Paco León

Francisco León Barrios (born 4 October 1974), known as Paco León, is a Spanish actor, producer, director, screenwriter and activist from Seville, Andalusia. Beginning as a comedy performer, he rose to prominence on channel Antena 3 with sketch show Homo Zapping, and in Aída, playing the main character Luisma. He gained more prominence for portraying María José Riquelme in the Netflix series The House of Flowers, and writing, directing, and starring as Manolo in Movistar's Arde Madrid. He is also a prominent campaigner for HIV/AIDS causes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paco León, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

La resistencia

Release Date2018-02-01

Charactersd Invitado

Episode Count4

Vote Count20

Aída

Aída is a Spanish comedy sitcom set in Madrid, that spin off from another sitcom called 7 Vidas. The show first aired on January 16, 2005 and is produced by Globomedia for the Spanish network Telecinco. It currently started its ninth season. The show stars Carmen Machi as the title character, Aída García, a working, single mother with two teenage children, forced to move in with her mother and brother to make ends meet. The show has received favorable criticism from the audience and has been the most viewed show in Spain since 2007. It has also received several awards like the Ondas Award for Best Spanish Sitcom. The Polish re-make of the series began airing in March 2012 on TVP2 channel.

Release Date2005-01-16

Charactersd Luisma García

Episode Count237

Vote Count247

Se busca cómico para película

Documentary about new actors in Spain.

Release Date2012-09-05

Charactersd Paco León

The House of Flowers

A wealthy matriarch tries to maintain her family's facade of perfection after her husband's mistress exposes their dirty secrets.

Release Date2018-08-10

Charactersd María José

Episode Count33

Vote Count904

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones.

Release Date2022-04-20

Charactersd Lucas Gutierrez

Vote Count2335

El Club de la Comedia

Release Date1999-09-26

Charactersd Monologuista

Episode Count1

Vote Count13

Queens

In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, become entwined.

Release Date2005-04-08

Charactersd Narciso

Vote Count36

Homo Zapping

Homo Zapping

Release Date2003-12-09

Charactersd Varios

Episode Count132

Toc Toc

A group of patients meet at a prestigious psychologist's office. Apart from the day and time of the appointment, something else unites them all: all six suffer from OCD. But the plane bringing the doctor is unexpectedly delayed, which forces them to spend an endless wait until the doctor shows up. Will they be able to keep their manias, impulses, convulsions, obsessions and rituals at bay during the wait?

Release Date2017-09-01

Charactersd Emilio

Vote Count1250

The Plague

Plague decimates late 16th century Seville, a crowded city where many have arrived to embark for the New World to seek their fortune.

Release Date2018-01-12

Charactersd Luis de Zúñiga

Episode Count6

Vote Count231

Zapeando

Zapeando is a live chat where its host and its collaborators talk about the most highlighted moments of the television, as well as the spaces more and less loved by viewers, the best videos and video edits, the mistakes of other hosts, remembering old people who had success on television or the most talked-about commercials. In addition, the format supports introducing guests to some programmes that help to chat about some TV moments (called momentazos, big moments) or simply talk about their most recent works.

Release Date2013-11-18

Charactersd Himself - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count6

Sexy Killer: You'll Die for Her

In medical school of an elite university, campus starts sown with corpses. The police have no clue who is responsible for the carnage. Nobody suspected Barbara, a beautiful young innocent looking whose only concern seems to be the fashion. However, under the facade of frivolity, hides the most lethal and unforgiving of the killer: Barbykiller…

Release Date2008-10-10

Charactersd Cameo víctima coche

Vote Count72

Computer assault

Each of the members of a group of hackers is willing to fight against system. Their messages and attacks are political, socially demmanding but also playful. Each of them have reasons to have moved to that virtual side, where they can be who they can't in real life. However, the sudden implication of authorities (pressed by goverment to be tougher against hackers)and of a wise and dangerous cracker will cause a turn in their crusade. Will they use the enemy's means or their ideological motivations imply a respect for law and human life?

Release Date2002-01-04

Charactersd LX

Vote Count2

We Are Pregnant

It seems simple: an egg + sperm = one embryo. But if your sperm is "few, vague and abnormal" and your woman is premenopausal at age 37, things start to get complicated.

Release Date2016-01-29

Charactersd Fran

Vote Count100

Babies Don't Come with Instructions

Leo is a single, womanizing guy who lives day to day in a tiny beach town in the Canary Islands. One day one of his old flings, Julia, reappears to leave a baby of a few months in his arms and she disappears at the next morning.

Release Date2024-12-25

Charactersd Leo

Vote Count56

Joaquín, el novato

Release Date2022-10-05

Charactersd Paco León

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Arde Madrid

Madrid, 1961. Ana Mari is single, lame, Francoist and instructor of the Sección Femenina. By order of the dictator Franco, she must go to work as a maid to Ava Gardner's house and spy on her, pretending to be married to Manolo, a hustler who will become the driver of the American actress.

Release Date2018-11-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Manolo

Episode Count8

Vote Count47

Staring at Strangers

Carpenter Sergio runs away and hides in a closet after his boss fired him. When the closet arrives at its buyer's house, he decides to stay there, hiding in his new home living with an unknown family.

Release Date2022-11-04

Charactersd Damián

Vote Count83

La vida mancha

Fito (Juan Sanz) is a poker addict truck driver and labor problems that his wife Juana (Zay Nuba) tries to overcome. A day will come Pedro (Jose Coronado), the brother Fito, absent from his life for 13 years.

Release Date2003-05-09

Charactersd Tipo 2

Vote Count19

You Keep the Kids

Flora and Victor are fun, modern, caring parents. That is, until they decide to get a divorce, and the perfect job opportunity turns up for them. They now have one problem: custody.

Release Date2021-12-17

Charactersd Víctor

Vote Count204

Queen of Coal

A transgender woman lands her dream job of working in a carbon mine, but after having the sex-change surgery must face a superstition that bans female workers from entering the underground galleries.

Release Date2025-06-12

Charactersd Antonio, ingeniero

Vote Count6

Besos al aire

Eight interlinked stories of lockdown love sparked during Spain’s first national lockdown during the pandemic.

Release Date2021-03-26

Charactersd Javi Carrasco

Episode Count2

Vote Count27

Co-Husbands

Emilio and Tono both receive phone calls that their wives are in comas after a ski-resort avalanche. At the hospital desk, they make a shocking discovery: their wives are, in fact, the same person … Laura. Forced to wait together until Laura regains consciousness, Emilio and Toni battle to prove who is her one and only true husband.

Release Date2023-03-10

Charactersd Toni

Vote Count44

Aída y vuelta

Release Date2026-01-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Paco León / Luisma

Los mánagers

Two jobless Forty-somethings: Maca and Rena are in serious need of a financial stroke of luck. When they spot an ad for a TV contest looking for the next Pop Idol, they decide to turn themselves into the MANAGERS of two young hopefuls: Pipo and David. While launching their careers with performances in bars, bingo clubs and other such dives they encounter Rota, a shady old singer who arranges for them to tour the Costa del Sol. Thus begins a frenetic road movie where dreams of success turn into a nightmare inhabited by strange creatures: Tom Jones clones, porn stars, enlightened arabs, psychopathic marines, kitch TV presenters, corrupt politicians and even extra-terrestrials.

Release Date2006-07-07

Charactersd Pipo

Vote Count7

Kiki: Love to Love

Through five stories, the movie addresses sex and love: Paco and Ana are a marriage looking for reactivate the passion of their sexual relations, long time unsatisfied; Jose Luis tries to recover the affections of his wife Paloma, sit down on a wheelchair after an accident which has limited her mobility; Mª Candelaria and Antonio are a marriage trying by all way to be parents, but she has the trouble that no get an orgasm when make love with him; Álex try to satisfy Natalia's fantasies, while she starts to doubt if he finally will ask her in marriage; and finally, Sandra is a single woman in a permanent searching for a man to fall in love. All them love, fear, live and explore their diverse sexual paraphilias and the different sides of sexuality, trying to find the road to happiness.

Release Date2016-04-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Paco

Vote Count373

La dama boba

Spain, 17th century. With the arrival of two suitors, rivalry and jealousy come between two sisters with very different personalities.

Release Date2006-03-24

Charactersd Maestro Danza

Vote Count6

Ruido Capital

Ruido Capital

Release Date2020-04-16

Charactersd Antonio

Episode Count6

The House of Flowers: The Movie

The De La Mora siblings concoct a mischievous plan to break into their old family home to retrieve a hidden treasure of significant importance.

Release Date2021-06-22

Charactersd María José

Vote Count120

Mediterranean Food

Sofia's story, the best chef in the world, and the two men who helped her to become a legend.

Release Date2009-02-06

Charactersd Toni

Vote Count25

Three Many Weddings

Ruth, a young researcher at a college, is invited to the weddings of three of her exes. She enlists the help of her assistant to find a companion for each wedding; will one of them turn out to be her soulmate?

Release Date2013-12-05

Charactersd Mikel

Vote Count190

The Tribe

A cleaner woman with vocational street dancer tries to recover her long-stranded son that she gave for adoption, a former CEO who lost everything, including his memories.

Release Date2018-03-16

Charactersd Fidel

Vote Count208

Spaggheti Western

Short film where Espagueti Kid follows the track of the villain Fideo Jack in order to avenge his pasta family.

Release Date2007-12-19

Charactersd Narrator (voice)

Vote Count1

Seven Years

The drama is centered on four friends and business partners who in one evening are forced to find a way to save their company and themselves. The impossible decision they face is agreeing on who will be the one to sacrifice their freedom to save the others from personal and financial demise. It is a race against time that will put their friendship and sanity to the test. Who will take the fall?

Release Date2016-10-28

Charactersd Luis

Vote Count196

Error 0036

Release Date2011-06-30

Charactersd Jorge Arellano

Don't call it love... call it x

Release Date2011-05-06

Charactersd Fermín Macho

Vote Count35

A Hipster in Rural Spain

Quique is dispatched to a village in deep Spain Teruel to lead its politics of recuperation but soon discovers he was sent there so that his girlfriend and leader of his party could spend more time together.

Release Date2024-03-02

Charactersd Gaspar

Vote Count41

Días rojos

In 1936, the Spanish Civil War has just begun. Rebel army is taking at force a republican village, So, Juan and "Bicho" are obligated to go away the death. They will try to arrive the mines, where some refugees want to create a resistance against the rebels. Will they get their purpose?

Release Date2004-10-01

Charactersd Canijo

Vote Count2

The House of Flowers Presents: The Funeral

The de la Mora siblings publicly mourn the death of their mother amid multiple surprises and mishaps at Virginia's funeral.

Release Date2019-10-31

Charactersd María José Riquelme

Vote Count12

Carmina and Amen

After her husband dies, Carmina keeps it a secret until a check that he had been expecting comes in.

Release Date2014-04-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Hombre entierro

Vote Count84

Vecinooo

Quarantine short by Paco León

Release Date2020-05-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count1

El hormiguero

El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.

Release Date2006-09-24

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count4

Vote Count39

MasterChef

MasterChef is a Spanish competitive reality television cooking show based on the British television cooking game show of the same title.

Release Date2013-04-10

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count13

Drag Race España

On the Spanish version of RuPaul's Drag Race, Supremme de Luxe presides as Spain's most talented queens compete to be crowned Spain's Next Drag Superstar.

Release Date2021-05-30

Charactersd Self - Guest Judge

Episode Count1

Vote Count23

Late Xou con Marc Giró

Late Xou con Marc Giró

Marc Giró presents a very entertaining late night show with interviews with prominent personalities from the world of cinema, theatre, music, television, literature and social activism in our national scene.

Release Date2023-10-09

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

La Noche D

Release Date2021-01-26

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Martínez y hermanos

Release Date2022-04-21

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

Al cielo con ella

Al cielo con ella

The comedian and writer Henar Álvarez sits on the throne of 'Al cielo con ella', the new RTVE Play programme. A mischievous, irreverent, transgressive and vindictive interview space in the purest Henar style. The stage of the Quique San Francisco theatre in Madrid will witness the passage of popular guests with interviews full of humour in which the voices of women who have a lot to say will be heard. The music band 'Manny Calavera' will be in charge of setting the rhythm for a programme in which there will be no shortage of surprises.

Release Date2024-11-24

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Lo Siguiente

Release Date2018-10-29

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Perspectivas

Perspectivas

Release Date2023-04-27

Charactersd Self

Episode Count3

That's My Jam (España)

That's My Jam (España)

Release Date2023-10-02

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

En la tuya o en la mía

Release Date2015-09-09

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Días de tele

Release Date2023-01-18

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Feis tu feis

Feis tu feis

Release Date2016-05-27

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

El viaje de Julieta

Release Date2023-01-09

Charactersd Self

Stay Homas. The Band That Shouldn’t Exist

In the most tragic moment of the pandemic, confined to a terrace in the centre of Barcelona and almost by chance, the musical phenomenon of the Stay Homas was born, a band that now struggles, in their Gen Z way, to escape from an origin that burdens them.

Release Date2024-03-06

Charactersd Self - Actor

Vote Count1

Rainbow

In search of her mother, a teenager and her eccentric group of companions set off on a journey, trying to avoid the clutches of a wicked woman.

Release Date2022-09-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count45

La vuelta a la tortilla

The fight against breast cancer has inspired this story, in which Silvia, finds reasons to celebrate when she meets Rafa

Release Date2013-11-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Eat My Shit

Eat My Shit tells the tale of a woman with the unfortunate defect of having a butthole for a mouth.

Release Date2015-02-09

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count42

Carmina or Blow Up

Carmina, 58, runs a shop selling Iberian products in Seville. After several robberies and no help from her insurance company, she comes up with a way to recover the money she needs to keep her family. While she waits in her kitchen for her plan to kick in, she thinks back over her life, her work and her miracles.

Release Date2012-07-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count87

Vaca Paloma

Release Date2015-09-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Falstaff

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Jet Lag

Release Date2001-10-02

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

One X Two

Two old friends have been betting on the football pool since college. They meet up one weekend where everyone seems happy, but the possibility of hitting the jackpot and becoming millionaires grows increasingly real.

Release Date2025-08-08

Vote Count5

¿Quién quiere ser millonario?

Spanish game show based on the original British format of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?".

Release Date2020-01-22

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Capítulo 0

Release Date2018-09-11

Episode Count1

Vote Count13

La Roja

1X2

To Love and Die in Seville

Don Juan Tenorio, accompanied by his faithful servant Ciutti, returns to Seville to resolve the bet he made with Don Luis Mejía. The two are placed to a new bet, since they have killed a similar number of men and conquered the same women. The new bet is that Don Juan has to conquer a novice and a maid who is about to get married, the time stipulated in six days. Don Juan warns Don Luis that the maid will be Doña Ana de Pantoja, with whom Don Luis is going to marry. The one who loses will pay with his life.

Release Date2001-09-11

Vote Count3

My Dearest Señorita

A remake of the 1971 film, a romantic drama that explored themes of intersexuality, and one of very few to tackle sexual orientation in General Franco’s ultra-conservative Spain.

Estrella, cometa, satélite y planeta

A documentary celebrating the life of Fernando Estrella, a pioneering LGBTI activist and beloved cultural icon. Through testimonies from friends and collaborators, it traces his fearless advocacy, artistic brilliance, and deep impact on queer visibility in Spain—from the Movida Madrileña to his influential presence in Palma. A chef, performer, and actor in Almodóvar’s films, Estrella defied norms and built community, especially through his legendary restaurant, Flexa. The film culminates in the surreal and moving farewell party held just before his death in 2023, a testament to the love he inspired.

Release Date2025-06-14

Santo António