Alfredo Landa

Acting

Alfredo Landa

Born 1933-03-04 · Pamplona, Navarra, Spain

Alfredo Landa (3 March 1933 – 9 May 2013) was a Spanish actor. Alfredo Landa Arena born in Pamplona (Navarre), Spain. He finished his pre-university studies in San Sebastián. He then began university studies on Law, where he began to work with university school groups. He left university to work in the theater. After working as a dubbing actor for a short time in the 1950s, he debuted with his first considerable role in film in José María Forqué's Atraco a las tres in 1962. When Francisco Franco died in 1975, censorship began to disappear. This led to a growth of erotic comedies on Spanish cinema. Landa became the "sexually repressed" role of that trend, especially under directors Mariano Ozores and Pedro Lazaga. He even created his own trend, that some people called landismo.[2] Afterwards, Landa changed his image, taking much deeper roles, like his bandit in El Bosque animado. Landa, along with Francisco Rabal, won Best Actor award at 1984 Cannes Film Festival for his memorable performance in Los santos inocentes. He is now widely recognized as a great dramatic actor. After a career with more than one hundred and twenty movies, one dozen of television series, and several stage successes, with a great amount of Spanish and European awards, 74-year-old Landa announced his retirement at the X Festival de Cine de Málaga (10th Movie Festival of Málaga) while receiving a new award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alfredo Landa (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Around the World in 80 Days poster
6.7

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

Around the World in 80 Days

1956

Amigo poster
7.1

No synopsis available yet.

Amigo

1980

Landa poster
6.5

Portrait of Alfredo Landa, Spanish cinema's most popular actor. From landismo to his greatest roles, featuring public affection, prestigious awards, unreleased material, and intimate testimonies about the person behind the performer

Landa

2026

Alcalde por elección poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Alcalde por elección

1976

Las estrellas están verdes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Las estrellas están verdes

1973

El rediezcubrimiento de México poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

El rediezcubrimiento de México

1979

La próxima estación poster
8.0

A seventeen year old boy, the only son of a family of upper middle class, there is a night with a friend of his age. She has run away from home and he wants to stay and live with them, for in their home just burst a major family conflict. As in his ...

La próxima estación

1982

Préstame quince días poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Préstame quince días

1971

Amor a la española poster
4.0

The 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

Simón, contamos contigo poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Simón, contamos contigo

1971

Las obsesiones de Armando poster
9.0

Armando, a natural prodigy with lethal attributes, capable of killing both his wives at first glance on their wedding night, decides to visit a psychiatrist friend and falls in love with his wife, her twin sister, and everything in between.

Las obsesiones de Armando

1974

Cradle Song poster
6.5

A group of nuns find an abandoned baby girl at the doorstep of their convent.

Cradle Song

1994

El árbol del penitente poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

El árbol del penitente

2000

The Executioner poster
7.6

An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.

The Executioner

1963

The Girl in Mourning poster
5.5

Rocio and Raphael are a young couple from a small Spanish town. Rocio must mourn the death of a relative for six months and is forbidden to see Raphael. Very much in love, they are frustrated by the old-fashioned customs of their village. When they can finally see each other, the two plan to soon marry. Unfortunately, the girl's grandfather dies and she must start the process of mourning all over again. This time Raphael begs her to rebel against her family and the villagers, but she refuses for fear of persecution. When Rocio has had enough of putting her own happiness aside, she decides to run away with Raphael in spite of what her family will say. Things do not go as planned, however, when yet another family member passes away.

The Girl in Mourning

1964

The Heifer poster
6.7

During the Spanish Civil War a platoon of mismatched Republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on the local holiday of the nearby village. In addition to ruining the Nationalist faction's celebration they want the animal in order to butcher it and feed their famished troops. They get caught in the process and have to go through a series of funny and pathetic incidents before they can get back to their side.

The Heifer

1985

Magic Powder poster
5.1

Arturo and Paco arrives at a castle where Paco is going to marry Sulfurina, who turns out to be a witch.

Magic Powder

1979

Tuset Street poster
4.5

Barcelona 1967. The pop culture revolution. Jordi (Patrick Bauchau) is a rich playboy who runs around with a bunch of high-end hippies, smoking, drinking, dancing and daydreaming about Tuset Street, an effort to develop a popular street in the newer section of Barcelona after the models of Haight Ashbury Street in San Francisco and Carnaby Street in London. Jordi and his gang represent the new Barcelona, wealthy, artificial and striving for imported sophistication. On the older side of the city is El Paralelo, the theater district. At El Molino, one of its many music halls, performs Violeta (Sara Montiel), a showgirl in the old style tradition who supplements her singing income with prostitution. Somehow Violeta represents the old values, the "real world" living along side an artificial creation such as Tuset.

Tuset Street

1968

The Holy Innocents poster
7.8

In 60s Extremadura, Paco el Bajo and his relatives work during day in a farmhouse, and silently suffer submission to their masters, who exploit them and treat them almost like animals. Meanwhile, Paco dreams that one day his children will be able to study.

The Holy Innocents

1984

Profesor eróticus poster
6.2

A young professor of sexology advantage to spend the honeymoon at hotel in Mallorca where he has a congress. There he meets colleagues of different nationalities who also attended with their wives. A number of changes in the novel drugs that are causing a number of unexpected reactions ranging from professional envy jealousy. The situation causes wobble love affair honeymooners.

Profesor eróticus

1981

Piernas cruzadas poster
5.0

Lucerito is a Spanish star who has come to Mexico, accompanied by her godfather and her agent, to find work. Rosario is from upper class society and has grown tired of the demands made upon her by her family. When they meet each other in a Mexican hotel, they discover that they could be each other's identical twin and decide to change places.

Piernas cruzadas

1984

Merry-Go-Round c. 1950 poster
6.0

This movie doesn't have any coherent plot. It's the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how they manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: La colmena or Roma (Fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.

Merry-Go-Round c. 1950

2004

Guapo heredero busca esposa poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Guapo heredero busca esposa

1972

The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars poster
5.9

Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decide to take on human features to study the terrestrials incognito, but end up getting involved in the Roman "dolce vita".

The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars

1964