Yelena Samarina
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Biography: Yelena Samarina was born on December 16, 1927 in Omsk, Russian SFSR, USSR as Yelena Georgievna Volozhanina. She was an actress, known for The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971), The Happy Sixties (1963), El filo del miedo (1967) and Don Juan in Hell (1991). She was married to Juan Manuel López Iglesias, the founder of Spain's Alta Films. She died on May 4, 2011 in Madrid, Spain.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Omsk, Russian SFSR, USSR
Birthday: December 16, 1927
Deathday: May 04, 2011
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Gender: Female
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The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
Overview: Elvira is travelling through the French countryside with her friend Genevieve, searching for the lost tomb of a medieval murderess and possible vampire, Countess Wandessa. They find a likely site in the castle of Waldemar Daninsky, who invites the women to stay as long as they like. As Waldemar shows Elvira the tomb that supposedly houses the countess, she accidentally causes the vampire to come back to life, hungrier than ever. Daninsky has a hidden secret of his own, but will it be enough to save the two girls from becoming Wandessa's next victims?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-05-17
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Night of the Skull
Overview: After Lord Archibald Marion is brutally murdered by an unknown assailant, his bitter and feuding family members gather for a reading of the will, setting into motion an increasingly chilling series of deaths when their arrival is marked by a second grisly killing.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-09-29
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Murder Mansion
Overview: A group of travelers, stranded at an isolated, fog-bound mansion, are beset upon by the living dead from the adjoining cemetery.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-08-05
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Sin un adiós
Overview: Mario Leyva, famous singer in full glory harassed every day more for his "fans", takes the life that they allow him, dedicated to his art and directed professionally by his "manager". His popularity makes him be mixed in the advertising of a brand of cigarettes by advertising phrases that repeat themselves in all the languages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-09-17
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Amador
Overview: After killing his girl friend, Ana, Amador (a dark and strange man) joins his family (which he can't stand) in Torremolinos, where he gets involved in the assassination of a foreigner woman. It is also in Torremolinos, where Amador meets Laura, a woman who falls in love with him...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Death Uncertain
Overview: A man living in a remote area of India has an affair with a local woman who he leaves in order to marry another. His lover commits suicide after cursing him and his family. Upon returning from London with his new wife he begins to experience strange hallucinations.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-04-02
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Climax
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Silence of the Grave
Overview: The film resembles a Ten Little Indians plot, with the crew of a Western film in post-production (who are staying as guests on an island retreat) cropping up as corpses one by one after the mysterious and inexplicable kidnapping of a child. The film plays up its traditional mystery angle, with each of the guests being as likely a suspect as the next, in scenes such as one in which all of the guests sit around in the parlor and cast dramatic, accusatory glances at one another.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-12-20
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Death Haunts Monica
Overview: The marriage between Federico and Monica is on the rocks. Federico has a mistress named Eva. There is a conspiracy between Monica's friend Elena and Eva to take over the company Eurozone owned by Federico. The situation becomes complicating when Diego appears, Federico's former associate.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-02
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The Happy Sixties
Overview: Monica, a wife and mother, is dissatisfied with his routine, conventional life. Her husband, Pablo, decides that the best thing for her and her children is to spend the summer in Cadaqués.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-07-30
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Blood Stains in a New Car
Overview: Driving home in the brand new Volvo his wealthy wife gave him for his birthday, Ricardo comes upon a smoking, overturned auto with a man and boy trapped inside but, afraid he'd get bloodstains in his new car, he ignores their cries for help and drives away just before the wreck explodes. Soon after, blood begins pooling in his backseat and Ricardo comes to know how Lady Macbeth felt when he can't get the damned spots out no matter how many times he cleans the car...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-02-17
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Exorcism's Daughter
Overview: Tania, an asylum patient, is under the doctor's care while suffering raging behavioral effects that follow the death of her exorcised mother.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Agonizing in Crime
Overview: The same day of their marriage, Jean's wife dies of a strange ailment in the middle of surgery. Afflicted by the loss, the young man abandons his medical studies and takes refuge in the memories of his time of courtship. At the same time that this happens, a wave of murders shakes the city with the same pattern of behavior: the victims are surgery students whose bodies have had both hands amputated.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-03-11
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Marked by Men
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-03-14
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Battered Flesh
Overview: Berta (Tota Alba) has entered, once again, in prison accused of fraud. From the first moment she steps in the jail, she becomes the toy of all the veteran inmates. The number of conflicts in which she is immersed causes her to be transferred several times from penitentiary. In all of them will live some experience that will change her life; she will know love, hate, despair, etc.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-27
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Coarse Salt
Overview: A famous composer creative in crisis and must compose a new album, but is going through a painful separation that prevents him from concentrating. In this situation, your manager will provide a time extension
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-02-06
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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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Silvia ama a Raquel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-08-31
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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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¡Viva lo imposible!
Overview: Tired of the hardship imposed by his modest salary, Don Sabino selling their meager belongings and convinces his sons to join him in the adventure of know other cities, other people and another way of living.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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Trout
Overview: In a restaurant they're preparing a grand banquet in honor of a sports association of anglers, but several circumstances seem to have conspired to boycott the event.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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Man in Hiding
Overview: Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalist forces.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-10-28
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House of 1,000 Dolls
Overview: When a vacationing couple in Tangiers runs into an old friend there, they discover that he is searching for his missing girlfriend who has been kidnapped by an international gang of white slavers.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-08
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Tirarse al monte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-02-05
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A Glass of Whiskey
Overview: Víctor is a handsome boy, skeptical and lover of the pleasures of life. He has no job or benefit and lives on women without realizing that his behavior triggers dramas and disappointments, pain and hopelessness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-09-03
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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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Ditirambo
Overview: Ditirambo never smiles, always tells the truth and ruthlessly carries out all the missions entrusted to him. The widow of a writer orders him to locate the former lover of her husband with the purpose of getting revenge on her.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-03-13
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The Scarlet Letter
Overview: In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older stranger arrives, recognized by Hester but unknown to others as her missing husband. He poses as Chillingworth, a doctor, watching Hester and searching out the identity of her lover. His eye soon rests on Dimmesdale, a young overwrought pastor. Enmity grows between the two men; Chillingworth applies psychological pressure, and the pastor begins to crack. A ship stops in Salem, and Hester sees it as a providential refuge for her daughter, herself, and her lover. But will Dimmesdale flee with her?
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-03-13
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Spaniards in Paris
Overview: Four Spanish women of very different origins and motivations work in Paris as handmaids.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-04-26
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The Edge of Fear
Overview: One by one, the Urdaz family is plagued by a series of mysterious disappearances, starting with the tyrannical father that everyone fears.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-01-16
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Forbidden Passion
Overview: A young woman was seduced by a high positioned official who is married but when she falls in love with a young man she tries to break the other relationship...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-17
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The Lady of the Dawn
Overview: It is three years since Martín's wife, Angélica, mysteriously disappeared in the waters of the river. Despite the bad weather and ignoring the advice of Angélica's mother, Martín leaves the house. At that moment a strange pilgrim arrives in search of shelter. She can only stop for a few minutes because she has to go to the bridge to meet Adela, a girl with an appointment with Death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-03-28
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La Carmen
Overview: A young ex-seminarian named José is doing his military service in Córdoba. There he meets Carmen, a beautiful flamenco dancer who falls madly in love, to the point that he steals to get money for her, so he will be imprisoned. José does not support the separation and, when he is driven by the Civil Guard on a train, he runs off by jumping out the window. He then left for Madrid in search of Carmen, who now lives in the company of his uncle, the lame, master of dancers. The woman welcomes José coldly, although they engage in a strange and tense relationship behind the back of El Morao, her former pimp, who lives with her again.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-26
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La orilla
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-02-22
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Abuelita Charlestón
Overview: A comedy fantasy film involving a love potion.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Colpo sensazionale al servizio del Sifar
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Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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El misterio del castillo rojo
Overview: Mad mastermind lives in the Red Castle and plans to dominate the world by turning people into robots. Hero hot on the trail, mastermind tries to foil him and make him an automaton: stolen diamonds, warships, a complicated bizzare plot.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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To an Unknown God
Overview: José, a fifty-year-old homosexual magician, feels the need to return to Granada, the place where he spent his childhood, perhaps to embrace the painful memory of tragic experiences, perhaps to bury it definitively.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-09-16
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Daughter of Dracula
Overview: Luisa is called to the bed of her dying mother Edith at Karlstein Castle. Before she dies, she tells Luisa that the Karlsteins are a family of vampires and that her ancestor, the original Count Karlstein, lies buried in the crypt. Afterwards, Luisa goes and finds the count's coffin and discovers that he is undead. As she takes Karine, her cousin as her lover, a police inspector, Ptuschko investigates a series of killings around the town, dismissing the locals who insist these are being caused by vampires.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-14
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Ejército blanco
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Escuadrilla de vuelo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-09-30
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Siempre es domingo
Overview: In a sector of Madrid inhabited by families of a well-off class, a gang of boys and girls has continuous fun, sleep and drink, while their parents ignore practically everything. However, each of these young people has, to a greater or lesser degree, a problem. The parties and parties enjoyed by a group of young people from the upper class are the basis of the story that explains this film. Among them we find the famous couple, once happy, formed by Carlos Larrañaga and María Luisa Merlo. Directed by Fernando Palacios, and with a script by Rafael J. Salvia and Pedro Masó, " It's always Sunday " has no greater intention than entertainment, despite giving history a certain sociological touch, for that of valuing the behavior of the Youth of the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-10-23
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A Love Story
Overview: An aspiring young writer lives with his pregnant wife and works for a newspaper to provide for his growing family. When his sister-in-law comes to visit, there is a mutual attraction between the guest and the writer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-11-27
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Currito de la Cruz
Overview: The rivalry between the old bullfighter Manolo Carmona and young Romerita it takes to seduce Rocio, the Carmona's daughter, and elope with her. After a year, Romerita leaves the girl and the daughter, who spend all kinds of calamities. Some time later, Romerita dies. At the same time, Currito de la Cruz, a young bullfighter sponsored by Carmona, who has always been in love with dew, waiting patiently for the girl forget the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-07-01
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The Christ of the Ocean
Overview: The people of a fishing village is about to witness a miracle thanks to the new mysterious friend of a young, lonely boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-05-03
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Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
Overview: Linda comes to the big city in search of fun and excitement. What she finds is exploitation and abuse at the hands of a succession of sleazy guys. Searching for love, she enters into a lesbian relationship with a beautiful countess, discovers drugs and swingers' parties and starts acting in porno movies. She also begins to write a secret diary...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-06-21
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La mujer es un buen negocio
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-02-14
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Widows' Nest
Overview: The arrival of some unwanted visitors interrupts the peaceful Cuban home life of sisters Dolores, Carmen and Elvira, as their presence stirs up unwelcome memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-12-01
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Tiempos de constitución
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-09-16
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Réquiem por un campesino español
Overview: Hypocrisy and betrayal are the two dramatic pivots in this effective, emotionally gripping tragedy about the life and death of Paco (Antonio Banderas), a Spanish peasant who had been fighting against the feudal landowning system that kept farmers impoverished. Paco's life is told in flashbacks by a priest (Antonio Ferrandis) who is seen officiating at an anniversary mass attended by three wealthy landowners and no one else. The priest recalls Paco's baptism, his communion, his marriage ceremony and then his work for the peasants as he advocated and led them in a land-reform movement. The rest of the story will rest heavy on the priest's conscience, as he looks out at his empty church.
Genres: Crime War Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-08-29
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Lulú de noche
Overview: German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While looking for the protagonist, Rufo appears, an introvert jazz musician. He could play Jack the ripper.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-02-20
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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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Don Juan in Hell
Overview: While the last remnants of the Empire are extinguishing and King Philip II (1559-1598) is dying in the shadow of lost splendor, a man, defying the divine and human justice, turns his passions into fate and his will into law. His fame is as great as his pride. His conviction, eternal. His name, a legend: Don Juan. Free adaptation of "Don Juan" by Moliere.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-06-25
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Krapatchouk
Overview: Two young men have left their obscure Balkan country to earn some money as "guest workers" in western Europe. On their way back home, they attempt to change trains in Paris but encounter surprising difficulties from the ticket authorities there. It seems that political changes have rendered their homeland nonexistent, and their passports are no good. Before long, they are stranded in Paris without passports, without a country, and soon even their luggage is stolen. Their fumbling efforts to straighten out the mess result in the French press getting into the act, labeling them as Russian spies. The Parisian expatriate community takes them into its bosom, and romance blooms between one of the lads and a Spanish hatmaker, before they finally achieve a (highly improbable) solution for their difficulties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-04-07
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La duquesa roja
Overview: 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 Marbella style in the grove. Around the duchess, the businessman, environmentalists and other members in the conflict, problems begin to arise and everything will be decided in a referendum, convened with the idea that it is the people who decide, which coincides with the annual celebration of the Pilgrimage del Pueblo.With a cast "
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-07-17
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Aquellos tiempos del cuplé
Overview: Mercedes Pavón, a famous singer of cuplés is harassed by three men totaly different.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-04-06
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S.O.S., abuelita
Overview: Clemen is very sad. After three years of marriage, Raul, her husband, is moving away from it and, what is worse, is getting dangerously close to other women. Desperate, she cries under the portrait of his late grandmother. And the miracle occurs. Granny leaves the frame and proposes to take its place Clemen. Clemen remains painted on the wall, while his grandmother set about reconquering Raul.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-10-16
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Ventolera
Overview: Cristina, a beautiful woman, lives in love with her husband Manuel, who believes the most handsome, charming and, above all, the best husband in the world. Unexpectedly, Manuel dies and, thereafter, Cristina not live but to idealize her husband, going so far as to pay a reasonable service. Until a jilted suitor puts aware of the true personality of her husband. Cristina's reaction was swift, gets a 'gale' and women becomes more attractive and desired of Sevilla.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-03-05
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El balcón de la Luna
Overview: The lives of 3 singers during their last few months working at a venue called "The Moon's Balcony"
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-10-01
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Girl from La Mancha
Overview: The story of Dulcinea, the love of Don Quixote, who was only a normal girl named Aldonza that is suddenly involved by the legend of the brave and ingenous gentleman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-03-19
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The Blackmailers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-06-14
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The Relentless Four
Overview: Terrorized townsfolk turn into a lynch mob and target a lawman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-03
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Muerte en primavera
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Nine Letters to Berta
Overview: Lorenzo is a young man who has just returned to Salamanca (Spain) from England, where he fell in love with Berta, a girl daughter of exiled parents who have never seen Spain. Lorenzo tries through some beautiful letters that she understands how is the world where her parents once lived.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-06-16
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Culpable para un delito
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-08-17
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De barro y oro
Overview: Manuel, a young man of eighteen, arrives in Madrid with the illusion of being a bullfighter. On arrival he meets Juan a ruined singer in his fifties who, along with his friend Lola, will help the boy to get a chance to bullfight in a probe at the estate of a famous businessman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Awkward Hands
Overview: Peter is whipped (twice) and chased away from his sweetheart, but his rescuer leaves him with a Chinese master who teaches him how to seek revenge on his tormentors.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-05-18
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Las secretas intenciones
Overview: Miguel is a married architect with children; Blanca, an attractive young woman who has attempted suicide by cutting her veins. The relationship between them develops through continuous persecutions, first of him to her and then to him. In their meetings, they reflect on their empty lives, loneliness, boredom and obsession with death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-07-29
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