Alberto Romea

Acting

Alberto Romea

Born — Died

1882-01-15 — 1960-04-14

Place of birth

Madrid, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Known for

Welcome Mr. Marshall! poster
7.4

A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the American visitors, in the hopes of benefiting under the Marshall Plan. Hoping to demonstrate the side of Spanish culture with which the visiting foreign officials would be more familiarized, the Castilian citizens don unfamiliar Andalusian costumes, hire a renowned flamenco performer, and re-decorate their town in Andalusian style, meantime waiting for their uncertain arrival.

Welcome Mr. Marshall!

1953

Radio Stories poster
7.5

Three short stories based on radio competitions, all linked by speaker Gabriel and his fiancee. Two inventors who want to patent a piston and need money, a thief who answers a phone call while robbing and a child who needs to go to Sweden for an operation are the protagonists of these stories around the radio.

Radio Stories

1955

I Was a Parish Priest poster
7.4

A young priest encounters major problems in the diocese where he must preach the word of the Lord, mainly as a result of hatred caused by differences in classes

I Was a Parish Priest

1953

Miracles of Thursday poster
6.8

In Fontecilla, a Spanish village in decline, the mayor and other illustrious citizens hatch a crazy plan to revitalize tourism.

Miracles of Thursday

1957

El fantasma y doña Juanita poster
4.2

Fearing that her niece Rosita will abandon her true love and enter into a marriage of convenience, doña Juanita tells her the story of when, many years ago, she fell in love with an accountant who worked in a circus.

El fantasma y doña Juanita

1945

Eloísa está debajo de un almendro poster
5.8

Fernando, who has returned to his hometown after studying in Brussels, finds a strange suicide note written by his father ten years earlier.

Eloísa está debajo de un almendro

1943

Film credits

1950s · 9 titles

Welcome Mr. Marshall! poster
7.4

A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the American visitors, in the hopes of benefiting under the Marshall Plan. Hoping to demonstrate the side of Spanish culture with which the visiting foreign officials would be more familiarized, the Castilian citizens don unfamiliar Andalusian costumes, hire a renowned flamenco performer, and re-decorate their town in Andalusian style, meantime waiting for their uncertain arrival.

Welcome Mr. Marshall!

1953

Radio Stories poster
7.5

Three short stories based on radio competitions, all linked by speaker Gabriel and his fiancee. Two inventors who want to patent a piston and need money, a thief who answers a phone call while robbing and a child who needs to go to Sweden for an operation are the protagonists of these stories around the radio.

Radio Stories

1955

I Was a Parish Priest poster
7.4

A young priest encounters major problems in the diocese where he must preach the word of the Lord, mainly as a result of hatred caused by differences in classes

I Was a Parish Priest

1953

Miracles of Thursday poster
6.8

In Fontecilla, a Spanish village in decline, the mayor and other illustrious citizens hatch a crazy plan to revitalize tourism.

Miracles of Thursday

1957

La Leona de Castilla poster
5.8

Crown of Castile, 1520. The Comuneros rise up against Charles I, king of Castile and Aragon and emperor of the Hispanic Monarchy. While Juan de Padilla, leader of the uprising, and his captains, Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado, fight against the imperial armies, his wife, María de Pacheco, rules the city of Toledo, capital of the rebels.

La Leona de Castilla

1951

Dawn of America poster
5.8

Kingdom of Castile, the late fifteenth century. The film chronicles the events that Cristóbal Colón lived (Antonio Vilar) from their stay in the Convent of La Rabida, his meeting with the Catholic Monarchs and, above all, the great odyssey that led to cross the Atlantic and reach the shores of America (1492), thus beginning a new era in the history of mankind.

Dawn of America

1951

Lola the Coalgirl poster
7.0

Cadiz, during the War of Independence. The Lola singer in love with a French military entrusted an important message ...

Lola the Coalgirl

1952

Sobresaliente poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sobresaliente

1953

My Beloved Juan poster
7.0

The strange disappearance of the dogs of his neighbors leads Juan to investigate the case on his own. It ends up finding out that the author of the robberies is a young woman called Eloísa, the cocky daughter of a scientist who uses dogs to create an antidote against sleep. Juan and Eloísa fall in love, but he will ask her to leave her luxurious mansion to live only with his salary.

My Beloved Juan

1950

1940s · 18 titles

El fantasma y doña Juanita poster
4.2

Fearing that her niece Rosita will abandon her true love and enter into a marriage of convenience, doña Juanita tells her the story of when, many years ago, she fell in love with an accountant who worked in a circus.

El fantasma y doña Juanita

1945

Eloísa está debajo de un almendro poster
5.8

Fernando, who has returned to his hometown after studying in Brussels, finds a strange suicide note written by his father ten years earlier.

Eloísa está debajo de un almendro

1943

Héroe a la fuerza poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Héroe a la fuerza

1941

Un viaje de novios poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un viaje de novios

1948

El hombre que las enamora poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

El hombre que las enamora

1944

The Sunless Street poster
5.8

Mauricio is a Frenchman who arrived in Barcelona fleeing from justice. He takes refuge in a hostel in Chinatown and falls in love with Pilar, the niece of the owner. When a murder is committed in the neighborhood, Mauricio becomes the prime suspect.

The Sunless Street

1948

No artwork available
8.0

The Basque shipowner Ignacio Ibarrola has two sons: Ignacio and José Mari. Both have very different characters and since childhood there has been a great rivalry between them.

El Emigrado

1947

El 13-13 poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

El 13-13

1943

Éramos 7 a la mesa poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Éramos 7 a la mesa

1942

La muralla feliz poster
7.0

Filiberto Aguirre abandons his career as captain of the merchant navy because he has well-founded hopes of receiving a great inheritance. But time goes by, the inheritance does not arrive and his family's economic situation worsens every day.

La muralla feliz

1948

La mies es mucha poster
5.2

Father Santiago Hernández, a Spanish missionary, arrives in Kattinga, India, to replace Father Daniel, who is seriously ill.

La mies es mucha

1948

Viaje sin destino poster
7.0

To save a travel agency in an endangered situation one of the employees has a brilliant idea, announcing a special travel with no defined destiny.

Viaje sin destino

1942

Forja de almas poster
7.0

Film based on the life of the priest Andrés Manjón.

Forja de almas

1943

El señor Esteve poster
6.0

Barcelona, 1860. Mr. Esteve, owner of a haberdashery and proud of his son, attends the christening of his grandson who, years later, determined to become a renowned artist, seems unwilling to continue the tradition and take over the family business. (Only badly preserved and severely mutilated copies of this film survive, just 69 out of a total of 108 minutes.)

El señor Esteve

1948

Sarasate poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sarasate

1941

Amore di ussaro poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amore di ussaro

1940

Mariona Rebull poster
5.0

Barcelona, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. Joaquín Rius, a prominent businessman, marries the young Mariona Rebull. Their apparent happiness is overshadowed by the arrival of Ernesto Villar, Joaquín's friend and Mariona's former lover.

Mariona Rebull

1947

La fiesta sigue poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

La fiesta sigue

1948

1930s · 10 titles

Carmen la de Triana poster
6.0

The story of a beautiful, vivacious gypsy girl and the two doomed men who fall for her.

Carmen la de Triana

1938

El barbero de Sevilla poster
7.0

Since he falls for beautiful Rosina, the Almaviva count is questioning his Donjuanesque life. He resolves to travel to Seville to seek advice from famed Figaro, who is much more than a barber.

El barbero de Sevilla

1938

Los hijos de la noche poster
6.2

A marginal group celebrates Christmas Eve singing and dancing in the street while a millionaire celebrates the feast offering a great dinner to his friends. The millionaire receives a telegram from his sister in America who announces her visit after more than twenty years without seeing each other…

Los hijos de la noche

1939

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Una mujer en peligro

1936

La señorita de Trevélez poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La señorita de Trevélez

1936

El genio alegre poster
10.0

In an Andalusian village lives a rich and austere family whose son and heir worries his mother about his dissolute lifestyle. When cousin Consolation arrives, she changes their life like a joyful genius, and things start to change.

El genio alegre

1939

It Happened in Spain poster
7.0

A miller falls in love with the wife of a magistrate who, in turn, courts the miller's wife. (Lost film.)

It Happened in Spain

1934

Suspiros de España poster
6.0

Dolores works as a washerwoman with her daughter Sole and they both live with the girl's stepfather and her godfather, a nice good-for-nothing guy. Although they all have a very different personality, they share the illusion of seeing Sole become a great artist.

Suspiros de España

1939

The Four Robinsons poster
10.0

Four friends pretend a cruise to escape their wives and go clubbing, but they are forced to go through face-saving shipwreck, becoming castaways.

The Four Robinsons

1939

La bien pagada poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La bien pagada

1935