Acting

María Luisa Ponte

Born 1918-06-20 · Medina de Rioseco, Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain

María Luisa Ponte Mancini (21 June 1918 – 2 May 1996) was a Spanish actress. She appeared in over 135 films and television shows between 1952 and 1995. She appeared in the 1977 film Black Litter, which was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article María Luisa Ponte, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

The Wheelchair poster
6.8

Don Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. His family strongly refuses him to purchase the vehicle, so don Anselmo decides to take extreme measures to achieve his goal…

The Wheelchair

1960

The Nest poster
6.6

In a town near Salamanca, an eccentric widower, aged 60, is captivated by an imp, a precocious 13 year old. Alejandro is wealthy and alone, passing time with music, chess, and his shotgun. Gregoria (Goyita) the daughter of a weak-willed policeman and his bullying wife, is a budding naturalist who conspires to meet Alejandro. Even though he knows the village is talking, Alejandro spends time with Goyita, on walks, horseback rides, and dinners. He's enchanted and tells his friend the village priest that he's living for the first time. Goyita makes new demands on Alejandro, and he must decide how to be true to his ethics and to this Platonic yet highly-charged relationship.

The Nest

1980

The Magic Garter Belt poster
4.9

A solicitor's secretary goes to a creepy mansion to hand an inheritance to the deceased's niece. The house's service is trying to terrify the girl out of the house, where they know a treasure is hidden.

The Magic Garter Belt

1980

Las señoritas de mala compañía poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Las señoritas de mala compañía

1973

Eugenie poster
4.9

A young woman is lured to an island paradise, where she is drawn into a dark world of pleasure, pain, and murder under the control of a sinister figure.

Eugenie

1970

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

Strange Voyage poster
7.3

In a small town near Madrid, Paquita and her brother Venancio, both single and with a childish personality, live under the shadow of their bossy older sister, Ignacia, a grumpy old maid.

Strange Voyage

1964

La tía de Carlos poster
6.2

The father of his girlfriend does not want her to spend a few days with Carlos, so he needs a companion. Therefore, he asks a friend to pretend to be his aunt. This will create endless trouble and confusion, especially when the real aunt of Charles arrives.

La tía de Carlos

1982

Llegar a más poster
6.7

Despite 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

Estrella de Sierra Morena poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Estrella de Sierra Morena

1952

El último sábado poster
7.0

José Luis is a young man from a modest family of Barcelona and he feels genuine passion for motorcycles. His dream is to buy one of a large cylinder capacity, although his economic situation does not allow him by a long shot. Watching a race in the circuit of Montjuic he meets an elegant Italian woman, manager of a team, who made advances to José Luis. But the boy thinks that accessing her wishes he could get the motorbike of his dreams.

El último sábado

1967

La revoltosa poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La revoltosa

1969

La Celestina poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Celestina

1974

Cradle Song poster
6.5

A group of nuns find an abandoned baby girl at the doorstep of their convent.

Cradle Song

1994

The Executioner poster
7.6

An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.

The Executioner

1963

La Regenta poster
NR

The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's life unbearable and inevitably tragic.

La Regenta

1995

The Heifer poster
6.7

During the Spanish Civil War a platoon of mismatched Republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on the local holiday of the nearby village. In addition to ruining the Nationalist faction's celebration they want the animal in order to butcher it and feed their famished troops. They get caught in the process and have to go through a series of funny and pathetic incidents before they can get back to their side.

The Heifer

1985

Hamlet poster
10.0

Hamlet, the young and indolent prince of Denmark, who is sure that his father, the king, has been treacherously murdered by those closest to the throne, decides to take revenge, so he cleverly manipulates the hearts of the members of the court in search of the crack through which he will be capable to see the tainted souls of the coward assassins…

Hamlet

1970

Los caciques poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Los caciques

1976

Black Litter poster
5.5

Tatin is a young man of fifteen years old who joins a violent group of extreme right-wing ideology, led by Blanca, a mature woman of influential personality.

Black Litter

1977

Strawberry, Lemon and Mint poster
10.0

A saleswoman gets involved in a meaningless conversation between a military man and a film director.

Strawberry, Lemon and Mint

1978

The Great Galeoto poster
6.0

A young musician and dreamy, called "Ernesto", is forced to live in Madrid to die his father, in the house of executor of the testament, "don Julio Villamil", who is married to actress Teresa Labisbal, of which "Ernesto Acedo" was enamored platonic. Although the conduct of the young is flawless, a third person causes slander which oblige "don Julio" to fight in mourning to death.

The Great Galeoto

1951

The Court of the Pharaoh poster
5.6

In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage of the artistic caprices of the son of a rich man who supports the regime. They try to stage a Pre-war 'zarzuela' (a sort of Spanish operetta), 'La Corte Del Faraón', which ironically, thirty years later, is too obscene for the regime censorship. They finally manage to perform the 'zarzuela' but end up in the police station where they confirm that justice depends on which side are you on

The Court of the Pharaoh

1985

The Beehive poster
6.4

As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.

The Beehive

1982