Vicente Coello

Writing

Vicente Coello

Born — Died

1915-12-25 — 2006-12-27

Place of birth

València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

¡Cómo está el servicio! poster
5.6

Vicenta Verruguillo came to Madrid to work as a bridesmaid in the house of a doctor and falls in love with his son. The boy, to keep his family is left without service, follow the advice of his father and pretends to be in love with her. Meanwhile, his cousin Manolo, a likeable rogue, who works as a nurse, several maids dupes that get her salary every month because he has promised to buy a flat before marrying them.

¡Cómo está el servicio!

1968

The Fourth Victim poster
6.0

A wealthy Englishman finds his third wife dead. After the police discover that his first two wives had also died suddenly, an investigation is launched. Meanwhile, a new neighbor moves in and becomes very interested in him.

The Fourth Victim

1971

Find Me That Girl poster
5.2

Sixteen-year-old Marisol sings her way across Spain with her father, chasing dreams and survival. On a sunlit campsite in Mallorca, she meets two students and dares to perform at a bullfighting event—hoping to be discovered. When talent scout Mr. Morrison sees her spark, he whisks her into a new world of ambition and refinement, determined to transform her into “a lady with great talent.” But as Marisol rises, she must decide what she's willing to leave behind to become the star she’s always dreamed of being.

Find Me That Girl

1964

Fantasmas en la casa poster
7.5

A young playwright meets a girl he was once in love with. The young woman lives in terror in a supposedly haunted mansion, so she feels on the verge of madness…

Fantasmas en la casa

1961

El padre de la criatura poster
5.7

Eduardo and Antonia are a mature couple excited about their daughter expecting their first grandchild. But life will change completely when some laboratory tests confirm that it is Antonia who is pregnant and not her daughter. This unexpected situation strongly influences the character of Eduardo, who begins to live what he calls a "second youth".

El padre de la criatura

1972

¿Qué hacemos con los hijos? poster
6.2

The driver Antonio, boasts of his sons: John, who shares his work as a taxi driver, Luisa, ladies hairdresser, Antonito, studying to be a lawyer, and Paloma, to be a housewife. But Antonio does not know that their children are not exactly as he thinks. The day Antonio finds out, confronts his wife and children and suffers a big disappointment. Since then no one in the family speaks to Antonio, and he believes that it is best to let them see for themselves that they made a mistake, but this does not result, since each will see their problems increased.

¿Qué hacemos con los hijos?

1967

Behind the camera

¡Cómo está el servicio! poster
5.6

Vicenta Verruguillo came to Madrid to work as a bridesmaid in the house of a doctor and falls in love with his son. The boy, to keep his family is left without service, follow the advice of his father and pretends to be in love with her. Meanwhile, his cousin Manolo, a likeable rogue, who works as a nurse, several maids dupes that get her salary every month because he has promised to buy a flat before marrying them.

¡Cómo está el servicio!

1968

The Fourth Victim poster
6.0

A wealthy Englishman finds his third wife dead. After the police discover that his first two wives had also died suddenly, an investigation is launched. Meanwhile, a new neighbor moves in and becomes very interested in him.

The Fourth Victim

1971

Find Me That Girl poster
5.2

Sixteen-year-old Marisol sings her way across Spain with her father, chasing dreams and survival. On a sunlit campsite in Mallorca, she meets two students and dares to perform at a bullfighting event—hoping to be discovered. When talent scout Mr. Morrison sees her spark, he whisks her into a new world of ambition and refinement, determined to transform her into “a lady with great talent.” But as Marisol rises, she must decide what she's willing to leave behind to become the star she’s always dreamed of being.

Find Me That Girl

1964

Fantasmas en la casa poster
7.5

A young playwright meets a girl he was once in love with. The young woman lives in terror in a supposedly haunted mansion, so she feels on the verge of madness…

Fantasmas en la casa

1961

El padre de la criatura poster
5.7

Eduardo and Antonia are a mature couple excited about their daughter expecting their first grandchild. But life will change completely when some laboratory tests confirm that it is Antonia who is pregnant and not her daughter. This unexpected situation strongly influences the character of Eduardo, who begins to live what he calls a "second youth".

El padre de la criatura

1972

¿Qué hacemos con los hijos? poster
6.2

The driver Antonio, boasts of his sons: John, who shares his work as a taxi driver, Luisa, ladies hairdresser, Antonito, studying to be a lawyer, and Paloma, to be a housewife. But Antonio does not know that their children are not exactly as he thinks. The day Antonio finds out, confronts his wife and children and suffers a big disappointment. Since then no one in the family speaks to Antonio, and he believes that it is best to let them see for themselves that they made a mistake, but this does not result, since each will see their problems increased.

¿Qué hacemos con los hijos?

1967

Historias de la televisión poster
6.7

Film divided into two stories: 1. Cuando los gorilas hablan por teléfono 2. Una chica de fortuna

Historias de la televisión

1965

La ciudad no es para mí poster
6.4

Agustin, a widower who lives in a village in Aragon, where he is much loved by all neighbors, is lonely and decides to go to the big city, where his son, a famous doctor, lives with his wife and daughter. Agustineis received by his children with great coolness, as he does not fit in the environment in which they operate. The life of his son, his daughter-in-law, and even the maid is too sad for this simple town man.

La ciudad no es para mí

1966

The Family and One More poster
6.5

The 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

Life Goes On poster
6.9

A promising goalkeeper of Real Madrid sees his chance when a teammate is injured and is summoned to replace him. But the misfortune is primed with him when an untimely car accident damaged her spine and is forced to give up that had to be the game of his life. Tired of so much bad luck, he retreats to a seaside hotel, where chance will go up to the stage.

Life Goes On

1969

Crimen para recién casados poster
6.4

Antonio and Elisa, a newlywed couple, go on honeymoon to a seaside hotel, where he, a crime reporter obsessed with uncovering a major crime, finds his big opportunity.

Crimen para recién casados

1960

A Prewar Grandmother poster
4.6

Doña Emilia lives quietly in a village in Lugo, when she receives the news that her son has suffered an accident. So she travels to Madrid without warning.

A Prewar Grandmother

1974

¡Vente a Alemania, Pepe! poster
5.2

Peralejos, a quiet village in Upper Aragon, is a place where nothing ever happens. One day Angelino returns home to spend the holidays, an immigrant who drives a Mercedes and tells great wonders of Germany and their women. Pepe, fascinated by the stories of his friend, decides to immigrate, but his dream begins at five o'clock, cleaning windows, and ends at twelve o'clock pasting posters.

¡Vente a Alemania, Pepe!

1971

Old Man Made in Spain poster
6.1

A widow shepherd who lives at the Aragonese Pyrenees sees how his three young daughters, Cándida, Visi, and Nieves, go to Madrid to find a better life and leave him alone. There they all get married, have sons and forget their father. One day, Marcelino receives a letter from Cándida, who wants him to stay with her family for some time. What she really wants is some help from her father, as she's not able to take care of her ten daughters and her upcoming child. Marcelino goes to Madrid, but, once there, he only finds an unknown, frantic and hostile world, and also three unhappy daughters...

Old Man Made in Spain

1969

¡Vaya par de gemelos! poster
5.9

Pedro and Lucas are two twin brothers, residents of Tarazona, whom fortune smiles very differently. Luke is married to the owner of a modest supermarket and works as dependent, porter and whatever is needed ... Moreover, unlike his brother, he has never left the village. Instead, Pedro is married to the richest chocolate maker in the place, lives like a king and often travels to Madrid. But to justify his travels he has invented an illegitimate son who lives there studying architecture and that his wife wants to protect, giving him all the money he needs. The plan goes perfect until love complicates things.

¡Vaya par de gemelos!

1978

El alcalde de Zalamea poster
7.8

Film version of the historic piece of Calderon de la Barca. An army officer faces the local authority that intends to judge him for having stained the honor of a young girl

El alcalde de Zalamea

1954

El abuelo tiene un plan poster
5.8

Leandro Cano, grandfather of many grandchildren, coincides in the clinic of Dr. Bolt with Elena, a lady already advanced in years. The doctor makes every effort to make them meet, and thus overcome their feelings of loneliness.

El abuelo tiene un plan

1973

Operación Plus Ultra poster
8.0

Nine children, awarded for their exemplary or heroic conduct by the radio program 'Operación Plus Ultra' in association with the Iberia Airline, meet in Madrid,. Chaperoned by Juan Aguilera, radio announcer, they start a journey together to different places from the Vatican, where they meet the Pope, to Sitges

Operación Plus Ultra

1966

K. O. Miguel poster
6.7

By chance, Miguel el Tarta becomes a potential boxing champion. Manipulated by Manolo, his opportunistic and cynical best friend, and several unscrupulous individuals, Miguel is thrown into the ring, where he tries to fight with more enthusiasm than technique.

K. O. Miguel

1958

Andalusia Express poster
6.0

Three men plan a jewelry heist abroad the Andalusia express train.

Andalusia Express

1956

El señor está servido poster
5.0

Three stories of three housemaids: Martina, shop steward, serves a marriage that can not have children because she entered the house with that condition. Basilia, Cateta coming to serve and not do anything, the contract for a small fee and let she carry a transistor always hung over the shoulder. And Lali, a gorgeous girl, but very serious and decent, it does not last any longer than 24 hours home because everyone wants to conquer.

El señor está servido

1976

Usted puede ser un asesino poster
5.8

Two friends plan a weekend of partying while their wives go to a mountain resort; but everything gets complicated when a corpse appears in the pantry, apparently out of nowhere.

Usted puede ser un asesino

1961

The Game of Truth poster
6.2

Lucia is a mature woman who maintains a relationship with the young John. When he is found murdered in a bullring with a nail stuck in his chest, Lucia is the prime suspect, it is believed that the motive for the crime was jealousy because it felt for her daughter Marta, which had also been seduced by John.

The Game of Truth

1963

Maribel and the Strange Family poster
5.3

The life of Maribel, a disilluisoned prostitute working the Madrid of 1960, suddenly changes when a simple man that she meets by chance without knowing her profession, decides that she is the woman of her life and that he wants to marry her and to meet his odd family.

Maribel and the Strange Family

1960

Tres de la Cruz Roja poster
6.2

Three friends who are football fans discover one day that using the uniform of the Red Cross they can have access to football fields. The next day, they are volunteering at the headquarters of the institution.

Tres de la Cruz Roja

1961

Jenaro, el de los 14 poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Jenaro, el de los 14

1974

Un millón en la basura poster
7.0

In the vast army of human society, Pepe, a sweeper, occupies one of the last places: anonymous, gray, vague. Pepe is a member of that ghostly dawn brigade, to blow hose, clean the streets at dawn. One day Pepe finds a million in the trash. Financial need of the poor sweeper suggests keeping the money, but his wife advises him to do his civic duty and return the money ...

Un millón en la basura

1967

No le busques tres pies... poster
10.0

The lieutenant Miguel Aguirre's dream is to become a military pilot, but a dispute with a superior is about to make him abandon his studies, had it not been for the intervention of his mother and his girlfriend, Luisa. Miguel's first destination is Granada Air Base. There he meets an attractive young woman, Patricia, whom he takes for an American tourist.

No le busques tres pies...

1968

Operación: Embajada poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Operación: Embajada

1963

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

Hay que educar a papá poster
5.7

A young woman who wants to marry an earl's son wants to refine the habits of their parents, people from a village that has been enriched in the overnight by selling their land.

Hay que educar a papá

1971

Las Leandras poster
6.5

After finishing her studies in London, Patricia returns to Spain, excited to see her mother again, a famous revue showgirl. But upon her arrival, she discovers that her mother is ruined and working in a low-tier theater. Mother and daughter decide to fight together to regain fame and fortune.

Las Leandras

1969

Police Calling 091 poster
6.3

A police inspector makes his service in a patrol car attenging emergency calls. A memory hauns him, the death of her daughter, who was killed hit by a car that fled. The car is located and the inspector goes there and confrontation will be violent.

Police Calling 091

1960

Es peligroso casarse a los 60 poster
5.7

A confirmed bachelor, over his sixties, is finally decided to marry, with the primary objective of having a son to inherit his business of coaches for tourists. Held the wedding, descendants don't arrive, but what comes into the house of the protagonist is an 18-year-old daughter of a distant childhood sweetheart willing to impose other points of view about everything.

Es peligroso casarse a los 60

1981

Estoy hecho un chaval poster
5.9

Juan, a 65-year-old accountant, is going to be a father. At the same time, he's going to retire. Needing extra money, he tries all kinds of jobs, with no success. But his wife saves the day, with her embroidery which sells well in Germany.

Estoy hecho un chaval

1977

El turismo es un gran invento poster
5.3

After a vacation to a seaside resort, a Spanish mayor attempts to modify his small rural town for tourists in an attempt to make money.

El turismo es un gran invento

1968

Pacto de silencio poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Pacto de silencio

1963

Vente a ligar al Oeste poster
6.0

Benito a railway switchman, one day hears a bugle call and go across a squad of American riders. Fearing an invasion, will look for help, but no more than the making of a film. The appearance of Benito on the set coincides with an explosion of dynamite that does blow. That's how Benito enters into contact with the amazing world of cinema.

Vente a ligar al Oeste

1972

Manolo by Night poster
4.7

While 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

Nuevo en esta plaza poster
7.2

Film that tells the biography of the great bullfighter Sebastian Palomo Linares Linares, with the very skilled actor who plays the character. Palomo Linares belongs to a poor family but with great human values​​. He, like many others of his age, has a dream: to be a bullfighter. He works as an apprentice shoemaker fights secretly at night in the meadows. After a career of suffering and obstacles, the boy never lost hope, typical of his strong Christian convictions, and became a teacher, finally achieving success in the sand. The film shows with particular clarity the great Spanish tradition, as is the art of bullfighting.

Nuevo en esta plaza

1966