Lola Gaos
Also Known As: Dolores Gaos
Biography: Dolores Gaos González-Pola (2 December 1921, in Valencia – 4 July 1993, in Madrid), better known as Lola Gaos, was a Spanish film, television and theatre actress. Famous with her works with Luis Buñuel but specially the film Furtivos where she played the dominant mother. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lola Gaos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: València, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
Birthday: December 02, 1921
Deathday: July 04, 1993
Adult: No
Gender: Female
Popularity:
Known For:
Viridiana
Overview: Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-04-01
Popularity:
Tristana
Overview: As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horatio is doomed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-03-29
Popularity:
Heartbeat
Overview: Paul Marnac and his infirm wife Geneviève move to his childhood estate in the French countryside. The estate is also the site of the castle inhabited by Paul's ancestor Alaric de Marnac, who was known for brutally slaughtering anyone whom he suspected of infidelity. There is a legend that Alaric rises from the grave to continue his deeds. The estate is currently inhabited by Paul's aunt Maville and cousin Julie. Right after Paul and Geneviève arrive, mysterious things begin to happen. Geneviève begins to wonder if the legend about Alaric is true.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-05-20
Popularity:
My Dear Killer
Overview: Following the mysterious decapitation of an insurance investigator, Police Inspector Peretti is put onto the case, but all the clues lead to an unsolved case of kidnapping and murder.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-03
Popularity:
Sound of Horror
Overview: When a group of isolated people in the Greek mountains set off a cave explosion, they are menaced by an invisible shrieking dinosaur that had been buried for eons
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-10-08
Popularity:
The Legend of Blood Castle
Overview: Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-09-10
Popularity:
Poachers
Overview: Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-09-08
Popularity:
The Search
Overview: Manuel Jacques Perrin is a young man from the country who tries to make it in Madrid in this somber melodrama. He struggles to survive in the unforgiving city where only the strongest will prosper. Manuel defends himself and kills a murderous thief in a fight then quietly waits for the police to reach the scene of the crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-02-11
Popularity:
My Dearest Senorita
Overview: A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-02-17
Popularity:
Historia de la frivolidad
Overview: The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-02-09
Popularity:
Los pedigüeños
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-12-18
Popularity:
Sex o no sex
Overview: Paco, a frustrated office worker, goes to the office of a psychologist, to whom he tells his most delirious sexual fantasies in the hope that he will apply a curative therapy. Unfortunately, the doctor will end up confessing that he can not help, because he lives with a doll that has become his companion sentimental.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-09-05
Popularity:
God Bless Each Corner of This House
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-09-19
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Death and the Lumberjack
Overview: An organ grinder called “El Rubio” has the crank of his street organ confiscated because he did not have his identification papers in order. From then on, a journey full of misfortune begins in which he tries hard to find a crank like the impounded one, to allow him to work again.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-05-03
Popularity:
Anabel
Overview: Young Anabel mistakes a woman for her dead mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-01-01
Popularity:
Prohibido enamorarse
Overview: An old and seriously ill man, who lives with his son, meets an older woman, who is suffering the same cirumstances like he, and soon starts to fell better and becoming sane.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-10-13
Popularity:
The Executioner
Overview: An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-08-31
Popularity:
El poder del deseo
Overview: Javier lives with his mother in a modest apartment. He conducts surveys on the effectiveness of ads. This work provides a humble earning for the two of them. One day he meets Juna at a bus stop. He tries to ask her out, but she refuses. A few days later, they meet again. Slowly a relationship develops, but her plan is to marry someone rich. Javier's wealthy uncle included him in his testament, so Juna talks Javier into killing the uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-01-01
Popularity:
Marianela
Overview: Marianela is a poor girl with a disfigured face who works as Pablo's guide, a blind young man from a wealthy family. Pablo falls in love with Marianela because of her spirit and vitality and imagines her as the most beautiful woman in the world. When Pablo has the chance to recover his sight, Marianela becomes very sad because she is sure that the young man will reject her when he can see her
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-02-15
Popularity:
De profesión: polígamo
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-11-03
Popularity:
Caperucita y Roja
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-03-07
Popularity:
The Guerrilla
Overview: Adaptation of the text of Azorin theater play. In 1808, Napoleon's troops invaded a village in the Sierra de Madrid. Love triangle between a girl, guerrilla leader and French officer who falls in love with the girl.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-02-16
Popularity:
Préstame quince días
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-05-24
Popularity:
El turista
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-04-04
Popularity:
Trágala, perro
Overview: Sister Patrocinio is a nun who is stigmatized by Christ in her hands and feet. Although some believe in this mystical fact, others suspect of manipulation and take it to the court of justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-11-16
Popularity:
Tiempo de amor
Overview: Three stories in which love plays a decisive role intersect. The first of them is led by a couple who decides to break with the chastity they have been keeping until then. In the second Mary discovers that the man with whom he wants to lose his virginity is a ruffian and in the third, and last, a marriage tries to maintain happiness despite the miseries of his daily life. Second film by director and screenwriter Julio Diamante , composed of three autonomous episodes, minimally chained, called " The sunset ", " The night " and " The morning ". The three chapters are very influenced by the social realism that invaded the Spanish literature of the time and by the badly assimilated cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni. This means that, for example.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-09-13
Popularity:
Somnambulists
Overview: Ana works side by side with her mother Maria Rosa in the fight to save the anti-Franco militants from the death penalty during the process of Burgos. Ana's mother is a former actress and Ana, her mother and a few other actors prepare an act of protest in the theater where an international festival on Strinberg is being held. But there are more things in Ana's life. The mother lives with her uncle, the brother of his father, Norman, an old doctor of devious methods. Helped by Fatima, an old nurse who loves her father, the doctor will try to experiment with Ana's ideas and feelings as well
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-09-18
Popularity:
Un marido de ida y vuelta
Overview: Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife dies victim of a heart attack the day she forces him to shave his beloved beard to go to a costume ball dressed as a bullfighter. Its spectrum then begins to walk around the house and the most unexpected cause tangles. When she finally decides to settle definitely get materialize and get his wife, who has meanwhile become a being sweet and understanding.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-08-26
Popularity:
Los chicos con las chicas
Overview: The musical group Los Bravos is enjoying a short holidays. It's in a mountain hut, near a girls' school, eager to see and hear.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-09-25
Popularity:
Residence for Spies
Overview: Ms. Pendleton is the commander-in-chief of a women's training camp for western spies, recently established in Turkey. CIA agent Leyton receives a mission, to discover and destroy an enemy group operating in the vicinities of that residence. He will manage, with the help, and sometimes extra zeal, of a team of young women recruits.
Genres: Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-01-01
Popularity:
Gran sol
Overview: A group of fishermen embark on a new adventure to capture the best pieces on the high seas. They leave from the port of Ondárroa, Vizcaya, to depart towards the Atlantic bottom where they usually fish. After several days of fishing, problems begin to emerge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-02-24
Popularity:
Blood Hunt
Overview: A new doctor arrives in a small Spanish village. As soon as he begins meeting people there, he notices the strange behaviour of the population and is surprised. Young people make fun of him, a man called Gonzalo seems to be some kind of leader, and he is invited to leave the village when he tries to ask about the situation. All his questions get no answer. His neighbour is a lovely and pretty young woman, who works as the local teacher. They develop a sincere friendship from the very first moment, which grows to become love. Unfortunately, Gonzalo feels that the young teacher is "reserved" exclusively for him and he reacts with violence. Meanwhile, the doctor finds out the key of that strange behaviour. Some years ago, during the local feast, some drug-addicts attacked the village in order to get money and goods. There was a fight and some people died, including Gonzalo's son. From then on, Gonzalo and others began their particular "crusade" against drug-addicts.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-03-03
Popularity:
El arte de vivir
Overview: After graduating in Economics, Luis is seeking to burst through in life. His partner Ana sees how his way of being is changing by the standards of his company into a different person. Ana tries to draw his attention in a failed suicide attempt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-07-26
Popularity:
La isla de las cabezas
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-03-01
Popularity:
Tú estás loco Briones
Overview: Faustino Briones is a hardline Falangist who, unhappy with the changes in Spain and after mounting several scandals in his work, is admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Without waiting for him, he begins to interact with the nuns of the place, but especially with one, Sr. Angustias with whom he is beginning to feel things
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-03-06
Popularity:
That Happy Couple
Overview: Juan and Carmen are a humble couple living in Madrid. She does the housework and he works as an electrician in a film studio. Their dreams of wellness come true when they win a contest sponsored by a soap brand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-08-31
Popularity:
El lago de las vírgenes
Overview: A man discovers an island covered in treasure. But when he attempts to fully explore island and collect the treasure, he ends up discovering some mysterious nymphs who seduce him.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-02-08
Popularity:
Rogelia
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-01-01
Popularity:
The Ugly Ones
Overview: Escaped outlaw Jose Gomez returns to his home town pursued by bounty killer Luke Chilson. The towns people protect Gomez, unaware, at first, that he is now a changed and dangerous man.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-11-04
Popularity:
Pancho Villa
Overview: In 1916, during the Mexican Revolution, General Pancho Villa manages to escape from the clutches of General Goyo, his greatest enemy, only to face an even greater problem when he meets McDermott, a mysterious adventurer who promises to get him weapons and ammunition for his troops.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-10-31
Popularity:
Benigno, hermano mío
Overview:
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-01-01
Popularity:
Susanna and Me
Overview: An expulsive star of a variety theatre cannot decide between the love of an honest archaeology professor and the love of an extravagant official who turns himself into a cabaret comedian in his sparetime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-03-11
Popularity:
Un ángel tuvo la culpa
Overview: Claudio is a kind mand who works as cashier in a company for several years. Whe he finds closed the bank where he has to deposit a millon of pesetas, he decides to go to a friends party. Due to alcohol effects, he share out the money to the people who need it more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-04-25
Popularity:
Pierna creciente, falda menguante
Overview: In 1916, while Europe was in the middle of First World War and Spain was enjoying the advantages of being a neutral country, eroticism was called voluptuousness and Senator Duke of Daroca, despite his ancient lineage, fell completely in love with a famous cabaret singer, Rosario "La Criollita", which was a scandal. At that time, it was doubted that decent women had legs - But this mystery was resolved a decade later, when the roaring twenties arrived and, with them, the sensual Lupe Cardoso
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-12-25
Popularity:
The Devil Also Cries
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-03-14
Popularity:
Salto mortal
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-01-15
Popularity:
The Four Truths
Overview: "Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-21
Popularity:
Los dinamiteros
Overview: Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month in the queues of the mutuality windows to collect their pension, an opportunity they take advantage of to talk about life. When they learn that the old don Felipe, an acquaintance, is very sick and is alone and without money for a decent funeral, they decide to ask for a loan to help him, but, as they do not grant it, they decide to rob the savings bank. To do this, they will plan everything thoroughly and manufacture a homemade explosive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-11-02
Popularity:
Tres perros locos, locos, locos
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-01-01
Popularity:
La última cena... del 88
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-12-31
Popularity:
La casa
Overview:
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-01-26
Popularity: