Manuel Manquiña

Acting

Manuel Manquiña

Born August 2, 1953 · Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain (age 73)

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Known For

Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the LawTorrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law · 1998
Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law
★ 6.51998
MovieComedyCrime
A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.
The ApostleThe Apostle · 2012
The Apostle
★ 7.42012
MovieAnimationMystery
A recently escaped convict seeks to recover a treasure he hid years ago in a small, secluded Galician village. However once there, he finds out that in the village there is an even worse sentence than the one he fled from.
Beneath Still WatersBeneath Still Waters · 2005
Beneath Still Waters
★ 4.02005
MovieHorror
Studying under a disciple of Aleister Crowley, the leader of an upper class group invokes a supernatural force that slowly devours the village of Marienbad and its inhabitants, threatening to spread beyond its geographical limits. The mayor from the town nearby commissions the building of a dam which would flood the valley and therefore submerge the village forever sealing the evil force under water after leader and his followers were incapacitated to be kept from escaping. However, fate ensured the leader's freedom as he remained in the depths when the waters covered Marienbad. Now 40 years later an array of disappearances and deaths in mysterious circumstances are threatening the town next to the reservoir that now covers Marienbad.
Leo & LouLeo & Lou · 2025
Leo & Lou
★ 6.12025
MovieDramaComedy
Leo, an orphaned mute girl who can't fit in, escapes from the shelter where she lives in order to go to a fishing competition that reminds her of her parents. On the way, Lou, a non-conformist with no job or benefit, finds her hitchhiking and, without knowing Leo's real purpose, agrees to take her in his car, thinking he is taking her back home. Together they will embark on an adventure in which, despite the obstacles they encounter along the way, they will become inseparable and discover the extraordinary meaning of the word family.
Between Your LegsBetween Your Legs · 1999
Between Your Legs
★ 5.41999
MovieDramaRomance
A radio-show assistant meets a budding screenwriter during a group-therapy session for sex addicts.
Game of WerewolvesGame of Werewolves · 2011
Game of Werewolves
★ 5.82011
MovieComedyHorror
After 15 years, Tomas, a not very succesfull writer, comes back to the village in Galicia where his family comes from, Arga, apparently to get an award. But he doesn't know the real reason why he is there, to end with an old curse that is been haunting the village for the last hundred years.
El tirabequeEl tirabeque · 2022
El tirabeque
★ 5.22022
MovieComedy
Jump!Jump! · 2023
Jump!
★ 7.22023
MovieComedyFamily
Oscar and Teo (13 and 11 years old) are two brothers, very different from each other, who will have to face the loss of their mother, a scientist obsessed with wormholes.

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Beneath Still WatersBeneath Still Waters · 2005
Beneath Still Waters
★ 4.02005
MovieHorror
Studying under a disciple of Aleister Crowley, the leader of an upper class group invokes a supernatural force that slowly devours the village of Marienbad and its inhabitants, threatening to spread beyond its geographical limits. The mayor from the town nearby commissions the building of a dam which would flood the valley and therefore submerge the village forever sealing the evil force under water after leader and his followers were incapacitated to be kept from escaping. However, fate ensured the leader's freedom as he remained in the depths when the waters covered Marienbad. Now 40 years later an array of disappearances and deaths in mysterious circumstances are threatening the town next to the reservoir that now covers Marienbad.

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The Ugliest Woman in the WorldThe Ugliest Woman in the World · 1999
The Ugliest Woman in the World
★ 4.61999
MovieScience FictionComedy
Somebody has decided to celebrate New Year's Eve 2011 in a very twisted way - by dressing as a nun and brutally dismembering a little old lady. Lt. Arribas, a bald, toothless, one-eyed and lonely detective is called in on the case. His investigations lead him to the door of renegade Doctor Werner, who tells him the strange story of "The Beautiful Otero" the most beautiful woman in the world (former Spanish model Galera) who, before Werner s miraculous surgery, was the ugliest woman in the world! But Lt. Arribas now has a new problem - he is falling in love at a distance with his principle suspect who, because of her traumatic childhood, is planning her vengeance - to sabotage the Miss Spain Beauty Pageant, leaving behind her a trail of dead beauty queens. A super-slick science fiction thriller with a dark and bizarre finale.

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