
Acting
Isabel Mestres
Born
1947-12-10 (78)
Place of birth
El Masnou, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Known for
Acting
Credits
41 titles
Known for
7.8Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.
Jesus of Nazareth
1977
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Love at First Sight
1992
7.3The life of Miguel de Cervantes, writer of the iconic novel Don Quixote of La Mancha.
Cervantes
1981
6.4When 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
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
5.3Gunslinger 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
Film credits
1990s · 2 titles
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Muere, mi vida
1996
8.0The 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
1980s · 15 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
5.2A 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
5.5While the Torete rob banks, the Heifer, another delinquent who has not noticed it, enters the same place to rob him. After failing the coup, both decide to associate.
The Latest Scams of El Torete
1980
4.5Luys 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
6.0Pedro 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
No synopsis available yet.
El tigre
1980
6.5Film 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
5.7Cesar 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
4.1A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.
Erotic Stories
1980
5.5A 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
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Café, coca y puro
1985
6.1A 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
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
10.0Gálvez is a bumbling journalist investigating a real state shady business.
Too Much for Galvez
1981
6.5After a period of inactivity, Crisanto, a police inspector, returns to the service. When a friend of his is murdered, he decides to take over the investigation.
The Arrangement
1983
1970s · 21 titles
6.4When 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
5.3Gunslinger 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
5.6A 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
4.7No synopsis available yet.
El libro de buen amor II
1976
6.3The life of Juan de Dios and his struggle against social, political and religious structures.
El hombre que supo amar
1976
6.0Alice is a girl devoid of affection seeking refuge in the images shown in the movie screen of a theater that his father manages in the Venezuelan Andes. This creates improbable stories in which she is the protagonist...
Goodbye Alicia
1977
5.5Short 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
5.4Comedy about a marriage guidance counselor whose own marriage is on the rocks.
Catalan Cuckold
1979
5.0Cebrian, a blast furnace worker Asturian, being held at the Civil Guard barracks. There has to be accountable for the disasters in a day of party with two friends.
Parranda
1977
5.8Eleven 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
9.0An 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
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Nunca en horas de clase
1978
No synopsis available yet.
Presto Agitato
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Una historia
1978
7.0No synopsis available yet.
El hombre que yo quiero
1978
4.3Mónica has just died in a traffic accident. Along with her was another man. Pedro Bernáldez, painter and lover of Mónica, was so in love with her that he came to change his painting style for the one indicated by his lover. Now that Mónica has died, Pedro will investigate what relationship the deceased had with each other and begins to discover many things.
Beyond Desire
1976
6.5Elisa 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
10.0Sergio falls in love with Federica, the maid of the house whom everyone calls "Volvoreta" ("butterfly" in Galician). Aware of the situation, the mother of the young gentleman dismisses the maid, who has no choice but to go to the capital city. But Sergio's love is so strong that he will follow her wherever she goes.
Volvoreta
1976
4.8Adapted from the novel of the same name by Clarín, which narrates the difficulties of Ana Ozores to adapt to the sordidness of life in Vetusta, a provincial city of northern Spain inspired in Oviedo. The young Ana, married to a retired regent, lives oppressed by the provincial hypocrisy and the mystical fears of an absorbing religion. Sexually dissatisfied, beset by constant erotic dreams, she reveals in her confessional her intimate torments, and her confessor begins to feel a morbid passion for her. At the same time, Álvaro Mesía, a Don Juan, intends to seduce Ana.
The Regent's Wife
1974
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Marián
1979
4.7Leonor and Juan are a united couple of good standing that cannot have children. They want to adopt one but do not succeed because he is too old. Leonor proposes Juan an audacious plan: having a child with another woman, offering her a significant amount of money if she renunciates to the child. As it is very difficult to find the girl, they publish an advertisement in the press. Ana finally applies, as she has no job and lives far away from his family, so she accepts the deal.
Playing Parents
1978
Series credits
7.8Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.
Jesus of Nazareth
1977
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Love at First Sight
1992
7.3The life of Miguel de Cervantes, writer of the iconic novel Don Quixote of La Mancha.
Cervantes
1981
