José Franco
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, España
Adult: No
Birthday: April 25, 1908
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 30, 1980
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The Cannibal Man
Overview: A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to a slaughter house.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-04-13
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Los días de Cabirio
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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The Priest
Overview: Obsessed with fantasies of sex, Father Miguel seeks professional help through his church but they are not listening; thus leaving the Father in a dilemma; leaving the church or should he try, on his own, to surrender to these temptations?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-05-01
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Placido
Overview: In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-06-27
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El hueso
Overview: A small Spanish town is shocked because they have found the bone of one of its local heroes: Don Nuño Pérez de Gormaz. The bone is a symbol of the history of the place, and therefore also of the history of Spain, so that all residents take to the streets to try to recover it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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El pescador de coplas
Overview: It is the story of two brothers who have rented a boat to survive. Juan Ramón sings like an angel and an entrepreneur decides to take him to Madrid to succeed.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-02-15
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You and I Are Three
Overview: When Manolina saw a picture of Rodolfo, a South American poet, she falls in love for him. Three months after marriage by proxy, Rodolfo meets with her, which takes a major surprise to meet the twin brother of her husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-09-06
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Nothing Ever Happens
Overview: The star of a magazine company suffers an appendicitis attack during a shift and has to stay in a small Spanish town to be operated. But the doctor who takes care of his speech falls in love for her and tries to prolong their convalescence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-08-26
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El señor Esteve
Overview: Barcelona, 1860. Mr. Esteve, owner of a haberdashery and proud of his son, attends the christening of his grandson who, years later, determined to become a renowned artist, seems unwilling to continue the tradition and take over the family business. (Only badly preserved and severely mutilated copies of this film survive, just 69 out of a total of 108 minutes.)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-12-31
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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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El destino se disculpa
Overview: Ramiro and Teófilo are great friends and endure their misfortunes together. Their attempts to succeed as artists fail, so they both promise that the first to die will become the guide to the survivor's life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-01-29
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Esa voz es una mina
Overview: A young miner, married to a lovely woman crippled, lives happily proving to have a wonderful singing voice while hauling trucks in the mine. One day, to hear a clever promoter, gets its hands on an interesting contract to sing in the most cosmopolitan nightclubs, waking him good prospects for a revenue amazement while he meets another woman who might get put endanger their marriage.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-04-01
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La torre de los siete jorobados
Overview: In Madrid, Spain, at the end of the 19th century, the young and reckless Basilio seems to be the only person who perceives the spectral presence of Professor Robinsón de Mantua, who begs him to take care of his niece Inés, because she is in grave danger.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-11-23
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Bohemians
Overview: Paris 1900. Sharing a house in the Bohemian District are Roberto, a fledgling Musician, who is composing an Opera with his friend the poet Victor Duval; and the beautiful Cossette, daughter of a retired tenor, who goes up and down the stairs, taking advantage of Roberto's music to train her voice. The young bohemian musician does not know Cosette, but hears her sing daily. Instead, she's in love with Roberto and follows his steps as a composer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-08-11
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It's Not Good for a Man to Be Alone
Overview: Martín is a tormented and solitary man who hides a shameful and unspeakable secret: he lives with a life-size doll which he treats as if it were his wife. This idyliic, loving existence will be gravely threatened when a prostitute, her daughter, and a pimp enter his life.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Climax
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Aventuras de Juan Lucas
Overview: Following his father's steps, Juan Lucas becomes the most famous highwayman in Sierra Morena mountains, also helping local resistance against Napoleonic troops. In love with Ana, a Count's daughter, his hopes seem to have no future.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-07-07
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Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Overview: A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the American visitors, in the hopes of benefiting under the Marshall Plan. Hoping to demonstrate the side of Spanish culture with which the visiting foreign officials would be more familiarized, the Castilian citizens don unfamiliar Andalusian costumes, hire a renowned flamenco performer, and re-decorate their town in Andalusian style, meantime waiting for their uncertain arrival.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-04-04
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¡Mi adúltero esposo! ('In Situ')
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-06-10
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Señoritas de uniforme
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-10-08
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The Imaginary Invalid
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-10-14
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The Nail
Overview: Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-10-05
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El cronicón
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-06-04
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The Little Birds
Overview: An elderly couple in Madrid each buy a pet bird. Weirdness abounds
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-21
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Tremolina
Overview: A 1957 Spanish film.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-04-21
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That Happy Couple
Overview: Juan and Carmen are a humble couple living in Madrid. She does the housework and he works as an electrician in a film studio. Their dreams of wellness come true when they win a contest sponsored by a soap brand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-08-31
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Pobre mi madre querida
Overview: Contrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-03-07
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Santos Vega
Overview: A 1936 film.
Genres: Western Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1936-09-17
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The Clear Motives of Desire
Overview: A morbid curiosity leads Andrea and her friends to spy on a couple of young people during their amorous outings. Javi, the boyfriend, feels bothered because that situation, but ignores that Andrea is attracted to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-06-01
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María Fernanda la Jerezana
Overview: Madrid, Spain, early 20th century. A woman turns up dead in a modest home. She turns out to be María la Jerezana, a popular singer who was famous years ago until she disappeared. The Police Commissioner in charge, dissatisfied with the official version, which concludes that the crime was the result of a simple robbery, is determined to find out the truth.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-01-30
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A House Without Boundaries
Overview: Daniel is a member of The Organization. He is sent on an assignment to Bilbao to determine what has become of a lad his age, a former member. He takes over the boy's room in an odd rooming house. When he is given the photo of the boy's girlfriend, he is so taken with it that he puts off his quest. The Organization requires him to continue, however, so he tracks her down to a remote fishing village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-04-01
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Mare nostrum
Overview: The Spanish merchant "Mare Nostrum", captained by Ulises Ferragut, docked in September 1939 at the port of Naples to repair a breakdown. Walking through the ruins of Pompeii, Ferragut meets Freyra, an enigmatic and beautiful woman of whom she instantly falls madly in love, unaware that the girl is in fact a dangerous spy of the Third Reich.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-12-21
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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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Historia de S
Overview: Sebastian (Alfredo Landa), dressmaker of great prestige, is aware of the boredom that produces sexual routine with his wife. Is then made with a good amount of erotic material, including books and magazines and catching up on what is current in the sexual aspects. His wife, alarmed at the new attitude of Sebastian, there is even the possibility to enter. Sebastian, determined to modernize the extreme, organize a parade with new models essentially erotic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-03-12
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La Corea
Overview: Toni is a seventeen year old young man who comes to Madrid from a little village in search of work. A friend from the same village of Toni puts him in touch with Charo, "La Corea", a mature woman dedicated to facilitating contacts and boys to American men at the military base of Torrejón.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-10-28
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Las viudas
Overview: Comedy consists of three stories about the sudden death of three husbands: a newly married man dies as a result of the excessive enthusiasm of his wife ("Honeymoon"), another because of a fling with a girl too fiery ("The Anniversary" ), and finally, a husband dies because of his greed and stinginess ("Portrait of Regino").
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-10-27
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El arte de no casarse
Overview: Four stories about the arts of not getting married. Alfredo Landa performs the roles of a lawyer who has just finished his military service, a young marquis on his wedding day, a flirt and a soldier who deals with three girls at the same time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-06-08
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El caserío
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Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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El padre Manolo
Overview: Padre Manolo, priest, magician and singer, starts a private investigation on what seems to be a murder...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-03-13
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Nada menos que todo un hombre
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-02-14
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Café de París
Overview: After suffering a family tragedy, Carmen leaves Spain and emigrates to Paris, where she will make new friends among some of the most peculiar characters who inhabit the bohemian neighborhoods of the city. (Partially lost film.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-12-27
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Corazón solitario
Overview: Antoñito is a bachelor who works in a cabaret as a clarinetist. He has put an advertisement in the newspaper, looking for a good and honest girl, and to which responds Rocío, who escapes from her native Córdoba to hide the embarrassment of her pregnancy. The coexistence with the naive clarinetist, who refuses the insinuations of a co-worker dedicated to prostitution, who idolizes his deceased mother and keeps as a relic the orthopedic leg of his late father, is not easy. The other men will tend their ties around Rocío, that makes way in the world of the spectacle pretending to be blind. When she can no longer conceal that she is pregnant, Antoñito decides to give his name to the fruit of sin.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-07-22
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La viudita naviera
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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La garbanza negra, que en paz descanse...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-04-02
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No quiero perder la honra
Overview: In Madrid, during the postwar, Miguel, decide to live supported by women. He has two workers who doesn´t make much headway, for that reason, advised by one of his friends, he decides to go to other town to find a young girl, naive but ambitious in order to take her to the city and make her work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-05-05
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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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The Family and One More
Overview: The life of the family inordinate surveyor Carlos Alonso has undergone several changes over the course of the years: the birth of child number 16, little Maria, coincided with the death of the mother, who left behind a hollow refillable. The grandfather also died. The Godfather pastry married, and the boys have been growing rapidly ...
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-09-10
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Cuando los niños vienen de Marsella
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-11-12
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Pierna creciente, falda menguante
Overview: In 1916, while Europe was in the middle of First World War and Spain was enjoying the advantages of being a neutral country, eroticism was called voluptuousness and Senator Duke of Daroca, despite his ancient lineage, fell completely in love with a famous cabaret singer, Rosario "La Criollita", which was a scandal. At that time, it was doubted that decent women had legs - But this mystery was resolved a decade later, when the roaring twenties arrived and, with them, the sensual Lupe Cardoso
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-12-25
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El huesped del sevillano
Overview: The Sevillano's guest is a story full of intrigues. The title alludes to the fact that a character who appears, the guest of the El Sevillano inn in Toledo, is the writer Miguel de Cervantes.
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-11-09
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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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La batalla del domingo
Overview: Alfredo Di Stéfano plays himself, not as a soccer player but as a man, husband and father. This is a personal portrait of the mythical athlete, in the decline of his career. Film made to the greater glory of the football player Alfredo Di Stefano. In principle it is a portrait of manners of the life of the athlete at the time of professional retirement. Filmed by Luis Marquina, " The Battle of Sunday " mixes the form of a conventional film with the topics of biographical documentaries. However, the film was an important public success, given the importance of Di Stefano in Spanish football.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-09-02
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El segundo poder
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Reina santa
Overview: A virtuous Spanish princess becomes queen of Portugal, and soon is affected by the social struggles and the reckless fight to power between the king's faction and that of his son's.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-01-11
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Siempre vuelven de madrugada
Overview: A good-for-nothing young man and his friend are involved in a woman's death. To escape Police and wanting a change he goes to the small country village he used to visit with his family. Yet his past will find him there.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-09-19
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A Man Called Autumn Flower
Overview: During the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, young, wealthy Lluis de Serracant leads a double life: by day he's a lawyer, and by night he's a transvestite performer known to his fans as "Flower of Autumn".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-09-24
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Pim, pam, pum… ¡fuego!
Overview: Spain, 1940s. While returning to Madrid by train, Paca, a chorus girl who aspires to join a prestigious company, meets Luis, a young man of helpless appearance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-09-05
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Familia provisional
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-03-03
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Un curita cañón
Overview: Father Saturio is a priest unable to keep his mouth shut if he sees injustices being committed. That is why they have transferred him on various occasions from the parishes where he has been assigned. On this occasion, he will have to face Mrs. Aurora, a rich and powerful woman. The war is served.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-04-10
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Facultad de Letras
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-05-12
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La vida en un bloc
Overview: Dr. Nicomedes Gutiérrez carefully points out to the last detail everything that happens in his life. Doctor in a small village, he is in love with the village teacher, but, before getting married, he decides to treat himself to having his last fling.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-04-01
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The Salary of Crime
Overview: Mario, the son of a police captain killed in the line of duty, is completely surrendered to the police organization. Instructing some errands meet Elsa, original and fascinating beauty, beginning an illicit affair and exciting. This makes his firmest principles are shaken, transformed his life completely absurd entering a maelstrom revolving around the existence of Elsa surface.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-12-26
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El pecador y la bruja
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-09-28
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Sobresaliente
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-02-02
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¡Olé torero!
Overview: Manuel is a friendly taxi driver in Buenos Aires that helps its beginnings to a famous Spanish bullfighter dubbed "The Carthusian". He travels to Spain to marry a young Sevillian, rich and beautiful, and Manuel accompanies him on the trip, as administrator. During the voyage dies "The Carthusian" afflicted with a terrible disease, and before dying makes him promise to his friend Manuel to comfort Soledad, his fiancee. But to get to Seville is confused with the bullfighter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-02-14
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Airport
Overview: Different kind of people arrives to Madrid airport. Some goes with their heads and others just landed. Fernando is a pilot who he brings a girl for his relatives. Ceferino and his wife have won a contest and will travel soon to Paraguay and they are there because they want to know the airplane. Mr. Beltran is very nervous because he returned to Spain after many years of exile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-14
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Como dos gotas de agua
Overview: The lawyer Angela Goñi is working in two cases at once: an man that wants to take to Pilo, a young orphan, tp a protection child school. And Mili, another young woman neglected by his father, a businessman, whose aunt Teresa wants to claim through the courts. Taking advantage of the amazing similarity between the girls, the lawyer makes many things to try to resolve the situation as happy as possible.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-01-30
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The Rash One
Overview: Paco is the boy buttons a luxury hotel. Usually do small businesses with the resale of tickets to bullfights tourists. By a misunderstanding is fired from his job. There is no use of his taste and wanders the Victoria Street taverns. Finally discovers his only chance in bulls, easy craft that believes and loves. The reality is very different and has to accept the truth which manifests itself in a very dramatic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-09-07
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Con ella llegó el amor
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-01-05
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Llegada de noche
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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Love Charm
Overview: Berta is a young manicurist whose boyfriend, Jorge, is too shy to ask for a raise, something she always blames him for. On the occasion of a special job that Berta must do in a big house, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, the couple fantasizes about what their life would be like in the midst of so many comforts.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-11-24
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The Last Horse
Overview: Fernando has just finished the military service. It decides to buy Bucéfalo, the horse that has been his partner for this time and returns to Madrid removing with it to the animal. But everything has changed, the city already neither is the same and even he nor finds stables nor has time to attend to it. This way the things remedy will not have any more that to look for any solution.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-23
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Em Nar, la ciudad de fuego
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-08-23
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Brindis al cielo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-12-21
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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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