Óscar San Juan
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Scarab
1984-06-22
Scarab
Overview: Dr. Wilfred Manz performs a magical experiment on a beetle-shaped amulet. His patience exhausted, he smashes his fist into some bottles and a few drops of blood fall onto the scarab. His laboratory is rocked by an explosion, the god Khepera appears and Manz is transformed into a demi-god magician. Thirty years later, Manz has assumed the name Khepera and lives in mysterious castle. Using his magical powers, he is killing heads of government and causing the collapse of major financial institutions. Jack Murphy, an American correspondent, witnesses the pandemonium following the suicide of the Spanish prime minister and notices an attractive nurse, Elena, take a small scarab which has fallen from the prime minister's lapel. Later, he visits an occult shop where the scarab is identified as being associated with the Egyptian god, Khepera. Murphy is captured and Elena — who was tricked into sacrificing her brother when they were children — once more takes up the sacrificial dagger...
Genres: Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-22
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National III
1982-12-06
National III
Overview: In order to solve economic problems, "Leguineche" family decide to move to France with their limited belongings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-12-06
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Matar al Nani
1988-04-22
Matar al Nani
Overview: The story of El Nani, a juvenile delinquent from the years of the Transition, whose disappearance in a police station after an interrogation has not yet been clarified, putting the accent on the denunciation of police brutality and speculating on the outcome of the story. A story that mixes political denunciation and social chronicle of an era.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-04-22
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Queen of the Chantecler
1962-10-01
Queen of the Chantecler
Overview: A Spanish music hall performer gets caught up in espionage during the First World War.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-10-01
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Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
1985-06-01
Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
Overview: The colonel Daniel Blimp, of the secret British service, travels to Bangkok to investigate the murder of the Brittish Ambassador happened during a holiday in his residence. Blimp receives the help of Keats, agent of the secret service. Both men discover that the man who shot against the Ambassador is blind, and it takes the black skin as a result of a strange phenomenon of mutation.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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The Angry Cid
1983-12-19
The Angry Cid
Overview: Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, “Mio Cid”, is in love with Jimena, but the Count of Oviedo, his father, challenges him to a duel and is killed. He before him curses Rodrigo, that if he marries Jimena, he will lose his manly faculties. And, in fact, when he gets married, Rodrigo becomes effeminate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-12-19
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Redondela
1987-02-09
Redondela
Overview: 4,000 tons of oil have been stolen from a Galician deposit. The alleged thieves are defended by the lawyer Ramos, but the witnesses die and suspicions point to Franco's brother.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-02-09
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Lute: Forge On or Die
1987-09-19
Lute: Forge On or Die
Overview: In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed "El Lute", steals some chickens and is condemned to six months in jail. El Lute moves to the slum outskirts of Madrid with his common law wife, Chelo, starting an itinerant life as a peddler of pots and pans and living in a quinqui shantytown. He gradually embarks upon as life of petty criminality, eventually participating in the theft of a jewelry store during which a bystander is killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-09-19
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The Tunnel
1988-04-29
The Tunnel
Overview: A painter becomes obsessed and begins an affair with a mysterious woman who was touched deeply by one of his works.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-29
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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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Letters from Alou
1990-10-05
Letters from Alou
Overview: A group of Africans clandestinely reaches the coast of southern Spain. Among them is Alou, a 28 years old Senegalese. As all his belongings are stolen while in Almsería, he has no choice but to engage in street vending. His only pleasure are the letters he writes to his family to tell the vicissitudes of his Spanish adventure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-10-05
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Festival en Benidorm
1961-02-23
Festival en Benidorm
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-02-23
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