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Alejandro Amenábar

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 Amenábar 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…

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
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1996 71% Thesis (Tesis)
  • Director
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1995 Luna
  • Actor
  • Director
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1992 Himenóptero
  • Actor
  • Director
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Alejandro Amenábar Trivia

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)

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