José Luis de Vilallonga
Also Known As: Jose Luis De Villalonga, José De Villalonga, Jose-Luis Vilallonga , José Luis Vilallonga, José Villalonga, J.L. de Villalonga, José Luis de Villalonga
Biography: José Luis de Vilallonga y Cabeza de Vaca, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, GE (29 January 1920 – 30 August 2007) was a Spanish nobleman, author, socialite and film actor. His peculiar character, described as "a mixture of aristocratic arrogance, self-confidence and unconcern", brought him frequent enmities with other public figures. He was known to be a multifaceted, charming, elegant and playboy-like figure. Description above from the Wikipedia article José Luis de Vilallonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: January 29, 1920
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 30, 2007
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Overview: Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-06
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Trop c'est trop
Overview: Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in love with Edina, but she's always put them off. They set off in search of her and find her posing for a photographer. Seeing them, she flees and dies in the process. By mutual agreement, the three boys commit suicide to join her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-06-05
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The Lovers
Overview: A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions of love, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-11-05
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The Good and the Bad
Overview: The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-01-19
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Midnight Meeting
Overview: A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Burglars
Overview: In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to set off.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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Scarab
Overview: Dr. Wilfred Manz performs a magical experiment on a beetle-shaped amulet. His patience exhausted, he smashes his fist into some bottles and a few drops of blood fall onto the scarab. His laboratory is rocked by an explosion, the god Khepera appears and Manz is transformed into a demi-god magician. Thirty years later, Manz has assumed the name Khepera and lives in mysterious castle. Using his magical powers, he is killing heads of government and causing the collapse of major financial institutions. Jack Murphy, an American correspondent, witnesses the pandemonium following the suicide of the Spanish prime minister and notices an attractive nurse, Elena, take a small scarab which has fallen from the prime minister's lapel. Later, he visits an occult shop where the scarab is identified as being associated with the Egyptian god, Khepera. Murphy is captured and Elena — who was tricked into sacrificing her brother when they were children — once more takes up the sacrificial dagger...
Genres: Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-22
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Juliet of the Spirits
Overview: Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-22
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National III
Overview: In order to solve economic problems, "Leguineche" family decide to move to France with their limited belongings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-12-06
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Don't Tempt the Devil
Overview: A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-04-17
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Law of Men
Overview: After a planned robbery on an armoured car the investigating police officer encounters a female journalist who specialises in criminology, and who he suspects may have had a role in the heist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-07-04
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The Magnificent Cuckold
Overview: Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he starts to become obsessed with his wife's fidelity. Since she is one of the most desired women in town, he worries that it would be very easy for her to cheat on him. Now every time a man looks at his wife, Andrea goes crazy. Meanwhile, Maria finds out about her husband's affair and decides to plan her revenge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-19
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The Hired Killer
Overview: Hit-man Clint Harris has one more job to do before he can retire. The corporation which hires him demands that Harris "erase" an ex-employee who has become a snitch for the police. At first Harris refuses but when his own brother is assassinated he accepts the job.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-03-25
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A Maiden for the Prince
Overview: Young Prince Vincenzo Gonzaga, rejects his first wife Margherita Farnese, obtaining the annulment of the union and, at the same time, raising strong doubts about her virginity
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-26
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Poppers
Overview: A guy named Santos is released from prison after having killed his best friend. The dead friends father then organizes a manhunt to kill Santos. Santos escapes and then turns things around as he starts hunting the hunters.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-10-14
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Cléo from 5 to 7
Overview: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-04-11
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The Duchess of Avila
Overview: An epic six-hour adaptation of Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. Most famously filmed by Wojciech Has, this four part adaptation has the advantage of a vastly expanded running time, allowing for more of the novel to be incorporated >> shot on film, it was clearly a very expensive production and is equally spectacular in its own way.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-24
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The Nina B. Affair
Overview: A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-06-06
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Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Overview: Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, so that he could later make her his mistress.
Genres: History Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-04-04
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Une femme au bout de la nuit
Overview: Her mother had advised her to marry to acquire respectability and material comfort, the obedient little girl married a successful Catholic writer a few years later, giving her two beautiful children, a spacious house, a few servants, and glittering social evenings. But in her thirties, Rose can no longer fall asleep at the side of her husband, who is imperturbably indifferent to her charms and neglects her, to develop, with more attentive ears, endless considerations on divine values in this world. So, in the evening, the young woman lets herself be drawn into pleasantly equivocal reveries. And if the day finds her repentant at the feet of her confessor, the night lurks again with its temptations and the virile torso of a handsome groom straight out of "Lady Chatterley's Lover", one of her clandestine reads.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-10-15
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The Angels
Overview: Larry, who is awaiting a large inheritance, lives with his uncle who hopes to receive part of the hefty sum. He meets another specimen of its kind, weak, lazy and eager to show off, who lives on the hooks of an elderly woman. The two thugs sympathize and cause, by game, a fatal accident. From perverse games to silly games, they enter a deadly spiral.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-08-23
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How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
Overview: Playboy magazine darling (and one-time playmate of Hugh Hefner) Barbi Benton is Naughty Cheerleader Lynne Keefe, a small-town, small-brained babe who gets caught up big-time in the sex business. As a high school cheerleader who can really twirl a baton back in hometown Scranton, Lynne gets knocked up by a horny hunk on a motorcycle who then dumps her, sending her into a sexual spiral that takes her to The Catskills, Boston, New York, Miami and Rome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-15
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Reportage sur un squelette ou Masques et bergamasques
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Genres: TV Movie Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-03-24
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La diputada
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-03-25
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Patricia
Overview: A young heiress leads a life of excess and wants to marry a man her rich father despises. When her father suspiciously dies, and someone tries to kill her, she surrounds herself with her cousins, friends and lovers, all possible suspects.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-03-27
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Femmes
Overview: Helmut is fed up traveling around he world. Coming back from Asia, he decides to stay some time in Alexandra's house, a long time friend. She is living on a beautiful island where she is doing art. From his travels, Helmut brought back some old manuscript about secret rites that he decides to share with Alexandra after restarting a sexual relationship with her
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-06-22
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Tex and the Lord of the Deep
Overview: Based on the adventures of the hero Tex from the comic strip by Bonelli. An interesting spaghetti-western/fantasy movie that blends magic and mythology with six-guns and stagecoaches.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-09-06
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Darling
Overview: The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men while gaining fame and fortune.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-03
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Behold a Pale Horse
Overview: Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-14
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Chi dice donna, dice donna
Overview: Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb and a priestess who gives herself as wife to an emigrant.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-02-11
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Sappho
Overview: Françoise Legrand, better known as "Sappho", attractive young woman of the Parisian bourgeoisie, flits from man to man with the consent of Maurice Duran-Vior, his rich protector, a renowned financier. At a social gathering, she meets Lionel de Lancey, younger than she, a cool diplomat, and, as usual, she spends the night with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-24
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Any Number Can Win
Overview: Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-19
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The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
Overview: When an oily attorney dies at the hands of the mafia, a dedicated French detective investigates the man's murder. He soon uncovers a drug-smuggling operation and lets his sawed-off shotgun do the talking to the toughs in this Gallic gangster feature.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-20
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Voltati Eugenio
Overview: The film begins when Eugenio, a 14 year old child, is conduced from his grandparents home outside Rome, to Giancarlo (his father) in the city, by Giancarlo's friend (called "Moustache"). As Eugenio is bothering Moustache, he threatens Eugenio with leaving him in the middle of the country. He finally does it. When Giancarlo finds out, they return for Eugenio, but he is now lost. Meanwhile we're told the story of the child and his relation with the family, and why he feels unwanted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-05
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Speed Cross
Overview: Undercover cop Fabio Testi infiltrates the world of motocross racing.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-02
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The Three Faces
Overview: Italian comedy film made of three segments directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Mauro Bolognini and Franco Indovina. First segment: Il Provino; second segment: Gli amanti celebri; third segment: Latin Lover.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-02-12
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L'Ennemi dans l'ombre
Overview: The director of the French Ministry of the Interior summons Serge Cazals, an Interpol agent, to unmask the leaders of an organization that sells military intelligence and has just made a name for itself with the assassination of Secret Service ace Georges Dandieu. Cazals is soon spotted by his adversaries and dangerously threatened. Through an intermediary in the organization, he obtains a telephone number that leads him to various leads, but to no avail. He then decides to set a trap, with the help of his friend Violaine.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-08-24
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Naked Autumn
Overview: Milan is an ex Formula One driver and now he lives with his wife Roberte in a small country town. But Milan is not satisfied, so Roberte encourages a love-story between Milan and Helene, a young woman. Milan can't decide and at last the tragedy comes. Then Milan returns to drive in Formula One.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-05-17
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National Heritage
Overview: After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exile, with the purpose of returning to Madrid to actively participate in the social events of the aristocracy and to get closer to the closest circle of the Spanish monarch. The obsession of the old marquis is centered on getting in touch with the most illustrious surnames, to ascend socially and to resume the pomp and courtly life that his family lost a long time ago. To this end, he decides to move into an old palace he owns, located in the center of the capital, but not before overcoming the difficulties posed by his wife, who deeply hates both her husband and her son. To regain control of the palace, the Marquis of Leguineche tries to handicap his wife, arguing an incurable mental illness, and then undertake a reform of the place in order to adapt it to aristocratic life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-03-26
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Dos y dos, cinco
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-11-23
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The Long Winter
Overview: In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in the intervening years. The only person he can find who is able to remember those years clearly is his family's old butler Claudio.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-02-15
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Tales of Paris
Overview: A film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love affair with her mother's lover. But it's a guitarist with whom she falls in love. In Françoise, by Claude Barma, a young woman returning to France after living in the United States has an affair with her best friend's lover. In Antonia, by Michel Boisrond, a middle-aged woman tries to convince her ex-lover that she still has many assets to seduce. In Ella, by Jacques Poitrenaud, a Pigalle dancer meets a man in a cab.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-01-17
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