María José Cantudo

Acting

María José Cantudo

Born 1951-07-10 · Andújar, Jaén, Spain

María Purificación Josefa Cantudo Porcel, known as María José Cantudo (Andújar, Jaén, July 10, 1951), is a Spanish actress and vedette. The hotelier businessman Carlos del Val encourages and supports her so that she can start an artistic career in Madrid. Her beginnings in 1971-1972 are as an advertising model and photo novel actress, a genre in which she acquires certain popularity. She began her film career in 1973 with the films El espanto surge de la tumba and Autopsia, but achieved her first success under Jorge Grau in La trastienda (1976), where she starred in the first female full nude (seen through a mirror) of Spanish cinema. In 1973 she married the singer and actor Manolo Otero, father of her only son, Manuel (b. 1974). Separated in 1978, she has been romantically linked to actor Pedro Ruiz and artistic entrepreneur Enrique Cornejo. In 2013 she is designated an honorary member of UNESCO for her philanthropic work.

Acting credits

Bordello poster
4.7

Minister with four virgin daughters inherits a bordello. The land contains a silver mine and the corrupt sheriff tries to force them to leave.

Bordello

1981

Autopsy poster
4.3

Mondo-style docudrama about a war correspondent who comes back home and has a spiritual crisis about his own mortality. Surreal fantasy sequences are mixed with graphic real autopsy footage.

Autopsy

1973

Inseminación artificial poster
5.5

Armando doesn't tell his wife Alícia that he is estranged. As it happens, she is looking for both herself and the man she wants to marry, and between the two of them the relationship is destroyed.

Inseminación artificial

1984

Señoritas de uniforme poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Señoritas de uniforme

1976

Piernas cruzadas poster
5.0

Lucerito is a Spanish star who has come to Mexico, accompanied by her godfather and her agent, to find work. Rosario is from upper class society and has grown tired of the demands made upon her by her family. When they meet each other in a Mexican hotel, they discover that they could be each other's identical twin and decide to change places.

Piernas cruzadas

1984

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

Don Quixote Rides Again poster
7.2

A new vision of the Knight of the sad figure, which lives obsessed by the chivalry and its codes of honor. Accompanied by his unusual squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote recalls some of the adventures they've shared.

Don Quixote Rides Again

1973

Seven Jackals poster
7.0

Seven legendary outlaws face a rival gang.

Seven Jackals

1974

The Kidnapping poster
4.7

Inspired by the famous Patty Hearst case, this thriller centers around a young woman who's kidnapped and brainwashed by a crime ring and ends up succumbing to Stockholm Syndrome.

The Kidnapping

1976

Life, Love and Death poster
3.4

Divided into three grotesque stories of absurd humor that, as the title suggests, are based on life, love and death.

Life, Love and Death

1982

The Frenchman's Garden poster
5.8

"The Frenchman" was what locals called the man who ran the bar and restaurant in the small town of Peñaflor in rural Spain in the early part of the 20th century. But Juan Andrés Aldije Monmeja was not your usual jolly innkeeper. He ran an illegal gambling den and pimped out the waitresses who worked for him. Deciding there were easier and quicker ways to exploit his customers, The Frenchman started slaughtering them, stealing their money and burying their corpses in the garden at the back of his inn. It was not long before people started asking questions...

The Frenchman's Garden

1978

Blood and Passion poster
5.1

Pamplona, 1975: Dr. Navarro, a famous doctor in the city, feels strongly attracted to Juana, his nurse, who is also in love with the doctor. Navarro, however, moved by his strong religious convictions (in fact, he is a numerary member of Opus Dei) remains faithful to his wife and tries by all means to prevent that their relations with Juana break through professional boundaries. For the purpose of that, he orders the nurse will sent to another hospital. This will push Juana to take the initiative and provoke the doctor during San Fermines.

Blood and Passion

1976

Los días de Cabirio poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Los días de Cabirio

1971

Love Is a Strange Game poster
6.3

A young model with no money or work drifts through a harsh world tries to build a more stable life while her new relationship becomes increasingly complicated.

Love Is a Strange Game

1983

The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry poster
6.0

King of Horror, legendary actor, scriptwriter and director, Paul Naschy is regarded as the Spanish Lon Chaney and the most prolific filmmaker dedicated to the fantastic cinema in Spain.

The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry

2010

Pasión poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Pasión

1977

Los hijos de... poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Los hijos de...

1976

The Killer Is Not Alone poster
5.4

Julio, an only child belonging to a wealthy family, murders a prostitute who tries to seduce him. He, in childhood, suffered severe trauma and this causes serious problems with women. Because of this, runs away and stays in a boarding house in Madrid, where he meets Monica, the daughter of the owner, who maintains relationships that seek to build on for help in their desperate situation. As his obsession for killing is increasing.

The Killer Is Not Alone

1975

La ópera rock Jesucristo Superstar: un hito en la historia del musical español poster
NR

On November 6, 1975, a few days before the death of dictator Francisco Franco, the Spanish version of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, originally written by Tim Rice and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, premiers in Madrid, starring and produced by singer Camilo Sesto, a controversial work that became a mass phenomenon.

La ópera rock Jesucristo Superstar: un hito en la historia del musical español

2018

Sangre en el Caribe poster
6.7

A crime takes place on the beaches of the Caribbean and a man will have to find the culprit.

Sangre en el Caribe

1985

The Ambitious Lover poster
3.3

A husband and his lover plan the killing of his wife.

The Ambitious Lover

1982

The Shameful Secret of a Good Boy poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Shameful Secret of a Good Boy

1976

El último proceso en París poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

El último proceso en París

1974

Marked by Men poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Marked by Men

1977