Rafael Gil

Directing

Rafael Gil

Born — Died

1913-05-23 — 1986-07-10

Place of birth

Madrid, Spain

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

Rafael Gil Álvarez (1913-1986) was a Spanish film director, writer, and producer. He is one of the most prominent figures of the Spanish classic cinema.

Known for

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

Queen of the Chantecler poster
5.9

A Spanish music hall performer gets caught up in espionage during the First World War.

Queen of the Chantecler

1962

Blood in the Bullring poster
7.5

Like every night, Manuel remembers the old days of glory, when after the war he was a famous bullfighter. He and his friend Juan were the fashionable couple. Now Juan is a prominent businessman in bullfighting. But Manuel's feelings toward him have changed radically: an inexplicable hated seizes him when someone mentions his name. It has been more than twenty years since that afternoon, when Manuel was bullfighting and fell to the ground.

Blood in the Bullring

1969

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

I Was a Parish Priest poster
7.4

A young priest encounters major problems in the diocese where he must preach the word of the Lord, mainly as a result of hatred caused by differences in classes

I Was a Parish Priest

1953

La vida nueva de Pedrito de Andía poster
5.8

Pedrito de Andia is an adolescent self-conscious about his height something that, in love with his childhood friend, Isabel, goes to port forward to receive her after a long stay abroad. However, when he sees his friend turned into a slender woman, the boy feels dwarfed and, indeed, when he receives a snub by refusing a dance, preferring a more attractive guy with whom Pedrito fight. This scandal ends in punishment and he is sent to Andia, his town, to think. He agrees with the hope that one day she recognize love beyond appearances.

La vida nueva de Pedrito de Andía

1965

Film credits

Behind the camera

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

Queen of the Chantecler poster
5.9

A Spanish music hall performer gets caught up in espionage during the First World War.

Queen of the Chantecler

1962

Blood in the Bullring poster
7.5

Like every night, Manuel remembers the old days of glory, when after the war he was a famous bullfighter. He and his friend Juan were the fashionable couple. Now Juan is a prominent businessman in bullfighting. But Manuel's feelings toward him have changed radically: an inexplicable hated seizes him when someone mentions his name. It has been more than twenty years since that afternoon, when Manuel was bullfighting and fell to the ground.

Blood in the Bullring

1969

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

I Was a Parish Priest poster
7.4

A young priest encounters major problems in the diocese where he must preach the word of the Lord, mainly as a result of hatred caused by differences in classes

I Was a Parish Priest

1953

La vida nueva de Pedrito de Andía poster
5.8

Pedrito de Andia is an adolescent self-conscious about his height something that, in love with his childhood friend, Isabel, goes to port forward to receive her after a long stay abroad. However, when he sees his friend turned into a slender woman, the boy feels dwarfed and, indeed, when he receives a snub by refusing a dance, preferring a more attractive guy with whom Pedrito fight. This scandal ends in punishment and he is sent to Andia, his town, to think. He agrees with the hope that one day she recognize love beyond appearances.

La vida nueva de Pedrito de Andía

1965

La vida nueva de Pedrito de Andía poster
5.8

Pedrito de Andia is an adolescent self-conscious about his height something that, in love with his childhood friend, Isabel, goes to port forward to receive her after a long stay abroad. However, when he sees his friend turned into a slender woman, the boy feels dwarfed and, indeed, when he receives a snub by refusing a dance, preferring a more attractive guy with whom Pedrito fight. This scandal ends in punishment and he is sent to Andia, his town, to think. He agrees with the hope that one day she recognize love beyond appearances.

La vida nueva de Pedrito de Andía

1965

Don Quixote poster
6.0

The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sancho Panza.

Don Quixote

1947

Don Quixote poster
6.0

The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sancho Panza.

Don Quixote

1947

Currito de la Cruz poster
6.5

The rivalry between the old bullfighter Manolo Carmona and young Romerita it takes to seduce Rocio, the Carmona's daughter, and elope with her. After a year, Romerita leaves the girl and the daughter, who spend all kinds of calamities. Some time later, Romerita dies. At the same time, Currito de la Cruz, a young bullfighter sponsored by Carmona, who has always been in love with dew, waiting patiently for the girl forget the past.

Currito de la Cruz

1965

Currito de la Cruz poster
6.5

The rivalry between the old bullfighter Manolo Carmona and young Romerita it takes to seduce Rocio, the Carmona's daughter, and elope with her. After a year, Romerita leaves the girl and the daughter, who spend all kinds of calamities. Some time later, Romerita dies. At the same time, Currito de la Cruz, a young bullfighter sponsored by Carmona, who has always been in love with dew, waiting patiently for the girl forget the past.

Currito de la Cruz

1965

El marino de los puños de oro poster
5.7

Pedro Montero, left Spain when he was young, he become famouse in Brazil and Italy as a boxer. When he comes back to Spain , he enters the body of Marines and continues with his career. On the eve of winning the European Championship, the guardians of his rival send him a dangerous woman, an old friend who he had in Rome, to hinder his physical preparation.

El marino de los puños de oro

1968

You and I Are Three poster
9.0

When Manolina saw a picture of Rodolfo, a South American poet, she falls in love for him. Three months after marriage by proxy, Rodolfo meets with her, which takes a major surprise to meet the twin brother of her husband.

You and I Are Three

1962

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sanidad en el frente y en el retaguardia

1937

Judas' Kiss poster
9.5

The story of Judas's betrayal of Christ.

Judas' Kiss

1954

No artwork available
10.0

A love story between a gypsy woman and a nobleman, who disguises himself as a gypsy under the name Andrés Caballero to test the sincerity of her declarations of love. Based on the novel of the same name by Miguel de Cervantes.

La gitanilla

—

Lecciones de buen amor poster
7.5

Eugenio asks his best friend, Federico, a wealthy lawyer, to take care of his son Titín while he deals with a family problem related to Elvira, his wife; but Federico, a single man, knows nothing about babysitting, so he begs Clarita, his secretary, to help him… (Film partially lost. Only 65 minutes of footage remain of the original 91; but this circumstance does not prevent the understanding of the plot.)

Lecciones de buen amor

1944

Lecciones de buen amor poster
7.5

Eugenio asks his best friend, Federico, a wealthy lawyer, to take care of his son Titín while he deals with a family problem related to Elvira, his wife; but Federico, a single man, knows nothing about babysitting, so he begs Clarita, his secretary, to help him… (Film partially lost. Only 65 minutes of footage remain of the original 91; but this circumstance does not prevent the understanding of the plot.)

Lecciones de buen amor

1944

De camisa vieja a chaqueta nueva poster
6.7

A former Francoist becomes a democrat after the Spanish Transition

De camisa vieja a chaqueta nueva

1982

Camino del Rocío poster
5.8

Esperanza and Maria Jesús are two orphans because their father, Don Fernando, dies. He shared his buissines with Martina Echave, an old lover, who hated him because she has always wanted to marry him. Esperanza and Maria Jesús fall almost into ruin for Matinas' handling. They had to take refuge with their aunt. Esperanza is Martinas' soon's girlfriend against her will, and they have a stormy relationship because José Antonio is also in love with her.

Camino del Rocío

1966

...And the Third Year, He Resuscitated poster
4.6

On November 20, 1978 a truck driver picks up a man on the road, that tells him to take him to Pardo's Palace. Soon, the truck driver begins to realize who this person is.

...And the Third Year, He Resuscitated

1980

Historia de cinco copas poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Historia de cinco copas

1962

La señora de Fátima poster
6.5

The story of the 1917 miracle of Fatima, in which the Virgin Mary appeared to three children--two girls and one boy..

La señora de Fátima

1951

El canto del gallo poster
5.5

A Catholic priest lives in a communist country where all religious are being killed. When trying to escape is stopped by a commissioner who had been a fellow student.

El canto del gallo

1955

El fantasma y doña Juanita poster
4.2

Fearing that her niece Rosita will abandon her true love and enter into a marriage of convenience, doña Juanita tells her the story of when, many years ago, she fell in love with an accountant who worked in a circus.

El fantasma y doña Juanita

1945

El fantasma y doña Juanita poster
4.2

Fearing that her niece Rosita will abandon her true love and enter into a marriage of convenience, doña Juanita tells her the story of when, many years ago, she fell in love with an accountant who worked in a circus.

El fantasma y doña Juanita

1945

¡Es mi hombre! poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

¡Es mi hombre!

1966

¡Es mi hombre! poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

¡Es mi hombre!

1966

Novios de la muerte poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Novios de la muerte

1975

Novios de la muerte poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Novios de la muerte

1975

The King is the Best Mayor poster
2.0

The action occurs in early 12th century Galicia during the reign of Alfonso VII. Sancho de Roelas, a nobleman who has fallen on hard times, announces to his lord Tello de Neira his intention to marry Elvira de Olite, also of impoverished noble lineage. Don Tello offers to be best man at the wedding but on seeing Elvira falls in love with her beauty and kidnaps her. She refuses to have sex with him and Sancho travels to Leon to get Alfonso's help. Alfonso finally comes to Tello's manor-house incognito and – after revealing his identity and finding out that Tello has raped Elvira – forces him to marry Elvira. He then executes Tello, restoring Elvira's honour and endowing her with half Tello's estate.

The King is the Best Mayor

1974

Eloísa está debajo de un almendro poster
5.8

Fernando, who has returned to his hometown after studying in Brussels, finds a strange suicide note written by his father ten years earlier.

Eloísa está debajo de un almendro

1943

Eloísa está debajo de un almendro poster
5.8

Fernando, who has returned to his hometown after studying in Brussels, finds a strange suicide note written by his father ten years earlier.

Eloísa está debajo de un almendro

1943

Nada menos que todo un hombre poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nada menos que todo un hombre

1972

Nada menos que todo un hombre poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nada menos que todo un hombre

1972

The Sunless Street poster
5.8

Mauricio is a Frenchman who arrived in Barcelona fleeing from justice. He takes refuge in a hostel in Chinatown and falls in love with Pilar, the niece of the owner. When a murder is committed in the neighborhood, Mauricio becomes the prime suspect.

The Sunless Street

1948

The Sunless Street poster
5.8

Mauricio is a Frenchman who arrived in Barcelona fleeing from justice. He takes refuge in a hostel in Chinatown and falls in love with Pilar, the niece of the owner. When a murder is committed in the neighborhood, Mauricio becomes the prime suspect.

The Sunless Street

1948

A la Legión le gustan las mujeres… y a las mujeres, les gusta la Legión poster
7.5

A lieutenant and four others are having a little party before entering combat. Ensign has his girlfriend in a village occupied by the enemy, so it is essential a rescue mission

A la Legión le gustan las mujeres… y a las mujeres, les gusta la Legión

1976

A la Legión le gustan las mujeres… y a las mujeres, les gusta la Legión poster
7.5

A lieutenant and four others are having a little party before entering combat. Ensign has his girlfriend in a village occupied by the enemy, so it is essential a rescue mission

A la Legión le gustan las mujeres… y a las mujeres, les gusta la Legión

1976

Rogelia poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rogelia

1962