Marisa de Leza

Acting

Marisa de Leza

Place of birth

Madrid, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

Known for

The Shack poster
5.9

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez wrote in 1898 "La barraca" (The Shack), a novel with some cultural significance among Spanish literature for reflecting rural life at the end of 19th century with specific local color. In 1979, León Klimovsky directed an adaptation in the form of a miniseries. The shack referred to in the title is a barraca, a typical building of the Valencian Community that served as housing for farmers in irrigated farming areas.

The Shack

1979

Segunda Enseñanza poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Segunda Enseñanza

1986

Alexander the Great poster
6.1

An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of thinking will bring enlightenment to people. The son of the barbaric and ruthless King Philip of Macedonia, Alexander achieved glory in his short but remarkable life.

Alexander the Great

1956

Valentina poster
6.1

In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.

Valentina

1982

You're the One poster
7.3

Julia, an only child of an affluent, bank owning family living in Madrid, escapes from her family to get over her grief that her boyfriend has been imprisoned. Julia is a well educated woman, having studied in Switzerland and England, who wants to become a writer. Julia drives to a little village in Asturias called "Corralbos del Sella" and there she stays in a mansion "llendelabarca" of an old childhood friend "Pilara" she had spent many a happy summer with. Also living there is Pilara's mother in law Tia Gala, and her grandson Juanito. Julia's relationship with caretakers, teacher and priest makes Julia, a woman of the spanish capital, perhaps for the first time to not feel so alone.

You're the One

2000

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

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

You're the One poster
7.3

Julia, an only child of an affluent, bank owning family living in Madrid, escapes from her family to get over her grief that her boyfriend has been imprisoned. Julia is a well educated woman, having studied in Switzerland and England, who wants to become a writer. Julia drives to a little village in Asturias called "Corralbos del Sella" and there she stays in a mansion "llendelabarca" of an old childhood friend "Pilara" she had spent many a happy summer with. Also living there is Pilara's mother in law Tia Gala, and her grandson Juanito. Julia's relationship with caretakers, teacher and priest makes Julia, a woman of the spanish capital, perhaps for the first time to not feel so alone.

You're the One

2000

First and Last Love poster
5.8

An elderly man returns to his native town with the hope of finding his childhood love.

First and Last Love

2002

Something to Remember Me By poster
6.5

Irene lives with Mateo, his father, and her son David, 22 years old. Living together is harmonious and happy, but there is a conflict: David, a brilliant student of architecture, has decided to go and live with his girlfriend Clara, a supermarket cashier. Despite its liberal way of thinking, Irene cannot understand such an unequal relationship. However, David finds in his grandfather the necessary complicity to carry out his plans. Mateo is a old and vital octogenarian despite his tough history: he was a child during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and he lost his house and all his family. But none of that could finish with his energy and desire to live. One day, however, Mateo arrives with terrible news.

Something to Remember Me By

2005

1950s · 20 titles

Alexander the Great poster
6.1

An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of thinking will bring enlightenment to people. The son of the barbaric and ruthless King Philip of Macedonia, Alexander achieved glory in his short but remarkable life.

Alexander the Great

1956

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

Fuego en la sangre poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fuego en la sangre

1953

Mi permette babbo! poster
6.9

While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.

Mi permette babbo!

1956

Andalusia Express poster
6.0

Three men plan a jewelry heist abroad the Andalusia express train.

Andalusia Express

1956

La frontera del miedo poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La frontera del miedo

1958

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

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

Juzgado permanente poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Juzgado permanente

1953

El sol sale todos los días poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

El sol sale todos los días

1958

Parque de Madrid poster
7.0

In the Madrid of the fifties, during any day, whether by chance or fate, a series of characters live all kinds of stories, funny stories and some not so, in one of the most beautiful parks that exist in the city, the Retiro park, known as Parque de Madrid.

Parque de Madrid

1959

Teatro Apolo poster
6.6

In the late nineteenth century, Miguel Velasco, the son of a wealthy Spanish immigrant established in Mexico, comes to Madrid, where he falls in love with Celia, a chorus girl working at the Apollo theater.

Teatro Apolo

1950

La patrulla poster
6.7

Madrid, 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Five infantry soldiers of the victorious side take a photograph of themselves somewhere in the defeated city, promising to meet again ten years later at the same place.

La patrulla

1954

El barril de amontillado poster
5.7

An Italian city, 1860. During the carnival, Fortunato de Bettini mocks his friend Montresor who, humiliated, plans an elaborate and cruel revenge.

El barril de amontillado

1950

Under the Sky of Spain poster
6.2

Drama film directed and written by Miguel Contreras Torres.

Under the Sky of Spain

1953

Vuelo 971 poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Vuelo 971

1953

Tercio de quites poster
5.0

Spanish bullfighter and a Mexican one have a friendly rivalry spanning decades.

Tercio de quites

1951

Diego Corrientes poster
9.0

At the end of the eighteenth century, the young Diego Corrientes quarrels with the tyrannical count of Albanes, who, after arresting Diego, orders him to be spanked. Accused of murder and in love with the count's girlfriend, he flees to the mountains and forms a band.

Diego Corrientes

1959

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

El andén poster
10.0

Vallina is a small town where its entire relationship with the outside revolves around the platform, in which only two trains stop leaving mail as well as a freight train. After forty years of service, the station chief retires. The town prepares a tribute and when the party is at its peak, the Talgo train appears. To the surprise of all, the station chief displays the red flag and stops the train that the neighbors have always seen pass like a meteor. But that action will not be well received by the management and the chief is punished. The people's response is immediate and popular mobilization arises

El andén

1957

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