Manuel Luna
Also Known As: Manuel Luna Baños
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain
Birthday: April 27, 1897
Deathday: June 09, 1958
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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De mujer a mujer
Overview: As every year, the happy marriage of Luis and Isabel wakes up ready to celebrate her onomastics her and that of her daughter, unaware that the day reserves a tragic twist in the destiny of their lives, because the girl dies in a fatal accident. The impression is so strong that Isabel becomes mad until the point of being confined in a sanatorium. And looking for her health, the doctor forbids Luis to see his wife. He can only get news from her via Emilia, the young nurse who cares for Isabel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-09-13
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La duquesa de Benamejí
Overview: Bandits in Sierra Morena assault the carriage in which the Duchess of Benamejí travels. A romance starts between her and the boss of the gang, Lorenzo, that arouses the jealousy of Rocio a gypsy who lives with the bandits. Meanwhile, the Marquis of Peñaflores, a captain in love with his cousin the Duchess, chases the bandits. Rocío reveals to the Marquis where Lorenzo and his men are and taking advantage of the tumult of the fight, she kills the Duchess. Her death will cause a change in attitude both Lorenzo and Peñaflores
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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Fuenteovejuna
Overview: A village bands together to kill its tyrannical Comendador, and when officials try to discover who is responsible, the villagers respond that the village committed the crime.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-11-20
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Un caballero andaluz
Overview: In the farmhouse Los Laureles, owned by Don Juan Manuel Almodovar, wealthy Andalusian landowner, everything is being prepared to receive José Luis, only child of Juan Manuel, who is being educated in a Jesuit school in England and is returning for a holiday with his father. Since the death of his wife, Juan Manuel has set all his love in his son. The father does everything his child says, even when he is asked to accompany him to the Venta del Remedio where a blind gypsy called "Colorín" lives. But at the after party a serious accident occurs
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-10-08
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La Dolores
Overview: Dolores, a beautiful young woman, works at the inn Daroca and is courted by the local barber Melchor, and Mr. Patricio, the richest farmer in the region. One day the young Lazarus appears at the inn, a Latin student who falls for the girl and is repaid in the same way. Frustrated, Melchor invents the famous song of Dolores, known by all, staining the honor of the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-02-19
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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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El piyayo
Overview: The Piyayo offers a calm and friendly reflection on the Providence by the streets of Malaga. He is a gypsy lover of tradition, rich in grace and with a spirit that exudes honesty. He lives offering company to all who listen to him through the city. And so the character touches for the quality and nobility of his feeling, while his conversations, in every corner of Malaga, remember everyone to have faith in Divine Providence, showing a practical lesson on the subject.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-02-01
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María de la O
Overview: María de la O leaves her family and her former boyfriend Miguel to go with a rich landowner who's supposedly in love with her...
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-09-07
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The Crime of Bordadores Street
Overview: Madrid, late 19th century. A wealthy woman is found murdered in her home and her maid seems to be the main suspect; but her statement further entangles the case.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-10-21
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Dawn of America
Overview: Kingdom of Castile, the late fifteenth century. The film chronicles the events that Cristóbal Colón lived (Antonio Vilar) from their stay in the Convent of La Rabida, his meeting with the Catholic Monarchs and, above all, the great odyssey that led to cross the Atlantic and reach the shores of America (1492), thus beginning a new era in the history of mankind.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-12-20
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Los clarines del miedo
Overview: Filigranas and Aceituno go out to fight a bull in a village of La Mancha. The hours before the run pass slow, the two thinking about their fear and illusions of victory. Also in Fina, the cutest girl instead, deceived by Juanito, the son of the doctor who is the official promised the Mayor's daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-11-03
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Follow the Legion!
Overview: In North Africa, in a detachment of the Spanish Legion, el Grajo, a brave veteran, and Mauro, who has just enlisted, become close friends. When an unfortunate circumstance results in the death of a man, suspicions fall on one of them.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-05-11
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Locura de amor
Overview: The passion that Joan of Castile, daughter of the Catholic Kings and heir to the throne, feels for her husband, Philip the Handsome, sovereign of the Netherlands and son of Maximilian of Austria and Mary of Burgundy, is not reciprocated. Her temperament, her jealousy and an unexpected tragedy will throw Joan into the dark realm of madness and obsession with death, the only realm where she will be a true queen…
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-10-08
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Malvaloca
Overview: Malvaloca is a good girl who goes wrong until she finds a good man that really loves her, yet her past marks her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-09-14
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Lola the Coalgirl
Overview: Cadiz, during the War of Independence. The Lola singer in love with a French military entrusted an important message ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-03
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Nobleza baturra
Overview: Aragón, Spain, early 20th century. María del Pilar is a honest girl whose good name is dirtied when an old suitor seeking revenge accuses her of losing her virginity outside of marriage. The scandal soon spreads throughout the countryside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1935-10-11
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Torbellino
Overview: Carmen, a young Sevillian woman who wants to succeed on the radio, arrives at a decrepit station that goes through bad times. Thanks to her, the radio station will get a much quoted prize.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-12-22
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The Captain's Ship
Overview: Port of Seville, Spain, 1640. A group of people from very different origins embark on the ship Capitana. They are members of the upper class, adventurers, peasants, convicts, who have only one thing in common: the illusion of arriving in America, the promised land where they can make their dreams and ambitions come true.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-09-29
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Dos mujeres y un rostro
Overview: Lupe, an adventurer and film specialist, takes advantage of her strong resemblance to the actress she has to voice to defraud her fiancé, a banker.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-01-02
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Las inquietudes de Shanti-Andía
Overview: Shanti Andía, a veteran sailor, puts together the fragments of a personal diary that he has written through years of tribulations: his childhood in the Basque Country, his youth in the lands of Cádiz, and his many adventures and misadventures as a ship captain.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-03
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La lupa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-10-10
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Agustina of Aragon
Overview: 1808. During the Spanish Independence war the city of Zaragoza is besieged by French troops. Spanish forces under General Palafox are scarce. Brave Agustina doesn't hesitate to lead the battle and even fire a cannon to stop the invaders when others run away. Based on historical facts.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-10-09
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White Mission
Overview: Arriving at a Guinean Christian mission, a young priest is told by his elder ones the story of Father Javier, another young missioner who restlessly fought to convert a villain not only for God's sake, but also for sentimental reasons.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-03-28
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El escándalo
Overview: In 1860s Madrid, Fabián Conde is a dissolute young man who drives his dishonored identity into a life of seduction and dueling. When he eventually falls in love, changes for good and finds the truth about his family, his two opposite friends give him contrasted advice on what he should do. He chooses and time goes by. Then something unexpected happens that will put him on the brim of loosing everything he has fought for.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Carmen la de Triana
Overview: The story of a beautiful, vivacious gypsy girl and the two doomed men who fall for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-07-05
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La hija del mar
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-12-11
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Abel Sánchez
Overview: Joaquin Monegro feels a huge hatred for Abel Sánchez, who was once his best friend. Over the years, Monegro marries without love, and tries to have his children marry, but not forgetting Abel so far.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-03-10
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Con los ojos del alma
Overview: A 1943 Spanish film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-11-04
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Loyola, the Soldier Saint
Overview: A historical drama based on St. Ignatius of Loyola as a Warrior, as a Founder of the Jesuit Order and as a Saint .
Genres: History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-04-01
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La hermana San Sulpicio
Overview: Gloria and Ceferino are two antithetical characters. He is a Galician doctor, serious and upright; she, on the other hand, is a beautiful and rich Andalusian with an extroverted and dominant character. However, Gloria makes a surprising decision: to become a nun. Coincidentally, she goes to a hospital where Dr. Ceferino is the director.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-10-06
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Póker de ases
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-12-13
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La Leona de Castilla
Overview: Crown of Castile, 1520. The Comuneros rise up against Charles I, king of Castile and Aragon and emperor of the Hispanic Monarchy. While Juan de Padilla, leader of the uprising, and his captains, Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado, fight against the imperial armies, his wife, María de Pacheco, rules the city of Toledo, capital of the rebels.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-05-28
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Gloria Mairena
Overview: A widower turned Catholic priest can't overcome his memories of his deceased wife Gloria Mairena, who seems to have found a duplicate in looks and voice in the couple's daughter.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-12-19
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Morena clara
Overview: Trini, a gipsy girl, and her uncle Regalito are tried for the theft of several hams. Some time later, she presents herself, disguised as a maid, at the house of her former prosecutor, who ends up falling in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-12-23
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Song of Aixa
Overview: Abslan and Hamed, two cousins of very different character and lives, whose families have put an end to old quarrels, become rivals for the love of the young and beautiful half-breed Aixa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-07-16
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Su hermano y él
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-09-22
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Una sombra en la ventana
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-03-31
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Los ladrones somos gente honrada
Overview: Based on a play
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-03-09
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Serenata española
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-05-12
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Morena clara
Overview: Trini and her brother Regalito are two gypsy brothers stealing hams. At trial, the severe prosecutor Enrique accused them of the misdemeanor, although they do not understand the nature of their crime and the justice of non-gypsies. Trini ends up serving in the house of the prosecutor, who, discovering her good heart, eventually falls in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1936-04-11
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Los millones de Polichinela
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-11-05
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El doncel de la reina
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Captain Pantoja and the Special Services
Overview: The Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen by his superiors to set up a special service of 'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote jungle outposts.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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El alcalde de Zalamea
Overview: Film version of the historic piece of Calderon de la Barca. An army officer faces the local authority that intends to judge him for having stained the honor of a young girl
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-25
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La Lola se va a los puertos
Overview: San Fernando Island, Cádiz, Spain, 1860. Lola embarks for Sanlúcar de Barrameda to go to the estate of Don Diego, a rich landowner who is in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-12-30
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