Fernando Hilbeck
Biography: Fernando José Hilbeck Gavaldá (Madrid, July 7, 1933 - Madrid, April 18, 2009)
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 07, 1933
Deathday: April 25, 2009
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Known For
Madigan's Millions
1968-05-30
Madigan's Millions
Overview: When a deported gangster dies in Italy, the U.S. Treasury Department is very interested in the one million dollars Madigan owed the government, but managed to take to Italy with him. They send Agent Jason Phister over to Italy to nose out the million. His criteria for the job is that no one would ever guess he's an agent of the United States government.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-30
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The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
1974-11-28
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
Overview: When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to kill insects.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-28
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Flesh + Blood
1985-08-30
Flesh + Blood
Overview: A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-30
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Demon Witch Child
1975-03-03
Demon Witch Child
Overview: After an old witch desecrates a church and abducts a baby, the police take her in for questioning, leading her to attempt suicide. To exact revenge, a fellow witch curses the police commissioner's daughter, and as the old witch dies, her spirit latches onto the young girl and causes her to wreak havoc.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-03-03
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Pyro... The Thing Without a Face
1964-01-22
Pyro... The Thing Without a Face
Overview: A married man has a brief affair, then goes back to his wife and children. His jilted mistress, believing that if he had no more family he'd come back to her, sets fire to his house, hoping to kill them. The man, unsuccessfully trying to rescue them, is horribly burned. After he undergoes an operation to reconstruct his face, he begins to plot his revenge against his former mistress.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-22
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Murder in a Blue World
1973-08-22
Murder in a Blue World
Overview: Set in the future, the story follows a nurse who tries to bring her own style of relief to people condemned to die. Her identity is a mystery and she may not be quite what she seems.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-08-22
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Salomé
1978-01-01
Salomé
Overview: Short film by Almodovar, which tells the origin of the veil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Voodoo Black Exorcist
1974-06-12
Voodoo Black Exorcist
Overview: The mummy of long dormant, but powerful Caribbean voodoo priest Gatanebo gets revived on a luxury South Seas ocean liner as a big buff bald guy and proceeds to terrorize the passengers. Gatanebo beheads several folks, occasionally reverts back to his prune-faced mummified state, and falls for the ravishing Sylvia, who reminds him of his old flame Kenya.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-06-12
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Son of a Gunfighter
1965-08-16
Son of a Gunfighter
Overview: A young man stalks his mother's killers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-16
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Parranda
1977-03-17
Parranda
Overview: Cebrian, a blast furnace worker Asturian, being held at the Civil Guard barracks. There has to be accountable for the disasters in a day of party with two friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-03-17
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The Making of 'The Howl of the Devil'
1987-01-01
The Making of 'The Howl of the Devil'
Overview: Short film made on the production of HOWL OF THE DEVIL.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Howl of the Devil
1988-01-01
Howl of the Devil
Overview: Hector Doriani (Paul Naschy) is a stage and screen actor who feels himself living in the shadow of his dead twin brother, Alex Doriani, once a famous star of horror movies. Alex’s young son, Adrian, now lives with Hector in an isolated mansion in the countryside. To keep alive the memory of his father, the boy imagines himself visited by the spirit of the dead man, incarnated in a series of classic horror characters from the past. Eric, Alex’s former butler, now also works for Hector. His main role is to locate and bring to the mansion a series of women who are paid large sums of money by Hector to take part in various sadistic sex games. To complicate matters even further, the games always seem to end with the women getting slaughtered in various gruesome ways by a black gloved, masked killer. Also on hand is horror diva Caroline Munro, as Hector’s housekeeper and cook, who is being pursued by a local priest with whom she once had a much-regretted affair.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Joe Navidad
1967-07-01
Joe Navidad
Overview: In a small western town in Arizona called Jaspen, a boy is born on Christmas Day. Joseph "Joe" Novak is born in a makeshift shelter, but his mother, Marika Novak dies during childbirth. Because of the day he was born, the boy will be nicknamed Christmas Joe. Joe's father will never forgive him for the death of his wife, which will lead Joe toward a rebellious attitude. He will become a troubled teenager, and will end up learning how to shoot. Joe will also reject his father's pacific attitude.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-01
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The Carrot Queen
1977-01-01
The Carrot Queen
Overview: Ursula Alejandra Nicholson, the Carrot Queen, an extravagant American millionaire, arrives in Spain. J.J., a suave and ambitious executive, decides to become involved in the American carrot industry. To do so, he will take advantage of an unhappy bookseller, pulling him into a delirious misadventure that serves as a political satire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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My Name Is Shadow
1996-04-30
My Name Is Shadow
Overview: Doctor Beiral, torn apart by the internal struggle between his social persona and the dark instincts that torment him, manages to use his investigations to give life to the monster that he has long held within him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-04-30
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The Flowers of Fear
1972-01-01
The Flowers of Fear
Overview: Three individuals find out their experiments into fear and the dead may have gone too far.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Terapia al desnudo
1975-04-25
Terapia al desnudo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-04-25
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Sarah's Last Man
1974-02-13
Sarah's Last Man
Overview: With her marriage and her life disintegrating before her eyes, in this Italian political thriller, Sarah has made a detailed filmed record of it all. Not only that, she made a film of the man who flung bombs into a political demonstration and she is killed for her effort. The story unravels as Sarah's husband, who is suspected of being her murderer, views the film on a moviola. He is trying to figure out what happened and why his wife died. Because he has the film which would expose the murderer and the political forces behind him, his life is also in danger
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-02-13
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Proceso a Jesús
1974-01-01
Proceso a Jesús
Overview: A group of Sephardic perform the "Trial of Jesus" in an ancient temple and before a baffled audience. The purpose of the play is to understand whether the condemnation of Jesus was justified or not, since they are not resigned to accept that history found guilty the Jewish people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Fine Gold
1989-07-20
Fine Gold
Overview: Two European winemaking families' friendships are destroyed by false accusations after a theft in this melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-20
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The National Shotgun
1978-09-14
The National Shotgun
Overview: A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm shows full authority over James, who is the real organizer of the meeting. The celebration is diverse characters who live next to absurd situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-09-14
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The Fickle Finger of Fate
1967-06-25
The Fickle Finger of Fate
Overview: A U.S. engineer in Spain hunts thieves of two candlesticks, one of which is found in his suitcase.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-06-25
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The House on Garibaldi Street
1979-05-28
The House on Garibaldi Street
Overview: When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-28
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Operación Gónada
2000-03-17
Operación Gónada
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-03-17
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Canticle
1972-07-17
Canticle
Overview: While conducting interviews with women working in local brothels, Fernando, a journalist, meets Elisa. The woman will tell him her dramatic story, which begins at age 14 when she is raped by her godfather.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-07-17
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A Candle for the Devil
1973-02-01
A Candle for the Devil
Overview: Two sisters running a small hotel in Spain kill female tourists whose morals do not meet their strict religious standards.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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Refuge of Fear
1974-01-01
Refuge of Fear
Overview: Two couples are caught inside a bomb shelter as nuclear war rages outside.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Vice and Virtue
1975-02-01
Vice and Virtue
Overview: A shy and romantic girl of sixteen spends the summer holiday in a lavish mansion with her widowed mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-02-01
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Ambiciosa
1976-05-09
Ambiciosa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-05-09
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Death of a Hoodlum
1975-12-31
Death of a Hoodlum
Overview: A jewel heist goes wrong, resulting in several deaths. Naschy is left with the loot and he takes off with the the cash before the gang is supposed to meet back up. Gang leader Frank Brana sets out to track down the man and the jewels with the help of his gang.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-12-31
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Foul Play
1977-03-11
Foul Play
Overview: A 1977 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem that won the Golden Prize the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-03-11
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El poder del deseo
1975-01-01
El poder del deseo
Overview: Javier lives with his mother in a modest apartment. He conducts surveys on the effectiveness of ads. This work provides a humble earning for the two of them. One day he meets Juna at a bus stop. He tries to ask her out, but she refuses. A few days later, they meet again. Slowly a relationship develops, but her plan is to marry someone rich. Javier's wealthy uncle included him in his testament, so Juna talks Javier into killing the uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Naked Madrid
1979-03-05
Naked Madrid
Overview: Baltasar is a tycoon from Madrid who is forced to invest money in a movie to promote Esmeralda, an actress who sells her body to become a movie star as soon as possible
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-03-05
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Casanova
1987-03-01
Casanova
Overview: The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he's viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and families of the women he seduces.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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The Man Called Noon
1973-08-29
The Man Called Noon
Overview: Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he tries to figure out who he is actually. It gradually appears that his wife and kid have been murdered. As time goes by, Noon also recalls a fortune hidden somewhere. Niland, a scheming judge, and Peg Cullane, a greedy will do everything to prevent Noon and Rimes from achieving their end while Fan Davidge, a woman living in a ghost town, will support them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-29
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El hombre que supo amar
1976-09-19
El hombre que supo amar
Overview: The life of Juan de Dios and his struggle against social, political and religious structures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-09-19
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Roots of Evil
1979-08-15
Roots of Evil
Overview: A young karate master tries to defend his karate school and take revenge on those responsible for his master's death.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-08-15
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Too Much for Galvez
1981-10-01
Too Much for Galvez
Overview: Gálvez is a bumbling journalist investigating a real state shady business.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
1967-11-02
Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
Overview: This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the 16th-century, when as a young man he goes to Italy to become a soldier for the Pope. Later he helps the Pope's emissary wage war against the Spanish Moors. His exploits win him great favor. He falls in love with a famous Italian courtesan and she with him. Unfortunately, the Pope splits them apart with his newest decree which demands that all prostitutes leave the city. Upset, Cervantes goes to fight in the famed sea battle of Lepanto and comes back a hero. Later he is captured by Barbary pirates and ransomed by Trinitarian friars.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-11-02
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Solo ante el Streaking
1975-12-15
Solo ante el Streaking
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-12-15
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The Last Day of the War
1970-08-10
The Last Day of the War
Overview: The war in Europe is ending, but the American troops have to find a scientist on the run who is also chased by some surviving SS forces.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-10
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The Sign of the Coyote
1963-05-11
The Sign of the Coyote
Overview: California, 1847. The territory is about to be incorporated into the United States. Parker, the new governor, is a cruel man who believes that the time has come to get rich regardless of the means, but he will soon find a mysterious opponent driven to end his tyranny.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-05-11
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Human Cobras
1971-08-05
Human Cobras
Overview: A former American gangster organises a safari in Kenya in order to have his business partner, whom he suspects of being responsible for his brother's death, killed. However, it turns out that he killed the wrong person and a series of murders follow.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-05
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A Candidate for a Killing
1969-08-22
A Candidate for a Killing
Overview: A traveler becomes a target for various crime syndicates when it turns out he's a dead ringer for a wanted mercenary.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-08-22
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Delusions of Grandeur
1971-12-08
Delusions of Grandeur
Overview: Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-08
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A Long Return
1975-11-12
A Long Return
Overview: David and Anna are a newly wed couple, whose lives together take a turn as Anna becomes diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-11-12
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Pancho Villa
1972-10-31
Pancho Villa
Overview: In 1916, during the Mexican Revolution, General Pancho Villa manages to escape from the clutches of General Goyo, his greatest enemy, only to face an even greater problem when he meets McDermott, a mysterious adventurer who promises to get him weapons and ammunition for his troops.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-10-31
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El señor de La Salle
1964-01-01
El señor de La Salle
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Fortunata y Jacinta
1970-03-12
Fortunata y Jacinta
Overview: Shows the unfailing love of two women for the same man, one as his mistress, the other as his wife. The lives of these characters intertwine and are determined by the variegated fabric of delicate tradition and established vices shaky politics and intrigue of the society they live in. Based on the major novel (1877) by Benito Perez Galdos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-03-12
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Fox Hunt
1976-12-30
Fox Hunt
Overview: Ignazio is a depressed businessman after he suffers heavy losses in the financial markets. His wife Helena soon finds distraction elsewhere. Germano lives a double life. Leandro, the gamekeeper of the rich and powerful, soon uses his knowledge of the masters to dominate them - and their wives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-12-30
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Power Game
1983-04-27
Power Game
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-27
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Pepi, Luci, Bom
1980-10-27
Pepi, Luci, Bom
Overview: After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-10-27
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El hombre que vino del odio
1972-03-20
El hombre que vino del odio
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-03-20
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Zorro, Rider of Vengeance
1971-04-09
Zorro, Rider of Vengeance
Overview: In Old Calfiornia, an unscrupulous adventurer massacre Indians in order to find an ancient (and precious) talisman they are supposed to hide. Zorro will be on the rescue to protect both the pioneers and the Indians. This adventure has very little in common with the traditional swashbuckling backstage of Zorro's films but many elements of a western film.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-04-09
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Two Against All
1962-12-04
Two Against All
Overview: Two brothers, Bull and Jonathan Bullivan, witness the murder of bandit Black Boy who had been terrorizing Golden City. The bandit had been put in place by the city mayor, who wants the local residents to leave so that he can keep their land, where there is oil. The two brothers eat a chicken that has been fed with a strong tonic and they become sort of invincible for a few minutes. The mayor, pressured by the villagers, appoints the Bullivan Brothers as sheriffs and tasks them with the arrest of Black Boy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-04
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Cristo Negro
1963-03-11
Cristo Negro
Overview: After witnessing the murder of her father, the little Mikoa flees the plantation where he works as a slave. Janson, master of the plantation, and his daughter Laura, found lost in the jungle and decide to present to the Father Braulio, a missionary who welcomes him like his son. The young native is raised and educated in the mission, becoming a good man in love with his childhood friend, however, still has much hatred for the person who killed his father, Charles, a cruel white overseer who now at the service of revolutionary blacks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-03-11
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La cruz de Iberia
1990-01-01
La cruz de Iberia
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Tall Women
1966-09-26
The Tall Women
Overview: Seven women are the only survivors of an Apache attack on a wagon train. They must cross the desert on foot to escape the Indians who are hunting them.
Genres: Western Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-09-26
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La leyenda del tambor
1981-09-17
La leyenda del tambor
Overview: In June 1808, Napoleon's troops invade Spain. A boy named Isidro will beat his drum in the mountains of El Bruc, making the French army believe that thousands of armed men are waiting to confront them.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-09-17
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Marián
1979-02-01
Marián
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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The Desperate Ones
1967-01-01
The Desperate Ones
Overview: In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their tail.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Pacto de silencio
1963-06-01
Pacto de silencio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-06-01
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Black Angel of the Mississippi
1964-08-24
Black Angel of the Mississippi
Overview: Early Spanish western. Ramon Torrado’s westerns remain among the most obscure ones. Of his four westerns, all shot around 1964.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-08-24
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Villa Rides
1968-05-29
Villa Rides
Overview: Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa and his band of dedicated men in a march across Mexico battling the Colorados and stealing women's hearts as they go. But each has a nemesis among his friends: Arnold is tormented by Fierro, Villa's right-hand-man; and Villa must face possible betrayal by his own president's naiveté
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-29
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El chiste
1976-01-01
El chiste
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Esa mujer
1969-05-30
Esa mujer
Overview: At the end of the 19th century, Soledad Romero, a well-known singer, is accused of murder. During the trial her tragic story is revealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-05-30
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Barabbas
1961-12-23
Barabbas
Overview: Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-23
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The Shack
1979-11-16
The Shack
Overview: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez wrote in 1898 "La barraca" (The Shack), a novel with some cultural significance among Spanish literature for reflecting rural life at the end of 19th century with specific local color. In 1979, León Klimovsky directed an adaptation in the form of a miniseries. The shack referred to in the title is a barraca, a typical building of the Valencian Community that served as housing for farmers in irrigated farming areas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-11-16
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The Tunnel
1979-06-24
The Tunnel
Overview: Adaptation of Ernesto Sábato's work, directed by José Luis Cuerda Juan Pablo Castel, a moderately famous painter, visits Larrea's office to tell him how he met María Iribarne at a painting exhibition. He recounts why he followed her upon realizing she understood his painting, and why he killed her after months of searching, finally establishing contact with her and experiencing a passionate and tumultuous love affair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-06-24
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