Vicente Parra

Vicente Parra

Born: February 5, 1931
Died: March 2, 1997
in Oliva, Valencia, Spain

Movies for Vicente Parra...

Tranvía a la Malvarrosa
Title: Tranvía a la Malvarrosa
Character: Padre Cáceres
Released: April 4, 1997
Type: Movie
The film is based on the autobiography of writer Manuel Vincent. His father doesn't want him to become a writer and sends him to Valencia law school. One day Manuel sees his dream girl and follows her on a trolley car to Malvarossa beach. He then studies in college, meets call girl La China who teaches him love secrets, but still remembers that girl.
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Suspiros de España (y Portugal)
Title: Suspiros de España (y Portugal)
Character: Villalba
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
After the death of the abbot of a small convent the two monks who are left discover among the papers of the passed away abbot letters from the mother of one of them indicating that he is the natural son of a landowner in Extremadura. In order to claim the legacy of his friend the monk who has lived outside the convent for some time plans their voyage to the property of his father picking up on their way his daughter and lover. Once in Extremadura things look a little different to what the plans say.
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Cartas desde Huesca
Title: Cartas desde Huesca
Character: Médico
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Angy, British publisher specialized in Spanish subjects, and her husband, come to Madrid in search of some manuscripts of the English poet Benton, who died in Huesca during the Civil War. The documents are supposed to be held by Mainar, old anarchist combatant. Contact and subsequent relationship with him, will cause the crisis of the marriage and eventually will trigger a personal drama in Mainar
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El último penalty
Title: El último penalty
Character: Don Juanjo
Released: October 22, 1984
Type: Movie
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Cuando Almanzor perdió el tambor
Title: Cuando Almanzor perdió el tambor
Character: Sancho Parra
Released: September 24, 1984
Type: Movie
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Isabel Reina de Corazones
Title: Isabel Reina de Corazones
Character: Francisco de Asis
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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La leyenda del tambor
Title: La leyenda del tambor
Character: Antoni Frac
Released: September 17, 1981
Type: Movie
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My Darling, What Have You Done to Me?
Title: My Darling, What Have You Done to Me?
Character: Jorge
Released: July 15, 1979
Type: Movie
What seemed like a naive adventure of love becomes a tragedy, since our protagonist Javier, being seduced by young friends of his uncle, discover a hidden plot: "The Oedipus complex". This trauma leads Javier to cause an accident in which his mother's lover dies and unfortunately herself. But the tragedy will continue.
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El hombre que yo quiero
Title: El hombre que yo quiero
Character: Eduardo
Released: November 24, 1978
Type: Movie
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The Last Party
Title: The Last Party
Character: The Priest
Released: March 9, 1978
Type: Movie
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La Rauliuto In Freedom
Title: La Rauliuto In Freedom
Character: El productor
Released: October 6, 1977
Type: Movie
La Raulito travels to Madrid when she gets out of jail in Argentina to carve out a better future. Once in the Spanish capital, she participates in a documentary recounting his experience as a patient in a psychiatric hospital.
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La guerra de papá
Title: La guerra de papá
Character: Emilio
Released: September 18, 1977
Type: Movie
Spain, March 1964: Quico is a very naughty child of three belonging to a wealthy middle-class family. Since Cristina's birth, he feels he has lost the privileged position of "prince" of the house for his eight months old sister. So, with his brother Juan, who is eight years old and is quite disobedient, spend their time committing prank after prank, causing the resulting anger of his mother, the nanny and the old housemaid. The rest of the family members are two much older brothers, his resigned mother and a retrograde father of authoritarian ideas. But many years have passed, and the civil war that won the despot Don Pablo is simply for their children "Dad's war".
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The Spiritualist
Title: The Spiritualist
Character: Alberto
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Alberto Ramos, known as ‘the best photographer in Lisbon’, is also a famous medium who uses his professional gift to enjoy a libertine lifestyle that gives him access to the upper social classes. Margarida Malveira, a rich 50-year-old widow, consults him in the hopes of establishing contact with the love of her life, deceased 30 years prior. After one session, the spirit of Margarida’s husband possesses Alberto’s mind, forcing him to take care of his wife. - MOTELX
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The Transsexual
Title: The Transsexual
Character: Eduardo
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Sympathetic look at the tragic life of cabaret singer Lorna, who was born a man but really just wants to be a woman. She meets a man who loves her but she can't tell him the truth and decides instead to get an operation so she'll be all woman.
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The Long Vacations of '36
Title: The Long Vacations of '36
Character: Paco
Released: October 28, 1976
Type: Movie
Spain, 1936. The Civil War breaks out. In a village near Barcelona, several families decide to continue living in their summer houses until the violence ends.
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La siesta
Title: La siesta
Character: Luís
Released: June 16, 1976
Type: Movie
The seemingly peaceful life of a little village located in the Spanish Levant hides the most turbid and ardent passions. Calixto, a repairman of television antennas, is required by the fiery midwives to quench their sexual instincts.
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The Deadly Triangle
Title: The Deadly Triangle
Character: John Harris
Released: December 10, 1973
Type: Movie
Inspired by "The diabolical" by Clouzot. The life of a woman becomes a sinister nightmare due to the plan drawn up by her husband.
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No One Heard the Scream
Title: No One Heard the Scream
Character: Miguel
Released: March 23, 1973
Type: Movie
A woman sees a man throw a person into an elevator shaft and helps him to get rid of the body. During this adventure the man falls in love with the witness to his crime.
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The Week of the Killer
Title: The Week of the Killer
Character: Marcos
Released: April 13, 1972
Type: Movie
A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to a slaughter house.
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Varietés
Title: Varietés
Released: October 4, 1971
Type: Movie
Spain 1930s. A troupe of performers travel from city to city entertaining audiences and earning a living. The cast includes a magician, a ventriloquist, muscle men, dancers, singers and a full orchestra. The star of the show is Carmen Soler (Trini Alonso) a celebrated singer, now way past her prime, who refuses to retire gracefully and defends her stardom ruthlessly. On her shadow lives and works Ana Marques (Sara Montiel) a younger singer who dreams of the big time and patiently waits for her break.
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La guerrillera de Villa
Title: La guerrillera de Villa
Character: Captain Pablo Marquez
Released: November 15, 1967
Type: Movie
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Sábado en la playa
Title: Sábado en la playa
Released: May 14, 1967
Type: Movie
Pablo arrives at the beach and discovers Adrián's schemes to conquer his wife and other women.
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Buenos días, condesita
Title: Buenos días, condesita
Character: Ramiro
Released: February 20, 1967
Type: Movie
A young woman, who sells music recordings in the flea market in Madrid, passes herself off as a friend's girlfriend so that he doesn't lose his inheritance.
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Las locas del conventillo
Title: Las locas del conventillo
Character: Manolo
Released: June 21, 1966
Type: Movie
The neighborhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, is divided in two sectors: one is where decent people live under the tutelage of Magdalena, in the other, Manuel,ir responsible of a nightclub. Among decent people live Manolo, the milkman, awaiting the arrival of a Spanish woman to marry her. At the same time, the villain of Manuel also hopes for a Spanish nightclub. Women Arrivals weapon confusion.
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Rustic Chivalry
Title: Rustic Chivalry
Character: Sebastián
Released: October 14, 1965
Type: Movie
Maria del Pilar is in love with Sebastian, a servant of his house. But her father wants her to marry Marcos a rich landowner. The girl refuses Marcos and he decides to take revenge.
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Cotolay
Title: Cotolay
Character: Francisco of Assisi
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A loose retelling of the 13th century Galician legend of the boy Cotolay who helped three pilgrims establish the Convent of San Francisco near Santiago de Compostela.
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Fair of the Virgin of La Paloma
Title: Fair of the Virgin of La Paloma
Character: Julián
Released: December 9, 1963
Type: Movie
Life goes quietly in a traditional neighborhood of Madrid. Two beautiful girls, Susana and Casta, trade workers in the area, accepting mature attentions of a pharmacist, Don Hilarion. This affection dislike the young Julian, who is in love with Susan. Third movie version of the famous zarzuela by Tomas Breton. With musical arrangements by Gregorio Garcia Segura, the film tries to update the original story to fit the Madrid of the 60's.
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The Gang of Eleven
Title: The Gang of Eleven
Character: Majestad
Released: July 26, 1963
Type: Movie
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.
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Cariño mío
Title: Cariño mío
Character: Michael
Released: October 13, 1961
Type: Movie
Miguel and Verónica meet in a plane and lie to each other about their true self: she tells him she's a secretary while she actually is the billionaire niece of a duchess, and he tells her he's a trumpet player while he is a Teutonic king. Eventually they fall in love, without knowing about each other's true identity, all of this while Miguel is being urged by his ministers to choose a wife of royal blood and get married as soon as possible, and a revolutionary group, one of which members is Verónica's brother, plans a terrorist attack against the king.
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¿Dónde vas, triste de ti?
Title: ¿Dónde vas, triste de ti?
Character: Alfonso XII
Released: April 17, 1960
Type: Movie
After the death of Queen Mercedes, Alfonso XII's first wife, the problem of the succession is raised. The monarchy needs a heir and the King choses María Cristina from Habsburd to be the futur spanish queen. But Mercedes memories will be against the marriage and the long-awaited son will born when Alfonso is already dead.
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Vacations in Majorca
Title: Vacations in Majorca
Character: Gianni
Released: August 14, 1959
Type: Movie
Ugly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laughed of, especially by his ultra handsome rival, but with his firm insistence, and gradually emerging charm, he seduces the lady, to the total shocked surprise of his rival.
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Soft Skin on Black Silk
Title: Soft Skin on Black Silk
Character: André
Released: June 14, 1959
Type: Movie
Everything you need to know is telegraphed by the title of this Spanish-language drama. The story takes place in a hothouse Mediterranean setting and combines lust, intrigue and murder in the overheated sexploitation style that was popular during the late 1950s and early '60s.
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Los cobardes
Title: Los cobardes
Character: Juan
Released: February 16, 1959
Type: Movie
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¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII?
Title: ¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII?
Character: Alfonso XII
Released: January 29, 1959
Type: Movie
Alfonso de Borbón and his cousin María de las Mercedes de Orleans fall in love and, although both families do not maintain good relationships, young people marry when Alfonso became king of Spain.
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Bread, Love and Andalucia
Title: Bread, Love and Andalucia
Released: December 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Determined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates in an international music festival in Spain, where he falls for a young dancer.
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The Shadow Battalion
Title: The Shadow Battalion
Released: April 28, 1957
Type: Movie
Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among them, an inventor who invents always what is already invented, a composer, a hostess, a locksmith, a delivery of a pastry ...
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Rapsodia de sangre
Title: Rapsodia de sangre
Character: Pulac Andras
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Andras Pulac, a young pianist, refuses to perform a concert in honor of a senior Soviet leader, as a sign of rebellion against the 1956 invasion of Hungary. His refusal, although he does not know it, harms the organizers of a demonstration against the communist cruelty, since his concert had been chosen like slogan. When Pulac finds out, he agrees to give the concert. Andras and Maria Kondor, the daughter of a communist journalist, are in love and decide to get married before the concert. Meanwhile, communist repression in the streets provokes the anger of the Hungarian people and gives rise to a real revolution.
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Class of Iron
Title: Class of Iron
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
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Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
Title: Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
Character: Fernando
Released: November 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female community.
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Andalusia Express
Title: Andalusia Express
Character: Miguel Hernández
Released: September 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Three men plan a jewelry heist abroad the Andalusia express train.
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Basque court
Title: Basque court
Character: Chano
Released: April 21, 1955
Type: Movie
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La patrulla
Title: La patrulla
Character: Matías hijo
Released: September 5, 1954
Type: Movie
Madrid, 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Five infantry soldiers of the victorious side take a photograph of themselves somewhere in the defeated city, promising to meet again ten years later at the same place.
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El pescador de coplas
Title: El pescador de coplas
Character: Pretendiente de María del Mar
Released: February 15, 1954
Type: Movie
It is the story of two brothers who have rented a boat to survive. Juan Ramón sings like an angel and an entrepreneur decides to take him to Madrid to succeed.
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Asylum
Title: Asylum
Character: Alejo
Released: January 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Carlos goes to visit his girlfriend Juana at the asylum where she works. Once there, the director introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says.
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Vuelo 971
Title: Vuelo 971
Character: Rafael Azarías
Released: December 27, 1953
Type: Movie