Juan Espantaleón
Also Known As: Juan Espantaleón Torres, Хуан Эспанталеон
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seville, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: March 11, 1885
Age: 140 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 26, 1966
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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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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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Eloísa está debajo de un almendro
Overview: Fernando, who has returned to his hometown after studying in Brussels, finds a strange suicide note written by his father ten years earlier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-12-21
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Teatro Apolo
Overview: In the late nineteenth century, Miguel Velasco, the son of a wealthy Spanish immigrant established in Mexico, comes to Madrid, where he falls in love with Celia, a chorus girl working at the Apollo theater.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-10-30
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The Faith
Overview: Father Luis Lastra is a young priest who does his job in the village of Peñascosa. There he meets Marta, a beautiful parishioner very interested in religious matters, so much that she convinces the priest to accompany her to the convent to become a cloistered nun. Along the way, they have to stop at an inn for the night and that's where Father Luis will test his faith.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-22
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Currito de la Cruz
Overview: Currito de la Cruz's dream is to become a bullfighter. When he gets the chance to bullfight for the first time, he meets Carmona, a retired renowned bullfighter whom he manages to fascinate. As his protégé, Currito begins to be famous. At the same time, Currito falls in love with Rocío, Carmona's daughter, but his love is not reciprocated, because she loves Ángel Romera, another bullfighter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-01-05
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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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Nobleza baturra
Overview: Aragón, Spain, early 20th century. María del Pilar is a honest girl whose good name is dirtied when an old suitor seeking revenge accuses her of losing her virginity outside of marriage. The scandal soon spreads throughout the countryside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1935-10-11
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La noche del sábado
Overview: In Rome, a beautiful young model named Donina is hired by a sculptor, Leonardo, inspired her to do a statue he hopes will be his masterpiece. The striking statue of Prince Florencio, heir to the throne of Preslavia, who presented at the banquet in his villa in Rome. Soon their beauty is all the rage across the country, the girl is the feeling of the moment and decides to leave with her prince, leaving behind all his life, including his daughter, who leaves her under the protection of Leonardo.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-12-29
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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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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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Locura de amor
Overview: The passion that Joan of Castile, daughter of the Catholic Kings and heir to the throne, feels for her husband, Philip the Handsome, sovereign of the Netherlands and son of Maximilian of Austria and Mary of Burgundy, is not reciprocated. Her temperament, her jealousy and an unexpected tragedy will throw Joan into the dark realm of madness and obsession with death, the only realm where she will be a true queen…
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-10-08
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Agustina of Aragon
Overview: 1808. During the Spanish Independence war the city of Zaragoza is besieged by French troops. Spanish forces under General Palafox are scarce. Brave Agustina doesn't hesitate to lead the battle and even fire a cannon to stop the invaders when others run away. Based on historical facts.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-10-09
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La chica del gato
Overview: An orphan, taken in at the home of unscrupulous people who intend to use her in a shady business, flees with her cat and her canary. Accustomed by necessity, she enters a dressmaker's house with the intention of stealing, but the treatment she is given makes her give up her efforts. However, when she leaves the object she had stolen, a servant discovers it and denounces her. When Nena knows the situation of the girl, she welcomes her as a maid. The orphan will help the mistress of the house to solve her emotional problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-11-09
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White Mission
Overview: Arriving at a Guinean Christian mission, a young priest is told by his elder ones the story of Father Javier, another young missioner who restlessly fought to convert a villain not only for God's sake, but also for sentimental reasons.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-03-28
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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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Mare nostrum
Overview: The Spanish merchant "Mare Nostrum", captained by Ulises Ferragut, docked in September 1939 at the port of Naples to repair a breakdown. Walking through the ruins of Pompeii, Ferragut meets Freyra, an enigmatic and beautiful woman of whom she instantly falls madly in love, unaware that the girl is in fact a dangerous spy of the Third Reich.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-12-21
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La pródiga
Overview: Spain, 1850. In the midst of the electoral campaign, three young men use all their strategies to place themselves in Madrid as members of the national congress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-09-27
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La mantilla de Beatriz
Overview: In XVII century Portugal two friends change identities so one of them can escape an unwanted marriage to Beatriz.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Reina santa
Overview: A virtuous Spanish princess becomes queen of Portugal, and soon is affected by the social struggles and the reckless fight to power between the king's faction and that of his son's.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-01-11
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Currito de la Cruz
Overview: Currito, raised in a Seville hospice, ekes out a living while trying to become a bullfighter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1926-01-12
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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 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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Pequeñeces
Overview: Madrid in the 1870s. Amidst political intrigues against King Amadeo de Saboya, wealthy and strong-willed countess Curra de Albornoz makes her own way in spite of her son and husband, considering her indiscretions as merely trifles ("pequeñeces") until tragedy strikes her. Period drama with a luxurious production design.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-20
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La inaccesible
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1921-04-11
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Llegada de noche
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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La señora de Fátima
Overview: The story of the 1917 miracle of Fatima, in which the Virgin Mary appeared to three children--two girls and one boy..
Genres: History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-07
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