Conchita Montes

Conchita Montes

Born: March 13, 1914
Died: October 18, 1994
in Madrid, Spain
María de la Concepción Carro Alcaraz "Conchita Montes" (1914-1994) was a Spanish film actress. With a degree in Law, she dedicated herself to film at the hand of Edgar Neville, with whom she had a sentimental relationship that lasted 30 years until the director's death. In addition to film, Conchita acted in several plays, TV programmes, and series. Her performances in the film Life on a Thread (Neville, 1945), and the play The Dance (Neville, 1952) are particularly noteworthy.

Movies for Conchita Montes...

Neville's Time
Title: Neville's Time
Character: Herself
Released: June 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Documentary about the life of spanish director Edgar Neville.
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White Jungle Slave
Title: White Jungle Slave
Character: Mary
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A young couple go an a safari for their honeymoon but they are captured by the guide and sold to a tribe of savages.
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Isabel Reina de Corazones
Title: Isabel Reina de Corazones
Character: Eugenia de Montijo
Released: August 7, 1984
Type: Movie
Ricardo Lopez Aranda's play that follows Isabella II of Spain as she is forced to abdicate and leave the country in 1868.
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A Tied Blasé
Title: A Tied Blasé
Released: February 3, 1981
Type: Movie
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The National Shotgun
Title: The National Shotgun
Character: Soledad
Released: September 14, 1978
Type: Movie
A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm shows full authority over James, who is the real organizer of the meeting. The celebration is diverse characters who live next to absurd situations.
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Striptease
Title: Striptease
Character: Condesa (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A disillusioned and depressed film director is forced to confront his lack of humanity through his involvement in the death of a young actress and the suicide of her husband.
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What the Peeper Saw
Title: What the Peeper Saw
Character: Sophie
Released: October 14, 1972
Type: Movie
A wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect that her 12-year old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub accident.
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55 Days at Peking
Title: 55 Days at Peking
Character: Mme Gaumaire
Released: May 6, 1963
Type: Movie
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
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My Street
Title: My Street
Character: Julia
Released: November 21, 1960
Type: Movie
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.
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El baile
Title: El baile
Character: Adela
Released: December 17, 1959
Type: Movie
Pedro and Julian, two friends entomologists are in love the same woman, Adela, who decides to marry Peter. Julian attends the marriage, but acts against women as her own husband. The passion that unites the two friends, entomology, leads them to conclude a treaty. The woman, however, is not comfortable with the life she has lived and want to abandon them. Discovered that she suffers from the disease, makes men willing to please her in everything, without her knowing the reason for his change of attitude.
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Roots
Title: Roots
Character: The City Woman (segment "Las vacas")
Released: September 1, 1954
Type: Movie
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.
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Fairytale
Title: Fairytale
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Two fairy godmothers struggle to make their godchildren not fight and love each other, but a third person intervenes and worsens the situation.
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The Last Horse
Title: The Last Horse
Character: Isabel, florista
Released: November 23, 1950
Type: Movie
Fernando has just finished the military service. It decides to buy Bucéfalo, the horse that has been his partner for this time and returns to Madrid removing with it to the animal. But everything has changed, the city already neither is the same and even he nor finds stables nor has time to attend to it. This way the things remedy will not have any more that to look for any solution.
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My Beloved Juan
Title: My Beloved Juan
Character: Eloisa
Released: February 12, 1950
Type: Movie
The strange disappearance of the dogs of his neighbors leads Juan to investigate the case on his own. It ends up finding out that the author of the robberies is a young woman called Eloísa, the cocky daughter of a scientist who uses dogs to create an antidote against sleep. Juan and Eloísa fall in love, but he will ask her to leave her luxurious mansion to live only with his salary.
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The Marquis of Salamanca
Title: The Marquis of Salamanca
Character: María Buschenthal
Released: December 13, 1948
Type: Movie
José de Salamanca was arguably one of the most influential figures of the Spanish 1800s. This films tells his story.
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Nothing
Title: Nothing
Character: Andrea
Released: November 11, 1947
Type: Movie
Barcelona, in the forties. Young Andrea comes to town to start college in the midst of an oppressive environment and extreme poverty. She's staying at her aunt Angustias, along with other family members. But the quarrels between them are continuous, making evident the open wounds left by the Spanish civil war.
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Carnival Sunday
Title: Carnival Sunday
Character: Nieves
Released: October 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Madrid, Carnival Sunday. A night watchman finds the body of a woman, a rich and greedy moneylender who has apparently been murdered. The prime suspect is a watchmaker who owed her a lot of money.
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La vida en un hilo
Title: La vida en un hilo
Character: Mercedes
Released: April 26, 1945
Type: Movie
After burying his late husband, a young widow leaves his provincial life and heads to the city. It was a very hard stage in her life, and she had to bear it with resignation, but now she's willing to make up for lost time. On the way to the city, she meets a fortune teller who will talk to her about the decisions she made or could have made.
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Café de París
Title: Café de París
Character: Carmen
Released: December 27, 1943
Type: Movie
After suffering a family tragedy, Carmen leaves Spain and emigrates to Paris, where she will make new friends among some of the most peculiar characters who inhabit the bohemian neighborhoods of the city. (Partially lost film.)
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Misterio en la marisma
Title: Misterio en la marisma
Character: Vera
Released: September 8, 1943
Type: Movie
In the Almenares family there is a story involving a mysterious woman and a pearl necklace that obsesses the young heir. He meets Vera, a Polish woman, and invites her and some relations to a hunting weekend, where the necklace disappears.
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Correo de Indias
Title: Correo de Indias
Released: December 7, 1942
Type: Movie
A Dutch sailing ship finds the wreckage of a Spanish mail ship, which has collided with an iceberg. Inside, the bodies of a man and a woman are found embraced.
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Sancta Maria
Title: Sancta Maria
Character: Nadia
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Nadia, a young Soviet journalist who is passing through Pompeii, discovers the power that comes from the Catholic faith when the painter she loves, Paolo, and who saved her from drowning during the shipwreck of the cruise in which they met, is at the gates of death because of a serious illness whose symptoms are similar to those of leprosy.
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Carmen and the Reds
Title: Carmen and the Reds
Character: Carmen
Released: December 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Javier Navarro, a Falangist, is ordered to infiltrate Republican Madrid to deliver a message to a member of the Fifth Column.