
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…
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Alma rifeña
1922
7.0Clara 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
6.5No synopsis available yet.
The Unruly Girl
1924
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ana María
1944
No synopsis available yet.
The Girl
1925
6.2Abslan 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
Film credits
1920s · 7 titles
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Alma rifeña
1922
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The Girl
1925
10.0In Madrid, Spain, Susana's flirtations with the old apothecary Don Hilarión arouse the jealousy of Julián, Susana's boyfriend.
La verbena de la paloma
1921
No synopsis available yet.
La inaccesible
1921
10.0Original adaptation of the novel by its director, Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures of a young man studying abroad who stays in a boarding house known as The House of Troy.
La casa de la Troya
1925
No synopsis available yet.
Víctima del odio
1921
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La señorita inútil
1921
Behind the camera
7.0Clara 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
6.5No synopsis available yet.
The Unruly Girl
1924
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ana María
1944
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ana María
1944
No synopsis available yet.
The Girl
1925
No synopsis available yet.
The Girl
1925
6.2Abslan 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
6.2Abslan 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
9.0Mariquilla 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
9.0Mariquilla 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
6.7Trini 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
6.0First 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
6.0First 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
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Fútbol, amor y toros
1929
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Fútbol, amor y toros
1929
7.0An 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
7.0Spanish silent comedy based on Armando Palacio Valdés' novel. It was the first film starring Imperio Argentina.
Sister San Sulpicio
1927
7.0Spanish silent comedy based on Armando Palacio Valdés' novel. It was the first film starring Imperio Argentina.
Sister San Sulpicio
1927
9.0The 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
9.0The 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
6.2The 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
9.0Sister 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
9.0Sister 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
5.0Dolores, 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
6.0The story of a beautiful, vivacious gypsy girl and the two doomed men who fall for her.
Carmen la de Triana
1938
6.0The story of a beautiful, vivacious gypsy girl and the two doomed men who fall for her.
Carmen la de Triana
1938
6.0No synopsis available yet.
The School Children
1925
5.5Coral 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
7.0A 1935 film.
I'm a Gentleman
1935
7.0A 1935 film.
I'm a Gentleman
1935
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Mom's Boyfriend
1934
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Mom's Boyfriend
1934
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Madrid's Rogue
1927
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Madrid's Rogue
1927
7.0Early version of the life of Agustina of Aragon, a Spanish national heroine.
Agustina of Aragon
1929
7.0Early version of the life of Agustina of Aragon, a Spanish national heroine.
Agustina of Aragon
1929
6.7Region 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
6.7Region 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
6.7Region 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
6.0Ricla, 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

