Raúl Arévalo

Raúl Arévalo

Birth : 1979-11-22, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Raúl Arévalo (born 22 November 1979) is a Spanish film actor, best known by international audiences for his role in the film Summer Rain, directed by Antonio Banderas. Description above from the Wikipedia article Raúl Arévalo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Raúl Arévalo

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Emergencia
Screenplay
Emergencia
Director
Voy a pasármelo bien
David (Adult)
David and Layla, two teenagers who really like "G-Men" and they like each other too, but everything he does to win her over ends badly. Thirty years later they meet again and realize that the feelings have not completely disappeared.
Wetland
Ricardo
As a severe drought punishes the vast expanses of rice fields in eastern Spain, the natural region of Laguna Blanca is named a Nature Preserve. A prestigious biologist, Ricardo, arrives in San Pedro to protect it. His family, however, is going through tough times but Ricardo is convinced that a change in their lives will help them move on. And it’s also an opportunity to get back to his roots, to his origins, to where he grew up as a boy and to reclaim this spot that had been buried in his fondest memories. Ricardo’s mission is to hinder the abusive and illegal use that everyone makes of the lagoon. But pressure and threats from the locals just keep getting worse. They consider Ricardo a traitor because all they are trying to do is defend their existence and their livelihood. Ricardo eventually comes to the realization that his life and that of his family are in danger.
La broma
Javier
Elena and her lover Javier set in motion a plan to assassinate her husband Alberto, a successful businessman.
More the Merrier
Jaime
Multiple stories about the oscillating world of couple relationships and how difficult it can be to separate sex from love.
The Europeans
Miguel Alonso
Spain at the end of the 50s. Miguel and Antonio, both single and in their early 30s, go on a trip to Ibiza, lured by the European sexual myth and the illusion of freedom. But on the island, nothing will be as they expected.
Black Beach
Carlos
Carlos, a ruthless Spanish negotiation expert working in Brussels, is tasked with handling the kidnapping of a senior oil company executive in a troubled West African country —with which he has old and deep ties—, torn by ethnic tensions and government abuses.
El cerro de los dioses
Raúl Arévalo
Pain and Glory
Venancio Mallo
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
Querido Fotogramas
Himself
The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic of voices represented by people who make films, those who write them and those who consume them. The documentary pays tribute to the readers of “Fotogramas” helped by the leading figures of Spanish cinema, who will read to the camera the most representative letters received at its offices in the history of the magazine.
Crime Wave
Taxi Driver
Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.
My Masterpiece
Alex
Arturo, the successful owner of an art gallery, and Renzo, a talented but decadent painter, are old friends who cannot stop bickering. One day, Arturo comes up with a solution to all their problems, but the plan they concoct turns out to be crazier and riskier than they originally expected.
The Plan
Andrade
Three friends who have been fired from the company where they worked and are demoralized because of their unemployment status. In these circumstances, they meet to undertake the plan that mentions the title but there is a problem: the car with which they would travel has broken down and the crane must wait.
Memorias de un hombre en pijama
This is the story of PACO, a 40-year-old, confirmed bachelor who, in the prime of his life, realises a childhood dream: to work at home in his pajamas. Just when he's reached the zenith of personal happiness, however, into his life walks Jilguero (the name means "Birdie" in Spanish), a girl he falls in love with who must get used to the fact that her man's main objective in life is to remain at home in his pajamas. This is also a story about the bachelors, the couples, and friends who, through their hilarious anecdotes, influence their lives and relationship.
The Warning
Jon
Ten-year-old Nico receives a threatening letter and now his life is in danger. No one seems to believe him except one person that he doesn't know.
Gold
Martín Dávila
Spanish soldiers battle indigenous tribes and their own brutal natures as they search for a legendary city built of gold.
Our Life
Writer
In his imagination, his favorite character, Chad Johnson, a fictional television detective, acts as Anton's spiritual guide, confused about his life choices and his love for Cora.
Our Life
Director
In his imagination, his favorite character, Chad Johnson, a fictional television detective, acts as Anton's spiritual guide, confused about his life choices and his love for Cora.
The Fury of a Patient Man
Writer
Quiet Jose woos cafe worker Ana, but she is unaware he has intentions other than the purely romantic.
The Fury of a Patient Man
Director
Quiet Jose woos cafe worker Ana, but she is unaware he has intentions other than the purely romantic.
To Steal from a Thief
Ferrán
Valencia, Spain. On a rainy morning, six armed men in disguise assault a bank. But what seemed like an easy heist, quickly goes wrong with nothing unfolding as planned, and mistrust quickly builds between the two leaders of the gang.
Hablar
An anthology film with 20 stories on the subject of words, communication, linked to one another over a 400-metre stretch: from Madrid's Lavapiés Square to the Sala Mirador. A journey between theatre and cinema, filmed in a single fixed shot running continuously over 80 minutes and half a kilometer, in Madrid's popular Lavapiés district. The characters talk, argue, laugh, cry, threaten, whisper, shout, steal, make dates, get angry with and hug one another, prompting the spectator to reflect on the immense power of words.
Sidetracked
Alberto
A rural couple in crisis, who have a brother and sister with urban problems, and all of them trying to find a solution.
The Club of the Misunderstood
Martín
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 life experience. New friendships, a city full of possibilities, first love...
Dying Beyond Their Means
Miguel
Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save the Spanish and world economy: kidnap the chairman of the Central Bank and demand that he return everything to the way it used to be.
Marshland
Pedro
The Spanish deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division - to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ideology, detectives Juan and Pedro must put aside their differences if they are to successfully hunt down a killer who for years has terrorized a community in the shadow of a general disregard for women rooted in a misogynistic past.
Negociador
Novio de Sophie
Manu Aranguren is a Basque politician who acts as a mediator for the Spanish government in its negotiations with ETA. Far from being a solemn, calculated occasion, unexpected occurrences, slip-ups or misunderstandings soon kick in to influence the dialogue. And the personal relationship between negotiators will be key in solving the conflict.
The Unexpected Love
Jorge
Juanito moved to New York to succeed as an actor. Years have gone by but success has not come his way and now he takes an odd jobs to survive. One day he is visited by his apparently successful cousin. However, their life together will discover the reality behind each of them.
People in Places
A fragmented view of contemporary Spain, drawing conclusions about the persistence of the human condition, strangeness, and the chaos within relationships.
Casting
I'm So Excited!
Ulloa
Something has gone wrong with the landing gear of a plane en route from Madrid to Mexico City. The group of eccentric travelers on the flight, defenseless in the face of danger, indulge in colourful confessionals, while the outlandish crew attempts to find ways to entertain them.
Ghost Graduation
Modesto
A teacher with paranormal abilities helps a group of ghosts graduate high school.
Urtain
Cousinhood
Julián
Three cousins travel to the village where they spent summer vacations as kids.
Even the Rain
Juan / Antonio de Montesinos
As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
The Last Circus
Carlos (chico cine)
A trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.
Sincerity
Quim
Quim and Yoland rekindle their relationship after an 11-month break-up. For their relationship to work this time, they have decided to be honest and tell each other what they have done during the time they were apart.
Fat People
Alex
"GORDOS" is a comedy about life's excesses and deficiencies; about our insecurities, phobias, obsessions, traumas, mistakes, fears, blame, desires, hopes, challenges, concessions, goals, relationships, love, sex, health, family... about survival in the widest and "largest" sense of the word. The movie is pizza, ice-cream, chocolate, sweets, calories, lot of calories. It is also guilt, desire, fear, hope, dreams, sex, family, love. But it is happy, optimistic, painful, tender, harsh, light, profound. A comedy. A drama. A collection of contradictions. It's life, the life of a gay actor presenting weight loss products who lose his job because he get fat and who starts dating a ... woman.
My Prison Yard
Poeta
In Madrid, a petty thief who cannot adjust to life outside of jail puts together a theater troupe her friends -- a prostitute, a gypsy, and a Colombian immigrant -- in an attempt to make a go at a relatively straight life.
Che: Part Two
Captured Soldier #1
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.
8 Dates
Jesús
The Blind Sunflowers
Salvador
Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…
Seven Billiard Tables
Fele
Angela and her young son Guille travel to the big city to see Leo, her father and the boy's grandfather, when he suddenly takes ill. However, they arrive to discover that he has just passed away. Charo, the dead man's lover, explains the dire traits suffered by the paternal business: a hall with seven billiard tables.
Touch the Sky
Fidel
A family divided between two continents put their differences aside when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
Traumalogy
During the wedding of Antonio, the eldest of a family of five brothers, the father suffers a heart attack. The wedding is interrupted and the whole family moves to the hospital, where throughout a tense night of waiting, all the trauma and misery begin to emerge.
Scandalous
Musical spanish comedy.
Summer Rain
Babirusa
A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s.
Dark Blue Almost Black
Israel (Sean)
Jorge is a young man whose plans for the future are put on hold when his father has a stroke. For seven years, he diligently nurses his father and works as a janitor while studying part time to get a business degree.When Natalia, his childhood crush, returns from a stint studying abroad, Jorge begins to yearn for something better. He is desperate to find a new and better job, but finds that no one will hire him because he has experience only as a janitor. Antonio, Jorge’s older brother, soon to be released from jail, is an opportunist who has never gotten along with their father. In prison, at a theater workshop, Antonio meets Paula, a beautiful young woman in jail on drug charges. Paula has a problem because she flirted with another inmate's boyfriend.
Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena
Vendedor
Hortensia is a mature officer of the INEM office. She has been abandoned by her husband so she doesn't believe in love anymore. One day Eduardo Fernandez goes to the employment office because after overcoming a deep depression, he has decided that his life has to get better.