Emma Cohen

Acting

Emma Cohen

Born — Died

1946-11-20 — 2016-07-10

Place of birth

Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

77 titles

Emmanuela Beltrán Rahola (21 November 1946 – 11 July 2016) better known as Emma Cohen was a Spanish actress, director, producer, and writer. She appeared in many Spanish language films. She portrayed Gallina Caponata in Barrio Sésamo, a counterpart to Big Bird in the Spanish version of Sesame Street. Emma Cohen was married to actor Fernando Fernán Gómez until his death in 2007. She died on 11 July 2016, aged 69, after a battle against cancer. Trained in theater, her first contact with acting took place at the Teatro Español Universitario while she was studying law, which she abandoned before finishing. From that moment on, she began to carve out a career as an actress, which led her to pe…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 2 titles

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 7 titles

Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado poster
8.2

A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely opportunistic, who brought it to a successful conclusion in the tribunes and offices; on the other hand, the citizens who, in the streets, supported it sincerely or fought it with ferocity.

Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado

1983

Voyage to Nowhere poster
7.5

The Iniesta-Galván family is a theatre company that goes from town to town offering its performances. Over the years, its members will have to adapt to changes and make decisions, like that of whether or not to continue performing. One day, unexpectedly, a son that he has fathered on his travels presents himself to Carlos Galván.

Voyage to Nowhere

1986

Mambru Went to War poster
5.8

After the death of dictator Francisco Franco, Florentina gives her family shocking news.

Mambru Went to War

1986

The Sea and the Weather poster
3.9

Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different from the one he left: they live under the sadness of being the losers of the war, Marcela, before a beautiful young woman, is now an alcoholic, and the youngest can not even understand them. Jesus wants to start a new life in Spain but he feels out of place; Time has turned him into an inhabitant of the other side of the 'puddle'.

The Sea and the Weather

1989

El extranger-oh! de la calle Cruz del Sur poster
10.0

Daniel is a man who wants to escape from a reality that overwhelms him. That is why he imagines, invents and lies for pleasure. Such invention will lead him to live strange and unusual adventures, giving rise to a magical comedy about everyday life seen through his eyes.

El extranger-oh! de la calle Cruz del Sur

1987

Erotic Stories poster
4.1

A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.

Erotic Stories

1980

Femenino singular poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Femenino singular

1982

1970s · 40 titles

Count Dracula poster
5.9

A faithful adaptation of the classic tale portrays Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.

Count Dracula

1970

The Legend of Frenchie King poster
5.7

Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.

The Legend of Frenchie King

1971

The Cannibal Man poster
6.1

A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to a slaughter house.

The Cannibal Man

1972

The Woman with Red Boots poster
5.7

An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.

The Woman with Red Boots

1974

The Other Side of the Mirror poster
5.2

A nightclub singer is haunted by the ghost of her late father. The dead man summons her through a mirror, forcing her to commit a series of violent crimes.

The Other Side of the Mirror

1973

Two Males for Alexa poster
5.8

A young girl marries the wealthy father of one of her male friends at college, but she soon finds herself falling for her new husband’s son. The husband finds out about the two, and comes up with what he believes to be a foolproof plan: he will frame his wife and his son for his own murder, then have the pair locked in a room in his remote, isolated estate–with his own dead body.

Two Males for Alexa

1971

Vampir Cuadecuc poster
6.1

An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction and reality.

Vampir Cuadecuc

1972

Cry, Onion! poster
5.3

Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.

Cry, Onion!

1975

Cut-Throats Nine poster
6.5

A group of ruthless convicts is led to prison through an inhospitable mountain range by a small cavalry detachment commanded by Sergeant Brown, who is accompanied by his young and beautiful daughter.

Cut-Throats Nine

1971

The Night of the Walking Dead poster
5.1

In a 19th century village, a young aristocrat suffering from a terminal disease finds herself being drawn to the underground world of vampires and their strange rituals.

The Night of the Walking Dead

1975

Horror Rises from the Tomb poster
5.7

In Medieval France a warlock is beheaded and his wife is tortured and executed. Hundreds of years later, an isolated group of people discover his head buried on their property. Soon it comes back to life, possessing people and using them to commit sacrifices and to search for the rest of his body.

Horror Rises from the Tomb

1973

Seduction Squad poster
3.5

After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women rooming together notice through their telescope that the stolen loot is in the apartment right across the street. They plan their own burglary of the already stolen loot.

Seduction Squad

1972

Story of a Girl Alone poster
6.6

A chronicle of the different reactions of a girl when she finds that her boyfriend decides to end their relationship.

Story of a Girl Alone

1971

Jill poster
4.8

Jill is a young actress in decline who does not do things very well, neither professionally nor personally. Used by all those around her, everything will change for her the moment she meets Luis, a waiter. Now she has something that makes her happy and for which she has a reason to live.

Jill

1978

El fuego poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El fuego

1970

Robin Hood nunca muere poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Robin Hood nunca muere

1975

Pierna creciente, falda menguante poster
5.3

In 1916, while Europe was in the middle of First World War and Spain was enjoying the advantages of being a neutral country, eroticism was called voluptuousness and Senator Duke of Daroca, despite his ancient lineage, fell completely in love with a famous cabaret singer, Rosario "La Criollita", which was a scandal. At that time, it was doubted that decent women had legs - But this mystery was resolved a decade later, when the roaring twenties arrived and, with them, the sensual Lupe Cardoso

Pierna creciente, falda menguante

1970

Cross of the Devil poster
5.5

A British novelist travels to Spain to visit his sister. However, when he arrives he discovers that she has been murdered by a gang of devil-worshiping bandits called the Devil's Cross.

Cross of the Devil

1975

Alone in the Small Hours poster
6.3

Jose, a journalist and radio broadcaster, runs a daily program which has garnered a huge national audience as a satirical chronicle of Spanish society in the democratic transition of the late 1970s. Married and separated from Elena, Jose has two children, whom he only sees from time to time. Then he meets Maite, younger than him, outgoing and more open-minded than he wants. The emotional shock caused by his relationship with these two women will change his pessimistic view of life.

Alone in the Small Hours

1978

El hombre que se quiso matar poster
6.8

Things go terribly wrong for Federico. He lost his job as professor of Latin and his girlfriend has left him for a dental technician. So, he decides to commit suicide. After several failed attempts, including the throw from the Roman aqueduct of Segovia, he decides to take advantage of his decision and get rid of a society that has been hostile. Remake of a 1942 film by the same director, Rafael Gil.

El hombre que se quiso matar

1970

Las obsesiones de Armando poster
9.0

Armando, a natural prodigy with lethal attributes, capable of killing both his wives at first glance on their wedding night, decides to visit a psychiatrist friend and falls in love with his wife, her twin sister, and everything in between.

Las obsesiones de Armando

1974

Paper Tigers poster
6.1

Spain, 1977. The first general elections are about to take place after the long dictatorship and the progressive environment of Madrid is easily palpable. Protagonists, Carmen and Juan were once married and now living separately, both have a child. It's one of the only reasons they maintain cordial to one another. Their separation, the political context and the contradictions of the progressives of the time will not defeat the affinity between the two.

Paper Tigers

1977

Spaniards in Paris poster
6.0

Four Spanish women of very different origins and motivations work in Paris as handmaids.

Spaniards in Paris

1971

Cutting Heads poster
4.8

In a castle, somewhere in the Thirld World, Diaz is delirious, dreaming of the power he had in Eldorado, while oppressing the indians, workers and peasants. He is well aware of the menace his old victims represent, while a miracle-making shepherd fascinates and frightens him. Diaz finds a countrywoman, symbol of purity, and prepares a ceremony in his castle resembling his own funeral.

Cutting Heads

1970

The Glass Ceiling poster
5.3

A lonely housewife hears a man’s footsteps in the apartment above her late at night. The upstairs neighbor insists it is her husband who has returned from business but her explanations are soon contradicted. The woman begins to think her neighbor has murdered her husband.

The Glass Ceiling

1971

The Apolitical Man poster
4.3

Enrique Tolosa is a boss administrator of a small company which employs 50 workers. There never has gotten into politics, has made ​​himself stood professionally and created a family and no one has asked opinion on how would be the destiny of their country. The story begins whenheI first asked to give their vote at the polls for the election of political parties. With the decision to vote is faced with doubt and decides to investigate on their own to know which political trends that are managed as possible, is the one he goes to his temperament.

The Apolitical Man

1977

¡Bruja, más que bruja! poster
6.2

A small provincial town lives under the caprices of Don Justin, the local cacique. This forces the young Mariana to marry him, taking advantage of the fact that her nephew Juan, the boyfriend of the girl, is far away from military service. Upon his return, Juan is mocked and goes to a witch to assist him in his revenge.

¡Bruja, más que bruja!

1977

El diablo Cojuelo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El diablo Cojuelo

1971

The Long Agony of Fish Out of Water poster
3.5

The singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat plays the role of a young fisherman named Joan from Ibiza (Eivissa) who falls hopelessly in love about a beautiful English tourist and it leaves everything to follow her to London, where he is introduced to the hippie world.

The Long Agony of Fish Out of Water

1970

Nosotros que fuimos tan felices poster
8.3

After a long absence, Ulises, a theatrical author, returns to his home to be with his wife, Carlota, and their son. However, upon arriving in Madrid he discovers that Carlota has become a great theater actress and that she is sentimentally united to Miguel, a renowned playwright who copies the comedies that Ulysses himself had written.

Nosotros que fuimos tan felices

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

Celedonio y yo somos así poster
7.2

Daniel has as the only fortune a stud bull named Celedonio, which he rents for living.

Celedonio y yo somos así

1977

Hembra poster
9.0

A woman takes a man home for shelter after a robbery

Hembra

1970

Deseo poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Deseo

1976

Diario Spagnolo poster
NR

The making of Cabezas Cortadas.

Diario Spagnolo

1970

Juan Soldado poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Juan Soldado

1973

El certificado poster
6.0

Silvia travels to the big city where she meets a married man, with whom she ends up having a romantic relationship.

El certificado

1970

El reprimido poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

El reprimido

1974

Criminal Abortion poster
6.5

Barcelona police is following the actions of a pimp. A web of forced illegal abortions on prostitutes is discovered.

Criminal Abortion

1973

Mayordomo para todo poster
4.0

Carlos, a young "playboy" who lives on the Costa del Sol, has a servant named German who has made him believe he has a degenerative disease by maintaining many sexual relationships, and that he will die if he continues doing so. But Carlos does not want to lose his playboy reputation, so German, his "faithful" butler, substitutes him in bed while Carlos convinces all his conquests that he prefers to make love with the lights off. But the plan is endangered when Carlos meets a girl and wants to marry her.

Mayordomo para todo

1976

1960s · 3 titles

Series credits

Curro Jiménez poster
7.3

Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez

Curro Jiménez

1976

Gatos en el Tejado poster
9.0

This is the story of Manolo Beltra, a mid-aged, unbelieving foul-mouthed but cherished. He is a TV presenter, famous for his participation in a program called "El humor es algo maravilloso". With life more or less settled, a series of events will break this situation and he will have to rethink his way of thinking and deal with his existence.

Gatos en el Tejado

1988

El pícaro poster
7.2

In 17th-century Spain, Lucas Trapaza is a lazy liar and con artist who does everything he can to live off others.

El pícaro

1974

The Earl of Montecristo poster
5.0

Television adaptation of the literary classic by Alexandre Dumas. After being unjustly arrested and convicted of treason, Edmundo Dantés manages to escape from the Château d'If prison after 14 years of captivity. During his stay in this place, another prisoner of Italian origin, Abbe Faria, entrusted him with the secret of a treasure. When Edmundo manages to find it and dig it up, he decides to start a revenge against those who ruined his life, for which he assumes the identity of the powerful Count of Monte Cristo.

The Earl of Montecristo

1969

No artwork available
NR

It is a surrealist comedy where reality and fantasy are mixed, it tells in a humorous tone the daily life and dreams of a 40-year-old film buff, played by Emilio Gutiérrez Caba.

No sé bailar

1999

Tres eran tres poster
10.0

Elena, Paloma and Julia are three sisters who, nevertheless, have lived in separate homes and barely know each other. For some circumstances the three, already adult, meet to live together in house of Elena, and the series reflects their disagreements, their fights, reconciliations, frustrations and dreams.

Tres eran tres

1972

Behind the camera