Isabel Mestres

Acting

Isabel Mestres

Born 1947-12-10 · El Masnou, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Acting credits

Black Island poster
8.0

The story of a friendship between two girls of different races, Susana and Rita, in Equatorial Guinea, from 1950 to 1961. Susana discovers with her friend a fascinating but troubled new world in Africa, where she comes of age and experiences love and sex.

Black Island

1996

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue poster
6.4

When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to kill insects.

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue

1974

For Better or for Worse poster
5.2

A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for counterfeiting US dollars. SHE thinks she's just retired from a government 'dirty jobs' department, but her superiors have other ideas. HE thinks she's a retired travel agent.

For Better or for Worse

1989

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Una historia

1978

China 9, Liberty 37 poster
5.4

Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.

China 9, Liberty 37

1978

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El tigre

1980

Crooks poster
5.5

A man of a certain social position falls in jail and request protection to a pickpocket and con man during his stay. On his release he promises to help his friend what then creates many problems.

Crooks

1983

Elisa, My Life poster
6.5

Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis in her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill. Elisa decides to travel to the countryside of Madrid with Isabel and her brother-in-law Julián and their two children to visit Luis for his birthday. Elisa decides to stay with her father when her sister returns to Madrid with her family and she gets closer to Luis, understanding why he left her mother years ago. Later she tells him that Antonio cheated on her with her best friend Sophie and their relationship has ended. When Antonio unexpectedly arrives in the house, Elisa makes a decision about her life.

Elisa, My Life

1977

Muere, mi vida poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Muere, mi vida

1996

Street Warriors II poster
5.6

A veteran policeman named Fernando feels a lot of hatred against Ángel because the boy ran him over with a car leaving him lame. Now Fernando accuses the young crook of having participated in a robbery at a gas station in which a murder has occurred. Helped by his friends, Ángel rebuilds the facts that serve him as an alibi, but while he is in pre-trial detention in La Modelo prison (Barcelona) a terrible mutiny will take place.

Street Warriors II

1979

El libro de buen amor II poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

El libro de buen amor II

1976

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Presto Agitato

1979

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

El hombre de moda poster
6.0

Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the job as a teacher through an old friend, Bruno Baena, who is the head master of the school. Aurora starts going to Pedro's classes. Pedro will become "El hombre de moda", very soon.

El hombre de moda

1980

Salomé poster
5.5

Short film by Almodovar, which tells the origin of the veil. Abraham, walking with Isaac, meets Salomé, who dances and demands Isaac’s head. Isaac flees but is hypnotised and returned. Abraham, about to act, hears God reveal it was a test of temptation. Salomé is a divine figure, and Abraham is instructed to have women cover themselves as a sign of respect.

Salomé

1978

Sweet Hours poster
5.5

Juan 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

The Anchorite poster
5.8

Eleven years ago Fernando Tobajas, a man of a certain age, decided to live in the bathroom, in which he created a small apartment, and never leaves it. Tobajas has given up everything except vanity, and his contacts with the world are reduced to visits from friends and messages sent through the toilet inside aspirin tubes in the hope that someone will receive them and know about his existence. Arabel Lee, a beautiful girl, finds one of those messages.

The Anchorite

1976

No artwork available
7.0

In Madrid, inside a middle-class apartment, through a succession of dialogues, the young Luis and Julia act as lovers, friends, brothers, husband and wife. Dos is one of the most radical examples of non-narrative cinema in cinematography, not just Spanish, but worldwide.

Dos

1980

Girl with the Golden Panties poster
4.5

Luys Forest is a writer with a Falangist political past. He lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting his autobiography with the times), and brooding over his failed marriage. His sister is worried about him and decides to send her daughter Mariana to stay with him. Mariana and a seemingly mute and artistic lesbian companion come to town to shake the stable world of Luys with their free and uninhibited ways. Soon begins a game of seduction that ends up exposing the intellectual game of Luys.

Girl with the Golden Panties

1980

El hombre que supo amar poster
6.3

The life of Juan de Dios and his struggle against social, political and religious structures.

El hombre que supo amar

1976

Serenata a la claror de la lluna poster
9.0

An upper-class family celebrates their daughter's upcoming marriage to a young man who appears to be of the same social standing. The fiancé has sexual relations with another woman, and this sets off a chain of humiliations.

Serenata a la claror de la lluna

1978

Caso cerrado poster
5.7

Cesar and Isabel just got married for the Jewish rite, their religion. He is a director of a banking company. She works in a bookstore owned by her mother-in-law. The couple sees their happiness truncated when César discovers financial anomalies in the entity where he works. What were initially charges against some managers, becomes an accusation of embezzlement against César, who is in France to prevent his entry into military service. Go back and appear before the judge to prove his innocence.

Caso cerrado

1985

Assault at Central Bank poster
6.5

Film adaptation of a real event that occurred on May 23, 1981, in which a TV broadcaster, director of a major newspaper, and a deputy were involved

Assault at Central Bank

1983

Catalan Cuckold poster
5.4

Comedy about a marriage guidance counselor whose own marriage is on the rocks.

Catalan Cuckold

1979