Torrente for President

2026 1h 43m ES

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★6.1TMDB · 153

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Synopsis

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Years have passed since his last adventure, but José Luis Torrente, the most politically incorrect former cop in Spain, still sees himself as a national hero.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Santiago Segura
José Luis Torrente
Gabino Diego
Cuco
Carlos Areces
Pelayo
Ramón Langa
Jacobo Carrascal
Francisco Nicolás
Franki
Willy Bárcenas
Santi
Cañita Brava
Antoñito
José María Rubio
Manolito

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Santiago Segura
Writers: Santiago Segura
Languages: Spanish
Countries: Spain

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Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Torrente Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Santiago Segura, shot by Javier Salmones. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Roque Baños. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Fran Amaro shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Santiago Segura and Gabino Diego and Carlos Areces carry the top of the cast.

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IMDB entry: tt37969901 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Santiago Segura directs. Javier Salmones behind the camera. Roque Baños scores. Fran Amaro cuts. Produced in Spain. Dialogue in Spanish.

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Things worth knowing

1Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.
2Part of the "Torrente Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Directed by Santiago Segura, shot by Javier Salmones. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Roque Baños. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Fran Amaro shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Santiago Segura and Gabino Diego and Carlos Areces carry the top of the cast.
7IMDB entry: tt37969901 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Javier Salmones
Original score: Roque Baños
Editing: Fran Amaro
Costume design: Laura Cuesta
Makeup / hair: Víctor Javier Bernardos
VFX supervisor: Juliana Lasunción
Sound: Álvaro G. Zorrilla
Runtime: 103 min · 1h 43m
Status: Released
Original language: ES
Certification (US): +16
IMDB: Torrente for President (2026)

Part of

Torrente Collection

This series of films centers on Torrente, a self-proclaimed private detective known for his arrogance, ignorance, and racism. Despite his flaws, Torrente often saves the day, typically with the help of a younger, more tech-savvy partner. The series starts with Torrente taking down a drug trafficking operation, followed by various cases often linked to political corruption. These films blend slapstick comedy with action, gaining a cult following due to Torrente's underdog status. The appeal lies in the mix of humor, action, and subtle societal critique, particularly of contemporary Spanish politics. Torrente’s incompetence and eventual success, despite his bigotry and idiocy, make for an endearing narrative. The series cleverly satirizes Spanish culture, balancing between absurd comedy and insightful commentary, establishing Torrente as a unique, morally ambiguous hero in the private detective genre.

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Martin Oaks2026-03-20
★ 3/10
The danger of cynicism The existence of “Torrente for President” manifests itself as a symptom of creative exhaustion, confusing transgression with anachronism. In a political landscape like Spain's, where polarization is already a caricature in itself, Santiago Segura's character has lost its capacity as a paradigm of the critique, becoming instead a redundant and whitewashing echo. While the strength of the first Torrente lay in its ability to unsettle a society aspiring to European modernity, revealing the sediment of a Spain that refused to disappear, today, that antiquated Spain doesn't hide in dark alleys or seedy bars, but has become professionalized on social media, in the mainstream media, and, of course, within the very institutions of the State. Attempting to parody this lack of inhibition with crude jokes is exhausting and highly dangerous. Let's not forget that in Spain there are TV presenters who are also comedians, and who shamelessly claim that "you can't say anything anymore because of President Sánchez's dictatorship." And then, these same charlatans use their media power to censor, denounce, and silence other comedians or actors who dare to joke about the ultra-conservative underbelly of their professional environment. The plot of "Torrente for President" constantly stalls to make way for viral figures whose presence expires as quickly as a trending topic. The crude humor based on scatology, which previously served to underscore the protagonist's moral decay, now seems like a desperate attempt to pad out a script that lumps all politicians together. In a climate of international tension like the present, fiction should aspire to wit or subversive absurdity, and “Torrente for President” is, quite simply, a work that is already outdated, a relic of a cinema that believes that remaining vulgar is synonymous with bravery. And the truth is, if we follow Spanish political reality, we will see that this vulgarity has become pure pornography at the service of a citizenry anesthetized by Artificial Intelligence and the corresponding disinformation. The appearance of far-right media figures in mass-market products like this becomes a risky mechanism of ideological normalization, because when actors, politicians, or journalists known for spreading hate speech or disinformation appear in a light comedy, their image is “humanized,” and the context of the joke and satire acts as a varnish that softens the aggressive edge of their actual discourse.

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