José Vivó

Acting

José Vivó

Born — Died

1916-05-19 — 1989-07-26

Place of birth

Barcelona, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 23 titles

El Sur poster
7.6

A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.

El Sur

1983

The Beast and the Magic Sword poster
5.3

His bloodline damned by a witch, Waldemar Daninsky heads to Japan to seek a cure for his werewolf curse.

The Beast and the Magic Sword

1983

Star Knight poster
4.2

A medieval alchemist (Klaus Kinski), knight (Harvey Keitel) and priest (Fernando Rey) mistake a flying-saucer alien for a dragon.

Star Knight

1985

Lute: Forge On or Die poster
5.8

In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed "El Lute", steals some chickens and is condemned to six months in jail. El Lute moves to the slum outskirts of Madrid with his common law wife, Chelo, starting an itinerant life as a peddler of pots and pans and living in a quinqui shantytown. He gradually embarks upon as life of petty criminality, eventually participating in the theft of a jewelry store during which a bystander is killed.

Lute: Forge On or Die

1987

Mon Ami Washington poster
9.0

The adventures of two gun merchants competing in the same market.

Mon Ami Washington

1984

The Crime of Cuenca poster
6.8

Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier.

The Crime of Cuenca

1981

The Judge's Wife poster
4.3

The wife of a judge feels lonely because her husband works too much. Therefore she seeks another love and finds it in the person of a young man.

The Judge's Wife

1984

Jarrapellejos poster
5.1

Pedro Jarrapellejos is a ladies man who cannot turn the heads of Isabel or her beautiful daughter. When both peasant women are found raped and murdered in a brutal scene, a schoolteacher is falsely accused. Pedro knows his own nephew and his friend participated in the killings, but he uses his considerable influence over the police and courts to intimidate the witnesses into silence.

Jarrapellejos

1988

The Beehive poster
6.4

As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.

The Beehive

1982

Our Father poster
5.0

The story of a Spanish Cardinal who is told he only has one more year to live. He decides to return to his hometown, after an absence of 30 years, to sort out his affairs.

Our Father

1985

Heartbeat poster
5.3

Paul Marnac and his infirm wife Geneviève move to his childhood estate in the French countryside. The estate is also the site of the castle inhabited by Paul's ancestor Alaric de Marnac, who was known for brutally slaughtering anyone whom he suspected of infidelity. There is a legend that Alaric rises from the grave to continue his deeds. The estate is currently inhabited by Paul's aunt Maville and cousin Julie. Right after Paul and Geneviève arrive, mysterious things begin to happen. Geneviève begins to wonder if the legend about Alaric is true.

Heartbeat

1983

Caso cerrado poster
5.7

Cesar and Isabel just got married for the Jewish rite, their religion. He is a director of a banking company. She works in a bookstore owned by her mother-in-law. The couple sees their happiness truncated when César discovers financial anomalies in the entity where he works. What were initially charges against some managers, becomes an accusation of embezzlement against César, who is in France to prevent his entry into military service. Go back and appear before the judge to prove his innocence.

Caso cerrado

1985

Murder in the Central Committee poster
4.7

The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assassin of the leader of the Spanish Communist party who was stabbed during a blackout while presiding over a meeting of the party's central committee. The film is a thriller with ironic political overtones.

Murder in the Central Committee

1982

Blood Hunt poster
4.8

A new doctor arrives in a small Spanish village. As soon as he begins meeting people there, he notices the strange behaviour of the population and is surprised. Young people make fun of him, a man called Gonzalo seems to be some kind of leader, and he is invited to leave the village when he tries to ask about the situation. All his questions get no answer. His neighbour is a lovely and pretty young woman, who works as the local teacher. They develop a sincere friendship from the very first moment, which grows to become love. Unfortunately, Gonzalo feels that the young teacher is "reserved" exclusively for him and he reacts with violence. Meanwhile, the doctor finds out the key of that strange behaviour. Some years ago, during the local feast, some drug-addicts attacked the village in order to get money and goods. There was a fight and some people died, including Gonzalo's son. From then on, Gonzalo and others began their particular "crusade" against drug-addicts.

Blood Hunt

1986

La diputada poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

La diputada

1988

La plaça del Diamant poster
6.7

Colometa is an average housewife with two children to care for in the late 1930's, as the Spanish Civil War is starting and her husband goes off to fight. She had been an ordinary woman working in a shop when she met the lively carpenter who married her, and their life together was without major problems. But now she is forced to raise her children under straitened circumstances, and after her husband dies, her life undergoes another major change as she marries for the second time. Underneath Colometa's acquiescent, forebearing exterior must lie just a few discontents, a few unrealized dreams - but they never surface as she blithely moves from one episode in her life to another.

La plaça del Diamant

1982

The Secret Garden poster
5.1

A few days ago, Lucia (Assumpta Serna) receives anonymous letters in which he is forced to perform certain actions that she accepts without question. Her current boyfriend, Arthur (Xabier Elorriaga), suspects the mysterious sender can be Lucia's former lover, whose strange death never reached clarified. Now it's time it's Arthur who put the cards on the table to get to the bottom of it.

The Secret Garden

1984

The Crime of Captain Sánchez poster
4.3

Madrid, Spring 1913. During a visit to the casino, a beautiful 20 year-old woman catches the eye of a 50 year-old rich widower. But the gamble he is about to commit is far greater than he suspects.

The Crime of Captain Sánchez

1985

Winter Diary poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Winter Diary

1988

Policía poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Policía

1987

Un enemigo del pueblo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un enemigo del pueblo

1981

The Faithful Servants poster
5.0

The service staff of a luxurious Catalan farmhouse has prepared a large banquet because the arrival of the guests is expected. Everything is ready, but nobody arrives. Then, the housekeeper and the other servants will occupy for a few moments the place of their masters and, like them, they will behave despotically.

The Faithful Servants

1980

Femenino singular poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Femenino singular

1982

1970s · 27 titles

Anna and the Wolves poster
6.8

The young but traveled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family.

Anna and the Wolves

1973

The Scarlet Letter poster
5.4

In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older stranger arrives, recognized by Hester but unknown to others as her missing husband. He poses as Chillingworth, a doctor, watching Hester and searching out the identity of her lover. His eye soon rests on Dimmesdale, a young overwrought pastor. Enmity grows between the two men; Chillingworth applies psychological pressure, and the pastor begins to crack. A ship stops in Salem, and Hester sees it as a providential refuge for her daughter, herself, and her lover. But will Dimmesdale flee with her?

The Scarlet Letter

1973

A Dog Called... Vengeance poster
5.5

A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog.

A Dog Called... Vengeance

1977

The Killer Is Not Alone poster
5.4

Julio, an only child belonging to a wealthy family, murders a prostitute who tries to seduce him. He, in childhood, suffered severe trauma and this causes serious problems with women. Because of this, runs away and stays in a boarding house in Madrid, where he meets Monica, the daughter of the owner, who maintains relationships that seek to build on for help in their desperate situation. As his obsession for killing is increasing.

The Killer Is Not Alone

1975

The Priest poster
6.0

Obsessed with fantasies of sex, Father Miguel seeks professional help through his church but they are not listening; thus leaving the Father in a dilemma; leaving the church or should he try, on his own, to surrender to these temptations?

The Priest

1978

Forbidden Passion poster
3.8

A young woman was seduced by a high positioned official who is married but when she falls in love with a young man she tries to break the other relationship...

Forbidden Passion

1974

Mama Turns 100 poster
6.3

Ana and her husband Antonio arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch.

Mama Turns 100

1979

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

Traffic Jam poster
6.8

A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactions and other grotesque situations. All the episodes are linked as if in a single plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a larger universe: the congestion.

Traffic Jam

1979

Flower of Holiness poster
9.0

A beautiful teenage shepherdess named Adega sleeps one night with a mysterious pilgrim in a barn of impoverished and superstitious Galicia of the nineteenth century. The overwhelming fanaticism of the villagers motivates them to consider the outsider an envoy of Satan, reason why they deny him the lodging. The pilgrim, on the other hand, will react by cursing the people with plague and misery.

Flower of Holiness

1973

Vice and Virtue poster
6.0

A shy and romantic girl of sixteen spends the summer holiday in a lavish mansion with her widowed mother.

Vice and Virtue

1975

Sex o no sex poster
5.0

Paco, a frustrated office worker, goes to the office of a psychologist, to whom he tells his most delirious sexual fantasies in the hope that he will apply a curative therapy. Unfortunately, the doctor will end up confessing that he can not help, because he lives with a doll that has become his companion sentimental.

Sex o no sex

1974

The Burned City poster
6.4

The film depicts ten years of Catalan history, from 1899 with the defeat of the Spanish side in the Cuban War of Independence to the Tragic Week 1909.

The Burned City

1976

El buscón poster
6.3

XVII century Spain. Don Pablo tries to climb position and falls into the hands of students, rogues, whores, fake skilled, executioners, jailers and comedians. Based on "The Buscón called Pablos" Francisco de Quevedo.

El buscón

1979

El chulo poster
4.7

A powerless man finds a solution to a childhood trauma.

El chulo

1974

Exorcism's Daughter poster
4.3

Tania, an asylum patient, is under the doctor's care while suffering raging behavioral effects that follow the death of her exorcised mother.

Exorcism's Daughter

1971

The Ibéricas Football Club poster
5.1

The Iberian F.C. is a female football team makes a splash in the world of football, rather than their athletic skills, their physical attraction for the male audience. Each of the components of the whole suffers a different and peculiar relationship status, derived from its new sports.

The Ibéricas Football Club

1971

Madrid, Costa Fleming poster
7.0

Sexy comedy.

Madrid, Costa Fleming

1976

El día del presidente poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

El día del presidente

1979

El segundo poder poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

El segundo poder

1976

Vera, a Cruel Tale poster
8.0

South of France, XIX century. Alfredo de Quiroga, a Spanish gentleman in exile, is reluctant to admit that Vera, his wife, has died. Very concerned, begins to rebuild its surroundings as if she were still alive. The objects, dialogues, gestures ... again everything is back to make sense to him. Even his faithful butler rests on this fiction. But one day, by accident, he meets the daughter of the notary and his world begins to crumble.

Vera, a Cruel Tale

1974

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

Cuando los maridos se iban a la guerra poster
3.7

In the medieval Castile, Don Tello de Buinesa, the boastful feudal lord, lives with his three sons and their beautiful wives.

Cuando los maridos se iban a la guerra

1976

Doctor, me gustan las mujeres, ¿es grave? poster
10.0

Carlos, a university professor, is admired and praised above all by people who see in him the ideal person to fill the best positions.

Doctor, me gustan las mujeres, ¿es grave?

1974

Foul Play poster
5.1

A workshop employee decides to take advantage of a long weekend to go to Torremolinos to have fun and chat up foreign tourists.

Foul Play

1977

Cabo de Vara poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cabo de Vara

1978

El certificado poster
6.0

Silvia travels to the big city where she meets a married man, with whom she ends up having a romantic relationship.

El certificado

1970

1960s · 3 titles

1950s · 4 titles

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