Carmen Sevilla
Also Known As: Кармен Севилья, Carmelita Sevilla
Biography: Carmen Sevilla (1930-2021) was a renowned Spanish actress and singer who enjoyed a long and acclaimed career in film, television, and music. Born in Seville, Spain, Sevilla developed an early passion for the performing arts, honing her talents as a dancer and vocalist while still a child. Sevilla's big break came in the late 1940s, when she was discovered by a film producer and offered a role in the Spanish comedy "Yo Soy Muy Malo." This marked the beginning of her rise to stardom, as Sevilla went on to appear in a string of successful Spanish-language films throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Known for her captivating screen presence, sultry good looks, and versatile acting abilities, Sevilla quickly became one of the most renowned and beloved actresses in Spain. She starred in a wide range of genres, from lighthearted musicals to dramatic thrillers, and was particularly acclaimed for her performances in classics like "Currito of the Cross" and "The Bullfighter and the Lady." Beyond her film work, Sevilla also enjoyed a successful parallel career as a singer, recording several popular albums and performing live concerts that showcased her rich, emotive vocals. Her musical talents only added to her allure and helped cement her status as a true Renaissance woman of Spanish entertainment. Throughout her decades-long career, Sevilla received numerous accolades and honors, including Spain's prestigious National Film Award. She was also celebrated for her philanthropic work, particularly her efforts to support children's charities and cultural preservation initiatives. Even after stepping away from the spotlight in her later years, Carmen Sevilla remained a revered figure in her home country and across the Spanish-speaking world.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain
Birthday: October 16, 1930
Deathday: June 27, 2023
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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No One Heard the Scream
Overview: A woman sees a man throw a person into an elevator shaft and helps him to get rid of the body. During this adventure the man falls in love with the witness to his crime.
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-03-23
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King of Kings
Overview: Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-11
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Crucero de verano
Overview: Patricia is guide of a travel agency. One night, when accompanying a group of tourists through the old Madrid, she meets Carlos and falls for him. Days later, Patricia embarks on a summer cruise meeting up again with Carlos. The romance begins, but Patricia is not the only one chasing Carlos. Three villains want to kidnap him
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-05-28
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Enseñar a un sinvergüenza
Overview: Rosana is an attractive teacher who is losing his youth with such discipline in the study. When suddenly bursts into his life a perfect cheeky who lives of game and odd jobs as photographer, but wants to acquire a little culture for personal reasons. So he hires the services of the best teacher of the place ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-04-25
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Bread, Love and Andalucia
Overview: Determined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates in an international music festival in Spain, where he falls for a young dancer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-04
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Operación Plus Ultra
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-09-20
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Un adulterio decente
Overview: Federico is having an affair with Fernanda, which he believes widow, when in fact she is married. When the trick is discovered, a doctor appears very opportunely saying that infidelity is a disease caused by bacteria and has no cure. In his private clinic he applies a treatment that consists of locking up every adulterer with his mistress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-08-25
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Cuentos de la Alhambra
Overview: Mariquilla is a beautiful gypsy who is in love with Lucas, a soldier of the garrison in the Alhambra, but her father wants to marry her with Don Cosme, a rich old clerk for the service of the mayor. Soon, the girl asks for help to the governor of Granada, a gentleman who has always had a great adoration for the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-08-24
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Buscando a Mónica
Overview: A man has a street accident with his car in his way to Buenos Aires. While he waits for his car repairing, this business man learns that everybody in the little town where he's stuck seem to know about his wife Mónica. He knows little about her past, but the reactions of the townsfolk towards him range from laughing at his back to practically don't want him around. He won't leave the town until he could learn more about the secret past of his wife. But the former life of the young beautiful mother of his daughter involves a turbulent story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-29
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Feather in the Wind
Overview: Carlos, veterinary, poet, musician in his spare time and a fun-minded Don Juan,pretends to be his friend Fernando who has inherited a pharmacy in Madrid. There he meets an old girl friend that attracts him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-17
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Requiebro
Overview: A rancher fleeing from marriage is conquered by a Spanish singer.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Secretaria para todo
Overview: Cristina is the perfect secretary. She helps her boss to get an important contract with an holand businessman. He goes to Madrid to get married with a spanish girl similar to Cristina, but she hesitates between the foreign and Lorenzo, her co-worker.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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El relicario
Overview: While watching on television a bullfight where his son Luis acts, the matador Rafael Lucena dies of a heart attack upon discovering Virginia in the bullring, a woman who looks like Soledad. Soledad was his father ‘s, Manuel Lucena, great love. Both Luis and his brother Alejandro meet the singer Virginia and fall in love with her but when Luis suffers serious goring, he begins to think that Virginia brings bad luck.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-03-29
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El asalto al castillo de la Moncloa
Overview: In the style of Woody Allen's "What's Up, Tiger Lily?", this is a comedic redubbing of "Los Amantes del desierto (1957)" that became a spoof of the Spanish political situation of its day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-21
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El sueño de Andalucía
Overview: Juanillo is in love with Dolores, the daughter of the owner of an inn. He likes to sing, she likes dancing. After the village festivals, where Juanillo has acted as a bullfighter and Dolores has performed, he has been hired as bullfighter for a tour in America. They exchange vows, but their letters will be intercepted.
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-03-16
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A Lady Called Andrew
Overview: From the Olymp the gods keep an eye on a married couple whose disputes are endangering the stability of their marriage. In order to repair the relationship they use unconventional methods...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-11-19
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Gitana tenías que ser
Overview: Pastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport, among them is Paul, a little-known mariachi that has been chosen to become a new idol. Automatically, both had bad relations and during filming many discussions happens. This arguments gives way to a deep love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-19
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Love and Desire
Overview: A French crew is working on location in Spain. But when they want to film a scene in which Gérardn the male star is supposed to be swimming across a river, the matinée idol proves water-shy and the director decides to double him. The one that replaces him is Antonio, a local fisherman. The latter does the job so well that he is chosen as a stunts man for the whole film. This does not please Lola,his fiancée; all the more as Antonio has fallen in love with Martine, the female star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-10-09
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Camino del Rocío
Overview: Esperanza and Maria Jesús are two orphans because their father, Don Fernando, dies. He shared his buissines with Martina Echave, an old lover, who hated him because she has always wanted to marry him. Esperanza and Maria Jesús fall almost into ruin for Matinas' handling. They had to take refuge with their aunt. Esperanza is Martinas' soon's girlfriend against her will, and they have a stormy relationship because José Antonio is also in love with her.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-12-05
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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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Desert Warrior
Overview: Omar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages people to form an army and fight again to Ibrahim. The town gets excited and running quickly, while crossing the desert, they encounter the enemy caravans and raid without knowing that one of them is Fatima, daughter of Ibrahim, who poses as a singer of the harem. Said, dazzled by the beauty of the girl, released. But soon after, Fatima, who also doesn´t know the origin of the robber, sees him again, and among them born a strong attraction.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-10-31
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The Glass Ceiling
Overview: A lonely housewife hears a man’s footsteps in the apartment above her late at night. The upstairs neighbor insists it is her husband who has returned from business but her explanations are soon contradicted. The woman begins to think her neighbor has murdered her husband.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-05-03
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Revenge
Overview: After spending ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Juan is released.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-05-02
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Spanish Affair
Overview: Merritt Blake, an American architect who is travelling in Spain, contracts the services of beautiful local interpreter Mari Zarubia. Sensing there may be something more going on, her jealous lover is not happy about the arrangement.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-25
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The Miller's Saucy Wife
Overview: In a region of Andalusia, all the men lust after the miller's young wife.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-12-05
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La fierecilla domada
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-01-23
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The Boldest Job in the West
Overview: A bandit gang successfully executes a complicated bank heist but disagreements arise in the aftermath.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-03-06
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Embrujo de amor
Overview: The plot is situated in the Duchy of stultus, more precisely at the Primrose Valley, a place that one day is visited by an old caravan under the command of Chief Servant. Among them is Toxzo, a gypsy prince whose entourage is dedicated to breeding race horses. The young gypsy fall soon surrendered to the charms of Sovira, the daughter of the Duke ...
Genres: Romance Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-07-08
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La belle de Cadix
Overview: A group of French filmmakers travel to Andalucia for film a movie titled" Beauty of Cadiz". It stars are Carlos, a famous heartthrob, and an unknown gypsy named Maria-Luisa.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-12-24
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The Unruly Girl
Overview: Adaptation of the operetta of the same title. Mari Pepa, who works as a laundress, has gone to live in the neighborhood courtyard house, which is also tenant Felipe, who courted.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-03-23
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The Apolitical Man
Overview: Enrique Tolosa is a boss administrator of a small company which employs 50 workers. There never has gotten into politics, has made himself stood professionally and created a family and no one has asked opinion on how would be the destiny of their country. The story begins whenheI first asked to give their vote at the polls for the election of political parties. With the decision to vote is faced with doubt and decides to investigate on their own to know which political trends that are managed as possible, is the one he goes to his temperament.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-05-02
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Andalusia
Overview: Having fallen out with his girlfriend Dolorès, Juanito leaves for Mexico, where he becomes a famous matador.There he meets a Viennese singer, Fanny Miller, who falls for him so much so that she intercepts the letters Dolorès keeps on sending him. In desperation, Dolorès devotes all her time and efforts to dance and she becomes the celebrated dancer Estrellita. After a series of misunderstandings and ups and downs, the sun of Andalusia will finally reunite the two lovebirds.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-16
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Cross of the Devil
Overview: A British novelist travels to Spain to visit his sister. However, when he arrives he discovers that she has been murdered by a gang of devil-worshiping bandits called the Devil's Cross.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-03-29
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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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Death of a Hoodlum
Overview: A jewel heist goes wrong, resulting in several deaths. Naschy is left with the loot and he takes off with the the cash before the gang is supposed to meet back up. Gang leader Frank Brana sets out to track down the man and the jewels with the help of his gang.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-12-31
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La Promesa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Don Juan
Overview: Don Juan is arrested during one of his raids loving, just as he intended to seduce the daughter of the Governor, who was about to marry. His faithful servant, too accustomed to be all sticks, passed by him to save his skin, a situation that will allow you to win the love of a beautiful comic. Meanwhile, the real Don Juan is reduced to the status of servant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-05-09
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El taxi de los conflictos
Overview: Musical. Thaddeus (Juanjo Menéndez) is a taxi driver who is about to experience a busy work day. Throughout the day you climb into his cab heteogéneos the more characters, which give rise to the most varied situations. When one of them left in the taxi leaves a baby, Thaddeus will have to find out who's not forget that at the end of the day has a date with a mysterious woman (Concha Velasco), apparently, have to tell you something very important.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-04-16
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Guerreras verdes
Overview: Dolores, a rich landowner, is in love with a Sergeant of the Civil Guard. Her twin sister Rosa comes to supplant her, while a false cousin sets up a smuggling network with the farmhouse administrator and the mayor's son
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-09-15
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Filigrana
Overview: Filigrana is in the prime of his career. His dressing room is full of flowers and always the same fan: William Harrison who asks her to marry him. Watermark says he heard those same words in the mouth of another man, the Earl of Montepalma, player and womanizer who loved and yet humiliated by a gypsy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-04-01
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La cera virgen
Overview: María works in a hostess bar in Madrid because, forced by the Puritans of her little village, she had to leave accused of public scandal just for having kissed her boyfriend. María, together with her three sisters, decides to return and builds a club in the village faced with the scandalized don Florencio, a repressed banker and overlord who secretly desires María. In order to go unnoticed, María and her sisters run the club through a wax-chandler's shop where the majority of men of the village will parade, which excites even more the lascivious and hypocritical don Florencio.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-02-21
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Congress in Seville
Overview: Carmen is a Spanish emigrant in Stockholm who does not have the money to run her business or buy a ticket back to Spain. Thanks to a misunderstanding she meets Dr. Petersen who has an invitation to a medical congress in Seville and does not plan to attend. Carmen uses the ticket and impersonates the doctor just enough time to get to the city, but then she will be forced to keep the lie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-09-03
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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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La guerrillera de Villa
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-11-15
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House of the Damned
Overview: A young woman just released from a mental institution returns home to her mansion and faces a new set of horrors.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-09-08
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Beatriz
Overview: A child is witness to an assault on a monk by the gang of Lorenzo the Fifth. The monk escapes and takes refuge in the estate of Doña Carlota, a countess who lives with her son Juan and daughter Beatriz. Basilisa, the maid, conjures the devil to free her son from an irreversible illness, but to do so the evil must be transmitted to an innocent soul, and for that she chooses Beatriz. The child begins to be the victim of a possession, for which everyone blames the monk.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-12-06
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La vida de Pedro Infante
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-04-20
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Imperial Violets
Overview: Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis Napoleón of France she takes the young girl with her. The empress'cousin readily makes her his focus of attention, then she discovers a criminal attempt against the empress.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-12-12
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Terapia al desnudo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-04-25
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Nosotros, los decentes
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-02-16
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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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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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Antony and Cleopatra
Overview: Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. The story concerns Marc Antony's attempts to rule Rome while maintaining a relationship with the queen of Egypt (Hildegarde Neil), which began while Antony was still married. Now he is being forced to marry the sister of his Roman co-leader, and soon the conflict leads to war.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-18
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Jalisco canta en Sevilla
Overview: A charro and his sidekick go to Spain to collect an inheritance.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-01-31
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Babes in Bagdad
Overview: The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-07
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Faces
Overview: Psychological horror.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-06-19
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Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-05-15
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El apartamento de la tentación
Overview: Juliet and Alberto are a marriage in which peace reigns home. Mood surely be upset if Juliet suspecte that her her husband uses the vet who runs to assist clients instead of animals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-05-24
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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 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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Strip-tis a la inglesa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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La Guitarra de Gardel
Overview: A young man is dedicated to singing, but only for his friends, and his godfather wants him to do it professionally.
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-12-22
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Serenata española
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-05-12
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Canciones de nuestra vida
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Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-11-24
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Reportaje
Overview: Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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Love on Wheels
Overview: A taxi driver participates in a singing contest of a radio station for non-professionals and enters the final round. Being among the finalists he meets at the radio station a famous singer and falls in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-09-13
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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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