Manuel Alexandre
Birthday: Born in 1917-11-11 in Madrid, Spain
Deathday: 2010-10-12
Manuel Alexandre Abarca OAXS MML (11 November 1917 – 12 October 2010) was a Spanish film and television actor. He was a popular supporting actor. He won an Honorary Goya Award in 2003 for his career achievements. Description above from the Wikipedia article Manuel Alexandre, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
7 vidas
Character: Don Cosme
The story of a group of friends in Madrid....
Curro Jiménez
Character: Perico
Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez...
Fortunata y Jacinta
Character: Plácido Estupiñá
The aristocrat Juan de Santa Cruz meets Fortunata, a girl of humble origins, and a passionate love arises between them; but his mother decides to marry him to her niece Jacinta....
Los ladrones van a la oficina
Character: Anticuario
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Blasco Ibáñez
Character: Escritor
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El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Character: El barbero
Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel....
Cervantes
Character: Cardenal Cervantes
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Plinio
Character:
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La Regenta
Character: Santos Barinaga
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Movie Credits
Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
Character: Paquito
Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year....
Elsa & Fred
Character: Fred
When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance....
El Coyote: El tribunal del Coyote
Character: Julián
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El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe
Character: Julián
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On Earth as It Is in Heaven
Character: San José
Matacanes dies and goes to heaven just to discover that it was not as he expected, and everyone there is revolutionized lately. Peter explains that God was concerned about the progress of the world, and decided to send a second son to Earth. However, Jesus hears and does not agree, as they would have to rewrite history....
Hooray for Divorce!
Character: Padre de Angélica
David is married and has no children. However, outside of marriage, he has longstanding relationships with Susi and Laly, with whom he has had a child with each. He has promised both of then, separately of course, that when the divorce is permitted in Spain he will separate from his wife and regularize his situation with them. Divorce law is approved and conflicts begin. He cannot marry the two together....
Crucero de verano
Character: Alberto Gutiérrez
Patricia is guide of a travel agency. One night, when accompanying a group of tourists through the old Madrid, she meets Carlos and falls for him. Days later, Patricia embarks on a summer cruise meeting up again with Carlos. The romance begins, but Patricia is not the only one chasing Carlos. Three villains want to kidnap him...
Enseñar a un sinvergüenza
Character: Gregorio - Padre de Rosana
Rosana is an attractive teacher who is losing his youth with such discipline in the study. When suddenly bursts into his life a perfect cheeky who lives of game and odd jobs as photographer, but wants to acquire a little culture for personal reasons. So he hires the services of the best teacher of the place ......
Ligue Story
Character: Jerónimo
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El fotogénico
Character:
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Nadie lo sabrá
Character: Juan, compañero de Pedro
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Operación Plus Ultra
Character: Pepe
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El señor de La Salle
Character: Abate Bricot
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....
The Sea and the Weather
Character:
Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different from the one he left: they live under the sadness of being the losers of the war, Marcela, before a beautiful young woman, is now an alcoholic, and the youngest can not even understand them. Jesus wants to start a new life in Spain but he feels out of place; Time has turned him into an inhabitant of the other side of the 'puddle'....
La Regenta
Character:
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....
La vendedora de ropa interior
Character: Mariano
A story of a family whose father tries by all means to maintain the strictest ethics and morality ... or at least appear so. His beautiful young daughter tries to emancipate hereself and looks for a job, but the chance is that the first thing that comes out is underwear seller. She starts to work and problems start for all....
El vikingo
Character: Médico
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Vota a Gundisalvo
Character: Francisco
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Blanca por fuera y Rosa por dentro
Character: Sr. Perales, el profesor
Blanca and Ramiro are a married couple who are always arguing just for pleasure; but Blanca suddenly suffers a misfortune and everything changes....
Swindled
Character: Manco
In a flashback, Ernesto, a young con man, tells us how he got to the edge of a big score: childhood in an orphanage, youthful smash-and-grab burglaries until his partner is caught, then tutelage from Lefty, an aging swindler. After some years of success, they're joined by Federico, the best, a true artist. Things go well until Pilar, a woman from Federico's past, re-enters his life with a proposal to con a golden goose - a swindle that will put them all on easy street. A double-cross may be in t...
Hoy como ayer
Character: Hipólito
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: Fray Jerónimo
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....
¡Biba la banda!
Character: Don Joaquín
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....
Miracles of Thursday
Character: Mauro
In Fontecilla, a Spanish village in decline, the mayor and other illustrious citizens hatch a crazy plan to revitalize tourism....
Another Man's Wife
Character: Policía
Ana and Andres meet again after many years. They are no longer two youngsters, both are married with children. Andres insists, but Ana has trouble in forgetting what happened long ago, when he left without saying goodbye to go to Paris....
Love Charm
Character: Policía
Berta is a young manicurist whose boyfriend, Jorge, is too shy to ask for a raise, something she always blames him for. On the occasion of a special job that Berta must do in a big house, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, the couple fantasizes about what their life would be like in the midst of so many comforts....
Year of Enlightment
Character: Emilio
April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, Manolo, surrounded by boys all much younger than he is, feels a bit like the cock of the walk since the only other man around is the handyman Emilio who looks after the gardens and does whatever needs to be done about the place. His wife, Rafaela, is the...
¿Y tú quién eres?
Character: Abuelo
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La vida es maravillosa
Character: Peregrino
Eugenio Jalon is a young confident and of good character who has never left her village, Segovia, and thinks that life is wonderful....
Total
Character: Herminio
"Total" opens the trilogy that close "Amanece que no es poco" and "Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra" Year 2598. Three days ago, the world has come to the end in London, a lost and a small Castilian village atmosphere. Lorenzo, a shepherd, tells a series of extraordinary events that have been announcing the end of the world: the cows want to go to school, walls crumble, or Doña Paquita appears in the most unexpected places .....
Long Live the Bride and Groom
Character: Carlos
Leo Pozas, native from Burgos and high bank clerk, arrives to a town on the Costa Brava, with his mother to marry Loli. Unexpectedly, Leo's mother died. This may mean the suspension of the wedding, a year of mourning and, perhaps, another relief, so that Leo and Loli hide the corpse of the old betrothal until after the wedding......
Clara y Elena
Character: Doctor
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I Wanted to Sleep in Peace
Character:
Two night watchmen take a man sleeping on a park bench to the police station....
La guerra de los niños
Character: Don Matias
A school closes due to heavy debt which brings the children into action by doing naughty deeds so as to persuade the real estate agency to reopen the school, and since this didn't work, they kidnap the school's owner in order to be heard....
Tocando fondo
Character: Marcelino
Andres de Granada, a forty-benefit trade more clear, believed that the first months of 1993 are the best time to do business. It also has the help of his nephew Fulgencio, who has arrived in Madrid with the idea of learning the trade....
Las locuras de Parchís
Character: Don Matias
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The Salary of Crime
Character: Jaime 'Abuelito'
Mario, the son of a police captain killed in the line of duty, is completely surrendered to the police organization. Instructing some errands meet Elsa, original and fascinating beauty, beginning an illicit affair and exciting. This makes his firmest principles are shaken, transformed his life completely absurd entering a maelstrom revolving around the existence of Elsa surface....
Merry Christmas
Character: Soldado de Artillería #1
A marriage without great financial resources and bad luck wins a little lamb in a raffle. Once they have decided to have it for dinner on Christmas Eve, the couple warn that their children have grown too fond of the animal, now christened as Bolita....
Madregilda
Character: 'Cuatro Ojos'
Madrid, Spain. On Monday, December 22, 1947, Charles Vidor's Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford, premieres. That same week, as every first Friday of the month, Hauma organizes a peculiar card game in an old tavern....
… Y después del cuplé
Character:
Garcia, a shy young musician who can not release any of his works, is in love with Lupe, a singer who makes a living working in a modest amusement park....
Miserable life
Character: Andrés
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Parchís entra en acción
Character: Don Matias
A new adventure of Parchís....
Pesadilla para un rico
Character: Raúl
A mature and successful businessman leads a peaceful life with his family and his lover. However, his life is greatly complicated when found dead in bed a girl who had spent the previous night with him. The first thing that comes to mind to solve the problem is to remove the body, but that's not easy. Still, the case is much worse when someone who seems to know what happened, begins to blackmail....
La cera virgen
Character: Villalba
María works in a hostess bar in Madrid because, forced by the Puritans of her little village, she had to leave accused of public scandal just for having kissed her boyfriend. María, together with her three sisters, decides to return and builds a club in the village faced with the scandalized don Florencio, a repressed banker and overlord who secretly desires María. In order to go unnoticed, María and her sisters run the club through a wax-chandler's shop where the majority of men of the village ...
The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
Character: Theo (uncredited)
In the eerie village of Holfen, a series of gruesome murders sparks rumors of a centuries-old curse, with a noble heir caught between suspicion and his own dark urges....
Maddened Couple Seeks Surrogate Mother
Character: Taxista
In this Spanish comedy, a couple’s attempt to find a surrogate mother leads to a whirlwind of humorous situations and misunderstandings. Directed by Mariano Ozores, the film explores the unpredictable twists of family life and the lengths people go to fulfill their dreams....
20-N: Los últimos días de Franco
Character: Francisco Franco
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Dream Kiss
Character: Padre de Margot
The gorgeous Margot supports her aged father by seducing men on trains, slipping them a Mickey Finn (a beso de sueño) and robbing them. One night her victim is a currency smuggler taking 100 million pesetas out of Spain. He's being watched by a cop and by a burned-out alcoholic....
Sleep, Sleep, My Love
Character: Paco Hernández Gil
A dark and surrealistic comedy about a man who gives drugs to his wife, to make her sleep and avoid arguing with her....
La batalla del domingo
Character: Gángster #1
Alfredo Di Stéfano plays himself, not as a soccer player but as a man, husband and father. This is a personal portrait of the mythical athlete, in the decline of his career. Film made to the greater glory of the football player Alfredo Di Stefano. In principle it is a portrait of manners of the life of the athlete at the time of professional retirement. Filmed by Luis Marquina, " The Battle of Sunday " mixes the form of a conventional film with the topics of biographical documentaries. However, ...
Préstame tu mujer
Character: Padre Aniceto
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El cabezota
Character:
The establishment of obligatory school for children divides to a father and his little son....
Fray Torero
Character: Intocable #2
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La venganza de Don Mendo
Character: Conde don Nuño Manso de Jarama
Film version of Pedro Muñoz Seca's play....
...And the Third Year, He Resuscitated
Character: Productor
On November 20, 1978 a truck driver picks up a man on the road, that tells him to take him to Pardo's Palace. Soon, the truck driver begins to realize who this person is....
La insólita y gloriosa hazaña del cipote de Archidona
Character: Vicente
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The Black Hand
Character: Jefe de personal
Three old schoolmates, who in their time as students had formed a kind of secret society called The Black Hand, in order to embitter teachers' lives, meet again years later with very different lives. One is a dad's son who is distracted as best he can; another has become a writer of espionage novels and is persecuted by the CIA, and the third leads an indolent life without further ado. The reunion of the three friends will make the society of La Mano Negra revive....
Fulanita y sus menganos
Character: Gómez
The Spanish official representative of the European Congress of prostitutes, held in Paris, is dedicated to remembering various stories that have occurred in the performance of their profession over the years....
Franky Banderas
Character: Don Alejandro
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Robbery at 3 O'clock
Character: Benítez
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....
Robbery at 3 O'clock… and Half
Character: Don Felipe
A German bank buys a small Spanish entity and announces to its employees that it will pre-retire them on January 1st. The cashier Galindo proposes his fellow coworkers a plan to steal a large sum of euros which will arrive on New Year's Eve....
El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Character: El barbero
Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel....
Mayores con reparos
Character: Zacarías
Fernando / Miguel / Manuel are provincial men who go to the cabaret El Sultán, in Madrid (Spain), in search of the company of their hostess girls. Pepita / Patricia / Estrella are more than just prostitutes and when customers who require their services have the opportunity to meet them in the solitude of their apartments their true dimension as human beings emerges in them....
Los días del pasado
Character: Inspector de Educación
A woman arrives in town to work as a teacher. It is the time of the 'maquis', the anti-Franco guerrilla that fights with little hope in some regions of Spain just after the end of the civil war. She has a love affair with one of the guerrillas, but their relationship will have an impossible future because of the past....
La violación
Character: Manuel
Pilar is a young admirer of Miguel Santos, a famous pianist. At a concert that he gives in Cádiz, she is lucky enough to meet him in person, and that same night something arises between them. What she doesn't know is that Miguel has known his older sister for years...
El caso Almería
Character:
When a Spanish judge has the courage to look into a political murder......
For Men Only
Character:
Spain, late 19th century. When, in a time of great political instability, Flora, a beautiful young woman, starts working in a ministry doing a job that supposedly only a man can do, a great scandal breaks out....
La vuelta del Coyote
Character: Julián
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Death and the Lumberjack
Character: Casto
An organ grinder called “El Rubio” has the crank of his street organ confiscated because he did not have his identification papers in order. From then on, a journey full of misfortune begins in which he tries hard to find a crank like the impounded one, to allow him to work again....
Death of a Cyclist
Character: Cyclist
A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed....
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Character: Secretario
A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the American visitors, in the hopes of benefiting under the Marshall Plan. Hoping to demonstrate the side of Spanish culture with which the visiting foreign officials would be more familiarized, the Castilian citizens don unfamiliar Andalusian costumes, hire a renowned flamenco performer, and re-decorate their town in Andalusian style, meantime waitin...
Siempre hay un camino a la derecha
Character: Candelario
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The Executioner
Character: Condemned (uncredited)
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....
Main Street
Character: Luciano
A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of a group of soulless pranksters....
El caso del señor vestido de violeta
Character:
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Doce hombres sin piedad
Character: Juror #5
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father....
Los extremeños se tocan
Character:
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Life Ahead
Character: Manolo Estévez
Finished their careers of Law and Medicine, respectively, Antonio Redondo and Josefina Castro, a pair of young Spanish newlyweds, are looking for work to buy an apartment and start a life together, but they will face enormous difficulties throughout the process....
Hostesses with permission
Character: Agente C-38
Celia and María are two attractive young women who survive by stealing wallets from tourists who visit the Prado Museum. However, her true dream is to become flight attendants one day. When they meet the handsome Alberto Suárez, both will fall in love with his charms, to the point of following the man to Málaga....
Father Cami's Wedding
Character: Alcalde de Reajo del Pino
A Jesuit priest in 1950s Spain becomes disillusioned with his faith, swapping religion for politics and carnal knowledge....
El amor sí tiene cura
Character: Don Cosme
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Ambiciosa
Character: Mariano
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Chely
Character: Comerciante
A gang of criminals, composed entirely of young people, bases its unique fun on stealing from rich elders with the help of the charms of one of the members of the band, Pepi (Nadiuska). They are misunderstood young people looking for an assimilation of society....
High Voltage
Character:
José, a young mechanic, arrives in Madrid to make it big. After being conned he loses his savings, and is taken in by Elisa, a photographer. She introduces him to Pablo and Laura. Laura makes him an offer he cant refuse and then his troubles really begin....
We Are All Necessary
Character: Factor, railway employee
After serving their sentence, three prisoners, a doctor, a civil servant and a thief, leave jail. During the train trip they do together to return home, they analyze their respective lives. The doctor has been required to perform an operation on a child abandoned by his father, a millionaire....
Cariñosamente infiel
Character: Borracho
The film chronicles the life and marital problems of a couple, through the vision of his two sons, four and eight years old and how, despite their young age, they understand the marital problems....
Till Divorce Us Do Part
Character: Ramírez
Miguel is a young Spanish naval engineer in love with an American student of History of Art. When she becomes pregnant, she decides that the easiest solution to her situation is to marry her civilly. However, in Spain in the 1970s, prior to the passage of the Divorce Law, the only way to do so is to apostatize the Catholic Church. For Miguel, a believing devotee, taking this step involves a deep inner conflict....
Viaje de novios
Character: Lorenzo Sallén 'Loren'
Specialized in arranging weddings, Federico arranges marriage by proxy between Ana and Juan, two friends of his who do not know each other. Juan arrives by plane to Spain after spending ten years of safari in Africa, hoping to meet his wife, who arrives the same day from Buenos Aires. At the airport, Fernando receives him and they go to the bar to wait for Ana. But everything starts badly, because during the wait Juan drinks too much and gets drunk. When Ana arrives, she is displeased to meet he...
Foul Play
Character: Rafael
A 1977 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem that won the Golden Prize the 10th Moscow International Film Festival....
Death Whistles the Blues
Character: Julius Smith
Vogel, an important trafficker, betrayed two of his accomplices, Castro and Smith. The first was shot by police, while the latter was imprisoned. Fifteen years later, Vogel adopted a new identity and moved to Jamaica with his wife, Linda. Smith comes back for revenge but Vogel sends his henchmen to kill him....
La duquesa roja
Character: Cosme
An Andalusian duchess has the dilemma of what to do with a grove, whether to convert it into a natural reserve or to make a luxury urbanization. The duchess, who is torn between her aristocratic privileges and a social commitment that has cost her more than one dislike in the past, must make a decision about her lands, to which she wants to get some money without harming the people. On the other hand, An ambitious Basque financier, Antónón Ibarrondo, intends to build a luxury urbanization in the...
El inquilino
Character: Limpiabotas
One unlucky day, a married couple with four children get an eviction notice: the building they live in is to be demolished. The family looks desperately for a new home, which is no easy task in Madrid in the fifties....
Placido
Character: Julián
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....
El señor está servido
Character: Don Plácido
Three stories of three housemaids: Martina, shop steward, serves a marriage that can not have children because she entered the house with that condition. Basilia, Cateta coming to serve and not do anything, the contract for a small fee and let she carry a transistor always hung over the shoulder. And Lali, a gorgeous girl, but very serious and decent, it does not last any longer than 24 hours home because everyone wants to conquer....
A Tied Blasé
Character: Ponciano
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Un beso en el puerto
Character: Carlos
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Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
Character: Mozo del juicio ante Sancho Panza
A new vision of the Knight of the sad figure, which lives obsessed by the chivalry and its codes of honor. Accompanied by his unusual squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote recalls some of the adventures they've shared....
In the Lost City
Character: Self
The city of Madrid as it appears in the Spanish films of the 1950s. A small tribute to all those who filmed and portrayed Madrid despite the dictatorship, censorship and the critical situation of industry and society....
Verde doncella
Character: Don Manuel
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Los porretas
Character: José Pernales
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Pretextos
Character: Claudio
Marriage of Vienna, theater director, and Daniel, a geriatric physician, is in crisis. Both cling to their professional activity to fill the void in their lives agonizing. Their worlds seem antagonistic, their needs, different. Account of the worst loneliness: loneliness in the company, and on promises unfulfilled desires can not be met, but it becomes a good excuse to continue living despite everything....
Life Size
Character: Jose-Luis
When Michel gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only intrigued by it at first. Then the silent unresponsiveness of the thing begins to haunt him, and he finds himself reacting to it as if it were an equally unresponsive living woman. As time passes, more and more of his life is spent trying to satisfy or placate its relentless silence, and he goes somewhat mad. He dresses the doll and takes it with him wherever he goes. When his usually very tolerant wife ...
Black Jack
Character:
Sir Thomas Bedford orchestrates the heist of a Spanish casino, with the aid of a singer performing there. The police are aware of their activities, and a hostage situation arises....
Los nuevos españoles
Character: Sinesio
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....
Donde hay patrón...
Character: Zacarías
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Relaciones casi públicas
Character:
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Relaciones casi públicas
Character: Dueño del bar
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Revenge
Character: Pablo el Tinorio
After spending ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Juan is released....
Offsides
Character: Don Luis
Comedy as six pensioners in residence take on the sponsorship of the FOOTBALL team in the neighbouring orphanage with unexpected consequences....
Doctor, me gustan las mujeres, ¿es grave?
Character: Antonio
Carlos, a university professor, is admired and praised above all by people who see in him the ideal person to fill the best positions....
Maestros
Character:
Five legendary bank robbers carve out a nice lifestyle for themselves during their long sentences in a Spanish maximum-security prison, where the guards and inmates buckle to their every demand. When they are granted a surprise and immediate release, they flounder on the greatly changed, modern streets of Madrid. They plan one more major heist, but do they have the updated skills and wherewithal to pull it off?...
La boda
Character:
A man whose wife was murdered on the wedding night returns to town to marry another and is resisted by the locals....
Accidente 703
Character: García
Hector travels with Luisa by the road linking Madrid with Barcelona. When another car suddenly crosses his path, his vehicle leaves the road and plunges into a tree. Hector dies and she is seriously injured. The other car was occupied by Jorge and Paula, her lover. Several vehicles cross before the car crash and do not stop, each for a different reason. Among them is Julio, a truck driver who does not stop in order to reach his destination on time, not knowing that at the wrecked car travels his...
Comedians
Character: Manolo
Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, plays only minor roles, but she hopes to succeed and prefers the success to the love of Michael. When the company decides to release "Heaven is not far," Ana hopes to be the young protagonist, however, the paper turns to fall on the veteran Carmen. The businessman Charles Marquez offers Ana to be the star in the new play if she becomes his lover...
Una chica y un señor
Character: Agustín
The life of a young attractive singer in search of success changes when he meets an accomplished lawyer, considerably older than her. Their romance will lead to a love story in which the age difference will add to the couple a relationship problem…...
Funny Money
Character: (uncredited)
Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs....
Jenaro, el de los 14
Character: Don Rosendo
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Mi mujer es muy decente, dentro de lo que cabe
Character: Presidente Comunidad de Propietarios (uncredited)
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La playa de las seducciones
Character: Don Juan
Don Juan, a rich man with a reputation as a seducer, has reserved half of the rooms in a hotel on the beach. While waiting for him, all the staff is nervous imagining what the entourage that will accompany him will be like....
Las viudas
Character: Recepcionista Hotel (segment "El Aniversario")
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")....
The Inveterate Bachelor
Character:
Marcello is engaged to Gina, the daughter of the boarding house where he lives, but he is undecided whether to marry her or not....
Beyond the Walls
Character: Capellán
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...
Everyone Off to Jail
Character: Modesto
A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended....
Pídele cuentas al rey
Character: Pepón
Fidel, an Asturian miner, after the closure of the mine where he works, decides to walk to Madrid with his family, to ask the king why the Constitution is not met, specifically the article that points out that all the Spanish citizens have the right to have a decent work. Will the king receive him?...
Tú estás loco Briones
Character: El Fugas
Faustino Briones is a hardline Falangist who, unhappy with the changes in Spain and after mounting several scandals in his work, is admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Without waiting for him, he begins to interact with the nuns of the place, but especially with one, Sr. Angustias with whom he is beginning to feel things...
Amor bajo cero
Character: Entrenador del grupo de Madrid
In the resort of La Molina an international competition is held and ski racers from different countries come to Barcelona. They become friends, especially Nuria and Ramon, but Nuria already has a boyfriend...
Assassination in Rome
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In this crime-thriller, Rome proves to be an unhappy destination for an American couple when the husband is kidnapped and his wife begins a desperate search for him....
Corazón solitario
Character: Cotet, el ciego
Antoñito is a bachelor who works in a cabaret as a clarinetist. He has put an advertisement in the newspaper, looking for a good and honest girl, and to which responds Rocío, who escapes from her native Córdoba to hide the embarrassment of her pregnancy. The coexistence with the naive clarinetist, who refuses the insinuations of a co-worker dedicated to prostitution, who idolizes his deceased mother and keeps as a relic the orthopedic leg of his late father, is not easy. The other men will tend ...
The Wicked Carabel
Character: Mateo Solá
Since he wants get married, the young Carabel, who is employed in a real estate agent, decides to ask their bosses for a raise in order to maintain his future wife. However, all he gets is to be fired. He then realizes that honesty is what has led him to unemployment and decides to change his life and live outside the law. He plots to steal the safe from his former company...
Lázaro de Tormes
Character: Escribano
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Sinatra
Character: Manolo
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....
Tocata y fuga de Lolita
Character: Antonio Azón
Carlos, a widower in his forties, lives with his daughter Lolita and his sister Merche. He is a candidate to Spanish Court's Proctor, so frequently travels outside Madrid. During one of those trips, he is forced to return at home precipitously, because his sister informed him that Lolita has left the house to live with some friends....
Two Tough Guys
Character: Don Rodrigo
Two botcher killers, Paco and Alex carry out a crime caper. Later on, they are joined by Tatiana - a young whore, who shows great love for Alex. In pursuing its objective the losers will face a group of murderers, a butcher with dark business, a nasty gangster and a lot more......
El traje de oro
Character: Manolo
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Vamos a contar mentiras
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The Rocket from Calabuch
Character: Vicente, pintor barca
Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realizes his mistake and runs away from his inventions. He hides in Calabuch, a beautiful seaside town where people still believe in humor and friendship....
Las tres perfectas casadas
Character: Máximo
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La becerrada
Character: Don Policarpo
San Ginés de la Sierra is a small village lost in the mountains in southern Spain. It is known throughout the region for two peculiar characteristics: its "persistent" drought and a "Home of the Vanquished". This "home" is an institution that houses some twenty old people, to whose care are eleven nuns and crosses a distressing economic situation. The nuns are desperately seeking a solution and decide to hold a charity bulls run....
The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid
Character: Manuel Albarca - Gravedigger
This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries with the help of Pat Garrett, a fatherly friend, to change back. However, circumstances force Billy to become violent again and it is Garrett who is credited with the killing....
Furnished Studio 2.P.
Character: Rovira, el jefe de personal
Two bank employees use a computer to determine the girls for their sexual affairs in their newly hired flat....
El juego de la verdad
Character: Borracho (uncredited)
Lucia is a mature woman who maintains a relationship with the young John. When he is found murdered in a bullring with a nail stuck in his chest, Lucia is the prime suspect, it is believed that the motive for the crime was jealousy because it felt for her daughter Marta, which had also been seduced by John....
Vampiresas 1930
Character: Director
As the era of silent films finds itself at a close, four down-and-out silent film actors and musicians struggle to find work. Fate leads them to a former star of the silent era as she struggles to escape her reputation as a wild and evil vamp of the silver screen and longs to be just thought of as an honest and decent woman. They join forces, and for a short time have a decent amount of success singing and dancing at clubs and bars. But the public has an insatiable taste for foreign black jazz b...
Señora Doctor
Character: Dentista
Elvira Ruiz, a graduate in medicine, is aimed at a village inhabited by rude and stubborn people who don´t understand that a woman can exercise this profession. Due to their ancestral backwardness, the village people have trouble telling their problems to a female, so she must use unorthodox methods to accomplish their task....
The Blackmailers
Character:
A girl has two suitors: a famous bullfighter who is in love and rejecting a pawn. His relationship with the bullfighter is hampered by the harassment to which he submits. After suffering a serious catch, the bullfighter lifesaving through the locket she gave him....
Pierna creciente, falda menguante
Character: Señorito ligón
In 1916, while Europe was in the middle of First World War and Spain was enjoying the advantages of being a neutral country, eroticism was called voluptuousness and Senator Duke of Daroca, despite his ancient lineage, fell completely in love with a famous cabaret singer, Rosario "La Criollita", which was a scandal. At that time, it was doubted that decent women had legs - But this mystery was resolved a decade later, when the roaring twenties arrived and, with them, the sensual Lupe Cardoso...
Zorro the Avenger
Character: Soldado
Don Jose disguises himself as Zorro, the masked freedom fighter, who tries to protect his people from the wrath of an evil military officer who is using his position to his own advantage....
Wrath of the Wind
Character: Agustín
A mute gunslinger takes on an oppressive landlord in 19th century Valencia and falls in love with a local woman....
El mensaje
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La barrera
Character: Secuestrador
In a small town, the administrator, confronted with the baker, forbids his children fto talk with those of the baker, and vice versa. One day, Paco and Pablo, the baker's children, listen to two builders who plan to kidnap Mary, the daughter of the administrator. Children decide to keep the secret and save the girl themselves. Meanwhile, a young teacher arrives to the village with his wife and kids get back to school. But the administrator's wife is furious because it is not her brother the one...
El secreto de papá
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La paz empieza nunca
Character: Aliado
Inspired by the classic novel by journalist and writer Emilio Romero. Shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), a group of Phalangist friends, who dream of a revolution to transform Spain, are dedicated to spreading their ideas among the population. As war begins, one of them, Lopez, is about to be shot, but is saved by a Republican. Then he joins the national side. After the war, an old comrade encourages him to involve in an operation to destroy the maquis of Asturias. ...
Historias de la televisión
Character: Técnico de TV (1)
Film divided into two stories: 1. Cuando los gorilas hablan por teléfono 2. Una chica de fortuna...
Cuatro noches de boda
Character: Saldaña
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 aprendiz de malo
Character: Gregorio
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La noche y el alba
Character: Ross
Pedro, a street photographer who fought during the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side, becomes obsessed with a young model....
Police Calling 091
Character: Luciano
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....
The Palomos
Character: Eugenio Martínez
Emilio and Virtudes Palomo are invited by Don Alberto, Emilio's boss, to a dinner at his chalet. Don Alberto, who confuses simplicity with stupidity, intends to frame the Palomos for a crime he has committed....
The Enchanted Forest
Character: Roque Freire
In a fantastical forest we meet some people who have been transported to this place by a magic force. Now their histories cross one another....
Amor en el aire
Character: Profesor Minguélez
An Argentine travels to Spain to begin his studies. During the flight, he causes so much troubles to a flight attendant that she is fired. At home, the ex flight attendant discovers some dresses that belonged to her grandmother and decides to try her luck with an artist representative. There she will find the guy who caused his dismissal. Both fail to act in Barcelona, but the boy's father attended the performance, being surprised, because he believed his son was studying in Madrid....
¡Se armó el belén!
Character: Leandro
An old priest, who has old ideas, is intended to exercise the apostolate in a neighborhood in the suburbs of Madrid. There the revolutionary climate and anti-religious character of the congregation thwarts all his attempts to attract them. The Archbishop admonishes him and asks to renew his methods, using the example of a young priest of a modern parish. The old priest tries to apply in his environment what he has seen in the parish model, setting off a chain of events....
Don erre que erre
Character: Raimundo
Don Rodrigo goes to the bank and when he is going to take his money there is a robbery. Then the bank refuses to give him his money back (257 pesetas, a small amount of money) with the argument that the money was robbed to him, not to the bank. He will fight against the bank till the last consequences....
The Four Truths
Character: Casto (segment "La mort et le bûcheron")
"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments....
Fulano y Mengano
Character: Guardia (uncredited)
Eudosio and Carlos were imprisoned by mistake. Now out of prison, are trying to get a job and to adapt to a society that rejects them....
El hombre del paraguas blanco
Character: El maestro
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Sonatas
Character: Teniente Andrade
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author....
Amor a todo gas
Character: (uncredited)
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Un adulterio decente
Character: Joaquín Renovales
Federico is having an affair with Fernanda, which he believes widow, when in fact she is married. When the trick is discovered, a doctor appears very opportunely saying that infidelity is a disease caused by bacteria and has no cure. In his private clinic he applies a treatment that consists of locking up every adulterer with his mistress....
Las mujeres de mi vida
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The women of my life....
Asylum
Character: (uncredited)
Carlos goes to visit his girlfriend Juana at the asylum where she works. Once there, the director introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says....