Nancho Novo

Venancio Manuel Jesús Novo Cid-Fuentes (A Coruña, September 17, 1958), is a spanish actor.

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The Flower of My Secret (1995)

Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than happy relationship with her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pedro Almodóvar
CAST:  Marisa Paredes  •  Juan Echanove  •  Carme Elias  •  Rossy de Palma

Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than happy relationship with her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pedro Almodóvar
CAST:  Marisa Paredes  •  Juan Echanove  •  Carme Elias  •  Rossy de Palma

Earth (1996)

Angel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests responsible for giving their product an "earthy" taste that has divided local opinion. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julio Medem
CAST:  Carmelo Gómez  •  Emma Suárez  •  Karra Elejalde  •  Silke

Angel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests responsible for giving their product an "earthy" taste that has divided local opinion. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julio Medem
CAST:  Carmelo Gómez  •  Emma Suárez  •  Karra Elejalde  •  Silke

The Red Squirrel (1993)

Jota is about to commit suicide. As he fighting against himself, trying to jump off a bridge, a girl riding a motorcycle falls off the bridge. He runs to help her, and goes with her to the hospital. She has forgotten even what her name is, and he invents her life. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julio Medem
CAST:  Emma Suárez  •  Nancho Novo  •  María Barranco  •  Karra Elejalde

Jota is about to commit suicide. As he fighting against himself, trying to jump off a bridge, a girl riding a motorcycle falls off the bridge. He runs to help her, and goes with her to the hospital. She has forgotten even what her name is, and he invents her life. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julio Medem
CAST:  Emma Suárez  •  Nancho Novo  •  María Barranco  •  Karra Elejalde

Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)

Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place (Círculo polar) where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julio Medem
CAST:  Najwa Nimri  •  Fele Martínez  •  Joost Siedhoff  •  Peru Medem

Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place (Círculo polar) where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julio Medem
CAST:  Najwa Nimri  •  Fele Martínez  •  Joost Siedhoff  •  Peru Medem

El lápiz del carpintero (2003)

A story of love and obsession during the Spanish Civil War  (more)

DIRECTION:  Antón Reixa
CAST:  Tristán Ulloa  •  Luis Tosar  •  María Adánez  •  Nancho Novo

A story of love and obsession during the Spanish Civil War  (more)

DIRECTION:  Antón Reixa
CAST:  Tristán Ulloa  •  Luis Tosar  •  María Adánez  •  Nancho Novo

Tuya siempre (2007)

Lola and Alfredo survive on the fringes of crime. Their business comes to an abrupt end when Alfredo is arrested. Lola gets the chance of working in a jazz club where the couple meet some very different characters, who open up new worlds and possibilities, but, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manuel Lombardero
CAST:  Flora Martínez  •  Nancho Novo  •  Rubén Ochandiano  •  Jose Coronado

Lola and Alfredo survive on the fringes of crime. Their business comes to an abrupt end when Alfredo is arrested. Lola gets the chance of working in a jazz club where the couple meet some very different characters, who open up new worlds and possibilities, but, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manuel Lombardero
CAST:  Flora Martínez  •  Nancho Novo  •  Rubén Ochandiano  •  Jose Coronado

Astronautas (2003)

Daniel is approaching forty. Laura is almost sixteen. From what they say about him he must be a poet or a comic-strip illustrator, or both. He has just overcome a long addiction and, once back home, is trying to recongnize his life based on a strategy which ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Santi Amodeo
CAST:  Nancho Novo  •  Teresa Hurtado de Ory  •  Juan Motilla  •  Álex O'Dogherty

Daniel is approaching forty. Laura is almost sixteen. From what they say about him he must be a poet or a comic-strip illustrator, or both. He has just overcome a long addiction and, once back home, is trying to recongnize his life based on a strategy which ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Santi Amodeo
CAST:  Nancho Novo  •  Teresa Hurtado de Ory  •  Juan Motilla  •  Álex O'Dogherty

Tengo una casa (1996)

Nico is a guitarist who , after eleven years playing from town to town , is expelled from the orchestra unable to suppress the power within. Only in the road Nico meets Ferrari, a young man traveling with his girlfriend but has also left alone, and that will run ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mónica Laguna
CAST:  Nancho Novo  •  Ernesto Alterio  •  Pedro Alonso  •  Silke

Nico is a guitarist who , after eleven years playing from town to town , is expelled from the orchestra unable to suppress the power within. Only in the road Nico meets Ferrari, a young man traveling with his girlfriend but has also left alone, and that will run ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mónica Laguna
CAST:  Nancho Novo  •  Ernesto Alterio  •  Pedro Alonso  •  Silke

Finisterre, donde termina el mundo (1999)

Mario and Berto are brothers and they live in Galicia at the “Finis Terrae”. Their father left them when they were children and they grew up with the idea of finding him someday, without knowing that they were the ones separating from each other. Once reunited they ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Xavier Villaverde
CAST:  Elena Anaya  •  Nancho Novo  •  Enrique Alcides  •  Geraldine Chaplin

Mario and Berto are brothers and they live in Galicia at the “Finis Terrae”. Their father left them when they were children and they grew up with the idea of finding him someday, without knowing that they were the ones separating from each other. Once reunited they ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Xavier Villaverde
CAST:  Elena Anaya  •  Nancho Novo  •  Enrique Alcides  •  Geraldine Chaplin

Do It for Me (1997)

Andrés's wealthy father-in-law runs a textile factory; he retires and brings Andrés to Madrid, with wife and son, to run the company. Andrés works long hours, but his wife is bored, and there are tensions at home. When Isabel, a femme fatale, spots Andrés at a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ángel Fernández Santos
CAST:  Cayetana Guillén Cuervo  •  Carlos Hipólito  •  Nancho Novo  •  Eulalia Ramón

Andrés's wealthy father-in-law runs a textile factory; he retires and brings Andrés to Madrid, with wife and son, to run the company. Andrés works long hours, but his wife is bored, and there are tensions at home. When Isabel, a femme fatale, spots Andrés at a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ángel Fernández Santos
CAST:  Cayetana Guillén Cuervo  •  Carlos Hipólito  •  Nancho Novo  •  Eulalia Ramón

Sinfín (2005)

15 years after of its breakdown, a music band have a second chance of exit.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manuel Sanabria  •  Carlos Villaverde
CAST:  Dani Martín  •  Carlos Iglesias  •  Nancho Novo  •  Andoni Gracia

15 years after of its breakdown, a music band have a second chance of exit.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manuel Sanabria  •  Carlos Villaverde
CAST:  Dani Martín  •  Carlos Iglesias  •  Nancho Novo  •  Andoni Gracia

Continental (1989)

At the end of the 50s, after assassinating the legendary capo Goncalves and dividing their domains, Ventura and Otálora, rival and old friends, fight with their bands for the control of prostitution and contraband. Anabel, Ventura's favorite prostitute and her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Xavier Villaverde
CAST:  Eusebio Poncela  •  Marisa Paredes  •  Jorge Sanz  •  Héctor Alterio

At the end of the 50s, after assassinating the legendary capo Goncalves and dividing their domains, Ventura and Otálora, rival and old friends, fight with their bands for the control of prostitution and contraband. Anabel, Ventura's favorite prostitute and her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Xavier Villaverde
CAST:  Eusebio Poncela  •  Marisa Paredes  •  Jorge Sanz  •  Héctor Alterio

Not Love, Just Frenzy (1996)

From the land of Almodovar comes a hot new film about drugs, sex & everything else!  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfonso Albacete  •  David Menkes  •  Miguel Bardem
CAST:  Nancho Novo  •  Cayetana Guillén Cuervo  •  Ingrid Rubio  •  Beatriz Santiago

From the land of Almodovar comes a hot new film about drugs, sex & everything else!  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfonso Albacete  •  David Menkes  •  Miguel Bardem
CAST:  Nancho Novo  •  Cayetana Guillén Cuervo  •  Ingrid Rubio  •  Beatriz Santiago

La reina anónima (1992)

Anna Luz, a married woman, rethinks her life when she receives the visit of a stranger who claims to be her neighbor from the floor below. His arrival coincides with the entry of a series of extravagant characters who, as in a dream, invade his house. Ana is then ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gonzalo Suárez
CAST:  Carmen Maura  •  Marisa Paredes  •  Juanjo Puigcorbé  •  Jesús Bonilla

Anna Luz, a married woman, rethinks her life when she receives the visit of a stranger who claims to be her neighbor from the floor below. His arrival coincides with the entry of a series of extravagant characters who, as in a dream, invade his house. Ana is then ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gonzalo Suárez
CAST:  Carmen Maura  •  Marisa Paredes  •  Juanjo Puigcorbé  •  Jesús Bonilla

Modesty (2007)

Pudor is about intimacy, about the desires, obsessions, secrets and fears that we keep hidden, even from those we love most. The characters in this story are a man who is going to die, a woman who receives anonymous erotic notes, an older man who is offered a last ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tristán Ulloa  •  David Ulloa
CAST:  Nancho Novo  •  Elvira Mínguez  •  Natalia Rodríguez  •  Celso Bugallo

Pudor is about intimacy, about the desires, obsessions, secrets and fears that we keep hidden, even from those we love most. The characters in this story are a man who is going to die, a woman who receives anonymous erotic notes, an older man who is offered a last ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tristán Ulloa  •  David Ulloa
CAST:  Nancho Novo  •  Elvira Mínguez  •  Natalia Rodríguez  •  Celso Bugallo

All Men Are the Same (1994)

Three divorced men who share a flat live together without trouble until they hire a cleaning lady.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manuel Gómez Pereira
CAST:  Imanol Arias  •  Antonio Resines  •  Cristina Marcos  •  Juanjo Puigcorbé

Three divorced men who share a flat live together without trouble until they hire a cleaning lady.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manuel Gómez Pereira
CAST:  Imanol Arias  •  Antonio Resines  •  Cristina Marcos  •  Juanjo Puigcorbé

Amo tu cama rica (1992)

Pedro goes out searching for a girl, but the night doesn't seem to be good. While he is talking with a friend, he sees Sara breaking up with a boy. He goes after her, and they end up sleeping in his house. Time goes by and they continue together. But Sara has too ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Emilio Martínez Lázaro
CAST:  Ariadna Gil  •  Javier Bardem  •  Juan Botella  •  Cayetana Guillén Cuervo

Pedro goes out searching for a girl, but the night doesn't seem to be good. While he is talking with a friend, he sees Sara breaking up with a boy. He goes after her, and they end up sleeping in his house. Time goes by and they continue together. But Sara has too ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Emilio Martínez Lázaro
CAST:  Ariadna Gil  •  Javier Bardem  •  Juan Botella  •  Cayetana Guillén Cuervo

Tierra del fuego (2000)

The film is based on the novel (of the same name) by the Chilean writer Francisco Coloane, and on the chronicles of the Romanian engineer Julius Popper, a nationalized Argentine and one of the principle actors in the genocide of the Selk'nam, one of the indigenous ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Miguel Littín
CAST:  Ornella Muti  •  Tamara Acosta  •  Nelson Villagra  •  Álvaro Rudolphy

The film is based on the novel (of the same name) by the Chilean writer Francisco Coloane, and on the chronicles of the Romanian engineer Julius Popper, a nationalized Argentine and one of the principle actors in the genocide of the Selk'nam, one of the indigenous ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Miguel Littín
CAST:  Ornella Muti  •  Tamara Acosta  •  Nelson Villagra  •  Álvaro Rudolphy

In Praise of Older Women (1997)

In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manuel Lombardero
CAST:  Juan Diego Botto  •  Faye Dunaway  •  Miguel Ángel García  •  Carme Elias

In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manuel Lombardero
CAST:  Juan Diego Botto  •  Faye Dunaway  •  Miguel Ángel García  •  Carme Elias

La Celestina (1996)

The young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto's servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Celestina to further the romance. However Calisto's other servant Parmeno is suspicious of Celestina, as he knows ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gerardo Vera
CAST:  Penélope Cruz  •  Terele Pávez  •  Juan Diego Botto  •  Maribel Verdú

The young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto's servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Celestina to further the romance. However Calisto's other servant Parmeno is suspicious of Celestina, as he knows ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gerardo Vera
CAST:  Penélope Cruz  •  Terele Pávez  •  Juan Diego Botto  •  Maribel Verdú
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