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Luis Tosar has 33 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Cell 211.
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Cell 211
2009 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Netflix · Included

Sleep Tight
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Prime Video · Included

Mondays in the Sun
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Even the Rain
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Netflix · Included

The Courier
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 41%Netflix · Included

Adú
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 46%Netflix · Included

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 prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
Dir. Daniel Monzón · With Alberto Ammann, Luis Tosar, Antonio Resines

César, an unhappy concierge, maintains a peculiar relationship with the very diverse inhabitants of the upper-class apartment building where he works in Barcelona.
Dir. Jaume Balagueró · With Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Alberto San Juan

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 youth raising. But one day, a reckless young neighbor, Carlos, falls down the stairwell and drags himself to their door. Someone has entered the shrew's nest... perhaps he'll never leave.
Dir. Juanfer Andrés, Esteban Roel · With Macarena Gómez, Nadia de Santiago, Hugo Silva

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 says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...
Dir. Icíar Bollaín · With Laia Marull, Luis Tosar, Candela Peña

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 he must to gather a large amount of money; otherwise, his car will blow up.
Dir. Dani de la Torre · With Luis Tosar, Paula del Río, Marco Sanz

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 mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and unofficial leader of the group. A court case hangs over him relating to a shipyard lamp he smashed during a protest against the closure. José is bitter that his wife, Ana, is employed when he is not.
Dir. Fernando León de Aranoa · With Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, José Ángel Egido

Basque Country, Spain, late nineties. A young policewoman manages to infiltrate the ruthless terrorist gang ETA.
Dir. Arantxa Echevarría · With Carolina Yuste, Luis Tosar, Víctor Clavijo

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 men who killed Juan wants to meet with her in the Nanclares de la Oca prison in Araba (Spain), where he is serving his sentence after breaking ties with the terrorist group. Despite her reservations and her immense pain, Maixabel Lasa agrees to meet face to face with those who ended the life of the person who had been her companion since she was 16 years old. ‘Everyone deserves a second chance’, she said, when asked why she was willing to confront the man who killed her husband.
Dir. Icíar Bollaín · With Blanca Portillo, Luis Tosar, Urko Olazábal

As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
Dir. Icíar Bollaín · With Luis Tosar, Gael García Bernal, Juan Carlos Aduviri

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 crash.
Dir. Daniel Calparsoro · With Arón Piper, María Pedraza, Luis Tosar

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 holds of an airplane. Not too far away, an environmental activist contemplates the terrible image of an elephant, dead and fangless. Not only do you have to fight against poaching, but you will also have to meet the problems of your newly arrived daughter from Spain. Thousands of kilometers to the north, in Melilla, a group of civil guards prepare to face the furious crowd of sub-Saharan people who have begun the assault on the fence. Three stories linked by a central theme, in which none of its protagonists know that their destinies are doomed to cross and that their lives will no longer be the same.
Dir. Salvador Calvo · With Luis Tosar, Álvaro Cervantes, Anna Castillo

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 way into one of the most secure and guarded places on the planet.
Dir. Jaume Balagueró · With Freddie Highmore, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Jose Coronado

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 before him is an infinite and arid plain that he must cross if he wants to get away definitively from what has made him flee. His steps will intersect with those of a pastor and, from that moment, nothing will be the same for either of them.
Dir. Benito Zambrano · With Luis Tosar, Luis Callejo, Vicente Romero Sánchez

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 best known narco in the area, Antonio Padín, recently released from prison, enters the residence, Mario tries to make Antonio feel at home. Now, Padín's two sons, Kike and Toño, are in charge of the family business. The failure of an operation will put Kike in jail and cause them to owe a large debt to a Colombian supplier. Toño will turn to the nurse to try to convince his father to assume the debt. But Mario has his own plans.
Dir. Paco Plaza · With Luis Tosar, María Vázquez, Ismael Martínez

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 mother with her daughter; and Teodora, a sick old woman who searches for her long-lost son before it is too late.
Dir. Juan Diego Botto · With Penélope Cruz, Luis Tosar, Adelfa Calvo
A commentary on Spanish society dressed as a thriller about the misadventures of a gang of young petty criminals after the real estate crash.
Dir. Daniel Calparsoro · With Miguel Herrán, Carolina Yuste, Asia Ortega

After being implicated in a terrorist attack, Santi, a taxi driver, is taken hostage by one of the perpetrators.
Dir. Daniel Calparsoro · With Luis Tosar, Inma Cuesta, Roberto Enríquez

Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.
Dir. Bernard Rose · With Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis

The Philippines, 1898. Fifty Spanish soldiers arrive in the small village of Baler to rebuild an outpost. Although the war against the Filipinos and their American allies is almost lost, as is the Spanish Empire, the garrison will endure a cruel siege for eleven months. They will be the last to surrender.
Dir. Salvador Calvo · With Luis Tosar, Javier Gutiérrez, Álvaro Cervantes

After interning her insane husband in a remote psychiatric hospital, book editor Helga Pato returns home by train, where she meets a mysterious man who identifies himself as a psychiatrist.
Dir. Aritz Moreno · With Luis Tosar, Pilar Castro, Ernesto Alterio

One summer, Dario flees the hellish environment of his home. Luismi, unconditional friend, a poor devil with pretensions of winning, and Antonia, an old woman who collects abandoned his motorcar furniture, become his new family. Three generations living together in a city too big to be alone.
Dir. Daniel Guzmán · With Miguel Herrán, Antonio Bachiller, Antonia Guzmán
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 bursts into the place with a gun and a gunshot will change his life forever.
Dir. Juan Galiñanes · With Luis Tosar, Elena Anaya, Álex García

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 the contraband.
Dir. Daniel Monzón · With Jesús Castro, Bárbara Lennie, Moussa Maaskri
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.
Dir. Gracia Querejeta · With Maribel Verdú, Antonio Resines, Luis Tosar

Barcelona, Spain, 1921. A tough cop from Madrid arrives in the city to locate, under the suspicious scrutiny of corrupt local police officers, a significant amount of military weaponry stolen from a train, allegedly by revolutionary anarchists.
Dir. Dani de la Torre · With Luis Tosar, Michelle Jenner, Vicente Romero Sánchez

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 unfolding as planned, and mistrust quickly builds between the two leaders of the gang.
Dir. Daniel Calparsoro · With Luis Tosar, Rodrigo de la Serna, Raúl Arévalo

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 treatments. While she ponders this ill fortune at a soccer game where her son Dani participates, she attracts the attention of talent scout Arturo, who is looking for talented young players to enroll them in the junior leagues.
Dir. Julio Medem · With Penélope Cruz, Luis Tosar, Asier Etxeandia
Two white collar thieves compete fiercely against the other trying to steal to an old baker the millions he won on the lotto.
Dir. Daniel Monzón · With Luis Tosar, Rodrigo de la Serna, Stephanie Cayo

Victor Genovés, an influential businessman, is blackmailed: if he doesn't agree to pay a large sum of money, the self-styled Midas favorites will kill a person at random at a designated place and time and add a new victim periodically until they achieve their goal. How many deaths will he be able to carry on his shoulders?
Dir. Mateo Gil, Miguel Barros · With Luis Tosar, Marta Belmonte, Marta Milans

A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him across Spain, but also through his own consciousness.
Dir. Jim Jarmusch · With Isaach de Bankolé, Alex Descas, Jean-François Stévenin
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