Amparo Muñoz

Acting

Amparo Muñoz

Born 1954-06-21 · Vélez-Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain

Amparo Muñoz y Quesada (21 June 1954 – 27 February 2011) was a Spanish actress, model and beauty queen who won the Miss Universe 1974 competition in Manila, Philippines, being the first and only Spaniard Miss Universe titleholder to date. Muñoz surrendered both the title and crown after six months due to refusal to follow the rules and regulations of the Miss Universe Organization. During that time, no successor was willing nor assigned to officially take her vacated placement. After her shortened reign, Muñoz became a popular actress in Spain and starred in several comedies, including Mama Turns 100, and in the dramas Clara es el Precio, The Other Bedroom and Dedicatory. Her personal life was often shrouded in notorious events and public controversies. She died on 27 February 2011 due to cerebral aneurysm complications and was cremated and buried at the Roman Catholic cemetery of Saint Michael in Málaga, Spain.

Acting credits

La intrusa poster
5.0

The Galgo brothers are inseparable macho loners living in the heart of Andalucia at the turn of the century. One day Rafael comes home with Gracia, who is to be his servant and lover. They become trapped in a hell of their own making.

La intrusa

1993

Lulú de noche poster
4.0

German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While looking for the protagonist, Rufo appears, an introvert jazz musician. He could play Jack the ripper.

Lulú de noche

1986

The Gambler poster
7.4

Three childhood friends; when they grow up, the poor boy is shut out from the possibility of romancing the girl because of class issues. He leaves town, learns to play pro-level poker, wins a fortune, then goes home to ruin his rival's life.

The Gambler

1979

Acto de posesión poster
4.3

Raquel's not able to have children, so she and her boyfriend manipulate another young woman into bearing his child.

Acto de posesión

1977

Mauricio, mon amour poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

Mauricio, mon amour

1976

Vida conyugal sana poster
4.0

Enrique is a thirty-year-old lawyer who is married to Ana. Apparently he is a normal man who has only one obsession: the commercials. He feels a real passion for the erotic world of the ads either in billboards, trash cans, public transport, magazines or television. The continuous publicity bombardment ends up leading him towards a neurosis that changes his personality.

Vida conyugal sana

1974

Al acecho poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Al acecho

1987

El balcón abierto poster
9.5

Film homage to the great Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, in which they dramatize fragments of his poems and the play "La casa de Bernarda Alba". From his texts, the voice of the poet himself weaves the plot. His characters come to life: El Amargo, which runs from a poem taken from "El Cante Jond" to the "Romancero Gitano". The Woman, blurred and present in so many of his poems. The Mother, a living synthesis of his play-writing. The balcony is open from the hidden Granada to exciting New York. From the rider of tireless riding to the mysterious baroque of Holy Week. From the first babble of the poet to his violent death. Spain is behind its lyric. Also in many images and tensions of the film. The argument of this one wants to approach the argument of a poet. His life and his work, united irremediably.

El balcón abierto

1984

The Great Victory poster
3.6

The adventures and misadventures the popular singer Rigo Tovar, his relationships, trips and unparalleled successes

The Great Victory

1981

Clara es el precio poster
4.8

In a city on Spain’s Costa Brava, Clara Valverde, a young beautiful woman, lives with her husband Juan. Juan is an architect and has planned a daring urbanistic project. In reality, the project is not viable. Clara, to keep her marriage and finances a float, works as a porno actress in an underground film industry. In spite of her job and her marriage, Clara is still a virgin. Her marriage has never been consummated because her husband is impotent for which she blames herself. In her work she does not allow to be penetrated. One day she goes to a reunion with Kellerman, an American millionaire who seems to be interested into put into fruition Juan’s project. However soon Clara learns that what he really wants is to blackmail her. The owner of the house, Jorge, finds out Claras’s real occupation and if she does not have sex to the American would tell everything to her husband.

Clara es el precio

1975

The Minister's Wife poster
4.9

Rafael, a young man from the provinces, works as a waiter in a resort and helps himself economically having sex for money with rich older women. During a bomb threat, he is discovered in bed with one of the guest, Leonor Marchioness of Montenegro, and he is fired as a consequence. The Marchioness of Montenegro is an aging aristocrat, ruined economically, but still with wealthy and influential friends. She helps Rafael finds a new job in Madrid as the gardener in the mansion of Antonio Fernández Herrador, Minister of economy in the new democratic Spanish government.

The Minister's Wife

1981

Love Ravings poster
5.3

In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young man.

Love Ravings

1986

The Black Moon poster
6.6

After experiencing a series of traumatic, seemingly unrelated, accidents, Eva begins to notice that her daughter Luna is behaving in increasingly strange ways.

The Black Moon

1990

The Seven Cucas poster
6.7

A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere.

The Seven Cucas

1981

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Presto Agitato

1979

Dedicated to... poster
4.7

A mix of characters and actions create only a semblance of a plot in this confusing tale of intrigue, undefined crimes, and incest. A newspaper reporter is working on a story about a criminal serving time in jail. He interviews the prisoner, has an affair with the criminal's daughter, and also spends some time in bed with his editor's wife. His amorous life is an adjunct to his searching out the details of the prisoner's case -- though tragedy strikes before the journalist can wrap everything up. In the meantime, it becomes clear that the daughter and imprisoned father had an incestuous relationship, raising more questions than answers.

Dedicated to...

1980

L'anello matrimoniale poster
4.7

Monica, the young wife of a luminary plastic surgeon, and the mother of a little girl, is tempted to sleep with a handsome neighbor: Giorgio, the owner of a beauty salon and the father of a boy. Since she is very much in love with her husband, she asks him for permission to yield to Giorgio, very insistent on her point. The surgeon, tolerant, gives her permission ...

L'anello matrimoniale

1979

Women poster
5.2

Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

Women

1997

Los invitados poster
6.4

A murder is committed in a small village of Andalusia.

Los invitados

1987

In the Shade poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

In the Shade

1987

Sexo contra sexo poster
5.4

The engineer José Luis, husband of the fichera and dancer Estrella Raleigh, dies in a plane crash. During the burial, Estrella discovers that her husband was having an affair. It's quickly revealed that things are a bit more complicated than they initially appear.

Sexo contra sexo

1983

Si las mujeres mandaran (o mandasen) poster
4.6

No synopsis available yet.

Si las mujeres mandaran (o mandasen)

1982

Pictures poster
5.1

Azucena is 22 years old and lives with her mother, who, due to a past trauma, can no longer speak. Azucena works in a photography lab with her best friend Paqui, and has just broken up with her latest boyfriend Dani. Azucena lives in fear of sex and physical contact, hiding in her own sheltered world. Cesar, a plastic artist feels an obsessive attraction for Azucena, as a result, making her his inspiration. This obsession is painfully observed by Jacinto, the unstable artist's lover, who is himself involved in a violent and destructive relationship with Cesar.

Pictures

1996

Lycantropus: The Moonlight Murders poster
5.7

1996 Spanish horror film that is the eleventh in a long series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy. Following his near-fatal heart attack in 1991, Naschy made this film as an intended comeback, but it was poorly distributed and received bad reviews.

Lycantropus: The Moonlight Murders

1996