Alfredo Landa
Birthday: Born in 1933-03-04 in Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
Deathday: 2013-05-09
Alfredo Landa (3 March 1933 – 9 May 2013) was a Spanish actor. Alfredo Landa Arena born in Pamplona (Navarre), Spain. He finished his pre-university studies in San Sebastián. He then began university studies on Law, where he began to work with university school groups. He left university to work in the theater. After working as a dubbing actor for a short time in the 1950s, he debuted with his first considerable role in film in José María Forqué's Atraco a las tres in 1962. When Francisco Franco died in 1975, censorship began to disappear. This led to a growth of erotic comedies on Spanish cinema. Landa became the "sexually repressed" role of that trend, especially under directors Mariano Ozores and Pedro Lazaga. He even created his own trend, that some people called landismo.[2] Afterwards, Landa changed his image, taking much deeper roles, like his bandit in El Bosque animado. Landa, along with Francisco Rabal, won Best Actor award at 1984 Cannes Film Festival for his memorable performance in Los santos inocentes. He is now widely recognized as a great dramatic actor. After a career with more than one hundred and twenty movies, one dozen of television series, and several stage successes, with a great amount of Spanish and European awards, 74-year-old Landa announced his retirement at the X Festival de Cine de Málaga (10th Movie Festival of Málaga) while receiving a new award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alfredo Landa (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Tristeza de Amor
Character: Ceferino Reyes
The COI, a radio station, is getting ready to air a new programm, "Tristeza de Amor", in the team they've hired, there are two reporters who used to be well known to the audience, journalist Ceferino Reyes, who just returned to Spain after ten years living in South America, and commentator Carlota Núñez, the woman who, years ago, somehow forced the latter to leave the country. This series deals with this radio programm crew's everyday adventures, and their professional and personal troubles....
Ninette y un señor de Murcia
Character: Armando
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Lleno, por favor
Character: Don Pepe
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El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Character: Sancho Panza
Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel....
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The Enchanted Forest
Character: Malvís
In Galicia, in northern Spain, Malvís, a frustrated day laborer who, fed up with his life, has become a clumsy bandit, tries to make a name for himself by robbing travelers passing through a forest inhabited by colorful characters....
El crack dos
Character: Areta
Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo investigates the life of a gay man who has apparently abandoned his partner. When they both turn up dead, it seems one killed the other before committing suicide, but Areta is not convinced....
Crónica de nueve meses
Character: Alejandro
Several stories about marriages that receive the news that they will be parents. Alejandro and Mercedes are newly married and receive the news with enthusiasm; Margarita and Enrique have been married for a while, but it will also be their first offspring; Ines and Luis have been in this situation several times, but this is the first time that the pregnancy is real. The reaction of the parents, the cravings of the pregnant women, the name search for the child, everything is always the same and al...
Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar
Character: Saturnino del Olmo
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El crack
Character: Areta
Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies....
Guapo heredero busca esposa
Character: Fidel Frutos
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Los días de Cabirio
Character: Alfredo Velázquez
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My Wife's Boyfriends
Character: Emilio Antúnez
Emilio Antunez and his wife Charo, come to La Molina, willing to spend a few happy days of vacation. Charo, foreseeing that she will meet with important people, brings an assorted and elegant wardrobe, which is soon able to wear when she meets with Aurora, an old school friend who is married to the eccentric millionaire Taboada....
Un curita cañón
Character: Padre Saturio
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....
Esclava te doy
Character: Alberto
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Robbery at 3 O'clock
Character: Castrillo
Galindo works in a bank. One day he convinces the other employees in the bank to plan a hold-up in the bank they are working. They prepare everything carefully. However, real robbers come just before the fake ones....
Moscow Gold
Character: Faustino Peláez
In an odd destiny coincidence and hospital employee reiceives some important and confident information from a dying old man. He shares it with one friend and both start a crazy and extravangant adventure....
The Heifer
Character: Brigada Castro
During the Spanish Civil War a platoon of mismatched Republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on the local holiday of the nearby village. In addition to ruining the Nationalist faction's celebration they want the animal in order to butcher it and feed their famished troops. They get caught in the process and have to go through a series of funny and pathetic incidents before they can get back to their side....
40 grados a la sombra
Character: Máximo
For eleven months a year, Evaristo, Máximo and Jacinto have only thought of one thing: summer vacations. Each one, in his own way, will try to deal with the forty degrees in the shadow of Madrid. Evaristo is a beach man and this year, as always, he approaches the coast with Filomena, his wife. The agglomerations to get a square meter of sand, the cakes in the chiringuito to eat the tortilla will be about to kill him. But it does not matter, September will come to rest from the summer. Maximum, o...
El arte de casarse
Character: Dr. León Hernández
Eladio is in love with Ignacia, but she is determined to catch Antolin, the richest of the place. Although Eladio has no money, he is determined to win the heart of Ignacia. Meanwhile, Amparito wants to marry a serious and formal man and is torn between the love of Ramon and Saturninus, two typical Spanish men....
Naked Weekend
Character: Rodolfo Cisneros
Angustias, a hotel maid, and Rodolfo, play boy who will spend a few days in that hotel with Octavia, witness how a wealthy lady, seeking to steal her jewelry by thieves, is accidentally killed by her lover in a discussion....
Hoy como ayer
Character: Felipe
An incredulous journalist witnesses how a gentleman in a portrait of the twenties comes out from the photo and becomes alive to discuss what has not progressed as much as he believed, and to confirme that living was better at his time...
The Sow
Character: Bartolomé
After spending three years in captivity in Tunis, Bartolomé returns home Extremadura with the only hope to eat his favorite dish: the pork. Along the way he meets a deserter who is traveling with a sow....
Una vez al año ser hippy no hace daño
Character: Ricardo
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Vente a ligar al Oeste
Character: Benito
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....
¡Biba la banda!
Character: Sargento Pérez
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....
Las autonosuyas
Character: Austrasigildo
The Eternal Spain, birthplace of the Cid, Hammer of Heretics... and other deserved historical appellations, is suddenly transformed, through democratic elections, in a chaotic Tower of Babel where every province, every town, each village wants to have its own opinion. Comedy about the rise of nacionalism in the different Spanish regions with the arrival of democracy....
The Holy Innocents
Character: Paco, El Bajo
Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master "needs" their work. When Regula's brother is fired from where he has worked for 61 years, he settles down at their little place... An attack against the archaism of the spanish country of the 60s....
Celedonio y yo somos así
Character: Daniel Martínez
Daniel has as the only fortune a stud bull named Celedonio, which he rents for living....
Sinatra
Character: Sinatra
Antonio Castro, Sinatra, is a fighter of life working in an old cabaret in Barcelona imitating Frank Sinatra, accompanied in his show by Groucho Marx, Marlene Dietrich and Lola Flores. But one day, the sky dresses in gray for him; his wife, who works as a waitress in the same place, decides to leave him....
¿Qué hacemos con los hijos?
Character: Enrique
The driver Antonio, boasts of his sons: John, who shares his work as a taxi driver, Luisa, ladies hairdresser, Antonito, studying to be a lawyer, and Paloma, to be a housewife. But Antonio does not know that their children are not exactly as he thinks. The day Antonio finds out, confronts his wife and children and suffers a big disappointment. Since then no one in the family speaks to Antonio, and he believes that it is best to let them see for themselves that they made a mistake, but this does ...
Alone, at Last!
Character: Arturo
Arturo is married to Elena and they have four grown children, they are wonderfull but they are still living at home. Arthur is writer and that's a job that requires peace, silence and concentration, something imposible at Arturo's home. His editor convince him to make his children go out from home so Arturo start a kind of "guerrilla war" to make his sons become independent....
Mayordomo para todo
Character: Germán
Carlos, a young "playboy" who lives on the Costa del Sol, has a servant named German who has made him believe he has a degenerative disease by maintaining many sexual relationships, and that he will die if he continues doing so. But Carlos does not want to lose his playboy reputation, so German, his "faithful" butler, substitutes him in bed while Carlos convinces all his conquests that he prefers to make love with the lights off. But the plan is endangered when Carlos meets a girl and wants to...
¡Vente a Alemania, Pepe!
Character: Pepe
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....
Paco the Infallible
Character: Paco
In Madrid of the 20's, many women were hired as wet nurses for middle class families. Milk is paid very well, so women are turning to the honest services of Paco, glazier by trade, which completes his monthly salary getting pregnant the clients who pay for it....
Solo ante el Streaking
Character: Ángel Perales
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Los que tocan el piano
Character: Venancio Torralba 'El Torralba'
Cayetana, her boyfriend Paco and Venancio, her foster brother, commit small thefts and, from time to time, spend a few days in jail. Until they meet with Federico, a thief who has traveled abroad and convince them that using European methods success is guaranteed. Paco then decides to act scientifically and seizes a hospital surgical equipment. When they want to realize, poor Venancio is forced to give an injection to a dentistry patient and, even worse, Paco has to pull out a tooth. And all th...
Nuevo en esta plaza
Character: Marcial Flores 'El Verónicas'
Film that tells the biography of the great bullfighter Sebastian Palomo Linares Linares, with the very skilled actor who plays the character. Palomo Linares belongs to a poor family but with great human values. He, like many others of his age, has a dream: to be a bullfighter. He works as an apprentice shoemaker fights secretly at night in the meadows. After a career of suffering and obstacles, the boy never lost hope, typical of his strong Christian convictions, and became a teacher, finally ...
Novios 68
Character: Pepe García Moratillo, fontanero
Comedy that chronicles the ups and downs in dating of several people in Spain in 1968....
La plaza
Character:
All kinds of absurd situations take place in a town square....
¡No firmes más letras, cielo!
Character: Sabino Gurupe
Sabino Grupe, head of accounting at a major insurance company, Elisa's husband, a beautiful fashion model who has had to leave the gateway to the most dangerous jealousy of his consort. In return, he has put Sabino sign letters and letters to exhaust their funds. Until one day he had enough and breaks with the consumer society and everyone....
La próxima estación
Character: José Luis
A seventeen year old boy, the only son of a family of upper middle class, there is a night with a friend of his age. She has run away from home and he wants to stay and live with them, for in their home just burst a major family conflict. As in his ......
Unmarried and Mother in Life
Character: Paco
The frog test confirms Julita is pregnant. This is usually a great news. In this case, no. She is a victim of premarital sex, and he, Paco, a mechanic who, according to some theories of French biologist, explained by a podiatrist friend, will not be liable. Don Ramiro, the father of Julia, is a liberal-minded man, but when his daughter tells him that she will have a son who will not parent, seeking the solution of fatherhood in his gun regulation....
The Impeccable Sinner
Character: Honorio Sigüenza
Honorio Sigüenza is a man in his forties who has always lived under the yoke of his possessive mother. When his mother dies, he undergoes a radical transformation that will lead him to live numerous love affairs in the face of the disapproval of his cousin Veni, who wanted to marry him....
Aquí, el que no corre... vuela
Character: Teo
Lola, a member of a gang of crooks, is visited by a cousin who comes to work in a multinational....
Cateto a babor
Character: Miguel Cañete Moste
Miguel Cañete is a village man who is called up by the Navy to do military service, but he lives alone with his little brother and doesn't know where to leave him......
Piernas cruzadas
Character: Jeremías
Lucerito is a Spanish star who has come to Mexico, accompanied by her godfather and her agent, to find work. Rosario is from upper class society and has grown tired of the demands made upon her by her family. When they meet each other in a Mexican hotel, they discover that they could be each other's identical twin and decide to change places....
Tata Mía
Character: Teo
Elvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and returns home to settle in Madrid with his beloved nanny, seeking help to overcome their crisis. However, the country has changed so much in his years of confinement that has little or nothing to do with his childhood memories ......
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Fifth Floor Neighbour
Character: Antón Gutiérrez
Pedro, a handsome gynecologist who lives in Toledo (Spain), does not have just a clientele due to the jealousy that his sex appeal causes in the husbands and boyfriends of his patients. To make matters worse, his mother still treats him like a child and the traditionalist members of his girlfriend's family don't look kindly upon Pedro. But on a trip to Madrid to attend a conference on medicine he meets Antón, his effeminate neighbor of the fifth floor, whose fashion boutique for women thrives th...
La decente
Character: Comisario Miranda
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Pisito de solteras
Character: Emilio Vallejo
The shy professor Emilio is about to celebrate a wedding nobody wants. At the last minute he escapes and settles in a Madrid apartment shared by four friends of his ex-fiancee. The unhappy man is like a little lamb in a wolf's lair - in this case four wolves....
El poderoso influjo de la luna
Character: Morán
The film is an image of the Spanish society in form of various anecdotes which happen to the inhabitants and their neighbours of a finca in Madrid....
Cradle Song
Character: Don José
A group of nuns find an abandoned baby girl at the doorstep of their convent....
The End of a Mystery
Character: Joaquín Panjero
Joaquin comes back to Granada in the eighties trying to find out about something happened when he was a child and the Spanish Civil War was going on. He helped an unknown man who survived after being executed. He finds the man, Galapago, who is now quite old, poor and with almost no memory. Joaquin takes care of him and finds hints that point to Galapago as Federico García Lorca....
Sunday Light
Character: Joaco
The small Asturian village of Cenciella, Spain, at the beginning of the twentieth century. The quiet life of Urbano and Estrella, a kind and naive couple in love, is seriously altered when they get involved in the fierce struggle between the local political factions....
Profesor eróticus
Character: Profesor Mussy
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....
Jenaro, el de los 14
Character: Jenaro Castrillo
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Los subdesarrollados
Character: Timoteo Fonseca
Julio and Timoteo operate a private detective agency that specializes in cases relating to partners who cheat on their spouses....
La dinamita está servida
Character: Bruno - El jeque árabe
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Un rolls para Hipólito
Character: Hipólito Castañón
Hipólito, a factory janitor whose workers are on strike, is choosen as spokesperson for your workers' complaints to the principal. He, who is not willing to budge, decides to earn the concierge, naming his personal secretary....
Historia de un beso
Character: Blas Otamendi
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Alcalde por elección
Character: Federico Villalba/Ricardo Smith
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Uncle, Are You Really Coming From Paris?
Character: Alberto
Alberto comes to the capital to take care of her nine nephews. Intrigued by the question of sex, children will ask questions to Uncle Albert ... it uses the help of a neighbor....
Simón, contamos contigo
Character: Simón Giménez
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The Song of the Cicada
Character: Aris
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Historia de S
Character: Sebastián
Sebastian (Alfredo Landa), dressmaker of great prestige, is aware of the boredom that produces sexual routine with his wife. Is then made with a good amount of erotic material, including books and magazines and catching up on what is current in the sexual aspects. His wife, alarmed at the new attitude of Sebastian, there is even the possibility to enter. Sebastian, determined to modernize the extreme, organize a parade with new models essentially erotic....
De cuerpo presente
Character: Joe
After seeing that Nelson kisses his lover, Barlow poisons him. But it turns out that Nelson comes back to life when he was about to be buried. From that moment, Barlow does not stop chasing him to finish his work....
Cuatro noches de boda
Character: Lorenzo
After getting married in a church in Madrid, four couples, who have already left behind the anxiety of the chaotic wedding preparations, face the joys and disappointments of the honeymoon trip....
El arte de no casarse
Character: Alfonso de la Peña y Peña, abogado (1) / Alfredo, marqués (2) / Benito López (3) / Pascual, soldado (4)
Four stories about the arts of not getting married. Alfredo Landa performs the roles of a lawyer who has just finished his military service, a young marquis on his wedding day, a flirt and a soldier who deals with three girls at the same time....
Aunque la hormona se vista de seda...
Character: Bienvenido Garcés
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Si estás muerto, ¿por qué bailas?
Character: Inspector Murphy
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King of the River
Character: Antón Costa
An air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby is born, she gives it to her sister that has already two children. The child grows up as another member of the family. Although the adults keep the secret, the children know that he is different....
Manolo by Night
Character: Manolo Olmedillo
While Manolo, employed in a tourism agency in the Costa del Sol, enjoys the foreign babes, his wife suffers at home in the city. Advised by a girlfriend she plans revenge by simulating pregnancy. At first, Manolo is very happy to have a baby. However, soon he realizes that he cannot be the father since he was not in the city at the time of conception....
Las que tienen que servir
Character: Antonio Ponce de León
Juana and Francisca are serving at the Stevens house, an American couple. Both of them have a boyfriend, one is an egg-carrier and the other is a transporter with his own motorcycle. And both with a totally totalitarian and macho concept regarding male-female relations. The girls also have two American suitors assigned to the American Base of Torrejón, friends of their masters. Thus, without almost pretending, the two girls will find themselves in the midst of the jealous Spaniards and the beefy...
Amigo
Character: Padre Velasco
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Foul Play
Character: Juan
A 1977 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem that won the Golden Prize the 10th Moscow International Film Festival....
Préstame tu mujer
Character: Blas
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Historias de la televisión
Character: Antonio Parrondo y Carnicero, novio de Katy (2)
Film divided into two stories: 1. Cuando los gorilas hablan por teléfono 2. Una chica de fortuna...
Las verdes praderas
Character: José Rebolledo
José is a happily married executive, with children, a flat in Madrid and a house in the suburbs. It's Friday and the weekend seems to follow the usual pattern: football match with mates, travel to the mountains and family visit. Nevertheless, José feels no motivated by his routine, he no longer distinguishes leisure from their obligations, all of which result in an unexpected final decision by his attentive wife....
Los pecados de una chica casi decente
Character: Gino
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....
La ciudad no es para mí
Character: Genaro
Agustin, a widower who lives in a village in Aragon, where he is much loved by all neighbors, is lonely and decides to go to the big city, where his son, a famous doctor, lives with his wife and daughter. Agustineis received by his children with great coolness, as he does not fit in the environment in which they operate. The life of his son, his daughter-in-law, and even the maid is too sad for this simple town man....
You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor's Wife
Character: Pedro
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Bandera negra
Character: Patxi
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Ninette and a Gentleman from Murcia
Character: Armando
Murcia, Spain. Andrés, a bland merchant, owner of a bookshop, decides to take a trip to Paris, where his friend Armando lives....
The Lost Paradise
Character: Benito
This literary film is imbued with the disenchantment of Spanish exiles who left their homes to protest Franco's fascist regime and then returned after its demise to find that democracy had not instilled either ethics or deep motivation in government leaders. Director Basilio Martin Patino presents his story, and a large part of the film is based on his own life, through the experiences of an exiled heroine played by Charo Lopez. She has returned to Spain to look for meaning in her life, somethin...
El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Character: Sancho Panza
Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel....
Las cicatrices
Character: Tormento
The unstoppable ambition of a young lover of the bullrings and the support of her sister and a friend, will enable him to become a great figure of bullfighting, overcoming the various barriers that every torero finds when entering the world of bullfighting .... Pedrin, the son of a newscaster, decides to be a bullfighter and, after the death of a partner, struggles to succeed in the bullrings....
El rediezcubrimiento de México
Character: Ceferino Díaz Fernández
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A Rose in the Wind
Character: José
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Rustic Chivalry
Character: Perico
Maria del Pilar is in love with Sebastian, a servant of his house. But her father wants her to marry Marcos a rich landowner. The girl refuses Marcos and he decides to take revenge....
The Executioner
Character: Sacristán
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....
Magic Powder
Character: Arturo
Arturo and Paco arrives at a castle where Paco is going to marry Sulfurina, who turns out to be a witch....
Cuando el cuerno suena
Character: José
Feature film....
El reprimido
Character: Lucas Trigo
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Las obsesiones de Armando
Character: Armando
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El alcalde y la política
Character: Tomás Sierra
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days....
Préstame quince días
Character: Galdino
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Las Leandras
Character: Casildo
After finishing her studies in London, Patricia returns to Spain, excited to see her mother again, a famous revue showgirl. But upon her arrival, she discovers that her mother is ruined and working in a low-tier theater. Mother and daughter decide to fight together to regain fame and fortune....
El alma se serena
Character: Manolo Cortés
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Amor a la española
Character: Rafa
The adventures of a group of Spaniards to win the favors of the numerous young foreigners who spend the summer in the city....
París bien vale una moza
Character: Juan
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Las estrellas están verdes
Character: Luis Oñate
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Los porretas
Character: Segismundo Porretas
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No somos de piedra
Character: Lucas
Lucas, shy and repressed, and sanctimonious Enriqueta are parents of nine children, so he decide to convince her to take the contraceptive pill....
Pero… ¡en qué país vivimos!
Character: Rodolfo Sicilia
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....
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Character: X2
Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decide to take on human features to study the terrestrials incognito, but end up getting involved in the Roman "dolce vita"....
Casi un caballero
Character: Gabriel Mostazo
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....
The Girl in Mourning
Character: Rafael Castroviejo
Rocio and Raphael are a young couple from a small Spanish town. Rocio must mourn the death of a relative for six months and is forbidden to see Raphael. Very much in love, they are frustrated by the old-fashioned customs of their village. When they can finally see each other, the two plan to soon marry. Unfortunately, the girl's grandfather dies and she must start the process of mourning all over again. This time Raphael begs her to rebel against her family and the villagers, but she refuses for...
El río que nos lleva
Character: El americano
In 1946, an irishman joins a group of 'gancheros' (wood workers) while they drive wood thru the Tajo river, discovering human solidarity....
El diablo Cojuelo
Character: Cleofás Pérez Zambullo
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El precio de la risa
Character: Himself (archive footage)
The life of Paco Martínez Soria (1902-1982), one of the most famous and beloved Spanish actors, both on stage and screen; a comedian, a theatrical producer, an idol for the masses. A celebration of the uncommon gift of making people laugh....
El Quijote desde la platea
Character: Self - Actor / Sancho Panza (archive footage)
How Don Quixote de la Mancha, the immortal character created by Miguel de Cervantes in 1605, has been depicted in cinema, television, cartoons, theater, opera, ballet and other artistic disciplines. An adventure that began more than four hundred years ago in the pages of a book and is far from coming to an end....
A Devil Under the Pillow
Character: Brocheros
Anselmo is a young anthropologist who is tormented by jealousy, and although his wife Camilla does not give reasons, keeps a close eye on her. After consulting a psychiatrist, the doctor says the problem is him and not his wife. So he plots to verify, once and for all, if his suspicions are true. By chance he meets an old friend, Lotario, who seems the ideal person to carry out his plans. What Anselmo does not know is that his friend is a real womanizer who ends seducing his wife....
Las viudas
Character: Valentín Martínez (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")....
Why Does Your Husband Deceive You?
Character: Eduardo
Eduardo, a man about to get married to his lifelong sweetheart, begins having second thoughts about the step he is going to take. His future wife is not one-of-a-kind and, among the wedding guests, there are several women he would not mind spending the rest of his days with. So, while the ceremony carries on, he fantasizes about the lifestyle he could experience with some of them....
Merry-Go-Round c. 1950
Character: Eusebio Cascajero y Esparza
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....
Tuset Street
Character: Cheering Man in Audience (uncredited)
Barcelona 1967. The pop culture revolution. Jordi (Patrick Bauchau) is a rich playboy who runs around with a bunch of high-end hippies, smoking, drinking, dancing and daydreaming about Tuset Street, an effort to develop a popular street in the newer section of Barcelona after the models of Haight Ashbury Street in San Francisco and Carnaby Street in London. Jordi and his gang represent the new Barcelona, wealthy, artificial and striving for imported sophistication. On the older side of the city ...
Benigno, hermano mío
Character:
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The Fair of the Dove
Character: Manolo
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....
Despedida de casada
Character: Casimiro Rodríguez, el albañil
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Miracle of Marcellino
Character: Brother Pappina
In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they prove unable to trace his parents. So they set up providing tender loving care to the little boy. Marcellino lives a happy life among the men of God but, as he grows up, he misses his mother more and more....
El árbol del penitente
Character: El Cura
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El refugio del mal
Character: Gasolinero
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El puente de la paz
Character: Jornalero burro (uncredited)
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Whisky y vodka
Character: Cosme
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The Midshipmen
Character: Ignacio Vidal
A group of students preparing to be midshipmen at the Naval Academy live very different experiences: from the typical hazing the new responsibilities they will face when they obtain graduation....
Barefoot in the Kitchen
Character: (archive footage)
What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragments of different films, both fiction and non-fiction. (Followed by “Manda huevos,” 2016.)...