Amparo Muñoz
Also Known As: Amparo Muñoz Quesada, Amparo Muñoz 'Miss España', Miss Universe 1974
Biography: Amparo Muñoz y Quesada (21 June 1954 – 27 February 2011) was a Spanish actress, model and beauty queen who won the Miss Universe 1974 competition in Manila, Philippines, being the first and only Spaniard Miss Universe titleholder to date. Muñoz surrendered both the title and crown after six months due to refusal to follow the rules and regulations of the Miss Universe Organization. During that time, no successor was willing nor assigned to officially take her vacated placement. After her shortened reign, Muñoz became a popular actress in Spain and starred in several comedies, including Mama Turns 100, and in the dramas Clara es el Precio, The Other Bedroom and Dedicatory. Her personal life was often shrouded in notorious events and public controversies. She died on 27 February 2011 due to cerebral aneurysm complications and was cremated and buried at the Roman Catholic cemetery of Saint Michael in Málaga, Spain.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vélez-Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: June 21, 1954
Age: 70 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 27, 2011
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Memorias de un Visitador Médico
Overview: A pharmaceutical salesman travels around the country and has sexual adventures in every place, but no woman really interests him. When returning from one of his travels, he is hit by a car and falls in love with the driver, but none of his tactics of conquest get results. Written by Anonymous
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-11-13
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Mauricio, mon amour
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-09-20
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Del amor y de la muerte
Overview: Don Diego goes to war and his son Don Gonzalo is, in his absence, the new lord of the region. The milling Elvira, one of the mistresses of Don Diego, has a beautiful daughter, Elena, who has the desire of Don Gonzalo. But Elena is also the daughter of Don Diego and to separate the love of his brother, they marry her to Rodrigo, the pastor. This will be the beginning of the tragedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Mama Turns 100
Overview: Ana and her husband Antonio arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-09-17
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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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Lulú de noche
Overview: German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While looking for the protagonist, Rufo appears, an introvert jazz musician. He could play Jack the ripper.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-02-20
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Clara es el precio
Overview: In a city on Spain’s Costa Brava, Clara Valverde, a young beautiful woman, lives with her husband Juan. Juan is an architect and has planned a daring urbanistic project. In reality, the project is not viable. Clara, to keep her marriage and finances a float, works as a porno actress in an underground film industry. In spite of her job and her marriage, Clara is still a virgin. Her marriage has never been consummated because her husband is impotent for which she blames herself. In her work she does not allow to be penetrated. One day she goes to a reunion with Kellerman, an American millionaire who seems to be interested into put into fruition Juan’s project. However soon Clara learns that what he really wants is to blackmail her. The owner of the house, Jorge, finds out Claras’s real occupation and if she does not have sex to the American would tell everything to her husband.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-04-30
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La otra alcoba
Overview: Marcos, an important businessman working in Madrid, is wealthy, ambitious and has political aspirations. On top of it, he has a beautiful wife, Diana. Their married life, however, is marred by the fact that, after years of married life, they do not have children. At the last minute Diana backs down from adopting a Vietnamese orphan. She is determined to have a biological child. However, Marcos is sterile and has kept this a secret from his wife. When he tells her the truth, Diana reveals that she already knew it having recently consulted a gynecologist who determined that she can conceive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Minister's Wife
Overview: Rafael, a young man from the provinces, works as a waiter in a resort and helps himself economically having sex for money with rich older women. During a bomb threat, he is discovered in bed with one of the guest, Leonor Marchioness of Montenegro, and he is fired as a consequence. The Marchioness of Montenegro is an aging aristocrat, ruined economically, but still with wealthy and influential friends. She helps Rafael finds a new job in Madrid as the gardener in the mansion of Antonio Fernández Herrador, Minister of economy in the new democratic Spanish government.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-08-27
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Los invitados
Overview: A murder is committed in a small village of Andalusia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-03-05
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Lycantropus: The Moonlight Murders
Overview: 1996 Spanish horror film that is the eleventh in a long series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy. Following his near-fatal heart attack in 1991, Naschy made this film as an intended comeback, but it was poorly distributed and received bad reviews.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-06-17
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A Paradise Under the Stars
Overview: Like her mother before her, beautiful Sissy wants to be a dancer at the Tropicana, Havana's famous cabaret. But her father, Candido, forbids her to do so because of his ongoing grudge against Armando, his former rival and choreographer at the nightclub.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-04-20
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Love Ravings
Overview: In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-11-13
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La reina del mate
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-04-19
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El diablo en persona
Overview: Young rural-gentry dude sows wild oats, settles down to raise a family, and fights in the Revolution, all at the same time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-03-07
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The Great Victory
Overview: The adventures and misadventures the popular singer Rigo Tovar, his relationships, trips and unparalleled successes
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-06-10
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El gran mogollón
Overview: In a western and Mediterranean country, very fond of bullfighting and soccer, legislative elections are held, that is, "El Gran Mogollón" is elected from the bosses. Each leader feels that his position is secure, and some are preparing to take the presidency of "El Gran Mogollón", when the surprise arises: the P.E.R. has won by a wide margin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-10-28
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L'anello matrimoniale
Overview: Monica, the young wife of a luminary plastic surgeon, and the mother of a little girl, is tempted to sleep with a handsome neighbor: Giorgio, the owner of a beauty salon and the father of a boy. Since she is very much in love with her husband, she asks him for permission to yield to Giorgio, very insistent on her point. The surgeon, tolerant, gives her permission ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-24
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A Real Man
Overview: Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-10-30
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El tahúr
Overview: Three childhood friends; when they grow up, the poor boy is shut out from the possibility of romancing the girl because of class issues. He leaves town, learns to play pro-level poker, wins a fortune, then goes home to ruin his rival's life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-11-01
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Dedicated to...
Overview: A mix of characters and actions create only a semblance of a plot in this confusing tale of intrigue, undefined crimes, and incest. A newspaper reporter is working on a story about a criminal serving time in jail. He interviews the prisoner, has an affair with the criminal's daughter, and also spends some time in bed with his editor's wife. His amorous life is an adjunct to his searching out the details of the prisoner's case -- though tragedy strikes before the journalist can wrap everything up. In the meantime, it becomes clear that the daughter and imprisoned father had an incestuous relationship, raising more questions than answers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-06-04
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Wild Beauty
Overview: One night with a total stranger. And fate brought them together once again. That's where their whirlwind romance started.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-15
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El balcón abierto
Overview: Film homage to the great Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, in which they dramatize fragments of his poems and the play "La casa de Bernarda Alba". From his texts, the voice of the poet himself weaves the plot. His characters come to life: El Amargo, which runs from a poem taken from "El Cante Jond" to the "Romancero Gitano". The Woman, blurred and present in so many of his poems. The Mother, a living synthesis of his play-writing. The balcony is open from the hidden Granada to exciting New York. From the rider of tireless riding to the mysterious baroque of Holy Week. From the first babble of the poet to his violent death. Spain is behind its lyric. Also in many images and tensions of the film. The argument of this one wants to approach the argument of a poet. His life and his work, united irremediably.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-10-07
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Si las mujeres mandaran (o mandasen)
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Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-02-01
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Volvoreta
Overview: Sergio falls in love with Federica, the maid of the house whom everyone calls "Volvoreta" ("butterfly" in Galician). Aware of the situation, the mother of the young gentleman dismisses the maid, who has no choice but to go to the capital city. But Sergio's love is so strong that he will follow her wherever she goes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Sensualidad
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Acto de posesión
Overview: Raquel's not able to have children, so she and her boyfriend manipulate another young woman into bearing his child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-09-05
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In the Shade
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-06-12
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The Seven Cucas
Overview: A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-10-07
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La intrusa
Overview: The Galgo brothers are inseparable macho loners living in the heart of Andalucia at the turn of the century. One day Rafael comes home with Gracia, who is to be his servant and lover. They become trapped in a hell of their own making.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-06-16
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Trágala, perro
Overview: Sister Patrocinio is a nun who is stigmatized by Christ in her hands and feet. Although some believe in this mystical fact, others suspect of manipulation and take it to the court of justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-11-16
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Vida conyugal sana
Overview: Enrique is a thirty-year-old lawyer who is married to Ana. Apparently he is a normal man who has only one obsession: the commercials. He feels a real passion for the erotic world of the ads either in billboards, trash cans, public transport, magazines or television. The continuous publicity bombardment ends up leading him towards a neurosis that changes his personality.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-02-11
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Al acecho
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-10-30
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Terra de canons
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Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2000-09-15
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Women
Overview: Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-10-17
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Tocata y fuga de Lolita
Overview: Carlos, a widower in his forties, lives with his daughter Lolita and his sister Merche. He is a candidate to Spanish Court's Proctor, so frequently travels outside Madrid. During one of those trips, he is forced to return at home precipitously, because his sister informed him that Lolita has left the house to live with some friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-09-26
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Pictures
Overview: Azucena is 22 years old and lives with her mother, who, due to a past trauma, can no longer speak. Azucena works in a photography lab with her best friend Paqui, and has just broken up with her latest boyfriend Dani. Azucena lives in fear of sex and physical contact, hiding in her own sheltered world. Cesar, a plastic artist feels an obsessive attraction for Azucena, as a result, making her his inspiration. This obsession is painfully observed by Jacinto, the unstable artist's lover, who is himself involved in a violent and destructive relationship with Cesar.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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The Black Moon
Overview: After experiencing a series of traumatic, seemingly unrelated, accidents, Eva begins to notice that her daughter Luna is behaving in increasingly strange ways.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-04-14
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Sexo contra sexo
Overview: The engineer José Luis, husband of the fichera and dancer Estrella Raleigh, dies in a plane crash. During the burial, Estrella discovers that her husband was having an affair. It's quickly revealed that things are a bit more complicated than they initially appear.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-11-24
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Como México no hay dos
Overview: Rags-to-riches story about the rise of a fictional ranchera-music superstar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-09-15
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Hablamos esta noche
Overview: Victor is the engineer who has set up the Nuclear Power Plant Zapater. Alongside his professional problems he also hasa difficult family situation: a divorce, a teenage homosexual son, a relationship that is not satisfactory, the emergence of a new woman. With just a few days to the inauguration, Luis Maria, an engineer close friend of Victor, responsible for a serious accident in the past and addicted to alcohol, warns of the possibility of a malfunction of the plant. Nothing guarantees the truth of this warning, but to find it out the inauguration is suspended
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-09-16
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Se me sale cuando me río
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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