Juan de Landa

Acting

Juan de Landa

Born — Died

1894-01-27 — 1968-02-18

Known for

Acting

Credits

43 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 19 titles

Beat the Devil poster
6.1

A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.

Beat the Devil

1953

Alina poster
5.8

A woman takes her ill husband's place in a smuggling ring and steals the heart of his partner.

Alina

1950

They Stole a Tram poster
6.2

Cesare Mancini is a tram driver who lives in Bologna. One day he accidentally hits a woman on a bicycle, the accident costs Cesare the relegation to a ticket seller.

They Stole a Tram

1954

Ghost Captain poster
6.0

A disgraced member of the Spanish Navy must redeem his family's honor after his father betrays his country to the French.

Ghost Captain

1953

100 Little Mothers poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

100 Little Mothers

1952

The Devil's Daughter poster
7.0

Garibaldi, after landing in Marsala, moves on to Naples. The liberals are overjoyed but the Bourbons are terrified. The so-called Baron Tucci, on a recommendation from England, arrives at the home of Count Sereni, a notable liberal. But he turns out not to be a patriot who has returned to Italy to take part in the fight but a degraded Bourbon official who has been promised rehabilitation if he can succeed as a spy. Tucci discovers old Sereni's second wife is one of his former lovers and persuades her to murder her husband so as to gain his inheritance. She does indeed cause the count to die, by withholding his heart medicine, but not before he destroys his will.

The Devil's Daughter

1952

White Leprosy poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

White Leprosy

1951

Angels at the Wheel poster
6.5

A group of taxi drivers try to reanimate a young woman who has been close to being run over by one of them. To improve her mood all of them tell her curious anecdotes featured by peculiar customers

Angels at the Wheel

1957

The Woman Who Invented Love poster
9.0

The Woman Who Invented Love (Italian: La donna che inventò l'amore) is a 1952 Italian historical melodrama film

The Woman Who Invented Love

1952

The Man Who Wagged His Tail poster
6.8

The owner of a building tyrannizes his immigrant tenants. Transformed into a dog by an old woman's curse, he experiences all the hardships of his situation; when a child's affection turns him back into a man, his soul is radically changed.

The Man Who Wagged His Tail

1957

The Dream of Zorro poster
6.8

An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of proud pride.

The Dream of Zorro

1952

La familia Vila poster
6.3

Mr. Vila is a family father who has worked a lot during his life to achieve a good life for his family. His oldest daughter, Elvira, causes him many problems because she acts as a rebel.

La familia Vila

1950

Cuatro en la frontera poster
6.5

A French National Treasury van is assaulted and they steal the gold bullion it was carrying. According to confidences received by the Police Headquarters of Barcelona, it seems that part of the gold is clandestinely introduced into Spain through the Pyrenees. In order to discover and eradicate such smuggling infiltration, an agent pretends to be a day laborer at a farm located on the border and in a suspicious area.

Cuatro en la frontera

1958

The Man who saw Death poster
10.0

A man with psychic abilities works with the police, predicting crimes before they happen. He comes to forecast his own murder.

The Man who saw Death

1955

Devotion poster
7.5

In Sardinia, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the once powerful aristocratic Decherchi family is going through difficult times and is threatened with eviction. To be able to pay his debts, Don Paulu, the son, needs help. He seeks aid from Uncle Zua, an old miser, who rejects him bluntly. Upset by Paulu's misfortunes, Annesa, the servant girl adopted by the family and Paulu's lover, decides to kill Zua so that the Decherchis inherit from him...

Devotion

1950

My Beloved Juan poster
7.0

The strange disappearance of the dogs of his neighbors leads Juan to investigate the case on his own. It ends up finding out that the author of the robberies is a young woman called Eloísa, the cocky daughter of a scientist who uses dogs to create an antidote against sleep. Juan and Eloísa fall in love, but he will ask her to leave her luxurious mansion to live only with his salary.

My Beloved Juan

1950

Faustina poster
6.1

A conquering woman of love, power, and fame is challenged by the devil, as he too wants to conquer all. Even the devil learns that there is no wrath like a woman’s scorn.

Faustina

1957

La esfinge maragata poster
7.0

The action takes place on a Maragata hacienda that is sinking into misery, whose situation can only be solved through a marriage of convenience. But the marriageable girl, during a train trip, falls in love with a young poet and is reciprocated. Her family is opposed to this relationship, since they have promised her to marry a man of good standing.

La esfinge maragata

1950

Salvate mia figlia poster
8.0

A farmer steals some jewelry, desperately looking for money to allow his sick daughter to be operated by a famous surgeon.

Salvate mia figlia

1952

1940s · 13 titles

Obsession poster
7.5

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

Obsession

1943

Tragic Night poster
8.0

Released from jail, Nanni punches prison guard Stefano who has denounced him. In order to take revenge, Stefano suggests the suspicion that, during his absence, his wife has had business with the Count Paolo. A few days later, at night, a deadly ambush will be prepared. Based on the novel The Trap (1928) by Toscan Delfino Cinelli.

Tragic Night

1942

The Prisoner of Santa Cruz poster
9.0

A sea captain forbids his daughter to marry the man whose father he had killed many years before.

The Prisoner of Santa Cruz

1941

An Ordinary Woman poster
5.9

A woman who has walked out of an unhappy marriage is unsuccessful trying to earn herself a new living and gets mixed with a man who is a murderer and tries to incriminate her.

An Ordinary Woman

1949

Giuliano de' Medici poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Giuliano de' Medici

1941

The King's Jester poster
7.0

Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.

The King's Jester

1941

Il pirata sono io! poster
8.0

In Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to make assaulting the island from a mock pirate ship and, with a mock battle, defeat the aggressors and throw them back into the sea.

Il pirata sono io!

1940

El tambor del Bruch poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

El tambor del Bruch

1948

Noche sin cielo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Noche sin cielo

1947

En un rincón de España poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

En un rincón de España

1949

Brute Force poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Brute Force

1941

La fiesta sigue poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

La fiesta sigue

1948

Oro nero poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Oro nero

1942

1930s · 11 titles

The Sin of Rogelia Sánchez poster
5.3

Rogelia, the orphan of an Asturian miner who died in a work-related accident, marries Máximo, a man as robust as jealous, drunk and violent. But when her husband is jailed, the woman will take advantage to escape with the doctor of the village so as to see the world and perhaps to form a family.

The Sin of Rogelia Sánchez

1939

Carmen and the Reds poster
6.6

Javier Navarro, a Falangist, is ordered to infiltrate Republican Madrid to deliver a message to a member of the Fifth Column.

Carmen and the Reds

1939

Al margen de la ley poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Al margen de la ley

1936

The Trial of Mary Dugan poster
8.0

Spanish-language remake of the 1929 film of the same name. Broadway showgirl Mary Dugan is charged with murder in the knifing death of her wealthy lover and goes on trial for her life. When her defense counsel appears to bungle his job, Mary's brother Jimmy, a newly-licensed attorney, jumps into the case to defend his sister. Jimmy's courtroom style is unconventional, but he seems to be holding his own against the prosecuting attorney—until a surprise testimony changes the course of the trial...

The Trial of Mary Dugan

1931

The Last of the Vargas poster
10.0

A cowboy avenges his father's murder, but must flee the law as a result. He attempts the rescue of a young woman from an outlaw, but becomes entangled with the outlaw's wife.

The Last of the Vargas

1930

The Big House poster
6.7

The Spanish-language version of 1930's The Big House.

The Big House

1930

The bitter fruit poster
6.5

Min, a hard-boiled proprietress of a waterfront hotel, who has as her sweetheart Bill, a fisherman, brings up Nancy, a girl who was deserted by her own mother in infancy. However the Local authorities are trying to persuade Min that she is not a fit mother and that Nancy should be sent to school.

The bitter fruit

1931

Su Última Noche poster
9.0

The comedy that is making the whole world laugh!

Su Última Noche

1931

Forward, March! poster
9.0

Spanish-language version of Buster Keaton's Doughboys (1930). This film is presumed to be lost.

Forward, March!

1930

No artwork available
8.0

An inveterate sailor renounces love because of his passion for the sea. It is the Spanish-language version of Way for a Sailor (Wood, 1930).

Love in Every Port

1931

El Valiente poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El Valiente

1930