Francisco Merino

Francisco Merino

Born: September 11, 1931
in Madrid, Spain

Movies for Francisco Merino...

Title: El rey
Character: Francisco Franco
Released: October 28, 2014
Type: TV
A biographical miniseries of Spain's Juan Carlos I, covering 1948 to 1993.
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Captain Thunder
Title: Captain Thunder
Character: Juan de Ribera
Released: October 7, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of "Captain Thunder and the Holy Grail" is set during the Third Crusade in Palestine, when Captain Thunder finds in the dungeons of a fortress a dying Christian named Juan de Ribera, who entrustes him the mission to restore to Spain a cup which is the Holy Grail, stolen from an ancient order. Thunder, with his inseparable friends Crispin and Goliath, and a Viking princess named Sigfrid, will face an evil feudal lord and his black "devils", who are terrorizing the population of low Aragón.
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Title: Angel or Demon
Character: Ramón
Released: February 1, 2011
Type: TV
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Tarancón, el quinto mandamiento
Title: Tarancón, el quinto mandamiento
Character: Arias Navarro
Released: November 21, 2010
Type: Movie
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Paper Birds
Title: Paper Birds
Character: Marcelino
Released: March 12, 2010
Type: Movie
At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the members of a group of vaudeville performers have been stripped of everything: all they have left is hunger and the instinct to survive. Day after day, agonizingly, lost and helpless between the victors and the vanquished, the musician Jorge, the ventriloquist Enrique, the couplet singer Rocío and the orphan Miguel search tirelessly for something to eat and a safe place to live.
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Title: Pelotas
Character: Don Antonio
Released: February 23, 2009
Type: TV
Pelotas is a Spanish tragicomedy television series created by José Corbacho and Juan Cruz, set in Hospitalet de Llobregat, a suburb of Barcelona. It was broadcast on La 1, the primary channel of Televisión Española, between 23 February 2009 and 7 June 2010. The series is based around the lives of local Unión Fútbol Club supporters.
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Crossing Borders
Title: Crossing Borders
Character: Saturnino
Released: March 19, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1960, Martín and Marcos are forced by their difficult personal circumstances to travel to Switzerland in search of work, leaving their families in the Madrid of Franco's Spain. But they undertake more than a simple journey; they begin the road to a new life.
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Merry-Go-Round c. 1950
Title: Merry-Go-Round c. 1950
Character: Juez
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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Title: La sopa boba
Released: March 24, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: Cuéntame cómo pasó
Character: Vicente
Released: September 13, 2001
Type: TV
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
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Things I Left in Havana
Title: Things I Left in Havana
Character: Adolfo
Released: January 16, 1998
Type: Movie
Three sisters leave Cuba in search of a better life in Madrid. While there, they encounter, among other things, other Cuban expatriates.
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The Frontier Law
Title: The Frontier Law
Character: Maragato
Released: August 23, 1995
Type: Movie
Barbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between Portugal and Galicia a bandit called El Argentino. In her travel she meets two men that say that they belong to his gang.
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Hermana, ¿pero qué has hecho?
Title: Hermana, ¿pero qué has hecho?
Character: Agente de tráfico
Released: August 11, 1995
Type: Movie
Sister Angela and Sister Mary park his van in front of a bank branch. They enter the bank and with the weapons hidden under their habits, commit the robbery of the century, to the astonishment of all employees and customers. After thorough police investigation the two nuns are arrested, but then appears Trini, twin sister of one of them and now all is not so clear. Were the nuns who committed the robbery?
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La Regenta
Title: La Regenta
Released: January 17, 1995
Type: Movie
The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's life unbearable and inevitably tragic.
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Title: La Regenta
Character: Fojar
Released: January 17, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: Colegio Mayor
Character: Martínez
Released: January 12, 1994
Type: TV
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Everyone Off to Jail
Title: Everyone Off to Jail
Character: Secretario
Released: December 22, 1993
Type: Movie
A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended.
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The Greek Labyrinth
Title: The Greek Labyrinth
Character: Dotros
Released: January 8, 1993
Type: Movie
Two Frenchmen, Bernadette and Lebrum, arrive in Barcelona and hire detective Bardon to find Alekos, the former Greek lover of the woman.
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Off-eko maitasuna
Title: Off-eko maitasuna
Released: May 6, 1992
Type: Movie
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El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Title: El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Character: El Cura
Released: January 29, 1992
Type: Movie
Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel.
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Title: Don Quijote de la Mancha
Character: El cura
Released: January 29, 1992
Type: TV
Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel.
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Title: El Obispo Leproso
Character: Don Cruz
Released: November 23, 1990
Type: TV
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The Miser
Title: The Miser
Character: Mastro Augusto
Released: April 6, 1990
Type: Movie
Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.
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Going Down in Morocco
Title: Going Down in Morocco
Character: Don Mariano
Released: April 11, 1989
Type: Movie
A girl who lives with her dealer cousin and her policeman boyfriend who is a policeman regularly transports drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all of them smoke grass from time to time there is need for more. Deciding to take a friend of hers who has just left home down to Morocco for a transport she gets problems because it is the first time for her friend and this makes it difficult. But as all are very open-minded there is no problem they would not try to solve.
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El Dorado
Title: El Dorado
Character: Alonso Esteban
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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Divine Words
Title: Divine Words
Released: September 15, 1987
Type: Movie
A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law.
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Redondela
Title: Redondela
Character: Noceda
Released: February 9, 1987
Type: Movie
4,000 tons of oil have been stolen from a Galician deposit. The alleged thieves are defended by the lawyer Ramos, but the witnesses die and suspicions point to Franco's brother.
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Love Ravings
Title: Love Ravings
Released: November 13, 1986
Type: Movie
In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young man.
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La mitad del cielo
Title: La mitad del cielo
Character: Ramiro
Released: October 9, 1986
Type: Movie
After the civil war, Rosa, a beautiful and hard worker woman falls in love with a sharpener who turns out to be a con man. When she becomes a widow, she emigrates to Madrid with her daughter beginning to work as a nurse in the home of Don Pedro, an influential food manager.
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Title: Pagina de Sucesos
Character: Don Leandro
Released: October 25, 1985
Type: TV
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Crimen en familia
Title: Crimen en familia
Character: Jaime Costa
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Ignacio Costa is a tyrannical businessman with a conflictive personal life. He has a large family, a woman he abuses and humiliates and five children with whom he does the same, except for Mariana one of the girls. Tired of so many vexations, his wife will begin to influence his children until together they will plot the murder of the father
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El Sur
Title: El Sur
Character: Enamorado
Released: May 18, 1983
Type: Movie
A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.
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National III
Title: National III
Character: El Correo
Released: December 6, 1982
Type: Movie
In order to solve economic problems, "Leguineche" family decide to move to France with their limited belongings.
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Hablamos esta noche
Title: Hablamos esta noche
Character: Villalba
Released: September 16, 1982
Type: Movie
Victor is the engineer who has set up the Nuclear Power Plant Zapater. Alongside his professional problems he also hasa difficult family situation: a divorce, a teenage homosexual son, a relationship that is not satisfactory, the emergence of a new woman. With just a few days to the inauguration, Luis Maria, an engineer close friend of Victor, responsible for a serious accident in the past and addicted to alcohol, warns of the possibility of a malfunction of the plant. Nothing guarantees the truth of this warning, but to find it out the inauguration is suspended
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Title: La Máscara Negra
Character: Beaulieu
Released: March 19, 1982
Type: TV
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The Crime of Cuenca
Title: The Crime of Cuenca
Character: Court Secretary
Released: August 17, 1981
Type: Movie
Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier.
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Un enemigo del pueblo
Title: Un enemigo del pueblo
Character: Hovstad
Released: May 29, 1981
Type: Movie
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Maravillas
Title: Maravillas
Character: Salomón
Released: February 26, 1981
Type: Movie
A young Catholic girl takes viewers through a changing Spanish political and social landscape as she develops from her confirmation day to adulthood. Her first experience with the real Spain comes when her Jewish godfathers cannot come to her confirmation. One of the godfathers, using a ring, poses an early challenge to her innocence that puts her in danger. He later returns, indirectly introducing her to a new boyfriend. If he is one of the symbols for Jewish life under Franco, or for a Judeo-Christian interaction, that interaction is complex. The young woman encounters different lovers as she grows into adulthood, but at the same time she is burdened with financially supporting her father and his own rather decadent lifestyle. Again, this difference in generations could be understood as a difference between the "new" and "old" Spain; it is up to the viewers to interpret the story elements as they decide.
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Sus años dorados
Title: Sus años dorados
Character: El amigo
Released: December 17, 1980
Type: Movie
María, a young and attractive woman, loses her job, meets Luis, a young man with no stable job neither, his wife supports him. Luis wants to start a relationship with María, but she doesn't. She prefers to be with Luis' friends instead.
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El hombre de moda
Title: El hombre de moda
Character: Bruno
Released: November 14, 1980
Type: Movie
Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the job as a teacher through an old friend, Bruno Baena, who is the head master of the school. Aurora starts going to Pedro's classes. Pedro will become "El hombre de moda", very soon.
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Gusanos de seda
Title: Gusanos de seda
Character: Alguacil
Released: November 21, 1977
Type: Movie
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La espada negra
Title: La espada negra
Released: November 2, 1976
Type: Movie
Kingdom of Castile, 15th century. A group of nobles, who question the dynastic legitimacy of Princess Juana, daughter of King Enrique IV, conspire with the purpose of overthrowing him.
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La petición
Title: La petición
Character: Jefe de Julián
Released: September 21, 1976
Type: Movie
An ambitious young woman from a wealthy family, but unsatisfied with her social position, will not hesitate to use all that is within her reach to achieve her ascent in society.
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El hombre que supo amar
Title: El hombre que supo amar
Character: Magistrado
Released: September 19, 1976
Type: Movie
The life of Juan de Dios and his struggle against social, political and religious structures.
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Beyond Desire
Title: Beyond Desire
Character: Juez
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Mónica has just died in a traffic accident. Along with her was another man. Pedro Bernáldez, painter and lover of Mónica, was so in love with her that he came to change his painting style for the one indicated by his lover. Now that Mónica has died, Pedro will investigate what relationship the deceased had with each other and begins to discover many things.
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Solo ante el Streaking
Title: Solo ante el Streaking
Character: Comisario
Released: December 15, 1975
Type: Movie
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En provincia
Title: En provincia
Character: Borja
Released: September 26, 1975
Type: Movie
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Convoy Buddies
Title: Convoy Buddies
Released: July 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Toby and Butch are a couple of bumbling crooks who get a truck driving job hauling insecticide from Italy to France. Unbeknownst to the clueless duo, they're really smuggling guns. A group of equally inept mobsters try to steal the guns to no avail.
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En un mundo diferente
Title: En un mundo diferente
Released: February 28, 1970
Type: Movie
Two aliens come to Earth to take over the planet. To do so, they plan subdue and clone famous pop singers Juan and Junior.
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Esa mujer
Title: Esa mujer
Character: Inspector de policía
Released: May 30, 1969
Type: Movie
At the end of the 19th century, Soledad Romero, a well-known singer, is accused of murder. During the trial his tragic story is revealed.
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The Swindlers
Title: The Swindlers
Character: Pallavicini (segment "Suore")
Released: September 25, 1963
Type: Movie
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.
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Those Who Did Not Go to War
Title: Those Who Did Not Go to War
Released: August 27, 1962
Type: Movie
First World War. In a largely rural area of neutral Spain, two families confront one another and play a part in embarrassing situations because they don't support the same side in the war. This will influence the breakup of an engagement.
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Nadie como tú
Title: Nadie como tú
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie