looking through them, discovers images...

With Good Reason (2004)
A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq,...

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite (2023)
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with...

Under Her Control (2022)
When a fashion employee thinks she will have to end her promising career after getting pregnant, her boss offers to adopt the child.

Blind Man's Bluff (1994)
A young heiress, Bianca, blind following an accident, stays in a beautiful hotel in the Caribbean. The business is managed by Anna and her beautiful...

The Misfits Club (2014)
Valeria has just moved to Madrid after her parent's separation. What at first seems a bad start for her new life becomes the beginning of an amazing...

Going Down in Morocco (1989)
A girl who lives with her dealer cousin and her policeman boyfriend who is a policeman regularly transports drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all...

Without a Trace (2001)
A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.

La muerte de Otilia Ruiz (2011)
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...

Disco Inferno (2015)
An infernal civil servant is on a mission to rescue her boss. But the Devil is not ready to get back to her daily routine.

Redondela (1987)
4,000 tons of oil have been stolen from a Galician deposit. The alleged thieves are defended by the lawyer Ramos, but the witnesses die and...

I'm Not Scared (2003)
While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town...

Teresa (2015)
A new vision of the figure of Saint Teresa through the eyes of a young woman of our day who reads one of the main works written by the saint, The...

Viento de cólera (1988)
Two soldiers accompanied by two women enter the Baztán valley on horseback. They are deserters from the army of the Indies who are fleeing to...

The Perfect Husband (1993)
Dostoevsky-inspired drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men's wives and dueling. He begins an...

The Frontier Law (1995)
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...

Thi Mai (2018)
After losing her daughter in an accident, Carmen loses all incentive to keep going, until she receives an unexpected letter from the adoption agency:...

El crimen de Perpignan (1991)
Perpignan, 1971. A toy factory supervisor becomes obsessed with a newly hired employee. To be with her, he plans the perfect crime: Training his...

The Greek Labyrinth (1993)
Two Frenchmen, Bernadette and Lebrum, arrive in Barcelona and hire detective Bardon to find Alekos, the former Greek lover of the woman.

Jarrapellejos (1988)
Pedro Jarrapellejos is a ladies man who cannot turn the heads of Isabel or her beautiful daughter. When both peasant women are found raped and...

The Monk (1990)
In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace....

Romanza final (Gayarre) (1986)
Biography of Julian Gayarre (1844-1890), one of the best tenors of all times. At 19, a professor at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid heard him...

Querido Fotogramas (2018)
The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks...

Havanera 1820 (1993)
The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods that arrive to Cuba are not always the products that...

Drifters (2011)
A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee.

No hagas planes con Marga (1988)
One night, as in an apparition, Andres meets Marga, his first and only love. But before it can reach her it evaporates again. This appearance makes...

La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado (1996)
At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young pupil, Balthasar,is castrated to preserve the purity and...

Mi dulce (2001)
Laura is a fifteen-year-old teenager who receives a letter from her mother, of which she had no news a decade ago. Laura decides to try to go to...

Hidden Desire (1992)
Short film shot in 1992 starring Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Toni Castro.

Rowing with the Wind (1988)
In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a...

The Widow from Valencia (2010)
Tv movie adaptation of "The Widow from Valencia",a play written by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. It was written circa 1600 as a result of...

Yerma (1999)
Yerma is desperate to have children, so when a psychic advises her to look outside her marriage to conceive, what can she say but yes?

Volcánica (2018)
Carlota has an open war with the caretaker of her community, Candela, whom she considers a person at risk. Carlota did not always know that HIV does...

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health (1997)
Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.

Alex's Strip (2020)
After a long time, Alexandra is reunited with her father Álex, a Spanish-Maghrebi businessman, and accompanies him on a business trip to...

Velvet Colección: Grand Finale (2020)
Christmas 1969: the upcoming sale of Velvet brings the former and current staff together in Madrid for good memories, a second chance and a new...

A Man, a Real One (2003)
A shy computer expert falls in love with a beautiful colleague while trying to become a film director. Five years later, they have two children, she...

Anatomy of a Dandy (2020)
An account of the life and work of genius Spanish writer Francisco Umbral (1932-2007), author of almost 200 books and more than 1000 articles; as...

La mujer impuntual (1994)
The unpunctual woman.

Parallel Mothers (2021)
Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties,...

The Low Land (2025)
Carmen, a well-known writer on her fifties, has returned a year ago to a farmhouse in the small town where she was born, in Bajo Aragón...

Velvet (2014)
In 1950s Spain, the heir to a fashion house romances a beautiful seamstress who works for the company, despite the objections of his family.

Breathless (2024)
A passionate medical team is devoted to saving lives in a bustling public hospital where tensions — and romance — keep their pulses...

The Velvet Collection (2017)
It is the year 1967. After five happy years of marriage in New York with Alberto and their young son, Anna Ribera returns to Spain to take her...

Estoy vivo (2017)
A policeman dies chasing a serial killer and is reincarnated in another policeman five years later, granted immortality in exchange of never...

La Revuelta (2024)
David Broncano, along with Jorge Ponce, Ricardo Castella and his other collaborators, lead La Revuelta, a comedy show that includes multiple sections...