Rafael Romero Marchent
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Biography: Rafael Romero Marchent (May 3, 1926 – February 13, 2020) was a Spanish director, screenwriter and actor. Born in Madrid , the son of the author Joaquín Romero Marchent Gómez de Avellaneda, he started his career as an actor, mainly cast in character roles. In 1959 he became assistant director, and in 1965 he made his directorial debut with Hands of a Gunfighter. Specialized in the Spaghetti Western genre, from the late 1970s he was also active on television. His brother Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent was also a director and screenwriter. In the 2000s he taught film and interpretation classes. He was awarded in 1947 by the Medalla del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos for his role in the film La mies es mucha. He married Maruja Tamayo. He died on 13 February 2020 at the age of 93.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
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Birthday: May 03, 1926
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 13, 2020
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To the Limit
Overview: Elena Hart is a distance runner in her twenties who is immersed in a terrible nightmare, suffering serious imbalances in her diet. Driven by her desire to lose weight and to please her demanding coach, Elena begins to suffer from anorexia.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-12-19
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Alone Together
Overview: A blind woman is the witness of a murder.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-10-05
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La mies es mucha
Overview: Father Santiago Hernández, a Spanish missionary, arrives in Kattinga, India, to replace Father Daniel, who is seriously ill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Pesadilla para un rico
Overview: A mature and successful businessman leads a peaceful life with his family and his lover. However, his life is greatly complicated when found dead in bed a girl who had spent the previous night with him. The first thing that comes to mind to solve the problem is to remove the body, but that's not easy. Still, the case is much worse when someone who seems to know what happened, begins to blackmail.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-11-22
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The Bullfighter's Suit
Overview: A young bullfighter full of illusions triumphs in Mexico and decides to get married there and forget about his old Spanish girlfriend, who by then has just given birth to his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-05-19
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One Bullet Is Enough
Overview: After leaving the prison where they have served their sentence, some criminals plan a new robbery.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-11-26
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El indiano
Overview: Nouveau-riche industrialist returns to Spain after 20 years in Mexico and discovers that his adopted son wants to marry into an aristocratic family and is trying to disguise his family history. Meanwhile, the young man's birth mother also shows up, and....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-04-24
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Cabaret
Overview: A news story in the newspapers announces the investigation by the police of a major scam. Precisely, following the steps of the author of that crime, we will know the cabaret where the whole action of this drama will take place. A place where the paths of a multitude of characters cross and where it is possible to find men and women of great humanity.
Genres: Music Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-03-22
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Zorro the Avenger
Overview: Don Jose disguises himself as Zorro, the masked freedom fighter, who tries to protect his people from the wrath of an evil military officer who is using his position to his own advantage.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-06-25
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La fiesta sigue
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-12-21
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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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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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Merry-Go-Round c. 1950
Overview: This movie doesn't have any coherent plot. It's the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how they manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: La colmena or Roma (Fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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La pecadora
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-03-23
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Los gamberros
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-09-13
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El mensaje
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-05-03
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Un indiano en Moratilla
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-03-10
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Compadece al delincuente
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-06-13
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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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Fulano y Mengano
Overview: Eudosio and Carlos were imprisoned by mistake. Now out of prison, are trying to get a job and to adapt to a society that rejects them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-07-24
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Juzgado permanente
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-08-10
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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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Don Quixote
Overview: The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sancho Panza.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-03-01
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La espera
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Flor de lago
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-08-07
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The Seventh Page
Overview: Chronicle of the daily activity of a newspaper called La Jornada. Through the events covered by the gossip columnist that occupy precisely the seventh page, a portrait emerges of different classes of Spain in the 50's and a vision of reality where facts are mixed comedy, police, emotional, dramatic and even tragic.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-10
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Sor Angélica
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-10-25
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Paz
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-11-25
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