Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
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Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (born 5 November 1968 in Rome, Italy) is a Spanish-Italian film actress.
Best known for playing dramatic roles in Spain, Sánchez-Gijón is known in the United States for her portrayal of Victoria Aragon, a pregnant and abandoned Mexican-American winegrower's daughter who is helped by travelling salesman Paul Sutton (Keanu Reeves) in A Walk in the Clouds (1995). She has since built a reputation as an international star in films such as Manuel Gomez Pereira's Boca a Boca (1996), Bigas Luna's The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997), Jaime Chavarri's Sus Ojos Se Cerraron (1998), Gabriele Salvatores' adaptation of the Niccolò Ammaniti novel I'm not scared (2003) and Brad Anderson's The Machinist (2004).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8932 |
| Birthday | 1968-11-05 |
| Place of Birth | Rome, Lazio, Italy |
| 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, |
2023
Something Is About to Happen
5.982/57
After losing her job as a computer programmer, Lucía decides to become a cab driver.
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Something Is About to Happen
2004
The Machinist
7.525/5933
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to...
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The Machinist
2007
The Nautical Chart
4.833/15
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 Barcelon...
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The Nautical Chart
1995
A Walk in the Clouds
7.359/1090
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 c...
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A Walk in the Clouds
2006
The Backwoods
5.419/111
An English couple's holiday in Spain is interrupted when they discover a girl imprisoned in a cabin.
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The Backwoods
2023
Survivor's Day
2/1
Malvivir tells in first person the secret life of the rogue Elena de Paz, a free, rebellious, thieving, ingenious, deceitful and fugitive woman who de...
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Survivor's Day
1995
Mouth to Mouth
5.214/28
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 his...
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Mouth to Mouth
2009
The Frost
4.429/7
A couple's marriage falls apart after the death of their son. Based on Henrik Ibsen's "Little Eyolf"
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The Frost
1995
La Regenta
0/0
The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's...
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La Regenta
2011
Maktub
7.623/53
The title refers to those strange coincidences that happen to us sometimes and that seem inevitable, like a product of destiny. Inspired by the experi...
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Maktub
1999
Volaverunt
5.7/25
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Volaverunt
2007
Oviedo Express
4.125/8
All hell breaks loose when an eccentric theatrical ensemble arrives in Oviedo, Spain to stage a production of the Leopoldo Alas play -La Regenta.
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Oviedo Express
2008
Tell Me About Love
5.3/90
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 two...
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Tell Me About Love
1999
Ruleta
0/0
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Ruleta
2004
The Whore and the Whale
4.9/16
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The Whore and the Whale
2003
Carta mortal
0/0
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Carta mortal
2021
Fish Bones
8/1
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Fish Bones
1999
Jealousy
5.5/19
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Jealousy
2006
Wounded Animals
3.6/5
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 freq...
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Wounded Animals
1997
The Chambermaid on the Titanic
6.1/33
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 Ti...
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The Chambermaid on the Titanic
1989
The Sea and the Weather
3.6/10
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 bei...
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The Sea and the Weather
1993
The Bird of Happiness
4.778/9
While some people need to be surrounded by friends to be happy, Carmen (Mercedes Sampietro) is perfectly content by herself, pursuing her vocation as...
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The Bird of Happiness
2023
My Other Jon
7.2/13
Merche, about to turn 76, is told that she doesn't have long left to live. Unable to travel to watch the sea for last time, she accepts a medical expe...
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My Other Jon
1997
Love Walked In
3.333/3
Two romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers get involved in a caper.
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Love Walked In
2024
The First Look
7/2
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 1...
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The First Look
1998
Tangos Are for Two
5.618/17
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 un...
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Tangos Are for Two
2006
El genio tranquilo
0/0
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...
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El genio tranquilo
2001
Hombres felices
3.5/4
A sharp comedy about a group of men who seek happiness at any cost. They are immature, sexist, and obsessed with sex, especially oral sex. On the othe...
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Hombres felices
2004
With Good Reason
4.2/13
A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. f...
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With Good Reason
2023
The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
6.4/5
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 autobiographical res...
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The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
2022
Under Her Control
5.229/107
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Under Her Control
1994
Blind Man's Bluff
0/0
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Blind Man's Bluff
2014
The Misfits Club
6.831/421
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The Misfits Club
1989
Going Down in Morocco
5.728/46
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Going Down in Morocco
2001
Without a Trace
7.2/19
A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.
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Without a Trace
2011
La muerte de Otilia Ruiz
4/1
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 t...
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2015
Disco Inferno
8.5/2
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.
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1987
Redondela
4.4/5
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 suspicions...
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Redondela
2003
I'm Not Scared
7.1/946
In a tiny community enclosed by wheat fields, the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted...
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I'm Not Scared
2015
Teresa
6.2/6
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 Book...
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Teresa
1988
Viento de cólera
2/2
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Viento de cólera
1993
The Perfect Husband
4.2/5
A drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men's wives and dueling. He begins an affair with his friend...
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1995
The Frontier Law
4/4
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 t...
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2018
Thi Mai
6.2/167
After losing her daughter in an accident, Carmen loses all incentive to keep going, until she receives an unexpected letter from the adoption agency:...
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1991
El crimen de Perpignan
3/4
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El crimen de Perpignan
1993
The Greek Labyrinth
3.143/7
Two Frenchmen, Bernadette and Lebrum, arrive in Barcelona and hire detective Bardon to find Alekos, the former Greek lover of the woman.
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The Greek Labyrinth
1988
Jarrapellejos
4.7/11
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 murdere...
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Jarrapellejos
1990
The Monk
1.667/3
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. B...
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The Monk
1986
Romanza final (Gayarre)
5.7/3
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 sing...
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2018
Querido Fotogramas
4/2
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...
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Querido Fotogramas
1993
Havanera 1820
2/2
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Havanera 1820
2011
Drifters
5.841/44
A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee.
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Drifters
1988
No hagas planes con Marga
0/0
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 An...
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No hagas planes con Marga
1996
La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado
4.571/7
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 b...
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La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado
2001
Mi dulce
3/2
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 Holla...
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Mi dulce
1992
Hidden Desire
0/0
Short film shot in 1992 starring Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Toni Castro.
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Hidden Desire
1988
Rowing with the Wind
5.597/31
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 h...
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Rowing with the Wind
2010
The Widow from Valencia
1/2
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 Lope'...
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The Widow from Valencia
1992
Deseo Oculto
0/0
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Deseo Oculto
1999
Yerma
3/3
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?
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Yerma
2018
Volcánica
0/0
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 n...
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Volcánica
1997
Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
6.1/52
Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.
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Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
2020
Alex's Strip
6.9/4
After a long time, Alexandra is reunited with her father Álex, a Spanish-Maghrebi businessman, and accompanies him on a business trip to Jaisalmer, in...
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Alex's Strip
2020
Velvet Colección: Grand Finale
5.7/5
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 beginn...
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Velvet Colección: Grand Finale
2003
A Man, a Real One
6.8/3
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 h...
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A Man, a Real One
2020
Anatomy of a Dandy
5.9/5
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 well...
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Anatomy of a Dandy
1994
La mujer impuntual
0/0
The unpunctual woman.
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La mujer impuntual
2021
Parallel Mothers
6.8/1006
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, unrepentant...
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Parallel Mothers
2025
The Low Land
5.9/14
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 (Teruel, Spain...
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2026
Bitter Christmas
0/0
Advertising director Elsa loses her mother during a long December weekend. She works nonstop to avoid coping with her grief. Following a panic attack,...
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