Acting
Mar 16, 1967
Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain
Pere Arquillué
Acting
Biography
Pere Arquillué i Cortadella (Terrassa, Vallès Occidental, 17 March 1967) is a Catalan actor of theatre, cinema, television and dubbing. He lives in Matadepera and is the father of actress Emma Arquillué. He made his professional debut in theatre with the play Tàlem, by Sergi Belbel. He has participated in television series such as Secrets de família, Estació d'enlaç or Jet lag. He has also shot a few films and TV films.
Feature Films (25)
Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after she finds her in the bathroom, badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye's xenophobic co-workers.
Princesses
The old Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83) imagines a movie plot, set in Toledo in the future 2002, about the fantastic adventure of three actors, who play him and his friends, the painter Salvador Dalí (1904-89) and the poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), and their search for King Solomon's table, a mythical artifact capable of revealing the past, present and future.
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
"A Species Odyssey" portrays the origins of Mankind from the moment the first primate stood up on their hind legs and set off to conquer the African Savanna, to modern Man, setting off to conquer space. 7 million years of triumph fraught with difficulties and extraordinary events that make Man what he is today.
A Species Odyssey
When the troubled son of an NGO worker refuses to take a test and announces that he is not leaving his room, his concerned mother asks one of her clients, a Cuban exile, for help in setting the boy straight. Gonzalo has decided to drop out of school, and his mother Ana isn't sure how to convince the boy that he's making a crucial mistake. Ana's client Carlos is a Cuban exile who makes his living selling cigars and artwork on the black market. When Carlos learns of Ana's dilemma, he calls on recently released convict Mikel to teach the boy how to play chess. Perhaps is young Gonzalo can master the game, he can learn to start living again. As the lessons get underway, each of these characters learns that in order to truly move on with their lives they much first break free of the bonds that prevent them from being who they really are.
Hard Times
Spain, fifties. In a town grew around a living factory Jorge (Tristan Ulloa), the youngest son of the founder, and Elisa (Laia Marull), daughter of accounting. The two live with their families and are able to endure the monotony of their lives because they spend the afternoon on Wednesdays and Saturdays at a hotel in the city. This secret life together is essential for both. The small room in the city where encounters occur has become the only place where they can be themselves. That little space, a little sinister, find it more cozy, warm and near the home of Elisa gorgeous, spoiled by the mother, or the great house of George, full of family memories. Both are aware of the type of relationship they have created, and not demand more. Until Elisa decides to break the rules.
Las voces de la noche
TV Movie about Concepción Arenal in his role as visiting women's prisons. His struggle to change the conception that was on criminals and they had to be modern prisons.
Concepción Arenal, la visitadora de cárceles
Based on the theatrical "Uuuuh!" By Gerard Vazquez. Berlin, 1944. Charlie Rivel has to act for the Führer on his birthday. A Gestapo agent wants to act with him, and also someone who has planned an attack that can change the course of the war, and the history of mankind ...
El pallasso i el Führer
A middle class family in financial difficulties, looks like after winning a popular game show a large sum of money, the situation worsens and his life becomes complete nonsense.
The big contest
Manuela is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.
The Anarchist's Wife
Television & Series (15)
The plot of the series revolves around the lives of employees (caregivers, veterinarians, ...) in the Barcelona Zoo and the relationships between them and their families.
Zoo
Félix, an ordinary man with a quiet life, encounters Julia, a woman from Asian origin he hardly knows anything about, but with whom he falls in love.
Félix
Series about the life of a group of young Dramatic Art students who have one thing in common: a passion for theatre. The story takes place during the first year of this promotion, between September 1997 and June 1998, at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona.
