José Villasante
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: March 19, 1913
Age: 112 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 22, 1990
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The Spirit of the Beehive
Overview: In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-10-08
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Malaire
Overview: Noguère, an old patriarch, is about to die and decides to confess at last to a priest. He once lived alone with his son Juste, who helped him to farm the Mauvents land. One night Noguère fired at a couple of trespassers, hurting the girl and killing her fiancé. Giving Catoune, the girl, the shelter of his home, Noguère was forced - however reluctantly it may have been - to break the bad news to the fiancée. For all that Catoune recovered, settled down and later married Juste. After a while Juste left for the war and was soon reported missing. Noguère comforted the distressed young woman so well that she became her mistress. But Juste had not been killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-01-14
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El Cristo de los Faroles
Overview: Singing in the streets of Cordoba, Antonio Reyes known in the Plaza del Cristo de los Faroles a beautiful Andalusian girl, Soledad, which seeks to conquer the boy to show his friends that no woman can resist. There are several times that the singer tries, but ignores her loneliness despite the tricks he uses to conquer, Soledad is not influenced by the actions of Antonio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-06-03
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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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Robbery at 3 O'clock
Overview: Galindo works in a bank. One day he convinces the other employees in the bank to plan a hold-up in the bank they are working. They prepare everything carefully. However, real robbers come just before the fake ones.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-12-10
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Los tramposos
Overview: Two guys live without working quite well using thousands of tricks and fakes. But they soon change their attitudes when love arrives at their hearts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-11-02
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Strange Voyage
Overview: In a small town near Madrid, Paquita and her brother Venancio, both single and with a childish personality, live under the shadow of their bossy older sister, Ignacia, a grumpy old maid.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-08-09
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Marinai, donne e guai
Overview: Four sailors are off duty in Barcelona. Capo Campana ordered them to remain together when in the city. But Mario, one of them, falls for Manuela and leaves the other three.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-06
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Operación Secretaria
Overview: Operacion Secretaria
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Waitresses
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-11-19
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Escalofrío diabólico
Overview: Two brothers, one good and the other evil, get caught up in a legend involving the King of Darkness, who comes to his disciples to feast on the blood of a virgin and grant power and prosperity to all of his followers.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-06-27
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Call of the Vampire
Overview: A small rural Spanish village of the present is haunted by vampires. Dr.Dora Maeterlick is called to a nearby castle to cure the father of Baron Carl von Rysselbert who suffers from a strange blood disease. Erika, assistant to Doctor, falls in love with Carl. But Carl is a vampire and pretty soon he makes Erika his vampire bride. From now on Dr.Maeterlick plunges into a nightmarish whirl of dark happenings...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-12-16
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Surcos
Overview: A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything is illegal or immoral or both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-26
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Los fríos senderos del crimen
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Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-07-07
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Crypt of the Vampire
Overview: Count Karnstein sends for a doctor to help his sick daughter Laura. Her nurse believes she is possessed by the spirit of a dead ancestor, Carmilla. A young woman becomes intrigued by the mysterious deaths surrounding Laura after a carriage accident outside the castle forces her to stay. They become close friends until Laura becomes convinced the spirit of Carmilla is forcing her to kill.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-05-27
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As If It Were Raining
Overview: By chance, writer Eddie Ross comes to the aid of a young woman on the street, a good deed that lands him a job with a strange underground character known only as Martínez.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-06-21
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The Scarlet Letter
Overview: In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older stranger arrives, recognized by Hester but unknown to others as her missing husband. He poses as Chillingworth, a doctor, watching Hester and searching out the identity of her lover. His eye soon rests on Dimmesdale, a young overwrought pastor. Enmity grows between the two men; Chillingworth applies psychological pressure, and the pastor begins to crack. A ship stops in Salem, and Hester sees it as a providential refuge for her daughter, herself, and her lover. But will Dimmesdale flee with her?
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-03-13
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Cousin Angelica
Overview: When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter, and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-04-28
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Casa de citas
Overview: Luciano has been working in an important company for fifteen years without be rewarded for his efforts, his fidelity and submission. On the recommendation of a cousin, he acts as front man for the shameful business of his managers. They get it so far as to force him to marry the former mistress of one of the directors. Finally, because of a fire in the chalet where he lives and where they cook the dirty business of which he is not responsible for, Luciano ends up in jail for covering up and taking on some responsibilities that are not his, fulfilling his role of straw man until the end.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-01-05
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Spies Kill Silently
Overview: Professor Freeman is an important English scientist that is investigating a method to treat cancer. His daughter is killed in the swimming pool of a hotel in Beirut. The case is confidential so that the mission is entrusted to the Special Agent Mikel Brown.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-04-04
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The Gang of Eleven
Overview: Inspired by the American gangster films, a group of thugs decides to dock the Bank of Spain. "El Rubio" explains to his men that, to commit the armed robbery, they will have to dig a gallery in the Cibeles. But, due to the threats of a rival band, "El Rubio" decides to disguise itself and pretend to be one of the most famous actors of the moment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-07-26
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Earthquake in Chile
Overview: Tutor Jeronimo and heiress Josephe fall in love but are quickly torn from one another by execution and jail. However, when fate intervenes in the form of a massive earthquake, the two lovers have no idea what is in store for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-06-03
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Un vampiro para dos
Overview: A Spanish couple emigrates to Germany looking for employment, in a desperate attempt to reconcile their marriage. The only work they can find, however, is in a castle inhabited by a strange baron, who is actually a vampire.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-12-13
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La ciudad no es para mí
Overview: Agustin, a widower who lives in a village in Aragon, where he is much loved by all neighbors, is lonely and decides to go to the big city, where his son, a famous doctor, lives with his wife and daughter. Agustineis received by his children with great coolness, as he does not fit in the environment in which they operate. The life of his son, his daughter-in-law, and even the maid is too sad for this simple town man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-03-14
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The Sign of the Coyote
Overview: California, 1847. The territory is about to be incorporated into the United States. Parker, the new governor, is a cruel man who believes that the time has come to get rich regardless of the means, but he will soon find a mysterious opponent driven to end his tyranny.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-05-11
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Posición avanzada
Overview: During the Spanish Civil War, a command takes the night to reach an advanced position, surrounded by the enemy, to protect the ford of a river. The next day, soldiers from both sides arrange a truce for fishing trouts and exchange cans and cigarettes. But foreign forces relieve the besiegers during the night and kill an unsuspecting soldier who was waving to return to fishing. While the position is strengthened, a soldier escapes to the nearby village to see his family.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-02-07
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Run, Psycho, Run
Overview: Italy, the early 19th century. A villa is the home of a small English community, all rich and superficial people lounging about in its beautiful surroundings. Claire, George's wife, and Robert, her son, are murdered by a mysterious killer. Thinking the murderer is one of the family, distraught George devises a plan to unmask the culprit. Having met a woman, Ann, who is a dead ringer for Claire, he takes her back to the villa and announces their imminent marriage. Ann is considered an outsider and treated with contempt and hostility, while George fails to find any significant clue to the solution: everybody is to be blamed, at least morally, but the final revelation is more bitter than expected...
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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Judas' Kiss
Overview: The story of Judas's betrayal of Christ.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-02-27
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El halcón de Castilla
Overview: Adventure film of Spanish production that follows point by point the parameters set by other literary characters, such as "El Zorro" or "El Coyote". José María Elorrieta, director with extensive experience in western spaghetti, is in charge of the direction and the script, in this film starring a gallant who was fervid among the female audience, Germán Cobos ("La patrulla", "La vida es maravillosa"). Shot on a small budget and with no other pretense than to entertain, "El falcón de Castilla" had considerable box office success.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-10-23
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El diablo en vacaciones
Overview: A mature man habitually pursues young girls, for which he is abandoned by his wife. The devil intervenes, offering both spouses, separately, to regain their youth. The two agree to make up for the lost years, but the devil makes them both join the same gang for a summer. The husband, who now feels comfortable, falls in love with his wife again without recognizing her, just as she will not recognize her ex.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-06-10
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Los pedigüeños
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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Melodías de hoy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-07-26
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Diálogos de la paz
Overview: In the Spain of 1939 during the Civil War, a woman searches for her husband who has disappeared, a search that takes her across the border into France.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-03-20
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Fin de semana
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-11-23
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Los conquistadores del Pacífico
Overview: Frank Latimore is cast as Balboa, the heroic Spanish explorer who discovers the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, he must pacify the wrath of his enemies and battle his way through a forest inhabited by savage natives. This one features some really nice battles, stunning ocean photography, and tolerable reconstruction of historic events.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-10-21
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El juego de la verdad
Overview: Lucia is a mature woman who maintains a relationship with the young John. When he is found murdered in a bullring with a nail stuck in his chest, Lucia is the prime suspect, it is believed that the motive for the crime was jealousy because it felt for her daughter Marta, which had also been seduced by John.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-09-09
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Aquellos tiempos del cuplé
Overview: Mercedes Pavón, a famous singer of cuplés is harassed by three men totaly different.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-04-06
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Relevo para un pistolero
Overview: A stranger from Boston offers a notorious Arizona outlaw a job he can’t refuse.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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El balcón de la Luna
Overview: The lives of 3 singers during their last few months working at a venue called "The Moon's Balcony"
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-10-01
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Dos chicas locas locas
Overview: A millionaire leaves all his fortune to his older granddaughter. But his two granddaughters are twins and nobody knows who's the older one is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-03-29
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A Witch Without a Broom
Overview: A flirtatious sorcerous fancies a handsome human professor. Cross time antics arise when she attempts to bring the hapless professor into her alternate dimension.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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The Dead Don't Forgive
Overview: A parapsychology student investigates his father's death.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-04-07
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De barro y oro
Overview: Manuel, a young man of eighteen, arrives in Madrid with the illusion of being a bullfighter. On arrival he meets Juan a ruined singer in his fifties who, along with his friend Lola, will help the boy to get a chance to bullfight in a probe at the estate of a famous businessman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Zorro the Avenger
Overview: Don Jose disguises himself as Zorro, the masked freedom fighter, who tries to protect his people from the wrath of an evil military officer who is using his position to his own advantage.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-06-25
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Two Against All
Overview: Two brothers, Bull and Jonathan Bullivan, witness the murder of bandit Black Boy who had been terrorizing Golden City. The bandit had been put in place by the city mayor, who wants the local residents to leave so that he can keep their land, where there is oil. The two brothers eat a chicken that has been fed with a strong tonic and they become sort of invincible for a few minutes. The mayor, pressured by the villagers, appoints the Bullivan Brothers as sheriffs and tasks them with the arrest of Black Boy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-04
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Rosa de Lima
Overview: Santa Rosa de Lima, who died in the capital of Peru, was barely 31 years old when she died in 1617. José María Elorrieta's film narrates the life of this young woman, daughter of Gaspar Flores, Spanish arquebusier the service of King Philip III, and of Maria de Oliva, who will become principal patron of the New World, the Philippines and West Indies in 1670.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Cupido contrabandista
Overview: John is a shy and good-natured man who lives in Ceuta and does everything by correspondence, from studying a career or learning judo to getting a girlfriend. She is from Madrid and the time has come for Juan to meet her so he takes a boat to the peninsula. In the boat he coincides with Maria, a beautiful young woman who goes to the capital to study chant and which he had previously met accidentally. During the trip, foreign smugglers try to use John to pass inadvertently stolen diamonds in Tangier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-12-10
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Messengers of Peace
Overview: Try the descent to Earth, specifically to Spain, of the Three Wise Men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-12-09
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Muchachas en vacaciones
Overview: Spanish comedy of the 50s, with carefree and youthful air.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-06-23
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La paz empieza nunca
Overview: Inspired by the classic novel by journalist and writer Emilio Romero. Shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), a group of Phalangist friends, who dream of a revolution to transform Spain, are dedicated to spreading their ideas among the population. As war begins, one of them, Lopez, is about to be shot, but is saved by a Republican. Then he joins the national side. After the war, an old comrade encourages him to involve in an operation to destroy the maquis of Asturias. Although he is married and has children, he accepts the proposal, infiltrates among the guerrillas and convinces them that he will provide weapons to continue fighting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-12-19
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Martes y trece
Overview: Lola and Maria are two Spanish young ladies engaged to Franz and Pepe, all so eager to spend their honeymoon that the moment seems never to come, as all sorts of problems pave their way.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-03-02
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Trampa para Catalina
Overview: Catherine bears a strong resemblance to Silvia, daughter of a millionaire who has escaped with a bullfighter. A group of ruffians who intends to defraud the Silvia's father used to Catalina for their plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-04-22
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Casi un caballero
Overview: An inexperienced and naive thief, Susan, associated with two other thieves of the same character meets a skilled thief and elegant, Alberto. The rivalry between them arising initially manifested in the fact that Alberto always robs his opponents of stealing the product. But the love that seems to come between the expert professional and amateur cause an awkward turn of events. Based on the book "All right, Susan?" of Carlos Llopis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-12-07
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Los económicamente débiles
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-12-26
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Una isla con tomate
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-10-29
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The Palomos
Overview: Emilio and Virtudes Palomo are invited by Don Alberto, Emilio's boss, to a dinner at his chalet. Don Alberto, who confuses simplicity with stupidity, intends to frame the Palomos for a crime he has committed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-11-02
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Pasa la tuna
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-05-16
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Nuevo en esta plaza
Overview: Film that tells the biography of the great bullfighter Sebastian Palomo Linares Linares, with the very skilled actor who plays the character. Palomo Linares belongs to a poor family but with great human values. He, like many others of his age, has a dream: to be a bullfighter. He works as an apprentice shoemaker fights secretly at night in the meadows. After a career of suffering and obstacles, the boy never lost hope, typical of his strong Christian convictions, and became a teacher, finally achieving success in the sand. The film shows with particular clarity the great Spanish tradition, as is the art of bullfighting.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-05-26
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Mi adorable esclava
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-02-21
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El tímido
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-07-15
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Kid Rodelo
Overview: An embittered ex-convict cowboy sets out to find the hidden gold his partner told him about.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Eugenia de Montijo
Overview: Eugenia de Montijo, an extraordinarily beautiful woman, educated and intelligent daughter of the Count of Montijo, decides to start a European tour when she discovers that the Duke of Alba, whom she believed her suitor, actually intends for her sister. In Paris she meets Napoleon III, the future emperor of France, who is bewitched by the beauty of the young aristocrat from Granada
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-10-16
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Dulcinea
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-06-09
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El gafe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-12-07
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The Devil Plays the Flute
Overview: When the pieces of a singular figure are unearthed and then joined together, a devil of the lowest category breaks into a small Mediterranean village. From that moment on, the demon will enter the life of a painter named Bernardino, in the affairs of a "modern" marriage, in the existence of a frightened gardener and, finally, in the day-to-day life of the Great Momo.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-05-14
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La gran familia
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Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-12-20
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Plaza de Oriente
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-02-18
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Black Angel of the Mississippi
Overview: Early Spanish western. Ramon Torrado’s westerns remain among the most obscure ones. Of his four westerns, all shot around 1964.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-08-24
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La bella Mimí
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-10-02
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Habanera
Overview: Year 1860. Rosa Maria, daughter of a wealthy Cuban landowner, is studying at a convent school in Cadiz and requests to return to Cuba after spending many years in Spain. But now the economic situation of his father is disastrous and therefore he tries to delay the return of his daughter, hiding that fact. Rosa Maria knows nothing and, at the refusal of his father, she runs away from school, embarking as a stowaway on a ship bound for home.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Accidente 703
Overview: Hector travels with Luisa by the road linking Madrid with Barcelona. When another car suddenly crosses his path, his vehicle leaves the road and plunges into a tree. Hector dies and she is seriously injured. The other car was occupied by Jorge and Paula, her lover. Several vehicles cross before the car crash and do not stop, each for a different reason. Among them is Julio, a truck driver who does not stop in order to reach his destination on time, not knowing that at the wrecked car travels his old girlfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-08-06
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Django the Condemned
Overview: A gringo gunman and two Mexican families fight a bandit and his gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Mala Racha
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-04-12
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La canción de La Malibrán
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-05
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Near the city
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-03
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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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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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El canto del gallo
Overview: A Catholic priest lives in a communist country where all religious are being killed. When trying to escape is stopped by a commissioner who had been a fellow student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-09-26
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That Lady
Overview: In 1570, widowed Princess Ana de Mendoza becomes the love object of a deadly rivalry between her cousin Don Inigo, King Philip II of Spain and his secretary of state Antonio Perez.
Genres: Adventure Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-05
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