Isabel Mestres
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: El Masnou, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Birthday: December 10, 1947
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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China 9, Liberty 37
Overview: Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-08-04
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Salomé
Overview: Short film by Almodovar, which tells the origin of the veil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Playing Parents
Overview: Leonor and Juan are a united couple of good standing that cannot have children. They want to adopt one but do not succeed because he is too old. Leonor proposes Juan an audacious plan: having a child with another woman, offering her a significant amount of money if she renunciates to the child. As it is very difficult to find the girl, they publish an advertisement in the press. Ana finally applies, as she has no job and lives far away from his family, so she accepts the deal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Assault at Central Bank
Overview: Film adaptation of a real event that occurred on May 23, 1981, in which a TV broadcaster, director of a major newspaper, and a deputy were involved
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos
Overview: A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to reconsider her life--work, family, friendships, men-- causing a psychological and emotional crisis pushes her toward a drastic decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-11-17
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Elisa, My Life
Overview: Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis in her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill. Elisa decides to travel to the countryside of Madrid with Isabel and her brother-in-law Julián and their two children to visit Luis for his birthday. Elisa decides to stay with her father when her sister returns to Madrid with her family and she gets closer to Luis, understanding why he left her mother years ago. Later she tells him that Antonio cheated on her with her best friend Sophie and their relationship has ended. When Antonio unexpectedly arrives in the house, Elisa makes a decision about her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-04-21
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The Latest Scams of El Torete
Overview: While the Torete rob banks, the Heifer, another delinquent who has not noticed it, enters the same place to rob him. After failing the coup, both decide to associate.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-09-25
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Crooks
Overview: A man of a certain social position falls in jail and request protection to a pickpocket and con man during his stay. On his release he promises to help his friend what then creates many problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-09-21
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Nunca en horas de clase
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-11-03
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Street Warriors II
Overview: A veteran policeman named Fernando feels a lot of hatred against Ángel because the boy ran him over with a car leaving him lame. Now Fernando accuses the young crook of having participated in a robbery at a gas station in which a murder has occurred. Helped by his friends, Ángel rebuilds the facts that serve him as an alibi, but while he is in pre-trial detention in La Modelo prison (Barcelona) a terrible mutiny will take place.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-10-08
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The Arrangement
Overview: After a period of inactivity, Crisanto, a police inspector, returns to the service. When a friend of his is murdered, he decides to take over the investigation.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-10-03
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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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Muere, mi vida
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-02-27
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Sweet Hours
Overview: Juan Sahagún, since childhood, feels passion for his mother. One day in the street he sees a woman identical to her. He follows her and finds out that she works as an actress in a theater company, so Juan decides to hire the whole company to represent the people who have influenced him in his past. They recreate the same situations of yesteryear and Juan acts as the child he was, to relive the memories already forgotten.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-02-15
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Goodbye Alicia
Overview: Alice is a girl devoid of affection seeking refuge in the images shown in the movie screen of a theater that his father manages in the Venezuelan Andes. This creates improbable stories in which she is the protagonist...
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-04-27
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Black Island
Overview: The story of a friendship between two girls of different races, Susana and Rita, in Equatorial Guinea, from 1950 to 1961. Susana discovers with her friend a fascinating but troubled new world in Africa, where she comes of age and experiences love and sex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-08-12
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El libro de buen amor II
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Genres: Romance Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-04-22
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Catalan Cuckold
Overview: Comedy about a marriage guidance counselor whose own marriage is on the rocks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1979-08-31
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Volvoreta
Overview: Sergio falls in love with Federica, the maid of the house whom everyone calls "Volvoreta" ("butterfly" in Galician). Aware of the situation, the mother of the young gentleman dismisses the maid, who has no choice but to go to the capital city. But Sergio's love is so strong that he will follow her wherever she goes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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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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Beyond Desire
Overview: Mónica has just died in a traffic accident. Along with her was another man. Pedro Bernáldez, painter and lover of Mónica, was so in love with her that he came to change his painting style for the one indicated by his lover. Now that Mónica has died, Pedro will investigate what relationship the deceased had with each other and begins to discover many things.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Parranda
Overview: Cebrian, a blast furnace worker Asturian, being held at the Civil Guard barracks. There has to be accountable for the disasters in a day of party with two friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-03-17
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Too Much for Galvez
Overview: Gálvez is a bumbling journalist investigating a real state shady business.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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Dos
Overview: In Madrid, inside a middle-class apartment, through a succession of dialogues, the young Luis and Julia act as lovers, friends, brothers, husband and wife. Dos is one of the most radical examples of non-narrative cinema in cinematography, not just Spanish, but worldwide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-10-13
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The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
Overview: When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to kill insects.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-28
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Café, coca y puro
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-02-18
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Erotic Stories
Overview: A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-03-13
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Girl with the Golden Panties
Overview: Luys Forest is a writer with a Falangist political past. He lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting his autobiography with the times), and brooding over his failed marriage. His sister is worried about him and decides to send her daughter Mariana to stay with him. Mariana and a seemingly mute and artistic lesbian companion come to town to shake the stable world of Luys with their free and uninhibited ways. Soon begins a game of seduction that ends up exposing the intellectual game of Luys.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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El hombre que yo quiero
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Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-11-24
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El hombre que supo amar
Overview: The life of Juan de Dios and his struggle against social, political and religious structures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-09-19
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Marián
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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Honeymoon Academy
Overview: A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for counterfeiting US dollars. SHE thinks she's just retired from a government 'dirty jobs' department, but her superiors have other ideas. HE thinks she's a retired travel agent.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-01
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The Anchorite
Overview: Eleven years ago Fernando Tobajas, a man of a certain age, decided to live in the bathroom, in which he created a small apartment, and never leaves it. Tobajas has given up everything except vanity, and his contacts with the world are reduced to visits from friends and messages sent through the toilet inside aspirin tubes in the hope that someone will receive them and know about his existence. Arabel Lee, a beautiful girl, finds one of those messages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-10-27
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The Regent's Wife
Overview: Adapted from the novel of the same name by Clarín, which narrates the difficulties of Ana Ozores to adapt to the sordidness of life in Vetusta, a provincial city of northern Spain inspired in Oviedo. The young Ana, married to a retired regent, lives oppressed by the provincial hypocrisy and the mystical fears of an absorbing religion. Sexually dissatisfied, beset by constant erotic dreams, she reveals in her confessional her intimate torments, and her confessor begins to feel a morbid passion for her. At the same time, Álvaro Mesía, a Don Juan, intends to seduce Ana.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-12-19
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