Francisco Algora

Francisco Algora

Born: December 7, 1948
Died: March 30, 2016
in Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Movies for Francisco Algora...

Moon in a Bottle
Title: Moon in a Bottle
Character: Tomás
Released: November 16, 2007
Type: Movie
Zeta has a month to hand in a novel she has been commissioned to write and every day she searches for inspiration among the strange customers who are regulars at the Café Rossignol. There she becomes close to Alicia, a pretty waitress who doesn't want to fall in love; she gets to know Pascal, the owner of the bar and a cabaret artist who is nervously waiting for the arrival of his old friends and lovers Irene and Kurt. Or she leaves with Don José another regular who is tormented by a letter he doesn't dare to open. They all want to change their lives. The moment has come to be brave and try to do the impossible. Can they put the moon in a bottle..?
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Sunday Light
Title: Sunday Light
Character: Apolonio Chanfaina
Released: November 16, 2007
Type: Movie
The small Asturian village of Cenciella, Spain, at the beginning of the twentieth century. The quiet life of Urbano and Estrella, a kind and naive couple in love, is seriously altered when they get involved in the fierce struggle between the local political factions.
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Dos rivales casi iguales
Title: Dos rivales casi iguales
Character: Cura Echarren
Released: May 25, 2007
Type: Movie
A colorfully yet emotional comedy, filled with provoking political criticism, placed in a contemporary scenario, where salmons and frogs coexist with the inhabitants of a small village, near a beautiful river. This year though, the river and its inhabitants are about to stir things up. The twin brothers Jaime and Nacho find themselves challenging each other for the most important political seat in the nation
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Río seco
Title: Río seco
Character: Vecino
Released: May 13, 2006
Type: Movie
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The Wretched Life of Juanita Narboni
Title: The Wretched Life of Juanita Narboni
Character: Dédé
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
The daughter of an Englishman and an Andalusian woman, Juanita rejects the historical changes taking place in Tangier.She lives alone in this "Paradise lost", surrounded by her sister Elena; Esther, her close friend who dedicates her entire life to an impossible love affair with a Moroccan; and Hamruch the housemaid, who disappears one day without saying a word. The Spanish Civil War, WWII with the arrival of refugees from Europe, and the Moroccan independence finally returns the city to its Arab origins. Juanita's tragedy lies in not realizing that her world is destined to disappear by the destructive and rejuvenating force of History.
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Merry-Go-Round c. 1950
Title: Merry-Go-Round c. 1950
Character: Povedano
Released: September 16, 2004
Type: Movie
This movie doesn't have any coherent plot. It's the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how they manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: La colmena or Roma (Fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.
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Amigo, no gima
Title: Amigo, no gima
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
This is a short story about an old Spanish man, who is about to sell his shop in Barrio De Llavapies, in Madrid set in 2003 on the 1st of February. This film shows life from the viewpoint of two ethnic groups an immigrant who has a run in with an old white Spanish man who has racist views and is meant to one of the last white shop owners in this Barrio.
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Historia de un beso
Title: Historia de un beso
Character: Don Lino
Released: October 24, 2002
Type: Movie
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Retruc
Title: Retruc
Character: Barman
Released: October 7, 2001
Type: Movie
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Lázaro de Tormes
Title: Lázaro de Tormes
Character: Ventero
Released: January 19, 2001
Type: Movie
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You're the One
Title: You're the One
Released: October 13, 2000
Type: Movie
Julia, an only child of an affluent, bank owning family living in Madrid, escapes from her family to get over her grief that her boyfriend has been imprisoned. Julia is a well educated woman, having studied in Switzerland and England, who wants to become a writer. Julia drives to a little village in Asturias called "Corralbos del Sella" and there she stays in a mansion "llendelabarca" of an old childhood friend "Pilara" she had spent many a happy summer with. Also living there is Pilara's mother in law Tia Gala, and her grandson Juanito. Julia's relationship with caretakers, teacher and priest makes Julia, a woman of the spanish capital, perhaps for the first time to not feel so alone.
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Title: No sé bailar
Released: July 3, 1999
Type: TV
It is a surrealist comedy where reality and fantasy are mixed, it tells in a humorous tone the daily life and dreams of a 40-year-old film buff, played by Emilio Gutiérrez Caba.
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The Grandfather
Title: The Grandfather
Character: Don Carmelo
Released: October 16, 1998
Type: Movie
After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true, and which one is bastard.
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Barrio
Title: Barrio
Character: Ángel
Released: October 2, 1998
Type: Movie
Bored 15-year-old school chums Rai Manu and Javi dream of sexual adventures and exotic resorts while the well-off population of Madrid flock to the beaches on a summer holiday. The youths hang around the concrete wasteland killing time by reading the sex classifieds and pushing their luck. They masturbate, thieve, fight with their families and get involved in a drug bust. Finally Rai, the most daring and restless of the trio - gets shot while trying to steal stereo gear from a car. Each adolescent faces a dreary home life but when they get together they enjoy each other's company to the full. The film is an engaging mixture of comedy drama and the pathos of life in a Madrid neighborhood.
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El tiempo de la felicidad
Title: El tiempo de la felicidad
Character: Cartero
Released: July 4, 1997
Type: Movie
It's summer 1970, and the hippie movement has taken over an entire generation. In a beach house, a very unique family begins their summer vacation, which will change everyone's lives: Fernando (the father) an actor, Lucia (the mother) devoted housewife, and their four children- Chucho (the eldest), Elena (the intellectual), Juan (car-crazy) and Veronica (the youngest).
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The Rats
Title: The Rats
Released: June 4, 1997
Type: Movie
In the mid-fifties, El Nini lives in the poorest and most forgotten rural Castile (Spain). He is a child with no more knowledge than those provided by nature. El Nini lives with his father in a cave, and with him he devotes himself to the hunting of water rats, the only means of subsistence they know. But when they are tried to deprive them of their roof and their livelihood, violence will erupt uncontrollably.
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Matías, juez de línea
Title: Matías, juez de línea
Character: Metralla, el lugarteniente
Released: April 12, 1996
Type: Movie
Matias is a soccer referee. He promised his dying mother never to lie. When he referees a match of the spanish national team and there is a clear penalty against Spain in the last minute of the game he has no choice and marks the foul. As a result Spain does not qualify for the world championship and Matias is forced to escape from the rage of the people. He hides in the town of his father which he hasn't visited since his childhood.
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Mar de luna
Title: Mar de luna
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Story of impossible love between a knight and his sister. From them born a son who is repudiated by the gentleman, who takes him to live with monks in a monastery. When the boy grows up, escapes from the monastery to see the world and especially the sea. On the way he meets a peddler who teaches him to function in life.
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Tramontana
Title: Tramontana
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
In the 13th century, desolation and misery lead the inhabitants of a village in the Pyrenees to emigrate to Burriana, in Valencia, a region considered to be the Promised Land. During the journey, love, hatred and suffering will jeopardize their arrival at their longed-for destination. At the same time, they will be involved in the war waged by King James I to reconquer these lands held by the Muslims. Reaching the end of the journey will be an odyssey.
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Title: El Obispo Leproso
Character: Jeromín
Released: November 23, 1990
Type: TV
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El cianuro… ¿solo o con leche?
Title: El cianuro… ¿solo o con leche?
Released: March 30, 1989
Type: Movie
A decrepit house in Badajoz, Spain, on a cold winter night in 1925. Laura and her mother Adela, who is confined to a wheelchair, are faced with the possibility of putting an end to the grumpy grandfather's life, who is around ninety-two years old. But then, suddenly, cousin Enrique, a doctor by profession, shows up, which will change the course of events…
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Winter Diary
Title: Winter Diary
Character: Culebrero
Released: September 29, 1988
Type: Movie
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El Dorado
Title: El Dorado
Character: Llamoso
Released: April 20, 1988
Type: Movie
The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
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La guerra de los locos
Title: La guerra de los locos
Character: Domi
Released: April 11, 1987
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War a group of interns of a psychiatric hospital takes advantage of the confusion of the arrival of the "national" troops to get away from the center. In their flight, the fugitive patients will find a group of anarchists with whom they share bloody war episodes.
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Silver-beet Face
Title: Silver-beet Face
Character: Cocinero
Released: January 20, 1987
Type: Movie
On a road in the deep Spain, a wanderer with no fixed course and light luggage awaits someone to take him somewhere. His name is Antonio and this is how he will end up in a small provincial town, where he will be involved in a plan to steal a canvas of incalculable value.
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El rey y la reina
Title: El rey y la reina
Released: July 16, 1986
Type: Movie
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Réquiem por un campesino español
Title: Réquiem por un campesino español
Character: Zapatero
Released: August 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Hypocrisy and betrayal are the two dramatic pivots in this effective, emotionally gripping tragedy about the life and death of Paco (Antonio Banderas), a Spanish peasant who had been fighting against the feudal landowning system that kept farmers impoverished. Paco's life is told in flashbacks by a priest (Antonio Ferrandis) who is seen officiating at an anniversary mass attended by three wealthy landowners and no one else. The priest recalls Paco's baptism, his communion, his marriage ceremony and then his work for the peasants as he advocated and led them in a land-reform movement. The rest of the story will rest heavy on the priest's conscience, as he looks out at his empty church.
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Fanny Straw-Top
Title: Fanny Straw-Top
Character: Julián
Released: July 2, 1984
Type: Movie
In the slums of Barcelona, Fanny, a woman just released from prison, tries to carry out a revenge that has nourished for years: to kill "El Gallego", the corrupt and brutal policeman who killed her boyfriend
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The Beehive
Title: The Beehive
Character: Ramón Maello
Released: October 11, 1982
Type: Movie
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.
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The National Mummy
Title: The National Mummy
Character: Saturnino
Released: October 21, 1981
Type: Movie
Saturnino, a young archaeologist, bourgeois and wealthy, lives in a luxurious mansion. He receives a visit from his old teacher, Don Felipe, accompanied by his daughter and a monumental mummy he has just discovered in one of his excavations in the Upper Nile. The Mummy, was in his time a princess and has on his bandages a curse, that when it breaks ... it will be dedicated to chasing and raping all the men it finds in its path.
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Kargus
Title: Kargus
Character: Tachador 2
Released: June 19, 1981
Type: Movie
A series of vignettes is woven into a larger story in this first film to be written and directed by Juan Minon and Miguel A. Trujillo. A writer who works in a bookshop to earn a living meets a wealthy American named Kargus looking for talent to ensconce in his projected art colony in the Gilbert Islands. In order to convince the American to take him on as a good prospect, the writer promotes his own stories -- the vignettes seen in the film. One story is about a young man trying to impress his girlfriend with his new car, a car he indirectly borrowed from a rental agency. His efforts to hide the rental sign on top of the car lead to various comical posturings. Other vignettes are from the era of the Spanish Civil War, including one about two people trying to survive by hunting cats and killing them to sell to butchers. Another vignette shows pro-Franco activists eradicating anti-Franco graffiti in Madrid.
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Kargus
Title: Kargus
Character: Tachador 1
Released: June 19, 1981
Type: Movie
A series of vignettes is woven into a larger story in this first film to be written and directed by Juan Minon and Miguel A. Trujillo. A writer who works in a bookshop to earn a living meets a wealthy American named Kargus looking for talent to ensconce in his projected art colony in the Gilbert Islands. In order to convince the American to take him on as a good prospect, the writer promotes his own stories -- the vignettes seen in the film. One story is about a young man trying to impress his girlfriend with his new car, a car he indirectly borrowed from a rental agency. His efforts to hide the rental sign on top of the car lead to various comical posturings. Other vignettes are from the era of the Spanish Civil War, including one about two people trying to survive by hunting cats and killing them to sell to butchers. Another vignette shows pro-Franco activists eradicating anti-Franco graffiti in Madrid.
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Title: Cervantes
Character: Ginés
Released: April 6, 1981
Type: TV
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Gay Club
Title: Gay Club
Character: Tony
Released: March 12, 1981
Type: Movie
A group of homosexual friends tries to set up a gay club in a town in Andalusia, meeting the opposition of the chief who will use all his resources to try to prevent it.
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Title: Fortunata and Jacinta
Character: Nicolás Rubín
Released: May 7, 1980
Type: TV
The aristocrat Juan de Santa Cruz meets Fortunata, a girl of humble origins, and a passionate love arises between them; but his mother decides to marry him to her niece Jacinta.
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The Faithful Servants
Title: The Faithful Servants
Character: Natalio
Released: May 5, 1980
Type: Movie
The service staff of a luxurious Catalan farmhouse has prepared a large banquet because the arrival of the guests is expected. Everything is ready, but nobody arrives. Then, the housekeeper and the other servants will occupy for a few moments the place of their masters and, like them, they will behave despotically.
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Erotic Stories
Title: Erotic Stories
Character: (voice)
Released: March 13, 1980
Type: Movie
A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.
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Everybody Calls Me 'The Cat'
Title: Everybody Calls Me 'The Cat'
Character: Chato
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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El buscón
Title: El buscón
Character: Pablos, el Buscón
Released: November 27, 1979
Type: Movie
XVII century Spain. Don Pablo tries to climb position and falls into the hands of students, rogues, whores, fake skilled, executioners, jailers and comedians. Based on "The Buscón called Pablos" Francisco de Quevedo.
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¡Mi adúltero esposo! ('In Situ')
Title: ¡Mi adúltero esposo! ('In Situ')
Character: Luis (as Paco Algora)
Released: June 10, 1979
Type: Movie
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La insólita y gloriosa hazaña del cipote de Archidona
Title: La insólita y gloriosa hazaña del cipote de Archidona
Character: Andrés
Released: March 2, 1979
Type: Movie
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Traffic Jam
Title: Traffic Jam
Character: Ambulance Driver
Released: January 12, 1979
Type: Movie
A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told.
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Soldados
Title: Soldados
Character: El Tellina
Released: November 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Dramatic portrait of men and women discouraged in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, after the odyssey of a group of Republican soldiers trying to reach the east coast to go into exile. Agustín must bear that his libertine father lives with the ironer Remedios, although she does not love him. She escapes and he goes to war; when they finally meet again, anxious amid bursts, it will be impossible to consummate their desires repressed for so long.
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A Man Called Autumn Flower
Title: A Man Called Autumn Flower
Character: Surroca
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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Tiempos de constitución
Title: Tiempos de constitución
Released: September 16, 1978
Type: Movie
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Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country
Title: Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country
Character: Goyo
Released: July 10, 1978
Type: Movie
A man and a woman hitch a ride in the dark and swap their sad tales of failed relationships.
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Una familia decente
Title: Una familia decente
Character: Tomás Torres
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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The Andalusian Widow
Title: The Andalusian Widow
Character: Rampín
Released: December 5, 1977
Type: Movie
Lozana, a young, beautiful and clever woman decides to move to the city after a tragic love story. There, she meets Rampin, a naughty rascal who soon finds out that her wit surpasses his own by a handful. When he falls in love with her, he can't help suffering as he sees how she plays not only with him, but with all of her lovers as well.
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I Feel Strange
Title: I Feel Strange
Character: Lucio
Released: December 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Laura is a pianist who leaves her home fed up with her abusive husband's mistreatment. Then she meets Marta, a vedette and television star with whom she will work on the preparation of her new show. From the moment Laura moves to Marta's home, the neighbors' gossips and rumours begin.
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Secretos de alcoba
Title: Secretos de alcoba
Character: Serafín
Released: June 21, 1977
Type: Movie
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¡Bruja, más que bruja!
Title: ¡Bruja, más que bruja!
Character: Juan
Released: March 28, 1977
Type: Movie
A small provincial town lives under the caprices of Don Justin, the local cacique. This forces the young Mariana to marry him, taking advantage of the fact that her nephew Juan, the boyfriend of the girl, is far away from military service. Upon his return, Juan is mocked and goes to a witch to assist him in his revenge.
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Foul Play
Title: Foul Play
Character: Venancio
Released: March 11, 1977
Type: Movie
A 1977 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem that won the Golden Prize the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.
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Such As You Are
Title: Such As You Are
Character: Andrecito
Released: February 7, 1977
Type: Movie
Lina, who works as a servant, is saving money with his boyfriend Daniel, who is fireman, in order to get married. But the weddings' day, when his fiance is goint to the wedding, he recieves an urgent call because of a big fire in the forest. So he decides to go to the fire and leaves his fiancee at the church. Lina feels that Daniel prefer the fire than her so he goes to her town hitchhiking. Carlos, who has just robbed a bank, picks her.
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Girls... The Hall
Title: Girls... The Hall
Character: Cachelo (as Paco Algora)
Released: February 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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Title: Curro Jiménez
Character: El Fraile
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: TV
Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez
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Nosotros que fuimos tan felices
Title: Nosotros que fuimos tan felices
Released: December 17, 1976
Type: Movie
After a long absence, Ulises, a theatrical author, returns to his home to be with his wife, Carlota, and their son. However, upon arriving in Madrid he discovers that Carlota has become a great theater actress and that she is sentimentally united to Miguel, a renowned playwright who copies the comedies that Ulysses himself had written.
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Las delicias de los verdes años
Title: Las delicias de los verdes años
Character: Mauro Pacheco
Released: September 12, 1976
Type: Movie
In the Middle Age, a farmer named Mauro is heading to Madrid following the last will of his father.
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Yo soy fulana de tal
Title: Yo soy fulana de tal
Character: Afrodisio
Released: October 31, 1975
Type: Movie
The gentle Spanish comedy Yo soy Fulana de Tal (1975) tells the story of a prostitute who rises from the poor side of town to become a revered member of the community. Along the way she befriends an elderly paternalist artist and also gets her revenge on those who mistreated her in her youth.
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País S. A.
Title: País S. A.
Character: Manuel Hernández
Released: October 27, 1975
Type: Movie
A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist.
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Tocata y fuga de Lolita
Title: Tocata y fuga de Lolita
Character: Nicolás Pérez Lobo 'Nicolai' (as Paco Algora)
Released: September 26, 1974
Type: Movie
Carlos, a widower in his forties, lives with his daughter Lolita and his sister Merche. He is a candidate to Spanish Court's Proctor, so frequently travels outside Madrid. During one of those trips, he is forced to return at home precipitously, because his sister informed him that Lolita has left the house to live with some friends.
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Jaula de todos
Title: Jaula de todos
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
The story of a couple whose relationship is falling apart, with voiceover by two of their friends.
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Yankee Dudler
Title: Yankee Dudler
Character: Andreas Hofleitner
Released: September 7, 1973
Type: Movie
After years in prison, a gang of criminals are deported from Bavaria and arrive as free immigrants to America. They kill an Indian by accident and do different jobs such as cleaning latrines, until they get installed in an abandoned house next to an Indian woman. One day someone will propose to perpetrate a robbery ...
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Speak, Silent One
Title: Speak, Silent One
Character: El Mudo
Released: June 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Ramiro's grandfather is on vacation in a hostel in the mountains with his family. Decides to send theirs to Madrid and stay in a shelter, saying his health requires. But the reason is another ...
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La cera virgen
Title: La cera virgen
Character: Matías
Released: February 21, 1972
Type: Movie
María works in a hostess bar in Madrid because, forced by the Puritans of her little village, she had to leave accused of public scandal just for having kissed her boyfriend. María, together with her three sisters, decides to return and builds a club in the village faced with the scandalized don Florencio, a repressed banker and overlord who secretly desires María. In order to go unnoticed, María and her sisters run the club through a wax-chandler's shop where the majority of men of the village will parade, which excites even more the lascivious and hypocritical don Florencio.