Angelino Fons

Directing

Angelino Fons

Born 1936-03-06

Angelino Fons Fernández (6 March 1936 – 7 June 2011), was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He is known for his debut film La busca (The Search) (1966). His career was closely linked to literature, adapting classic Spanish novels to the big screen.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

De profesión: polígamo poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

De profesión: polígamo

1975

De profesión: polígamo poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

De profesión: polígamo

1975

Stress Is Three poster
6.0

Set in one-day, three people embark together on a car trip from Madrid to Almeria. Antonio (Cebrián) is a successful industrialist, however he is dismayed that his personal life does not reflect his glittering career. He is insecure about his faltering marriage to Teresa (Chaplin), whom he believes is having an affair with his best friend, Antonio (Galiardo).

Stress Is Three

1968

Peppermint Frappé poster
6.6

Julián, a middle-aged single doctor, is reunited with Pablo, a childhood friend who has just married Elena, a beautiful young woman.

Peppermint Frappé

1967

Esposa y amante poster
4.2

Luisa's daughter attempted suicide. While attending the clinic and, contemplating the state of his daughter, Luisa recalls the early happy years of her marriage to Pedro, a popular and friendly sports journalist. Soon after came the first deception of her husband.

Esposa y amante

1977

The Angry Cid poster
5.3

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, “Mio Cid”, is in love with Jimena, but the Count of Oviedo, his father, challenges him to a duel and is killed. He before him curses Rodrigo, that if he marries Jimena, he will lose his manly faculties. And, in fact, when he gets married, Rodrigo becomes effeminate.

The Angry Cid

1983

The Search poster
6.0

Manuel Jacques Perrin is a young man from the country who tries to make it in Madrid in this somber melodrama. He struggles to survive in the unforgiving city where only the strongest will prosper. Manuel defends himself and kills a murderous thief in a fight then quietly waits for the police to reach the scene of the crime.

The Search

1966

The Search poster
6.0

Manuel Jacques Perrin is a young man from the country who tries to make it in Madrid in this somber melodrama. He struggles to survive in the unforgiving city where only the strongest will prosper. Manuel defends himself and kills a murderous thief in a fight then quietly waits for the police to reach the scene of the crime.

The Search

1966

Separación matrimonial poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Separación matrimonial

1973

Separación matrimonial poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Separación matrimonial

1973

Cantando a la vida poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cantando a la vida

1969

Cantando a la vida poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cantando a la vida

1969

First Surrender poster
3.8

Giallo about a man plotting to kill his wife for her money.

First Surrender

1971

The Hunt poster
7.0

Three veterans of the Spanish Civil War go rabbit hunting. While doing so, old wounds open up.

The Hunt

1966

Emilia... parada y fonda poster
4.2

No synopsis available yet.

Emilia... parada y fonda

1976

Blue Beach poster
3.7

A mature woman and her friends go on vacation to Spain, where they seduce the young men they meet.

Blue Beach

1982

Fortunata y Jacinta poster
7.0

Shows the unfailing love of two women for the same man, one as his mistress, the other as his wife. The lives of these characters intertwine and are determined by the variegated fabric of delicate tradition and established vices shaky politics and intrigue of the society they live in. Based on the major novel (1877) by Benito Perez Galdos.

Fortunata y Jacinta

1970

Marianela poster
7.6

Marianela is a poor girl with a disfigured face who works as Pablo's guide, a blind young man from a wealthy family. Pablo falls in love with Marianela because of her spirit and vitality and imagines her as the most beautiful woman in the world. When Pablo has the chance to recover his sight, Marianela becomes very sad because she is sure that the young man will reject her when he can see her

Marianela

1972

El crimen de la calle Fuencarral poster
7.0

July 1, 1888. The body of a woman is discovered during a house fire, but the examination reveals that she died victim of a stabbing, not the flames. Her maid and pet dog are found drugged in another room.

El crimen de la calle Fuencarral

1985

Amador poster
6.2

After killing his girl friend, Ana, Amador (a dark and strange man) joins his family (which he can't stand) in Torremolinos, where he gets involved in the assassination of a foreigner woman. It is also in Torremolinos, where Amador meets Laura, a woman who falls in love with him...

Amador

1965

My Son is Not What He Seems poster
7.0

Love, music and entanglements: a showgirl tries luck in tragedy, but she will be surprised by the arrival of her son from Bombay, with ideas very different from those of Spain; while the successor of this one - and neighbor - gains a plus doing "favors" to the gentle admirers.

My Son is Not What He Seems

1974

The House poster
6.5

After the explosion of an atomic bomb, a handful of people at the mercy of a disturbed millionaire.

The House

1976

Inés de Villalonga 1870 poster
3.5

1870. Agnes, of the wealthy family of Villalonga, enter as a novice in a cloistered convent. He soon falls in love with James, a soldier brother of another inmate, Sister Jacinta, and is answered by it. To be together, the young man invents an excuse, but is wounded by the Carlist.

Inés de Villalonga 1870

1979

Mar brava poster
6.3

Mingo, a kid whose father and brother have disappeared in shipwrecks, finds an amnesic man lying on the beach. Might he be St. Elmo?

Mar brava

1983