Manuel Requena
Also Known As: Manuel Requna Mendoza, José Requena, Manvel Reqvena
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Alicante, Spain
Birthday: August 21, 1891
Deathday: May 09, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Last Horse
Overview: Fernando has just finished the military service. It decides to buy Bucéfalo, the horse that has been his partner for this time and returns to Madrid removing with it to the animal. But everything has changed, the city already neither is the same and even he nor finds stables nor has time to attend to it. This way the things remedy will not have any more that to look for any solution.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-23
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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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Feather in the Wind
Overview: Carlos, veterinary, poet, musician in his spare time and a fun-minded Don Juan,pretends to be his friend Fernando who has inherited a pharmacy in Madrid. There he meets an old girl friend that attracts him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-17
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The Lovers of Toledo
Overview: Toledo, 1825. To save her fiancé, an opponent of the regime, the beautiful Inès agrees to marry the chief of police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-01-28
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Carnival Sunday
Overview: Madrid, Carnival Sunday. A night watchman finds the body of a woman, a rich and greedy moneylender who has apparently been murdered. The prime suspect is a watchmaker who owed her a lot of money.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-10-22
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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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Barrio
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Genres: Comedy Mystery Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-03-02
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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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The Great Galeoto
Overview: A young musician and dreamy, called "Ernesto", is forced to live in Madrid to die his father, in the house of executor of the testament, "don Julio Villamil", who is married to actress Teresa Labisbal, of which "Ernesto Acedo" was enamored platonic. Although the conduct of the young is flawless, a third person causes slander which oblige "don Julio" to fight in mourning to death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-15
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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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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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Mr. Arkadin
Overview: Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-09
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Gioventù disperata
Overview: A doctor whose wife has been accidentally killed by a young man who lives in an impoverished zone of Madrid, goes there with the intention of taking revenge, but after meeting the man's little sister, he goes through a change of heart and decides to stay and help the people that live there, supported by the benevolent local priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-14
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Con la vida hicieron fuego
Overview: The sailor Quico Carola, alleged war hero of the Francoist side, emigrated to America and amassed a great fortune. Fifteen years later he returns to Ferrera (Asturias), his homeland, in search of a wife who makes him forget his late girlfriend. There he will see his old friends and Armandina, the widow of a Republican shot during the Spanish civil war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-09-20
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The Other Fu Manchu
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Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-05-06
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Dulcinea
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-06-09
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El pirata Bocanegra
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Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Encuentro en la ciudad
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-04-09
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Un marido de ida y vuelta
Overview: Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife dies victim of a heart attack the day she forces him to shave his beloved beard to go to a costume ball dressed as a bullfighter. Its spectrum then begins to walk around the house and the most unexpected cause tangles. When she finally decides to settle definitely get materialize and get his wife, who has meanwhile become a being sweet and understanding.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-08-26
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The Miller's Saucy Wife
Overview: In a region of Andalusia, all the men lust after the miller's young wife.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-12-05
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Luxury Cabin
Overview: Aurelio leaves his village and goes to the capital to work with a relative in an emigration shipping company. He soon discovers that his relative earns a bonus extorting migrants who sell tickets. But Aurelio is an honest, sensible man who cannot allow such injustice, and he gets fired. Without telling his parents or girlfriend anything about what happened, he decides to stow away on a boat to America.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-06-22
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The Other Life of Captain Contreras
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-06-05
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Póker de ases
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-12-13
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The Nail
Overview: Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-10-05
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An Ordinary Woman
Overview: A woman who has walked out of an unhappy marriage is unsuccessful trying to earn herself a new living and gets mixed with a man who is a murderer and tries to incriminate her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-08-15
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Tuvo la culpa Adán
Overview: Nora leaves the convent where she has been raised to marry a relative. Just arrived she has an accident resulting in total amnesia. Her identity mistaken a new life begins for her, where she will encounter love, adventure and even crime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-10-09
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The Captain's Ship
Overview: Port of Seville, Spain, 1640. A group of people from very different origins embark on the ship Capitana. They are members of the upper class, adventurers, peasants, convicts, who have only one thing in common: the illusion of arriving in America, the promised land where they can make their dreams and ambitions come true.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-09-29
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Café de París
Overview: After suffering a family tragedy, Carmen leaves Spain and emigrates to Paris, where she will make new friends among some of the most peculiar characters who inhabit the bohemian neighborhoods of the city. (Partially lost film.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-12-27
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: A Christmas Carol
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-02
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Soledad
Overview: Italian comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-07
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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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En un rincón de España
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-11-21
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La fierecilla domada
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-01-23
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Messengers of Peace
Overview: Try the descent to Earth, specifically to Spain, of the Three Wise Men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-12-09
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Tres huchas para Oriente
Overview: Pedro Manolo and Juan, three naughty and full of enthusiasm children go out with their piggy banks collecting money for missions. Near the end of the day, a car ran over one of them and is driven to a nearby hospital. The head of school, not knowing which of the children was injured calls the parents of the three to attend the health center. In parallel, we know the story of the three families. In the upper-class family, the father will leave his mother for another woman, in the middle class one, one sister invites her boyfriend to lunch and family revolutionizes and, finally, in that of lower class, the boy's father is about to be complicit in a crime
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Facultad de Letras
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-05-12
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La lupa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-10-10
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La cigarra
Overview: Soledad, known as "La Cigarra", agrees to sing in Buenos Aires to have the opportunity to meet her liar boyfriend, whom she tries to forget in Rio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-11-22
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Morena clara
Overview: Trini, a gipsy girl, and her uncle Regalito are tried for the theft of several hams. Some time later, she presents herself, disguised as a maid, at the house of her former prosecutor, who ends up falling in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-12-23
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¡Olé torero!
Overview: Manuel is a friendly taxi driver in Buenos Aires that helps its beginnings to a famous Spanish bullfighter dubbed "The Carthusian". He travels to Spain to marry a young Sevillian, rich and beautiful, and Manuel accompanies him on the trip, as administrator. During the voyage dies "The Carthusian" afflicted with a terrible disease, and before dying makes him promise to his friend Manuel to comfort Soledad, his fiancee. But to get to Seville is confused with the bullfighter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-02-14
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La alegre caravana
Overview: Miguel, a young adventurer with a good social position, flees his home to prevent his marriage qith a woman chosen by his family. In their flight is hidden in a gypsy caravan merchants. There he meets Rocío, a beautiful young woman with an extraordinary voice. Michael will be involved in the events of the troupe and incorporated into the show, going from town to town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-02
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Suspiros de Triana
Overview: The famous singer Carlos Ojeda has come to Seville to hire some Spanish figure to accompany him on the show to be presented in Mexico. Negotiations with Dorita, The Cadiz, fail and Carlos is about to return to empty when discovered Reyes, selling beautiful flowers with a magnificent voice.
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-12-16
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Ella, él y sus millones
Overview: Arturo Salazar is a powerful businessman who wants to be related to the nobility, so he asks an aristocratic friend to find him a blue-blooded bride.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-12-25
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Estrella de Sierra Morena
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-09-22
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The Girl at the Inn
Overview: Juan Luis and Dimas arrive to the "Venta del Catite", a tavern run by Rafael and his goddaughter Reyes. The tavern is frequented by tuna fishermen in the region, but in reality it is a cover for smuggling. Rafael decides to hire a beautiful singer, Raquel, to distract customers and the two new arrivals, so that he can do his business without being disturbed.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-12
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Chantaje
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-09-26
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Un hombre de negocios
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-12-05
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The Marquis of Salamanca
Overview: José de Salamanca was arguably one of the most influential figures of the Spanish 1800s. This films tells his story.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-12-13
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Pototo, Boliche y Compañía
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Historia en dos aldeas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-03-30
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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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The Devil Plays the Flute
Overview: When the pieces of a singular figure are unearthed and then joined together, a devil of the lowest category breaks into a small Mediterranean village. From that moment on, the demon will enter the life of a painter named Bernardino, in the affairs of a "modern" marriage, in the existence of a frightened gardener and, finally, in the day-to-day life of the Great Momo.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-05-14
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Airport
Overview: Different kind of people arrives to Madrid airport. Some goes with their heads and others just landed. Fernando is a pilot who he brings a girl for his relatives. Ceferino and his wife have won a contest and will travel soon to Paraguay and they are there because they want to know the airplane. Mr. Beltran is very nervous because he returned to Spain after many years of exile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-14
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Nadie lo sabrá
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-12-07
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Tres eran tres
Overview: An anthology film centered around a film company called Tiacapa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-12-16
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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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Historias de Madrid
Overview: Dawn in Madrid. In the Plaza de la Cibeles begins the daily grind. The statue of the goddess, from its source in the center of the square tells the story of a man, petty speculator, owner of an old building that is going to ask Saint Nicholas for his cooperation to make it sink, and thus be able to lift a twelve-story modern building. But the inhabitants of the block have also implored the Saint to prevent this from happening.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-13
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Goyescas
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Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-10-09
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La vida empieza a medianoche
Overview: Silvia Heredia, since her arrival to Madrid is staying at her best friends' house, Mary. Her aim is to work as a secretary of a famous novelist. But at night the house is full of people and they confuse her with the owner of the floor. A series of misunderstandings makes her meet Ricardo Ariaga, the musician whose opera "Life begins at midnight" is about to debut. Ricardo convinces Sylvia to act as his wife. With a "rented" child they try to be the perfect family of a lonely old man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-11-09
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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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Imperial Violets
Overview: Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis Napoleón of France she takes the young girl with her. The empress'cousin readily makes her his focus of attention, then she discovers a criminal attempt against the empress.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-12-12
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Love Charm
Overview: Berta is a young manicurist whose boyfriend, Jorge, is too shy to ask for a raise, something she always blames him for. On the occasion of a special job that Berta must do in a big house, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, the couple fantasizes about what their life would be like in the midst of so many comforts.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-11-24
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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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María Antonia "La Caramba"
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-03-24
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Día tras día
Overview: The everyday stories of a parish priest and his sheep, some more troublesome than others, in Madrid's El Rastro neighborhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-17
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Agua sangrienta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-11-18
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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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Finally Alone
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-11-28
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Amor y toros
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-04-16
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El guardián del paraíso
Overview: A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in the black market, and his own witness of a robbery and as a lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-05-23
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