
Acting
Álvaro de Luna
Born — Died
1935-04-10 — 2018-11-02
Place of birth
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Known for
Acting
Credits
73 titles
Known for
7.8The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
A Fistful of Dollars
1964
7.3Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez
Curro Jiménez
1976
7.6Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts.
Tales to Keep You Awake
1966
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Eurocops
1988
6.3Aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so the local peasants regard him as a hero. Baron La Mouche is convinced Guillaume is the Tulip. During a robbery, he scars the Tulip's face, and hopes to use this to expose Guillaume, but Guillaume is one step ahead.
The Black Tulip
1964
6.9While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in.
The Mercenary
1968
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
6.4A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, and a walk through the landscapes that made it possible to recreate in Spain, mainly in the desert of Almería, hundreds of adventures set in the remote American Far West.
Spanish Western
2015
6.8A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a low-budget cinema and great popular acceptance that exploited cinematographic fashions: westerns, horror movies, erotic comedies and thrillers about petty criminals.
Wild Session
2019
2000s · 6 titles
6.2Spain, 1938, during the Spanish Civil War. Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl, arrives in her mother's hometown and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once foreign and completely new.
Carol's Journey
2002
5.7Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, because of his smile and the bravery of those men who continue fighting for their ideas, even at the cost of their own lives. When Manuel is pursued (by Franco's Civil Guard) he flees to the mountain and Lucía discovers the reality of political repression, the silence, the horror and fear.
Broken Silence
2001
5.2Five legendary bank robbers carve out a nice lifestyle for themselves during their long sentences in a Spanish maximum-security prison, where the guards and inmates buckle to their every demand. When they are granted a surprise and immediate release, they flounder on the greatly changed, modern streets of Madrid. They plan one more major heist, but do they have the updated skills and wherewithal to pull it off?
Maestros
2000
9.0After the death of her mother, Elena (Charo López), a mature woman, begins to realize that her life, although not alone, is marked by loneliness; her marriage to Enrique (Ramón Langa) is a failure, and her relationship with her daughter Merce (Ingrid Rubio) is almost nonexistent.
This Was Solitude
2001
5.2“The Meadow of Stars” refers to Alfonso's childhood memories. Fifty years later, he lives as a retiree in the home he has always known, in a large town nestled between a stormy sea and the mountain range.
El prado de las estrellas
2008
4.9Spain, fifties. In a town grew around a living factory Jorge (Tristan Ulloa), the youngest son of the founder, and Elisa (Laia Marull), daughter of accounting. The two live with their families and are able to endure the monotony of their lives because they spend the afternoon on Wednesdays and Saturdays at a hotel in the city. This secret life together is essential for both. The small room in the city where encounters occur has become the only place where they can be themselves. That little space, a little sinister, find it more cozy, warm and near the home of Elisa gorgeous, spoiled by the mother, or the great house of George, full of family memories. Both are aware of the type of relationship they have created, and not demand more. Until Elisa decides to break the rules.
Las voces de la noche
2003
1980s · 4 titles
5.5Juan Sahagún, since childhood, feels passion for his mother. One day in the street he sees a woman identical to her. He follows her and finds out that she works as an actress in a theater company, so Juan decides to hire the whole company to represent the people who have influenced him in his past. They recreate the same situations of yesteryear and Juan acts as the child he was, to relive the memories already forgotten.
Sweet Hours
1982
9.5Film homage to the great Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, in which they dramatize fragments of his poems and the play "La casa de Bernarda Alba". From his texts, the voice of the poet himself weaves the plot. His characters come to life: El Amargo, which runs from a poem taken from "El Cante Jond" to the "Romancero Gitano". The Woman, blurred and present in so many of his poems. The Mother, a living synthesis of his play-writing. The balcony is open from the hidden Granada to exciting New York. From the rider of tireless riding to the mysterious baroque of Holy Week. From the first babble of the poet to his violent death. Spain is behind its lyric. Also in many images and tensions of the film. The argument of this one wants to approach the argument of a poet. His life and his work, united irremediably.
El balcón abierto
1984
5.3A group of generals of the army meet for a course about NATO and new weapons. In the beginning everything is normal but as the time passes they behave more and more like school children.
Mi general
1987
7.2No synopsis available yet.
Everybody Calls Me 'The Cat'
1980
1970s · 15 titles
6.5Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
Compañeros
1970
5.2A pair of outlaws are on the hunt for some loot they know is missing from a robbery. Outsmarting and killing anyone who tries to foil their plans.
Sartana Kills Them All
1970
4.8Four women spending the night in a deserted sanitarium on a mountain fall into the hands of an evil doctor with a terrible secret.
Count Dracula's Great Love
1973
4.6An action drama about an assassin who is ordered to kill an old friend and the repercussions when he refuses. At the same time, although it has nothing to do with the plot, there seems to be a relentless undercurrent of sadism and masochism with a homosexual aura.
Order to Kill
1975
5.8As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, Joe nonetheless robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Not only is he a murderous, ill-tempered sort, he is bad-mannered, too. When beautiful Sonny decides he should be her man and teach her how to be a proper outlaw, sparks fly.
Sonny and Jed
1972
4.7The brain of a male engineer is transplanted into a female’s body. He soon finds it very frustrating to cope with the daily sexist discrimination most women deal with. For example, he is surprised when no one will hire a female engineer. When he is faced with dealing with female sexuality, he quickly begins exhibiting lesbian tendencies.
I Hate My Body
1974
5.8Córdoba, Spain. Lord Killarney, representative of the British Museum, acquires an Arabic incunabulum at an auction; but he is murdered and the book disappears. All suspicions fall on El Lince, an antique dealer with a shady background, who asks his nephew to warn Curro Jiménez.
Avisa a Curro Jiménez
1978
5.6After giving a ride to a man who recently ripped-off his thieving business partner, Sabata and his buddy are unaware that a group of men have been hired to kill them and bring back the loot!
Sabata the Killer
1970
5.3In 1916, while Europe was in the middle of First World War and Spain was enjoying the advantages of being a neutral country, eroticism was called voluptuousness and Senator Duke of Daroca, despite his ancient lineage, fell completely in love with a famous cabaret singer, Rosario "La Criollita", which was a scandal. At that time, it was doubted that decent women had legs - But this mystery was resolved a decade later, when the roaring twenties arrived and, with them, the sensual Lupe Cardoso
Pierna creciente, falda menguante
1970
3.2Emilio Antunez and his wife Charo, come to La Molina, willing to spend a few happy days of vacation. Charo, foreseeing that she will meet with important people, brings an assorted and elegant wardrobe, which is soon able to wear when she meets with Aurora, an old school friend who is married to the eccentric millionaire Taboada.
My Wife's Boyfriends
1972
6.0One man becomes each day more and more fat. The exercise does not help him. Finally he goes to the doctor that finds out his problem: he is pregnant.
El insólito embarazo de los Martínez
1974
6.3Raúl Arévalo and Miguel García seem like a drop of water to another, but there the similarity ends. Raul is a famous singer, womanizer, despotic, cruel and millionaire. Instead Michael is an honest worker, cheerful and loving who enjoys the simple things forward. Fate will know them and life will never be the same for either.
Si Fulano fuese Mengano
1971
7.2Four families intend to buy a flat. In one of them, Margarita wants to marry Ernesto, despite his reluctance. The purchase of the flat is a great inconvenience and he uses this to delay the wedding as much as possible.
Venta por pisos
1972
7.2Daniel has as the only fortune a stud bull named Celedonio, which he rents for living.
Celedonio y yo somos así
1977
4.5Pedro, a handsome gynecologist who lives in Toledo (Spain), does not have just a clientele due to the jealousy that his sex appeal causes in the husbands and boyfriends of his patients. To make matters worse, his mother still treats him like a child and the traditionalist members of his girlfriend's family don't look kindly upon Pedro. But on a trip to Madrid to attend a conference on medicine he meets Antón, his effeminate neighbor of the fifth floor, whose fashion boutique for women thrives thanks to the complicity he knows to establish with his customers.
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Fifth Floor Neighbour
1970
1960s · 33 titles
7.8The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
A Fistful of Dollars
1964
6.3Aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so the local peasants regard him as a hero. Baron La Mouche is convinced Guillaume is the Tulip. During a robbery, he scars the Tulip's face, and hopes to use this to expose Guillaume, but Guillaume is one step ahead.
The Black Tulip
1964
6.9While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in.
The Mercenary
1968
6.2The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.
Navajo Joe
1966
5.9While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
The Colossus of Rhodes
1961
6.4A melancholic gunfighter is drawn into a vengeful and tragic kidnapping plot by his widowed ex-lover.
Cemetery without Crosses
1969
5.6Wyatt Earp comes to a small town, Rio Bravo, to help the woman saloon owner against the town villain and to save a mine owner from robbery.
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
1964
6.5Two brothers, Monty and Ted, will inherit $300,000 if they manage to live together for six months.
Alive or Preferably Dead
1969
6.1This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries with the help of Pat Garrett, a fatherly friend, to change back. However, circumstances force Billy to become violent again and it is Garrett who is credited with the killing.
The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid
1967
5.9Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, including when he should be on stage, light-heartedly having love affairs and generally enjoying life. One day, a marquis visits him and asks him questions about the birth mark on his shoulder...
The Adventures of Scaramouche
1963
6.9A violent and ruthless bank robber hides out from the police scouring the countryside for him in the home of a couple living far out in the desert. But the couple not only know who he is, they have secrets of their own and are just as ruthless.
The Strangers
1969
5.8A story about two gunfighters, Duke and Steve. Steve is in love with Duke's daughter but Duke disapproves of the match, envisioning a life of hardship and danger for the girl if she marries Steve..
In a Colt's Shadow
1965
8.5A German scientist takes refuge in an unnamed South American country, and finishes the development of a weapon of mass destruction. Lesky, is assistant, is paid by a Chinese spy ring to abduct the scientist, and appropriate the weapon. Super agent Z7's mission is to find them and prevent that, which he does - at a cost of a number of lives.
Z7 Operation Rembrandt
1966
6.7The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman.
The Son of Captain Blood
1962
6.5A Southern Colonel, his three sons, and a card shark embark on an odyssey through the Southwest carrying a coffin full of stolen money with which the Colonel plans to revive the Confederacy.
The Hellbenders
1967
5.7An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the kidnapping of a nuclear scientist, but ultimately becomes self on the search for the disappeared and gets a striving for world domination secret organization.
That Man in Istanbul
1965
5.1When Bob Carey is released from prison after a long sentence for murder, begins the search for Mary, his former girlfriend. But soon he finds out that during his absence, she has married Clifford, a wealthy landowner. The happiness of that marriage is only apparent, Mary, in fact, is seriously ill, suffering from a brain tumor whose pains she attributes to an imaginary pregnancy. It becomes necessary to bring to the city of Laredo for an operation, so Clifford sells all his possessions and begins the long journey towards hope. Soon others will join the expedition: a former army scout named Rogers, a nice Chinese cook, Lin-Chu, and a mestizo that responds to the name of "Bets".
Hour of Death
1964
5.0In Barcelona, secret agent Antoine Donadieu thwarts the plans of a Nazi scientist.
Operation Double Cross
1965
7.7A band of fierce rustlers is ravaging the region of Las Cruces. Appears an outsider who saves the ranch owner "The Spur" of being kidnapped by members of the band. Thankfully, he was appointed foreman, and his daughter is in love with him. But things are not what they seem and there are murky intrigues in the background.
Texas Jim
1965
4.0The adventures of a group of Spaniards to win the favors of the numerous young foreigners who spend the summer in the city.
Amor a la española
1967
7.2The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s.
Historia de la frivolidad
1967
7.5Don Ramon, a wealthy patron, receives his son back after he has sent him away to medical school, only to have him fall in love with his new young wife.
I Do Not Forgive... I Kill!
1968
5.2As the era of silent films finds itself at a close, four down-and-out silent film actors and musicians struggle to find work. Fate leads them to a former star of the silent era as she struggles to escape her reputation as a wild and evil vamp of the silver screen and longs to be just thought of as an honest and decent woman. They join forces, and for a short time have a decent amount of success singing and dancing at clubs and bars. But the public has an insatiable taste for foreign black jazz bands, and they will stop at nothing to become a success.
Vampiresas 1930
1962
5.1No synopsis available yet.
Relaciones casi públicas
1968
No synopsis available yet.
Los árboles mueren de pie
1966
NRNo synopsis available yet.
El Cuervo
1969
4.8A group of misfit G.I.s go on a suicide mission behind the enemy lines. This time the objective is a to destroy a crucial Nazi transmitter before the launch of the D-Day invasion.
Seven Into Hell
1968
5.5Inspector for a major insurance company, Clint de La Roche, known as "le vicomte", is enjoying a pleasant vacation on the Spanish coast with a few pretty girls and his assistant, Billette, when he is urgently called back to Paris to investigate a bank robbery. The bank manager has had the key to the security system stolen by a certain Tania. But Tania is killed in a car bomb attack. However, Clint soon discovers that behind this case lies a rivalry between the gangs of Rico Barone and Marco Demoygne, who are fighting for control of the drug market.
The Viscount
1967
5.8Juana and Francisca are serving at the Stevens house, an American couple. Both of them have a boyfriend, one is an egg-carrier and the other is a transporter with his own motorcycle. And both with a totally totalitarian and macho concept regarding male-female relations. The girls also have two American suitors assigned to the American Base of Torrejón, friends of their masters. Thus, without almost pretending, the two girls will find themselves in the midst of the jealous Spaniards and the beefy Yankees.
Las que tienen que servir
1967
6.2Unjustly accused of the murder of three women, the members of two rival gangs are joined to survive to the hunting that the whole town is making. Running away, they reach an abandoned fort in which the attempt to fend off attacks from the group that pursues them.
Fifteen Scaffolds for a Murderer
1967
5.8When he was 12 years old, Bill Cody, later knew as Buffalo Bill, is rider for "pony express" carrying the mail through the wilds of America. It becomes later caravans guide. When driving one of them meets Luisa, the niece of a priest who tried to evangelize the savage tribes accompanied by a converted Indian. It is a dangerous time because, before the advancing white man, the Sioux tribes are buying weapons from unscrupulous dealers...
Seven Hours of Gunfire
1965
5.5The twins of the recently departed Marcus Aurelius fight it out to see who will become emperor of Rome.
The Two Gladiators
1964
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La dama del alba
1965
Series credits
7.3Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez
Curro Jiménez
1976
7.6Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts.
Tales to Keep You Awake
1966
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Eurocops
1988
6.4A pharmacist attends to her colorful neighbors with the help — or distraction — of her eccentric assistants, restless children and flirty ex-husband.
Farmacia de guardia
1991
5.9Vicente 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
7.5No synopsis available yet.
El mundo de Juan Lobón
1989
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Estudio Uno
1965
8.0No synopsis available yet.
La Máscara Negra
1982
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Pagina de Sucesos
1985
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Curro Jiménez, the Return of a Legend
1995
7.0Telenovela in six chapters adapted from the original screenplay by Gabriel García Marquez, directed by Ruy Guerra and shot in Cuba in 1991.
I Sell My Dreams
1994
9.0Vittorio Cottafavi's four part series on the life of Christopher Colombus
Christopher Colombus
1968
No synopsis available yet.
Tres días de abril
2010
