José Manuel Cervino

Acting

José Manuel Cervino

Born

1940-10-29 (85)

Place of birth

Arona, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

73 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

The Last Circus poster
6.7

A trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.

The Last Circus

2010

As Luck Would Have It poster
6.0

Roberto is an unemployed publicist who achieved success when he thought of a famous slogan: "Coca-Cola, the spark of life." Now he is a desperate man, trying to remember the happy days, back to the hotel where he spent the honeymoon with his wife. However, instead of the hotel, he finds a museum built around the Roman theater in the city. While walking through the ruins, he has an accident, an iron rod sticks into his head and leaves him completely paralyzed. If he tries to move he would die. Roberto becomes the focus of the media, which will change his life ...

As Luck Would Have It

2011

Gold poster
5.7

Spanish soldiers battle indigenous tribes and their own brutal natures as they search for a legendary city built of gold.

Gold

2017

El Cepa Returns poster
2.0

Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime (1980), directed by Pilar Miró, returns to the various locations where the shooting of the mythical film, narrating the infamous Grimaldos case (1910), took place.

El Cepa Returns

2019

Born to Win poster
4.3

Encarna, a thirtysomething girl of Móstoles (Madrid) is trapped in a life without changes, at the side of her lifelong boyfriend and with a job absent of incentives. Stigmatized by the famous Spanish sketch of the "Empanadillas de Móstoles", Encarna looks for a way to escape her boring life.

Born to Win

2016

2000s · 9 titles

The 13 Roses poster
6.6

True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed without even a trace of evidence of any wrong doing.

The 13 Roses

2007

The Wooden Box poster
7.0

After the death of don Lucio, his widow Eloísa asks one of her neighbours to use the latter's house in order to hold the dead man's wake, since Eloísa's own house is too small for that. From then on, a series of strange happenings take place during a single day.

The Wooden Box

2006

Tánger poster
2.9

Abdul Kader Torres (Jorge Perugorria), son of Ricardo Torres (Matterhorn), former Commissioner of the Social Political Brigade, and Fatima, a beautiful tangerine, just returned to London to work on his father's shady business dealings, "Executive Tangier ". In Tanger, Abdul was a teacher, but because of his addiction to alcohol was banned from teaching. When he meets Lidia (Ana Fernandez), the young bride of his father, feels an irresistible attraction that will force him to choose between her and his father.

Tánger

2004

School of Seduction poster
3.9

"Escuela de seducción" is an acceptable comedy which deals, for the umpteenth time, with the war of the sexes using misunderstandings and fake personalities as dramatic resources. The premise is by no means original, but this is something most films lack nowadays, and therefore the result could have been more than acceptable.

School of Seduction

2004

El prado de las estrellas poster
5.2

“The Meadow of Stars” refers to Alfonso's childhood memories. Fifty years later, he lives as a retiree in the home he has always known, in a large town nestled between a stormy sea and the mountain range.

El prado de las estrellas

2008

Dama de Porto Pim poster
8.0

"Dama de Porto Pim" tells the story of a rich woman who arrives at a little Portuguese island while her husband is in the II World War; there, a humble fisherman, promised to marry a girl of the town, falls in love with her, and she will also fall in love with him, but his husband could come back.

Dama de Porto Pim

2001

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La compasión del diablo

2002

Dos billetes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dos billetes

2009

Zero/infinito poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zero/infinito

2002

1990s · 8 titles

I Will Survive poster
6.1

After the father of Marga’s unborn child dies, the young woman loses all hope, until she meets a dashing, handsome gentleman who just might be the man of her dreams -- aside from the fact that he happens to be gay…

I Will Survive

1999

Hermana, ¿pero qué has hecho? poster
5.1

Sister Angela and Sister Mary park his van in front of a bank branch. They enter the bank and with the weapons hidden under their habits, commit the robbery of the century, to the astonishment of all employees and customers. After thorough police investigation the two nuns are arrested, but then appears Trini, twin sister of one of them and now all is not so clear. Were the nuns who committed the robbery?

Hermana, ¿pero qué has hecho?

1995

El crimen del expreso de Andalucía poster
3.8

Madrid, 1924. A ne'er-do-well in his 30s, perpetual disappointment to his aging military father, hatches a plan to rob the mail train to Andalusia. He intends the hit to be bloodless, but complications arise soon.

El crimen del expreso de Andalucía

1991

Not Love, Just Frenzy poster
5.8

A group of enthusiastic teenagers embark on a journey to find love in Madrid's hottest discotheques but find themselves tangled in a web of sex, drugs and crime.

Not Love, Just Frenzy

1996

Menos que cero poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Menos que cero

1996

Atómica poster
8.0

The lives of four people involved in dysfunctional relationships change when a porn star moves to Spain.

Atómica

1998

Hotel y domicilio poster
3.3

Ángel works as a forensic doctor in a medium-sized city. Abandoned by his partner, a psychiatrist friend and neighbor helps him, induces him to play sports, and directs him to a dating agency to solve his most pressing problem. This is how Ángel meets Bruno, a hustler in his early twenties , and Mavi, a prostitute with whom he maintains a friendly relationship. But in Bruno's past there is Guillermo, a former police officer who was his pimp until a conviction separated them...

Hotel y domicilio

1995

Mararía poster
4.4

A tempestuous love triangle forms between beautiful local girl Mararía, an English volcanologist and a Basque doctor in the island of Lanzarote in the 1930s.

Mararía

1998

1980s · 22 titles

The Minister's Wife poster
4.9

Rafael, a young man from the provinces, works as a waiter in a resort and helps himself economically having sex for money with rich older women. During a bomb threat, he is discovered in bed with one of the guest, Leonor Marchioness of Montenegro, and he is fired as a consequence. The Marchioness of Montenegro is an aging aristocrat, ruined economically, but still with wealthy and influential friends. She helps Rafael finds a new job in Madrid as the gardener in the mansion of Antonio Fernández Herrador, Minister of economy in the new democratic Spanish government.

The Minister's Wife

1981

Lute: Forge On or Die poster
5.8

In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed "El Lute", steals some chickens and is condemned to six months in jail. El Lute moves to the slum outskirts of Madrid with his common law wife, Chelo, starting an itinerant life as a peddler of pots and pans and living in a quinqui shantytown. He gradually embarks upon as life of petty criminality, eventually participating in the theft of a jewelry store during which a bystander is killed.

Lute: Forge On or Die

1987

Circle of Passions poster
4.0

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife.

Circle of Passions

1983

Maravillas poster
5.2

A young Catholic girl takes viewers through a changing Spanish political and social landscape as she develops from her confirmation day to adulthood. Her first experience with the real Spain comes when her Jewish godfathers cannot come to her confirmation. One of the godfathers, using a ring, poses an early challenge to her innocence that puts her in danger. He later returns, indirectly introducing her to a new boyfriend. If he is one of the symbols for Jewish life under Franco, or for a Judeo-Christian interaction, that interaction is complex. The young woman encounters different lovers as she grows into adulthood, but at the same time she is burdened with financially supporting her father and his own rather decadent lifestyle. Again, this difference in generations could be understood as a difference between the "new" and "old" Spain; it is up to the viewers to interpret the story elements as they decide.

Maravillas

1981

Últimas tardes con Teresa poster
6.0

Adapted from the novel by Juan Marse, the film shows two distant worlds in the Spain of the 50's, the suburban and the bourgeois, which are related through two characters, Manolo Reyes, vulgar motorcycle thief who aspires to escape poverty and Teresa Serrat, university student of bourgeois extraction seduced by the revolutionary cause.

Últimas tardes con Teresa

1984

Guarapo poster
5.8

Benito a.k.a. Guarapo, is a young laborer without land, who dreams of emigrating to America for a better future.

Guarapo

1989

Navajeros poster
6.5

A chronicle of the life of Jaro, the leader of a juvenile delinquent gang, depicting his rise from street urchin to outlaw anti-hero on the way to his inevitable end.

Navajeros

1980

El crack poster
7.2

Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies.

El crack

1981

Overdose poster
6.6

Paco, the teenage son of a Civil Guard commander in Basque Country, becomes addicted to heroin.

Overdose

1983

The Crime of Cuenca poster
6.8

Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier.

The Crime of Cuenca

1981

El crack dos poster
6.9

Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo investigates the life of a gay man who has apparently abandoned his partner. When they both turn up dead, it seems one killed the other before committing suicide, but Areta is not convinced.

El crack dos

1983

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

La guerra de los locos poster
5.5

At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War a group of interns of a psychiatric hospital takes advantage of the confusion of the arrival of the "national" troops to get away from the center. In their flight, the fugitive patients will find a group of anarchists with whom they share bloody war episodes.

La guerra de los locos

1987

La monja alférez poster
6.2

Set in 1592 and based on a true story, a Spanish nun flees the convent and lives an adventurous life disguised as a man.

La monja alférez

1987

Gay Club poster
2.8

A group of homosexual friends tries to set up a gay club in a town in Andalusia, meeting the opposition of the chief who will use all his resources to try to prevent it.

Gay Club

1981

Pals poster
6.2

José is an unemployed 18-year-old living in a cramped apartment in the slums of Madrid. Marginalized by poverty, José spends his time with his friend Antonio. However, when José gets his girlfriend, Rosario, pregnant, the two friends try anything to get the money to pay for her to have an abortion.

Pals

1982

El rey y la reina poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

El rey y la reina

1986

Viva la clase media poster
5.6

Drama based on the true life of a group of middle class and members of the Communist Party of Spain, who were involved in clandestine political activities during the sixties.

Viva la clase media

1980

Bilbao Blues poster
10.0

Beatriz is an attractive young lawyer who enjoys an enviable position thanks to the influence of her father, a prominent businessman. Lucas, a young man with a rather shady past, is struggling to emerge from the unfavorable situation in which life has placed him. When Lucas is arrested with a stash of adulterated cocaine, he becomes a client of Beatrice. He has hidden the pure cocaine with the intent to share it only with his associate Uriarte; and to do so he has had to deceive another one of his accomplices, making him believe that the business has failed.

Bilbao Blues

1986

Escape From Segovia poster
6.2

In the summer of 1977, a political prisoner, living in exile, recounts the circumstances of his escape to a journalist: in April 76, a group of ETA members planned to escape from prison, but the project fails when, due to a tip-off, the guards discover the tunnel they are digging. The inmates, far from being discouraged, start a second tunnel.

Escape From Segovia

1981

Jarabo poster
6.2

July 21, 1958. Madrid wakes up to the news that a pawnbroker has been murdered in his shop. Soon, police finds that the victim's associate, his pregnant wife and their maid have been murdered as well in their own home across the street.

Jarabo

1985

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Perdóname, amor

1982

1970s · 14 titles

A Dog Called... Vengeance poster
5.5

A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog.

A Dog Called... Vengeance

1977

Operation Ogre poster
6.9

Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing.

Operation Ogre

1979

The Priest poster
6.0

Obsessed with fantasies of sex, Father Miguel seeks professional help through his church but they are not listening; thus leaving the Father in a dilemma; leaving the church or should he try, on his own, to surrender to these temptations?

The Priest

1978

Emilia... parada y fonda poster
4.2

No synopsis available yet.

Emilia... parada y fonda

1976

Tooth and Nail poster
6.0

The second feature length movie of Paulino Viota, this is a disillusioned and biting look at the years of Spanish democratic transition, narrated in a dry and scrawny style that shows the political intrigues, struggles and frustrated hopes of the first years of Spanish transition to democracy.

Tooth and Nail

1977

Pierna creciente, falda menguante poster
5.3

In 1916, while Europe was in the middle of First World War and Spain was enjoying the advantages of being a neutral country, eroticism was called voluptuousness and Senator Duke of Daroca, despite his ancient lineage, fell completely in love with a famous cabaret singer, Rosario "La Criollita", which was a scandal. At that time, it was doubted that decent women had legs - But this mystery was resolved a decade later, when the roaring twenties arrived and, with them, the sensual Lupe Cardoso

Pierna creciente, falda menguante

1970

And They Lived Happily Ever After poster
6.2

Manoli and Fernando, a couple of communist ideas, want to live their love freely, fleeing from any bourgeois convention. At first, the couple rejects the help of her parents, but soon they will begin to give in and accept all kinds of comforts.

And They Lived Happily Ever After

1976

My Wife's Boyfriends poster
3.2

Emilio Antunez and his wife Charo, come to La Molina, willing to spend a few happy days of vacation. Charo, foreseeing that she will meet with important people, brings an assorted and elegant wardrobe, which is soon able to wear when she meets with Aurora, an old school friend who is married to the eccentric millionaire Taboada.

My Wife's Boyfriends

1972

Seven Days in January poster
6.2

After the death of Franco, the nostalgic fascist regime attempts to preserve the 1936's order.

Seven Days in January

1979

La insólita y gloriosa hazaña del cipote de Archidona poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

La insólita y gloriosa hazaña del cipote de Archidona

1979

Confessions of a Congressman poster
6.1

Roberto, a leader and follower of the ideals of his radical leftist opposition party, can’t resist the cheap beautiful street teenagers that are thrown his way for various pleasures.

Confessions of a Congressman

1978

Simón, contamos contigo poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Simón, contamos contigo

1971

No artwork available
NR

The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.

La fierecilla domada

1979

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Niebla

1976

Series credits

Aquí no hay quien viva poster
8.4

A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.

Aquí no hay quien viva

2003

Curro Jiménez poster
7.3

Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez

Curro Jiménez

1976

Gran Reserva: el origen poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gran Reserva: el origen

2013

Historias del otro lado poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Historias del otro lado

1988

Brigada Central poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Brigada Central

1989

Vamos Juan poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Vamos Juan

2020

Four Seasons in Havana poster
6.1

As Havana slowly revolves through the year, wistful detective Mario Conde probes the sultry heart of the city to investigate dark and deadly crimes.

Four Seasons in Havana

2016

Lorca: Death of a Poet poster
5.5

Lorca, a great Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Nickolas Grace gives a fabulous interpretation in the title role and he even bears a remarkable resemblance to Lorca.

Lorca: Death of a Poet

1987

La Huella del Crimen poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Huella del Crimen

1985

Entre naranjos poster
4.0

Rafael Brull is the only son of a powerful landowning family in a small Mediterranean town. When he meets Leonora, a mysterious opera singer, his family try to stop their courtship.

Entre naranjos

1998

Compuesta y sin Novio poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Compuesta y sin Novio

1994

Cazadores de hombres poster
3.8

No synopsis available yet.

Cazadores de hombres

2008

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

El Obispo Leproso

1990