Lina Canalejas

Acting

Lina Canalejas

Born — Died

1932-01-29 — 2012-09-01

Place of birth

Madrid, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

51 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 6 titles

Dark Habits poster
6.6

After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.

Dark Habits

1983

The Judge's Wife poster
4.3

The wife of a judge feels lonely because her husband works too much. Therefore she seeks another love and finds it in the person of a young man.

The Judge's Wife

1984

Blood Hunt poster
4.8

A new doctor arrives in a small Spanish village. As soon as he begins meeting people there, he notices the strange behaviour of the population and is surprised. Young people make fun of him, a man called Gonzalo seems to be some kind of leader, and he is invited to leave the village when he tries to ask about the situation. All his questions get no answer. His neighbour is a lovely and pretty young woman, who works as the local teacher. They develop a sincere friendship from the very first moment, which grows to become love. Unfortunately, Gonzalo feels that the young teacher is "reserved" exclusively for him and he reacts with violence. Meanwhile, the doctor finds out the key of that strange behaviour. Some years ago, during the local feast, some drug-addicts attacked the village in order to get money and goods. There was a fight and some people died, including Gonzalo's son. From then on, Gonzalo and others began their particular "crusade" against drug-addicts.

Blood Hunt

1986

Our Father poster
5.0

The story of a Spanish Cardinal who is told he only has one more year to live. He decides to return to his hometown, after an absence of 30 years, to sort out his affairs.

Our Father

1985

Winter Diary poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Winter Diary

1988

Femenino singular poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Femenino singular

1982

1970s · 13 titles

Forbidden Passion poster
3.8

A young woman was seduced by a high positioned official who is married but when she falls in love with a young man she tries to break the other relationship...

Forbidden Passion

1974

The Garden of Delights poster
6.1

The greedy relatives of a paralysed 45-year-old amnesiac millionaire go to extreme lengths to help him recover his memory.

The Garden of Delights

1970

Emilia... parada y fonda poster
4.2

No synopsis available yet.

Emilia... parada y fonda

1976

Cousin Angelica poster
6.5

When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter, and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present.

Cousin Angelica

1974

Obsesión poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Obsesión

1975

Sleep, Sleep, My Love poster
6.0

A dark and surrealistic comedy about a man who gives drugs to his wife, to make her sleep and avoid arguing with her.

Sleep, Sleep, My Love

1975

Fierce Love, or When Children Play at Love poster
5.3

Vicente and Margarita are a traditional and middle class married couple whose life is surrounded by a sea of confusion and uncertainty when their children begin to make their own decisions. They have discovered love and will not let their parents tell them what to do or who they have to love. The principles and traditions of the family will be replaced by each of the young people who will represent the different social problems of the time. Thus, the coexistence between them will change without Vicente and Marga can do anything to avoid it.

Fierce Love, or When Children Play at Love

1975

La banda de los tres crisantemos poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

La banda de los tres crisantemos

1970

El último proceso en París poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

El último proceso en París

1974

Solo ante el Streaking poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Solo ante el Streaking

1975

El in... moral poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

El in... moral

1976

The bark poster
9.0

Valentín and Mauro are a maquis couple who have abandoned the fight against the Franco regime to become robbers in order to survive. Their area of ​​operation is the mountains of Asturias, where they terrorize the local population with their robberies and acts of violence.

The bark

1977

Marián poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Marián

1979

1960s · 19 titles

Trigo limpio poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Trigo limpio

1962

La venganza de Don Mendo poster
6.5

Don Mendo, Marquess of Cabra, gallant and dashing knight of medieval Castilian, is also a virtuous mandoline player and a specialist in climbing towers. But he has a bad run, all played and all lost at seven-thirty (card game), and lost his honor playing in his latest escalation of love to the apartment of his beloved and beautiful Magdalena. Don Nuño Manso de Jarama, father of Magdalena, has pledged the hand of his daughter to the Duke of Toro, and surprises Don Mendo in the room of Magdalena. To save the honor of his beloved one, Don Mendo says that no love has led him to the Tower, but he has climbed to steal. Magdalena is clean of all suspicion, and he is condemned to die buried in the castle wall. The Marquess of Moncada and other noble gentlemen, all friends of Don Mendo, facilitate his escape.

La venganza de Don Mendo

1961

Mi noche de bodas poster
5.8

Afther their wedding ceremony, Fernanda and Cosme Martínez go to a luxury hotel to consummate. They receive there some gifts and they find one fabulous diamant bracalet with a note for Fernanda thanking her for unfforgetable nights. Cosme feel jelause and Fernanda offended and during their wedding night they go from one place to another to find out the misunderstanding.

Mi noche de bodas

1961

Sor Ye-yé poster
5.1

Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.

Sor Ye-yé

1968

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

Historia de una noche poster
6.0

After a few years, Víctor Morel comes back to the city. He has been a happy and Bohemian man who spent an authentic fortune. His first meeting with the past is with Laura, an extraordinary woman with he had intense relationships. She is now married with Daniel Romero, a man dedicated to the business that, precisely in the last days, has had a money problem. Due to this matter, Daniel will have to ask Víctor for help because it knows that he can extract it of the difficulty, in spite of the fact that he does not have any sharm.

Historia de una noche

1962

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

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

Mara poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mara

1961

Red Lips poster
5.2

Two girl detectives known as "Labios Rojos" ("Red Lips") outwit both criminals and a bumbling police inspector.

Red Lips

1960

Los derechos de la mujer poster
3.4

Juan marries prestigious lawyer María José. As she won't give up her career to become a housewife, during their wedding night Juan pretends to leave his job and acts out the role of a traditional housewife himself.

Los derechos de la mujer

1963

Boy Wanted poster
9.0

A boy of fourteen enters to work as messenger boy in a flower shop. His first task is to bring a bouquet for a bride but arrives late and is forced to go to the altar. His second job is to bring a funeral wreath but uses it to save a man who is drowning in the river. Naturally, he is late again. In the afternoon, he carries a basket of flowers to the TV a Spanish movie star is performing. But he is wrong and takes another funeral wreath that is delivered to star in a big stage. Due to customer complaints he is fired and the store puts back the sign "boy is needed."

Boy Wanted

1963

Tiempo de amor poster
5.8

Three stories in which love plays a decisive role intersect. The first of them is led by a couple who decides to break with the chastity they have been keeping until then. In the second Mary discovers that the man with whom he wants to lose his virginity is a ruffian and in the third, and last, a marriage tries to maintain happiness despite the miseries of his daily life. Second film by director and screenwriter Julio Diamante , composed of three autonomous episodes, minimally chained, called " The sunset ", " The night " and " The morning ". The three chapters are very influenced by the social realism that invaded the Spanish literature of the time and by the badly assimilated cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni. This means that, for example.

Tiempo de amor

1964

La viudita naviera poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La viudita naviera

1961

Wedding Dinner poster
6.8

A group of married couples intend to celebrate their traditional joyous dinner together. The festivities turn sour when an anonymous telephone caller informs the husbands that one of the wives is guilty of adultery. But...which one?

Wedding Dinner

1962

Life Goes On poster
7.2

Madrid, Spain. Eloísa, a self-sacrificing wife and efficient mother, lives in the neighborhood of Maravillas with her husband, a violent policeman; her sanctimonious son, who spends his life studying and praying to atone for the sins of his family; and her two daughters, obsessed with wealth, who hate each other deeply.

Life Goes On

1965

De cuerpo presente poster
6.7

After seeing that Nelson kisses his lover, Barlow poisons him. But it turns out that Nelson comes back to life when he was about to be buried. From that moment, Barlow does not stop chasing him to finish his work.

De cuerpo presente

1967

El secreto de papá poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

El secreto de papá

1967

Júrame poster
7.0

Alberto wants to conquer the artist Laura Céspedes and invites her to a student party at the Faculty of Medicine. After being rejected, he decides to go to Africa.

Júrame

1964

1950s · 7 titles

Tres huchas para Oriente poster
8.5

Pedro Manolo and Juan, three naughty and full of enthusiasm children go out with their piggy banks collecting money for missions. Near the end of the day, a car ran over one of them and is driven to a nearby hospital. The head of school, not knowing which of the children was injured calls the parents of the three to attend the health center. In parallel, we know the story of the three families. In the upper-class family, the father will leave his mother for another woman, in the middle class one, one sister invites her boyfriend to lunch and family revolutionizes and, finally, in that of lower class, the boy's father is about to be complicit in a crime

Tres huchas para Oriente

1954

The Little Nightingale poster
5.6

Joselito is a child whose mother left town when he was just a baby and whose father has died. He lives with his grandfather, the bellringer of the town, and his best friend is the sexton. He enjoys singing and has not lost hope of someday meeting her mother.

The Little Nightingale

1957

El seductor de Granada poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

El seductor de Granada

1953

Un día perdido poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Un día perdido

1955

El fenómeno poster
8.0

A professor at the University of Frankfurt is mistaken for a Russian soccer player on his arrival at Madrid airport. There, he is received as a sports figure and the teacher, unaware of the confusion, take it as an extraordinary compliment. However, problems arise when, after discovering the error, the professor has to pretend to be the player until he appears

El fenómeno

1956

Charlestón poster
6.2

Silvia Pinal stars as Beatriz, a woman whose troubles are brought on by the fact that she has two wildly different suitors.

Charlestón

1959

This is Madrid poster
7.8

In Madrid during the fifties' the calm life from some neighbors will be changed since the arrival of Antonio, a man without scruples who lives running the risk.

This is Madrid

1953

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