María Francés

Acting

María Francés

Born 1887-02-02 · Tudela, Spain

María Francés was a Spanish stage, film and television actress.

Acting credits

El niño de las monjas poster
6.0

When a newborn baby is abandoned in a convent Andalusian Mother Superior decides to be the gardener who takes over from him. As the boy grows, manifest a decided vocation for bullfighting and, although his adoptive father did not endorse, struggle to achieve his dream.

El niño de las monjas

1959

Persecución en Madrid poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Persecución en Madrid

1952

Path to the Kingdom poster
10.0

Soledad is a famous singer who, one fine day, decides to turn her life around and enter a convent to help others. The press and her family are baffled: now, the great figure of Spanish singing has become Sister María de la Asunción and works caring for the sick in a hospital that has serious financial problems. At first, everything is difficult, but the intrepid nun manages to get ahead through courage and generosity.

Path to the Kingdom

1952

Juicio final poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Juicio final

1955

Surcos poster
7.2

A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything is illegal or immoral or both.

Surcos

1951

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

Placido poster
7.7

In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish.

Placido

1962

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

La familia Vila poster
6.3

Mr. Vila is a family father who has worked a lot during his life to achieve a good life for his family. His oldest daughter, Elvira, causes him many problems because she acts as a rebel.

La familia Vila

1950

Platero y yo poster
5.7

After a long period of absence, living in large and anonymous cities, a poet, Juan, returns to the village of his birth, Moguer, there he finds happiness through; the friendship of a small donkey, Platero, a free spirited girl, Aguedilla, and recalling memories of his childhood.

Platero y yo

1966

Another Man's Wife poster
3.0

Ana and Andres meet again after many years. They are no longer two youngsters, both are married with children. Andres insists, but Ana has trouble in forgetting what happened long ago, when he left without saying goodbye to go to Paris.

Another Man's Wife

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La hidalga limosnera

1972

The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus poster
5.1

In the eerie village of Holfen, a series of gruesome murders sparks rumors of a centuries-old curse, with a noble heir caught between suspicion and his own dark urges.

The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus

1962

Black Crown poster
5.4

A woman suffers from amnesia after killing her husband, who was just about to demand a divorce for having found her engaging in an affair with a lover, who is only interested in her to find where some precious jewels are hidden.

Black Crown

1951

Mentirosa poster
5.5

Nina, secretary of the lawyer Mr. Mendoza, is an imaginative liar. Because of her work, she has access to the will of an old millionaire who died naming as the sole beneficiary his daughter, the fruit of a love affair of youth. Only the millionaire's sister, the widow of Martiarena, knows who she is and where she lives. Nina decides to impersonate her and, to his astonishment, is recognized as the real daughter by the sister. But the housekeeper and the doctor of Mrs. Martiarena decide to resolve the situation.

Mentirosa

1962

The Mark of Kriminal poster
5.1

The bandit Kriminal by pure chance finds a fragment of a map in an old porcelain statue indicating the location of two precious paintings hidden by a notorious outlaw before he was executed. Kriminal immediately begins searching for the three other statuettes, similar to the one in their possession, containing the fragments needed to complete the map .

The Mark of Kriminal

1968

Hombres sin honor poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hombres sin honor

1944

School Trip poster
7.0

After completing his high school studies at the age of twenty-four, Óscar is an immature student, unable to afford alone his return to home during the summer season. Then he manages to convince Carlos, his young math teacher, to accompany him. Already in the family home, Óscar begins to behave in an increasingly unbalanced and irrational way. Meanwhile, his family will endeavor to see him as the reflection of the absent father figure.

School Trip

1976

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

El ángel gris poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

El ángel gris

1947

El genio alegre poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

El genio alegre

1957

A Clean Shot poster
6.0

Martin and Antoine, two French criminals, team up with Román and El Picas, a friend of the latter, to commit robberies in Barcelona, but things do not turn out as expected.

A Clean Shot

1964

El señor de La Salle poster
7.3

Biography of San Juan Bautista de la Salle , where the effort and hardships that this canon of the nobility had to overcome in order to offer universal and free education to children, his main devotion, in the time of Louis XIV, are appreciated.

El señor de La Salle

1964

Pride poster
6.4

A tale of two families, the Mendozas and Alzagas, faced for generations by the water of a river separating their adjoining properties. Old grudges reappear when the two heirs fall in love.

Pride

1955