
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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Canción mortal
1948
NRGustavo de Carrara has made his fortune running a diamond mine in South Africa, but he can't quite remember who he was before 1921, though he suspects he was a soldier. A waiter at the Melilla hotel where he's staying confirms this suspicion by recognizing him as Augusto Miralles, his captain at the Battle of Annual, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
El desaparecido
1934
9.0A 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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
La casa de las sonrisas
1948
No synopsis available yet.
The Reliquary
1933
9.0No synopsis available yet.
¡Culpable!
1945
Film credits
1950s · 28 titles
9.0A 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
10.0Two 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
8.0Two 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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Fuego en la sangre
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Me quiero casar contigo
1951
6.3Mr. 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
7.2Barcelona, 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Elena
1954
8.0King 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
8.0King 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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Vértigo
1950
5.8Arcos 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
9.0Mr 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
9.0During 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
9.0On 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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
La mujer de nadie
1950
5.6Jacinto 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
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
6.5Ernesto 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
8.5During 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
8.1Province 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
7.0The 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
10.0A bankrupt man tries to marry a millionaire woman, which triggers a whole series of misunderstandings.
¡Che, qué loco!
1953
6.0Through 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
6.5After 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
7.0A 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Mercado prohibido
1952
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Los gamberros
1954
1940s · 18 titles
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Canción mortal
1948
7.0No synopsis available yet.
La casa de las sonrisas
1948
9.0No synopsis available yet.
¡Culpable!
1945
5.3Two 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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Un ladrón de guante blanco
1946
7.8A 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
6.0Kitty, 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
7.0A 1944 Spanish film.
Una herencia de París
1944
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La boda de Quinita Flores
1943
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Cuando los ángeles duermen
1947
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Si te hubieses casado conmigo
1948
8.0No synopsis available yet.
El tambor del Bruch
1948
6.0An 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
5.5No synopsis available yet.
La sirena negra
1948
No synopsis available yet.
Conflicto inesperado
1948
8.0No synopsis available yet.
El obstáculo
1945
8.0A 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
La gran barrera
1947
1930s · 7 titles
NRGustavo de Carrara has made his fortune running a diamond mine in South Africa, but he can't quite remember who he was before 1921, though he suspects he was a soldier. A waiter at the Melilla hotel where he's staying confirms this suspicion by recognizing him as Augusto Miralles, his captain at the Battle of Annual, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
El desaparecido
1934
No synopsis available yet.
The Reliquary
1933
6.5A pro-Republican drama/propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.It tells the story of Manolo, a young worker who, after the military coup, joins the militias to fight for freedom.
And What Do You Do?
1937
5.8Barcelona 1936: Juan is a victim of factory closures and rebels—first on his own, then alongside his coworkers. As they begin a hunger march, the revolution breaks out and they take up arms.
Dawn of Hope
1937
6.7A famous painter returns to Spain under a false name as he once had to run away, to meet his half gypsy daughter, who has become a flamenco dancer. He offers her his house, making popular rumors take flight.
María de la O
1939
9.0A film by Antonio Graciani
Aves sin rumbo
1934
10.0One of Spain's earliest sound film successes. Now considered lost.
Boliche
1933
