Cast: Blanca Portillo

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Blanca Portillo. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Maria Converses

2016 · Documentary · 61 min. · Spain

Direction Lydia Zimmermann

Cast Blanca Portillo · Agustí Villaronga · Colm Toibin · Josep M. Civit

Synopsis MARIA CONVERSES follows the actress Blanca Portillo (Palm Award to the best actress in Cannes Film Festival for Almodovar's film 'Volver') on her creative process as she prepares to incarnate Maria of Nazareth in the play Mary's Testament" by Colm...

7.2

26 votes

7.2

26 votes

Maixabel

2021 · Movie · 115 min. · Spain

Direction Icíar Bollaín

Cast Blanca Portillo · Luis Tosar · Urko Olazabal · María Cerezuela

Synopsis Maixabel (2021) follows the true story of Maixabel Lasa, a woman who faces unimaginable grief after her husband is assassinated by the terrorist group ETA. Years later, as Spain grapples with reconciliation, Maixabel is confronted with an extraordinary request: to...

7.2

11K votes

7.2

11K votes

Elsa & Fred

2005 · Movie · 106 min. · Argentina

Direction Marcos Carnevale

Cast China Zorrilla · Manuel Alexandre · Blanca Portillo · Roberto Carnaghi

Synopsis In Elsa & Fred (2005), two elderly neighbors in Buenos Aires form an unlikely bond. Elsa, a free-spirited woman with a zest for life, draws the reserved and widowed Fred out of his shell. As their friendship deepens, Elsa's eccentricities...

7.1

5K votes

7.1

5K votes

7 vidas (TV Series)

1999 · Series · 60 min. · Spain

Direction Nacho G. Velilla · Ricardo A. Solla · Arantxa Écija · Mario Montero

Cast Amparo Baró · Blanca Portillo · Gonzalo de Castro · Anabel Alonso

Synopsis 7 vidas (TV Series) (1999) follows the life of David, a man who awakens from a 20-year coma to find the world drastically changed. As he navigates modern society with the mindset of the 1970s, his quirky family and friends...

7.1

70K votes

7.1

70K votes

To Return

2006 · Movie · 116 min. · Spain

Direction Pedro Almodóvar

Cast Penélope Cruz · Carmen Maura · Chus Lampreave · Lola Dueñas

Synopsis To Return (2006) follows Raimunda, a resilient woman living in Madrid, as she navigates a series of unexpected events tied to her past. When her aunt passes away, Raimunda returns to her rural hometown, uncovering long-buried family secrets. Amidst personal...

7.1

70K votes

7.1

70K votes

Días mejores (TV Series)

2022 · Series · 50 min. · Spain

Direction Cristóbal Garrido · Adolfo Valor · Alejo Flah · Arantxa Echevarria

Cast Blanca Portillo · Francesc Orella · Marta Hazas · Erick Elias

Synopsis TV Series (2022-). 2 Seasons. "Días mejores (Better days)" follows the process of five characters that go to a duel therapy for parents who have lost their partner. The series recounts the hard moments that derive from the loss of...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

I Know Who You Are (TV Series)

2017 · Series · 70 min. · Spain

Direction Pau Freixas · Joaquín Llamas · Jorge Coira · Silvia Quer

Cast Francesc Garrido · Blanca Portillo · Aida Folch · Carles Francino

Synopsis TV Series (2017). 16 Episodes. “I Know Who You Are” turns on a charismatic university rector and top attorney suspected of murdering his own niece when she disappears after a car accident which leaves him claiming near total amnesia. Fast-paced,...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

6.4

8K votes

Acusados (TV Series)

2009 · Series · 75 min. · Spain

Direction Joaquín Llamas · Alejandro Bazzano · Mateo Meléndrez · Norberto López Amado

Cast José Coronado · Blanca Portillo · Silvia Abascal · Goya Toledo

Synopsis TV Series (2009-2010). 2 Seasons. 25 Episodes. The Spanish version of "Damages"

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

The Prisons Visitor (TV)

2012 · Movie · 80 min. · Spain

Direction Laura Mañá

Cast Diana Gómez · Blanca Portillo · Mabel Rivera · Òscar Rabadan

Synopsis TV Movie about Concepción Arenal in her role as visiting women's prisons. Her struggle to change the conception there was on criminals and how modern prisons had to be.

6.4

374 votes

6.4

374 votes

El color de las nubes

1997 · Movie · 119 min. · Spain

6.4

782 votes

6.4

782 votes

Broken Embraces

2009 · Movie · 125 min. · Spain

Direction Pedro Almodóvar

Cast Penélope Cruz · Lluís Homar · Blanca Portillo · José Luis Gómez

Synopsis Broken Embraces (2009) follows Mateo Blanco, a blind screenwriter living under the pseudonym Harry Caine, as he reflects on his tumultuous past. Years earlier, as a successful filmmaker, he fell in love with Lena, the mistress of a wealthy businessman...

6.3

25K votes

6.3

25K votes

The Invisible

2020 · Movie · 80 min. · Spain

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

La ley del mar

2023 · Series · 50 min. · Spain

Direction Flipy · Víctor Pedreira · Tatiana Rodríguez · David Troncoso

Cast Luis Tosar · Blanca Portillo · Víctor Clavijo · Sonia Almarcha

Synopsis 3 episodes. On July 14, 2006, José Durá "Pepe" (Luis Tosar) and nine other crew members of the fishing boat 'Francisco y Catalina' took the decision, under the so-called "law of the sea", to take 37 African immigrants stranded ten...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Siete mesas de billar francés

2007 · Movie · 113 min. · Spain

Direction Gracia Querejeta

Cast Maribel Verdú · Blanca Portillo · Amparo Baró · Enrique Villén

Synopsis Angela (Maribel Verdú) and her son Guille travel to the big city to see Leo, her father and the boy's grandfather, when he suddenly takes ill. However, they arrive to discover that he has just passed away. Charo (Blanca Portillo),...

6.2

6K votes

6.2

6K votes

My Prison Yard (El patio de mi cárcel)

2008 · Movie · 92 min. · Spain

Direction Belén Macías

Cast Verónica Echegui · Candela Peña · Blanca Portillo · Ana Wagener

Synopsis Isa is a caustic yet generous thief unable to adapt to life outside prison, and her friends. Dolores, a blond gypsy who killed her husband; Rosa, a tender fragile prostitute; Ajo, in love with Pilar, who lives her life to...

6.1

4K votes

6.1

4K votes

6.0

22 votes

Escape

2024 · Movie · 129 min. · Spain

Direction Rodrigo Cortés

Cast Mario Casas · Anna Castillo · Guillermo Toledo · Josep Maria Pou

Synopsis N. is a broken man, something is not right inside him. N. doesn't want to make a single decision anymore, he just wants to get off the world. To stop having options. The psychologist he visits does not know how...

6.0

3K votes

6.0

3K votes