Modesto Cid

Acting

Modesto Cid

Born — Died

1879-03-24 — 1954-07-05

Place of birth

Orense, Galicia, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 28 titles

Doubt poster
9.0

A newly remarried widow is accused of having murdered her first husband, who died from arsenical poisoning. Being her present husband a lawyer he takes charge of her defense.

Doubt

1951

Fantasía española poster
8.0

Two adventurers without economic resources create an amateur theater company and want to succeed, posing as aristocrats. The project aims to fill the theater with their performances and, thus, to satisfy their debts.

Fantasía española

1953

Sucedió en mi aldea poster
10.0

Two young and innocent altar boys leave in search of money to buy a new bell for the tower of the village church.

Sucedió en mi aldea

1956

Fuego en la sangre poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fuego en la sangre

1953

Post Office Box 1001 poster
7.2

Barcelona, Spain. A young man is murdered in the middle of the street in front of the police headquarters. Miguel and Marcial, two agents of the Criminal Brigade in charge of the investigation, find in the victim's room a newspaper where a cryptic classified ad appears.

Post Office Box 1001

1950

Luna de sangre poster
5.8

Arcos de la Frontera, in the early nineteenth century, when Napoleon's troops invaded Spain. In house Alvareda they are preparing the wedding of the daughter with a young man named Ventura. But the wedding is not held because Ventura escapes after killing a French soldier. Years later he returns and resumes his relationship with his fiancee. However, a great secret weighs in his heart, he feels an irrepressible passion for Rita, the wife of his brother in law.

Luna de sangre

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

Ha entrado un ladrón poster
5.6

Jacinto is in love with Natalia, but she wishes for a daring hero and he is not that kind of man at all. Then by accident he is mistakenly believed to be just that. Now he will try to live up to her expectations, finding it quite stressful.

Ha entrado un ladrón

1950

Vértigo poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vértigo

1950

El duende de Jerez poster
9.0

During the popular Harvest Festival, arrives in the city of Jerez a young teacher from England to investigate the benefits of wine for humans. In turn, the painting "Drunks" by Velázquez, escaping a character, with the task of Bacchus to defend and spread the excellence of the wines.

El duende de Jerez

1954

El correo del rey poster
8.0

King Charles V sent his confidant, Don Fernando,from France to the Spanish Court carrying an important documentation. However, the frigate where he travels is sunk by the British and all the sailors perish. Don Fernando manages to save his life reaching the island of Menorca where he is helped by a humble fisherman

El correo del rey

1951

El correo del rey poster
8.0

King Charles V sent his confidant, Don Fernando,from France to the Spanish Court carrying an important documentation. However, the frigate where he travels is sunk by the British and all the sailors perish. Don Fernando manages to save his life reaching the island of Menorca where he is helped by a humble fisherman

El correo del rey

1951

Me quiero casar contigo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Me quiero casar contigo

1951

Elena poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Elena

1954

Zalacaín el aventurero poster
8.5

During the third Carlist war on Basque soil, Zalacaín, no frowns that his great enemy of the people pretend to love his sister, but he lives the reverse situation, in love with his sister.

Zalacaín el aventurero

1955

María Morena poster
9.0

On Christmas Eve 1860, in a small Andalusian village, a married couple is murdered. The neighbors believe they know who committed the crime and kill him. But it turns out that the suspect was innocent. Twenty years later, the man's son arrives in the village with the aim of discovering the real culprit.

María Morena

1952

La mujer de nadie poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La mujer de nadie

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

¡Che, qué loco! poster
10.0

A bankrupt man tries to marry a millionaire woman, which triggers a whole series of misunderstandings.

¡Che, qué loco!

1953

El Padre Pitillo poster
9.0

Mr Froilán, "Padre Pitillo", is the parish priest from a spanish town. He has a reputation for cantankerous but bellow this appeariance has a kind and humanitarian spirit.

El Padre Pitillo

1955

La honradez de la cerradura poster
6.5

Ernesto and Marta, a couple of newlyweds who have serious financial problems, are visited by a neighbor asking them to keep a large sum of money at home until she goes to the bank the next day.

La honradez de la cerradura

1950

Niebla y sol poster
7.0

A composer decides to give up work to care for his wife after having written a ballet for the famed bailaores Antonio and Rosario. When an old flame of the wife reappears tragedy develops as well as in the ballet.

Niebla y sol

1951

La virgen gitana poster
6.0

Through a pictoric play, this movie tells the story about the painter Eduardo Miranda who, one night, while he was lokking to a gipsy group that was dancing, discovers a beautifull girl called Carmen. Dazzled by her beauty he decides to paint a picture. This causes roumours in the neighborhood, and it also arouses the jealousy of his wife.

La virgen gitana

1951

El presidio poster
6.5

After being fired from his company, Pablo meets his friend Ana, who introduce him to Pedro Ramírez, an undesirable lawyer, who offers him 15,000 pesetas for reports about his ex-company with the intention of doing a rob. When the lawyer's gang goes to give the coup, Ana reports them to the police, with the idea of taking the loot and fleeing with Pablo. But all of them are arrested and end up together in prison, where the intrigues and skirmishes between them will continue.

El presidio

1954

Reeds and Mud poster
8.1

Province of Valencia, Spain, 19th century. Tonet lives an intense love story with Neleta, whom he has known since childhood, but is forced to leave her to serve in the war in Cuba.

Reeds and Mud

1954

No artwork available
8.0

Two brothers with different personalities, one bold and impulsive the other serious and introverted, separate their lives after their father's death, to converge again time after to share a common interest for the same woman, yet for very different reasons.

El hijo de la noche

1950

Mercado prohibido poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mercado prohibido

1952

Los gamberros poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Los gamberros

1954

1940s · 18 titles

Canción mortal poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Canción mortal

1948

¡Culpable! poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

¡Culpable!

1945

La casa de las sonrisas poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La casa de las sonrisas

1948

Un enredo de familia poster
5.3

Two families that hate each other coudn't hinder the marriage of their firstborns. From this relationship born two pair of twins. Unfortunately their parents die and each family take in one pair of twins. Time pass trough, the twins find each other and many questions need to be solved.

Un enredo de familia

1943

El hombre de los muñecos poster
7.8

A son of the Marquise of Seven Almenas is robbed by a crook and deposited in Melchor's house, who sells dolls in the street. The administrator of the Marquise discover the whereabouts of the child and goes to pick him up, but Melchior gives him one of his children, thinking that will ensure the future. Over the years, Melchior, widower, enters as a steward in the house of the marquise where the alleged 'marquis' live splendidly.

El hombre de los muñecos

1943

Boda accidentada poster
6.0

Kitty, niece of a Marchioness, is betrothed to Don Candido, a wealthy manufacturer of preserves. Nico, an old friend of Candide who is completely ruined, arrives to the fashion hotel in which both are. Nico falls in love with Kitty, but, unlike the other men who court her, treats her with indifference. The girl, wounded in his pride, it is interested to Nico. Just before the wedding, Don Candido leaves claimed by its industrial businesses, and instructs his friend to take care of his bride. Nico and Kitty end up falling in love. Don Candido back the same day fixed for the wedding.

Boda accidentada

1943

Una herencia de París poster
7.0

A 1944 Spanish film.

Una herencia de París

1944

Un ladrón de guante blanco poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un ladrón de guante blanco

1946

Cuando los ángeles duermen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cuando los ángeles duermen

1947

Si te hubieses casado conmigo poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Si te hubieses casado conmigo

1948

El tambor del Bruch poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

El tambor del Bruch

1948

La boda de Quinita Flores poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La boda de Quinita Flores

1943

El difunto es un vivo poster
6.0

An animals' collectionist is despised by his wife so that he decide to comeet suicide, but the notice about the death of his brother, a pianist who lives abroad makes him change his mind. He makes his family think that he has commited suicide and some days after announce the arrival of his brother and he impersonate him. His wife recibes him with an affection that he was unaware to.

El difunto es un vivo

1941

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Conflicto inesperado

1948

La sirena negra poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

La sirena negra

1948

El obstáculo poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

El obstáculo

1945

Pacto de silencio poster
8.0

A woman is told his military husband is considered dead, the truth is he has been transferred to the secret service. When he returns to Spain and they get reunited he ends killing a German spy, and then she gets prosecuted.

Pacto de silencio

1949

La gran barrera poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La gran barrera

1947

1930s · 7 titles