Concha Leza
Also Known As: Conchita Leza
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Department: Acting
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Goya in Bordeaux
Overview: Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He continues to paint at night, and in flashbacks stirred by conversations with his daughter, by awful headaches, and by the befuddlement of age, he relives key times in his life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-09-04
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Caso cerrado
Overview: Cesar and Isabel just got married for the Jewish rite, their religion. He is a director of a banking company. She works in a bookstore owned by her mother-in-law. The couple sees their happiness truncated when César discovers financial anomalies in the entity where he works. What were initially charges against some managers, becomes an accusation of embezzlement against César, who is in France to prevent his entry into military service. Go back and appear before the judge to prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-09-29
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Do It for Me
Overview: Andrés's wealthy father-in-law runs a textile factory; he retires and brings Andrés to Madrid, with wife and son, to run the company. Andrés works long hours, but his wife is bored, and there are tensions at home. When Isabel, a femme fatale, spots Andrés at a party, he's easy prey - but soon, she might be falling for him, perhaps enough to dump her boyfriend Paco, a small-time cocaine dealer. What if Andrés falls for her? What would he sacrifice to have her? And what about his wife; will she fight to keep him?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-11-07
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Murder in the Central Committee
Overview: The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assassin of the leader of the Spanish Communist party who was stabbed during a blackout while presiding over a meeting of the party's central committee. The film is a thriller with ironic political overtones.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-08-16
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El poderoso influjo de la luna
Overview: The film is an image of the Spanish society in form of various anecdotes which happen to the inhabitants and their neighbours of a finca in Madrid.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-09-21
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El hombre de moda
Overview: Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the job as a teacher through an old friend, Bruno Baena, who is the head master of the school. Aurora starts going to Pedro's classes. Pedro will become "El hombre de moda", very soon.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-11-14
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La monja alférez
Overview: Set in 1592 and based on a true story, a Spanish nun flees the convent and lives an adventurous life disguised as a man.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-06-04
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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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Trout
Overview: In a restaurant they're preparing a grand banquet in honor of a sports association of anglers, but several circumstances seem to have conspired to boycott the event.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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Adela
Overview: Andrés Reyes is a police inspector of renowned prestige in Barcelona. After his intervention in the kidnapping of a young girl (who is finally freed by her captor), the head of the police force promotes the protagonist to commissioner. In this new role, Andres gets to work on the case of Adela, a transvestite in need of protection. An Arab mobster and a network of traffickers are hatching a plan around his victim. Andres will have a shady relationship with Adela, until the final intervention.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-04-09
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Crimen en familia
Overview: Ignacio Costa is a tyrannical businessman with a conflictive personal life. He has a large family, a woman he abuses and humiliates and five children with whom he does the same, except for Mariana one of the girls. Tired of so many vexations, his wife will begin to influence his children until together they will plot the murder of the father
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Jarrapellejos
Overview: Pedro Jarrapellejos is a ladies man who cannot turn the heads of Isabel or her beautiful daughter. When both peasant women are found raped and murdered in a brutal scene, a schoolteacher is falsely accused. Pedro knows his own nephew and his friend participated in the killings, but he uses his considerable influence over the police and courts to intimidate the witnesses into silence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-09-11
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Valentina
Overview: In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-11-12
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The Trojan Women
Overview: In the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son has been killed, and his widow, Andromache, is left to raise their son, Astyanax, alone. Hecuba's daughter, Cassandra, fears being enslaved by her Greek masters, while Helen of Troy risks being executed. Astyanax also becomes the focus of the Greeks' attention as the last male heir of the Trojan royal family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-01
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Battered Flesh
Overview: Berta (Tota Alba) has entered, once again, in prison accused of fraud. From the first moment she steps in the jail, she becomes the toy of all the veteran inmates. The number of conflicts in which she is immersed causes her to be transferred several times from penitentiary. In all of them will live some experience that will change her life; she will know love, hate, despair, etc.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-27
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El gran mogollón
Overview: In a western and Mediterranean country, very fond of bullfighting and soccer, legislative elections are held, that is, "El Gran Mogollón" is elected from the bosses. Each leader feels that his position is secure, and some are preparing to take the presidency of "El Gran Mogollón", when the surprise arises: the P.E.R. has won by a wide margin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-10-28
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Chocolate
Overview: El Muertes and El Jato travel to Morocco to get some chocolate but run into trouble when they are assaulted by locals. Magda, El Jato's girlfriend, waits for them in Algeciras where they decide to steal a car to get back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-07-18
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The Longest Night
Overview: Fifteen years after the plot a lawyer and a military ex-attorney meet and recall the intense days of 1975 when both participated in the decission of war or peace. The film is told in flashbacks of the two protagonists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-23
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Outrage
Overview: Marco Vallez (Antonio Banderas) is possessed by the beauty of a circus sharp shooter, and from the second they meet he is willing to give up everything to be with her. But one horrifying night sends them both down a road of revenge leaving behind a trail of bodies to the ultimate showdown with justice.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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Smashing Up
Overview: Matilde is a former prostitute who gets married to an american soldier with an uncertain future, due to the possibility of being recruited to the Vietnam War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-03-18
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La hermana
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-07-13
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Los pasos perdidos
Overview: An Argentinean family living in Spain has their lives rocked when a famous author from their home country claims that their daughter is actually his granddaughter who was lost during a war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-08-09
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La paloma azul
Overview: A film that focuses on the sexual changes that occur in the minds and bodies of adolescent boys and girls. It explains the process from sexual contact to childbirth, as well as contraception.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Half of Heaven
Overview: After the civil war, Rosa, a beautiful and hard worker woman falls in love with a sharpener who turns out to be a con man. When she becomes a widow, she emigrates to Madrid with her daughter beginning to work as a nurse in the home of Don Pedro, an influential food manager.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-10-09
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