Rafael Luis Calvo
Also Known As: Rafael Calvo
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Birthday: December 30, 1911
Deathday: January 01, 1988
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Die Sklavenkarawane
Overview: The dreaded slave hunter Abu el Mot attacks the caravan and abducts the travelers, including Kara Ben Nemsi, his faithful companion Hadschi Halef Omar, the quirky scholar Ignaz Pfotenhauer and the English explorer Sir David Lindsay. Kara Ben Nemsi manages to escape with Hadschi Halef. To get help, they set off on a long journey full of impassable adventures...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-12-11
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El señor de La Salle
Overview: Biography of San Juan Bautista de la Salle , where the effort and hardships that this canon of the nobility had to overcome in order to offer universal and free education to children, his main devotion, in the time of Louis XIV, are appreciated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Der Löwe von Babylon
Overview: In the ruins of Nim Bis Rub, in Babylon, is a band of smugglers den. There goes Nemsi Kara Ben and his faithful friend. One night, while camping, they surprise three smugglers and, after a hard-fought struggle, manage to reduce them and take possession of the rings that are their trademark. Then they go to Baghdad and there, a character who wears a ring of smugglers, which has seen Kara's, confuses him with one of the band.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-19
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Violent Fate
Overview: Clint Hall and Kathy, his wife, see their honeymoon interrupted by the sudden illness of Kathy. On the way to find a doctor Clint is assaulted. Without money to buy medicines, he decides to intimidate the pharmacist to get the prescription by the doctor. When he refuses, Cint forces him but promises to give him the money the next day . Along the way he is arrested by police and sentenced to nine years of hard labor. Tired of hunger, thirst, abuse, hardship and violence, Clint makes an attempt to escape but fails, and repression from Captain Black, director of the prison, is terrible. Morally and physically exhausted, Clint is about to die when it comes the recognition of his innocence and freedom.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Warrior and the Slave Girl
Overview: Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius. Princess Amira, with ambitions of being Queen and jealous of Asclepius' popularity, plans his death in the arena by substituting a lion for his human opponent
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-10-12
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Sucedió en mi aldea
Overview: Two young and innocent altar boys leave in search of money to buy a new bell for the tower of the village church.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-21
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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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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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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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El sistema Pelegrín
Overview: Hector Pelegrin, an unsuccessful insurance agent is admitted to the prestigious school Ferran as a gym teacher. The only problem is that he completely lacks the necessary skills for the job. He organizes a game between the football team at his school and another center, a historic rival, resulting in a surprise full of humorous criticism to our society. Pelegrin tries to convince everyone that football is just a sport
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-06-23
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Ursus
Overview: Ursus returns from war to find his fiancée, Attea, has been kidnapped by a mysterious sect which sacrifices virgins to its patron goddess. Ursus faces much treachery and is forced to display much courage and strength as he and the blind girl Doreide embark upon a quest to retrieve Attea.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-09-12
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The Secret of the Blue Men
Overview: An adventurer intends to seize the fabulous treasure of the Tuaregs. But when he falls in love with a beautiful Indian woman, he ends up defending the booty from other adventurers with less scruples.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-08-11
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The Uninhibited
Overview: Vincent is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He enters into an affair with nightclub owner Jenny, but their relationship changes when she falls for alcoholic author Pascal Regnier, who is struggling to resume his writing career. Vincent eventually returns home, leaving Jenny to stay on with Pascal and his young son Daniel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-04-21
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Amaya
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-10-07
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The Sin of Rogelia Sánchez
Overview: Rogelia, the orphan of an Asturian miner who died in a work-related accident, marries Máximo, a man as robust as jealous, drunk and violent. But when her husband is jailed, the woman will take advantage to escape with the doctor of the village so as to see the world and perhaps to form a family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-05-31
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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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La muralla feliz
Overview: Filiberto Aguirre abandons his career as captain of the merchant navy because he has well-founded hopes of receiving a great inheritance. But time goes by, the inheritance does not arrive and his family's economic situation worsens every day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-07-23
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King of Kings
Overview: Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-11
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El tambor del Bruch
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-05-31
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Noi siamo 2 evasi
Overview: Two inmates escape prison changing clothes with a couple of businessmen. They'll be taken by the financiers and find themselves surrounded by wealth and beautiful women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-26
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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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El ángel gris
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-12-17
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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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Reina santa
Overview: A virtuous Spanish princess becomes queen of Portugal, and soon is affected by the social struggles and the reckless fight to power between the king's faction and that of his son's.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-01-11
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Compadece al delincuente
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-06-13
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El camino
Overview: Shortly before leaving his small town to go to the big city to study, young Daniel recalls his childhood, surrounded by family and friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Historia de un hombre
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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María Morena
Overview: María Morena is a 1951 Spanish drama film directed by José María Forqué and Pedro Lazaga. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-06-02
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Catherine of England
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-12-10
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¿Dónde vas, triste de ti?
Overview: After the death of Queen Mercedes, Alfonso XII's first wife, the problem of the succession is raised. The monarchy needs a heir and the King choses María Cristina from Habsburd to be the futur spanish queen. But Mercedes memories will be against the marriage and the long-awaited son will born when Alfonso is already dead.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-04-17
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
Overview: In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-24
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Juzgado permanente
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-08-10
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The Thieves
Overview: An Italian-American mobster is sent back to Naples from the States. He moves to Italy with all his illegal proceeds hidden in jam jars--which fall into the wrong hands when they get to the harbour of Naples. These hands belong to people who demand their fair share. Meanwhile, the mobster is questioned by investigators.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-27
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Magic concert
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-12-29
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Em Nar, la ciudad de fuego
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-08-23
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