Ana Mariscal
Also Known As: Ана Марискаль
Biography: Ana María Arroyo Mariscal (31 July 1923 – 28 March 1995) better known as Ana Mariscal was a classic Spanish film actress, director, screenwriter and film producer. She also acted in Argentinean films. She was involved in well over 50 films between 1940 and 1968, frequently starring in films she also wrote and directed. She is iconic to 1940s and 50s Spanish cinema. Her brother Luis Arroyo (1915–1956) was also an actor and film director.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Birthday: July 31, 1921
Deathday: March 28, 1995
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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De mujer a mujer
Overview: As every year, the happy marriage of Luis and Isabel wakes up ready to celebrate her onomastics her and that of her daughter, unaware that the day reserves a tragic twist in the destiny of their lives, because the girl dies in a fatal accident. The impression is so strong that Isabel becomes mad until the point of being confined in a sanatorium. And looking for her health, the doctor forbids Luis to see his wife. He can only get news from her via Emilia, the young nurse who cares for Isabel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-09-13
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Un hombre va por el camino
Overview: Luis, a tall and strong vagabond, refuses the job offered to him by an old gentleman, which provokes the latter's indignation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-12-30
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Queen of the Chantecler
Overview: A Spanish music hall performer gets caught up in espionage during the First World War.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-10-01
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Raza
Overview: The troubled story of the Churruca family, a noble lineage of brave seamen, descendants of Cosme Damián Churruca, the Spanish hero of the Battle of Trafalgar; from the Spanish-American War (1898) to the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). (In 1950, a new cut of the film was released with less ideological depth and ten minutes shorter.)
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-01-30
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Jeromín
Overview: In the biography of John of Austria the Spanish hero of Flanders, brother of Philip II, as an argument, the tape is a praise of Spain Emperor Charles V and the values of Franco.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-12-19
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Misa en Compostela
Overview: Filmed during Ana Mariscal's tour of various locations in the north of the peninsula to present her first feature film, "Segundo López, aventurero urbano", shows a day in the life of the city of Santiago de Compostela, with special attention to a liturgy celebrated in its cathedral and following its very young and wild altar boy, although also showing part of the daily practice of a disenchanted Pharmacy student and configuring the physiognomy of a city marked by rain, the University and the power of the Catholic Church.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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The Violet Seller
Overview: On New Year's Eve 1899, Soledad is peddling violets in a Madrid busy street when she meets aristocrat Fernando. The couple falls in love but their different social backgrounds threatens the relationship. Fernando is under constant pressure from his older brother Alfonso who reminds him of his duties including his engagement to Magdalena, a countess. Disregarding all social conventions and scandalizing high society, Fernando sets up Soledad in a plush apartment and announces their marriage plans.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-04-06
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The Magistrate
Overview: Emilia Bonelli is an overly ambitious and driven woman. This dominant personality trait has its effects on her henpecked husband Luigi, and her daughter Carla. Circumstances ultimately lead to the courtroom and an aloof judge in the persona of Andrea Morandi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-07
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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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La florista de la reina
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-12-12
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¡Aquellas palabras!
Overview: Father Carlos, a Basque priest, decides to leave voluntarily as a missionary to a village lost in the Philippines. From the first moment, their biggest aspiration would be to reconstruct an ancient mission. But to do so, he will have to face numerous difficulties.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-04-04
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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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La quiniela
Overview: Don Cándido is a modest old office clerk who makes his first pool coming off of a bad streak at work. He has thirteen hits and wins a considerable sum of money. This causes him to be blinded by ambition, changing his character, spreading his newfound hobby to his family, and gambling becoming the center of his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-05-18
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Segundo López, Urban Adventurer
Overview: Segundo López, a mature and very humble man who has arrived in Madrid from Cáceres, his homeland, meets Francisca, with whom he falls in love, and El Chirri, a roguish street urchin with whom he will have adventures all over the huge and hostile city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-02-04
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Raza, el espíritu de Franco
Overview: Documentary made immediately after Franco's death, which includes interviews with the dictator's sister and with Alfredo Mayo, the actor who played the lead role in the film 'Raza'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-11-02
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Cinematógrafo 1900
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-11-25
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Dulcinea
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-06-09
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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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Carlota
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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El paseíllo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Other Woman
Overview: The troubling attraction of a young decorator, Agnès, on a small Spanish island, for a man everyone distrusts, whose wife has mysteriously disappeared.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-04
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Vestida de novia
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Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-10-02
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Bacará
Overview: When a concert pianist is crippled in a car accident, his wife turns to gambling and gets in over her head.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-11-17
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El polizón del Ulises
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Hay que bañar al nene
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-06-12
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El tambor del Bruch
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-05-31
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El camino
Overview: Shortly before leaving his small town to go to the big city to study, young Daniel recalls his childhood, surrounded by family and friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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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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En carne viva
Overview: The extramarital love of a doctor and a woman who ends up killing her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-03-24
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De noche también se duerme
Overview: When a divorced couple tries to reunite, the separation of others distances them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-01-19
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Feria en Sevilla
Overview: Rafael is an aspiring bullfighter who seems more interested in the world of song. However, his father, Mr. Manuel, a good man although somewhat stubborn, will do everything possible to dress himself up. This will lead to a confrontation between father and son.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-07-23
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Noche sin cielo
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Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-09-25
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El obstáculo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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¡Culpable!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-09-28
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Una sombra en la ventana
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-03-31
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Cabeza de hierro
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-12-25
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Pacto de silencio
Overview: A woman is told his military husband is considered dead, the truth is he has been transferred to the secret service. When he returns to Spain and they get reunited he ends killing a German spy, and then she gets prosecuted.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-09-12
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Un día perdido
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-09-20
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Occidente y sabotaje
Overview: Two Communist agents plot an attack on a dam in Spain.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-05-28
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Vidas cruzadas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-12-21
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Juego de niños
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-02-23
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La fuente enterrada
Overview: A woman returns home from a mental hospital, to find his husband has used her case to write a play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Enigma de mujer
Overview: A series of anecdotes exposed from the point of view of a Samaritan woman who tries to fix the problems of the neighbors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-09-27
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Vértigo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-28
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