Florián Rey

Directing

Florián Rey

Born — Died

1894-01-23 — 1962-04-11

Place of birth

La Almunia de Doña Godina, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain

Known for

Directing

Credits

48 titles

Florián Rey, real name Antonio Martínez del Castillo (La Almunia de Doña Godina, Zaragoza, January 25, 1894-Benidorm, April 11, 1962), was a Spanish film director, one of the greatest representatives of silent films and the Spanish film industry of the Second Republic. His film La aldea maldita (1930) is considered the masterpiece of Spanish cinema of the silent stage and some of his popular works of the Republican stage, such as Nobleza baturra (1935) or Morena Clara (1936), starring Imperio Argentina, were very successful, which led him to compete even with the American film industry and opened the possibility of developing a genuinely Spanish film industry, although it was aborted with t…

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Ídolos poster
7.0

Clara Bell, a famous French actress, rejects the protection of a producer and falls in love with a handsome Spaniard. But the story is complicated and his love will not come to fruition.

Ídolos

1943

The Unruly Girl poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Unruly Girl

1924

Ana María poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ana María

1944

Ana María poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ana María

1944

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Girl

1925

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Girl

1925

Song of Aixa poster
6.2

Abslan and Hamed, two cousins of very different character and lives, whose families have put an end to old quarrels, become rivals for the love of the young and beautiful half-breed Aixa.

Song of Aixa

1940

Song of Aixa poster
6.2

Abslan and Hamed, two cousins of very different character and lives, whose families have put an end to old quarrels, become rivals for the love of the young and beautiful half-breed Aixa.

Song of Aixa

1940

Cuentos de la Alhambra poster
9.0

Mariquilla is a beautiful gypsy who is in love with Lucas, a soldier of the garrison in the Alhambra, but her father wants to marry her with Don Cosme, a rich old clerk for the service of the mayor. Soon, the girl asks for help to the governor of Granada, a gentleman who has always had a great adoration for the girl.

Cuentos de la Alhambra

1950

Cuentos de la Alhambra poster
9.0

Mariquilla is a beautiful gypsy who is in love with Lucas, a soldier of the garrison in the Alhambra, but her father wants to marry her with Don Cosme, a rich old clerk for the service of the mayor. Soon, the girl asks for help to the governor of Granada, a gentleman who has always had a great adoration for the girl.

Cuentos de la Alhambra

1950

Morena clara poster
6.7

Trini and her brother Regalito are two gypsy brothers stealing hams. At trial, the severe prosecutor Enrique accused them of the misdemeanor, although they do not understand the nature of their crime and the justice of non-gypsies. Trini ends up serving in the house of the prosecutor, who, discovering her good heart, eventually falls in love with her.

Morena clara

1936

The Village Priest poster
6.0

First film adaptation of the play by Enrique Pérez Escrich. Angela's brother is the most important bandit in Salamanca and is killed by Angela's husband. She does not say that he is her brother, and her husband believes that he was her lover, so the child she is waiting for is abandoned in the house of the village priest.

The Village Priest

1927

The Village Priest poster
6.0

First film adaptation of the play by Enrique Pérez Escrich. Angela's brother is the most important bandit in Salamanca and is killed by Angela's husband. She does not say that he is her brother, and her husband believes that he was her lover, so the child she is waiting for is abandoned in the house of the village priest.

The Village Priest

1927

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fútbol, amor y toros

1929

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fútbol, amor y toros

1929

Her Wedding Night poster
7.0

An American movie star vacationing in France gets mixed up with a songwriter, mistaken identity, and winds up married to someone she doesn't know. Spanish language version of the 1930 Clara Bow film "Her Wedding Night."

Her Wedding Night

1931

Sister San Sulpicio poster
7.0

Spanish silent comedy based on Armando Palacio Valdés' novel. It was the first film starring Imperio Argentina.

Sister San Sulpicio

1927

Sister San Sulpicio poster
7.0

Spanish silent comedy based on Armando Palacio Valdés' novel. It was the first film starring Imperio Argentina.

Sister San Sulpicio

1927

El lazarillo de Tormes poster
9.0

The little orphan Lazarus is expelled from his home, flees from the master who takes him in and mistreats him, and arrives in a village that is in dispute with another neighboring village over the possession of a Virgin.

El lazarillo de Tormes

1925

El lazarillo de Tormes poster
9.0

The little orphan Lazarus is expelled from his home, flees from the master who takes him in and mistreats him, and arrives in a village that is in dispute with another neighboring village over the possession of a Virgin.

El lazarillo de Tormes

1925

3 citas con el destino poster
6.2

The story unfolds through the twists and turns of a strange curse attributed to a jewel that, passed from hand to hand, carries a deadly destiny. Its theme spans the three countries where it was filmed (Spain, Mexico, and Argentina), beginning in Spain and then moving to Mexico. The jewel, which takes on the character of another figure in the narrative as it travels through different parts of the world, arrives in Buenos Aires. The film ultimately presents the jewel's final destination in Mexico, where its owner dies, like others who were also marked by its malevolent influence.

3 citas con el destino

1954

Sister San Sulpicio poster
9.0

Sister San Sulpicio (Spanish:La hermana San Sulpicio) is a 1934 Spanish comedy film directed by Florián Rey and starring Imperio Argentina, Miguel Ligero and Salvador Soler Marí. It is a remake of Rey's 1927 silent film Sister San Sulpicio which had been based on Armando Palacio Valdés's novel of the same title.

Sister San Sulpicio

1934

Sister San Sulpicio poster
9.0

Sister San Sulpicio (Spanish:La hermana San Sulpicio) is a 1934 Spanish comedy film directed by Florián Rey and starring Imperio Argentina, Miguel Ligero and Salvador Soler Marí. It is a remake of Rey's 1927 silent film Sister San Sulpicio which had been based on Armando Palacio Valdés's novel of the same title.

Sister San Sulpicio

1934

La Dolores poster
5.0

Dolores, a beautiful young woman, works at the inn Daroca and is courted by the local barber Melchor, and Mr. Patricio, the richest farmer in the region. One day the young Lazarus appears at the inn, a Latin student who falls for the girl and is repaid in the same way. Frustrated, Melchor invents the famous song of Dolores, known by all, staining the honor of the girl.

La Dolores

1940

Carmen la de Triana poster
6.0

The story of a beautiful, vivacious gypsy girl and the two doomed men who fall for her.

Carmen la de Triana

1938

Carmen la de Triana poster
6.0

The story of a beautiful, vivacious gypsy girl and the two doomed men who fall for her.

Carmen la de Triana

1938

The School Children poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

The School Children

1925

La Cruz de Mayo poster
5.5

Coral is a girl who works in a Seville ceramics factory to raise her family, but her greatest illusion is to sing. She is chosen for her good voice and qualities to go to an art academy. That's the beginning of a great success in her career and an advantageous contract.

La Cruz de Mayo

1955

I'm a Gentleman poster
7.0

A 1935 film.

I'm a Gentleman

1935

I'm a Gentleman poster
7.0

A 1935 film.

I'm a Gentleman

1935

Mom's Boyfriend poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mom's Boyfriend

1934

Mom's Boyfriend poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mom's Boyfriend

1934

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Madrid's Rogue

1927

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Madrid's Rogue

1927

Agustina of Aragon poster
7.0

Early version of the life of Agustina of Aragon, a Spanish national heroine.

Agustina of Aragon

1929

Agustina of Aragon poster
7.0

Early version of the life of Agustina of Aragon, a Spanish national heroine.

Agustina of Aragon

1929

The Cursed Village poster
6.7

Region of Castilla La Vieja, Spain, early 20th century. In Luján, a village ravaged by drought, Juan, a humble farmer who survives with his wife and son, confronts a local loan shark and is imprisoned as a result.

The Cursed Village

1930

The Cursed Village poster
6.7

Region of Castilla La Vieja, Spain, early 20th century. In Luján, a village ravaged by drought, Juan, a humble farmer who survives with his wife and son, confronts a local loan shark and is imprisoned as a result.

The Cursed Village

1930

The Cursed Village poster
6.7

Region of Castilla La Vieja, Spain, early 20th century. In Luján, a village ravaged by drought, Juan, a humble farmer who survives with his wife and son, confronts a local loan shark and is imprisoned as a result.

The Cursed Village

1930

Gigantes y cabezudos poster
6.0

Ricla, a village in Aragon, Spain, 1898. The imminent wedding between Jesús and Pilar, two young lovers, is frustrated when he is drafted to go to the war in Cuba.

Gigantes y cabezudos

1926