Francisco Algora
Also Known As: Paco Algora
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Birthday: December 07, 1948
Deathday: March 30, 2016
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Silver-beet Face
Overview: On a road in the deep Spain, a wanderer with no fixed course and light luggage awaits someone to take him somewhere. His name is Antonio and this is how he will end up in a small provincial town, where he will be involved in a plan to steal a canvas of incalculable value.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-01-20
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The National Mummy
Overview: Saturnino, a young archaeologist, bourgeois and wealthy, lives in a luxurious mansion. He receives a visit from his old teacher, Don Felipe, accompanied by his daughter and a monumental mummy he has just discovered in one of his excavations in the Upper Nile. The Mummy, was in his time a princess and has on his bandages a curse, that when it breaks ... it will be dedicated to chasing and raping all the men it finds in its path.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-10-21
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El tiempo de la felicidad
Overview: It's summer 1970, and the hippie movement has taken over an entire generation. In a beach house, a very unique family begins their summer vacation, which will change everyone's lives: Fernando (the father) an actor, Lucia (the mother) devoted housewife, and their four children- Chucho (the eldest), Elena (the intellectual), Juan (car-crazy) and Veronica (the youngest).
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-07-04
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Tramontana
Overview: In the 13th century, desolation and misery lead the inhabitants of a village in the Pyrenees to emigrate to Burriana, in Valencia, a region considered to be the Promised Land. During the journey, love, hatred and suffering will jeopardize their arrival at their longed-for destination. At the same time, they will be involved in the war waged by King James I to reconquer these lands held by the Muslims. Reaching the end of the journey will be an odyssey.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Retruc
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-10-07
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Mar de luna
Overview: Story of impossible love between a knight and his sister. From them born a son who is repudiated by the gentleman, who takes him to live with monks in a monastery. When the boy grows up, escapes from the monastery to see the world and especially the sea. On the way he meets a peddler who teaches him to function in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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You're the One
Overview: Julia, an only child of an affluent, bank owning family living in Madrid, escapes from her family to get over her grief that her boyfriend has been imprisoned. Julia is a well educated woman, having studied in Switzerland and England, who wants to become a writer. Julia drives to a little village in Asturias called "Corralbos del Sella" and there she stays in a mansion "llendelabarca" of an old childhood friend "Pilara" she had spent many a happy summer with. Also living there is Pilara's mother in law Tia Gala, and her grandson Juanito. Julia's relationship with caretakers, teacher and priest makes Julia, a woman of the spanish capital, perhaps for the first time to not feel so alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-10-13
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Moon in a Bottle
Overview: Zeta has a month to hand in a novel she has been commissioned to write and every day she searches for inspiration among the strange customers who are regulars at the Café Rossignol. There she becomes close to Alicia, a pretty waitress who doesn't want to fall in love; she gets to know Pascal, the owner of the bar and a cabaret artist who is nervously waiting for the arrival of his old friends and lovers Irene and Kurt. Or she leaves with Don José another regular who is tormented by a letter he doesn't dare to open. They all want to change their lives. The moment has come to be brave and try to do the impossible. Can they put the moon in a bottle..?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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The Wretched Life of Juanita Narboni
Overview: The daughter of an Englishman and an Andalusian woman, Juanita rejects the historical changes taking place in Tangier.She lives alone in this "Paradise lost", surrounded by her sister Elena; Esther, her close friend who dedicates her entire life to an impossible love affair with a Moroccan; and Hamruch the housemaid, who disappears one day without saying a word. The Spanish Civil War, WWII with the arrival of refugees from Europe, and the Moroccan independence finally returns the city to its Arab origins. Juanita's tragedy lies in not realizing that her world is destined to disappear by the destructive and rejuvenating force of History.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country
Overview: A man and a woman hitch a ride in the dark and swap their sad tales of failed relationships.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-07-10
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Jaula de todos
Overview: The story of a couple whose relationship is falling apart, with voiceover by two of their friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Fanny Straw-Top
Overview: In the slums of Barcelona, Fanny, a woman just released from prison, tries to carry out a revenge that has nourished for years: to kill "El Gallego", the corrupt and brutal policeman who killed her boyfriend
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-07-02
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The Rats
Overview: In the mid-fifties, El Nini lives in the poorest and most forgotten rural Castile (Spain). He is a child with no more knowledge than those provided by nature. El Nini lives with his father in a cave, and with him he devotes himself to the hunting of water rats, the only means of subsistence they know. But when they are tried to deprive them of their roof and their livelihood, violence will erupt uncontrollably.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-06-04
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Dos rivales casi iguales
Overview: A colorfully yet emotional comedy, filled with provoking political criticism, placed in a contemporary scenario, where salmons and frogs coexist with the inhabitants of a small village, near a beautiful river. This year though, the river and its inhabitants are about to stir things up. The twin brothers Jaime and Nacho find themselves challenging each other for the most important political seat in the nation
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-05-25
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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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Historia de un beso
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-10-24
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Yankee Dudler
Overview: After years in prison, a gang of criminals are deported from Bavaria and arrive as free immigrants to America. They kill an Indian by accident and do different jobs such as cleaning latrines, until they get installed in an abandoned house next to an Indian woman. One day someone will propose to perpetrate a robbery ...
Genres: Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-09-07
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La guerra de los locos
Overview: At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War a group of interns of a psychiatric hospital takes advantage of the confusion of the arrival of the "national" troops to get away from the center. In their flight, the fugitive patients will find a group of anarchists with whom they share bloody war episodes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-11
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Speak, Silent One
Overview: Ramiro's grandfather is on vacation in a hostel in the mountains with his family. Decides to send theirs to Madrid and stay in a shelter, saying his health requires. But the reason is another ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-06-01
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El buscón
Overview: XVII century Spain. Don Pablo tries to climb position and falls into the hands of students, rogues, whores, fake skilled, executioners, jailers and comedians. Based on "The Buscón called Pablos" Francisco de Quevedo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-11-27
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A Man Called Autumn Flower
Overview: Lluis de Serracant leads a double life. By day he's a young lawyer, scion of a Catalan bourgeois family. At 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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Everybody Calls Me 'The Cat'
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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La insólita y gloriosa hazaña del cipote de Archidona
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-03-02
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Amigo, no gima
Overview: This is a short story about an old Spanish man, who is about to sell his shop in Barrio De Llavapies, in Madrid set in 2003 on the 1st of February. This film shows life from the viewpoint of two ethnic groups an immigrant who has a run in with an old white Spanish man who has racist views and is meant to one of the last white shop owners in this Barrio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Beehive
Overview: As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-10-11
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The Faithful Servants
Overview: The service staff of a luxurious Catalan farmhouse has prepared a large banquet because the arrival of the guests is expected. Everything is ready, but nobody arrives. Then, the housekeeper and the other servants will occupy for a few moments the place of their masters and, like them, they will behave despotically.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-05-05
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The Grandfather
Overview: After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true, and which one is bastard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-10-16
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The Andalusian Widow
Overview: Lozana, a young, beautiful and clever woman decides to move to the city after a tragic love story. There, she meets Rampin, a naughty rascal who soon finds out that her wit surpasses his own by a handful. When he falls in love with her, he can't help suffering as he sees how she plays not only with him, but with all of her lovers as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-12-05
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I Feel Strange
Overview: Laura, a pianist who has left home to flee her abusive husband, meets Marta, a vedette with whom she will work on the preparation of her new show.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-12-01
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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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Río seco
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-05-13
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Barrio
Overview: Bored 15-year-old school chums Rai Manu and Javi dream of sexual adventures and exotic resorts while the well-off population of Madrid flock to the beaches on a summer holiday. The youths hang around the concrete wasteland killing time by reading the sex classifieds and pushing their luck. They masturbate, thieve, fight with their families and get involved in a drug bust. Finally Rai, the most daring and restless of the trio - gets shot while trying to steal stereo gear from a car. Each adolescent faces a dreary home life but when they get together they enjoy each other's company to the full. The film is an engaging mixture of comedy drama and the pathos of life in a Madrid neighborhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-10-02
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El cianuro… ¿solo o con leche?
Overview: A decrepit house in Badajoz, Spain, on a cold winter night in 1925. Laura and her mother Adela, who is confined to a wheelchair, are faced with the possibility of putting an end to the grumpy grandfather's life, who is around ninety-two years old. But then, suddenly, cousin Enrique, a doctor by profession, shows up, which will change the course of events…
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-03-30
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¡Bruja, más que bruja!
Overview: A small provincial town lives under the caprices of Don Justin, the local cacique. This forces the young Mariana to marry him, taking advantage of the fact that her nephew Juan, the boyfriend of the girl, is far away from military service. Upon his return, Juan is mocked and goes to a witch to assist him in his revenge.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-03-28
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Secretos de alcoba
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-06-21
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Yo soy fulana de tal
Overview: The gentle Spanish comedy Yo soy Fulana de Tal (1975) tells the story of a prostitute who rises from the poor side of town to become a revered member of the community. Along the way she befriends an elderly paternalist artist and also gets her revenge on those who mistreated her in her youth.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-10-31
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Girls... The Hall
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-02-01
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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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Gay Club
Overview: A group of homosexual friends tries to set up a gay club in a town in Andalusia, meeting the opposition of the chief who will use all his resources to try to prevent it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-03-12
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Foul Play
Overview: A 1977 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem that won the Golden Prize the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-03-11
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Una familia decente
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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El rey y la reina
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-07-16
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Kargus
Overview: A series of vignettes is woven into a larger story in this first film to be written and directed by Juan Minon and Miguel A. Trujillo. A writer who works in a bookshop to earn a living meets a wealthy American named Kargus looking for talent to ensconce in his projected art colony in the Gilbert Islands. In order to convince the American to take him on as a good prospect, the writer promotes his own stories -- the vignettes seen in the film. One story is about a young man trying to impress his girlfriend with his new car, a car he indirectly borrowed from a rental agency. His efforts to hide the rental sign on top of the car lead to various comical posturings. Other vignettes are from the era of the Spanish Civil War, including one about two people trying to survive by hunting cats and killing them to sell to butchers. Another vignette shows pro-Franco activists eradicating anti-Franco graffiti in Madrid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-06-19
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Kargus
Overview: A series of vignettes is woven into a larger story in this first film to be written and directed by Juan Minon and Miguel A. Trujillo. A writer who works in a bookshop to earn a living meets a wealthy American named Kargus looking for talent to ensconce in his projected art colony in the Gilbert Islands. In order to convince the American to take him on as a good prospect, the writer promotes his own stories -- the vignettes seen in the film. One story is about a young man trying to impress his girlfriend with his new car, a car he indirectly borrowed from a rental agency. His efforts to hide the rental sign on top of the car lead to various comical posturings. Other vignettes are from the era of the Spanish Civil War, including one about two people trying to survive by hunting cats and killing them to sell to butchers. Another vignette shows pro-Franco activists eradicating anti-Franco graffiti in Madrid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-06-19
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Las delicias de los verdes años
Overview: In the Middle Age, a farmer named Mauro is heading to Madrid following the last will of his father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-09-12
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Nosotros que fuimos tan felices
Overview: After a long absence, Ulises, a theatrical author, returns to his home to be with his wife, Carlota, and their son. However, upon arriving in Madrid he discovers that Carlota has become a great theater actress and that she is sentimentally united to Miguel, a renowned playwright who copies the comedies that Ulysses himself had written.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-12-17
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Soldados
Overview: Dramatic portrait of men and women discouraged in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, after the odyssey of a group of Republican soldiers trying to reach the east coast to go into exile. Agustín must bear that his libertine father lives with the ironer Remedios, although she does not love him. She escapes and he goes to war; when they finally meet again, anxious amid bursts, it will be impossible to consummate their desires repressed for so long.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-11-20
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Matías, juez de línea
Overview: Matias is a soccer referee. He promised his dying mother never to lie. When he referees a match of the spanish national team and there is a clear penalty against Spain in the last minute of the game he has no choice and marks the foul. As a result Spain does not qualify for the world championship and Matias is forced to escape from the rage of the people. He hides in the town of his father which he hasn't visited since his childhood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-04-12
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País S. A.
Overview: A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-10-27
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Erotic Stories
Overview: A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-03-13
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Sunday Light
Overview: The small Asturian village of Cenciella, Spain, at the beginning of the twentieth century. The quiet life of Urbano and Estrella, a kind and naive couple in love, is seriously altered when they get involved in the fierce struggle between the local political factions.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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Réquiem por un campesino español
Overview: Hypocrisy and betrayal are the two dramatic pivots in this effective, emotionally gripping tragedy about the life and death of Paco (Antonio Banderas), a Spanish peasant who had been fighting against the feudal landowning system that kept farmers impoverished. Paco's life is told in flashbacks by a priest (Antonio Ferrandis) who is seen officiating at an anniversary mass attended by three wealthy landowners and no one else. The priest recalls Paco's baptism, his communion, his marriage ceremony and then his work for the peasants as he advocated and led them in a land-reform movement. The rest of the story will rest heavy on the priest's conscience, as he looks out at his empty church.
Genres: Crime War Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-08-29
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Lázaro de Tormes
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-01-19
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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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Such As You Are
Overview: Lina, who works as a servant, is saving money with his boyfriend Daniel, who is fireman, in order to get married. But the weddings' day, when his fiance is goint to the wedding, he recieves an urgent call because of a big fire in the forest. So he decides to go to the fire and leaves his fiancee at the church. Lina feels that Daniel prefer the fire than her so he goes to her town hitchhiking. Carlos, who has just robbed a bank, picks her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-02-07
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Tiempos de constitución
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-09-16
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Winter Diary
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-09-29
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Traffic Jam
Overview: A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactions and other grotesque situations. All the episodes are linked as if in a single plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a larger universe: the congestion.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-12
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El Dorado
Overview: The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
Genres: Adventure History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-04-20
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En un París imaginario
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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