Aitana Sanchez-Gijon Movies
Best known for playing comic roles in Spain, actress Aitana Sanchez-Gijon is known in the U.S. for her dramatic portrayal of a pregnant and abandoned wine-grower's daughter who is helped by travelling salesman Keanu Reeves in A Walk in the Clouds (1995). Sanchez-Gijon has since built a reputation as an international star, in films such as Manuel Gomez Pereira's Boca a Boca (1996), Bigas Luna's La Camarera del Titanic (The Chambermaid on the Titanic [1997]), and Jaime Chavarri's Sus Ojos Se Cerraron (1998). ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi- 1989
Pedro Jarrapellejos (Antonio Ferrandis) is a ladies man who cannot turn the heads of Isabel (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) or her beautiful daughter. When both peasant women are found raped and murdered in a brutal scene, a schoolteacher is falsely accused. Pedro knows his own nephew and his friend participated in the killings, but he uses his considerable influence over the police and courts to intimidate the witnesses into silence. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Antonio Ferrandis, Juan Diego, (more)
- 1988
Chusa is a fashionable and party-loving denizen of modern-day Madrid. Some of her flashy lifestyle is paid for by her amateur hashish-smuggling operation. Like many others, she often flies down to Morocco to score some of this marijuana-derived drug and then smuggles it back in various places on her body. She would like to smuggle more but needs a reliable courier. One candidate for the operation is Elena, an old friend of hers. However, there is just one problem: Elena is a virgin, and at least one of her body orifices won't accommodate much of the drug. Chusa asks her policeman boyfriend to help Elena past this handicap, and he reluctantly agrees. Unfortunately for her, the two friends become much friendlier than she had intended, and soon she is on her own, her smuggling plans in a shambles. When she gets to Morocco, she experiences even more setbacks. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Verónica Forqué, Antonio Banderas, (more)
- 1988
In this romantic drama, Andres (Miguel Molina) is a young man from Madrid who for years has had his eye on Marga (Nina Ferrer). Andres enjoys feminine companionship with several girlfriends but can't get Marga out of his mind. When the two finally meet, Marga explains her past in a flashback scene in which she admits to being a drunken, unfaithful wife. Andres's friends warn him not to get involved with Marga, but he ignores their advice. Marga and Andres become romantically involved but their future is left uncertain. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Miguel Molina, Nina Ferrer, (more)
- 1987
Decked out in powdered wig and pasty "dandy" makeup, Richard Chamberlain stars as legendary Venetian lover Giovanni Casanova (1725-1798) in this made-for-television biopic. The teleplay by George Macdonald Fraser (of "Flashman" fame) follows Casanova as his reputation for being catnip to women builds throughout the 18th century. His sexual exploits cost him several important social and professional posts, and eventually land him in a Venice prison on a morals charge. Casanova's escape attempt provides a strong second act for this 3-hour effort, which also offers an amusing "con job" practiced by Casanova on a willing countess (Faye Dunaway). Frank Finlay co-stars as a nobleman who conducts a decades-long feud with our rakish hero. Filmed in Spain and Italy, Casanova debuted on March 1, 1987. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
The events that led Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to write her horror masterpiece Frankenstein provide the basis of this haunting, romantic drama. The story opens aboard a beat up schooner as it carefully makes its way through a massive broken ice pack near the North Pole. There Shelley writes her fantastic tale and reminisces about the events of the previous summer when she was courted by the poetic Percy Byshe Shelley. They elope and go to Switzerland where they become friends with dashing Lord Byron and his companion Dr. Polidori. Shelley's sister Claire accompanies them and gets romantically entangled with Byron. The group subsequently spends some idyllic almost hedonistic weeks at Byron's villa. Over the next few years, strange, tragic and troubling events occur and whenever they do, Shelley sees her monster lurking in the shadows. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Hugh Grant, Lizzy McInnerny, (more)
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