Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
20 Centimeters
TITLE DETAILS

20 Centimeters

2005-06-10 · 112 min · ★ 5.4

Comedy · Drama

Colloquially-told story of a few days in the life of Marieta, who's saving money for the last operation in her change from man to woman. She works as a prostitute in Madrid and longs for a legitimate job. Whenever she builds up her savings, her housemate and best friend Tomás finds ways to spend, lose, or cost her those funds. She meets Raúl, whom she likes and who likes her; the trouble is he also likes that part of her she wants removed. If that's not enough, she also has narcolepsy, and when she conks out, she dreams of musical-theater numbers in which she's the singing and dancing star. Are these dreams always going to be 20 centimeters out of reach?

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Ramón Salazar
Production companies
Estudios Picasso, Aligator Producciones, Divine Productions
Countries
France, Spain
Status
Released

Top Cast

Mónica CerveraMónica CerveraMarieta
Pablo PuyolPablo PuyolEl reponedor
Concha GalánConcha GalánBerta
Miguel O'DoghertyTomás
Pilar BardemPilar BardemLa Candelaria
Macarena GómezMacarena GómezRebeca Menor
Rossy de PalmaRossy de PalmaLa Frío
Lola DueñasLola DueñasRebeca Mayor
Juan SanzGustavo
Richard ShawPaulito
Najwa NimriNajwa NimriLa Conejo
María LalaneMaestra
Inma OlmosLa Malfollá
La Terremoto de AlcorcónLa Terremoto de AlcorcónGraziella
Pep NogueraSuperior
Cayetana MárquezPili La Pelos
Jesús Lena FusterLa Chini
Fanny de CastroFanny de CastroMadre del Reponedor
Vicente HaroVicente HaroPadre del Reponedor
Ismael MartínezIsmael MartínezPolicía amable

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Availability not listed for this country.

Recommendations

O Lucky Man!
★ 6.8
O Lucky Man!1973Comedy · Drama

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.

The Big Kahuna
★ 6.8
The Big Kahuna1999Comedy · Drama

Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can persuade him to place an order that could salvage the company's flagging sales.

The Tit and the Moon
★ 6.2
The Tit and the Moon1994Comedy · Drama

A child does not stand the idea of having a new brother and dreams about drinking milk from the breasts of his mother again. The child asks the moon to bring him a tit only for him.

The Coming of Sin
★ 6.0
The Coming of Sin1978Drama

A superstitious servant girl - who has foreboding nightmares about a naked man on horseback - comes to live with a solitary female artist at her country chateau. As the artist takes the girl under her wing, a sensuous relationship develops between them.

Kinky Boots: The Musical
★ 7.8
Kinky Boots: The Musical2019Comedy · Drama

Charlie Price is a shoe factory owner struggling to save his family business, and Lola is a fabulous entertainer with a wildly exciting idea. With a little compassion and a lot of understanding, this unexpected pair learn to embrace their differences and create a line of sturdy stilettos unlike any the world has ever seen!

Performance.
★ 6.8
Performance.1970Drama

In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide—and the impact is both exotic and explosive.

Inseparables
★ 7.3
Inseparables2016Comedy · Drama

Felipe a wealthy businessman who has been quadriplegic, due to an accident, is looking for a therapeutic assistant. There are several highly qualified, but he decides to take the assistant of his gardener, Tito who has decided to resign.

Your Friends & Neighbors
★ 5.8
Your Friends & Neighbors1998Comedy · Drama

Restless and unhappy, two couples get caught up in infidelity and deception. Barry is a sullen businessman married to Mary, a writer who is unsatisfied with their relationship. Mary begins an affair with Jerry, a smug theater professor and husband of her friend, Terri, who is also a writer. Adding to the adulterous mix are Cary, a callous doctor, and Cheri, an art-gallery assistant.

Sebastian
★ 6.3
Sebastian2024Drama

Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write, finally seems within reach.

Trafficked
★ 6.6
Trafficked2017Drama

In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to reclaim their freedom.

Hard to Die
★ 6.0
Hard to Die1990Comedy

While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series of killings six months previously, is at the bottom of the whole thing. Little do they know the real horror that they face in the end.

Lost in the Night
★ 6.5
Lost in the Night2023Drama

A young man from a small mining town embroils himself with a wealthy family with a dubious past.

Heavy Traffic
★ 6.5
Heavy Traffic1973Comedy · Drama

A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nutcase of a Jewish mother, he's ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, hypocrites who run with violent gangs and the Italian Mafia, and a shallow Black girl who makes her living downtown with the pimps and pushers. The cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, depleted by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God.

Zola
★ 6.2
Zola2021Comedy · Drama

A waitress agrees to accompany an exotic dancer, her put-upon boyfriend, and her mysterious and domineering roommate on a road trip to Florida to seek their fortune at a high-end strip club.

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
★ 6.1
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls1970Comedy · Drama

An all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hope of achieving success, only to fall into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.

The Key Game
★ 5.9
The Key Game2022Comedy

Laura has been with Antonio all her life and, just when she begins to wonder if that is really the life she wants, Sergio and Siena cross paths in their lives. Sergio is a former high school classmate and Siena, his millennial girlfriend who arrives to revolutionize everyone's lives. Laura, Raquel and Cris, close friends for years, convince their respective husbands to play a game that Siena proposes to them: the game of keys. The game consists of everyone putting their keys in a bowl. At random, each one chooses some keys and he must go to spend the night with the owner of the keys. This game will revolutionize the group of friends and their lives. It will make them discover who they are and what they really want.

Crossroads
★ 7.4
Crossroads1986Drama

A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.

The Ferpect Crime
★ 6.7
The Ferpect Crime2004Comedy

A playboy has the tables turned on him when he finds himself being used as a plaything by an undesirable woman.

Endless Poetry
★ 7.4
Endless Poetry2016Drama

A portrait of the director’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s–1950s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.

Family Weekend
★ 6.3
Family Weekend2013Comedy · Drama

A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.

Similar titles

High Tide
★ 4.0
High Tide2018Drama

When the recently divorced Tarik spends time alone in a holiday cottage on the Veluwe, he meets the owner of the house, Jonas. But when they seem to grow towards one-another, it proves difficult for Tarik to not let his true feelings emerge.

Mambo Italiano
★ 6.0
Mambo Italiano2003Comedy

When an Italian man comes out of the closet, it affects both his life and his crazy family.

Monsieur Ibrahim
★ 7.0
Monsieur Ibrahim2003Drama

Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.

Everything Is Illuminated
★ 7.2
Everything Is Illuminated2005Comedy · Drama

A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.

Summer Storm
★ 6.8
Summer Storm2004Comedy · Drama

Tobi and Achim, the pride of the local crew club, have been the best of friends for years and are convinced that nothing will ever stand in the way of their friendship. They look forward to the upcoming summer camp and the crew competition. Then the gay team from Berlin arrives and Tobi is totally confused. The evening before the races begin, the storm that breaks out is more than meteorological.

Eyes Wide Shut
★ 7.5
Eyes Wide Shut1999Drama

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

Mala Noche
★ 6.1
Mala Noche1987Drama

Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with the object of his affections — including a shared language — his desire to possess Johnny prompts a sexual awakening that results in a tangled love triangle.

Capote
★ 7.0
Capote2005Drama

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".

Hotel Boy
★ 3.0
Hotel Boy2018Drama

The young Samir accompanies the politician Stefan to a hotel room. Samir is in love and has set everything aside to be able to go with Stefan, as they had planned. But under the surface lies a big misunderstanding, and outside in the rain a journalist is waiting for the next big headline.

Iconic
★ 5.1
Iconic2024Drama

Makeup guru Rose faces hate mail from a rival artist, in addition to dealing with a violent stalker. After falling into a toxic love spiral with Lily, Rose slides down a dangerous rabbit hole of drugs, paranoia and jealousy until she hits an unimaginable rock bottom.

Life in Color
Not rated
Life in Color2018Drama

An aging, closeted Alzheimer's patient, clashing against his strong-willed daughter, struggles to hold on to the memory of his long lost lover.

In a Moment
★ 4.7
In a Moment2018Drama

Max isn't sure about his sexual orientation until he meets Leon at his new school. When Max is singing a song at a school concert something beautiful happens.

Juan Gabriel is Dead
★ 4.0
Juan Gabriel is Dead2018Comedy · Drama

Best friends Beto and Daniel spend most of their time together. Daniel struggles with his gender identity just to hide his feelings for Beto. To be himself, he has to overcome his fear by showing Beto what he truly feels.

Mary Poppins
★ 7.6
Mary Poppins1964Comedy

In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

Caché
★ 7.0
Caché2005Drama

As the host of a literary TV show, Georges begins receiving anonymously filmed videos of his family alongside cryptic, disturbing drawings, but as the tapes become increasingly intimate, they reveal a stalker who has known him for a very long time.

Distant Lights
★ 7.4
Distant Lights2003Drama

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.

Leaving Las Vegas
★ 7.3
Leaving Las Vegas1995Drama

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

Klute
★ 6.8
Klute1971Drama

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

The Science of Sleep
★ 7.0
The Science of Sleep2006Comedy · Drama

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

Cockles and Muscles
★ 6.0
Cockles and Muscles2005Comedy

Crustacés et coquillages is a fresh French comedy film with numerous surprise turnarounds and about the tolerance of a family of four. The family spend an idealistic summer vacation together where each of the family members gets involved in a new or old relationship.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.