María Isbert

Acting

María Isbert

Born 1917-04-20 · Madrid, Spain

María Vicenta Ysbert Soriano, better known as María Isbert, was a Spanish actress whose credits included more than 250 Spanish films during her career. She worked with most major Spanish film actors and directors, including Luis García Berlanga and Luis Buñuel. She was the daughter of Pepe Isbert and was the mother of seven children, including actor Tony Isbert.

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 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

Viridiana poster
7.7

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

Viridiana

1962

Don José, Pepe y Pepito poster
6.0

The arrival of Francis, who owns a factory of surgical material in New York, caused a real stir in a family composed by her grandfather, Pepe, the son, Jose, and grandson, Pepito. Pepito falls in love with her even though Francis consider him a child. But Don Jose is also in love with the American. This situation creates a difficult situation between parent and child, that Francis seeks to remedy returning to the United States. But the grandfather, Pepe, has the solution ...

Don José, Pepe y Pepito

1961

Propios y extraños poster
6.0

Happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you have.

Propios y extraños

2010

Operation Mata Hari poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Operation Mata Hari

1968

Mi calle poster
6.6

Life events around a city street and its residents are told along the years while time goes by, wars break out and end and life evolves.

Mi calle

1960

El señor Esteve poster
6.0

Barcelona, 1860. Mr. Esteve, owner of a haberdashery and proud of his son, attends the christening of his grandson who, years later, determined to become a renowned artist, seems unwilling to continue the tradition and take over the family business. (Only badly preserved and severely mutilated copies of this film survive, just 69 out of a total of 108 minutes.)

El señor Esteve

1948

Path to the Kingdom poster
10.0

Soledad is a famous singer who, one fine day, decides to turn her life around and enter a convent to help others. The press and her family are baffled: now, the great figure of Spanish singing has become Sister María de la Asunción and works caring for the sick in a hospital that has serious financial problems. At first, everything is difficult, but the intrepid nun manages to get ahead through courage and generosity.

Path to the Kingdom

1952

Simón, contamos contigo poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Simón, contamos contigo

1971

Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure poster
5.9

In the Headquarters of the T.I.A. (Terminal Intelligence Agency), someone has stolen Professor Bacterio's most dangerous invention, the D.O.T. (Demoralizer of Troops), an artifact that ends up in the hands of a very short, wacky dictator who is ready to use it for criminal purposes. The T.I.A Chief, though, is firm in his resolve: if he wants to get the D.O.T. back, he must NOT count on his agents Mortadelo & Filemon. But when the crime fighting duo discover that the T.I.A. has engaged a cocky and slimy detective from outside the agency, they decide to act at their own risk, even if that risk involves all of Humanity.

Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure

2003

Con ella llegó el amor poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Con ella llegó el amor

1970

La casa de los Martínez poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

La casa de los Martínez

1971

Botón de ancla poster
6.0

Marín, Galicia, Spain. Carlos, José Luis and Enrique, three good friends and final year students in the Naval Academy, argue due to love issues.

Botón de ancla

1948

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

A Lady Called Andrew poster
7.0

From the Olymp the gods keep an eye on a married couple whose disputes are endangering the stability of their marriage. In order to repair the relationship they use unconventional methods...

A Lady Called Andrew

1970

Marry Me, Maribel poster
5.3

Maribel (Natalia Dicenta) is a prostitute working in Madrid in the late fifties. One night he meets Marcelino (Carlos Hipolito), shy and quiet man who falls for her. For Maribel is in principle a client more, but gradually begins to feel attracted to the shy provincial, owner of a chocolate factory in Soria. Pili (Nathalie Seseña), Rufi (Mireia Ros) and Nini (Malena Alterio), the companions of Maribel, truculent by nature suspicious of this relationship and begin to suspect that the provincial could be a murderer. When Maribel Marcelino asks her to marry him, they intervene and away from Marcelino and his "strange family". Adapted from the play "Maribel and the Strange Family" by Miguel Mihura.

Marry Me, Maribel

2003

Venta por pisos poster
7.2

Four families intend to buy a flat. In one of them, Margarita wants to marry Ernesto, despite his reluctance. The purchase of the flat is a great inconvenience and he uses this to delay the wedding as much as possible.

Venta por pisos

1972

Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing poster
7.2

Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.

Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing

1989

A la pálida luz de la luna poster
4.2

Carmen leaves her husband Julio to go live with an intellectual who has made a career in the United States. While, Julio goes away to live of rent to house of an aristocrat come to less. After meeting several colorful characters, Julio decides to recover Carmen.

A la pálida luz de la luna

1985

The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid poster
6.1

This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries with the help of Pat Garrett, a fatherly friend, to change back. However, circumstances force Billy to become violent again and it is Garrett who is credited with the killing.

The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid

1967

Semen, a History of Love poster
4.6

A biologist in an insemination clinic unexpectedly falls in love with a free-spirited trapeze artist and the idea of fathering her child. A hilarious romantic comedy about love at first sight, with complications to follow...and more laughs than you could possibly conceive!

Semen, a History of Love

2005

First and Last Love poster
5.8

An elderly man returns to his native town with the hope of finding his childhood love.

First and Last Love

2002

Jara poster
3.9

Jara is an enigmatic girl who lives in the forest alone since she was a child. Tato, a lonely young boy, finds her one day and a love and passion story starts.

Jara

2000