Acting

Vicente Parra

Born 1931-02-05 · Oliva, Valencia, Spain

Acting credits

Varietés poster
6.2

Spain 1930s. A troupe of performers travel from city to city entertaining audiences and earning a living. The cast includes a magician, a ventriloquist, muscle men, dancers, singers and a full orchestra. The star of the show is Carmen Soler (Trini Alonso) a celebrated singer, now way past her prime, who refuses to retire gracefully and defends her stardom ruthlessly. On her shadow lives and works Ana Marques (Sara Montiel) a younger singer who dreams of the big time and patiently waits for her break.

Varietés

1971

Cuando Almanzor perdió el tambor poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cuando Almanzor perdió el tambor

1984

La virgen gitana poster
6.0

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.

La virgen gitana

1951

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

Andalusia Express poster
6.0

Three men plan a jewelry heist abroad the Andalusia express train.

Andalusia Express

1956

The Last Party poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

The Last Party

1978

Buenos días, condesita poster
5.7

A young woman, who sells music recordings in the flea market in Madrid, passes herself off as a friend's girlfriend so that he doesn't lose his inheritance.

Buenos días, condesita

1967

The Cannibal Man poster
6.2

A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to a slaughter house.

The Cannibal Man

1972

Fedra, the Devil's Daughter poster
7.0

Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female community.

Fedra, the Devil's Daughter

1956

La leyenda del tambor poster
6.5

In June 1808, Napoleon's troops invade Spain. A boy named Isidro will beat his drum in the mountains of El Bruc, making the French army believe that thousands of armed men are waiting to confront them.

La leyenda del tambor

1981

The Shadow Battalion poster
5.8

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 ...

The Shadow Battalion

1957

Vacations in Majorca poster
5.9

Ugly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laughed of, especially by his ultra handsome rival, but with his firm insistence, and gradually emerging charm, he seduces the lady, to the total shocked surprise of his rival.

Vacations in Majorca

1959

Cariño mío poster
7.5

Miguel and Verónica meet in a plane and lie to each other about their true self: she tells him she's a secretary while she actually is the billionaire niece of a duchess, and he tells her he's a trumpet player while he is a Teutonic king. Eventually they fall in love, without knowing about each other's true identity, all of this while Miguel is being urged by his ministers to choose a wife of royal blood and get married as soon as possible, and a revolutionary group, one of which members is Verónica's brother, plans a terrorist attack against the king.

Cariño mío

1961

No One Heard the Scream poster
5.7

Elisa witnesses her neighbor, Miguel, dump his wife's corpse into an elevator shaft and is forced to be his prime accomplice to get rid of the body. The situation slowly spirals as a relationship forms between them, followed by the unforeseen return of Elisa's current lover.

No One Heard the Scream

1973

¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII? poster
6.3

Alfonso de Borbón and his cousin María de las Mercedes de Orleans fall in love and, although both families do not maintain good relationships, young people marry when Alfonso became king of Spain.

¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII?

1959

The Long Vacations of '36 poster
6.3

Spain, 1936. The Civil War breaks out. In a village near Barcelona, several families decide to continue living in their summer houses until the violence ends.

The Long Vacations of '36

1976

Bread, Love and Andalucia poster
6.3

Determined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates in an international music festival in Spain, where he falls for a young dancer.

Bread, Love and Andalucia

1958

Raulito Is Free poster
7.5

La Raulito travels to Madrid when she gets out of jail in Argentina to carve out a better future. Once in the Spanish capital, she participates in a documentary recounting his experience as a patient in a psychiatric hospital.

Raulito Is Free

1977

¿Dónde vas, triste de ti? poster
7.5

After the death of Queen Mercedes, Alfonso XII's first wife, the problem of the succession is raised. The monarchy needs a heir and the King choses María Cristina from Habsburd to be the futur spanish queen. But Mercedes memories will be against the marriage and the long-awaited son will born when Alfonso is already dead.

¿Dónde vas, triste de ti?

1960

La patrulla poster
6.7

Madrid, 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Five infantry soldiers of the victorious side take a photograph of themselves somewhere in the defeated city, promising to meet again ten years later at the same place.

La patrulla

1954

El hombre que yo quiero poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

El hombre que yo quiero

1978

The Fair of the Dove poster
5.7

In Madrid, Spain, an omniscient narrator transforms Mari Loli and Merche, two beautiful sales clerks, into Susana and Casta, who flirt with Don Hilarión, an old apothecary, which arouses the jealousy of Julián, who is in love with Susana.

The Fair of the Dove

1963

The Gang of Eleven poster
6.5

Inspired by the American gangster films, a group of thugs decides to dock the Bank of Spain. "El Rubio" explains to his men that, to commit the armed robbery, they will have to dig a gallery in the Cibeles. But, due to the threats of a rival band, "El Rubio" decides to disguise itself and pretend to be one of the most famous actors of the moment.

The Gang of Eleven

1963

Tranvía a la Malvarrosa poster
5.0

The film is based on the autobiography of writer Manuel Vincent. His father doesn't want him to become a writer and sends him to Valencia law school. One day Manuel sees his dream girl and follows her on a trolley car to Malvarossa beach. He then studies in college, meets call girl La China who teaches him love secrets, but still remembers that girl.

Tranvía a la Malvarrosa

1997

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