Elvira Quintillá
Biography: Elvira Quintillá (19 September 1928 – 27 December 2013) was a Spanish actress, whose career spanned over six decades. Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Quintillá began her acting career in 1941, appearing on stage. She married actor José María Rodero in 1947, and the couple remained together until Rodero's death in May 1991. She died on 27 December 2013, aged 85, in Madrid, Community of Madrid. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elvira Quintillá, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 19, 1928
Deathday: December 27, 2013
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Eva 63
1963-12-05
Eva 63
Overview: Elena is a writer and is in a relationship with a painter, Fernando. Charo works as a waitress in a hotel and continues to dream of John Sargent, her platonic love, although when she discovers that the actor is gay she returns to her boyfriend Luis. Mara, a model, and Miguel is dating a sick man much older than them. Eugenia is a haute couture dressmaker and cares for her niece Soledad, who wants to be a singer. All of them have ambitions of love, but none is happy with their current situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-12-05
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Nosotros en particular
1985-09-20
Nosotros en particular
Overview: Carlos is a young priest who teaches at a boarding school for difficult or conflictive adolescents. The arrival of Jonás, a boy with a strong personality, whose tutelage is recommended to Carlos by the rector father, puts the balance in which the priest's actions and thoughts have always been kept on a tightrope, because Jonah symbolizes disorder, anarchy, even sensuality and, therefore, temptation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-09-20
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Operación Plus Ultra
1966-09-20
Operación Plus Ultra
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-09-20
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Placido
1962-06-27
Placido
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-06-27
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El guardián del paraíso
1955-05-23
El guardián del paraíso
Overview: A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in the black market, and his own witness of a robbery and as a lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-05-23
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That Happy Couple
1953-08-31
That Happy Couple
Overview: Juan and Carmen are a humble couple living in Madrid. She does the housework and he works as an electrician in a film studio. Their dreams of wellness come true when they win a contest sponsored by a soap brand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-08-31
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With Lots of Love
1977-01-01
With Lots of Love
Overview: Don Luis is the owner of an industry and all his family work in it, allowing he to become a staunch patriarch.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Junts
2000-02-23
Junts
Overview: Helena is a 70 year old woman living in a nursing home. His daughter, and especially his son, not want to have at home. Already expelled six residences, Helena thinks if escape this, it will not be accepted in another and can not do anything but let her go home. For this flight uses the help of James, another resident who has no family and is in love with him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-23
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Fin de semana
1964-11-23
Fin de semana
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-11-23
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La patrulla
1954-09-05
La patrulla
Overview: Madrid, 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Five infantry soldiers of the victorious side take a photograph of themselves somewhere in the defeated city, promising to meet again ten years later at the same place.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-09-05
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The Island Princess
1954-12-30
The Island Princess
Overview: 1470. The Canary Islands try to resist the Spanish invaders. Their inhabitants are divided, their chief and his daughter Guayarmina (for whom a Spanish officer has fallen in love) wanting the peace, while the priest and resistance leader are for war. After several battles the islanders are chased to Tirma mountain by the Spanish army.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-30
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The Beehive
1982-10-11
The Beehive
Overview: As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-10-11
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The First Look
2023-10-23
The First Look
Overview: The foundation in Madrid of the Institute of Investigations and Cinematographic Experiences (IIEC) in 1947, has been the most important event in the history of Spanish cinema. From there would come directors such as Luis García Berlanga, Juan Antonio Bardem, Carlos Saura, Miguel Picazo, José Luis Borau, Mario Camus, Antonio Mercero and Víctor Erice. Through their first film practices, we will learn about the history of the school and an entire country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-10-23
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For Men Only
1960-09-08
For Men Only
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-09-08
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Welcome Mr. Marshall!
1953-04-04
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Overview: 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 waiting for their uncertain arrival.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-04-04
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The Executioner
1963-08-31
The Executioner
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-08-31
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Viaje de novios
1956-12-10
Viaje de novios
Overview: 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 her husband in such condition. Then Fernando takes them to a hotel for newlyweds where they meet other happy couples and where a peculiar honeymoon begins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-12-10
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Calígula
1971-10-24
Calígula
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-10-24
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La Rana Verde
1958-06-11
La Rana Verde
Overview: Cimera de los Infantes, Castile, Spain. The young men who meet every day in the bar La Rana Verde are bored because they barely have fun, so they decide to seduce the girls who attend a summer course in the historic castle of the town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-06-11
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Historia de una escalera
1950-08-14
Historia de una escalera
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-08-14
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A la pálida luz de la luna
1985-10-09
A la pálida luz de la luna
Overview: Carmen leaves her husband Julio to go live with an intellectual who has made a career in the United States. While, Julio goes away to live of rent to house of an aristocrat come to less. After meeting several colorful characters, Julio decides to recover Carmen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-10-09
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La hermana alegría
1955-02-07
La hermana alegría
Overview: Soledad enters a women reformatory led by modest nuns who look constantly for the welfare of their girls. These include the Sister Consolación, a humorous and cheerful nun who uses a little disconcerting methods to teach but very useful for the girls, to try to forget their past and prepare for a better future. Soledad takes confidence quickly and said she hopes a son of Fernando, a womanizing Andalusian young gentleman very attractive, which coincidentally, the Sister knows.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-02-07
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Learning to Die
1962-06-04
Learning to Die
Overview: Despite the advice that friends have given, Manuel wanders tentaderos and squares to see if they let him fight. After many calamities and thanks to Rafael, get a bullfight in Cordoba. From here, it rains contracts and get a series of victories, winning his first money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-06-04
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Las autonosuyas
1983-08-04
Las autonosuyas
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-08-04
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El cálido verano del señor Rodríguez
1965-07-12
El cálido verano del señor Rodríguez
Overview: Pepe Rodríguez, an office worker who has been working while his family went on vacation, leaves Madrid to join them in the countryside.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-07-12
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Siega verde
1961-02-01
Siega verde
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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Fin de curso
1943-01-01
Fin de curso
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Lola, espejo oscuro
1966-04-10
Lola, espejo oscuro
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-04-10
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Un día perdido
1955-09-20
Un día perdido
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-09-20
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El abuelo tiene un plan
1973-05-14
El abuelo tiene un plan
Overview: Leandro Cano, grandfather of many grandchildren, coincides in the clinic of Dr. Bolt with Elena, a lady already advanced in years. The doctor makes every effort to make them meet, and thus overcome their feelings of loneliness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-05-14
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La frontera del miedo
1958-06-16
La frontera del miedo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-06-16
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Airport
1953-09-14
Airport
Overview: Different kind of people arrives to Madrid airport. Some goes with their heads and others just landed. Fernando is a pilot who he brings a girl for his relatives. Ceferino and his wife have won a contest and will travel soon to Paraguay and they are there because they want to know the airplane. Mr. Beltran is very nervous because he returned to Spain after many years of exile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-14
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La gran barrera
1947-01-01
La gran barrera
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Spanish Round
1951-12-05
Spanish Round
Overview: Over a hundred members of the chorus girls and dance groups from the Spanish "Sección Femenina" embark to America to show the richness of their national folklore. The girls have left parked their daily tasks to enjoy this great adventure aboard "Mount Albertia". During the trip, the relationship between the girls and the crew is very lively and in all scenarios where they perform, success always accompanies them.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-12-05
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Juzgado permanente
1953-08-10
Juzgado permanente
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-08-10
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Asylum
1954-01-25
Asylum
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-25
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Magic concert
1952-12-29
Magic concert
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-12-29
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