Luis Prendes
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Luis Prendes was born on August 22, 1913 in Melilla, Spain. He was an actor, known for Estudio 1 (1965), King of Kings (1961) and Fantasía (1966). He was previously married to María José. He died on October 27, 1998 in Madrid, Spain.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melilla, España
Birthday: August 22, 1913
Deathday: October 27, 1998
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Una chica de opereta
Overview: A poor composer sells his songs to a music publisher who attributes them to his son, who sells them to a famous singer. Seeking the son, the musician's daughter will unexpectedly find a job as secretary to the singer, disguised as an unattractive and authoritative woman who effectively controls his careless lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-01-17
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China 9, Liberty 37
Overview: Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-08-04
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Pyro... The Thing Without a Face
Overview: A married man has a brief affair, then goes back to his wife and children. His jilted mistress, believing that if he had no more family he'd come back to her, sets fire to his house, hoping to kill them. The man, unsuccessfully trying to rescue them, is horribly burned. After he undergoes an operation to reconstruct his face, he begins to plot his revenge against his former mistress.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-22
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Curse of the Black Cat
Overview: A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, her daughter cautiously approaches the man she considers to be the blame for the state of her mother in order to gain her revenge.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1977-05-09
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Breakout
Overview: A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-21
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White Comanche
Overview: William Shatner plays two roles: cowboy Johnny Moon and his ruthless Indian twin brother, Notah. Notah likes peyote and gets the crazy idea that he's the Comanche messiah sent to lead the Comanche nation against the white man but more specifically the dusty desert town of Rio Hondo. Moon, estranged from his brother, decides to stop Notah either by words or by bullets.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-21
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Alien Predators
Overview: Three young friends who are on vacation in Spain and a NASA scientist must join forces to save themselves and the rest of the world from an alien menace.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-05
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Mi enemigo y yo
Overview: Two sisters living with their aunt in a mountain village are fond of a writer whom they have the chance to meet, both of them falling in love with him. When he proposes to one sister, not wanting to hurt the other she is ready to renounce.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Carta a una mujer
Overview: Flora and Carlos have a marriage of convenience. Realizing that she did not love him, Carlos joined the Blue Division and soon disappeared in Russia. Flora lives with a famous conductor, but they have not married because the death of Carlos has not been formally communicated. But one day, a mysterious character who turns out to be an old enemy of his husband, sends Flora a message telling that her husband will return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-06-24
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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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The Tall Women
Overview: Seven women are the only survivors of an Apache attack on a wagon train. They must cross the desert on foot to escape the Indians who are hunting them.
Genres: Western Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-09-26
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Tuareg: Desert Warrior
Overview: In a desolate section of the Sahara once ruled by the French, two thirsty men stumble into the camp of a Tuareg warrior where they're given water and shelter. Soldiers from the new Arab government now arrive by Jeep and demand the two men be turned over to them. The warrior refuses, citing the sacred laws of hospitality. The soldiers shoot dead one of the men and carry off the other - a political foe of the new government. The warrior mounts his camel and rides off to rescue his kidnapped guest.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-03-12
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The Seventh Page
Overview: Chronicle of the daily activity of a newspaper called La Jornada. Through the events covered by the gossip columnist that occupy precisely the seventh page, a portrait emerges of different classes of Spain in the 50's and a vision of reality where facts are mixed comedy, police, emotional, dramatic and even tragic.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-10
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Dr. Coppelius
Overview: Film based on the ballet 'Coppelia.' This version is completely silent, not containing the songs/narration, or animation of the later reworking, Mysterious House of Dr. C.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-25
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Memorias del general Escobar
Overview: After the end of the Spanish Civil War, General Antonio Escobar Huerta stoically awaits his execution, accused of military treason and sentenced to death for having sworn allegiance to the Republic. Despite being a man of deep religious convictions, Antonio Escobar decided to make an oath honoring the legally constituted government of the Second Spanish Republic against the military uprising led by Francisco Franco and supported by the Catholic Church. While waiting for his execution in prison, he recalls the beginning of the Civil War, the years of battles during which he ascended to the rank of General, and his own decisions, of which he has no regrets. With a clear conscience, Escobar waits his own execution with the calm of those who know they have done their duty. "If my life and that of all who have fallen serves to avoid this from happening again, our blood will not have been in vain" - Antonio Escobar Huerta.
Genres: History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1984-09-21
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Las brujas de Salem
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-05-11
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Django Does Not Forgive
Overview: A halfbreed seeks revenge for the death of his sister, who kills herself after being raped by an officer of the Canadian Mounted Police. He gets involved in the historical revolt of halfbreeds and Indians led by Louis Riel in 1885 against the Canadian government.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-03-26
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A Man to Kill
Overview: Barcelona, 1967. Hans Fromm, a German-born architect, lives an well-ordered everyday life. He has become the target of an antifascist death squad though. Indeed their leader, Julius, whose brother was killed by Schmidt, a merciless S.S., believes, without being absolutely certain, that Fromm and Schmidt are the same man. The team, whose other members are Georges, the son of a deportee liquidated by Schmidt craving for action, Raphaël, a mercenary type, Nils, the photographer and Romain, watch Fromm's every move until Julius, convinced at last that the quiet German is their man, gives the green light for the operation. They manage to lure the former Nazi to an old house but Schmidt/Fromm won't let himself be captured so easily...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-11-10
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Hay que matar a B.
Overview: In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the return of politician B. from exile. However private trucker Pal can't afford to strike, so he's beaten up and his truck burned. In the headlines he's described as strike-breaker. This is only part of an intrigue which shall get him to murder B.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-06-14
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Loco veneno
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-05-11
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Joe Navidad
Overview: In a small western town in Arizona called Jaspen, a boy is born on Christmas Day. Joseph "Joe" Novak is born in a makeshift shelter, but his mother, Marika Novak dies during childbirth. Because of the day he was born, the boy will be nicknamed Christmas Joe. Joe's father will never forgive him for the death of his wife, which will lead Joe toward a rebellious attitude. He will become a troubled teenager, and will end up learning how to shoot. Joe will also reject his father's pacific attitude.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-01
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La gran fiesta
Overview: In 1942, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a casino is organizing a farewell party for its patrons, since it's about to be turned into a US military base. The guests drink, seduce and gossip, but some also plot against each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-12-01
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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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Doce hombres sin piedad
Overview: The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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La culpa del otro
Overview: Rafael works as a valet of the Marquis de la Peña. Accused of having committed a serious offense during his service, it is fired, although all is due to the machinations of the administrator. Shortly after an incident in which the Marquis is impaired occurs. Rafael comes to his defense, but will be charged again and imprisoned his wife Carolina. Their daughter will be given up for adoption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-11-09
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The Fickle Finger of Fate
Overview: A U.S. engineer in Spain hunts thieves of two candlesticks, one of which is found in his suitcase.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-06-25
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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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La hora incógnita
Overview: In a small Spanish town, is expected to explode a nuclear bomb to ten at night. All neighbors leave, except for thirteen people who are gathered in the church and, with the help of the pastor, will find that there is still a possibility of salvation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-12-26
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De espaldas a la puerta
Overview: Inspector Simón and Inspector Arévalo investigate the stabbing of a nightclub employee.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-11-12
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Lola Montes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-06-23
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Kill and Be Killed
Overview: A former singer lives alone with her fortune - and with her nephew, Fernando, a low character to whom she refuses to lend more money. Elisa leaves prison and starts a new life as a personal attendant to the aging singer, using her knowledge as a former nurse - a profession she can not return to. Fernando meets Elisa, and together they plan to poison the lonely woman, and use her money abroad. They plan their alibis well. But those who kill by the sword will perish by the sword.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-05-03
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The Kidnapping
Overview: Inspired by the famous Patty Hearst case, this thriller centers around a young woman who's kidnapped and brainwashed by a crime ring and ends up succumbing to Stockholm Syndrome.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-12-30
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The Devil's Roundup
Overview: Divided in several episodes, this film presents different stories that share the fantasy theme.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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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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Devil's Exorcist
Overview: Teresita, the only daughter to a wealthy couple, begins to be troubled by loud sounds and visions of a tall man in black walking towards her menacingly. Soon she becomes plagued by strange physical symptoms, visions of arms extending from the walls to grab at her...and sometimes she gets violent. A priest is called in to try and wrench the devil from her body.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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White Skin Market
Overview: A young police officer fresh out of the academy, sees casually as a man is beaten and forcibly put into a car in the car park at Barajas airport. The rookie cop tracks them down and discovers a band dedicated to trafficking in women in Spain.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Chino
Overview: Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly because, being a 'half-breed', he finds himself unwelcome almost everywhere he goes. One day, a young runaway named Jimmy shows up at his door looking for work and a roof over his head. Reluctantly, Chino agrees to take him in and teach him the art of raising, breaking and breeding horses, until the pair finally begin to accept each other.
Genres: Western Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-14
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Julio César
Overview: After Pompey's defeat at the Battle of Farsalia, Julius Caesar becomes the beacon of the Roman Republic and the master of its destiny; but many patricians want to avoid the birth of a tyranny and plot to assassinate him…
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-11-24
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Black Sky
Overview: A woman who works as employee in a fashion store has to care for her ill mother. At the same time she falls in love with a bohemian man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-07-09
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Loca juventud
Overview: Johnny Durán, who is seventeen years old and son of a multimillionaire, arrives to Madrid for hollidays. In the capital he become friend of a group of boys and girls with whom he shares great moments; but soon he realice that they are a clan of thugs and decides to distance themselves. He also meets Paula, daugther of an italian family that is travelling, and they both feel atracted by each other. Since then, started happening a serie of unexpected events which the guy will have to solve with tenacity and responsibility.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-02-01
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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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Todos eran culpables
Overview: A group of rebellious youth find themselves in hot water when a girl is killed while they are partying
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Jaguar Lives!
Overview: The world's newest kung fu legend, Joe Lewis, takes on evil gangsters and saves the world.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-09
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Atilano, presidente
Overview: Atilano Bermejo is a petty crook who gets involved in the scam of his life: to be Prime Minister. His charisma and lack of social concern make him an ideal political candidate for a group of bankers looking for a good public image behind which to hide and disguise their ambitions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-09-24
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Four Women
Overview: The entrance of a woman in a café where, gathered by chance, four men play cards, brings to the mind of each of them the memory of their past love experiences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-12-08
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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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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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Dos basuras
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-05-02
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Vargas Inn
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Genres: Adventure Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-08-24
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Reckless
Overview: Javier Mendoza a Catholic missionary established in Alaska, recalls, when about to die, the years of his youth and his relationship with his family and friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-04
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Luces de candilejas
Overview: Three supposed brothers ( a bolero singer, a tango singer and a mabo singer) are called for a musical magazine.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-09-11
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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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The Prince in Chains
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Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-12-20
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Fantasía... 3
Overview: The film is an adaptation of three fairy tales classics of children literature. "The Maiden of the Sea" tells the story of Coraline, a mermaid who wants to be human afte she falls in love with a Sailor Prince. "The 3 hairs of the Devil" tells the story of Tomasin, a young man of humble background, which a seer had a presentiment that he would marry the daughter of the king, who must perform a series of tests to avoid death, and marriage the princess is accepted by the king. "The Wizard of Oz" tells the story of Sylvia, a girl who get lost in the woods with her dog Toto, and along with her friends The Scarecrow, The Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion, have been snatched the brain, heart and courage, respectively. They go the Emerald City to request help from the Wizard of Oz adapting three children’s stories: , The three hairs from the devil and The Wizard of Oz.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid
Overview: This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries with the help of Pat Garrett, a fatherly friend, to change back. However, circumstances force Billy to become violent again and it is Garrett who is credited with the killing.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-03-09
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El duende y el rey
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-29
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Date With My Old Love
Overview: The struggles of a newly married couple to achieve marital and economic stability.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-02
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El precio de la sangre
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-06-17
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Autumn Roses
Overview: Isabel and Gonzalo, a marriage of high society, see how their happiness is endangered due to the frequent love affairs of the husband, that will eventually lead them to interact with a pair of cynical thieves dedicated to blackmail Isabel and to defraud Gonzalo in his business
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Una conquista difícil
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-12-01
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Mi adorable secretaria
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-04-15
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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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El vidente
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Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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