Emma Penella
Also Known As: Manuela Ruiz Penella, Эмма Пенелла
Biography: Manuela Ruiz Penella known as Emma Penella (Madrid, March 2, 1931 - Ibidem, August 27, 2007) was a Spanish film, theater and television actress. Daughter of the politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso and Magdalena Penella Silva, granddaughter of the composer Manuel Penella Moreno, great-granddaughter of the also musician Manuel Penella Raga, sister of the also actresses Elisa Montés (1934) and Terele Pávez (1939-2017). She married film producer Emiliano Piedra with whom she had three daughters: Emma, Lola and Emiliana. She was also the aunt of the actress Emma Ozores (daughter of her sister Elisa Montés and the actor Antonio Ozores). Actress of marked personality and prestige since the 1950s, she triumphed in cinema thanks to films such as Luis García Berlanga's El verdugo (The Executioner) and maintained intense theatrical activity. She renewed her popularity in her later years participating in the television series Aquí no hay quien viva (2003-2006) and La que se avecina (2007).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Birthday: March 02, 1930
Deathday: August 27, 2007
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Gender: Female
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FFG, el último gran conversador
Overview: Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being an excellent conversationalist, capable of hypnotizing and seducing those who listened to him.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-08-27
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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
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Golden Goddess of Rio Beni
Overview: An aviator of a commercial line disappears in the Brazilian jungle. Two friends organize an expedition to find him. As if there were not enough dangers in the Amazon, three members of the expedition have another goal: to steal a golden goddess.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-09-03
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El amor brujo
Overview: In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela since he was a boy, is arrested while helping José and unfairly sent to prison. Four years later he is released and declares his love for Candela. However, the woman is cursed by a bewitched love and every night she goes to the place where José died to dance with his ghost.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-03-23
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Carta a una mujer
Overview: Flora and Carlos have a marriage of convenience. Realizing that she did not love him, Carlos joined the Blue Division and soon disappeared in Russia. Flora lives with a famous conductor, but they have not married because the death of Carlos has not been formally communicated. But one day, a mysterious character who turns out to be an old enemy of his husband, sends Flora a message telling that her husband will return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-06-24
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Alegre juventud
Overview: Luis, Julio, Miguel and Carlos are four young men who, moved by a strong religious vocation, have left behind family, friends, work and a love of youth to enter a seminary and start a life consecrated to God.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-03-18
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Comedians
Overview: Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, plays only minor roles, but she hopes to succeed and prefers the success to the love of Michael. When the company decides to release "Heaven is not far," Ana hopes to be the young protagonist, however, the paper turns to fall on the veteran Carmen. The businessman Charles Marquez offers Ana to be the star in the new play if she becomes his lover
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-05-17
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Condemned to Hang
Overview: Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero is a true champion of the disinherited.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-10-08
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El amor de los amores
Overview: Felipe Crespo, because of their anarchist ideology, Barcelona fleeing persecution for justice. Starving, he reaches the manor house and asks for protection Villares pretending repentance. He soon won the confidence of the wealthy owner of the land, a man of high moral and religious training, blind for years, who lives with his beautiful young wife. This, to know the true story of Philip, treats him with disgust, but over time, created in her a strong passion.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-22
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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
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The Eyes Leave a Trace
Overview: Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night Robert enlists the help of Martin, because he believes he has killed a man who was about her lover. Martin sees an opportunity ...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-09-12
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El guardián del paraíso
Overview: A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in the black market, and his own witness of a robbery and as a lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-05-23
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Lola, espejo oscuro
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-04-10
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La hora incógnita
Overview: In a small Spanish town, is expected to explode a nuclear bomb to ten at night. All neighbors leave, except for thirteen people who are gathered in the church and, with the help of the pastor, will find that there is still a possibility of salvation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-12-26
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Red Fish
Overview: Ivón, a chorus girl, Hugo, a failed writer, and Carlos, Hugo's young son, arrive at a seaside hotel on a stormy night.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-09-12
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Badmen of the West
Overview: I Brutos arrive in the town of Fresno during a gunfight and mistakenly think it is a celebration of their arrival and start shooting their guns and kill all the villains and the town undertaker. They take over the undertaking duties but bury the bodies in an Indian burial ground upsetting the local Indian tribe.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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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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The Shadow Battalion
Overview: Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among them, an inventor who invents always what is already invented, a composer, a hostess, a locksmith, a delivery of a pastry ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-04-28
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Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
Overview: Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-11-26
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Sentencia contra una mujer
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Fortunata y Jacinta
Overview: Shows the unfailing love of two women for the same man, one as his mistress, the other as his wife. The lives of these characters intertwine and are determined by the variegated fabric of delicate tradition and established vices shaky politics and intrigue of the society they live in. Based on the major novel (1877) by Benito Perez Galdos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-03-12
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Our Father
Overview: The story of a Spanish Cardinal who is told he only has one more year to live. He decides to return to his hometown, after an absence of 30 years, to sort out his affairs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-04-21
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The Tobacconist of Vallecas
Overview: Leandro, an unemployed mason and his friend, Tocho, attempt to rob a tobacconist in the Vallecas district of Madrid, but Mrs. Justa, the tobacconist, impedes it alerting the neighbors who notify police. Inside the shop, the confrontation between the two friends and their 'hostages', the tobacconist and her niece Angeles, is relaxing, and a budding sympathy arises between them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-04-09
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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
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El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Overview: Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-29
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La patrouille des sables
Overview: Three adventurers, Pierre, an engineer, Mailard, an escaped convict and Luis, a guitarist, are in search of gold in the Sahara. They happen to be captured by a group of Tuareg. Helped by Taina, a halfbreed, they manage to escape but their troubles are far from over.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-08-16
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De espaldas a la puerta
Overview: Inspector Simón and Inspector Arévalo investigate the stabbing of a nightclub employee.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-11-12
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Viento de cólera
Overview: Two soldiers accompanied by two women enter the Baztán valley on horseback. They are deserters from the army of the Indies who are fleeing to Italy. They arrive to claim the inheritance of one of them, León de Balanza, Captain in Peru and soldier without fortune. They are looking for old Balanzategui who works the land of his ancestors. The old man's refusal to distribute the farmland's land causes a serious conflict.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Black Humor
Overview: A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze artist Wilma is going to get rid of a rival during a "magic act" performed by an amateur. A strange widow comes to inquire about the services of a new marriage agency. A peasant woman tormented by a bug in her ear barges into a healer's house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-04-12
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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
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Doña Francisquita
Overview: Francisquita secretly loves Fernando, but he is in love with the beautiful and fickle Aurora.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-12-22
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La cuarta ventana
Overview: One day, three young seamstresses who love nightlife and fun, upon returning to the house they share, find a seriously injured girl in the bathroom.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-05-27
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First Surrender
Overview: Giallo about a man plotting to kill his wife for her money.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-21
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¡Che, qué loco!
Overview: A bankrupt man tries to marry a millionaire woman, which triggers a whole series of misunderstandings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-03-23
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Pídele cuentas al rey
Overview: Fidel, an Asturian miner, after the closure of the mine where he works, decides to walk to Madrid with his family, to ask the king why the Constitution is not met, specifically the article that points out that all the Spanish citizens have the right to have a decent work. Will the king receive him?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-02-10
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El crimen de Don Benito
Overview: July 18, 1902. A woman and her daughter are brutally murdered in the Extremaduran town of Don Benito. Everybody knows the depraved town boss was responsible, but nobody dares to declare against him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-03-06
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Scano Boa
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-01-09
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Tres hombres van a morir
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-17
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Aimless boat
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-10-16
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Bulgarian Lovers
Overview: Graying Spaniard Daniel has a healthy budget for indulging in the finer things in life. Daniel's favorite luxury is playing sponsor to younger men amid the lights and sights of Madrid's gay club scene. After Daniel shares a night with handsome Bulgarian emigre Kyril, he finds himself consumed with an insatiable lust for the charismatic foreigner. But, as their relationship takes shape, Daniel's latest conquest reveals his own manipulative tendencies.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-04-30
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Truhanes de honor
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-04-12
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Doblones de a ocho
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Adventurer of Seville
Overview: Bandits kidnap Figaro, the famous barber of Seville, and use his wonderful voice to attract travelers and rob stagecoaches. Because of this, the police chases him as an accomplice of the bandits. Then Figaro decides to join the army as a volunteer to fight in Puerto Rico. He returns covered with glory and his faults are condoned. However, the adventures of Figaro continue in Seville in the false scene of the aristocracy
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-05-06
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