Manuel Requena

Manuel Requena

Born: August 21, 1891
Died: May 9, 1969
in Alicante, Spain

Movies for Manuel Requena...

With life they made fire
Title: With life they made fire
Character: Joaquín
Released: September 20, 1959
Type: Movie
The sailor Quico Carola, alleged war hero of the Francoist side, emigrated to America and amassed a great fortune. Fifteen years later he returns to Ferrera (Asturias), his homeland, in search of a wife who makes him forget his late girlfriend. There he will see his old friends and Armandina, the widow of a Republican shot during the Spanish civil war.
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Luxury cabin
Title: Luxury cabin
Character: Don Vicente (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1959
Type: Movie
Aurelio leaves his village and goes to the capital to work with a relative in an emigration shipping company. He soon discovers that his relative earns a bonus extorting migrants who sell tickets. But Aurelio is an honest, sensible man who cannot allow such injustice, and he gets fired. Without telling his parents or girlfriend anything about what happened, he decides to stow away on a boat to America.
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Soledad
Title: Soledad
Released: February 7, 1959
Type: Movie
Italian comedy
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Stories from Madrid
Title: Stories from Madrid
Character: Vecino en la partida de cartas
Released: January 13, 1958
Type: Movie
Dawn in Madrid. In the Plaza de la Cibeles begins the daily grind. The statue of the goddess, from its source in the center of the square tells the story of a man, petty speculator, owner of an old building that is going to ask Saint Nicholas for his cooperation to make it sink, and thus be able to lift a twelve-story modern building. But the inhabitants of the block have also implored the Saint to prevent this from happening.
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Messengers of Peace
Title: Messengers of Peace
Character: Tabernero
Released: December 9, 1957
Type: Movie
Try the descent to Earth, specifically to Spain, of the Three Wise Men.
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Un marido de ida y vuelta
Title: Un marido de ida y vuelta
Character: Tabernero
Released: August 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife dies victim of a heart attack the day she forces him to shave his beloved beard to go to a costume ball dressed as a bullfighter. Its spectrum then begins to walk around the house and the most unexpected cause tangles. When she finally decides to settle definitely get materialize and get his wife, who has meanwhile become a being sweet and understanding.
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Fulano y Mengano
Title: Fulano y Mengano
Character: Vendedor ambulante de lotería
Released: July 24, 1957
Type: Movie
Eudosio and Carlos were imprisoned by mistake. Now out of prison, are trying to get a job and to adapt to a society that rejects them.
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Encuentro en la ciudad
Title: Encuentro en la ciudad
Character: Barbero
Released: April 9, 1956
Type: Movie
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La fierecilla domada
Title: La fierecilla domada
Character: arcipreste de Gandía
Released: January 23, 1956
Type: Movie
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Suspiros de Triana
Title: Suspiros de Triana
Released: December 16, 1955
Type: Movie
The famous singer Carlos Ojeda has come to Seville to hire some Spanish figure to accompany him on the show to be presented in Mexico. Negotiations with Dorita, The Cadiz, fail and Carlos is about to return to empty when discovered Reyes, selling beautiful flowers with a magnificent voice.
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The Miller's Saucy Wife
Title: The Miller's Saucy Wife
Character: Escribano
Released: December 5, 1955
Type: Movie
In a region of Andalusia, all the men lust after the miller's young wife.
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La lupa
Title: La lupa
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1955
Type: Movie
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Mr. Arkadin
Title: Mr. Arkadin
Character: General Martinez
Released: August 9, 1955
Type: Movie
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.
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The Other Life of Captain Contreras
Title: The Other Life of Captain Contreras
Released: June 5, 1955
Type: Movie
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Morena clara
Title: Morena clara
Character: Tripita
Released: December 23, 1954
Type: Movie
Trini, a gipsy girl, and her uncle Regalito are tried for the theft of several hams. Some time later, she presents herself, disguised as a maid, at the house of her former prosecutor, who ends up falling in love with her.
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Tres eran tres
Title: Tres eran tres
Character: (segment "Una de monstruos")
Released: December 16, 1954
Type: Movie
An anthology film centered around a film company called Tiacapa.
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Like the earth
Title: Like the earth
Character: Fidel
Released: July 5, 1954
Type: Movie
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The Devil Plays the Flute
Title: The Devil Plays the Flute
Character: Alcalde
Released: May 14, 1954
Type: Movie
When the pieces of a singular figure are unearthed and then joined together, a devil of the lowest category breaks into a small Mediterranean village. From that moment on, the demon will enter the life of a painter named Bernardino, in the affairs of a "modern" marriage, in the existence of a frightened gardener and, finally, in the day-to-day life of the Great Momo.
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Tres huchas para Oriente
Title: Tres huchas para Oriente
Character: Vecino que hace gimnasia
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Pedro Manolo and Juan, three naughty and full of enthusiasm children go out with their piggy banks collecting money for missions. Near the end of the day, a car ran over one of them and is driven to a nearby hospital. The head of school, not knowing which of the children was injured calls the parents of the three to attend the health center. In parallel, we know the story of the three families. In the upper-class family, the father will leave his mother for another woman, in the middle class one, one sister invites her boyfriend to lunch and family revolutionizes and, finally, in that of lower class, the boy's father is about to be complicit in a crime
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Nadie lo sabrá
Title: Nadie lo sabrá
Character: El hacha
Released: December 7, 1953
Type: Movie
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Airport
Title: Airport
Character: Nemesio
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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La alegre caravana
Title: La alegre caravana
Released: September 2, 1953
Type: Movie
Miguel, a young adventurer with a good social position, flees his home to prevent his marriage qith a woman chosen by his family. In their flight is hidden in a gypsy caravan merchants. There he meets Rocío, a beautiful young woman with an extraordinary voice. Michael will be involved in the events of the troupe and incorporated into the show, going from town to town.
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The Lovers of Toledo
Title: The Lovers of Toledo
Released: January 28, 1953
Type: Movie
Toledo, 1825. To save her fiancé, an opponent of the regime, the beautiful Inès agrees to marry the chief of police.
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Imperial Violets
Title: Imperial Violets
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1952
Type: Movie
Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis Napoleón of France she takes the young girl with her. The empress'cousin readily makes her his focus of attention, then she discovers a criminal attempt against the empress.
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Feather in the Wind
Title: Feather in the Wind
Released: October 17, 1952
Type: Movie
Carlos, veterinary, poet, musician in his spare time and a fun-minded Don Juan,pretends to be his friend Fernando who has inherited a pharmacy in Madrid. There he meets an old girl friend that attracts him.
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Estrella de Sierra Morena
Title: Estrella de Sierra Morena
Character: Alcaide
Released: September 22, 1952
Type: Movie
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Facultad de Letras
Title: Facultad de Letras
Character: Bedel
Released: May 12, 1952
Type: Movie
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The Girl at the Inn
Title: The Girl at the Inn
Character: Charanguito
Released: November 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Juan Luis and Dimas arrive to the "Venta del Catite", a tavern run by Rafael and his goddaughter Reyes. The tavern is frequented by tuna fishermen in the region, but in reality it is a cover for smuggling. Rafael decides to hire a beautiful singer, Raquel, to distract customers and the two new arrivals, so that he can do his business without being disturbed.
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The Great Galeoto
Title: The Great Galeoto
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: Movie
A young musician and dreamy, called "Ernesto", is forced to live in Madrid to die his father, in the house of executor of the testament, "don Julio Villamil", who is married to actress Teresa Labisbal, of which "Ernesto Acedo" was enamored platonic. Although the conduct of the young is flawless, a third person causes slander which oblige "don Julio" to fight in mourning to death.
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Historia en dos aldeas
Title: Historia en dos aldeas
Released: September 8, 1951
Type: Movie
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The Last Horse
Title: The Last Horse
Character: Encargado cuadra
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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Yo no soy la Mata-Hari
Title: Yo no soy la Mata-Hari
Character: Mozo
Released: August 21, 1950
Type: Movie
After the execution of the spy Mata-Hari, the secret service takes the opportunity to arrest some of her collaborators. To arrest one of the ringleaders, they use his girlfriend Niní, a naive dancer. The girl, tired of being manipulated by everyone, decides to become agent X25.
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Sin uniforme
Title: Sin uniforme
Character: Estraperlista
Released: February 9, 1950
Type: Movie
Several different people meet in Tangier, where they will have to join efforts to survive.
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En un rincón de España
Title: En un rincón de España
Released: November 21, 1949
Type: Movie
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An Ordinary Woman
Title: An Ordinary Woman
Character: Sereno
Released: August 15, 1949
Type: Movie
A woman who has walked out of an unhappy marriage is unsuccessful trying to earn herself a new living and gets mixed with a man who is a murderer and tries to incriminate her.
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Aventuras de Juan Lucas
Title: Aventuras de Juan Lucas
Character: Panecito
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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El señor Esteve
Title: El señor Esteve
Character: Miller
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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The Marquis of Salamanca
Title: The Marquis of Salamanca
Character: Cocinero
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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La cigarra
Title: La cigarra
Released: November 22, 1948
Type: Movie
Soledad, known as "La Cigarra", agrees to sing in Buenos Aires to have the opportunity to meet her liar boyfriend, whom she tries to forget in Rio.
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Pototo, Boliche y Compañía
Title: Pototo, Boliche y Compañía
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
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Póker de ases
Title: Póker de ases
Released: December 13, 1947
Type: Movie
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Ghost of Christmas Present
Released: December 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A Christmas Carol
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Love Charm
Title: Love Charm
Character: Detective
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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The Captain's Ship
Title: The Captain's Ship
Character: Rafael de Zalabardo
Released: September 29, 1947
Type: Movie
Port of Seville, Spain, 1640. A group of people from very different origins embark on the ship Capitana. They are members of the upper class, adventurers, peasants, convicts, who have only one thing in common: the illusion of arriving in America, the promised land where they can make their dreams and ambitions come true.
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Dulcinea
Title: Dulcinea
Character: Juan el Zurdo
Released: June 9, 1947
Type: Movie
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The Bullfighter's Suit
Title: The Bullfighter's Suit
Released: May 19, 1947
Type: Movie
A young bullfighter full of illusions triumphs in Mexico and decides to get married there and forget about his old Spanish girlfriend, who by then has just given birth to his son.
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Barrio
Title: Barrio
Character: Tabernero
Released: March 2, 1947
Type: Movie
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Don Quixote
Title: Don Quixote
Character: First Innkeeper
Released: March 1, 1947
Type: Movie
The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sancho Panza.
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Chantaje
Title: Chantaje
Released: September 26, 1946
Type: Movie
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The Other Fu Manchu
Title: The Other Fu Manchu
Released: May 6, 1946
Type: Movie
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El pirata Bocanegra
Title: El pirata Bocanegra
Character: Gobernador / Bocanegra
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
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Un hombre de negocios
Title: Un hombre de negocios
Character: Ramón
Released: December 5, 1945
Type: Movie
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Carnival Sunday
Title: Carnival Sunday
Character: Requena
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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El fantasma y doña Juanita
Title: El fantasma y doña Juanita
Character: Barber
Released: March 31, 1945
Type: Movie
Fearing that her niece Rosita will abandon her true love and enter into a marriage of convenience, doña Juanita tells her the story of when, many years ago, she fell in love with an accountant who worked in a circus.
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Ella, él y sus millones
Title: Ella, él y sus millones
Character: Viajero gordo
Released: December 25, 1944
Type: Movie
Arturo Salazar is a powerful businessman who wants to be related to the nobility, so he asks an aristocratic friend to find him a blue-blooded bride.
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La vida empieza a medianoche
Title: La vida empieza a medianoche
Character: Gorito
Released: November 9, 1944
Type: Movie
Silvia Heredia, since her arrival to Madrid is staying at her best friends' house, Mary. Her aim is to work as a secretary of a famous novelist. But at night the house is full of people and they confuse her with the owner of the floor. A series of misunderstandings makes her meet Ricardo Ariaga, the musician whose opera "Life begins at midnight" is about to debut. Ricardo convinces Sylvia to act as his wife. With a "rented" child they try to be the perfect family of a lonely old man.
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Tuvo la culpa Adán
Title: Tuvo la culpa Adán
Character: Feliciano Sánchez
Released: October 9, 1944
Type: Movie
Nora leaves the convent where she has been raised to marry a relative. Just arrived she has an accident resulting in total amnesia. Her identity mistaken a new life begins for her, where she will encounter love, adventure and even crime.
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The Nail
Title: The Nail
Character: Farmer
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: The Admirer
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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Goyescas
Title: Goyescas
Character: Mesonero en feria
Released: October 9, 1942
Type: Movie