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Alejandro Amen�bar

Highest Rated:: 85% Open Your Eyes (Abre los ojos) (Permanent Midnight) (1997)
Lowest Rated:: 40% Vanilla Sky (2001)

Birthday:: Mar 31, 1972
Birthplace:: Santiago de Chile, Chile
Bio:: Alejandro Amen�bar was already a Spanish cinema sensation and garnering comparisons to Alfred Hitchcock before he notched his first English language hit with the slyly old-fashioned thriller The Others (2001).Raised in Spain after his Chile-based parents fled the country shortly before the 1973…

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Highest Rated Movies

Open Your Eyes (Abre los ojos) (Permanent Midnight)
85%
The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro) (The Sea Within)
84%
The Others
84%
Thesis (Tesis)
71%

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 40% - 85%

Number of Movies: 8

Box Office Since 2001: $199.1M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2009	51%	Agora	Director Screenwriter	$0.6M
2004	84%	The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro) (The Sea Within)	Screenwriter Director Producer	$1.9M
2001	84%	The Others	Screenwriter Director	$96.1M
2001	40%	Vanilla Sky	Screenwriter	$100.5M
1997	85%	Open Your Eyes (Abre los ojos) (Permanent Midnight)	Director	--
1996	71%	Thesis (Tesis)	Director	--
1995		Luna	Actor Director	--
1992		Himen�ptero	Actor Director	--

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The usual co-guionist of Alejandro Amenabar is Mateo Gil, although he has also made scripts for other directors ('The method') and made a movie as director ('Nobody knows nobody').

- submitted by Emilio P (2 years ago)

Alejandro Amenabar is gay, and not ashamed of it. When he was asked about the polemic of everyone knowing about that, he answered he had not hidden it, it was just nobody from press had asked him before.

- submitted by Emilio P (2 years ago)