Antonio Ferrandis
Birthday: Born in 1921-02-28 in Paterna, Valencia, Spain
Deathday: 2000-10-16
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Don Quijote de la Mancha
Character: Sancho Panza
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Clase media
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Verano azul
Character: Chanquete
The series tells the adventures of a group of youngsters between ages 9 and 17, while on summer vacation in a small coastal town on the Spanish Mediterranean Costa del Sol....
Cachitos de hierro y cromo
Character: Self (archive footage)
Cachitos de hierro y cromo is a Spanish musical-themed documentary program, directed by Jero Rodríguez and hosted by Virginia Díaz. It is an unapologetic musical display of RTVE's sound legacy in the form of performances on the set of programs such as 'Aplauso', 'Galas del Sábado', 'Mapa Sonoro', 'Zona Franca' or 'Los Conciertos de Radio 3'. For nearly 60 years, artists and other specimens have stormed viewers' screens. The result is a polyphony of images and memories that includes everything fr...
Del Miño al Bidasoa
Character: Narrador
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Guapo heredero busca esposa
Character: Don Arturo
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El señor de La Salle
Character: Maestro Ravaillao
Biography of San Juan Bautista de la Salle , where the effort and hardships that this canon of the nobility had to overcome in order to offer universal and free education to children, his main devotion, in the time of Louis XIV, are appreciated....
Vota a Gundisalvo
Character: Gundisalvo García
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Un curita cañón
Character: José
Father Saturio is a priest unable to keep his mouth shut if he sees injustices being committed. That is why they have transferred him on various occasions from the parishes where he has been assigned. On this occasion, he will have to face Mrs. Aurora, a rich and powerful woman. The war is served....
El astronauta
Character: Don Gregorio Minglanillas, presidente de la SANA
We are in the town of Minglanillas. While the man arrives at the Moon, a group of friends observes in a bar on television the broadcast of the event. Pepe Fernández, one of the customers of the bar, says that with some money and a lot of dedication they can do the same. After discussing the issue, they decide to get down to work....
¡Biba la banda!
Character: Comandante Bonaf
In 1938, at the height of the civil war, the musicians of the military band were very worried about their next concert. Agustín receives a letter from his girlfriend, who tells him about the difficulties he is going through with the rice harvest. She then decides to ask permission to go and help her, but as Lieutenant Urquiza refuses, she escapes. Two companions sent to bring him back, finally, stay with him. Also Sergeant Perez and several musicians who go looking for him stay with them....
Vente a ligar al Oeste
Character: Don Antonio
Benito a railway switchman, one day hears a bugle call and go across a squad of American riders. Fearing an invasion, will look for help, but no more than the making of a film. The appearance of Benito on the set coincides with an explosion of dynamite that does blow. That's how Benito enters into contact with the amazing world of cinema....
Seven Deaths by Prescription
Character: le policier Giret
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means....
El juego de los mensajes invisibles
Character: Pancho
Based on the novel "Adopted son" of Álvaro Pombo. Pancho, a seventy years old man lives isolated in a Galician country house, not far from the sea, which is served by an old maid. Suddenly, the past bursts in his life with the unexpected visit of a man who twenty years before had been his secretary. Soon after, a boy, the son of the man, moves to the house. The return of the past will have unforeseeable consequences....
Del amor y de la muerte
Character: Don Diego
Don Diego goes to war and his son Don Gonzalo is, in his absence, the new lord of the region. The milling Elvira, one of the mistresses of Don Diego, has a beautiful daughter, Elena, who has the desire of Don Gonzalo. But Elena is also the daughter of Don Diego and to separate the love of his brother, they marry her to Rodrigo, the pastor. This will be the beginning of the tragedy....
Soltero y Padre en la Vida
Character: Don Ramón
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Left-Handed Fate
Character: El Profesor
The inhabitants of a strange desert Barcelona are gradually leaving the city in a panic group. The victims of a serial killers seem to feel strangely attracted by their executioners. Only Gim, an attractive blonde advertising model, decides to face her destiny....
Romanza final (Gayarre)
Character: Don Iñigo
Biography of Julian Gayarre (1844-1890), one of the best tenors of all times. At 19, a professor at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid heard him singing for the first time and offered him a scholarship to continue his studies. His artistic life runs between continued success, becoming the world's greatest tenor. But in 1890, while singing at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a failure in his voice is like a cruel reminder of what would happen a few days later: his death at a young age. The doctors gav...
Memorias del general Escobar
Character: Coronel / Antonio Escobar Huerta
After the end of the Spanish Civil War, General Antonio Escobar Huerta stoically awaits his execution, accused of military treason and sentenced to death for having sworn allegiance to the Republic. Despite being a man of deep religious convictions, Antonio Escobar decided to make an oath honoring the legally constituted government of the Second Spanish Republic against the military uprising led by Francisco Franco and supported by the Catholic Church. While waiting for his execution in prison, ...
Mentirosa
Character: Sr. Mendoza
Nina, secretary of the lawyer Mr. Mendoza, is an imaginative liar. Because of her work, she has access to the will of an old millionaire who died naming as the sole beneficiary his daughter, the fruit of a love affair of youth. Only the millionaire's sister, the widow of Martiarena, knows who she is and where she lives. Nina decides to impersonate her and, to his astonishment, is recognized as the real daughter by the sister. But the housekeeper and the doctor of Mrs. Martiarena decide to res...
No desearás la mujer de tu prójimo
Character: Enrique
The plot narrates how a group of inseparable friends feel, suddenly, the urgent need to deceive each other with their respective wives. Ladies, attractive, intelligent and wealthy, decide to teach a lesson to the new "Don Juans"....
La descarriada
Character: Don Javier, padre de Ángela
Nati has no choice but to work as a prostitute to support her siblings. Unfortunately she has not had much success; it's difficult to get customers and she also owes money to her "protector", Florencio. But one day a kind of Prince Charming shows up......
¡Cómo está el servicio!
Character: Livinio, mayordomo de la señora Ernestina
Vicenta Verruguillo came to Madrid to work as a bridesmaid in the house of a doctor and falls in love with his son. The boy, to keep his family is left without service, follow the advice of his father and pretends to be in love with her. Meanwhile, his cousin Manolo, a likeable rogue, who works as a nurse, several maids dupes that get her salary every month because he has promised to buy a flat before marrying them....
Puta misèria!
Character: Ximo
Two young friends, urban out-of-a-job types, work out, along with a mate -a professional pusher- a way to get out of the misery they are living in: kidnap the rich guy of the town....
Afraid to Go Out at Night
Character: Don Cosme
A bank employee, shy and skittish, is falling into the web of fear of the events he sees around him and the crime wave that seems to invade the city....
The Ibéricas Football Club
Character: Don Gregorio
The Iberian F.C. is a female football team makes a splash in the world of football, rather than their athletic skills, their physical attraction for the male audience. Each of the components of the whole suffers a different and peculiar relationship status, derived from its new sports....
The National Shotgun
Character: Álvaro
A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm shows full authority over James, who is the real organizer of the meeting. The celebration is diverse characters who live next to absurd situations....
La Promesa
Character:
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My Dearest Senorita
Character: Santiago
A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society?...
The Pyjama Girl Case
Character: Nottingham
Two seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found on the beach, and a retired inspector makes inquiries; also, Linda, a waitress and ferry attendant, has several lovers and marries one, but continues seeing the others. The police have a suspect in the murder, but the retired inspector is convinced they're wrong; he continues a methodical investigation. Linda and her husband separate, and there are complications. Will the stories cross or are the...
Tobi
Character: Doctor Juldain
A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow back....
Profesor eróticus
Character: Profesor Robertson
A young professor of sexology advantage to spend the honeymoon at hotel in Mallorca where he has a congress. There he meets colleagues of different nationalities who also attended with their wives. A number of changes in the novel drugs that are causing a number of unexpected reactions ranging from professional envy jealousy. The situation causes wobble love affair honeymooners....
Heat of the Flame
Character: Javier
A young woman is married to a much older man. She is not happy as there's something missing in her life. Meanwhile a masked rapist is attacking women in the area and one day attacks her....
Sex o no sex
Character: Director
Paco, a frustrated office worker, goes to the office of a psychologist, to whom he tells his most delirious sexual fantasies in the hope that he will apply a curative therapy. Unfortunately, the doctor will end up confessing that he can not help, because he lives with a doll that has become his companion sentimental....
Los pecados de una chica casi decente
Character: Vittorio
A very enthusiastic girl kills her boyfriend, a carabinieri, after a long love session. She will suffer during the rest of the film to hide the body....
El padre de la criatura
Character: Ramón
Eduardo and Antonia are a mature couple excited about their daughter expecting their first grandchild. But life will change completely when some laboratory tests confirm that it is Antonia who is pregnant and not her daughter. This unexpected situation strongly influences the character of Eduardo, who begins to live what he calls a "second youth"....
¿... Y el prójimo?
Character: Ramon
Drama about organ transplantation....
Unos granujas decentes
Character: Andrés
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Leonor
Character: Thomas
Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to get her back. But when she returns, she is a murderous vampire....
El virgo de Visanteta
Character: Tío Collons
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Vida conyugal sana
Character: Doctor Cruz
Enrique is a thirty-year-old lawyer who is married to Ana. Apparently he is a normal man who has only one obsession: the commercials. He feels a real passion for the erotic world of the ads either in billboards, trash cans, public transport, magazines or television. The continuous publicity bombardment ends up leading him towards a neurosis that changes his personality....
The Education in Love of Valentin
Character: Hairdresser
This sex comedy concerns the efforts of Julien to get his timid, "backward" 20-year-old son to take an interest in sex and get married. After a series of adventures with women (arranged by papa), Valentin finally gets married to a woman who appears to be as shy as he is. Things get complicated when his father begins an affair with her....
Jarrapellejos
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Pedro Jarrapellejos is a ladies man who cannot turn the heads of Isabel or her beautiful daughter. When both peasant women are found raped and murdered in a brutal scene, a schoolteacher is falsely accused. Pedro knows his own nephew and his friend participated in the killings, but he uses his considerable influence over the police and courts to intimidate the witnesses into silence....
The Executioner
Character: Funcionario de prisiones
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement....
Don Quijote de la Mancha
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Family Portrait
Character: Cecilio Rubes
Cecilio Rubes, a businessman engaged in the manufacture of baths and toilets, tries to remain neutral in the imminent Spanish civil war. But the attitude of Cécil, his only child, a spoiled boy who grows without respect their parents, will forced him to face the cruel reality of the facts. Jumping back and forth in time, we are shown his present and his past through his wife Adela and Paulina, the mistress of father and son....
Milagro en el circo
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Las brujas de Salem
Character: Judge Danforth
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. When the local authorities and various inhabitants begin to believe that there are witches among them, a collective hysteria is born and spreads rapidly through the village as if it were a plague, causing a chain of tragic consequences…...
La mujer es cosa de hombres
Character: Pepe Villena
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Yo soy fulana de tal
Character: Marcelo
The gentle Spanish comedy Yo soy Fulana de Tal (1975) tells the story of a prostitute who rises from the poor side of town to become a revered member of the community. Along the way she befriends an elderly paternalist artist and also gets her revenge on those who mistreated her in her youth....
Gusanos de seda
Character: D. Alberto
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¡Jo, papá!
Character: Enrique
With the purpose of recalling a youthful adventure, Enrique, a well-placed merchant, decides to travel around Spain in the company of his wife Alicia and his two daughters, Pilar and Carmen....
Sangre en el Caribe
Character: Don Alfonso
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Borrasca
Character: Alcalde
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Placido
Character: Ramiro
In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish....
Paper Heart
Character: Antonio Borja
Ups and downs of a news agency led by Antonio Borja, a veteran journalist formed during the Franco regime, with the help of his godson and protegé Tomás. The threat of economic bankruptcy, the appearance of Julia, a young journalist from last university generations, the background of the world of tabloids (tricks used by celebrities to remain so, reports sold exclusively by interested parties, photos of Stolen nudes that have been previously agreed) and what is behind the covers of magazines tha...
Una familia decente
Character: Don César
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The Love of Captain Brando
Character: Mayor
During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old republican exile, returns to his home in a small Castilian village and befriends Aurora, a young and attractive teacher....
Parranda
Character: Milhombres
Cebrian, a blast furnace worker Asturian, being held at the Civil Guard barracks. There has to be accountable for the disasters in a day of party with two friends....
Un beso en el puerto
Character: Gaston Petitpoi
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Tristana
Character: Comprador
As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horatio is doomed....
Dos y dos, cinco
Character: Tomás
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París bien vale una moza
Character: Philippe - comisario de policía
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Pero… ¡en qué país vivimos!
Character: Braulio
Antonio Torres, a serious singer of Spanish popular music, and Bárbara, a vivacious yé-yé singer, face off in a chaotic contest promoted by Rodolfo Sicilia, an overworked publicist....
Casi un caballero
Character: Director de Ventas Joyería
An inexperienced and naive thief, Susan, associated with two other thieves of the same character meets a skilled thief and elegant, Alberto. The rivalry between them arising initially manifested in the fact that Alberto always robs his opponents of stealing the product. But the love that seems to come between the expert professional and amateur cause an awkward turn of events. Based on the book "All right, Susan?" of Carlos Llopis....
Perché non facciamo l'amore
Character: Commendator Iginio Robelli
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Saturday, Sunday and Friday
Character: Nicola Paternò, padre di Enza (episodio "Domenica")
SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the thea...
Llegar a más
Character:
Despite his youth, Daniel is not happy with his luck. He works in an auto repair shop and his job does not offer him any prospects of progress. Influenced by the large number of workers who are leaving Spain for Germany, he decides to emigrate as well....
El último sábado
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José Luis is a young man from a modest family of Barcelona and he feels genuine passion for motorcycles. His dream is to buy one of a large cylinder capacity, although his economic situation does not allow him by a long shot. Watching a race in the circuit of Montjuic he meets an elegant Italian woman, manager of a team, who made advances to José Luis. But the boy thinks that accessing her wishes he could get the motorbike of his dreams....
Los nuevos españoles
Character: Luis Ortueta
A Spanish insurance company is absorbed by a multinational, so that, in order to modernize, its employees are obliged to carry out some training courses to adapt to the new situation and the new objectives. Given the relevance of what is at stake, the wives of these men will also be involved at work....
Hen Pecked
Character: Antonio
Don Juan Alcántara is ruined. He does not dare to confess it to the family, since the unanimous opinion of those who know him is that he is a weakling. His lack of character is remedied by his doctor - pretend that he is suffering from schizophrenia....
María, la santa
Character: Párroco
Diego , the son of a prostitute stabs Maria , suddenly it begins to happen a number of miracles attributed to the intercession of the dead woman . Patients from all over town arrive to implore and consider her as a saint....
El hombre que supo amar
Character: Dr. Cabrales
The life of Juan de Dios and his struggle against social, political and religious structures....
El diablo Cojuelo
Character: Ahumadilla
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With the East Wind
Character: Tío Manuel
The life of Sebastián (Antonio Gades), a 28-year-old gypsy, changes drastically after he kills a man. From that moment, he must flee, experiencing the torments of loneliness, guilt, and the rejection of his people....
Mi mujer es muy decente, dentro de lo que cabe
Character: Claudio
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Las viudas
Character: Bernardino (segment "El Retrato de Regino")
Comedy consists of three stories about the sudden death of three husbands: a newly married man dies as a result of the excessive enthusiasm of his wife ("Honeymoon"), another because of a fling with a girl too fiery ("The Anniversary" ), and finally, a husband dies because of his greed and stinginess ("Portrait of Regino")....
Beyond the Walls
Character: El Médico
This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued by the radical Christian Inquisition, one of a plethora of difficulties Spaniards faced at the time. Spanish super star Carmen Maura plays a nun who agrees to a selfless scam, a fake stigmata, only to avoid separation from her lover, another nun. It's a serious and passionate work, highlighting the theme of outspoken women-against-repression, seen in other good gay and lesbian films. This is no...
To Begin Again
Character: Antonio Albajara
A Nobel prize winner returns to his natal city looking for his home....
Vivir mañana
Character: Andrés
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Vuelo 971
Character: Segundo sobrecargo
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Posición avanzada
Character: Sargento Ayuso
During the Spanish Civil War, a command takes the night to reach an advanced position, surrounded by the enemy, to protect the ford of a river. The next day, soldiers from both sides arrange a truce for fishing trouts and exchange cans and cigarettes. But foreign forces relieve the besiegers during the night and kill an unsuspecting soldier who was waving to return to fishing. While the position is strengthened, a soldier escapes to the nearby village to see his family....
Sor Citroen
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Madrid, Spain. When a religious community running an orphanage buys a car, the vivacious and intrepid Sister Tomasa accepts the task of getting behind the wheel....
Aqui D'El Rei!
Character: José Luciano
At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty. Mouzinho instantly becomes a national hero but his raising popularity worries the State....
Madrid, Costa Fleming
Character:
Sexy comedy....
María, matrícula de Bilbao
Character: Paco 'El Sordo'
Bilbao in the fifties. To continue the family marine tradition, El Viejo, an old sailor, forces his grandson Luiso to follow the profession of their ancestors as skipper of the ship Maria....
¡Vente a Alemania, Pepe!
Character: Don Emilio
Peralejos, a quiet village in Upper Aragon, is a place where nothing ever happens. One day Angelino returns home to spend the holidays, an immigrant who drives a Mercedes and tells great wonders of Germany and their women. Pepe, fascinated by the stories of his friend, decides to immigrate, but his dream begins at five o'clock, cleaning windows, and ends at twelve o'clock pasting posters....
Las colocadas
Character: Francisco Fernández 'Pacorro'
Julia, Carmen and Charo are three young and funny ladies, lovers of three married men. These combine their family life and the relationship with them. The three friends share the hardships of such a situation. Julia is pregnant, but Enrique, the future father, decides to shirk his responsibilities...
¡Aquí están las vicetiples!
Character: Julio Salas
Carmen, Merche and Paula are three young singers living in the same pension. Every night are forced to dodge men arriving from Madrid in search of adventure. They are assisted by Don Narciso, a fellow board that has solutions for everything. What I really want is to get married and all three have found a boyfriend, but every couple has their problems....
Benigno, hermano mío
Character:
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El hombre de la isla
Character: José
Berta is a German who comes to a small fishing village to marry Lorenzo, owner of an island and that only known her through his letters. The early days of their marriage are a constant disappointment, especially when it finds that her husband has no resemblance to the author of the letters. He lives embittered by an old story and is hated by all....
El dinero tiene miedo
Character: Ramón
John is a rogue that convinces two friends to be trusted with your money, ensuring that you will place in Switzerland in very good condition, but his plan will encounter some difficulties....
Réquiem por un campesino español
Character: Mosén Millán
Hypocrisy and betrayal are the two dramatic pivots in this effective, emotionally gripping tragedy about the life and death of Paco (Antonio Banderas), a Spanish peasant who had been fighting against the feudal landowning system that kept farmers impoverished. Paco's life is told in flashbacks by a priest (Antonio Ferrandis) who is seen officiating at an anniversary mass attended by three wealthy landowners and no one else. The priest recalls Paco's baptism, his communion, his marriage ceremony ...
Girl from La Mancha
Character: Mendigo
The story of Dulcinea, the love of Don Quixote, who was only a normal girl named Aldonza that is suddenly involved by the legend of the brave and ingenous gentleman....
The Devil Also Cries
Character: Revisor del tren
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Libertad provisional
Character:
A small-time delinquent young man and a book saleswoman at home delivery, who occasionally engage in prostitution as a derivative of her work, try a way of coexistence on the basis of mutual freedom schemes....
Haute Couture
Character: Amigo de Gonzalo (no acreditado)
Tona, model of a fashion house goes to see her ex-boyfriend to claim for some letters and finds him dead. Under the fear that the crime is attributed to her and also because she will soon marry Ramon, a rich young man of good family, she says nothing and goes to work as usual to show models. Meanwhile, the police opens an investigation....
The Fair of the Dove
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In Madrid, Spain, an omniscient narrator transforms Mari Loli and Merche, two beautiful sales clerks, into Susana and Casta, who flirt with Don Hilarión, an old apothecary, which arouses the jealousy of Julián, who is in love with Susana....
Historias de la televisión
Character: (uncredited)
Film divided into two stories: 1. Cuando los gorilas hablan por teléfono 2. Una chica de fortuna...
Police Calling 091
Character: Policía #1
A police inspector makes his service in a patrol car attenging emergency calls. A memory hauns him, the death of her daughter, who was killed hit by a car that fled. The car is located and the inspector goes there and confrontation will be violent....
¡Adiós, Mimí Pompón!
Character: Pierre
The famous couplet singer Mimi Pompon leaves everything to marry Heriberto Promenade, a wealthy merchant of Limoges with five marriages behind her. Of course Mimi has also been widowed five times. Saintpaul, an astute police, suspicious of so many accidental deaths and closely monitor both the mansion. Gradually, we discover that Heriberto, fearing that their wives may betray him, the killer, always with the complicity of her mother....
Los derechos de la mujer
Character: Don Elpidio
Juan marries prestigious lawyer María José. As she won't give up her career to become a housewife, during their wedding night Juan pretends to leave his job and acts out the role of a traditional housewife himself....
El ladrido
Character: Juan
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Ha desaparecido un pasajero
Character:
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La mujer perdida
Character: Falcón
Sara is the daughter of a fisherman. She leaves her small village but she goes to Madrid to work as a flamenco singer in a club...
Condemned to Hang
Character: Curro Infante
Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero is a true champion of the disinherited....
The Miracle of Marcelino
Character: Monje
Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend in the forbidden attic, hanging on a cross. A friend that would repay Marcelino's kindness by granting him one heart-felt wish....
La dama del Alba
Character: Abuelo
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