Francisco Maestre
Also Known As: Juan Francisco Maestre
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mérida, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: July 02, 1957
Age: 67 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 27, 2011
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Bad Education
Overview: An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-03-19
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The Devil's Backbone
Overview: Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-04-20
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Contratiempos
Overview: Short by Antonio Gómez-Olea
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Al-Andalus: las artes islámicas en España
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-04-21
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The Valdemar Legacy
Overview: Luisa Llorente, an expert on taxation of old buildings, had recently gone to the Victorian mansion Valdemar to conduct an inventory of property ownership. After she mysteriously disappeared, Maximilian, president of her company, engaged the services of a private detective to help find her. But soon they will discover that it is not the first disappearance at Valdemar mansion!
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-01-22
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The Devil's Breath
Overview: A small family of travelers arrives after a long journey at a village hut, which they claim as home. The family consists of Damian, a mute but skilled hunter, his wife Priscila, and their two children, a mute son named Pablo and a beautiful daughter named Agueda. Before long, Don Rodrigo, the feudal lord of the village, sets his sights on both Priscila and Agueda.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-10-29
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Atilano, presidente
Overview: Atilano Bermejo is a petty crook who gets involved in the scam of his life: to be Prime Minister. His charisma and lack of social concern make him an ideal political candidate for a group of bankers looking for a good public image behind which to hide and disguise their ambitions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-09-24
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99.9: The Frequency of Terror
Overview: Lara, the host of a radio call-in show dealing in psychic phenomena, discovers that her estranged lover has been found dead in a small Spanish village.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-11-07
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Mutant Action
Overview: Waging war against all things glamorous and beautiful, crippled terrorists Acción Mutante plot a series of attacks on society's elite, and attempt the kidnapping of a wealthy socialite at her elaborate wedding reception.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-02-03
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Lute: Forge On or Die
Overview: In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed "El Lute", steals some chickens and is condemned to six months in jail. El Lute moves to the slum outskirts of Madrid with his common law wife, Chelo, starting an itinerant life as a peddler of pots and pans and living in a quinqui shantytown. He gradually embarks upon as life of petty criminality, eventually participating in the theft of a jewelry store during which a bystander is killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-09-19
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The Day of the Beast
Overview: The story revolves around a Basque Roman Catholic priest dedicated to committing as many sins as possible, a death metal salesman from Carabanchel, and the Italian host of a TV show on the occult. These go on a literal "trip" through Christmas-time Madrid to hunt for and prevent the reincarnation of the Antichrist.
Genres: Horror Comedy Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-10-20
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Eso
Overview: Since he began to work, Domingo lives against the trend: he sleeps during the day, care for her younger sister in the afternoon and at night vacuums in a department store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-06-05
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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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Y del seguro… líbranos, Señor!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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La pantalla diabólica
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-11-14
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Taxi
Overview: A young girl, after failing an exam, is forced by her father, a taxi-driver, to learn his profession. Soon she discovers that her father is not only a driver but also a member of a racist group eliminating immigrants, homosexual, transvestite, etc. people. She also falls in love with a boy, also a taxi-driver and a "socio" of the group.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-09-09
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One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Overview: The Devil talks only through an image and tell his stories to an imprisoned writer.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-02-28
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Robo en el cine Capitol
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-07-13
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Black Serenade
Overview: Students of the university of Salamanca are brutally murdered by a black masked minstrel. Alex, an architecture student who has recently moved to Salamanca discovers a pattern behind the killings; it seems as if the killer strikes regularly after the exams to free the campus from lousy students.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-07-19
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Justino, un asesino de la tercera edad
Overview: Justino was working in a bull-ring but now he is retired. For him it is very difficult to adapt to the new situation although he will find soon a hobby without forgetting his profession.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-11-24
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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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Siempre hay un camino a la derecha
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-08-29
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Freedomfighters
Overview: At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-04-19
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Everyone Off to Jail
Overview: A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-12-22
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The Ugliest Woman in the World
Overview: Somebody has decided to celebrate New Year's Eve 2011 in a very twisted way - by dressing as a nun and brutally dismembering a little old lady. Lt. Arribas, a bald, toothless, one-eyed and lonely detective is called in on the case. His investigations lead him to the door of renegade Doctor Werner, who tells him the strange story of "The Beautiful Otero" the most beautiful woman in the world (former Spanish model Galera) who, before Werner s miraculous surgery, was the ugliest woman in the world! But Lt. Arribas now has a new problem - he is falling in love at a distance with his principle suspect who, because of her traumatic childhood, is planning her vengeance - to sabotage the Miss Spain Beauty Pageant, leaving behind her a trail of dead beauty queens. A super-slick science fiction thriller with a dark and bizarre finale.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-11-05
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The Witch Affair
Overview: The night of San Juan, Miguel murders his associate. Two elderly people are witness to the crime and predict that all of his dreams will come true thereafter. He will know the price he has to pay when he sees a black cat with a moon shaped mark on its forehead. Twenty-two years later a messenger begins to see all his dreams come true...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-01-17
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Faust: Love of the Damned
Overview: An artist sells his soul to the mysterious M in order to get revenge on the people who killed his girlfriend. Soon, he realises everything has a price, and he is transformed into a horned demon with a passion for killing.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-01
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América
Overview: In a Portuguese village by the sea, a family sees their house become a transit point to innumerous migrants due to a passport forgery business created by its patriarch, Vítor, and his Spanish ex-wife Fernanda. His Russian wife Liza and his son Mauro—who stops talking—see the newcomers alter the dynamics, relationships and aspirations of the house's residents.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-05-26
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The Sow
Overview: After spending three years in captivity in Tunis, Bartolomé returns home Extremadura with the only hope to eat his favorite dish: the pork. Along the way he meets a deserter who is traveling with a sow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-11-06
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Bésame, tonta
Overview: A young bank clerk is transferred, in view of his special way of being, to a branch for misfits, where he will meet a whole series of very strange characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-04-05
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Pasos Largos (El último bandido andaluz)
Overview: "Pasos largos" (long steps) is an alias for the last Andalusian bandit, after engaging in poaching for a living, he begins to commit small crimes in the mountainous area of Ronda (Malaga, Spain), but everything gets even more complicated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-06-11
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Romanza final (Gayarre)
Overview: Biography of Julian Gayarre (1844-1890), one of the best tenors of all times. At 19, a professor at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid heard him singing for the first time and offered him a scholarship to continue his studies. His artistic life runs between continued success, becoming the world's greatest tenor. But in 1890, while singing at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a failure in his voice is like a cruel reminder of what would happen a few days later: his death at a young age. The doctors gave a diagnosis, but his friends know that Julian Gayarre died because he could not sing anymore.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-04-29
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Winter Diary
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-09-29
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Año Mariano
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-08-11
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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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Desde que amanece apetece
Overview: Pelayo is leaving to work for his uncle Lorenzo and to find a nice girl to settle down with. Pelayo arrives to find out that Lorenzo's "business" is in fact a male strip show and Lorenzo's dancers are a laughing stock. Lorenzo has all his money tied up in his wedding with ex-prostitute Palmira. With Pelayo arriving life turns upside down. Can Lorenzo keep his infidelities a secret and his crew off the streets? Can Pelayo keep from falling for a prostitute on his way to finding a wife?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-07-21
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