
Acting
Luis Varela
Born 1943-01-11 · Madrid, Spain
Acting credits
6.7A trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.
The Last Circus
2010
6.6A teacher with paranormal abilities helps a group of ghosts graduate high school.
Ghost Graduation
2012
6.7At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the members of a group of vaudeville performers have been stripped of everything: all they have left is hunger and the instinct to survive. Day after day, agonizingly, lost and helpless between the victors and the vanquished, the musician Jorge, the ventriloquist Enrique, the couplet singer Rocío and the orphan Miguel search tirelessly for something to eat and a safe place to live.
Paper Birds
2010
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Las señoritas de mala compañía
1973
6.51938 at the battlefront along the river Ebro, Spain. It is the Spanish Civil War, and this movie depicts the attack of a group of commandos whose job it is to blow up the bridge spanning the river.
Surprise Attack
1970
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Cuando Almanzor perdió el tambor
1984
6.2The 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
6.7A playboy has the tables turned on him when he finds himself being used as a plaything by an undesirable woman.
The Ferpect Crime
2004
5.7Maxi thinks his life is perfect. He is a famous cook who owns a successful restaurant in Chueca and is living his life as a gay man without much complex. But when his son Edu and his daughter Alba appear, and a new attractive neighbor comes along, it will have a strong effect on his life resulting in his values being challenged for ever.
Chef's Special
2008
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Blockbuster
2013
6.3A Haitian son returns from fifteen years in Cuba to find his home village afflicted with the double plague of drought and strife. A Cuban production from the director of Memories of Underdevelopment. In Spanish.
Cumbite
1964
6.0This movie doesn't have any coherent plot. It's the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how they manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: La colmena or Roma (Fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.
Merry-Go-Round c. 1950
2004
6.3Pedro, Arturo and Eligio are three college professors who lost their job because of economic crisis. Accidentally they find a solution for all of their problems; a multi-vitamin that allows them to party all night long without any side effects. The three professors will be launched into the world of nightclubs and the shady business, in order to market the merchandise. Of course, it seems that they are not as prepared for it as they thought.
I Can Quit Whenever I Want
2019
6.0The life of Paco Martínez Soria (1902-1982), one of the most famous and beloved Spanish actors, both on stage and screen; a comedian, a theatrical producer, an idol for the masses. A celebration of the uncommon gift of making people laugh.
El precio de la risa
2017
6.7Madrid, Spain, 1975; shortly after the end of the Franco dictatorship. Six months after the mysterious death of his lover, a prestigious tailor, a married woman visits the office of the young Germán Areta, a former police officer turned private detective, to request his professional services.
The Crack: Inception
2019
5.3Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, “Mio Cid”, is in love with Jimena, but the Count of Oviedo, his father, challenges him to a duel and is killed. He before him curses Rodrigo, that if he marries Jimena, he will lose his manly faculties. And, in fact, when he gets married, Rodrigo becomes effeminate.
The Angry Cid
1983
5.9The shy professor Emilio is about to celebrate a wedding nobody wants. At the last minute he escapes and settles in a Madrid apartment shared by four friends of his ex-fiancee. The unhappy man is like a little lamb in a wolf's lair - in this case four wolves.
Pisito de solteras
1973
7.3Film 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
5.3Susana is an unappreciated, naive and somewhat clumsy orphan who has lived since she was a child at doña Engracia's house, because her mother died a few days after she was born. In this house, which also houses three nephews of doña Engracia without a penny to one's name, Susana is the maid of all. Economic necessities lead Engracia to rent a room. Felipe, a handsome man with a bad reputation, will reply to the ad.
La tonta del bote
1970
No synopsis available yet.
Pepe, no me des tormento
1981
No synopsis available yet.
La hidalga limosnera
1972
5.4Jesús Quesada, an incompetent executive, is appointed as the new director of a company in decline whose survival will now depend on both the ingenuity and ambition of his former colleagues.
Camera Cafe: The Movie
2022
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Estimado Sr. juez...
1978
6.7Film divided into two stories: 1. Cuando los gorilas hablan por teléfono 2. Una chica de fortuna
Historias de la televisión
1965