Ágata Lys
Also Known As: Agatha Lys, Margarita García San Segundo
Biography: Actress (b. Valladolid, Spain, Dec. 3, 1953). After having studied simultaneously Philosophy and Art and Speech (both careers remained unfinished), she became a household name overnight as one of the pretty and "bespectacled" hostesses of the top-rated TV contest "1, 2, 3, Responda Otra Vez", where she popularized what was going to be her early screen persona: platinum blonde-dyed hair, provocative ways and a sensuality always ready to break out. She made her film debut in 1972, at 19, and acquired an enormous popularity thanks to her tremendous sex-appeal and a clever promotion campaign that exploited a certain similarity between her looks and those of the late Marilyn Monroe to the extent of making a successful movie named precisely "The New Marilyn" (1976). She kept this image for a while (especially in her spectacular TV appearances in the mid-70s), but eventually got tired of it and decided to cut off her hair completely (she did it herself with a pair of scissors borrowed from a filming kit) and let it grow its natural dark colour again. Blonde or brunette, Lys grabbed a long string of femme fatale roles in films of each and every genre (thrillers, comedies, dramas, westerns, etc.) and turned into some kind of domestic myth at that time. (She also had the advantage of owning a fine diction that matched her thought-provoking voice perfectly, so, unlike some other actresses of that era, she didn't need to be dubbed.) Anyway, after leading her bold image one step further in the late 70s, she decided to stop making films and concentrate on her theatrical work, that she had started in 1973 playing Dª Inés de Ulloa in Zorrilla's "Don Juan Tenorio" with her own company. In the 1980s she focused her activity on recording music (which she did with real gusto and vocal dexterity), performing in both musical shows and dramatic or comic plays in which she displayed an image far removed from the one that shot her to fame and even making more sporadic appearances on TV (playing, for example, a splendid Portia on a small-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Merchant Of Venice"). The late 80s saw her returning to the movies and scoring some films of uneven success and quality, although she has always risen to the occasion. In any case, she is still an underestimated actress, though she has proved capable of giving such amusing characterizations as that of "Avisa A Curro Jiménez" (1978), where she seemed almost unrecognizable. Now she leads a rather reclusive life when not working (in contrast to the antics and eccentricities of her early career) and, although she has never married, she enjoys a very stable relationship with Fernando, her partner of some 20 years. Hers is really one of those examples of body-with-a-brain-on-top-to-match, and hopefully she will still be around for a large number of years. - IMDb Mini Biography By: alberto mallofré
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain
Birthday: December 03, 1953
Deathday: November 12, 2021
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Trauma
Overview: Daniel, a writer seeking seclusion to work on his new book, finds himself stranded at a rural bed and breakfast run by a strange and prudish young woman and her ailing, wheelchair-bound husband who remains shut in his room all day. As night falls, a psychotic, razor-wielding killer begins stalking the bed and breakfast, brutally slashing the throats of its most sex-crazed guests, whose bodies and luggage then mysteriously disappear the following morning...
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-09-11
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Knife of Ice
Overview: A mute woman, traumatized by her parents' death, faces new horrors when her cousin is murdered by a suspected killer. As danger looms, the truth proves far more complex.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-24
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Onofre
Overview: Onofre, who is forty years old, is still a virgin. He's going to put great efforts to leave this state...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Taxi
Overview: A young girl, after failing an exam, is forced by her father, a taxi-driver, to learn his profession. Soon she discovers that her father is not only a driver but also a member of a racist group eliminating immigrants, homosexual, transvestite, etc. people. She also falls in love with a boy, also a taxi-driver and a "socio" of the group.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-09-09
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Family
Overview: Santiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it's his birthday. They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry and says he doesn't like it. The boy starts crying and saying that he loves him, but Santiago answers that he doesn't believe him and he tells the boy that he is fired and that he wants another son, who is thinner, who doesn't need glasses and who resembles him more. Written by Pablo Montoya
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-10-01
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Tequila!
Overview: Shosena, a clever bank robber, is associated with "Jaguar" to take a big hit. They think the town where the bank owned dock Koven, a man who has against all the farmers of the place. His only son, George, is in love with the daughter of Rush, his most angry enemy. And ... coincidentally, Shosena and "Jaguar" to justify their stay in the village, get to work for him.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-05-25
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Three Supermen of the West
Overview: With their time machine, the three Supermen try to recover antique treasures and end up in the West and find the most famous treasure of THE BANDIT. But the treasures vanish when they try to take them into their time.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-28
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La noche de los cien pájaros
Overview: The young Enrique leaving to study at the University and is married to Juana. One day he meets a painter who takes Enrique into another life and confused begin to think about taking some drastic measures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Avisa a Curro Jiménez
Overview: Córdoba, Spain. Lord Killarney, representative of the British Museum, acquires an Arabic incunabulum at an auction; but he is murdered and the book disappears. All suspicions fall on El Lince, an antique dealer with a shady background, who asks his nephew to warn Curro Jiménez.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-09-04
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Sex o no sex
Overview: Paco, a frustrated office worker, goes to the office of a psychologist, to whom he tells his most delirious sexual fantasies in the hope that he will apply a curative therapy. Unfortunately, the doctor will end up confessing that he can not help, because he lives with a doll that has become his companion sentimental.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-09-05
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The Transsexual
Overview: Sympathetic look at the tragic life of cabaret singer Lorna, who was born a man but really just wants to be a woman. She meets a man who loves her but she can't tell him the truth and decides instead to get an operation so she'll be all woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-10-17
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The Lively Vampires of Vögel
Overview: The town of Vögel, in Transylvania, stands under the ruins of the old castle where the vampire lord tortured his prisoners and drank their blood. A group of stranded entertainers take shelter in the remote European castle and the Count is naturally delighted to receive them…
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-11-16
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El erotismo y la informática
Overview: A software engineer develops an algorithm to succeed on dating womans
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-11-29
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The Holy Innocents
Overview: Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master "needs" their work. When Regula's brother is fired from where he has worked for 61 years, he settles down at their little place... An attack against the archaism of the spanish country of the 60s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-04-04
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Me has hecho perder el juicio
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-10-18
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The Deadly Triangle
Overview: Inspired by "The diabolical" by Clouzot. The life of a woman becomes a sinister nightmare due to the plan drawn up by her husband.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-12-10
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The Frenchman's Garden
Overview: "The Frenchman" was what locals called the man who ran the bar and restaurant in the small town of Peñaflor in rural Spain in the early part of the 20th century. But Juan Andrés Aldije Monmeja was not your usual jolly innkeeper. He ran an illegal gambling den and pimped out the waitresses who worked for him. Deciding there were easier and quicker ways to exploit his customers, The Frenchman started slaughtering them, stealing their money and burying their corpses in the garden at the back of his inn. It was not long before people started asking questions...
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-06-04
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The Waitresses
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-11-19
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Sexy... amor y fantasía
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-04-11
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Pasión inconfesable
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Deseo carnal
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-08-27
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Las desarraigadas
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Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-05-01
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Fango
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-04-09
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Sábado, chica, motel ¡qué lío aquel!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-09-12
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Corazón de bombón
Overview: Luis must pass himself off as a woman when he is discovered at the home of one of his lovers. In his role as a woman he meets another woman, with whom he strikes up a friendship or something more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-02-09
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Los fríos senderos del crimen
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Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-07-07
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Bloody Vacation
Overview: Crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-09-02
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Al fin solos, pero...
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Pintadas
Overview: Diego and Clara have met recently and suddenly have the urge to live together. Afterwards, They find a house to live in. However, strange things start to happen.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-07-18
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El último viaje
Overview: Commissioner Mendoza must join forces with the honorable civil guard, to stop the activities of a network of drug traffickers with international contacts that intend to act in Spain.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-02-20
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Mala uva
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Una mujer de cabaret
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-12-02
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La nueva Marilyn
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-09-19
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Las marginadas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-06-08
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La iniciación en el amor
Overview: spanish movie
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-02-06
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An Internal Affair
Overview: In the early 70s, a rather backwards young soldier with serious family problems finds himself stationed in a small village in Spain's Levante. Secretly in love with a young village girl, Pere slips into her room one night. When he is discovered, the soldier reacts with spontaneous violence, creating an embarrassing problem for the military that the brass decide to handle--expeditiously-- as "an internal affair."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-12-20
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The Masked Thief
Overview: Bill Nolan, Sheriff of Ockland, receives a telegram informing him of the arrival of a stagecoach with federal bank securities. Together with Judge Finley he organizes the custody of the stagecoach but it is attacked anyway and suspicion falls on the sheriff by his strange actions alone. The confidence of his assistants is weakened and everything gets complicated when he is accused of rape and one of his assistants is found dead. His only hope is to discover the masked bandit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-05
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Strip-tis a la inglesa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Kill Me Tender
Overview: Do all men want the same thing? Nestor, recently widowed, runs a bakery near Barcelona, has a bank account and a bad heart, and swims in the sea every day. He also has a daughter and a two-timing son-in-law. Nestor's maid asks him to hire her 20-something daughter, Maribel, as a shop assistant.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-02-13
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Ella (Trágica obsesión)
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-12-07
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Valley of the Dancing Widows
Overview: German comedy/western from 1975
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-05-22
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Los Kalatrava contra el imperio del karate
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-03-18
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De espaldas a la puerta
Overview: Inspector Simón and Inspector Arévalo investigate the stabbing of a nightclub employee.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-11-12
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Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata
Overview: Pasqualino Cammarata is an Italian naval officer who has been disliked by his admiral because of his high-level knowledge, given that he is quite incapable as an officer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-14
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El último tango en Madrid
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-08-11
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The Return of the Musketeers
Overview: It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-12
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Una mujer y un cobarde
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-02-17
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Barefoot in the Kitchen
Overview: What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragments of different films, both fiction and non-fiction. (Followed by “Manda huevos,” 2016.)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-06-14
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