Amparo Rivelles
Also Known As: Amparito Rivelles, Ампаро Ривельес
Biography: María Amparo Rivelles Ladrón de Guevara (11 February 1925 – 7 November 2013) was a Spanish actress, known as Amparo Rivelles. She worked in Mexican films and telenovelas. She was the daughter of actor Rafael Rivelles and actress María Fernanda Ladrón de Guevara, and the half-sister of actor Carlos Larrañaga. During her long career, she earned a LatinACE award, a Goya Award, as well as a National Theater Prize.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Adult: No
Birthday: February 11, 1925
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 07, 2013
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Omen
Overview: While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-02-13
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La Regenta
Overview: The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's life unbearable and inevitably tragic.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-01-17
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Deliciosamente tontos
Overview: A young couple who doesn´t know each other prepare their wedding in order to receive an inheritance. As time pass through their life together makes true love appear.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-30
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Eloísa está debajo de un almendro
Overview: Fernando, who has returned to his hometown after studying in Brussels, finds a strange suicide note written by his father ten years earlier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-12-21
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La duquesa de Benamejí
Overview: Bandits in Sierra Morena assault the carriage in which the Duchess of Benamejí travels. A romance starts between her and the boss of the gang, Lorenzo, that arouses the jealousy of Rocio a gypsy who lives with the bandits. Meanwhile, the Marquis of Peñaflores, a captain in love with his cousin the Duchess, chases the bandits. Rocío reveals to the Marquis where Lorenzo and his men are and taking advantage of the tumult of the fight, she kills the Duchess. Her death will cause a change in attitude both Lorenzo and Peñaflores
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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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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Fuenteovejuna
Overview: A village bands together to kill its tyrannical Comendador, and when officials try to discover who is responsible, the villagers respond that the village committed the crime.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-11-20
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De mujer a mujer
Overview: As every year, the happy marriage of Luis and Isabel wakes up ready to celebrate her onomastics her and that of her daughter, unaware that the day reserves a tragic twist in the destiny of their lives, because the girl dies in a fatal accident. The impression is so strong that Isabel becomes mad until the point of being confined in a sanatorium. And looking for her health, the doctor forbids Luis to see his wife. He can only get news from her via Emilia, the young nurse who cares for Isabel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-09-13
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The Faith
Overview: Father Luis Lastra is a young priest who does his job in the village of Peñascosa. There he meets Marta, a beautiful parishioner very interested in religious matters, so much that she convinces the priest to accompany her to the convent to become a cloistered nun. Along the way, they have to stop at an inn for the night and that's where Father Luis will test his faith.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-22
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Los hijos del divorcio
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
Overview: A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.
Genres: Comedy Crime Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-05-26
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The Nail
Overview: Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-10-05
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La herida luminosa
Overview: Dr. Henry Mills a very renowned cardiac specialist, disagrees with his wife, because of their religious beliefs, and more particularly because it encourages his son Ernesto to follow the priesthood. Mills is unfaithful to his wife, Isabel. She knows her husband's betrayal, and he secretly decides to separate, without sharing the marital bed, but keeping a secret from society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-06-26
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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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La playa vacía
Overview: Ends the season and Victoria, widow, mature and owns the beachside motel, does not want to spend another winter alone. To avoid it, buy the company of Paul to continue working for her. Paul agrees, provided remain free and enjoy other women. Days after reaching the motel Gloria, a beautiful biologist who claims to be working on a book and, to the surprise of Paul, seems to know everything about Victoria and her past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-07-17
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Hay que deshacer la casa
Overview: Ana is a middle aged woman who many years ago decided to start a new life in Paris. Now she must return to her hometown after the death of her parents, since they have left her an inheritance. There she meets Laura, her only sister, with whom she has to share the money received and, especially, an old house located in the center of Guadalajara. Now, the two women will have to leave the differences and problems behind that have arisen in the past to catch up and recover the fraternal relationship. Written by lament
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-10-03
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Malvaloca
Overview: Malvaloca is a good girl who goes wrong until she finds a good man that really loves her, yet her past marks her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-09-14
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Soldados de plomo
Overview: Andrew returns to his hometown after a long absence. His father was a military high society who abandoned his wife to join the mother of Andrew, one cupletista second row. The reason for his return is to take over an old inheritance left him by his father: A semirruinoso house that is about to be declared a historic monument. But his desire to settle the matter soon are broken by the intrusion of his brother Ramon in buying the house. Andrés relationships with his family and with old attorney Don Dimas and her daughter Whitey complicated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-08-12
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The Sunless Street
Overview: Mauricio is a Frenchman who arrived in Barcelona fleeing from justice. He takes refuge in a hostel in Chinatown and falls in love with Pilar, the niece of the owner. When a murder is committed in the neighborhood, Mauricio becomes the prime suspect.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-11-22
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Esquilache
Overview: In the 18th century in Madrid, the Marquess of Esquilache, King Charles III of Spain's former minister, bans on wearing the popular wide collar with a long coat and brimmed hat. Along with other measures provoke a massive riot in the city.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-29
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El día de las madres
Overview: Three interwoven stories about generational conflicts beween single mothers and their adolescent/adult children.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-17
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La coquito
Overview: La Coquito is a Cuban cuplés, coveted by men for her beauty and sensuality. After great hardship in Cuba, she accepts the proposal of a Spanish businessman to work in Madrid. There she meets various men who will compete for her love.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-12-26
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Who Killed Grandpa?
Overview: A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-08-16
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History of a Scoundrel
Overview: A woman betrayed by a man falls into despair and kills him. What fate will the jury decide for her?
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-06-25
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When Children are Gone
Overview: Remake of an archetypal 1940s melodrama about parents sacrificing their own well-being for the convenience of ungrateful adult children.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-04-17
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El juicio de los hijos
Overview: Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-25
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El medio pelo
Overview: A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-01-06
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Los novios de mis hijas
Overview: Mama has four daughters in their late teens. some of them might be more interested in careers than husbands, but she's hoping she'll find a highly suitable young man for each of them. If there are any out there that meet her standards.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-17
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I Piombi di Venezia
Overview: An Italian historical melodrama
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-02-10
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El fugitivo
Overview: Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-03
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Remolino de pasiones
Overview: Gigolo devises underhanded schemes to insinuate himself into the lives of the wife and daughter of a rich man with a terminal illness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-30
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La madrastra
Overview: In Segovia at the beginning of the thirties the hoarder widower and Marcos must be prudent but has relations with the sterile prostitute Mercedes every week.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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La Leona de Castilla
Overview: Crown of Castile, 1520. The Comuneros rise up against Charles I, king of Castile and Aragon and emperor of the Hispanic Monarchy. While Juan de Padilla, leader of the uprising, and his captains, Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado, fight against the imperial armies, his wife, María de Pacheco, rules the city of Toledo, capital of the rebels.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-05-28
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El indiano
Overview: Nouveau-riche industrialist returns to Spain after 20 years in Mexico and discovers that his adopted son wants to marry into an aristocratic family and is trying to disguise his family history. Meanwhile, the young man's birth mother also shows up, and....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-04-24
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Ambush in Tangier
Overview: An American police detective's investigation into a series of murders leads him to drug smugglers in North Africa.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Hay ángeles sin alas
Overview: Loose-living gal hires two guys to pose as her husband and son for a week, while her sister the nun is visiting.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-09-27
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The White Widow
Overview: The story of a woman who, when forced to marry a man she does not love, remains a virgin. Her husbands die until she knows the true love of her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-12-03
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La casa de Bernarda Alba
Overview: A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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Anguish
Overview: Elena and Marcos live in a guesthouse. Their serious financial difficulties force them to resort to the help of Mrs. Jarque, an aunt of Elena who humiliates Marcos constantly. Marcos dreams that he kills Mrs. Jarque, and she appears dead.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-10-03
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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 amor que yo te dí
Overview: Suave jewelry-thieves caper comedy overlaid with howling family-melodrama coincidences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-01-18
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Los problemas de mamá
Overview: Mama's four girls are all newlyweds or engaged to be married. Four hubby/fiances plus inlaws = wacky complications.You betcha.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-02-12
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La casa de las muchachas
Overview: A whore house is transformed into a decent household by a respectable man.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-10-30
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3 citas con el destino
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Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-02-28
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El día que nací yo
Overview: A gypsy who sells fish in a market, sings on weekends in a tablao. One day, a professor, exiled in Cádiz for her political ideas, offers the cantaora a job.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-09-25
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Sabela De Cambados
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-12-14
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Alma de Dios
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-10-10
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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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Los ladrones somos gente honrada
Overview: Based on a play
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-03-09
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Pototo, Boliche y Compañía
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Barefoot in the Kitchen
Overview: What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragments of different films, both fiction and non-fiction. (Followed by “Manda huevos,” 2016.)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-06-14
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Sombras y luces: Cien años de cine español
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-05-14
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Dawn of America
Overview: Kingdom of Castile, the late fifteenth century. The film chronicles the events that Cristóbal Colón lived (Antonio Vilar) from their stay in the Convent of La Rabida, his meeting with the Catholic Monarchs and, above all, the great odyssey that led to cross the Atlantic and reach the shores of America (1492), thus beginning a new era in the history of mankind.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-12-20
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Mr. Arkadin
Overview: Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-09
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Ave sin nido
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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