Icíar Bollaín

Icíar Bollaín

Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez (born June 12, 1967; Madrid) is a Spanish actress, director and writer. Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother was a music teacher. She made her début when she was 15 years old. She is a member of the Academia Española de Cinematografía. She began her work in cinema at the age of fourteen as part of the cast in Victor Erice's film El Sur (1983). Since then she has acted in fourteen films. Hola, estas sola? (Hi, are you alone? in English) (1995) was her first feature film as director, a story about two young girls who dream of finding an earthly paradise, and undertake a long trip towards the sea. Flores de otro mundo (Flowers from another world in English) (1999) was her second feature film, which she co-wrote with Julio Llamazares. It is the story of four women who travel to rural Spain with the hopes of finding love. Her latest film as writer and director is Te Doy Mis Ojos (I'll give you my eyes in English) (2003) which won seven Goya awards including Best Film. The movie is about the abusive marriage relationship between Pilar and Antonio. Her 2010 film Even the Rain was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. In January 2011, the film made the final nine shortlist.

  • Title: Icíar Bollaín
  • Popularity: 6.083
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1967-06-12
  • Place of Birth: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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  • Also Known As: Icíar Bollaín Pére, Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez
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Icíar Bollaín Movies

  • 1995
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    Hi, Are You Alone?

    Hi, Are You Alone?

    5.096 1995 HD

    Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and...

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  • 2009
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    Rage

    Rage

    5.6 2009 HD

    A romantic thriller about a construction worker in hiding for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a maid.

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  • 1995
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    Land and Freedom

    Land and Freedom

    7.3 1995 HD

    David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a...

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  • 1983
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    El Sur

    El Sur

    7.7 1983 HD

    A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.

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  • 2002
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    They're Watching Us

    They're Watching Us

    5.4 2002 HD

    Norberto Lopez Amado's They're Watching Us is about a cop who becomes obsessed with a case. Juan (Carmelo Gomez) is ordered to head up an...

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  • 1993
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    Tocando fondo

    Tocando fondo

    5 1993 HD

    Andres de Granada, a forty-benefit trade more clear, believed that the first months of 1993 are the best time to do business. It also has the help of...

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  • 2005
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    The Night of the Brother

    The Night of the Brother

    4.2 2005 HD

    The Night of the brother ("La Noche del Hermano") is a chiaroscuro tale in which the characters' not always explicit feelings cover the gamut from...

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  • 2000
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    Leo

    Leo

    6.8 2000 HD

    Salva working as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a girl who makes a living collecting...

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  • 1997
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    Niño nadie

    Niño nadie

    4.8 1997 HD

    Unbenownst to a middle-aged teacher of handicapped children, his long-term suffering girlfriend is pregnant with his child. The film philosophically...

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  • 1987
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    Mientras haya luz

    Mientras haya luz

    5 1987 HD

    Marisa, a 38 years old woman, tells a stranges story to her daughter while they're walking through a level crossing in Madrid. An anthropologist,...

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  • 1998
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    Subjúdice

    Subjúdice

    5 1998 HD

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  • 2022
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    The Critic

    The Critic

    6.4 2022 HD

    A portrait of film critic Carlos Boyero, one of the most followed and feared figures in Spanish cinema, surrounded by controversy and both love and...

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  • 2002
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    The Stone Raft

    The Stone Raft

    5.2 2002 HD

    An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the...

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  • 1992
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    Sublet

    Sublet

    6 1992 HD

    Laura is a young woman from Madrid who lives in the most degraded area of ​​New York. There he lives a series of anecdotes that make up his...

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  • 1992
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    Baja corazón

    Baja corazón

    2.8 1992 HD

    A touch of horn is enough for the girl to meet with her boyfriend...

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  • 1988
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    Malaventura

    Malaventura

    5.5 1988 HD

    An intrigue based on a failed relationship with touches of dreams and magic filmed on the streets of Seville.

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  • 1992
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    Un paraguas para tres

    Un paraguas para tres

    1 1992 HD

    Having just split up with their respective partners, Maria and Daniel meet in a shop where they argue over a bed. From then on, they keep running...

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  • 1989
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    El Mejor de los Tiempos

    El Mejor de los Tiempos

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1993
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    Dime una mentira

    Dime una mentira

    1 1993 HD

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  • 1987
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    Las dos orillas

    Las dos orillas

    2 1987 HD

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  • 1987
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    Al acecho

    Al acecho

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1996
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    Menos que cero

    Menos que cero

    1 1996 HD

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  • 1990
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    Doblones de a ocho

    Doblones de a ocho

    1 1990 HD

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  • 2003
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    Take My Eyes

    Take My Eyes

    7.2 2003 HD

    One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He...

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  • 2003
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    Take My Eyes

    Take My Eyes

    7.2 2003 HD

    One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He...

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  • 1995
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    Hi, Are You Alone?

    Hi, Are You Alone?

    5.096 1995 HD

    Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and...

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  • 1995
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    Hi, Are You Alone?

    Hi, Are You Alone?

    5.096 1995 HD

    Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and...

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  • 2021
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    Maixabel

    Maixabel

    7.2 2021 HD

    In the year 2000, Maixabel Lasa’s husband, Juan Maria Jauregi, was killed by ETA. Eleven years later, she receives an incredible request: one...

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  • 2021
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    Maixabel

    Maixabel

    7.2 2021 HD

    In the year 2000, Maixabel Lasa’s husband, Juan Maria Jauregi, was killed by ETA. Eleven years later, she receives an incredible request: one...

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  • 1999
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    Flowers From Another World

    Flowers From Another World

    5.1 1999 HD

    Patricia, a woman from Dominican Republic, needs a home and an economic security that her illegal status in Madrid does not provide her. Milady,...

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  • 2011
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    Even the Rain

    Even the Rain

    6.948 2011 HD

    As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to...

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  • 2011
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    Kathmandu Lullaby

    Kathmandu Lullaby

    5.78 2011 HD

    Kathmandu, Nepal, early 1990s. Laia, a young teacher from Catalonia, Spain, works at a local school in the slums of the city where poverty reigns....

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  • 2011
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    Kathmandu Lullaby

    Kathmandu Lullaby

    5.78 2011 HD

    Kathmandu, Nepal, early 1990s. Laia, a young teacher from Catalonia, Spain, works at a local school in the slums of the city where poverty reigns....

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  • 2012
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    1,2,3...Casa

    1,2,3...Casa

    4.5 2012 HD

    Lorenzo del Escorial (Madrid), where normally, protection and improvement are much more than words. A tale of fears and anxieties, dreams and...

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  • 2014
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    En tierra extraña

    En tierra extraña

    3.5 2014 HD

    A documentary about the life of young Spanish immigrants in Edinburgh, Scotland, who had to leave Spain due to recession and unemployment.

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  • 2014
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    En tierra extraña

    En tierra extraña

    3.5 2014 HD

    A documentary about the life of young Spanish immigrants in Edinburgh, Scotland, who had to leave Spain due to recession and unemployment.

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  • 2007
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    Mataharis

    Mataharis

    4.6 2007 HD

    Private detectives Inés, Eva, and Carmen often invade others' privacy but are clueless about confronting their own secrets. While on the job,...

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  • 1992
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    Baja corazón

    Baja corazón

    2.8 1992 HD

    A touch of horn is enough for the girl to meet with her boyfriend...

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  • 1992
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    Baja corazón

    Baja corazón

    2.8 1992 HD

    A touch of horn is enough for the girl to meet with her boyfriend...

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  • 1993
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    Friendly Dead

    Friendly Dead

    2 1993 HD

    Carlos is 50 years old. It has a cake with candles and seven friends to celebrate him. The police have one dead and seven suspected murder. All they...

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  • 1993
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    Friendly Dead

    Friendly Dead

    2 1993 HD

    Carlos is 50 years old. It has a cake with candles and seven friends to celebrate him. The police have one dead and seven suspected murder. All they...

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  • 2024
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    I Am Nevenka

    I Am Nevenka

    7.9 2024 HD

    In the year 2000, Nevenka Fernández, 24 years old, Councilor for Finance in the Ponferrada City Council, suffered relentless persecution, both...

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  • 2024
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    I Am Nevenka

    I Am Nevenka

    7.9 2024 HD

    In the year 2000, Nevenka Fernández, 24 years old, Councilor for Finance in the Ponferrada City Council, suffered relentless persecution, both...

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  • 2004
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    With Good Reason

    With Good Reason

    3.7 2004 HD

    A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq,...

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  • 2016
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    The Olive Tree

    The Olive Tree

    6.7 2016 HD

    Alma’s family has been producing quality olive oil in the Baix Maestrat area of Spain’s Castellón for generations. Yet changing...

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  • 2000
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    A Love That Kills

    A Love That Kills

    6 2000 HD

    The two million Spanish women who are victims of domestic violence and the death each week of a woman at the hands of her partner is not fiction but...

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  • 2000
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    A Love That Kills

    A Love That Kills

    6 2000 HD

    The two million Spanish women who are victims of domestic violence and the death each week of a woman at the hands of her partner is not fiction but...

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  • 1999
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    Flowers From Another World

    Flowers From Another World

    5.1 1999 HD

    Patricia, a woman from Dominican Republic, needs a home and an economic security that her illegal status in Madrid does not provide her. Milady,...

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  • 2007
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    Mataharis

    Mataharis

    4.6 2007 HD

    Private detectives Inés, Eva, and Carmen often invade others' privacy but are clueless about confronting their own secrets. While on the job,...

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  • 2018
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    Yuli

    Yuli

    7.011 2018 HD

    Yuli is the nickname given to Carlos Acosta by his father, Pedro, who considers him the son of Ogun, an African god and a fighter. As a child Yuli...

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  • 1993
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    Dime una mentira

    Dime una mentira

    1 1993 HD

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  • 2002
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    Poniente

    Poniente

    5 2002 HD

    After living in Madrid for many years as a teacher, Lucia returns to her hometown after her father's death results in the inheritance of his tomato...

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  • 2020
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    Rosa's Wedding

    Rosa's Wedding

    6.2 2020 HD

    Rosa is about to turn 45 and realises that she's always lived her life to serve everyone else. So she decides to leave it all behind, take charge of...

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  • 2020
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    Rosa's Wedding

    Rosa's Wedding

    6.2 2020 HD

    Rosa is about to turn 45 and realises that she's always lived her life to serve everyone else. So she decides to leave it all behind, take charge of...

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  • 1994
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    Sexo oral

    Sexo oral

    3.2 1994 HD

    Sixty people, including those who have worked making the film, talk about sex: what's it, how was their first time, when did they masturbate for the...

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  • 1999
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    No sé bailar

    No sé bailar

    1 1999 HD

    It is a surrealist comedy where reality and fantasy are mixed, it tells in a humorous tone the daily life and dreams of a 40-year-old film buff,...

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  • 2001
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    Cuéntame cómo pasó

    Cuéntame cómo pasó

    7.182 2001 HD

    Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of...

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