Amparo Soler Leal

Acting

Amparo Soler Leal

Born — Died

1933-08-23 — 2013-10-25

Place of birth

Madrid, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

64 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 8 titles

Everyone Off to Jail poster
6.3

A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended.

Everyone Off to Jail

1993

París-Tombuctú poster
5.8

The frustration and vital weariness of Michel des Assantes, a prestigious plastic surgeon in Paris, is unbearable: he has a wife whom he does not love, a son who is foreign to him and friends whom he despises but, at the same time, he is incapable of taking his own life. One day, he buys a bike from a bizarre cyclist who was to make the Paris-Timbuktu route and sets out to make the journey: then, Timbuktu becomes for him the Promised Land.

París-Tombuctú

1999

Puede ser divertido poster
7.0

Alicia and Carmen are two recently divorced single mothers who become friends after their kids get in a fight at school. Their new friendship is put to the test when they agree to start dating the same man for fun.

Puede ser divertido

1995

Els papers d’Aspern poster
9.0

In this free adaptation of the Henry James novel set in the early 19th century, a writer/critic dedicated to the life of poet Jeffrey Aspern, receives a mission in London. He is to sail to the Balearic Islands, the only place any information about Aspern may possibly be found. Unpublished texts by the poet are thought to be there; in the hands of an excentric old lady and her supposed niece, who live as recluses in an old palace on a remote small island off one of the Baleares. In his search, the writer becomes involved in their lives, while trying to obtain untangle the web of mysteries surrounding Alpern, his last work, and his relationship to these two women.

Els papers d’Aspern

1991

La teranyina poster
7.5

In 1909, the Rigau brothers are the owners of the most important textile factory in Feixes. When Francesc dies, Julià, a dark and ambitious ex-military man, takes over the steamer and confronts everyone to make uniforms for the Spanish army that is fighting the war in Morocco.

La teranyina

1990

No artwork available
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Laia, el regal d’aniversari

1995

Cenizas a las cenizas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cenizas a las cenizas

1994

Sauna poster
3.4

Two women meet in a sauna. The one, wife of an advertising creative, the other, a rock singer. The publicist, who works on sock ads, has a crazy mother. He is also crazy, by inheritance .

Sauna

1990

1980s · 18 titles

What Have I Done to Deserve This? poster
7.1

A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

1984

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

Hablamos esta noche poster
7.5

Victor is the engineer who has set up the Nuclear Power Plant Zapater. Alongside his professional problems he also hasa difficult family situation: a divorce, a teenage homosexual son, a relationship that is not satisfactory, the emergence of a new woman. With just a few days to the inauguration, Luis Maria, an engineer close friend of Victor, responsible for a serious accident in the past and addicted to alcohol, warns of the possibility of a malfunction of the plant. Nothing guarantees the truth of this warning, but to find it out the inauguration is suspended

Hablamos esta noche

1982

Bicycles Are for the Summer poster
6.9

In Madrid, the family of Don Luis, his wife Dolores and their children, Manolita and Luisito, share the daily life of the Civil War with their maid and neighbours. Despite having failed his exams, Luisito wants his father to buy him a bicycle. However, the situation forces them to delay the purchase and the delay, like the war itself, is to last much longer than expected.

Bicycles Are for the Summer

1984

National III poster
6.2

In order to solve economic problems, "Leguineche" family decide to move to France with their limited belongings.

National III

1982

The Adventures of Enrique and Ana poster
6.8

Enrique is a gym teacher who along with his sister want to start a musical career with the support of their grandfather, a great scientist who wants to stop an evil despot from getting an artifact that would endanger the entire world.

The Adventures of Enrique and Ana

1981

National Heritage poster
7.1

After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exile, with the purpose of returning to Madrid to actively participate in the social events of the aristocracy and to get closer to the closest circle of the Spanish monarch. The obsession of the old marquis is centered on getting in touch with the most illustrious surnames, to ascend socially and to resume the pomp and courtly life that his family lost a long time ago. To this end, he decides to move into an old palace he owns, located in the center of the capital, but not before overcoming the difficulties posed by his wife, who deeply hates both her husband and her son. To regain control of the palace, the Marquis of Leguineche tries to handicap his wife, arguing an incurable mental illness, and then undertake a reform of the place in order to adapt it to aristocratic life.

National Heritage

1981

The Crime of Cuenca poster
6.8

Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier.

The Crime of Cuenca

1981

Ni te cases ni te embarques poster
4.9

No synopsis available yet.

Ni te cases ni te embarques

1982

Silver-beet Face poster
6.0

On a road in the deep Spain, a wanderer with no fixed course and light luggage awaits someone to take him somewhere. His name is Antonio and this is how he will end up in a small provincial town, where he will be involved in a plan to steal a canvas of incalculable value.

Silver-beet Face

1987

Bearn poster
7.0

Mallorca, 1865. Mr Bearns' funerals, "better to dye thant to mix blood". Juan Mayol, orphan unknow his past and decides to rebuild his family history

Bearn

1983

Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven poster
6.1

A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to reconsider her life--work, family, friendships, men-- causing a psychological and emotional crisis pushes her toward a drastic decision.

Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven

1980

127 millones libres de impuestos poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

127 millones libres de impuestos

1981

Hay que deshacer la casa poster
6.6

Ana is a middle aged woman who many years ago decided to start a new life in Paris. Now she must return to her hometown after the death of her parents, since they have left her an inheritance. There she meets Laura, her only sister, with whom she has to share the money received and, especially, an old house located in the center of Guadalajara. Now, the two women will have to leave the differences and problems behind that have arisen in the past to catch up and recover the fraternal relationship. Written by lament

Hay que deshacer la casa

1986

El divorcio que viene poster
6.3

Pepe, married to Amparo has fallen madly in love with Mónica, who happens to be the wife of his best friend Luis. Love affairs abound in this screwball comedy in which everyone is unhappy with their respective marriages and dream of the then imminent approval of divorce in Spain .

El divorcio que viene

1980

Han violado a una mujer (Tac-tac) poster
5.0

A good looking Iberian macho courts a free spirited young woman. The passionate temperament of her romantic beau might become too much for her to handle; or can she control it?

Han violado a una mujer (Tac-tac)

1982

Mamá, Levántate y Anda poster
8.0

Gustavo is morbidly dominated by his mother, Doña Leticia, who refuses to accept another woman in her son's life.

Mamá, Levántate y Anda

1980

The Faithful Servants poster
5.0

The service staff of a luxurious Catalan farmhouse has prepared a large banquet because the arrival of the guests is expected. Everything is ready, but nobody arrives. Then, the housekeeper and the other servants will occupy for a few moments the place of their masters and, like them, they will behave despotically.

The Faithful Servants

1980

1970s · 15 titles

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie poster
7.4

An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

1972

Life Size poster
5.7

Michel is a middle-aged man with money and social standing. But he dreams of owning a doll to be his lover. When he finally gets one, he realizes he has become a slave to his own fantasy.

Life Size

1974

The Love of Captain Brando poster
5.4

During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old republican exile, returns to his home in a small Castilian village and befriends Aurora, a young and attractive teacher.

The Love of Captain Brando

1974

¡Jo, papá! poster
5.5

With the purpose of recalling a youthful adventure, Enrique, a well-placed merchant, decides to travel around Spain in the company of his wife Alicia and his two daughters, Pilar and Carmen.

¡Jo, papá!

1975

La adúltera poster
7.0

With more than thirty years, Malena Fonseca is a spinster and provincial woman who, after coincidentally meeting a Frenchman named Lucien, also a thirty-something bachelor like her, decides to marry him. However, after that, and having moved to Madrid in the company of her unbearable and possessive mother-in-law, Malena will gradually discover that her husband is a very rational man whose zero interest in sex despairs her, making the woman feel attracted to the pharmacist in the corner and the hunky bread delivery man.

La adúltera

1975

The Ancines Woods poster
4.8

Benito Freire, a pedlar in a small village in northern Spain suffers from epileptic seizures and rumours start to spread that he may be a werewolf and responsible for a series of killings. The local Abbot is called upon to form a team to investigate, in an effort to halt the harrowing murders.

The Ancines Woods

1970

My Daughter Hildegart poster
5.4

Madrid 1933. Aurora Rodriguez kills her daughter Hildegart and turn herself over to the police. In jail she remember the circumstances that made her committing the crime...

My Daughter Hildegart

1977

Los nuevos españoles poster
5.2

A Spanish insurance company is absorbed by a multinational, so that, in order to modernize, its employees are obliged to carry out some training courses to adapt to the new situation and the new objectives. Given the relevance of what is at stake, the wives of these men will also be involved at work.

Los nuevos españoles

1974

The National Shotgun poster
6.8

A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm shows full authority over James, who is the real organizer of the meeting. The celebration is diverse characters who live next to absurd situations.

The National Shotgun

1978

El fascista, la beata y su hija desvirgada poster
3.8

Juan, before the economic problems arising as a result of the arrival of democracy in Spain, decides to go to Venezuela, with Jaime, his brother, who has made ​​his fortune in that country. Juan hopes that Jaime will make him a loan, hoping that also Gloria, his daughte,r marries Isidro Gomez de Ansúrez, a boy from a wealthy family.

El fascista, la beata y su hija desvirgada

1979

Family Portrait poster
5.6

Cecilio Rubes, a businessman engaged in the manufacture of baths and toilets, tries to remain neutral in the imminent Spanish civil war. But the attitude of Cécil, his only child, a spoiled boy who grows without respect their parents, will forced him to face the cruel reality of the facts. Jumping back and forth in time, we are shown his present and his past through his wife Adela and Paulina, the mistress of father and son.

Family Portrait

1976

Vuelve, querida Nati poster
4.5

Doña Nati, the owner of a house of prostitutes, takes a little vacation to attend his niece's first communion in the village. She is accompanied on the trip by three of his pupils: Barbara, Mercedes and Eva who pretend to be her friends. But soon, men realize what they are and begin to try to flirt with them. Doña Nati makes a splendid gift to the people and thus wins the favor of its inhabitants.

Vuelve, querida Nati

1976

Let's Go, Barbara poster
4.4

Ana is Catalan, daughter of a bourgeois family and works in a studio in advertising. She is 38 years old and has only lived with her husband, with whom she has a relationship cold but accepted by both. Although his family is opposed, decides to leave her husband and takes a vacation with her daughter Barbara, of 12 years, in order to leave behind all the past and start a freer life, with fewer ties, less conventional.

Let's Go, Barbara

1978

Casa Flora poster
7.0

The movement of a bullfighter's body died in America originates a massive concentration of people in an Andalusian people. Owed to the influence of so many persons, all the houses are enabled, even the brothel.

Casa Flora

1973

Una mujer prohibida poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Una mujer prohibida

1974

1960s · 15 titles

Placido poster
7.7

In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish.

Placido

1962

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

The Thief of Tibadabo poster
9.0

In this lighthearted crime comedy, Nicolas is a Barcelona ice cream vendor who inadvertently helps a friend who has just committed a robbery. He is chased by several shady underworld characters trying to get their hands on the stolen loot.

The Thief of Tibadabo

1965

Las que tienen que servir poster
5.8

Juana and Francisca are serving at the Stevens house, an American couple. Both of them have a boyfriend, one is an egg-carrier and the other is a transporter with his own motorcycle. And both with a totally totalitarian and macho concept regarding male-female relations. The girls also have two American suitors assigned to the American Base of Torrejón, friends of their masters. Thus, without almost pretending, the two girls will find themselves in the midst of the jealous Spaniards and the beefy Yankees.

Las que tienen que servir

1967

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

El grano de mostaza poster
7.2

Evelino Galindo, the serious owner of a porcelain store, argues with the womanizer jeweler Orcajo for an insignificant game of dominoes. Evelino, enraged, challenges him the next day to a duel in the gym. But after meditating a bit he starts to get scared. That is why, with the help of his friend Leoncio, he sharpens his wit to find a way to escape from combat. However, the situation is becoming more complicated.

El grano de mostaza

1962

Furnished Studio 2.P. poster
4.3

Two bank employees use a computer to determine the girls for their sexual affairs in their newly hired flat.

Furnished Studio 2.P.

1969

Amador poster
6.2

After killing his girl friend, Ana, Amador (a dark and strange man) joins his family (which he can't stand) in Torremolinos, where he gets involved in the assassination of a foreigner woman. It is also in Torremolinos, where Amador meets Laura, a woman who falls in love with him...

Amador

1965

Confidencias de un marido poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Confidencias de un marido

1963

A Devil Under the Pillow poster
4.5

Anselmo is a young anthropologist who is tormented by jealousy, and although his wife Camilla does not give reasons, keeps a close eye on her. After consulting a psychiatrist, the doctor says the problem is him and not his wife. So he plots to verify, once and for all, if his suspicions are true. By chance he meets an old friend, Lotario, who seems the ideal person to carry out his plans. What Anselmo does not know is that his friend is a real womanizer who ends seducing his wife.

A Devil Under the Pillow

1968

Vamos a contar mentiras poster
7.8

A happily married woman lies with surprising ease because, according to her husband, she leads too idle a life.

Vamos a contar mentiras

1962

La barca sin pescador poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

La barca sin pescador

1964

La becerrada poster
7.0

San Ginés de la Sierra is a small village lost in the mountains in southern Spain. It is known throughout the region for two peculiar characteristics: its "persistent" drought and a "Home of the Vanquished". This "home" is an institution that houses some twenty old people, to whose care are eleven nuns and crosses a distressing economic situation. The nuns are desperately seeking a solution and decide to hold a charity bulls run.

La becerrada

1963

Vuelve San Valentín poster
7.5

As there are still a lot of problems in the relationships of the Spanish couples Saint Valentine returns to earth and especially to Madrid in order to fix these problems.

Vuelve San Valentín

1962

The Big Family poster
6.6

Carlos Alonso and Mercedes Cebrián are parents of fifteen children of different ages.

The Big Family

1962

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