Ana Belén

Ana Belén

1951-05-27 Madrid, Spain 67 Credits

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María del Pilar Cuesta Acosta, better known as Ana Belén, is a Spanish actress and singer.

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Break a Leg

Break a Leg

2025

as (self)

Acting

4th February 1975. It's the first day of the historic actors strike that would bring the country's theatre activity to a halt for nine days. They dema...

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite

2023

as Self - Actress

6.4
Acting

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...

El viaje de Julieta

El viaje de Julieta

2023

as Self

Acting
Las cartas perdidas

Las cartas perdidas

2022

as Narradora

Acting
Cruce de caminos

Cruce de caminos

2022

as Self

3.5
Acting

An account of the life and work of the singer and songwriter Miguel Ríos, pioneer and true icon of Spanish rock music.

Official Competition

Official Competition

2021

as Cóctel

6.7
Acting

When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mas...

FFG, el último gran conversador

FFG, el último gran conversador

2021

as Self - Actress / Various Roles (archive footage)

8.1
Acting

Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. ...

Olea… ¡Más alto!

Olea… ¡Más alto!

2020

as Self - Singer and Actress

Acting

An account of the life and work behind the camera of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Olea, whose very personal viewpoint, interested in all kinds of subjects,...

Víctor Manuel: el abuelo Víctor

Víctor Manuel: el abuelo Víctor

2020

6.2
Acting
La corte de Ana

La corte de Ana

2020

as Herself - Actress / Singer

8.0
Acting

She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a gi...

Stories of Our Cinema

Stories of Our Cinema

2019

as Herself - Actress / Singer

5.5
Acting

In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country are projected. From that event, the Spanish actor An...

Aute retrato

Aute retrato

2019

as Herself

8.0
Acting

A journey through the different creative facets of Luis Eduardo Aute: singer and songwriter, painter, poet, filmmaker. Collaborators and friends tell ...

¡Ay, Carmen!

¡Ay, Carmen!

2018

as Self - Actress

5.3
Acting

The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant arti...

Querido Fotogramas

Querido Fotogramas

2018

as Self

4.0
Acting

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 ...

Mi Querida Cecilia

Mi Querida Cecilia

2017

as Herself

Acting
The Queen of Spain

The Queen of Spain

2016

as Ana

5.1
Acting

After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Fran...

Raphael: 50 años después - En directo y al completo

Raphael: 50 años después - En directo y al completo

2009

as Self

Acting

Performed at Las Ventas Spain, In celebration of Raphael's 50th anniversary as a performer, this comprehensive collection offers incredible videos fro...

Hécuba: un sueño de pasión

2006

as Self

8.0
Acting

What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profession. Thirty-six Spanish actors reflect on their w...

Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena

Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena

2004

as Hortensia

4.9
Acting

Hortensia is a mature officer of the INEM office. She has been abandoned by her husband so she doesn't believe in love anymore. One day Eduardo Fernan...

With Good Reason

With Good Reason

2004

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...

Antigua vida mía

Antigua vida mía

2001

as Josefa Ferrer

3.5
Acting

An abused wife (Cecilia Roth) seeks information about her dead mother, a freedom fighter buried in Antigua.

La parrilla

1999

as Petra Delicado

Acting
Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health

1997

as Diana

6.1
Acting

Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.

El gusto es nuestro

El gusto es nuestro

1996

8.0
Acting
Freedomfighters

Freedomfighters

1996

as Pilar

6.4
Acting

At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman...

Turkish Passion

Turkish Passion

1994

as Desideria

5.5
Acting

A young woman’s passion forms the basis of this erotic Spanish drama adapted from a popular novel by Antonio Gala. The night before Desideria’s marria...

Ana Belén y Víctor Manuel: mucho más que dos

Ana Belén y Víctor Manuel: mucho más que dos

1994

10.0
Acting
Banderas, the Tyrant

Banderas, the Tyrant

1993

as Lupita

5.1
Acting

In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels t...

The Perfect Husband

The Perfect Husband

1993

as Natasha

4.8
Acting

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...

Rosa Rosae

Rosa Rosae

1992

5.2
Acting
After the Dream

After the Dream

1992

as Ángeles

5.0
Acting

Amós is a sailor and owner of a ship. He is impatient with the arrival of his uncle who returns from the Soviet Union, after having exiled there after...

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

1991

Director

5.8
Directing

Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her ...

The Flight of the Dove

The Flight of the Dove

1989

5.4
Acting

A film team arrives at a more authentic and old square in Madrid to shoot a film. The area is full of children, working families and simple people who...

Miss Caribe

Miss Caribe

1988

as Alejandra

5.2
Acting

A woman's father dies in a Central American country and leaves her a bizarre inheritance: a ship which acts as a floating brothel under the appearance...

Divine Words

Divine Words

1987

as Mari Gaila

5.4
Acting

A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephal...

The House of Bernarda Alba

The House of Bernarda Alba

1987

as Adela

6.9
Acting

After the death of her husband Bernarda Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house.

Bilbao Blues

Bilbao Blues

1986

as Beatriz Artetxe

Acting

Beatriz is an attractive young lawyer who enjoys an enviable position thanks to the influence of her father, a prominent businessman. Lucas, a young m...

Move Over, Mrs. Markham

Move Over, Mrs. Markham

1985

as Rosa

6.0
Acting

Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country...

The Court of the Pharaoh

The Court of the Pharaoh

1985

as Mari Pili / Lota

5.7
Acting

In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out o...

Todo es ausencia

Todo es ausencia

1984

Music

5.0

Five Argentinian women, with missing relatives from the military dictatorship that ruled the country, explain their emotions and feelings about all th...

Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado

Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado

1983

as Self

7.2
Acting

A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely opportunisti...

Demons in the Garden

Demons in the Garden

1982

as Ana

5.9
Acting

Juan is the handsome, irresponsible, best-loved second son. When his older brother, who runs the family's black-market business with their steel-wille...

The Beehive

The Beehive

1982

as Victorita

6.5
Acting

As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just...

Dolores

Dolores

1981

as Ana Belén

8.0
Acting

Based on the life of Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria), president of the PCE. The film is a documentary, prepared over three years with archive materia...

Erotic Stories

Erotic Stories

1980

as Carmen (segment "Tiempos rotos")

3.7
Acting

A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost ...

El buscón

El buscón

1979

as La Bailarina

5.0
Acting

XVII century Spain. Don Pablo tries to climb position and falls into the hands of students, rogues, whores, fake skilled, executioners, jailers and co...

Check to the Queen

Check to the Queen

1979

as Paula

3.5
Acting

After Paula's suicide, her best friend, Ana, recalls the circumstances that united both women in the past and how they lived a close relationship that...

Somnambulists

Somnambulists

1978

as Ana Cuesta

4.6
Acting

Ana works side by side with her mother Maria Rosa in the fight to save the anti-Franco militants from the death penalty during the process of Burgos. ...

The Creature

The Creature

1977

as Cristina

3.8
Acting

After a heartbreaking miscarriage, a couple adopts a stray male dog in hopes of saving their rocky marriage. But as the wife develops an obsessive bon...

La oscura historia de la prima Montse

La oscura historia de la prima Montse

1977

as Montse

3.8
Acting

Paco, a middle-class young man, tells his lover the shady story of his cousin Montse, a social worker.

La petición

La petición

1976

as Teresa

4.5
Acting

An ambitious young woman from a wealthy family, but unsatisfied with her social position, will not hesitate to use all that is within her reach to ach...

Emilia... parada y fonda

Emilia... parada y fonda

1976

as Emilia

4.3
Acting
¡Jo, papá!

¡Jo, papá!

1975

as Pilar

5.2
Acting

With the purpose of recalling a youthful adventure, Enrique, a well-placed merchant, decides to travel around Spain in the company of his wife Alicia ...

País S. A.

País S. A.

1975

as Aurora (archive footage)

5.0
Acting

A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist.

The Love of Captain Brando

The Love of Captain Brando

1974

as Aurora

5.5
Acting

During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old republican exile, returns to his home in a small Castilian village and befriends Auro...

Tormento

Tormento

1974

as Amparo

4.8
Acting

A rich emigrant returns to Madrid where he meets the beautiful Amparo . The girl, however, lives a secret affair with a priest

A flor de piel (C)

A flor de piel (C)

1974

Acting
Vida conyugal sana

Vida conyugal sana

1974

as Ana

1.0
Acting

Enrique is a thirty-year-old lawyer who is married to Ana. Apparently he is a normal man who has only one obsession: the commercials. He feels a real ...

Separación matrimonial

Separación matrimonial

1973

as Isabel

4.5
Acting
Romeo y Julieta

Romeo y Julieta

1972

as Julieta

8.0
Acting
To the Devil, with Love

To the Devil, with Love

1972

as Pilar

4.0
Acting

On an island buffeted by storms, the seamen are confined with no desire to abandon the life by the sea. They spend days and nights drunk in the tavern...

Morbidness

Morbidness

1972

as Alicia

6.2
Acting

Newlyweds have decided to spend the honeymoon in the middle of a forest and sheltered in a caravan. Relations between the two start to get confused, e...

Aunque la hormona se vista de seda...

Aunque la hormona se vista de seda...

1971

as Paloma Gil de la Viña

3.0
Acting
Spaniards in Paris

Spaniards in Paris

1971

as Isabel

5.3
Acting

Four Spanish women of very different origins and motivations work in Paris as handmaids.

Zampo y yo

Zampo y yo

1966

as Ana Belén

5.2
Acting

Ana Belén, motherless and daughter of a powerful businessman, lives in a luxurious mansion; but she is not happy, until she attends a circus performan...

Conciertos: Ana Belén y Víctor Manuel

N/A

Acting

2014 Hijos de puta

N/A

Acting

The story will begin with the suicide of a finance man on a golf course. After the death of the banker, the chain effect will lead to the emergence of...