Francisco Casares

Acting

Francisco Casares

Known for

Acting

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60 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 5 titles

1990s · 15 titles

Golden Balls poster
5.5

A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.

Golden Balls

1993

Marquise poster
5.5

Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one.

Marquise

1997

Prince of Shadows poster
5.2

Madrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the civil war has finished, a communist comes back to Spain to kill a traitor.

Prince of Shadows

1991

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt poster
6.0

Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company when she prefers solitude, his treating her work as less important than his, his casual and cruel dismissal of her opinions, her boss assigning her an incompetent editor, bartenders ignoring her, her passage into middle age. She can be feisty and edgy, which sometimes gets in the way of what would make her happy. And she regularly threatens to leave Antonio. Will she, and on what terms? What will he do?

How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt

1991

The Longest Night poster
6.8

Fifteen years after the plot a lawyer and a military ex-attorney meet and recall the intense days of 1975 when both participated in the decission of war or peace. The film is told in flashbacks of the two protagonists.

The Longest Night

1991

El robobo de la jojoya poster
4.3

Two brothers plan to steal the precious jewel of Nefertiti's eye in a famous exhibition hall, but they are not the only ones who want it. There is a scuffle in which a policeman dies and one of the robbers falls on the dead man.

El robobo de la jojoya

1991

La sal de la vida poster
8.0

The film tells in a funny way the ups and downs of a widower who would like to marry again. But his choice to take a young woman as the bride does not conform with what his three daughters want as stepmother. Naturally this will cause all kinds of irritation and problems

La sal de la vida

1996

7,000 Days Together poster
6.1

Petra and Matías have been unhappily married for twenty years. When Matías falls in love with shop assistant Angelines, he comes up with the perfect plan to get rid of Petra but their nosey neighbours get in the way.

7,000 Days Together

1994

El crimen del expreso de Andalucía poster
3.8

Madrid, 1924. A ne'er-do-well in his 30s, perpetual disappointment to his aging military father, hatches a plan to rob the mail train to Andalusia. He intends the hit to be bloodless, but complications arise soon.

El crimen del expreso de Andalucía

1991

King of the River poster
6.0

An air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby is born, she gives it to her sister that has already two children. The child grows up as another member of the family. Although the adults keep the secret, the children know that he is different.

King of the River

1995

Hay que zurrar a los pobres poster
9.0

A group of outsiders converges at the seedy Pension Ezequiel - live erotic performers Gervasio and Fabiola, multi-tasking dreamer Khouma, mapmaker Arcadio, letter-collector Virginia, moralist Delfín, and troubled newcomer Ana - all under the watch of the enigmatic proprietor Ezequiel. When Ezequiel dies, his passing unleashes hidden desires, rivalries, and secrets, changing the pension forever.

Hay que zurrar a los pobres

1993

El cianuro… ¿solo o con leche? poster
4.8

The argument between Enrique and Javier, his best friend and Marta's husband, his lover, ends with the accidental death of Javier. Faced with the difficulty of proving his innocence, Enrique decides to start, along with Marta and the corpse of Javier, a trip without direction.

El cianuro… ¿solo o con leche?

1994

La febre d'or poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La febre d'or

1993

Mar de luna poster
10.0

Story of impossible love between a knight and his sister. From them born a son who is repudiated by the gentleman, who takes him to live with monks in a monastery. When the boy grows up, escapes from the monastery to see the world and especially the sea. On the way he meets a peddler who teaches him to function in life.

Mar de luna

1995

Mararía poster
4.4

A tempestuous love triangle forms between beautiful local girl Mararía, an English volcanologist and a Basque doctor in the island of Lanzarote in the 1930s.

Mararía

1998

1980s · 23 titles

The Minister's Wife poster
4.9

Rafael, a young man from the provinces, works as a waiter in a resort and helps himself economically having sex for money with rich older women. During a bomb threat, he is discovered in bed with one of the guest, Leonor Marchioness of Montenegro, and he is fired as a consequence. The Marchioness of Montenegro is an aging aristocrat, ruined economically, but still with wealthy and influential friends. She helps Rafael finds a new job in Madrid as the gardener in the mansion of Antonio Fernández Herrador, Minister of economy in the new democratic Spanish government.

The Minister's Wife

1981

Memorias de Leticia Valle poster
6.4

A fictionalized diary of an eleven-year-old girl who records an "inconceivable" seduction and scandal that forced her to leave Spain in the 1910s, based on the 1945 novel "Memoirs of Leticia Valle" by Spanish writer Rosa Chacel.

Memorias de Leticia Valle

1980

El disputado voto del señor Cayo poster
5.8

Based on Miguel Delibes novel. Rafael Corral, socialist member, decide to attend to the funeral of a friend although they had recomended him not to go for politic reasons. He finds there some friends and talking with them makes him to change his mind.

El disputado voto del señor Cayo

1986

Dragon Rapide poster
6.5

The two weeks leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 are dramatized from many different locations in Spain, Morocco and London.

Dragon Rapide

1986

Dragon Rapide poster
6.5

The two weeks leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 are dramatized from many different locations in Spain, Morocco and London.

Dragon Rapide

1986

Mambru Went to War poster
5.8

After the death of dictator Francisco Franco, Florentina gives her family shocking news.

Mambru Went to War

1986

The Crime of Cuenca poster
6.8

Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier.

The Crime of Cuenca

1981

The Way They Were poster
7.0

The Way They Were is a Spanish Drama starring Antonio Banderas

The Way They Were

1987

Amor es... veneno, Carlota poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amor es... veneno, Carlota

1981

The Dark Night of the Soul poster
5.3

Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989's La Noche Oscura (The Dark Night). Juan Diego stars as San Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross), the legendary 16th-century poet-prophet. Galvanized into action by the spirit of Santa Teresa de Jesus, San Juan fought to install reforms in the Carmelite Order. Like many another visionary, he was regarded as a heretic, and promptly subjected to the most appalling of tortures. Writer-director Saura manages to draw several parallels between the religious persecution of the 1700s and the political despotism of Fascist Spain.

The Dark Night of the Soul

1989

No artwork available
7.0

Daniya is the story of a trip. A man of culture and resolute, the younger brother of the Countess of Barcelona, leaves the Catalan court for the kingdom of Denia (Daniya). The purpose of his trip is to accept the ecclesiastical authority entrusted to him by the Muslim king of Mozarabic Christians living in the territory of the Kingdom of Denia. It is an interesting but dangerous journey, described as an adventure. A journey that will enrich the spirit of the youth that will be seduced by Al Andalus.

Daniya, the emir's garden

1988

Dos y dos, cinco poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Dos y dos, cinco

1981

Pals poster
6.2

José is an unemployed 18-year-old living in a cramped apartment in the slums of Madrid. Marginalized by poverty, José spends his time with his friend Antonio. However, when José gets his girlfriend, Rosario, pregnant, the two friends try anything to get the money to pay for her to have an abortion.

Pals

1982

La rusa poster
6.3

A man falls in love with a terrorist.

La rusa

1987

Dedicated to... poster
4.7

A mix of characters and actions create only a semblance of a plot in this confusing tale of intrigue, undefined crimes, and incest. A newspaper reporter is working on a story about a criminal serving time in jail. He interviews the prisoner, has an affair with the criminal's daughter, and also spends some time in bed with his editor's wife. His amorous life is an adjunct to his searching out the details of the prisoner's case -- though tragedy strikes before the journalist can wrap everything up. In the meantime, it becomes clear that the daughter and imprisoned father had an incestuous relationship, raising more questions than answers.

Dedicated to...

1980

Little Spanish Soldier poster
4.1

A young man, son and grandson of soldiers, refuses to perform military service, causing a commotion in the whole family. Finally, social, environmental and family pressures, will force the young to make a decision that will have unforeseeable consequences.

Little Spanish Soldier

1988

Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven poster
6.1

A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to reconsider her life--work, family, friendships, men-- causing a psychological and emotional crisis pushes her toward a drastic decision.

Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven

1980

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El despertar a quien duerme

1981

Al acecho poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Al acecho

1987

Tierra de rastrojos poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Tierra de rastrojos

1980

Crimen en familia poster
4.7

Ignacio Costa is a tyrannical businessman with a conflictive personal life. He has a large family, a woman he abuses and humiliates and five children with whom he does the same, except for Mariana one of the girls. Tired of so many vexations, his wife will begin to influence his children until together they will plot the murder of the father

Crimen en familia

1985

Perro de alambre poster
8.0

Under a South American dictatorship, Ernesto Carrion is the leader of a group of revolutionary terrorists who conspire against the military government. While the adventure of his life runs its unfailing course, he enters a deep inner conflict, relentlessly pursuing his ideals of universal freedom, rejecting the only means available to achieve his own.

Perro de alambre

1980

Gran sol poster
9.0

A group of fishermen embark on a new adventure to capture the best pieces on the high seas. They leave from the port of Ondárroa, Vizcaya, to depart towards the Atlantic bottom where they usually fish. After several days of fishing, problems begin to emerge.

Gran sol

1989

1970s · 13 titles

A Dog Called... Vengeance poster
5.5

A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog.

A Dog Called... Vengeance

1977

Check to the Queen poster
4.0

After Paula's suicide, her best friend, Ana, recalls the circumstances that united both women in the past and how they lived a close relationship that could have become more than just a friendship if social conventions had not prevented it.

Check to the Queen

1979

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

Tooth and Nail poster
6.0

The second feature length movie of Paulino Viota, this is a disillusioned and biting look at the years of Spanish democratic transition, narrated in a dry and scrawny style that shows the political intrigues, struggles and frustrated hopes of the first years of Spanish transition to democracy.

Tooth and Nail

1977

Seven Days in January poster
6.2

After the death of Franco, the nostalgic fascist regime attempts to preserve the 1936's order.

Seven Days in January

1979

The Burned City poster
6.4

The film depicts ten years of Catalan history, from 1899 with the defeat of the Spanish side in the Cuban War of Independence to the Tragic Week 1909.

The Burned City

1976

Pascual Duarte poster
5.2

In Extremadura, Spain, Pascual Duarte, a humble, simple and ignorant peasant, condemned to a boring and humiliating existence with no future, commits a horrible act during a day of such heat that enervates his disturbed mind and his anger, which he will not be able to calm down until, after following a bloody path of senseless violence, he faces his own tragic destiny.

Pascual Duarte

1976

My Daughter Hildegart poster
5.4

Madrid 1933. Aurora Rodriguez kills her daughter Hildegart and turn herself over to the police. In jail she remember the circumstances that made her committing the crime...

My Daughter Hildegart

1977

El sobre verde poster
8.0

In the Apollo Theater during the performance of "green envelope", a child is born, son of the actress who plays the goddess of Fortune. His father calls him Fortunato as he believes that he will have a privileged life. But unfortunately, the opposite happens.

El sobre verde

1971

The Crimson Night of the Hawk poster
6.5

A murder mystery set in the old west.

The Crimson Night of the Hawk

1978

Cabo de Vara poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cabo de Vara

1978

Trout poster
5.4

In a restaurant they're preparing a grand banquet in honor of a sports association of anglers, but several circumstances seem to have conspired to boycott the event.

Trout

1978

Estimado Sr. juez... poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Estimado Sr. juez...

1978

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