Luis Tosar

Luis Tosar

1971-10-13 Lugo, Galicia, Spain 94 Credits

Biography

Luis Tosar (born 13 October 1971) is a Galician actor. Born in Cospeito, Galicia, Spain, on 13th October 1971, he is best known internationally for his villain role in Miami Vice.

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La deuda

La deuda

2025

Acting

Lucas, a 47-year-old boy, and Antonia, an old woman, live together in an apartment in the center of the city. Their life goes on as usual until an inv...

Amanece en Samaná

Amanece en Samaná

2024

as Santi

5.5
Acting
Undercover

Undercover

2024

as Ángel "el Inhumano"

7.1
Acting

Basque Country, Spain, late nineties. A young policewoman manages to infiltrate the ruthless terrorist gang ETA.

We Treat Women Too Well

We Treat Women Too Well

2024

as Antonio

6.5
Acting

Remedios Buendía defends her homeland and will fight for it. This fateful day of 1945, a group of maquis take the post where she tries on her wedding ...

The Courier

The Courier

2024

as Francisco Escámez

6.5
Acting

After shrewdly seizing his chance to join a money-laundering scheme, a modest valet dives into a world of fast cash, fast cars — and an inevitable cra...

All the Names of God

All the Names of God

2023

as Santi

6.4
Acting

After being implicated in a terrorist attack, Santi, a taxi driver, is taken hostage by one of the perpetrators.

The Fantastic Golem Affairs

The Fantastic Golem Affairs

2023

as Toni

5.6
Acting

Follows two friends, Juan and David, they will find themselves on a rooftop terrace after an intense party in Madrid. Juan witnesses David falling to ...

Fatum

Fatum

2023

as Sergio

6.3
Acting

After receiving a tip-off, compulsive gambler Sergio returns to the betting house trying to recover all the money he has lost , but another gambler bu...

Madreselva

Madreselva

2023

as Ramsés

2.0
Acting
On the Fringe

On the Fringe

2022

as Rafael

6.7
Acting

A day in the life of Azucena, who is running out of time to keep herself and her family from being evicted; Rafael, a lawyer who sets out to reunite a...

The Critic

The Critic

2022

as Self

6.4
Acting

A portrait of film critic Carlos Boyero, one of the most followed and feared figures in Spanish cinema, surrounded by controversy and both love and ha...

Monkey Business

Monkey Business

2022

as Luismi

5.5
Acting

Joaquin, Brujo and Luismi, three neighbourhood scoundrels, meet again after twenty years. Brujo and Luismi are still unemployed while Joaquin swears h...

19

19

2022

as Himself

2.0
Acting

A delicate portrait of the longing for security amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Code Name: Emperor

Code Name: Emperor

2022

as Juan

5.8
Acting

Juan, a secret service agent, approaches Wendy, a young Filipina who works as a maid for a suspicious couple.

Concrete and Steel

Concrete and Steel

2022

Acting

Victor and Nacho are lifetime friends and mafiosos. They’ve been tortured and chained to a cement block. While Nacho struggles desperately to break fr...

Maixabel

Maixabel

2021

as Ibon Etxezarreta

7.0
Acting

In the year 2000, Maixabel Lasa’s husband, Juan Maria Jauregi, was killed by ETA. Eleven years later, she receives an incredible request: one of the m...

The Vault

The Vault

2021

as Simón

6.8
Acting

Madrid, Spain, 2010. While the whole city follows the national team's successful participation in the World Cup, a group of daring thieves look for a ...

Sky High

Sky High

2020

as Rogelio

6.1
Acting

A commentary on Spanish society dressed as a thriller about the misadventures of a gang of young petty criminals after the real estate crash.

Adú

Adú

2020

as Gonzalo

6.9
Acting

In a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the hol...

Out in the Open

Out in the Open

2019

as Pastor

6.7
Acting

A boy escaped from home, listening, crouched in the depths of his hiding place, the cries of the men who seek him. When the game passes, what remains ...

Advantages of Travelling by Train

Advantages of Travelling by Train

2019

as Martín Urales de Úbeda

6.5
Acting

After interning her insane husband in a remote psychiatric hospital, book editor Helga Pato returns home by train, where she meets a mysterious man wh...

Eye for an Eye

Eye for an Eye

2019

as Mario

6.7
Acting

Mario, an exemplary man, lives in a village on the Galician coast. In the old people’s home, where he works as a nurse, everyone appreciates him. When...

The Incredible Shrinking Wknd

The Incredible Shrinking Wknd

2019

as Alba's Father (voice)

5.8
Acting

Navarra, Spain. Alba has just turned thirty and is about to enjoy a weekend with her boyfriend and her friends in an isolated country house, but soon ...

Gun City

Gun City

2018

as Aníbal

6.3
Acting

Barcelona, ​​Spain, 1921. A tough cop from Madrid arrives in the city to locate, under the suspicious scrutiny of corrupt local police officers, a sig...

Crime Wave

Crime Wave

2018

as Cosme

5.8
Acting

Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.

Yucatán

Yucatán

2018

as Lucas

5.6
Acting

Two white collar thieves compete fiercely against the other trying to steal to an old baker the millions he won on the lotto.

Getaway Plan

Getaway Plan

2017

as Lieutenant

5.6
Acting

A thief expert with blowtorch is hired by a group of the Russian mob for a bank assault.

1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines

1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines

2016

as Lt. Martín Cerezo

6.5
Acting

The Philippines, 1898. Fifty Spanish soldiers arrive in the small village of Baler to rebuild an outpost. Although the war against the Filipinos and t...

Toro

Toro

2016

as López

6.0
Acting

Toro (Spanish for "Bull") is a young con man and the right hand of Romano, a powerful mob boss in Torremolinos, Málaga (Andalusia, south to Spain). Af...

To Steal from a Thief

To Steal from a Thief

2016

as 'Gallego'

6.2
Acting

Valencia, Spain. On a rainy morning, six armed men in disguise assault a bank. But what seemed like an easy heist, quickly goes wrong with nothing unf...

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

2015

Producer

7.4
Producing

Teenagers Birdboy and Dinki have decided to escape from an island devastated by ecological catastrophe: Birdboy by shutting himself off from the world...

Retribution

Retribution

2015

as Carlos

6.7
Acting

While Carlos, a banking executive, takes his two kids to school in his car, he gets a phone call telling him that there is a bomb under the seats and ...

ma ma

ma ma

2015

as Arturo

6.3
Acting

After finding a lump in one of her breasts, Magda goes to visit her doctor who gives her bad news: she needs a mastectomy, preceded by severe chemo tr...

Nothing in Return

Nothing in Return

2015

as Padre Darío

6.4
Acting

One summer, Dario flees the hellish environment of his home. Luismi, unconditional friend, a poor devil with pretensions of winning, and Antonia, an o...

Os fenómenos

Os fenómenos

2014

as Lobo

5.7
Acting

Coast of Almeria, Spain. When Neneta, who lives in a van, is abandoned by her partner, she decides to return with her baby to her hometown in Galicia.

Dying Beyond Their Means

Dying Beyond Their Means

2014

as Antonio

5.3
Acting

Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripp...

Shrew's Nest

Shrew's Nest

2014

as Padre

6.9
Acting

Spain, 1950s. Montse's agoraphobia keeps her locked in a sinister apartment in Madrid and her only link to reality is the little sister she lost her y...

The Kid

The Kid

2014

as Jesús

6.5
Acting

Two youths, Niño and Compi, enter the world of drug smuggling in the Strait of Gibraltar; while two police officers, Jesús and Eva, try to eradicate t...

A Night in Old Mexico

A Night in Old Mexico

2013

as Panamá

5.4
Acting

Forced to give up his land and home, Texas rancher Red Bovie isn't about to retire quietly in a dismal trailer park. Instead he hops in his Cadillac a...

Cholera

Cholera

2013

7.0
Acting

Cholera: Path. Acute, infectious disease, often epidemic and very serious.

Encallados

2013

as Luis Tosar

9.0
Acting
100% CEF

100% CEF

2012

as Celso Emilio Ferreiro

Acting

Documentary about Celso Emilio Ferreiro, a symbol of anti-Francoism and a leading poet in Spain in the 1960s and 1970s.

A Gun in Each Hand

A Gun in Each Hand

2012

as L.

6.0
Acting

J. is depressed. E. lives peacefully. S. tries to get back with his wife. G. resorts to anxiolytics. P. plays seduction games. María and Sara exchange...

Operación E

Operación E

2012

as José Crisanto

6.6
Acting

A thriller centered on a family taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Operación E

Operación E

2012

Producer

6.6
Producing

A thriller centered on a family taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Fuck My Family

Fuck My Family

2012

as Manuel Añón

4.5
Acting

Continues the romantic story of Javier and Angela, who, after having sworn eternal love and having their first child, decide to divorce.

The Apostle

The Apostle

2012

as Xavier (voice)

7.3
Acting

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 i...

Sleep Tight

Sleep Tight

2011

as César

7.1
Acting

César, an unhappy concierge, maintains a peculiar relationship with the very diverse inhabitants of the upper-class apartment building where he works ...

Crebinsky

Crebinsky

2011

as Comandante

6.8
Acting

Torrential rains cause the swollen river, whose waters inundate a village. The current drags the cow Crebinsky and his brothers, who miraculously reap...

Even the Rain

Even the Rain

2011

as Costa

6.9
Acting

As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privati...

Mr. Nice

Mr. Nice

2010

as Craig Lovato

6.1
Acting

Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as le...

Lope: The Outlaw

Lope: The Outlaw

2010

as Fray Bernardo

5.4
Acting

A chronicle of the life of Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega, who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of Theater in the 16th century. Lope retur...

18 Meals

18 Meals

2010

as Edu

5.7
Acting

Food, glorious food! Some of the most sumptuous and involving films revolve around that most common of acts: eating. 18 MEALS is an omnibus film of cr...

18 Meals

18 Meals

2010

Producer

5.7
Producing

Food, glorious food! Some of the most sumptuous and involving films revolve around that most common of acts: eating. 18 MEALS is an omnibus film of cr...

La noche que dejó de llover

La noche que dejó de llover

2009

as Spleen

6.0
Acting
Cell 211

Cell 211

2009

as Malamadre

7.5
Acting

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a...

The Limits of Control

The Limits of Control

2009

as Violin

6.0
Acting

A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlik...

Normal con alas

Normal con alas

2007

as Father Serafín

Acting

Pancha Illanes is the black sheep of her ladies' college, after the constant insistence of her boyfriend she accepts the proposal of selling marijuan...

Hotel Tívoli

Hotel Tívoli

2007

as Suso

2.0
Acting

Following the random path of a lighter that is being lost by their owners occasionally in different parts of the world, this story is built with the c...

Casual Day

Casual Day

2007

as Cholo

5.0
Acting

Casual Day is a company practice imported from the USA. Every Friday the workers are asked to exchange their suits for more informal attire. Ruy has a...

Taxi?

Taxi?

2007

4.4
Acting

The city taxi drivers have followed a course on kindness. If you do not make the grade, you will not arrive at your destination.

Celia's Lives

Celia's Lives

2006

as Miguel Ángel

5.5
Acting

The night Celia unsuccessfully attempts suicide, a teenage girl (Melany) is raped and murdered nearby. Miguel Ángel, the police officer in charge of f...

Miami Vice

Miami Vice

2006

as Arcángel de Jesús Montoya

6.0
Acting

A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox C...

El mundo alrededor

2006

as Florindo

Acting
Cargo

Cargo

2006

as Baptist

4.6
Acting

A young backpacker gets into some trouble in Africa and stows away on a cargo ship heading to Europe.

El oficio de actor

El oficio de actor

2005

as Itself

Acting

Three of Spain's most renowned actors discuss the acting profession and share experiences and feelings from their different shootings. The ego, the ch...

Aupa Etxebeste!

Aupa Etxebeste!

2005

as Ladrón

5.0
Acting

The same day that the Etxebeste Family are leaving for their holidays, they lost all their money. They have to keep up appearances in front of the res...

The Night of the Brother

The Night of the Brother

2005

as Lorenzo

4.4
Acting

The Night of the brother ("La Noche del Hermano") is a chiaroscuro tale in which the characters' not always explicit feelings cover the gamut from dar...

With Good Reason

With Good Reason

2004

as (segment "Por tu propio bien")

4.2
Acting

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...

Unconscious

Unconscious

2004

as Salvador

7.0
Acting

A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.

Your Next Life

Your Next Life

2004

as Rai

5.5
Acting

A fight over the calf of a prize milk cow in the close-knit and traditional Pas Valley of Cantabria leaves a cantankerous dairy farmer dead and anothe...

The Weakness of the Bolshevik

The Weakness of the Bolshevik

2003

as Pablo López

6.4
Acting

After getting into a minor traffic accident, Pablo attempts to make light of the situation by asking the driver of the other car, Sonsoles, out on a d...

Take My Eyes

Take My Eyes

2003

as Antonio

7.2
Acting

One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He sa...

Silvia's Gift

Silvia's Gift

2003

as Carlos

5.8
Acting

Silvia decides to commit suicide and leaves a video note saying that she wishes to donate her organs and save the lives of a few strangers.

El lápiz del carpintero

El lápiz del carpintero

2003

as Herbal

5.7
Acting

A story of love and obsession during the Spanish Civil War

13 Curses

13 Curses

2002

as Mateo

4.8
Acting

Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her...

Mondays in the Sun

Mondays in the Sun

2002

as Jose

7.2
Acting

After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet main...

Angel of Death

Angel of Death

2002

as Antonio

4.9
Acting

The most spectacular Easter celebration in the World. Hosts of hooded Penitents parade through the ancient, narrow streets of the Old Town in time-hon...

Don't Tempt Me

Don't Tempt Me

2001

as Policía

5.5
Acting

Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.

Visionarios

Visionarios

2001

as Delegado del gobierno

5.0
Acting

An aspiring teacher (Eduardo Noriega) falls for a maid (Ingrid Rubio) in a village where people claim they see the Virgin Mary.

Lena

Lena

2001

as Gitano

4.5
Acting

Set in Galicia in northwest Spain - an area famed for its beauty and smuggling - this film shows a once-thriving fishing and shipbuilding culture fall...

Kisses for Everyone

Kisses for Everyone

2000

as El Bombilla

5.4
Acting

Three students are sent by their families to Cadiz in 1965, his last chance to pass and become what is expected of them. The appearance of some dancer...

El váter susurra

El váter susurra

2000

5.0
Acting
A Love That Kills

A Love That Kills

2000

as Antonio

6.0
Acting

The two million Spanish women who are victims of domestic violence and the death each week of a woman at the hands of her partner is not fiction but p...

Common Wealth

Common Wealth

2000

as Gómez

6.9
Acting

Julia, a real estate agent, finds an enormous amount of money hidden in a dead man's apartment, a stroke of luck that will force her to face the wrath...

Leo

Leo

2000

as Paco

6.8
Acting

Salva working as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a girl who makes a living collecting cardboard...

I Know Who You Are

I Know Who You Are

2000

as Estévez

4.9
Acting

Paloma is a young psychiatrist, who is hired to work as a director of a clinic in Galicia, and is attracted to Mario, her very first patient. He suffe...

Heart of the Warrior

Heart of the Warrior

2000

as Police Detective #1

4.9
Acting

Beldar and Sonja, a pair of thieves, steal a precious gem from the crypt of the Order of the Thousand Eyes, a daring act that will lead to unforeseen ...

Jealousy

Jealousy

1999

as Luis

5.6
Acting

A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions ...

Flowers From Another World

Flowers From Another World

1999

as Damián

5.1
Acting

Patricia, a woman from Dominican Republic, needs a home and an economic security that her illegal status in Madrid does not provide her. Milady, twent...

Atilano, presidente

Atilano, presidente

1998

as Cazorla

4.0
Acting

Atilano Bermejo is a petty crook who gets involved in the scam of his life: to be Prime Minister. His charisma and lack of social concern make him an ...

O matachín

N/A

Acting

Two small-time dealers, Fran and Tuto, go to the airport to look for Lola, Fran's girlfriend. Lola comes from Venezuela carrying cocaine in her stomac...

Golpes

N/A

Acting

El Puma

N/A

Acting