Tota Alba

Acting

Tota Alba

Born — Died

1914-03-05 — 1983-01-01

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 13 titles

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

Five Pillows for One Night poster
3.2

Ana, a girl who is about to get married, discovers in her boyfriend's house a photograph in which her mother, dead at birth, and her future father-in-law appear in a very affectionate way.

Five Pillows for One Night

1974

La lozana andaluza poster
5.3

In 16th century Rome, Rampín, a friendly and shameless rogue, exploits his arts of deception. He lives with his aunt, Napolitana, a pimp dedicated to the same trades as his nephew. With the arrival of a beautiful Andalusian, Lozana, her fortune enters their house by making her the most beautiful courtesan in Rome. Lozana and Rampín reach an agreement: he will be at her service, taking her lovers home, and she will treat him like a king and give him the best, something that others will never have. But one fine day, Don Sancho, a handsome Spaniard, falls in love with her.

La lozana andaluza

1976

Inquisition poster
5.5

Period piece set during the Inquisition about a witch-finder general who falls in love with the village beauty, who has made a pact with the devil to seduce and condemn the man who is killing off Satan's servants.

Inquisition

1977

Las señoritas de mala compañía poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Las señoritas de mala compañía

1973

La casa de los Martínez poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

La casa de los Martínez

1971

Demon Witch Child poster
5.0

After an old witch desecrates a church and abducts a baby, the police take her in for questioning, leading her to attempt suicide. To exact revenge, a fellow witch curses the police commissioner's daughter, and as the old witch dies, her spirit latches onto the young girl and causes her to wreak havoc.

Demon Witch Child

1975

Spaniards in Paris poster
6.0

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

Spaniards in Paris

1971

A la Legión le gustan las mujeres… y a las mujeres, les gusta la Legión poster
7.5

A lieutenant and four others are having a little party before entering combat. Ensign has his girlfriend in a village occupied by the enemy, so it is essential a rescue mission

A la Legión le gustan las mujeres… y a las mujeres, les gusta la Legión

1976

Battered Flesh poster
3.4

Berta, imprisoned in Franco's Spain on fraud charges, learns to navigate the indignities of prison, spreading her own brand of kindness and empathy to the other inmates, but she unwillingly learns a valuable lesson when she falls in love with one of them.

Battered Flesh

1978

Sábado, chica, motel ¡qué lío aquel! poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Sábado, chica, motel ¡qué lío aquel!

1976

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hoy es fiesta

1970

El chiste poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

El chiste

1976

1960s · 35 titles

The Orgies of Dr. Orloff poster
3.8

A doctor invites his relatives to his castle, all the while planning to murder them when they arrive. However, when he himself is murdered, the relatives know they have to find the killer before he gets all of them.

The Orgies of Dr. Orloff

1967

Billy the Kid poster
5.5

Tom Carter, his wife and his son Billy, live quietly on the family farm until a dispute arises between him and his rich neighbour John Price who organizes a punitive expedition against Carter. Billy is sent to Littleton by his father and when he returns he finds the house burnt down, his father killed and his mother injured. The cautious sheriff prefers to conclude to an accident despite Billy's insistance. So Billy decides to take the law into his own hands...

Billy the Kid

1964

10:30 P.M. Summer poster
5.3

A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.

10:30 P.M. Summer

1966

Bullet in the Flesh poster
6.0

The Masters and the Cherokees living in relative peace until a key member of this tribe falls in love with a woman from the Masters family. From there the situation is complicated to unknown heights.

Bullet in the Flesh

1964

Proceso a una estrella poster
8.5

A celebrated cabaret singer, Rosa Lucena, is accused of killing Miguel, her dance partner. She is arrested, but not finding sufficient evidence of guilt, the judges decide to investigate her past, when Rosa and Miguel acted in a theater in Madrid and she fellin love with a young doctor, leaving his career for him. This situation has a direct impact on Miguel, which fails miserably with the withdrawal of his partner.

Proceso a una estrella

1966

Cuatro bodas y pico poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cuatro bodas y pico

1963

Vampiresas 1930 poster
5.2

As the era of silent films finds itself at a close, four down-and-out silent film actors and musicians struggle to find work. Fate leads them to a former star of the silent era as she struggles to escape her reputation as a wild and evil vamp of the silver screen and longs to be just thought of as an honest and decent woman. They join forces, and for a short time have a decent amount of success singing and dancing at clubs and bars. But the public has an insatiable taste for foreign black jazz bands, and they will stop at nothing to become a success.

Vampiresas 1930

1962

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Los árboles mueren de pie

1966

Strange Voyage poster
7.3

In a small town near Madrid, Paquita and her brother Venancio, both single and with a childish personality, live under the shadow of their bossy older sister, Ignacia, a grumpy old maid.

Strange Voyage

1964

Sabían demasiado poster
5.0

A gang of Spanish pickpockets decide to send one of them to Chicago to learn how to be a gangster...

Sabían demasiado

1962

La dama del alba poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La dama del alba

1965

Those Who Did Not Go to War poster
6.5

First World War. In a largely rural area of neutral Spain, two families confront one another and play a part in embarrassing situations because they don't support the same side in the war. This will influence the breakup of an engagement.

Those Who Did Not Go to War

1962

The Gang of Eleven poster
6.5

Inspired by the American gangster films, a group of thugs decides to dock the Bank of Spain. "El Rubio" explains to his men that, to commit the armed robbery, they will have to dig a gallery in the Cibeles. But, due to the threats of a rival band, "El Rubio" decides to disguise itself and pretend to be one of the most famous actors of the moment.

The Gang of Eleven

1963

Mi calle poster
6.6

Life events around a city street and its residents are told along the years while time goes by, wars break out and end and life evolves.

Mi calle

1960

La Sonrisa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Sonrisa

1966

Un tipo de sangre poster
9.5

A man whose blood type is hard to obtain gets possession of a coat where pickpocketers hide their stolen goods.

Un tipo de sangre

1960

Martes y trece poster
5.6

Lola and Maria are two Spanish young ladies engaged to Franz and Pepe, all so eager to spend their honeymoon that the moment seems never to come, as all sorts of problems pave their way.

Martes y trece

1962

Más bonita que ninguna poster
5.6

Roberto (Luigi Giuliani) and Luisa (Rocío Durcal) are a couple but are not as sincere as they should be. She tells him she works at Telefónica when she actually sells cigarettes at "The Green Windmill" cabaret. She's surprised when she discovers plans for a bachelor party there in honor of Roberto, who is marrying a wealthy heiress. In revenge, Luisa adopts the role of Luisito and faces Roberto in disguise.

Más bonita que ninguna

1965

Kill and Be Killed poster
6.5

A former singer lives alone with her fortune - and with her nephew, Fernando, a low character to whom she refuses to lend more money. Elisa leaves prison and starts a new life as a personal attendant to the aging singer, using her knowledge as a former nurse - a profession she can not return to. Fernando meets Elisa, and together they plan to poison the lonely woman, and use her money abroad. They plan their alibis well. But those who kill by the sword will perish by the sword.

Kill and Be Killed

1962

Residence for Spies poster
4.5

Ms. Pendleton is the commander-in-chief of a women's training camp for western spies, recently established in Turkey. CIA agent Leyton receives a mission, to discover and destroy an enemy group operating in the vicinities of that residence. He will manage, with the help, and sometimes extra zeal, of a team of young women recruits.

Residence for Spies

1968

Eroe vagabondo poster
7.0

Noah earns his living as a plastic flower seller and despite his crushes and hardships, his sweet and dreamy character pushes him to go forward, as well as the love for a girl to whom he usually gives a flower every week . One day he discovers that his loved one has lost her life and begins to wander aimlessly, eventually becoming a hero after saving a clown from certain death but at the same time remains a slave to interest games by shady individuals. When he attends the representation of Romeo and Juliet, he finds in the female protagonist the features of the girl he loved.

Eroe vagabondo

1966

El arte de no casarse poster
6.7

Four stories about the arts of not getting married. Alfredo Landa performs the roles of a lawyer who has just finished his military service, a young marquis on his wedding day, a flirt and a soldier who deals with three girls at the same time.

El arte de no casarse

1966

El padre Manolo poster
5.8

Padre Manolo, priest, magician and singer, starts a private investigation on what seems to be a murder...

El padre Manolo

1967

Compadece al delincuente poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Compadece al delincuente

1960

No artwork available
10.0

The infamous Don Juan Tenorio, a reckless and charming libertine, engages in various amorous exploits and challenges morality in his pursuit of pleasure and conquest. A wager between Don Juan and his rival Don Luis Mejía is established, laying the groundwork for a contest of seduction and moral defiance. "Don Juan Tenorio" by José Zorrilla is a dramatic play written in the mid-19th century, renowned as a classic of Spanish literature.

Don Juan Tenorio

1966

The Sweet Sound of Death poster
7.1

Pablo is in love with Dominique, whom he wants to marry. The girl leads them to a cemetery, where she convinces Pablo that should either of them die, the other will return and help them prepare for the afterlife. She leaves Madrid on a vacation in Bretagna, and dies en route. Pablo receives a call the next day. It is Dominique.

The Sweet Sound of Death

1965

Constance aux enfers poster
5.7

Rear Window meets Estate violenta. The middle-aged Constance watches a young couple that lives across the courtyard; the girl plays loud pop music and goes out of her way to be unpleasant to the classically educated and piano-playing Constance. Then one day Constance sees the boyfriend strangle the little tart in a fit of jealousy. He sees her, too, and has nobody else to turn to for help. Constance keeps silent about the murder and offers the young Hugo a place in her bed. Then the blackmail notes start to arrive...

Constance aux enfers

1964

El tímido poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

El tímido

1965

Rosa de Lima poster
5.5

Santa Rosa de Lima, who died in the capital of Peru, was barely 31 years old when she died in 1617. José María Elorrieta's film narrates the life of this young woman, daughter of Gaspar Flores, Spanish arquebusier the service of King Philip III, and of Maria de Oliva, who will become principal patron of the New World, the Philippines and West Indies in 1670.

Rosa de Lima

1961

Cradle Song poster
9.0

In a Castilian convent of the late nineteenth century, the community of cloistered nuns celebrates the onomastic of their superior with a poem. She is also visited by the doctor, Don Jose, who diagnosed a disease with poor prognosis. Shortly after a sister picks up a beautiful girl who has been abandoned at the door of the convent and the doctor, despite being single, offers to legally adopt her and assign her to the convent as a pupil.

Cradle Song

1961

Hamelín poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hamelín

1969

Fin de semana poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fin de semana

1964

Chica para todo poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Chica para todo

1963

Next Fall poster
5.4

Filmed in 1963, but not released in Spain until 1967, the film depicts the failed romance between a bourgeois French tourist girl and a Spanish working class boy.

Next Fall

1967

Long Play poster
10.0

A rainy day forces Joaquin, Joe Luis and Alvaro to refuge in Martins' house. They also go there two Swedish girls who want love and spanish ham; a nun with hobbies of racing driver; a fat priest; a policeman unable to establish order; and the father of Joaquin, a fortune hunter. In the chaos that is triggered, the five young people discover their common love for music and they form a band.

Long Play

1968

1950s · 4 titles

Series credits