Carlos Velo

Directing

Carlos Velo

Carlos Velo (15 November 1909 – 10 March 1988) was a Spanish film director. He directed 45 films between 1934 and 1983. His 1956 film Torero! was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Romancero marroquí poster
NR

The young farmer Aalami leaves his family to find work elsewhere. He gets to know the country and its people, customs and traditions at Küste in North Africa: Market life in Tetuan, the art of craftsmanship, the life of the Moors, dances and festivities in honour of the caliph, white mosques, the call of the muezzin of the minaret and the music of the shepherd flutes. Aalami also follows Franco's call and flies from Morocco to Spain to fight at Bürgerkrieg. In the end Aalami comes back to his wife and children.

Romancero marroquí

1939

No artwork available
NR

A soldier is assigned to guard the body of a man who was shot. During the night, he encounters a widow who is watching over the burial of her ex-husband.

The Widow

1965

The Shunammite poster
6.3

Luisa returns to her village, where she cares for her uncle on his deathbed, who tells her the story of his life with a hidden purpose.

The Shunammite

1965

Tajimara poster
7.3

First of two films that make up the collaborative film "Los Bienamados" (The Beloved, 1965). It narrates the encounters and misunderstandings of a pair of lovers during the years, from their adolescence to maturity.

Tajimara

1965

Galicia poster
7.0

Short documentary about social and economic situation in Galicia (Spain) in 1936

Galicia

1936

Almadrabas poster
7.0

Documentary on tuna fishing and the art of capturing, processing and manufacturing of the industry.

Almadrabas

1934

Almadrabas poster
7.0

Documentary on tuna fishing and the art of capturing, processing and manufacturing of the industry.

Almadrabas

1934

Don Juan 67 poster
7.0

Mauricio, millionaire, and irreclaimable Don Juan, lives only for and to seduce women of every class and condition. With the help of his butler manages to capture the hearts of many to abandon and then having a panic marriage.

Don Juan 67

1967

Don Juan 67 poster
7.0

Mauricio, millionaire, and irreclaimable Don Juan, lives only for and to seduce women of every class and condition. With the help of his butler manages to capture the hearts of many to abandon and then having a panic marriage.

Don Juan 67

1967

Universidad comprometida poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Universidad comprometida

1973

No artwork available
8.0

A short documentary from Spain's agriculture department.

La ciudad y el campo

1935

Pedro Paramo poster
7.2

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

Pedro Paramo

1967

Pedro Paramo poster
7.2

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

Pedro Paramo

1967

Sonatas poster
5.1

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.

Sonatas

1959

No artwork available
NR

Documentary short on Mexico’s electric power industry.

Heart of the City

1952

No artwork available
NR

Documentary short on Mexico’s electric power industry.

Heart of the City

1952

Torero! poster
6.0

The life of the famed Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, from his boyhood through his training and the triumphs that followed as Procuna rose to the peak of his profession. Written by Jim Beaver

Torero!

1957

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Baja California: Paralelo 28

1975

5 of Chocolate and 1 of Strawberry poster
5.3

A novice eats some special mushrooms and changes her personality acting like a crazy psychedelic girl.

5 of Chocolate and 1 of Strawberry

1968

5 of Chocolate and 1 of Strawberry poster
5.3

A novice eats some special mushrooms and changes her personality acting like a crazy psychedelic girl.

5 of Chocolate and 1 of Strawberry

1968

Roots poster
7.3

Four independent stories based on writer Francisco Rojas Gonzáles's work, depicting the reality of Mexican indian people: Las Vacas (The Cow), Nuestra Señora (Our Lady), El Tuerto (One-Eyed) and La Potranca (The Filly). In El Tuerto, a one eyed boy is relentlessly bullied by his mates. His religious mother asks God to make the boy's eyes equal. The outcome is tragic.

Roots

1954

The Two Elenas poster
10.0

Victor and Elena are newlyweds and lead a busy social life. While Victor is cultured and quiet, Elena is beautiful, brilliant and restless, constantly criticized by her mother, also named Elena, who is very refined, correct and bourgeois. The three of them will be involved in a rather ambiguous and at the same time terribly moving moment in their lives.

The Two Elenas

1965

El medio pelo poster
5.8

A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.

El medio pelo

1972

El medio pelo poster
5.8

A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.

El medio pelo

1972