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Francisco Piquer

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1980s · 4 titles

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

El gran secreto poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

El gran secreto

1980

Memorias del general Escobar poster
10.0

After the end of the Spanish Civil War, General Antonio Escobar Huerta stoically awaits his execution, accused of military treason and sentenced to death for having sworn allegiance to the Republic. Despite being a man of deep religious convictions, Antonio Escobar decided to make an oath honoring the legally constituted government of the Second Spanish Republic against the military uprising led by Francisco Franco and supported by the Catholic Church. While waiting for his execution in prison, he recalls the beginning of the Civil War, the years of battles during which he ascended to the rank of General, and his own decisions, of which he has no regrets. With a clear conscience, Escobar waits his own execution with the calm of those who know they have done their duty. "If my life and that of all who have fallen serves to avoid this from happening again, our blood will not have been in vain" - Antonio Escobar Huerta.

Memorias del general Escobar

1984

De mica en mica s’omple la pica poster
4.3

A young man who likes the good life and easy money gets a proposition to represent a shady business company in Europe.

De mica en mica s’omple la pica

1984

1970s · 6 titles

1960s · 13 titles

Queen of the Chantecler poster
5.9

A Spanish music hall performer gets caught up in espionage during the First World War.

Queen of the Chantecler

1962

Sound of Horror poster
5.6

When a group of isolated people in the Greek mountains set off a cave explosion, they are menaced by an invisible shrieking dinosaur that had been buried for eons

Sound of Horror

1967

El grano de mostaza poster
7.2

Evelino Galindo, the serious owner of a porcelain store, argues with the womanizer jeweler Orcajo for an insignificant game of dominoes. Evelino, enraged, challenges him the next day to a duel in the gym. But after meditating a bit he starts to get scared. That is why, with the help of his friend Leoncio, he sharpens his wit to find a way to escape from combat. However, the situation is becoming more complicated.

El grano de mostaza

1962

La dinamita está servida poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La dinamita está servida

1968

Las brujas de Salem poster
10.0

Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. When the local authorities and various inhabitants begin to believe that there are witches among them, a collective hysteria is born and spreads rapidly through the village as if it were a plague, causing a chain of tragic consequences…

Las brujas de Salem

1965

Four Queens for an Ace poster
5.5

Hakim Gregory escapes from prison by killing a number of guards, and returns to his hide-out abroad, to lead again his gang of drug trafficking and contract murders. Layton of the Secret Service must discover, and arrest him. The difficult mission almost becomes impossible with the rivalry of Layton's partner, Petula, the jealousy of his bride, Marion, the possible treachery of a Spanish woman, Dolores Arrabal, and yet a mysterious and sexy informant, Rosario... Too many women for Layton.

Four Queens for an Ace

1966

Lo que cuesta vivir poster
9.0

Mr Antonio is undergoing a bad economic situation that shares with his daugther Leonor, a lovely teenager who makes him happy and helps him sewing to make end meet. But its not enough and Mr Antonio has no other choice than working as a thug of a night club. A job that brings unexpected changes tto his life.

Lo que cuesta vivir

1967

El padre Manolo poster
5.8

Padre Manolo, priest, magician and singer, starts a private investigation on what seems to be a murder...

El padre Manolo

1967

Unmarried and Mother in Life poster
5.5

The frog test confirms Julita is pregnant. This is usually a great news. In this case, no. She is a victim of premarital sex, and he, Paco, a mechanic who, according to some theories of French biologist, explained by a podiatrist friend, will not be liable. Don Ramiro, the father of Julia, is a liberal-minded man, but when his daughter tells him that she will have a son who will not parent, seeking the solution of fatherhood in his gun regulation.

Unmarried and Mother in Life

1969

Suena el clarín poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Suena el clarín

1965

Macbeth poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Macbeth

1966

Lola, espejo oscuro poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lola, espejo oscuro

1966

Prohibido enamorarse poster
5.5

An old and seriously ill man, who lives with his son, meets an older woman, who is suffering the same cirumstances like he, and soon starts to fell better and becoming sane.

Prohibido enamorarse

1961

1950s · 9 titles

Cita imposible poster
5.0

Rosario was unjustly condemned for a robbery committed in the theater where she worked as secretary of producer Gaston Leducq. When she leaves prison, she tries to prove her innocence to Gaston, but things do not happen as she expected.

Cita imposible

1958

Lo que nunca muere poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lo que nunca muere

1955

El ángel está en la cumbre poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

El ángel está en la cumbre

1958

Los agentes del 5º grupo poster
6.2

Duran and his team of the fifth group are secret agents missioned by Inspector Peña to find and capture a gang of dangerous criminals who are planning a major hit.

Los agentes del 5º grupo

1955

Historias de la feria poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Historias de la feria

1958

Manos sucias poster
6.5

Miguel is a truck driver who dreams of owning a service station. To raise money he agrees to sabotage a truck of his boss' rival, which results in the death of its driver. Miguel gets his station but is haunted by what he did to obtain it.

Manos sucias

1957

El emigrante poster
5.5

While the city of Cadiz helds the carnival festivities, in the solitary deck of a boat a nice old man contemplates excited the party. For many years he has visited his hometown and now he fears to face the absence of his loved ones. He remembers the welcome extended to him the last time he returned from the campaign in Cuba, his youth and migration.

El emigrante

1958

El cerco poster
6.7

A group of robbers assault a factory in the port of Barcelona, but, upon being discovered, they are forced to flee hastily, each one his own way. An exhaustive police device is then initiated with the aim of capturing them. But the police persecution to which the members of the gang are subjected incites distrust between them and, one after another, they will fall, until only two remain.

El cerco

1955

Rapsodia de sangre poster
7.0

Andras Pulac, a young pianist, refuses to perform a concert in honor of a senior Soviet leader, as a sign of rebellion against the 1956 invasion of Hungary. His refusal, although he does not know it, harms the organizers of a demonstration against the communist cruelty, since his concert had been chosen like slogan. When Pulac finds out, he agrees to give the concert. Andras and Maria Kondor, the daughter of a communist journalist, are in love and decide to get married before the concert. Meanwhile, communist repression in the streets provokes the anger of the Hungarian people and gives rise to a real revolution.

Rapsodia de sangre

1957

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