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Manolo Solo has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Pan's Labyrinth.
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Cell 211
2009 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Netflix · Included

Elisa & Marcela
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Netflix · Included

The Good Boss
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Paramount+ · Included

Close Your Eyes
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 36%Mubi · Included

Official Competition
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 38%AMC+ · Included

30 Coins
2020 · Series · Actor
Top 57%Max · Included

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú

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

The film tells the true story of Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, two women in 1901 Spain who fell deeply in love. To overcome societal and legal barriers to their relationship, Elisa assumes a male identity, enabling the pair to marry in secret. Their daring act makes them the first recorded same-sex couple to marry in Spain, but their love is tested as they face relentless persecution and sacrifice.
Dir. Isabel Coixet · With Natalia de Molina, Greta Fernández, Sara Casasnovas

Julio Blanco is the proprietor of Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town, which awaits the imminent visit from a committee that will decide if they merit a local Business Excellence award: everything has to be perfect when the time comes. Working against the clock, Blanco pulls out all the stops to address and resolve issues with his employees, crossing every imaginable line in the process.
Dir. Fernando León de Aranoa · With Javier Bardem, Manolo Solo, Almudena Amor

Quiet Jose woos cafe worker Ana, but she is unaware he has intentions other than the purely romantic.
Dir. Raúl Arévalo · With Antonio de la Torre, Luis Callejo, Ruth Díaz
Explores the Spanish origins of the character's story, where he is a tuberculosis patient from Almeria who will do anything to get well, even consuming the blood of the kids he kidnaps in a sack.
Dir. Ángel Gómez Hernández · With Javier Botet, Macarena Gómez, Lucas Blas

Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.
Dir. Víctor Erice · With Manolo Solo, Jose Coronado, Ana Torrent

When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?
Dir. Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn · With Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Oscar Martínez

Father Vergara—an exorcist, boxer and ex-convict—lives in a remote village in Spain. Hoping to be lost and forgotten, Vergara’s demons catch up to him.
Dir. Álex de la Iglesia · With Eduard Fernández, Megan Montaner, Miguel Ángel Silvestre

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
It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in the South of Spain. Tano, a teenager currently serving a sentence in a juvenile reform center, is given a 48-hour leave to attend his brother’s wedding.
Dir. Alberto Rodríguez · With Juan José Ballesta, Jesús Carroza, Vicente Romero Sánchez

Carlos is a respectable man, the most prestigious tailor in Granada, Spain. His life is reduced to work and his main hobby is eating; but not just anything.
Dir. Manuel Martín Cuenca · With Antonio de la Torre, Olimpia Melinte, María Alfonsa Rosso

as Mario Santos
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, 2019. Two corpses appear in the crypt of the Old Cathedral. Police officer Unai López de Ayala, an expert in criminal profiling, must hunt down the ritual murderer who has been terrorizing the city for two decades.
Dir. Daniel Calparsoro · With Belén Rueda, Javier Rey, Aura Garrido