Modesto Cid
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Orense, Galicia, Spain
Birthday: March 24, 1879
Deathday: July 05, 1954
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Luna de sangre
Overview: Arcos de la Frontera, in the early nineteenth century, when Napoleon's troops invaded Spain. In house Alvareda they are preparing the wedding of the daughter with a young man named Ventura. But the wedding is not held because Ventura escapes after killing a French soldier. Years later he returns and resumes his relationship with his fiancee. However, a great secret weighs in his heart, he feels an irrepressible passion for Rita, the wife of his brother in law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-02-18
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María de la O
Overview: A famous painter returns to Spain under a false name as he once had to run away, to meet his half gypsy daughter, who has become a flamenco dancer. He offers her his house, making popular rumors take flight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-11-27
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Reeds and Mud
Overview: Province of Valencia, Spain, 19th century. Tonet lives an intense love story with Neleta, whom he has known since childhood, but is forced to leave her to serve in the war in Cuba.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-10-02
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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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Dawn of Hope
Overview: "Dawn of Hope" (1937) is a film made by Antonio Sau for the anarchist union the CNT and is also one of the most important social films made in Spain. Keep in mind that was filmed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, when the revolutionary impulse still held firm. In this respect, tells the story of John, a worker who has just become unemployed, their effort to get a new, impossible to work in a country with more than three million unemployed at the time, as it says in the film. John's wife also takes a humiliating job to feed their children. Outraged by this and seeing the conformism of the people, John ends up as a social agitator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-08-30
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Niebla y sol
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1951
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-12-13
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La casa de las sonrisas
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-04-07
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La honradez de la cerradura
Overview: Ernesto and Marta, a couple of newlyweds who have serious financial problems, are visited by a neighbor asking them to keep a large sum of money at home until she goes to the bank the next day.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-06-08
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Si te hubieses casado conmigo
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-08-03
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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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El hombre de los muñecos
Overview: A son of the Marquise of Seven Almenas is robbed by a crook and deposited in Melchor's house, who sells dolls in the street. The administrator of the Marquise discover the whereabouts of the child and goes to pick him up, but Melchior gives him one of his children, thinking that will ensure the future. Over the years, Melchior, widower, enters as a steward in the house of the marquise where the alleged 'marquis' live splendidly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-06-04
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Fuego en la sangre
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-10
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Post Office Box 1001
Overview: Barcelona, Spain. A young man is murdered in the middle of the street in front of the police headquarters. Miguel and Marcial, two agents of the Criminal Brigade in charge of the investigation, find in the victim's room a newspaper where a cryptic classified ad appears.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-12-05
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El difunto es un vivo
Overview: An animals' collectionist is despised by his wife so that he decide to comeet suicide, but the notice about the death of his brother, a pianist who lives abroad makes him change his mind. He makes his family think that he has commited suicide and some days after announce the arrival of his brother and he impersonate him. His wife recibes him with an affection that he was unaware to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-10-28
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Un ladrón de guante blanco
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-01-28
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La sirena negra
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-08-07
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Ha entrado un ladrón
Overview: Jacinto is in love with Natalia, but she wishes for a daring hero and he is not that kind of man at all. Then by accident he is mistakenly believed to be just that. Now he will try to live up to her expectations, finding it quite stressful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-03-06
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La familia Vila
Overview: Mr. Vila is a family father who has worked a lot during his life to achieve a good life for his family. His oldest daughter, Elvira, causes him many problems because she acts as a rebel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-08
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El correo del rey
Overview: King Charles V sent his confidant, Don Fernando,from France to the Spanish Court carrying an important documentation. However, the frigate where he travels is sunk by the British and all the sailors perish. Don Fernando manages to save his life reaching the island of Menorca where he is helped by a humble fisherman
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-19
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Canción mortal
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-08-12
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El obstáculo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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¡Culpable!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-09-28
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Un enredo de familia
Overview: Two families that hate each other coudn't hinder the marriage of their firstborns. From this relationship born two pair of twins. Unfortunately their parents die and each family take in one pair of twins. Time pass trough, the twins find each other and many questions need to be solved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-05-09
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Boda accidentada
Overview: Kitty, niece of a Marchioness, is betrothed to Don Candido, a wealthy manufacturer of preserves. Nico, an old friend of Candide who is completely ruined, arrives to the fashion hotel in which both are. Nico falls in love with Kitty, but, unlike the other men who court her, treats her with indifference. The girl, wounded in his pride, it is interested to Nico. Just before the wedding, Don Candido leaves claimed by its industrial businesses, and instructs his friend to take care of his bride. Nico and Kitty end up falling in love. Don Candido back the same day fixed for the wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-03-02
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El presidio
Overview: After being fired from his company, Pablo meets his friend Ana, who introduce him to Pedro Ramírez, an undesirable lawyer, who offers him 15,000 pesetas for reports about his ex-company with the intention of doing a rob. When the lawyer's gang goes to give the coup, Ana reports them to the police, with the idea of taking the loot and fleeing with Pablo. But all of them are arrested and end up together in prison, where the intrigues and skirmishes between them will continue.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-07-12
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Los gamberros
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-09-13
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Pacto de silencio
Overview: A woman is told his military husband is considered dead, the truth is he has been transferred to the secret service. When he returns to Spain and they get reunited he ends killing a German spy, and then she gets prosecuted.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-09-12
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And What Do You Do?
Overview: A pro-Republican drama/propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.It tells the story of Manolo, a young worker who, after the military coup, joins the militias to fight for freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-01-24
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Conflicto inesperado
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-01-26
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El hijo de la noche
Overview: Two brothers with different personalities, one bold and impulsive the other serious and introverted, separate their lives after their father's death, to converge again time after to share a common interest for the same woman, yet for very different reasons.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-07-21
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La virgen gitana
Overview: Through a pictoric play, this movie tells the story about the painter Eduardo Miranda who, one night, while he was lokking to a gipsy group that was dancing, discovers a beautifull girl called Carmen. Dazzled by her beauty he decides to paint a picture. This causes roumours in the neighborhood, and it also arouses the jealousy of his wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-26
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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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El duende de Jerez
Overview: During the popular Harvest Festival, arrives in the city of Jerez a young teacher from England to investigate the benefits of wine for humans. In turn, the painting "Drunks" by Velázquez, escaping a character, with the task of Bacchus to defend and spread the excellence of the wines.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-03-20
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La boda de Quinita Flores
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-03-02
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Una herencia de París
Overview: A 1944 Spanish film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-11-13
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Doubt
Overview: A newly remarried widow is accused of having murdered her first husband, who died from arsenical poisoning. Being her present husband a lawyer he takes charge of her defense.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-08
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The Reliquary
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1933-11-06
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Boliche
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1933-12-25
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Aves sin rumbo
Overview: A film by Antonio Graciani
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1934-05-28
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La gran barrera
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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My Beloved Juan
Overview: The strange disappearance of the dogs of his neighbors leads Juan to investigate the case on his own. It ends up finding out that the author of the robberies is a young woman called Eloísa, the cocky daughter of a scientist who uses dogs to create an antidote against sleep. Juan and Eloísa fall in love, but he will ask her to leave her luxurious mansion to live only with his salary.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-02-12
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Vértigo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-28
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El correo del rey
Overview: King Charles V sent his confidant, Don Fernando,from France to the Spanish Court carrying an important documentation. However, the frigate where he travels is sunk by the British and all the sailors perish. Don Fernando manages to save his life reaching the island of Menorca where he is helped by a humble fisherman
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-19
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Me quiero casar contigo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-03-24
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Mercado prohibido
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-02-02
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Fantasía española
Overview: Two adventurers without economic resources create an amateur theater company and want to succeed, posing as aristocrats. The project aims to fill the theater with their performances and, thus, to satisfy their debts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-09
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El Padre Pitillo
Overview: Mr Froilán, "Padre Pitillo", is the parish priest from a spanish town. He has a reputation for cantankerous but bellow this appeariance has a kind and humanitarian spirit.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-02-25
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Elena
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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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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Zalacaín el aventurero
Overview: During the third Carlist war on Basque soil, Zalacaín, no frowns that his great enemy of the people pretend to love his sister, but he lives the reverse situation, in love with his sister.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-24
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La mujer de nadie
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-23
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