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

Break a Leg
2025
as (self)
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
2023
as Self - Actress
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
2023
as Self

Las cartas perdidas
2022
as Narradora

Cruce de caminos
2022
as Self
An account of the life and work of the singer and songwriter Miguel Ríos, pioneer and true icon of Spanish rock music.

Official Competition
2021
as Cóctel
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
2021
as Self - Actress / Various Roles (archive footage)
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!
2020
as Self - Singer and Actress
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
2020

La corte de Ana
2020
as Herself - Actress / Singer
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
2019
as Herself - Actress / Singer
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
2019
as Herself
A journey through the different creative facets of Luis Eduardo Aute: singer and songwriter, painter, poet, filmmaker. Collaborators and friends tell ...

¡Ay, Carmen!
2018
as Self - Actress
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
2018
as Self
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
2017
as Herself

The Queen of Spain
2016
as Ana
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
2009
as Self
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
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
2004
as Hortensia
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
2004
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
2001
as Josefa Ferrer
An abused wife (Cecilia Roth) seeks information about her dead mother, a freedom fighter buried in Antigua.
La parrilla
1999
as Petra Delicado

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
1997
as Diana
Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.

El gusto es nuestro
1996

Freedomfighters
1996
as Pilar
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
1994
as Desideria
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
1994

Banderas, the Tyrant
1993
as Lupita
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
1993
as Natasha
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
1992

After the Dream
1992
as Ángeles
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
1991
Director
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
1989
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
1988
as Alejandra
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
1987
as Mari Gaila
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
1987
as Adela
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
1986
as Beatriz Artetxe
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
1985
as Rosa
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
1985
as Mari Pili / Lota
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
1984
Music
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
1983
as Self
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
1982
as Ana
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
1982
as Victorita
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
1981
as Ana Belén
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
1980
as Carmen (segment "Tiempos rotos")
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
1979
as La Bailarina
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
1979
as Paula
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
1978
as Ana Cuesta
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
1977
as Cristina
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
1977
as Montse
Paco, a middle-class young man, tells his lover the shady story of his cousin Montse, a social worker.

La petición
1976
as Teresa
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
1976
as Emilia

¡Jo, papá!
1975
as Pilar
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.
1975
as Aurora (archive footage)
A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist.

The Love of Captain Brando
1974
as Aurora
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
1974
as Amparo
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)
1974

Vida conyugal sana
1974
as Ana
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
1973
as Isabel

Romeo y Julieta
1972
as Julieta

To the Devil, with Love
1972
as Pilar
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
1972
as Alicia
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...
1971
as Paloma Gil de la Viña

Spaniards in Paris
1971
as Isabel
Four Spanish women of very different origins and motivations work in Paris as handmaids.

Zampo y yo
1966
as Ana Belén
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
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2014 Hijos de puta
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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...