Lina Canalejas
Also Known As: Concepció Álvarez Canalejas
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: January 29, 1932
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 01, 2012
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Dark Habits
Overview: After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-10-03
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Wedding Dinner
Overview: A group of married couples intend to celebrate their traditional joyous dinner together. The festivities turn sour when an anonymous telephone caller informs the husbands that one of the wives is guilty of adultery. But...which one?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-11-19
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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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Forbidden Passion
Overview: A young woman was seduced by a high positioned official who is married but when she falls in love with a young man she tries to break the other relationship...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-17
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Solo ante el Streaking
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-12-15
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Boy Wanted
Overview: A boy of fourteen enters to work as messenger boy in a flower shop. His first task is to bring a bouquet for a bride but arrives late and is forced to go to the altar. His second job is to bring a funeral wreath but uses it to save a man who is drowning in the river. Naturally, he is late again. In the afternoon, he carries a basket of flowers to the TV a Spanish movie star is performing. But he is wrong and takes another funeral wreath that is delivered to star in a big stage. Due to customer complaints he is fired and the store puts back the sign "boy is needed."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-10-14
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The Little Nightingale
Overview: Joselito is a child whose mother left town when he was just a baby and whose father has died. He lives with his grandfather, the bellringer of the town, and his best friend is the sexton. He enjoys singing and has not lost hope of someday meeting her mother.
Genres: Music Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-02-11
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The Garden of Delights
Overview: The greedy relatives of a paralysed 45-year-old amnesiac millionaire go to extreme lengths to help him recover his memory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-11-05
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Niño nadie
Overview: Unbenownst to a middle-aged teacher of handicapped children, his long-term suffering girlfriend is pregnant with his child. The film philosophically explores the ideas of free will and destiny as they relate to the characters and their life choices.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-04-04
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Historia de una noche
Overview: After a few years, Víctor Morel comes back to the city. He has been a happy and Bohemian man who spent an authentic fortune. His first meeting with the past is with Laura, an extraordinary woman with he had intense relationships. She is now married with Daniel Romero, a man dedicated to the business that, precisely in the last days, has had a money problem. Due to this matter, Daniel will have to ask Víctor for help because it knows that he can extract it of the difficulty, in spite of the fact that he does not have any sharm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-07-12
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Life Goes On
Overview: Madrid, Spain. Eloísa, a self-sacrificing wife and efficient mother, lives in the neighborhood of Maravillas with her husband, a violent policeman; her sanctimonious son, who spends his life studying and praying to atone for the sins of his family; and her two daughters, obsessed with wealth, who hate each other deeply.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-04-06
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Un millón en la basura
Overview: In the vast army of human society, Pepe, a sweeper, occupies one of the last places: anonymous, gray, vague. Pepe is a member of that ghostly dawn brigade, to blow hose, clean the streets at dawn. One day Pepe finds a million in the trash. Financial need of the poor sweeper suggests keeping the money, but his wife advises him to do his civic duty and return the money ...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-03-02
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De cuerpo presente
Overview: After seeing that Nelson kisses his lover, Barlow poisons him. But it turns out that Nelson comes back to life when he was about to be buried. From that moment, Barlow does not stop chasing him to finish his work.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-08-28
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Sleep, Sleep, My Love
Overview: A dark and surrealistic comedy about a man who gives drugs to his wife, to make her sleep and avoid arguing with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-02-24
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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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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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Madregilda
Overview: Madrid, Spain. On Monday, December 22, 1947, Charles Vidor's Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford, premieres. That same week, as every first Friday of the month, Hauma organizes a peculiar card game in an old tavern.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-09-26
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Charlestón
Overview: Silvia Pinal stars as Beatriz, a woman whose troubles are brought on by the fact that she has two wildly different suitors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-06-01
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The Judge's Wife
Overview: The wife of a judge feels lonely because her husband works too much. Therefore she seeks another love and finds it in the person of a young man.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-01-30
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Obsesión
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-05-13
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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
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La venganza de Don Mendo
Overview: Don Mendo, Marquess of Cabra, gallant and dashing knight of medieval Castilian, is also a virtuous mandoline player and a specialist in climbing towers. But he has a bad run, all played and all lost at seven-thirty (card game), and lost his honor playing in his latest escalation of love to the apartment of his beloved and beautiful Magdalena. Don Nuño Manso de Jarama, father of Magdalena, has pledged the hand of his daughter to the Duke of Toro, and surprises Don Mendo in the room of Magdalena. To save the honor of his beloved one, Don Mendo says that no love has led him to the Tower, but he has climbed to steal. Magdalena is clean of all suspicion, and he is condemned to die buried in the castle wall. The Marquess of Moncada and other noble gentlemen, all friends of Don Mendo, facilitate his escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-02-19
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El seductor de Granada
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-08-31
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El fenómeno
Overview: A professor at the University of Frankfurt is mistaken for a Russian soccer player on his arrival at Madrid airport. There, he is received as a sports figure and the teacher, unaware of the confusion, take it as an extraordinary compliment. However, problems arise when, after discovering the error, the professor has to pretend to be the player until he appears
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-09-09
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Sor Ye-yé
Overview: Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-03-09
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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
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El in... moral
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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La banda de los tres crisantemos
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Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-01-12
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El último proceso en París
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Fierce Love, or When Children Play at Love
Overview: Vicente and Margarita are a traditional and middle class married couple whose life is surrounded by a sea of confusion and uncertainty when their children begin to make their own decisions. They have discovered love and will not let their parents tell them what to do or who they have to love. The principles and traditions of the family will be replaced by each of the young people who will represent the different social problems of the time. Thus, the coexistence between them will change without Vicente and Marga can do anything to avoid it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-08-25
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This is Madrid
Overview: In Madrid during the fifties' the calm life from some neighbors will be changed since the arrival of Antonio, a man without scruples who lives running the risk.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-21
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Emilia... parada y fonda
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-08-15
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La viudita naviera
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Mi calle
Overview: Life events around a city street and its residents are told along the years while time goes by, wars break out and end and life evolves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-11-21
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Trigo limpio
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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El secreto de papá
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-04-26
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Mi noche de bodas
Overview: Afther their wedding ceremony, Fernanda and Cosme Martínez go to a luxury hotel to consummate. They receive there some gifts and they find one fabulous diamant bracalet with a note for Fernanda thanking her for unfforgetable nights. Cosme feel jelause and Fernanda offended and during their wedding night they go from one place to another to find out the misunderstanding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-06-05
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Light My Passion
Overview: The relationship that botanist Angel establishes in his mind between plants, their stems, petals and pistils and the legs and feet of women, is the common thread of a plot that mixes sexual passion, love, greed and picaresque through a study of characters and situations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-10-07
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Tres huchas para Oriente
Overview: Pedro Manolo and Juan, three naughty and full of enthusiasm children go out with their piggy banks collecting money for missions. Near the end of the day, a car ran over one of them and is driven to a nearby hospital. The head of school, not knowing which of the children was injured calls the parents of the three to attend the health center. In parallel, we know the story of the three families. In the upper-class family, the father will leave his mother for another woman, in the middle class one, one sister invites her boyfriend to lunch and family revolutionizes and, finally, in that of lower class, the boy's father is about to be complicit in a crime
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Un día perdido
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-09-20
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Red Lips
Overview: Two girl detectives known as "Labios Rojos" ("Red Lips") outwit both criminals and a bumbling police inspector.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Mara
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-08-28
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Los derechos de la mujer
Overview: Juan marries prestigious lawyer María José. As she won't give up her career to become a housewife, during their wedding night Juan pretends to leave his job and acts out the role of a traditional housewife himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-02-21
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Júrame
Overview: Alberto wants to conquer the artist Laura Céspedes and invites her to a student party at the Faculty of Medicine. After being rejected, he decides to go to Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-02-10
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El ladrido
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Marián
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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Femenino singular
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-10-25
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Winter Diary
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-09-29
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Amo tu cama rica
Overview: Pedro goes out searching for a girl, but the night doesn't seem to be good. While he is talking with a friend, he sees Sara breaking up with a boy. He goes after her, and they end up sleeping in his house. Time goes by and they continue together. But Sara has too many men around and Pablo can't stand that. Their relation is difficult, they love each other but, at the same time, they can not be together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-31
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