Francisco Merino
Birthday: Born in 1931-09-11 in Madrid, Spain
Deathday: 2022-10-09
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Cuéntame cómo pasó
Character: Vicente
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy....
Ángel o demonio
Character: Ramón
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Pelotas
Character: Don Antonio
Pelotas is a Spanish tragicomedy television series created by José Corbacho and Juan Cruz, set in Hospitalet de Llobregat, a suburb of Barcelona. It was broadcast on La 1, the primary channel of Televisión Española, between 23 February 2009 and 7 June 2010. The series is based around the lives of local Unión Fútbol Club supporters....
Colegio Mayor
Character: Martínez
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La Máscara Negra
Character: Beaulieu
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El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Character: El cura
Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel....
La sopa boba
Character:
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Página de Sucesos
Character: Don Leandro
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La Regenta
Character: Fojar
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El rey
Character: Francisco Franco
A biographical miniseries of Spain's Juan Carlos I, covering 1948 to 1993....
El internado
Character: Alfonso Ceballos
El Internado Laguna Negra was a Spanish television drama-thriller focusing on the students of a fictional boarding school in a forest, where teenagers are sent by their parents to study. The boarding school is situated in a forest far from the city, on the outskirts on which macabre events occur. The series debut on 24 May 2007, and is a production of Antena 3. Although the show is recorded and produced in HD, it is only broadcast in SD. However, an HD Blu-ray Disc release has been announced....
El internado
Character: Alfonso Ceballos (archive footage) (uncredited)
El Internado Laguna Negra was a Spanish television drama-thriller focusing on the students of a fictional boarding school in a forest, where teenagers are sent by their parents to study. The boarding school is situated in a forest far from the city, on the outskirts on which macabre events occur. The series debut on 24 May 2007, and is a production of Antena 3. Although the show is recorded and produced in HD, it is only broadcast in SD. However, an HD Blu-ray Disc release has been announced....
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The Greek Labyrinth
Character: Dotros
Two Frenchmen, Bernadette and Lebrum, arrive in Barcelona and hire detective Bardon to find Alekos, the former Greek lover of the woman....
La Regenta
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The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's life unbearable and inevitably tragic....
Paper Birds
Character: Marcelino
At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the members of a group of vaudeville performers have been stripped of everything: all they have left is hunger and the instinct to survive. Day after day, agonizingly, lost and helpless between the victors and the vanquished, the musician Jorge, the ventriloquist Enrique, the couplet singer Rocío and the orphan Miguel search tirelessly for something to eat and a safe place to live....
National III
Character: El Correo
In order to solve economic problems, "Leguineche" family decide to move to France with their limited belongings....
Half of Heaven
Character: Ramiro
After the civil war, Rosa, a beautiful and hard worker woman falls in love with a sharpener who turns out to be a con man. When she becomes a widow, she emigrates to Madrid with her daughter beginning to work as a nurse in the home of Don Pedro, an influential food manager....
Convoy Buddies
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Toby and Butch are a couple of bumbling crooks who get a truck driving job hauling insecticide from Italy to France. Unbeknownst to the clueless duo, they're really smuggling guns. A group of equally inept mobsters try to steal the guns to no avail....
Tarancón, el quinto mandamiento
Character: Arias Navarro
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Maravillas
Character: Salomón
A young Catholic girl takes viewers through a changing Spanish political and social landscape as she develops from her confirmation day to adulthood. Her first experience with the real Spain comes when her Jewish godfathers cannot come to her confirmation. One of the godfathers, using a ring, poses an early challenge to her innocence that puts her in danger. He later returns, indirectly introducing her to a new boyfriend. If he is one of the symbols for Jewish life under Franco, or for a Judeo-C...
El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Character: El Cura
Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel....
Going Down in Morocco
Character: Don Mariano
A girl who lives with her dealer cousin and her policeman boyfriend who is a policeman regularly transports drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all of them smoke grass from time to time there is need for more. Deciding to take a friend of hers who has just left home down to Morocco for a transport she gets problems because it is the first time for her friend and this makes it difficult. But as all are very open-minded there is no problem they would not try to solve....
Hermana, ¿pero qué has hecho?
Character: Agente de tráfico
Sister Angela and Sister Mary park his van in front of a bank branch. They enter the bank and with the weapons hidden under their habits, commit the robbery of the century, to the astonishment of all employees and customers. After thorough police investigation the two nuns are arrested, but then appears Trini, twin sister of one of them and now all is not so clear. Were the nuns who committed the robbery?...
Viento de cólera
Character:
Two soldiers accompanied by two women enter the Baztán valley on horseback. They are deserters from the army of the Indies who are fleeing to Italy. They arrive to claim the inheritance of one of them, León de Balanza, Captain in Peru and soldier without fortune. They are looking for old Balanzategui who works the land of his ancestors. The old man's refusal to distribute the farmland's land causes a serious conflict....
Gusanos de seda
Character: Alguacil
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Love Ravings
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In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young man....
El hombre de moda
Character: Bruno
Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the job as a teacher through an old friend, Bruno Baena, who is the head master of the school. Aurora starts going to Pedro's classes. Pedro will become "El hombre de moda", very soon....
Beyond Desire
Character: Juez
Mónica has just died in a traffic accident. Along with her was another man. Pedro Bernáldez, painter and lover of Mónica, was so in love with her that he came to change his painting style for the one indicated by his lover. Now that Mónica has died, Pedro will investigate what relationship the deceased had with each other and begins to discover many things....
Those Who Did Not Go to War
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First World War. In a largely rural area of neutral Spain, two families confront one another and play a part in embarrassing situations because they don't support the same side in the war. This will influence the breakup of an engagement....
La petición
Character: Jefe de Julián
An ambitious young woman from a wealthy family, but unsatisfied with her social position, will not hesitate to use all that is within her reach to achieve her ascent in society....
La espada negra
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Kingdom of Castile, 15th century. A group of nobles, who question the dynastic legitimacy of Princess Juana, daughter of King Enrique IV, conspire with the purpose of overthrowing him....
El Sur
Character: Enamorado
A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father....
Un enemigo del pueblo
Character: Hovstad
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Crimen en familia
Character: Jaime Costa
Ignacio Costa is a tyrannical businessman with a conflictive personal life. He has a large family, a woman he abuses and humiliates and five children with whom he does the same, except for Mariana one of the girls. Tired of so many vexations, his wife will begin to influence his children until together they will plot the murder of the father...
Sus años dorados
Character: El amigo
María, a young and attractive woman, loses her job, meets Luis, a young man with no stable job neither, his wife supports him. Luis wants to start a relationship with María, but she doesn't. She prefers to be with Luis' friends instead....
Things I Left in Havana
Character: Adolfo
Three sisters leave Cuba in search of a better life in Madrid. While there, they encounter, among other things, other Cuban expatriates....
Off-eko maitasuna
Character:
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The Miser
Character: Mastro Augusto
Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy....
En un mundo diferente
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Two aliens come to Earth to take over the planet. To do so, they plan subdue and clone famous pop singers Juan and Junior....
Solo ante el Streaking
Character: Comisario
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Everyone Off to Jail
Character: Secretario
A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended....
Merry-Go-Round c. 1950
Character: Juez
This movie doesn't have any coherent plot. It's the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how they manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: La colmena or Roma (Fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives....
Crossing Borders
Character: Saturnino
In 1960, Martín and Marcos are forced by their difficult personal circumstances to travel to Switzerland in search of work, leaving their families in the Madrid of Franco's Spain. But they undertake more than a simple journey; they begin the road to a new life....
Captain Thunder
Character: Juan de Ribera
The story of "Captain Thunder and the Holy Grail" is set during the Third Crusade in Palestine, when Captain Thunder finds in the dungeons of a fortress a dying Christian named Juan de Ribera, who entrusts him the mission to restore to Spain a cup which is the Holy Grail, stolen from an ancient order. Thunder, with his inseparable friends Crispin and Goliath, and a Viking princess named Sigfrid, will face an evil feudal lord and his black "devils", who are terrorizing the population of low Aragó...
Redondela
Character: Noceda
4,000 tons of oil have been stolen from a Galician deposit. The alleged thieves are defended by the lawyer Ramos, but the witnesses die and suspicions point to Franco's brother....
Divine Words
Character:
A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law....
El hombre que supo amar
Character: Magistrado
The life of Juan de Dios and his struggle against social, political and religious structures....
The Crime of Cuenca
Character: Court Secretary
Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier....
Hablamos esta noche
Character: Villalba
Victor is the engineer who has set up the Nuclear Power Plant Zapater. Alongside his professional problems he also hasa difficult family situation: a divorce, a teenage homosexual son, a relationship that is not satisfactory, the emergence of a new woman. With just a few days to the inauguration, Luis Maria, an engineer close friend of Victor, responsible for a serious accident in the past and addicted to alcohol, warns of the possibility of a malfunction of the plant. Nothing guarantees the tru...
The Swindlers
Character: Pallavicini (segment "Suore")
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager....
Esa mujer
Character: Inspector de policía
At the end of the 19th century, Soledad Romero, a well-known singer, is accused of murder. During the trial her tragic story is revealed....
The Frontier Law
Character: Maragato
Barbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between Portugal and Galicia a bandit called El Argentino. In her travel she meets two men that say that they belong to his gang....
El Dorado
Character: Alonso Esteban
The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado....
First and Last Love
Character: Teodoro Acín
An elderly man returns to his native town with the hope of finding his childhood love....
Misadventure
Character: Dentista
An intrigue based on a failed relationship with touches of dreams and magic filmed on the streets of Seville....