Alberto Romea
Also Known As: Alberto Romea Catalina
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Birthday: January 15, 1882
Deathday: April 14, 1960
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Overview: A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the American visitors, in the hopes of benefiting under the Marshall Plan. Hoping to demonstrate the side of Spanish culture with which the visiting foreign officials would be more familiarized, the Castilian citizens don unfamiliar Andalusian costumes, hire a renowned flamenco performer, and re-decorate their town in Andalusian style, meantime waiting for their uncertain arrival.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-04-04
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El fantasma y doña Juanita
Overview: Fearing that her niece Rosita will abandon her true love and enter into a marriage of convenience, doña Juanita tells her the story of when, many years ago, she fell in love with an accountant who worked in a circus.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-03-31
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Eloísa está debajo de un almendro
Overview: Fernando, who has returned to his hometown after studying in Brussels, finds a strange suicide note written by his father ten years earlier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-12-21
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Miracles of Thursday
Overview: In Fontecilla, a Spanish village in decline, the mayor and other illustrious citizens hatch a crazy plan to revitalize tourism.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-08-22
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Los hijos de la noche
Overview: A marginal group celebrates Christmas Eve singing and dancing in the street while a millionaire celebrates the feast offering a great dinner to his friends. The millionaire receives a telegram from his sister in America who announces her visit after more than twenty years without seeing each other…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-10-20
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El 13-13
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Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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El señor Esteve
Overview: Barcelona, 1860. Mr. Esteve, owner of a haberdashery and proud of his son, attends the christening of his grandson who, years later, determined to become a renowned artist, seems unwilling to continue the tradition and take over the family business. (Only badly preserved and severely mutilated copies of this film survive, just 69 out of a total of 108 minutes.)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-12-31
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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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The Sunless Street
Overview: Mauricio is a Frenchman who arrived in Barcelona fleeing from justice. He takes refuge in a hostel in Chinatown and falls in love with Pilar, the niece of the owner. When a murder is committed in the neighborhood, Mauricio becomes the prime suspect.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-11-22
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Una mujer en peligro
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1936-03-02
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Mariona Rebull
Overview: Barcelona, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. Joaquín Rius, a prominent businessman, marries the young Mariona Rebull. Their apparent happiness is overshadowed by the arrival of Ernesto Villar, Joaquín's friend and Mariona's former lover.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-04-05
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My Beloved Juan
Overview: The strange disappearance of the dogs of his neighbors leads Juan to investigate the case on his own. It ends up finding out that the author of the robberies is a young woman called Eloísa, the cocky daughter of a scientist who uses dogs to create an antidote against sleep. Juan and Eloísa fall in love, but he will ask her to leave her luxurious mansion to live only with his salary.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-02-12
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Viaje sin destino
Overview: To save a travel agency in an endangered situation one of the employees has a brilliant idea, announcing a special travel with no defined destiny.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-03-30
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Carmen la de Triana
Overview: The story of a beautiful, vivacious gypsy girl and the two doomed men who fall for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-07-05
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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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Amore di ussaro
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-10-08
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Forja de almas
Overview: Film based on the life of the priest Andrés Manjón.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-10-31
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Clarita y Peladilla en el Football
Overview: A Spanish Charlie Chaplin wannabe (Benito Perojo/Peladilla) takes his girl to watch a football match in Madrid. Doesn't take long before Peladilla gets in on the action on the pitch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1916-05-25
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Radio Stories
Overview: Three short stories based on radio competitions, all linked by speaker Gabriel and his fiancee. Two inventors who want to patent a piston and need money, a thief who answers a phone call while robbing and a child who needs to go to Sweden for an operation are the protagonists of these stories around the radio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-07-25
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La señorita de Trevélez
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1936-04-11
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La muralla feliz
Overview: Filiberto Aguirre abandons his career as captain of the merchant navy because he has well-founded hopes of receiving a great inheritance. But time goes by, the inheritance does not arrive and his family's economic situation worsens every day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-07-23
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Suspiros de España
Overview: Dolores works as a washerwoman with her daughter Sole and they both live with the girl's stepfather and her godfather, a nice good-for-nothing guy. Although they all have a very different personality, they share the illusion of seeing Sole become a great artist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-10-16
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El barbero de Sevilla
Overview: Since he falls for beautiful Rosina, the Almaviva count is questioning his Donjuanesque life. He resolves to travel to Seville to seek advice from famed Figaro, who is much more than a barber.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-04-16
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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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Lola the Coalgirl
Overview: Cadiz, during the War of Independence. The Lola singer in love with a French military entrusted an important message ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-03
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El genio alegre
Overview: In an Andalusian village lives a rich and austere family whose son and heir worries his mother about his dissolute lifestyle. When cousin Consolation arrives, she changes their life like a joyful genius, and things start to change.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-12-27
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Éramos 7 a la mesa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-04-04
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Los cuatro robinsones
Overview: Four friends pretend a cruise to escape their wives and go clubbing, but they are forced to go through face-saving shipwreck, becoming castaways.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-12-04
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Sobresaliente
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-02-02
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La bien pagada
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1935-10-04
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Sarasate
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-12-01
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El hombre que las enamora
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-12-13
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Héroe a la fuerza
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-04-12
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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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Dawn of America
Overview: Kingdom of Castile, the late fifteenth century. The film chronicles the events that Cristóbal Colón lived (Antonio Vilar) from their stay in the Convent of La Rabida, his meeting with the Catholic Monarchs and, above all, the great odyssey that led to cross the Atlantic and reach the shores of America (1492), thus beginning a new era in the history of mankind.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-12-20
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I Was a Parish Priest
Overview: A young priest encounters major problems in the diocese where he must preach the word of the Lord, mainly as a result of hatred caused by differences in classes
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-30
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It Happened in Spain
Overview: A miller falls in love with the wife of a magistrate who, in turn, courts the miller's wife. (Lost film.)
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1934-10-04
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