Manuel Requena

Acting

Manuel Requena

Born — Died

1891-08-21 — 1969-05-09

Place of birth

Alicante, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 32 titles

Mr. Arkadin poster
6.8

Claiming 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

Imperial Violets poster
5.7

Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis Napoleón of France she takes the young girl with her. The empress'cousin readily makes her his focus of attention, then she discovers a criminal attempt against the empress.

Imperial Violets

1952

Soledad poster
5.8

Soledad and Miguel are two young people in a romantic relationship. Don Ramón, a wealthy stranger, arrives in their small town and marries Soledad. Miguel leaves town and wanders aimlessly throughout the region with a peddler.

Soledad

1959

The Lovers of Toledo poster
4.0

Toledo, 1825. To save her fiancé, an opponent of the regime, the beautiful Inès agrees to marry the chief of police.

The Lovers of Toledo

1953

Morena clara poster
7.3

Trini, a gipsy girl, and her uncle Regalito are tried for the theft of several hams. Some time later, she presents herself, disguised as a maid, at the house of her former prosecutor, who ends up falling in love with her.

Morena clara

1954

Estrella de Sierra Morena poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Estrella de Sierra Morena

1952

La alegre caravana poster
6.5

Miguel, a young adventurer with a good social position, flees his home to prevent his marriage qith a woman chosen by his family. In their flight is hidden in a gypsy caravan merchants. There he meets Rocío, a beautiful young woman with an extraordinary voice. Michael will be involved in the events of the troupe and incorporated into the show, going from town to town.

La alegre caravana

1953

Fulano y Mengano poster
6.8

Eudosio and Carlos were imprisoned by mistake. Now out of prison, are trying to get a job and to adapt to a society that rejects them.

Fulano y Mengano

1957

The Miller's Saucy Wife poster
7.0

In a region of Andalusia, all the men lust after the miller's young wife.

The Miller's Saucy Wife

1955

Un marido de ida y vuelta poster
4.6

Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife dies victim of a heart attack the day she forces him to shave his beloved beard to go to a costume ball dressed as a bullfighter. Its spectrum then begins to walk around the house and the most unexpected cause tangles. When she finally decides to settle definitely get materialize and get his wife, who has meanwhile become a being sweet and understanding.

Un marido de ida y vuelta

1957

Nadie lo sabrá poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Nadie lo sabrá

1953

Historias de Madrid poster
6.0

Dawn in Madrid. In the Plaza de la Cibeles begins the daily grind. The statue of the goddess, from its source in the center of the square tells the story of a man, petty speculator, owner of an old building that is going to ask Saint Nicholas for his cooperation to make it sink, and thus be able to lift a twelve-story modern building. But the inhabitants of the block have also implored the Saint to prevent this from happening.

Historias de Madrid

1958

Tres huchas para Oriente poster
8.5

Pedro Manolo and Juan, three naughty and full of enthusiasm children go out with their piggy banks collecting money for missions. Near the end of the day, a car ran over one of them and is driven to a nearby hospital. The head of school, not knowing which of the children was injured calls the parents of the three to attend the health center. In parallel, we know the story of the three families. In the upper-class family, the father will leave his mother for another woman, in the middle class one, one sister invites her boyfriend to lunch and family revolutionizes and, finally, in that of lower class, the boy's father is about to be complicit in a crime

Tres huchas para Oriente

1954

Facultad de Letras poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Facultad de Letras

1952

The Devil Plays the Flute poster
6.5

When the pieces of a singular figure are unearthed and then joined together, a devil of the lowest category breaks into a small Mediterranean village. From that moment on, the demon will enter the life of a painter named Bernardino, in the affairs of a "modern" marriage, in the existence of a frightened gardener and, finally, in the day-to-day life of the Great Momo.

The Devil Plays the Flute

1954

Flor de lago poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Flor de lago

1950

Luxury Cabin poster
6.5

Aurelio leaves his village and goes to the capital to work with a relative in an emigration shipping company. He soon discovers that his relative earns a bonus extorting migrants who sell tickets. But Aurelio is an honest, sensible man who cannot allow such injustice, and he gets fired. Without telling his parents or girlfriend anything about what happened, he decides to stow away on a boat to America.

Luxury Cabin

1959

Historia en dos aldeas poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Historia en dos aldeas

1950

The War Starts in Cuba poster
5.9

Year 1898. When war broke out in Cuba, Juanita, a beautiful variety singer without much luck, decides to return to Spain when she discovers that her twin sister Adelaide has married the governor of Badajoz. Adelaide is capricious, vain and embarrassing, the opposite of Juanita. However, as the girls are physically identical, the singer intends to take full advantage of this situation.

The War Starts in Cuba

1957

Con la vida hicieron fuego poster
7.0

The sailor Quico Carola, alleged war hero of the Francoist side, emigrated to America and amassed a great fortune. Fifteen years later he returns to Ferrera (Asturias), his homeland, in search of a wife who makes him forget his late girlfriend. There he will see his old friends and Armandina, the widow of a Republican shot during the Spanish civil war.

Con la vida hicieron fuego

1959

El guardián del paraíso poster
9.0

A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in the black market, and his own witness of a robbery and as a lover.

El guardián del paraíso

1955

The Other Life of Captain Contreras poster
8.0

During archaeological excavations in the crypt of Santo Tomé (Toledo, Spain), a sarcophagus is discovered containing the incorrupt body of Captain Contreras, a man in a state of suspended animation since 1650, due to a potion someone forced him to ingest to prevent further illness. The audacious journalist Cornejo intends to exploit this discovery, with the help of Paca Revilla, a careless woman, and an unscrupulous doctor. The controversy surrounding the authenticity of Contreras's body reaches the ears of several American universities, which purchase the Captain's remains.

The Other Life of Captain Contreras

1955

Messengers of Peace poster
7.0

Try the descent to Earth, specifically to Spain, of the Three Wise Men.

Messengers of Peace

1957

Yo no soy la Mata-Hari poster
8.0

After the execution of the spy Mata-Hari, the secret service takes the opportunity to arrest some of her collaborators. To arrest one of the ringleaders, they use his girlfriend Niní, a naive dancer. The girl, tired of being manipulated by everyone, decides to become agent X25.

Yo no soy la Mata-Hari

1950

Día tras día poster
6.2

The everyday stories of a parish priest and his sheep, some more troublesome than others, in Madrid's El Rastro neighborhood.

Día tras día

1951

Airport poster
6.0

Different kind of people arrives to Madrid airport. Some goes with their heads and others just landed. Fernando is a pilot who he brings a girl for his relatives. Ceferino and his wife have won a contest and will travel soon to Paraguay and they are there because they want to know the airplane. Mr. Beltran is very nervous because he returned to Spain after many years of exile.

Airport

1953

María Antonia "La Caramba" poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

María Antonia "La Caramba"

1951

La fierecilla domada poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La fierecilla domada

1956

The Girl at the Inn poster
6.8

Juan Luis and Dimas arrive to the "Venta del Catite", a tavern run by Rafael and his goddaughter Reyes. The tavern is frequented by tuna fishermen in the region, but in reality it is a cover for smuggling. Rafael decides to hire a beautiful singer, Raquel, to distract customers and the two new arrivals, so that he can do his business without being disturbed.

The Girl at the Inn

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

Tres eran tres poster
7.0

An anthology film centered around a film company called Tiacapa.

Tres eran tres

1954

Feather in the Wind poster
8.0

Carlos, veterinary, poet, musician in his spare time and a fun-minded Don Juan,pretends to be his friend Fernando who has inherited a pharmacy in Madrid. There he meets an old girl friend that attracts him.

Feather in the Wind

1952

1940s · 27 titles

The Other Fu Manchu poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Other Fu Manchu

1946

No artwork available
NR

Every night a howl is heard outside the insane asylum run by Professor Oder, terrifying his younger wife Silvia. Neglected by her husband she begins to fall for Adamo, a musician who is resting at the clinic to recover his health. When a patient is strangled her husband puts the blame of Adamo who he claims is a homicidal maniac. However, it turns out the professor is really insane and the night screams are his own cries of torment.

The Howl

1948

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

The Marquis of Salamanca poster
6.3

José de Salamanca was arguably one of the most influential figures of the Spanish 1800s. This films tells his story.

The Marquis of Salamanca

1948

The Nail poster
6.0

Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed.

The Nail

1944

La princesa de los Ursinos poster
6.7

The story of the Countess d'Orsini, French noblewoman and courtesan at the court of the Spanish king, who acted as an agent for the King of France and was one of the most powerful people at the Spanish court.

La princesa de los Ursinos

1947

Carnival Sunday poster
5.8

Madrid, Carnival Sunday. A night watchman finds the body of a woman, a rich and greedy moneylender who has apparently been murdered. The prime suspect is a watchmaker who owed her a lot of money.

Carnival Sunday

1945

Love Charm poster
5.9

Berta is a young manicurist whose boyfriend, Jorge, is too shy to ask for a raise, something she always blames him for. On the occasion of a special job that Berta must do in a big house, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, the couple fantasizes about what their life would be like in the midst of so many comforts.

Love Charm

1947

Ella, él y sus millones poster
6.3

Arturo Salazar is a powerful businessman who wants to be related to the nobility, so he asks an aristocratic friend to find him a blue-blooded bride.

Ella, él y sus millones

1944

The Bullfighter's Suit poster
NR

A young bullfighter full of illusions triumphs in Mexico and decides to get married there and forget about his old Spanish girlfriend, who by then has just given birth to his son.

The Bullfighter's Suit

1947

La cigarra poster
9.0

Soledad, known as "La Cigarra", agrees to sing in Buenos Aires to have the opportunity to meet her liar boyfriend, whom she tries to forget in Rio.

La cigarra

1948

An Ordinary Woman poster
5.9

A woman who has walked out of an unhappy marriage is unsuccessful trying to earn herself a new living and gets mixed with a man who is a murderer and tries to incriminate her.

An Ordinary Woman

1949

Don Quixote poster
6.0

The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sancho Panza.

Don Quixote

1947

Aventuras de Juan Lucas poster
6.5

Following his father's steps, Juan Lucas becomes the most famous highwayman in Sierra Morena mountains, also helping local resistance against Napoleonic troops. In love with Ana, a Count's daughter, his hopes seem to have no future.

Aventuras de Juan Lucas

1949

En un rincón de España poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

En un rincón de España

1949

¡Olé torero! poster
9.0

Manuel is a friendly taxi driver in Buenos Aires that helps its beginnings to a famous Spanish bullfighter dubbed "The Carthusian". He travels to Spain to marry a young Sevillian, rich and beautiful, and Manuel accompanies him on the trip, as administrator. During the voyage dies "The Carthusian" afflicted with a terrible disease, and before dying makes him promise to his friend Manuel to comfort Soledad, his fiancee. But to get to Seville is confused with the bullfighter.

¡Olé torero!

1949

La vida empieza a medianoche poster
8.0

Silvia Heredia, since her arrival to Madrid is staying at her best friends' house, Mary. Her aim is to work as a secretary of a famous novelist. But at night the house is full of people and they confuse her with the owner of the floor. A series of misunderstandings makes her meet Ricardo Ariaga, the musician whose opera "Life begins at midnight" is about to debut. Ricardo convinces Sylvia to act as his wife. With a "rented" child they try to be the perfect family of a lonely old man.

La vida empieza a medianoche

1944

Un hombre de negocios poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un hombre de negocios

1945

Tuvo la culpa Adán poster
9.0

Nora leaves the convent where she has been raised to marry a relative. Just arrived she has an accident resulting in total amnesia. Her identity mistaken a new life begins for her, where she will encounter love, adventure and even crime.

Tuvo la culpa Adán

1944

Café de París poster
7.0

After suffering a family tragedy, Carmen leaves Spain and emigrates to Paris, where she will make new friends among some of the most peculiar characters who inhabit the bohemian neighborhoods of the city. (Partially lost film.)

Café de París

1943

A Christmas Carol poster
9.0

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

1947

Barrio poster
6.2

A noir detective navigates a poor neighborhood's dark streets, investigating murder and theft. Despite uncooperative locals, he must use wit to expose the truth.

Barrio

1947

Chantaje poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Chantaje

1946

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Póker de ases

1947

The Captain's Ship poster
6.0

Port of Seville, Spain, 1640. A group of people from very different origins embark on the ship Capitana. They are members of the upper class, adventurers, peasants, convicts, who have only one thing in common: the illusion of arriving in America, the promised land where they can make their dreams and ambitions come true.

The Captain's Ship

1947

Dulcinea poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dulcinea

1947

Goyescas poster
8.0

Two women (both played by Imperio Argentina) from different social backgrounds, a singer and a countess, become entangled in a love triangle over their love for the same man.

Goyescas

1942