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Alejandro Amenábar
Writer 54 years old

Alejandro Amenábar

Santiago de Chile, Chile

Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born 31 March 1972) is a Spanish film director. Amenábar was born in Santiago, Chile to a Spanish mother and Chilean father, but the family moved to Spain just one year after his birth. He studied cinema at Madrid's Universidad Complutense... Read full bio →

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Mientras dure la guerra

Mientras dure la guerra

Alejandro Amenábar 2019 1h 48m 6.0

Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.

Regression

Regression

Alejandro Amenábar 2015 1h 46m 5.3

A detective and a psychoanalyst uncover evidence of a satanic cult while investigating a young woman's terrifying past.

Agora

Agora

Alejandro Amenábar 2009 2h 7m 6.8

Tells the story of astronomer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria (Weisz) and her relationship with her slave Davus (Minghella), who is torn between his love for his mistress and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.

Mar adentro

Mar adentro

Alejandro Amenábar 2004 2h 6m 8.1

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living.

The Others

The Others

Alejandro Amenábar 2001 1h 41m 8.1

A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.

Abre los ojos

Abre los ojos

Alejandro Amenábar 1997 1h 57m 8.2

Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.

Tesis

Tesis

Alejandro Amenábar 1996 2h 5m 7.7

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

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