
Acting
María José Alfonso
Born
1940-03-17 (86)
Place of birth
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Known for
Acting
Credits
50 titles
Known for
7.1Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
Cuéntame cómo pasó
2001
7.0Marielena is a young, working-class secretary—decent, deeply devoted to her family, and steadfast in her Christian values. However, love catches her off guard when she meets Luis Felipe and feels her heart stir. A newly qualified executive secretary, she sets out to find a job and ends up crossing paths with Luis Felipe again—who becomes her boss. As the days go by, she finds herself drawn to him in a way that proves impossible to hide.
Marielena
1992
6.4No synopsis available yet.
Angel or Demon
2011
7.5Confused by tales of knights and their glorious deeds, Don Alonso, as Don Quixote de la Mancha, sets out fearlessly as a knight-errant with his friend and faithful squire Sancho Panza to accomplish great things. With rickety armor and a barber's basin for a helmet, he fights windmills, mistakes washerwomen for princesses, and monks for evil sorcerers. While Don Quixote dedicates all his deeds and the entire glory of his lady love, the most beautiful maiden Dulcinea, he contributes to the amusement of all involved.
Don Quijote von der Mancha
1965
6.0No synopsis available yet.
La Huella del Crimen
1985
No synopsis available yet.
A medias
2002
Film credits
2020s · 6 titles
7.2Merche, about to turn 76, is told that she doesn't have long left to live. Unable to travel to watch the sea for last time, she accepts a medical experimental process to get it.
My Other Jon
2023
NRAlmudena receives news of her teacher's death. No one has heard from her in a long time. This leads her to investigate and rethink her life.
El olvido
2025
NRMaruja, 80, recently lost her husband. She spends her days without human contact, but every now and then she gets a call from a telemarketer...
Maruja
2024
3.8No synopsis available yet.
La suite nupcial
2020
NRA mother tells her fellow Alcoholics Anonymous members how her life has been, how she became an alcoholic.
Amor de madre
2024
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Alimezher
2020
2010s · 3 titles
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Blockbuster
2013
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Oh! Mammy Blue
2018
5.5Ana, a young Spanish woman from a bourgeois family, is about to finish her studies and get married, but she is not happy. After a very unlikely event happens, her life turns around and everything changes.
Ana by Day
2018
2000s · 4 titles
7.0A psychiatrist is left by his wife. By chance, he meets Jasmina, a local hairdresser with whom he has nothing in common, but with whom he falls madly in love.
Ten Days Without Love
2001
5.5A women meets a charming man and falls in love, they get married and start a family. As they age and have children, the man's becomes violent and abusive.
Solo mía
2001
NRMarriage of Vienna, theater director, and Daniel, a geriatric physician, is in crisis. Both cling to their professional activity to fill the void in their lives agonizing. Their worlds seem antagonistic, their needs, different. Account of the worst loneliness: loneliness in the company, and on promises unfulfilled desires can not be met, but it becomes a good excuse to continue living despite everything.
Pretextos
2008
This is the personal journey of Damian, a guy who is losing his grandmother to Alzheimer while he receives the job offer he has been waiting for his entire life. He will have to choose between his family and himself.
In the memories
2009
1990s · 3 titles
6.5The story is about a couple that sets out for a dinner party on the millennium eve. The woman is pregnant, the guy has no money and no car and has borrowed one from a friend of his. The car of course is not exactly top class and crashes down after few miles. And that's where the film really starts. The couple start fighting and trying to find a way to the parents' house before midnight, hitchhiking on the way and getting into several cars and get themselves involved in the funniest situations.
La primera noche de mi vida
1998
10.0No synopsis available yet.
La familia... 30 años después
1999
5.3Arturo is married to Elena and they have four grown children, they are wonderfull but they are still living at home. Arthur is writer and that's a job that requires peace, silence and concentration, something imposible at Arturo's home. His editor convince him to make his children go out from home so Arturo start a kind of "guerrilla war" to make his sons become independent.
Alone, at Last!
1994
1970s · 6 titles
6.0Sequel to "The Great Family" and "Family and one more". A widower and the godfather of his 16 children, aged two, wistfully contemplate the past. The father was left alone in the family home, but loneliness overwhelms him so he decides to spend some time at home for each of their children, most of whom are married. But the experience ends up being disastrous.
La familia bien, gracias
1979
4.7While Manolo, employed in a tourism agency in the Costa del Sol, enjoys the foreign babes, his wife suffers at home in the city. Advised by a girlfriend she plans revenge by simulating pregnancy. At first, Manolo is very happy to have a baby. However, soon he realizes that he cannot be the father since he was not in the city at the time of conception.
Manolo by Night
1973
6.0A dark and surrealistic comedy about a man who gives drugs to his wife, to make her sleep and avoid arguing with her.
Sleep, Sleep, My Love
1975
9.0Two Parisians and inseparable friends, Alexandre and Philippe, decide to spend their vacations in Palma. Philippe arrives by car, accompanied by his young wife, while the flighty Alexandre has hired a blonde hitchhiker. But what a surprise to find the villa, rented by correspondence, inhabited by strange and worrying occupants... Soon mistaken for secret agents, Philippe and Alexandre embark on extravagant adventures involving a mysterious shipment of gold.
Hurrah for Adventure!
1970
7.0The Sevillano's guest is a story full of intrigues. The title alludes to the fact that a character who appears, the guest of the El Sevillano inn in Toledo, is the writer Miguel de Cervantes.
El huesped del sevillano
1970
3.9A young couple reviews the year they have lived together. According to him, this time has been positive. But she thinks that Jorge was carried away by his father, betraying the plans they had made together before marrying, although she believes that there is still some way to save the situation. That is why she escapes from home, thinking that her husband will go after her and that everything will start again. But a new person enters her life and the situation gets complicated.
La joven casada
1975
1960s · 18 titles
6.5The life of the family inordinate surveyor Carlos Alonso has undergone several changes over the course of the years: the birth of child number 16, little Maria, coincided with the death of the mother, who left behind a hollow refillable. The grandfather also died. The Godfather pastry married, and the boys have been growing rapidly ...
The Family and One More
1965
6.1The life of Sebastián, a 28-year-old Roma, changes drastically after he kills a man. From that moment, he must flee, experiencing the torments of loneliness, guilt, and the rejection of his people.
With the East Wind
1967
7.0A playwright boasts he can commit a perfect crime in front of his friends, a police chief, a physician and a theater owner. Later, when the playwright's wife disappears, foul play is suspected. Did he murder her?
Ensayo general para la muerte
1963
5.5Rocio 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
5.5The film is slightly autobiographical, Raphael is trying to find fame and fortune as a popular singer in Spain until he teams up with an up and coming Spanish composer which helps him become a popular singer in Spain.
When You Are Not Here
1966
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Don Quijote
1965
8.0A Spaghetti western styled adventure of Zorro.
Behind the Mask of Zorro
1966
6.7Despite his youth, Daniel is not happy with his luck. He works in an auto repair shop and his job does not offer him any prospects of progress. Influenced by the large number of workers who are leaving Spain for Germany, he decides to emigrate as well.
Llegar a más
1964
5.8Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month in the queues of the mutuality windows to collect their pension, an opportunity they take advantage of to talk about life. When they learn that the old don Felipe, an acquaintance, is very sick and is alone and without money for a decent funeral, they decide to ask for a loan to help him, but, as they do not grant it, they decide to rob the savings bank. To do this, they will plan everything thoroughly and manufacture a homemade explosive.
Los dinamiteros
1964
6.5After wedding the beautiful Genoveffa, Count Sigfrido of Treviri employs his right-hand man to look after his bride while he's away fighting in the crusades, unaware that his supposed friend has plans of his own for the new countess.
The Revenge of the Crusader
1964
7.0San Ginés de la Sierra is a small village lost in the mountains in southern Spain. It is known throughout the region for two peculiar characteristics: its "persistent" drought and a "Home of the Vanquished". This "home" is an institution that houses some twenty old people, to whose care are eleven nuns and crosses a distressing economic situation. The nuns are desperately seeking a solution and decide to hold a charity bulls run.
La becerrada
1963
6.2Three couples, three journeys, one life-changing moment. From newlyweds Alejandro and Mercedes to seasoned partners Margarita and Enrique, and hopeful dreamers Inés and Luis, each pair faces the joy, chaos, and wonder of expecting their first child. As cravings kick in, names are debated, and families react, their stories unfold with humor and heart. Different paths, different personalities—but when labor begins, every heartbeat races the same.
Crónica de nueve meses
1967
7.5As there are still a lot of problems in the relationships of the Spanish couples Saint Valentine returns to earth and especially to Madrid in order to fix these problems.
Vuelve San Valentín
1962
6.6Carlos Alonso and Mercedes Cebrián are parents of fifteen children of different ages.
The Big Family
1962
9.0Jesús is a young man mobilized for the war in the colonies, and before leaving, he promises Pilar that one day he will return.
Gigantes y cabezudos
1969
6.7After seeing that Nelson kisses his lover, Barlow poisons him. But it turns out that Nelson comes back to life when he was about to be buried. From that moment, Barlow does not stop chasing him to finish his work.
De cuerpo presente
1967
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Las últimas horas
1966
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Maruxa
1969
Undated · 1 titles
Series credits
7.1Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
Cuéntame cómo pasó
2001
7.0Marielena is a young, working-class secretary—decent, deeply devoted to her family, and steadfast in her Christian values. However, love catches her off guard when she meets Luis Felipe and feels her heart stir. A newly qualified executive secretary, she sets out to find a job and ends up crossing paths with Luis Felipe again—who becomes her boss. As the days go by, she finds herself drawn to him in a way that proves impossible to hide.
Marielena
1992
6.4No synopsis available yet.
Angel or Demon
2011
7.5Confused by tales of knights and their glorious deeds, Don Alonso, as Don Quixote de la Mancha, sets out fearlessly as a knight-errant with his friend and faithful squire Sancho Panza to accomplish great things. With rickety armor and a barber's basin for a helmet, he fights windmills, mistakes washerwomen for princesses, and monks for evil sorcerers. While Don Quixote dedicates all his deeds and the entire glory of his lady love, the most beautiful maiden Dulcinea, he contributes to the amusement of all involved.
Don Quijote von der Mancha
1965
6.0No synopsis available yet.
La Huella del Crimen
1985
No synopsis available yet.
A medias
2002
NRNo synopsis available yet.
PLANTA 25
2006
8.0Series of 13 chapters that narrates, humorously, the daily life of a family made up of Carmen, a separated woman and owner of a restaurant, her mother-in-law and her daughter. The tangled situations are complicated by the presence of Carmen's ex-husband, and Loli, a girl with a cheerful life and neighbor of the family.
Platos Rotos
1985

