Carlos Díaz de Mendoza

Acting

Carlos Díaz de Mendoza

Born — Died

1898-09-04 — 1960-05-18

Place of birth

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 36 titles

The Pride and the Passion poster
6.0

During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.

The Pride and the Passion

1957

No artwork available
7.0

Spanish film with a score by Joaquín Rodrigo

El hereje

1958

Decameron Nights poster
5.0

Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.

Decameron Nights

1953

De Madrid al cielo poster
9.5

In the Madrid beginning of the 20th century two young people try to make it as artists: Elena intends to succeed in the music world and Pablo wants to become a famous painter.

De Madrid al cielo

1952

The Eyes Leave a Trace poster
6.3

Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night Robert enlists the help of Martin, because he believes he has killed a man who was about her lover. Martin sees an opportunity ...

The Eyes Leave a Trace

1952

El duende y el rey poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

El duende y el rey

1950

La canción de La Malibrán poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La canción de La Malibrán

1951

The Black Man Who Had a White Soul poster
7.3

Peter Ward is a black singer who arrives to Madrid in 1907. He falls in love with Emma, and he offers her to be her dancer. She is restrained by her racial prejudices which will lead to an inevitable separation between them.

The Black Man Who Had a White Soul

1951

Pequeñeces poster
3.3

Madrid in the 1870s. Amidst political intrigues against King Amadeo de Saboya, wealthy and strong-willed countess Curra de Albornoz makes her own way in spite of her son and husband, considering her indiscretions as merely trifles ("pequeñeces") until tragedy strikes her. Period drama with a luxurious production design.

Pequeñeces

1950

The Adventurer of Seville poster
6.2

Bandits kidnap Figaro, the famous barber of Seville, and use his wonderful voice to attract travelers and rob stagecoaches. Because of this, the police chases him as an accomplice of the bandits. Then Figaro decides to join the army as a volunteer to fight in Puerto Rico. He returns covered with glory and his faults are condoned. However, the adventures of Figaro continue in Seville in the false scene of the aristocracy

The Adventurer of Seville

1954

Noche de tormenta poster
9.0

An outsider seduces and deceives a small-town girl, taking advantage of her innocence, in order to kill her mother.

Noche de tormenta

1955

Asylum poster
5.6

Carlos goes to visit his girlfriend Juana at the asylum where she works. Once there, the director introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says.

Asylum

1954

Dawn of America poster
5.8

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.

Dawn of America

1951

Love on Wheels poster
10.0

A taxi driver participates in a singing contest of a radio station for non-professionals and enters the final round. Being among the finalists he meets at the radio station a famous singer and falls in love with her.

Love on Wheels

1954

Las muchachas de azul poster
6.0

Serving the customers of a department store, the salesgirls in their blue uniform go out of their way to serve them. But in their young minds, one idea surpasses all: the hunt for a husband. Ana is in love with Juan, who seems to be very well in his condition of single. Olga has aspirations of the highest level, as her boyfriend must own a great car. Pilar aims to win a radio contest. And there is also Álvaro, the lawyer whose only cause capable of defending, and even with a resounding failure, is the freedom of the bachelor.

Las muchachas de azul

1957

Boyfriend in Sight poster
5.8

In 1918, a young woman is taken to a coastal resort by her parents to find her a suitable husband.

Boyfriend in Sight

1954

Teatro Apolo poster
6.6

In the late nineteenth century, Miguel Velasco, the son of a wealthy Spanish immigrant established in Mexico, comes to Madrid, where he falls in love with Celia, a chorus girl working at the Apollo theater.

Teatro Apolo

1950

Vargas Inn poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Vargas Inn

1959

The Seventh Page poster
9.0

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.

The Seventh Page

1951

Life Ahead poster
6.5

Finished their careers of Law and Medicine, respectively, Antonio Redondo and Josefina Castro, a pair of young Spanish newlyweds, are looking for work to buy an apartment and start a life together, but they will face enormous difficulties throughout the process.

Life Ahead

1958

No artwork available
6.5

A luminously beautiful, provocative young woman is rescued near a small fishing village on the Spanish coast. The scene is set for a drama of dangerous passion that threatens to tear apart the simple, tranquil life of the village forever.

Thunderstorm

1956

Maldición gitana poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Maldición gitana

1953

Haute Couture poster
7.7

Tona, model of a fashion house goes to see her ex-boyfriend to claim for some letters and finds him dead. Under the fear that the crime is attributed to her and also because she will soon marry Ramon, a rich young man of good family, she says nothing and goes to work as usual to show models. Meanwhile, the police opens an investigation.

Haute Couture

1954

A dos grados del Ecuador poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A dos grados del Ecuador

1953

La vida alrededor poster
5.6

Josephine and Antonio have reached a delicate economic balance after marriage. The salary of lawyer from him, and wins her in the hospital, allows them to survive and fantasize about some freak. The situation is complicated by the news that Josephine is pregnant. Ahead of the debacle that may involve having a "child who eats everything, including food," Josephine teaches the baby still in her womb, higher education courses in order to save some money in schools. Meanwhile, Antonio enters the underworld scene, looking for customers who offer their services as a lawyer.

La vida alrededor

1959

Under the Sky of Spain poster
6.2

Drama film directed and written by Miguel Contreras Torres.

Under the Sky of Spain

1953

Messengers of Peace poster
7.0

Try the descent to Earth, specifically to Spain, of the Three Wise Men.

Messengers of Peace

1957

El tren expreso poster
8.0

Mario is a famous concert pianist affected by an obsessive neurosis. He leaves Paris, cancels his contracts and returns to Spain to devote himself only to music. On his way to Spain he meets a young widow, who Mario saves when she tries to commit suicide by throwing herself from a train.

El tren expreso

1955

Los chicos poster
6.6

Four young men are cited in a kiosk during a rainy afternoon. One has to study and the other three go to the cinema, although they are not allowed to entry because their young age. The group consists of Andrés, who works as bellboy in a hotel and dreams of becoming a bullfighter; Chispa, who follows the orders of an old grumpy man; Carlos, a student; and Negro, a shy boy. All they want is to have fun; but reality forces them to confront the problems of the adult world.

Los chicos

1959

Feather in the Wind poster
8.0

Carlos, veterinary, poet, musician in his spare time and a fun-minded Don Juan,pretends to be his friend Fernando who has inherited a pharmacy in Madrid. There he meets an old girl friend that attracts him.

Feather in the Wind

1952

Sin uniforme poster
9.0

Several different people meet in Tangier, where they will have to join efforts to survive.

Sin uniforme

1950

El milagro del sacristán poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

El milagro del sacristán

1954

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Noche de celos

1951

Quema el suelo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Quema el suelo

1951

Educando a papá poster
6.3

Emigre returns to Spain to visit family; reunites with long-lost illegitimate son and rescues his brother-in-law from a gold-digging gigolette.

Educando a papá

1955

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Savior

1959

1930s · 5 titles