Rafael Calvo
Also Known As: Rafael Calvo Ruiz de Morales, Рафаэль Кальво
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Birthday: November 25, 1886
Deathday: January 01, 1966
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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El correo del rey
Overview: King Charles V sent his confidant, Don Fernando,from France to the Spanish Court carrying an important documentation. However, the frigate where he travels is sunk by the British and all the sailors perish. Don Fernando manages to save his life reaching the island of Menorca where he is helped by a humble fisherman
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-19
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Marianela
Overview: Marianela is an orphan young girl living in a small village where she guides the blind young son of a rich country man. She is secretly in love with him, knowing that he loves her only because he can't see her ugly face. But one day a famous doctor appears and promises to operate him so he can see. His father is happy to know this way he will be able to marry his rich cousin. Nela gets desperate knowing his luck will turn into her disgrace when he finally sees her face.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-11-11
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La verbena de la Paloma
Overview: A young printer's relationship with his girlfriend is in trouble after she accepts another suitor's invitation to the fair. This adaption of a popular operetta aims to please with a simple storyline and goofy slapstick.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1935-12-23
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There Were Thirteen
Overview: This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On, in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer of an American found dead in a London hotel room.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1931-12-04
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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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Pilar Guerra
Overview: A woman abandoned by her lover sells his body to a sculptor, who is the best friend of her lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1926-08-20
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Sancta Maria
Overview: Nadia, a young Soviet journalist who is passing through Pompeii, discovers the power that comes from the Catholic faith when the painter she loves, Paolo, and who saved her from drowning during the shipwreck of the cruise in which they met, is at the gates of death because of a serious illness whose symptoms are similar to those of leprosy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-01-02
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The Siege of the Alcazar
Overview: Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-01-02
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Lady Juan
Overview: A Spanish nobleman raises his only daughter as a boy, similarly to Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933). In adulthood, Juana's upbringing causes complications in her love life. Possibly an early example of genderqueer representation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-24
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El rey de Sierra Morena
Overview: José María, popularly known as "El Tempranillo" throws himself into the mountains after killing his father's murderer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-10-02
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El final de una leyenda
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-04
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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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El conde de Maravillas
Overview: The Count of Maravillas receives an unusual proposal from a masked woman: to kidnap the valido of King Carlos IV.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1927-03-14
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Prim
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1931-01-26
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Heroes del 95
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Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-02-27
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Señora ama
Overview: Ranchera melodrama transferred to a Spanish setting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-05-30
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Viento del norte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-09-01
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Sin uniforme
Overview: Several different people meet in Tangier, where they will have to join efforts to survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-02-09
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Date With My Old Love
Overview: The struggles of a newly married couple to achieve marital and economic stability.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-02
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Bound for Cairo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1935-10-14
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Currito de la Cruz
Overview: Currito, raised in a Seville hospice, ekes out a living while trying to become a bullfighter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1926-01-12
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Slaves of Fashion
Overview: A woman owning a small dressmaker's shop decides to reopen it in Broadway in luxury at all expenses, trusting merely on the cards'premonitions. She wants her little children to pair with the richest boys. Her husband, who discouraged her, dies and the business soon takes flight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1931-07-03
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Do You Know Your Wife?
Overview: At a big party, Robert Felton, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Heriberto Drake. Heriberto who is happily married, bets Felton that the next woman who walks into the room, whoever she is, won't let Felton kiss her for 48 hours. Felton takes the bet. Suddenly, a very beautiful and sexy woman walks in. It's Heriberto's wife, Laura Darke. Spanish language version of “Don’t Bet on Women”.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1931-09-11
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Law of the Harem
Overview: When Renée Duval, a Frenchwoman who had been on her way to Venice, is discovered by Al-Hadi, an Arabian prince in the wreckage of an ambushed caravan it is just the beginning of a breathless adventure that will put both their lives at risk!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1931-10-09
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Nuestro culpable
Overview: A burglar with a big heart is arrested in a banker’s house for a theft he did not commit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-03-21
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Shadows of the Circus
Overview: Nick, the "swing" man in a trapeze troupe, loves Greta Nelson, the girl in the act; and Tony, the "flyer," incurs his enmity as Greta seems to favor him; thus Nick fails to catch Tony, and Tony is killed. Ned Lee, a novice, reports for the next engagement. Meanwhile, Greta discovers that Nick purposely dropped Tony, and, frightened, she seeks refuge with Ned, with whom she falls in love. Greta remains with the act to protect Ned, and when the jealous Nick plots to kill him in a similar manner, Ned swings past him and hangs by his feet. After the show, a fight results in Nick's dismissal and the reunion of the lovers. Spanish language version to 1929's Halfway to Heaven.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1931-04-22
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You Have to Marry the Prince
Overview: Spanish-language remake of Paid to Love (1927)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1931-07-24
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Quema el suelo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-01-21
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Yo no soy la Mata-Hari
Overview: After the execution of the spy Mata-Hari, the secret service takes the opportunity to arrest some of her collaborators. To arrest one of the ringleaders, they use his girlfriend Niní, a naive dancer. The girl, tired of being manipulated by everyone, decides to become agent X25.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-08-21
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Un viaje de novios
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
Overview: Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-11-26
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Servicio en la mar
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-21
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Alhucemas
Overview: In 1922, Infantry Captain Fernando Salas, arriving from Madrid, joins, without much enthusiasm, a battalion ruled by Commander Almendro, a tough veteran of the African war who soon notices a clear lack of military vocation in the new recruit.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-02-06
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The Mad One of our House
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1928-05-19
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Fail in Communism
Overview: The story of two students in a school of terrorism installed in the south of France and considered a "sanctuary" and not by the Virgin of Lourdes, sent to Spain to fulfill a dark mission that failed dismally when mistaken for a priest with his link.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-01-23
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Como la tierra
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-07-05
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Sangre en Castilla
Overview: During the war against Napoleon the brave Therese of Pinorrey is erected as Alcaldesa in Castilla, Spain
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-10
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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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Condemned to Hang
Overview: Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero is a true champion of the disinherited.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-10-08
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The Miracle of Marcelino
Overview: Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend in the forbidden attic, hanging on a cross. A friend that would repay Marcelino's kindness by granting him one heart-felt wish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-02-24
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