
Known for
7.6Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts.
Tales to Keep You Awake
1966
5.8An account of the life of Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582), from her spiritual awakening to her final days, as she struggles to reform the Order of the Carmelites and with her own faith.
Teresa de Jesús
1984
3.9Kronos, hero of a distant galaxy, tangles with mad scientist Gulik over the fate of mankind.
Supersonic Man
1979
6.8Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.
Mr. Arkadin
1955
8.0No synopsis available yet.
La Máscara Negra
1982
4.0Medieval erotic comedy in which a young man, played by Manolo Otero, comes to a town where he pretends to be tooth-puller and physician. This man is able to invent any potion to quench the sexual thirst of locals.
Cuentos de las sábanas blancas
1977
Film credits
1980s · 31 titles
6.1In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.
Valentina
1982
5.5A village is under the yoke of two bands of thiefs assaulting them every week. The mayor, in search of a solution, has decided to write a letter to Bill 'Warlock', the fastest man in the west.
East of West
1984
4.2It is the disastrous grades at the end of the school year that make several students from different places gather at the school to spend the whole summer studying, in order to make up for the lost course. Naturally, at this school, the last thing the kids are going to do is study, but the mayor of the town wants to demolish the school to build a housing development...
El rollo de septiembre
1985
5.9Amador and Fidel are two small scammers operating in Torremolinos beach and surroundings with more misery than fortune.
Los liantes
1981
6.0Sister María de Guadalupe comes from Mexico to the convent that her congregation has in Spain. She is determined to change, as she has a knack for getting herself into all kinds of trouble. But her new convent is in a difficult situation. The owner of the building has received a large offer to sell it and build an apartment building.
Unos granujas decentes
1980
6.2Two apprentice scammers who meet in a clinic on the Costa del Sol. By running the clinic they want to advertise. So they take advantage of the arrival of a deputy to cast him unnecessarily, waiting for the arrival of television cameras.
Shake Before Use
1983
7.2Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies.
El crack
1981
6.6No synopsis available yet.
Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor
1982
7.0A series of vignettes is woven into a larger story in this first film to be written and directed by Juan Minon and Miguel A. Trujillo. A writer who works in a bookshop to earn a living meets a wealthy American named Kargus looking for talent to ensconce in his projected art colony in the Gilbert Islands. In order to convince the American to take him on as a good prospect, the writer promotes his own stories -- the vignettes seen in the film. One story is about a young man trying to impress his girlfriend with his new car, a car he indirectly borrowed from a rental agency. His efforts to hide the rental sign on top of the car lead to various comical posturings. Other vignettes are from the era of the Spanish Civil War, including one about two people trying to survive by hunting cats and killing them to sell to butchers. Another vignette shows pro-Franco activists eradicating anti-Franco graffiti in Madrid.
Kargus
1981
6.0Amalio and Florencio are two cabaret artists who divorce their wives and stay with custody of their children. An unscrupulous cheat the two rent both of them the same dilapidated house. There will have to live both trying to get ahead as a team of magicians who happens to be a failure. But thanks to the ideas of their children, both parents are a couple of musical comedy that, despite initial failures, is a great success with the participation of the kids. Moreover Amalio and Florencio try to flirt with girls that are radically different from their wives but the kids will all the impediments that have no future.
Padre no hay más que dos
1982
6.4As 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
4.0A film buff can't watch his videos in peace as he is disturbed by his clingy girlfriend and noisy neighbours. He will take drastic measures to get them to shut up for once and for all.
Bajo en nicotina
1984
6.0No synopsis available yet.
El Trapero
1982
6.5No synopsis available yet.
El alcalde y la política
1980
5.0No synopsis available yet.
La de Troya en el Palmar
1984
4.8A 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
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Cuando Almanzor perdió el tambor
1984
5.8Lola is a beautiful young girl who is going to have a child but doesn't know who is the father. So she says, first Paco and later Ataulfo that the child is his. This causes the friends the enemisten and separate from Lola. Finally, reflect and come back for deciding that love between her and take care of the child. Then see who is closer, but in fact, none of them wants to take responsibility for the child.
La Lola nos lleva al huerto
1984
5.5A man of a certain social position falls in jail and request protection to a pickpocket and con man during his stay. On his release he promises to help his friend what then creates many problems.
Crooks
1983
6.0No synopsis available yet.
La loca historia de los tres mosqueteros
1983
3.2The movie tells the story of four beautifull and young girls: María, Pilar, Patricia and Virginia. They all work at the bingo and while they sell bingo cars they fill the room with smiles, happyness and excitement. But not all in their lifes is a game. They have all type of problems and dificult situations at work: the harassment of men, the quirks of the players ... but by the end love will win, as well as the joy of life and optimism.
Las chicas del bingo
1982
7.2No synopsis available yet.
El hijo del cura
1982
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Esperando a papá
1980
6.6No synopsis available yet.
El cura ya tiene hijo
1984
7.0No synopsis available yet.
El gran secreto
1980
7.0No synopsis available yet.
El gran secreto
1980
5.9Hipólito, a factory janitor whose workers are on strike, is choosen as spokesperson for your workers' complaints to the principal. He, who is not willing to budge, decides to earn the concierge, naming his personal secretary.
Un rolls para Hipólito
1983
6.6No synopsis available yet.
¡Qué tía la C.I.A.!
1985
4.2Salamanca, 1973. A congressman in love with his daughter's teacher hires an assassin to kill his wife.
El caso del procurador enamorado
1985
5.2Comedy thriller directed by Miguel Hermoso.
Marbella
1985
7.4No synopsis available yet.
La hoz y el Martínez
1985
1970s · 27 titles
3.9Kronos, hero of a distant galaxy, tangles with mad scientist Gulik over the fate of mankind.
Supersonic Man
1979
4.0Medieval erotic comedy in which a young man, played by Manolo Otero, comes to a town where he pretends to be tooth-puller and physician. This man is able to invent any potion to quench the sexual thirst of locals.
Cuentos de las sábanas blancas
1977
6.2In an anguished triangle of silences and unspoken words, a man secretly loves a woman who loves another man.
In Memoriam
1977
6.0Obsessed 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
5.3In 16th century Rome, Rampín, a friendly and shameless rogue, exploits his arts of deception. He lives with his aunt, Napolitana, a pimp dedicated to the same trades as his nephew. With the arrival of a beautiful Andalusian, Lozana, her fortune enters their house by making her the most beautiful courtesan in Rome. Lozana and Rampín reach an agreement: he will be at her service, taking her lovers home, and she will treat him like a king and give him the best, something that others will never have. But one fine day, Don Sancho, a handsome Spaniard, falls in love with her.
La lozana andaluza
1976
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Al fin solos, pero...
1976
5.8Just when normalcy seemed to have returned to the Valencian town of Favara with Visanteta's marriage, tragedy strucks and she's widowed. To avoid the wrath of Saint Barbara after Visanteta's honor is threatened, they seek her a husband, but none lasts for long.
Visanteta, estáte quieta
1979
5.2No synopsis available yet.
El virgo de Visanteta
1979
3.8Charlie (Curro), a 16 year-old boy, who apparently seeks to stop being a virgin. But he has fallen madly in love with a prostitute ten years older than he. It is difficult for him to approach her, so he decides to pay her for the services and in this way try to fall in love
Charlie and the Hooker
1977
7.0No synopsis available yet.
I Saw Her First
1974
5.0Three stories of three housemaids: Martina, shop steward, serves a marriage that can not have children because she entered the house with that condition. Basilia, Cateta coming to serve and not do anything, the contract for a small fee and let she carry a transistor always hung over the shoulder. And Lali, a gorgeous girl, but very serious and decent, it does not last any longer than 24 hours home because everyone wants to conquer.
El señor está servido
1976
6.7In Madrid of the 20's, many women were hired as wet nurses for middle class families. Milk is paid very well, so women are turning to the honest services of Paco, glazier by trade, which completes his monthly salary getting pregnant the clients who pay for it.
Paco the Infallible
1979
3.8Don Diego goes to war and his son Don Gonzalo is, in his absence, the new lord of the region. The milling Elvira, one of the mistresses of Don Diego, has a beautiful daughter, Elena, who has the desire of Don Gonzalo. But Elena is also the daughter of Don Diego and to separate the love of his brother, they marry her to Rodrigo, the pastor. This will be the beginning of the tragedy.
Del amor y de la muerte
1977
5.7A divorced woman is abandoned by her betrothed on the eve of her second marriage, and resigns herself to a humdrum life with her first husband.
Blanca's Weddings
1975
5.9Juan, a 65-year-old accountant, is going to be a father. At the same time, he's going to retire. Needing extra money, he tries all kinds of jobs, with no success. But his wife saves the day, with her embroidery which sells well in Germany.
Estoy hecho un chaval
1977
5.8No synopsis available yet.
El segundo poder
1976
4.5No synopsis available yet.
Girls... The Hall
1977
4.0No synopsis available yet.
El adúltero
1975
7.0No synopsis available yet.
El hombre que yo quiero
1978
9.0Armando, a natural prodigy with lethal attributes, capable of killing both his wives at first glance on their wedding night, decides to visit a psychiatrist friend and falls in love with his wife, her twin sister, and everything in between.
Las obsesiones de Armando
1974
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Eva, limpia como los chorros del oro
1977
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Señoritas de uniforme
1976
7.0No synopsis available yet.
The Shameful Secret of a Good Boy
1976
5.5No synopsis available yet.
El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)
1979
4.5Doña Nati, the owner of a house of prostitutes, takes a little vacation to attend his niece's first communion in the village. She is accompanied on the trip by three of his pupils: Barbara, Mercedes and Eva who pretend to be her friends. But soon, men realize what they are and begin to try to flirt with them. Doña Nati makes a splendid gift to the people and thus wins the favor of its inhabitants.
Vuelve, querida Nati
1976
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Abortar en Londres
1977
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Los hijos de...
1976
Series credits
7.6Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts.
Tales to Keep You Awake
1966
5.8An account of the life of Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582), from her spiritual awakening to her final days, as she struggles to reform the Order of the Carmelites and with her own faith.
Teresa de Jesús
1984
8.0No synopsis available yet.
La Máscara Negra
1982

