María Francés

María Francés

Born: February 2, 1887
Died: December 9, 1987
in Tudela, Spain
María Francés was a Spanish stage, film and television actress.

Movies for María Francés...

Title: Curro Jiménez
Character: Madre superiora
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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School Trip
Title: School Trip
Character: María
Released: October 1, 1976
Type: Movie
After completing his high school studies at the age of twenty-four, Óscar is an immature student, unable to afford alone his return to home during the summer season. Then he manages to convince Carlos, his young math teacher, to accompany him. Already in the family home, Óscar begins to behave in an increasingly unbalanced and irrational way. Meanwhile, his family will endeavor to see him as the reflection of the absent father figure.
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A Chaste Spanish Man
Title: A Chaste Spanish Man
Character: Doña Celia
Released: October 29, 1973
Type: Movie
Don Santiago, a forty-year-old owner of a pastry shop in Madrid de los Austrias, receives surprising news: a woman, in fact his real mother, leaves him with a brothel in England.
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Flower of Holiness
Title: Flower of Holiness
Character: Dueña
Released: March 25, 1973
Type: Movie
A beautiful teenage shepherdess named Adega sleeps one night with a mysterious pilgrim in a barn of impoverished and superstitious Galicia of the nineteenth century. The overwhelming fanaticism of the villagers motivates them to consider the outsider an envoy of Satan, reason why they deny him the lodging. The pilgrim, on the other hand, will react by cursing the people with plague and misery.
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La hidalga limosnera
Title: La hidalga limosnera
Released: March 30, 1972
Type: Movie
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The Mark of Kriminal
Title: The Mark of Kriminal
Character: Bertha
Released: September 14, 1968
Type: Movie
The bandit Kriminal by pure chance finds a fragment of a map in an old porcelain statue indicating the location of two precious paintings hidden by a notorious outlaw before he was executed. Kriminal immediately begins searching for the three other statuettes, similar to the one in their possession, containing the fragments needed to complete the map .
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Another Man's Wife
Title: Another Man's Wife
Released: November 23, 1967
Type: Movie
Ana and Andres meet again after many years. They are no longer two youngsters, both are married with children. Andres insists, but Ana has trouble in forgetting what happened long ago, when he left without saying goodbye to go to Paris.
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Platero y yo
Title: Platero y yo
Character: Macaria
Released: February 17, 1966
Type: Movie
After a long period of absence, living in large and anonymous cities, a poet, Juan, returns to the village of his birth, Moguer, there he finds happiness through; the friendship of a small donkey, Platero, a free spirited girl, Aguedilla, and recalling memories of his childhood.
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A Clean Shot
Title: A Clean Shot
Character: Mrs. Quimeta
Released: March 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Martin and Antoine, two French criminals, team up with Román and El Picas, a friend of the latter, to commit robberies in Barcelona, but things do not turn out as expected.
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El señor de La Salle
Title: El señor de La Salle
Character: Madre Superiora
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Biography of San Juan Bautista de la Salle , where the effort and hardships that this canon of the nobility had to overcome in order to offer universal and free education to children, his main devotion, in the time of Louis XIV, are appreciated.
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Mentirosa
Title: Mentirosa
Released: August 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Nina, secretary of the lawyer Mr. Mendoza, is an imaginative liar. Because of her work, she has access to the will of an old millionaire who died naming as the sole beneficiary his daughter, the fruit of a love affair of youth. Only the millionaire's sister, the widow of Martiarena, knows who she is and where she lives. Nina decides to impersonate her and, to his astonishment, is recognized as the real daughter by the sister. But the housekeeper and the doctor of Mrs. Martiarena decide to resolve the situation.
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Al otro lado de la ciudad
Title: Al otro lado de la ciudad
Released: July 2, 1962
Type: Movie
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Placido
Title: Placido
Character: Nun
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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The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
Title: The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
Character: Elisa von Klaus (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Jess Franco returns with another campy gore-fest featuring the strange goings-on in a tiny hamlet called Holfen. When women wind up knifed and gouged in the village, everyone thinks the deaths are due to a curse wielded by a cruel 17th century baron. Von Klaus heir Ludwig is distantly related to the royal, which makes him the target of suspicion. Can he clear his name, or will he wind up giving in to his dark side?
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Regresa un desconocido
Title: Regresa un desconocido
Character: Dueña del hotel
Released: November 13, 1961
Type: Movie
John, manager of a company, play a game of cards with a group of people he has met in a nightclub. Realizing that one of them cheats, fights with him, and there is a violent fall. Another attendee, a doctor certifies his death. To remove the dead, John is forced to commit embezzlement in your company ...
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El niño de las monjas
Title: El niño de las monjas
Character: Madre Superiora
Released: November 5, 1959
Type: Movie
When a newborn baby is abandoned in a convent Andalusian Mother Superior decides to be the gardener who takes over from him. As the boy grows, manifest a decided vocation for bullfighting and, although his adoptive father did not endorse, struggle to achieve his dream.
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Muchachas en vacaciones
Title: Muchachas en vacaciones
Character: Madre de Carmen
Released: June 23, 1958
Type: Movie
Spanish comedy of the 50s, with carefree and youthful air.
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La Rana Verde
Title: La Rana Verde
Released: June 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Cimera de los Infantes, Castile, Spain. The young men who meet every day in the bar La Rana Verde are bored because they barely have fun, so they decide to seduce the girls who attend a summer course in the historic castle of the town.
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Un indiano en Moratilla
Title: Un indiano en Moratilla
Released: March 10, 1958
Type: Movie
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Stories from Madrid
Title: Stories from Madrid
Character: Doña Pilar
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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Madrugada
Title: Madrugada
Character: Sabina
Released: July 15, 1957
Type: Movie
A rich and famous painter dies leaving a secret that kept him apart from the woman he loved. Suspecting a family plot, she will try to unveil it keeping his death from the greedy relatives who are called in the middle of the night. She will try to find the truth before the dawn comes at last.
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El genio alegre
Title: El genio alegre
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: Movie
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El rey de la carretera
Title: El rey de la carretera
Released: March 12, 1956
Type: Movie
A bus driver, Rafael, sacrifices his carriage and his true love, Rosario, to get money and buy a more powerful vehicle. This is all due to the rivalry he has with Peter, also bus driver with whom competes in all areas.
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Pride
Title: Pride
Released: December 9, 1955
Type: Movie
A tale of two families, the Mendozas and Alzagas, faced for generations by the water of a river separating their adjoining properties. Old grudges reappear when the two heirs fall in love.
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Juicio final
Title: Juicio final
Released: August 25, 1955
Type: Movie
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Viento del norte
Title: Viento del norte
Character: Herminia
Released: September 1, 1954
Type: Movie
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Like the earth
Title: Like the earth
Character: Madre
Released: July 5, 1954
Type: Movie
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Órdenes secretas (Pasaporte para un ángel)
Title: Órdenes secretas (Pasaporte para un ángel)
Released: January 11, 1954
Type: Movie
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Vuelo 971
Title: Vuelo 971
Character: Mujer enferma
Released: December 27, 1953
Type: Movie
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This is Madrid
Title: This is Madrid
Character: Vecina
Released: September 21, 1953
Type: Movie
In Madrid during the fifties' the calm life from some neighbors will be changed since the arrival of Antonio, a man without scruples who lives running the risk.
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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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Surcos
Title: Surcos
Character: La madre
Released: October 26, 1951
Type: Movie
A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything is illegal or immoral or both.
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Black Crown
Title: Black Crown
Character: María
Released: May 23, 1951
Type: Movie
A woman suffers from amnesia after killing her husband, who was just about to demand a divorce for having found her engaging in an affair with a lover, who is only interested in her to find where some precious jewels are hidden.
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La fuente enterrada
Title: La fuente enterrada
Released: December 31, 1950
Type: Movie
A woman returns home from a mental hospital, to find his husband has used her case to write a play.
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La familia Vila
Title: La familia Vila
Character: Adela
Released: May 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Mr. Vila is a family father who has worked a lot during his life to achieve a good life for his family. His oldest daughter, Elvira, causes him many problems because she acts as a rebel.
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Anguish
Title: Anguish
Character: Sra. Jarque
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Elena and Marcos live in a guesthouse. Their serious financial difficulties force them to resort to the help of Mrs. Jarque, an aunt of Elena who humiliates Marcos constantly. Marcos dreams that he kills Mrs. Jarque, and she appears dead.
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El ángel gris
Title: El ángel gris
Character: Dueña pensión
Released: December 17, 1947
Type: Movie
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Aquel viejo molino
Title: Aquel viejo molino
Released: June 28, 1946
Type: Movie
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Hombres sin honor
Title: Hombres sin honor
Character: Baronesa de Altas Torres
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie