José Franco

José Franco

Born: April 25, 1908
Died: January 30, 1980
in Madrid, España

Movies for José Franco...

The Imaginary Invalid
Title: The Imaginary Invalid
Character: Dr. Purgón
Released: October 14, 1979
Type: Movie
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¡Mi adúltero esposo! ('In Situ')
Title: ¡Mi adúltero esposo! ('In Situ')
Released: June 10, 1979
Type: Movie
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Historia de S
Title: Historia de S
Character: Obispo
Released: March 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Sebastian (Alfredo Landa), dressmaker of great prestige, is aware of the boredom that produces sexual routine with his wife. Is then made with a good amount of erotic material, including books and magazines and catching up on what is current in the sexual aspects. His wife, alarmed at the new attitude of Sebastian, there is even the possibility to enter. Sebastian, determined to modernize the extreme, organize a parade with new models essentially erotic.
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A Man Called Autumn Flower
Title: A Man Called Autumn Flower
Character: Dueño de Bataclán
Released: September 24, 1978
Type: Movie
Lluis de Serracant leads a double life. By day he's a young lawyer, scion of a Catalan bourgeois family. At night he's a transvestite performer known to his fans as "Flower of Autumn".
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The Priest
Title: The Priest
Character: Padre Alfonso
Released: May 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Obsessed with fantasies of sex, Father Miguel seeks professional help through his church but they are not listening; thus leaving the Father in a dilemma; leaving the church or should he try, on his own, to surrender to these temptations?
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The Clear Motives of Desire
Title: The Clear Motives of Desire
Character: Examinador
Released: June 1, 1977
Type: Movie
A morbid curiosity leads Andrea and her friends to spy on a couple of young people during their amorous outings. Javi, the boyfriend, feels bothered because that situation, but ignores that Andrea is attracted to him.
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Climax
Title: Climax
Character: Villanueva
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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La Corea
Title: La Corea
Character: Simón
Released: October 28, 1976
Type: Movie
Toni is a seventeen year old young man who comes to Madrid from a little village in search of work. A friend from the same village of Toni puts him in touch with Charo, "La Corea", a mature woman dedicated to facilitating contacts and boys to American men at the military base of Torrejón.
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Señoritas de uniforme
Title: Señoritas de uniforme
Released: October 8, 1976
Type: Movie
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El segundo poder
Title: El segundo poder
Character: Fray Cipriano
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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Ready, Aim, Fire!
Title: Ready, Aim, Fire!
Character: Álvarez
Released: September 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Madrid, in the forties. In the post-war period, Paca, a chorus girl who aspires to enter the Celia Gámez Company, returns to Madrid after a provincial tour. In the same train travels Luis, undocumented young person to whom Paca allows him to spend the night in the room where she lives with her sick father. Paca's relationship with Julio, a mogul without remorse, offers her financial support, but Luis gives her the tenderness and love she does not have with Julio.
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El último tango en Madrid
Title: El último tango en Madrid
Released: August 11, 1975
Type: Movie
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No quiero perder la honra
Title: No quiero perder la honra
Released: May 5, 1975
Type: Movie
In Madrid, during the postwar, Miguel, decide to live supported by women. He has two workers who doesn´t make much headway, for that reason, advised by one of his friends, he decides to go to other town to find a young girl, naive but ambitious in order to take her to the city and make her work.
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Cuando los niños vienen de Marsella
Title: Cuando los niños vienen de Marsella
Character: Sacerdote en boda
Released: November 12, 1974
Type: Movie
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Un curita cañón
Title: Un curita cañón
Character: Obispo
Released: April 10, 1974
Type: Movie
Father Saturio is a priest unable to keep his mouth shut if he sees injustices being committed. That is why they have transferred him on various occasions from the parishes where he has been assigned. On this occasion, he will have to face Mrs. Aurora, a rich and powerful woman. The war is served.
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The Little Birds
Title: The Little Birds
Character: Hombre importante
Released: January 21, 1974
Type: Movie
An elderly couple in Madrid each buy a pet bird. Weirdness abounds
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Corazón solitario
Title: Corazón solitario
Character: Practicante
Released: July 22, 1973
Type: Movie
Antoñito is a bachelor who works in a cabaret as a clarinetist. He has put an advertisement in the newspaper, looking for a good and honest girl, and to which responds Rocío, who escapes from her native Córdoba to hide the embarrassment of her pregnancy. The coexistence with the naive clarinetist, who refuses the insinuations of a co-worker dedicated to prostitution, who idolizes his deceased mother and keeps as a relic the orthopedic leg of his late father, is not easy. The other men will tend their ties around Rocío, that makes way in the world of the spectacle pretending to be blind. When she can no longer conceal that she is pregnant, Antoñito decides to give his name to the fruit of sin.
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It's Not Good for a Man to Be Alone
Title: It's Not Good for a Man to Be Alone
Character: Dario
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Martín is a tormented and solitary man who hides a shameful and unspeakable secret: he lives with a life-size doll which he treats as if it were his wife. This idyliic, loving existence will be gravely threatened when a prostitute, her daughter, and a pimp enter his life.
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The Week of the Killer
Title: The Week of the Killer
Character: Tendero
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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La garbanza negra, que en paz descanse...
Title: La garbanza negra, que en paz descanse...
Character: Filomeno
Released: April 2, 1972
Type: Movie
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A House Without Boundaries
Title: A House Without Boundaries
Character: Marmolista
Released: April 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Daniel is a member of The Organization. He is sent on an assignment to Bilbao to determine what has become of a lad his age, a former member. He takes over the boy's room in an odd rooming house. When he is given the photo of the boy's girlfriend, he is so taken with it that he puts off his quest. The Organization requires him to continue, however, so he tracks her down to a remote fishing village.
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Title: Plinio
Released: March 13, 1972
Type: TV
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Nada menos que todo un hombre
Title: Nada menos que todo un hombre
Character: Sacerdote
Released: February 14, 1972
Type: Movie
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El caserío
Title: El caserío
Character: Don Leoncio
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
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Los días de Cabirio
Title: Los días de Cabirio
Character: Tío
Released: December 22, 1971
Type: Movie
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Pierna creciente, falda menguante
Title: Pierna creciente, falda menguante
Released: December 25, 1970
Type: Movie
In 1916, while Europe was in the middle of First World War and Spain was enjoying the advantages of being a neutral country, eroticism was called voluptuousness and Senator Duke of Daroca, despite his ancient lineage, fell completely in love with a famous cabaret singer, Rosario "La Criollita", which was a scandal. At that time, it was doubted that decent women had legs - But this mystery was resolved a decade later, when the roaring twenties arrived and, with them, the sensual Lupe Cardoso
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El huesped del sevillano
Title: El huesped del sevillano
Released: November 9, 1970
Type: Movie
The Sevillano's guest is a story full of intrigues. The title alludes to the fact that a character who appears, the guest of the El Sevillano inn in Toledo, is the writer Miguel de Cervantes.
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El cronicón
Title: El cronicón
Character: El gordo Atanasio
Released: June 4, 1970
Type: Movie
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Con ella llegó el amor
Title: Con ella llegó el amor
Character: Méndez
Released: January 5, 1970
Type: Movie
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Bohemians
Title: Bohemians
Character: Señor Girard
Released: August 11, 1969
Type: Movie
Paris 1900. Sharing a house in the Bohemian District are Roberto, a fledgling Musician, who is composing an Opera with his friend the poet Victor Duval; and the beautiful Cossette, daughter of a retired tenor, who goes up and down the stairs, taking advantage of Roberto's music to train her voice. The young bohemian musician does not know Cosette, but hears her sing daily. Instead, she's in love with Roberto and follows his steps as a composer.
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A Love Story
Title: A Love Story
Character: Editor
Released: November 27, 1967
Type: Movie
An aspiring young writer lives with his pregnant wife and works for a newspaper to provide for his growing family. When his sister-in-law comes to visit, there is a mutual attraction between the guest and the writer.
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El padre Manolo
Title: El padre Manolo
Released: March 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Padre Manolo, priest, magician and singer, starts a private investigation on what seems to be a murder...
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El hueso
Title: El hueso
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A small Spanish town is shocked because they have found the bone of one of its local heroes: Don Nuño Pérez de Gormaz. The bone is a symbol of the history of the place, and therefore also of the history of Spain, so that all residents take to the streets to try to recover it.
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Las viudas
Title: Las viudas
Character: Don Juan (segment "El Aniversario")
Released: October 27, 1966
Type: Movie
Comedy consists of three stories about the sudden death of three husbands: a newly married man dies as a result of the excessive enthusiasm of his wife ("Honeymoon"), another because of a fling with a girl too fiery ("The Anniversary" ), and finally, a husband dies because of his greed and stinginess ("Portrait of Regino").
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El arte de no casarse
Title: El arte de no casarse
Character: Sacerdote (1)
Released: June 8, 1966
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Tales to Keep You Awake
Released: February 4, 1966
Type: TV
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Title: Tales to Keep You Awake
Character: Nuevo Rico
Released: February 4, 1966
Type: TV
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The Family and One More
Title: The Family and One More
Character: Don Ramón
Released: September 10, 1965
Type: Movie
The life of the family inordinate surveyor Carlos Alonso has undergone several changes over the course of the years: the birth of child number 16, little Maria, coincided with the death of the mother, who left behind a hollow refillable. The grandfather also died. The Godfather pastry married, and the boys have been growing rapidly ...
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The Salary of Crime
Title: The Salary of Crime
Character: Propietario del Tablao Flamenco
Released: December 26, 1964
Type: Movie
Mario, the son of a police captain killed in the line of duty, is completely surrendered to the police organization. Instructing some errands meet Elsa, original and fascinating beauty, beginning an illicit affair and exciting. This makes his firmest principles are shaken, transformed his life completely absurd entering a maelstrom revolving around the existence of Elsa surface.
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El pecador y la bruja
Title: El pecador y la bruja
Released: September 28, 1964
Type: Movie
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The Rash One
Title: The Rash One
Released: September 7, 1964
Type: Movie
Paco is the boy buttons a luxury hotel. Usually do small businesses with the resale of tickets to bullfights tourists. By a misunderstanding is fired from his job. There is no use of his taste and wanders the Victoria Street taverns. Finally discovers his only chance in bulls, easy craft that believes and loves. The reality is very different and has to accept the truth which manifests itself in a very dramatic.
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Como dos gotas de agua
Title: Como dos gotas de agua
Character: Pepe el mayordomo
Released: January 30, 1964
Type: Movie
The lawyer Angela Goñi is working in two cases at once: an man that wants to take to Pilo, a young orphan, tp a protection child school. And Mili, another young woman neglected by his father, a businessman, whose aunt Teresa wants to claim through the courts. Taking advantage of the amazing similarity between the girls, the lawyer makes many things to try to resolve the situation as happy as possible.
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La batalla del domingo
Title: La batalla del domingo
Character: Don Paco
Released: September 2, 1963
Type: Movie
Alfredo Di Stéfano plays himself, not as a soccer player but as a man, husband and father. This is a personal portrait of the mythical athlete, in the decline of his career. Film made to the greater glory of the football player Alfredo Di Stefano. In principle it is a portrait of manners of the life of the athlete at the time of professional retirement. Filmed by Luis Marquina, " The Battle of Sunday " mixes the form of a conventional film with the topics of biographical documentaries. However, the film was an important public success, given the importance of Di Stefano in Spanish football.
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Nothing Ever Happens
Title: Nothing Ever Happens
Character: Don Jerónimo
Released: August 26, 1963
Type: Movie
The star of a magazine company suffers an appendicitis attack during a shift and has to stay in a small Spanish town to be operated. But the doctor who takes care of his speech falls in love for her and tries to prolong their convalescence.
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Queen of the Chantecler
Title: Queen of the Chantecler
Character: Don Pagaré
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A Spanish music hall performer gets caught up in espionage during the First World War.
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You and I Are Three
Title: You and I Are Three
Character: Tío Raimundo Cisneros
Released: September 6, 1962
Type: Movie
When Manolina saw a picture of Rodolfo, a South American poet, she falls in love for him. Three months after marriage by proxy, Rodolfo meets with her, which takes a major surprise to meet the twin brother of her husband.
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Placido
Title: Placido
Character: Don Matías Helguera
Released: June 27, 1962
Type: Movie
In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish.
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La viudita naviera
Title: La viudita naviera
Character: Carmelo Pimentel
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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Familia provisional
Title: Familia provisional
Released: March 3, 1958
Type: Movie
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Tremolina
Title: Tremolina
Released: April 21, 1957
Type: Movie
A 1957 Spanish film.
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Esa voz es una mina
Title: Esa voz es una mina
Character: Don Próspero
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A young miner, married to a lovely woman crippled, lives happily proving to have a wonderful singing voice while hauling trucks in the mine. One day, to hear a clever promoter, gets its hands on an interesting contract to sing in the most cosmopolitan nightclubs, waking him good prospects for a revenue amazement while he meets another woman who might get put endanger their marriage.
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La vida en un bloc
Title: La vida en un bloc
Character: Germán - padre de Pili
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Dr. Nicomedes Gutiérrez carefully points out to the last detail everything that happens in his life. Doctor in a small village, he is in love with the village teacher, but, before getting married, he decides to treat himself to having his last fling.
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El pescador de coplas
Title: El pescador de coplas
Character: Director de escena (as Pepe Franco)
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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Airport
Title: Airport
Character: Señor Comas
Released: September 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Different kind of people arrives to Madrid airport. Some goes with their heads and others just landed. Fernando is a pilot who he brings a girl for his relatives. Ceferino and his wife have won a contest and will travel soon to Paraguay and they are there because they want to know the airplane. Mr. Beltran is very nervous because he returned to Spain after many years of exile.
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That Happy Couple
Title: That Happy Couple
Character: Tenor
Released: August 31, 1953
Type: Movie
Juan and Carmen are a humble couple living in Madrid. She does the housework and he works as an electrician in a film studio. Their dreams of wellness come true when they win a contest sponsored by a soap brand.
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Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Title: Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Character: Delegado general
Released: April 4, 1953
Type: Movie
A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the American visitors, in the hopes of benefiting under the Marshall Plan. Hoping to demonstrate the side of Spanish culture with which the visiting foreign officials would be more familiarized, the Castilian citizens don unfamiliar Andalusian costumes, hire a renowned flamenco performer, and re-decorate their town in Andalusian style, meantime waiting for their uncertain arrival.
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Sobresaliente
Title: Sobresaliente
Released: February 2, 1953
Type: Movie
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Facultad de Letras
Title: Facultad de Letras
Character: Don Rafael
Released: May 12, 1952
Type: Movie
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Siempre vuelven de madrugada
Title: Siempre vuelven de madrugada
Character: Extorsionista
Released: September 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A good-for-nothing young man and his friend are involved in a woman's death. To escape Police and wanting a change he goes to the small country village he used to visit with his family. Yet his past will find him there.
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Aventuras de Juan Lucas
Title: Aventuras de Juan Lucas
Character: Male victim of the ambush
Released: July 7, 1949
Type: Movie
Following his father's steps, Juan Lucas becomes the most famous highwayman in Sierra Morena mountains, also helping local resistance against Napoleonic troops. In love with Ana, a Count's daughter, his hopes seem to have no future.
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¡Olé torero!
Title: ¡Olé torero!
Released: February 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Manuel is a friendly taxi driver in Buenos Aires that helps its beginnings to a famous Spanish bullfighter dubbed "The Carthusian". He travels to Spain to marry a young Sevillian, rich and beautiful, and Manuel accompanies him on the trip, as administrator. During the voyage dies "The Carthusian" afflicted with a terrible disease, and before dying makes him promise to his friend Manuel to comfort Soledad, his fiancee. But to get to Seville is confused with the bullfighter.
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Llegada de noche
Title: Llegada de noche
Character: Encargado de noche
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
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El señor Esteve
Title: El señor Esteve
Character: Martinete
Released: December 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Barcelona, 1860. Mr. Esteve, owner of a haberdashery and proud of his son, attends the christening of his grandson who, years later, determined to become a renowned artist, seems unwilling to continue the tradition and take over the family business. (Only badly preserved and severely mutilated copies of this film survive, just 69 out of a total of 108 minutes.)
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Mare nostrum
Title: Mare nostrum
Character: Maitre
Released: December 21, 1948
Type: Movie
The Spanish merchant "Mare Nostrum", captained by Ulises Ferragut, docked in September 1939 at the port of Naples to repair a breakdown. Walking through the ruins of Pompeii, Ferragut meets Freyra, an enigmatic and beautiful woman of whom she instantly falls madly in love, unaware that the girl is in fact a dangerous spy of the Third Reich.
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Pobre mi madre querida
Title: Pobre mi madre querida
Released: March 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Contrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life.
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Love Charm
Title: Love Charm
Character: Comisario
Released: November 24, 1947
Type: Movie
Berta is a young manicurist whose boyfriend, Jorge, is too shy to ask for a raise, something she always blames him for. On the occasion of a special job that Berta must do in a big house, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, the couple fantasizes about what their life would be like in the midst of so many comforts.
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María Fernanda la Jerezana
Title: María Fernanda la Jerezana
Released: January 30, 1947
Type: Movie
Madrid, Spain, early 20th century. A woman turns up dead in a modest home. She turns out to be María la Jerezana, a popular singer who was famous years ago until she disappeared. The Police Commissioner in charge, dissatisfied with the official version, which concludes that the crime was the result of a simple robbery, is determined to find out the truth.
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Reina santa
Title: Reina santa
Character: Froilas
Released: January 11, 1947
Type: Movie
A virtuous Spanish princess becomes queen of Portugal, and soon is affected by the social struggles and the reckless fight to power between the king's faction and that of his son's.
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The Crime of Bordadores' Street
Title: The Crime of Bordadores' Street
Character: Don Matías
Released: October 21, 1946
Type: Movie
Madrid, late 19th century. A wealthy woman is found murdered at home and her maid appears as the main suspect, but her statement entangles this seemingly simple case.
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El destino se disculpa
Title: El destino se disculpa
Character: Notario
Released: January 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Ramiro and Teófilo are great friends and endure their misfortunes together. Their attempts to succeed as artists fail, so they both promise that the first to die will become the guide to the survivor's life.
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La torre de los siete jorobados
Title: La torre de los siete jorobados
Character: Napoleon (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1944
Type: Movie
In Madrid, Spain, at the end of the 19th century, the young and reckless Basilio seems to be the only person who perceives the spectral presence of Professor Robinsón de Mantua, who begs him to take care of his niece Inés, because she is in grave danger.
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The Nail
Title: The Nail
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: October 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed. When he investigates the case in depth, his suspicions fall on the woman who was going to marry the deceased.
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Café de París
Title: Café de París
Character: Monsieur Dupont
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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Santos Vega
Title: Santos Vega
Released: September 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A 1936 film.