Francisco Maestre

Francisco Maestre

Born: July 2, 1957
Died: January 27, 2011
in Mérida, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain

Movies for Francisco Maestre...

América
Title: América
Character: Tolentino
Released: May 26, 2011
Type: Movie
Lisa, a beautiful young Russian woman, is married to Victor, a Portuguese. Fernanda, the Spanish ex-wife of Victor, taking advantage of the coming wave of illegal immigrants in Portugal, wants to do business with false passports. Since then, and to Lisa's desperation, her home becomes a halfway house for immigrants of various nationalities and different races, all in search of a better future. Among them is Andrei, a young Ukrainian orthopedist who is wanted by the Russian mafia. Andrei falls in love with Lisa, who sees in him the opportunity to get out of that life. But things are not simple.
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The Valdemar Legacy
Title: The Valdemar Legacy
Character: Alistair Crowley
Released: January 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Luisa Llorente, an expert on taxation of old buildings, had recently gone to the Victorian mansion Valdemar to conduct an inventory of property ownership. After she mysteriously disappeared, Maximilian, president of her company, engaged the services of a private detective to help find her. But soon they will discover that it is not the first disappearance at Valdemar mansion!
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One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Title: One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Character: Gerardo
Released: February 28, 2007
Type: Movie
The Devil talks only through an image and tell his stories to an imprisoned writer.
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Desde que amanece apetece
Title: Desde que amanece apetece
Character: Laguna
Released: July 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Pelayo is leaving to work for his uncle Lorenzo and to find a nice girl to settle down with. Pelayo arrives to find out that Lorenzo's "business" is in fact a male strip show and Lorenzo's dancers are a laughing stock. Lorenzo has all his money tied up in his wedding with ex-prostitute Palmira. With Pelayo arriving life turns upside down. Can Lorenzo keep his infidelities a secret and his crew off the streets? Can Pelayo keep from falling for a prostitute on his way to finding a wife?
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Contratiempos
Title: Contratiempos
Character: El gordo
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Short by Antonio Gómez-Olea
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Bad Education
Title: Bad Education
Character: Padre José
Released: March 19, 2004
Type: Movie
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.
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The Witch Affair
Title: The Witch Affair
Released: January 17, 2003
Type: Movie
The night of San Juan, Miguel murders his associate. Two elderly people are witness to the crime and predict that all of his dreams will come true thereafter. He will know the price he has to pay when he sees a black cat with a moon shaped mark on its forehead. Twenty-two years later a messenger begins to see all his dreams come true...
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Black Serenade
Title: Black Serenade
Character: Conserje
Released: July 19, 2001
Type: Movie
Students of the university of Salamanca are brutally murdered by a black masked minstrel. Alex, an architecture student who has recently moved to Salamanca discovers a pattern behind the killings; it seems as if the killer strikes regularly after the exams to free the campus from lousy students.
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The Devil's Backbone
Title: The Devil's Backbone
Character: 'El Puerco'
Released: April 20, 2001
Type: Movie
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.
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Faust: Love of the Damned
Title: Faust: Love of the Damned
Character: Baez
Released: November 1, 2000
Type: Movie
An artist sells his soul to the mysterious M in order to get revenge on the people who killed his girlfriend. Soon, he realises everything has a price, and he is transformed into a horned demon with a passion for killing.
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Año Mariano
Title: Año Mariano
Character: Energúmeno
Released: August 11, 2000
Type: Movie
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The Ugliest Woman in the World
Title: The Ugliest Woman in the World
Character: El camarero
Released: November 5, 1999
Type: Movie
Somebody has decided to celebrate New Year's Eve 2011 in a very twisted way - by dressing as a nun and brutally dismembering a little old lady. Lt. Arribas, a bald, toothless, one-eyed and lonely detective is called in on the case. His investigations lead him to the door of renegade Doctor Werner, who tells him the strange story of "The Beautiful Otero" the most beautiful woman in the world (former Spanish model Galera) who, before Werner s miraculous surgery, was the ugliest woman in the world! But Lt. Arribas now has a new problem - he is falling in love at a distance with his principle suspect who, because of her traumatic childhood, is planning her vengeance - to sabotage the Miss Spain Beauty Pageant, leaving behind her a trail of dead beauty queens. A super-slick science fiction thriller with a dark and bizarre finale.
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Barrio
Title: Barrio
Character: Encargado pizzeria
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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Atilano, presidente
Title: Atilano, presidente
Character: El Maestro
Released: September 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Atilano Bermejo is a petty crook who gets involved in the scam of his life: to be Prime Minister. His charisma and lack of social concern make him an ideal political candidate for a group of bankers looking for a good public image behind which to hide and disguise their ambitions.
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99.9: The Frequency of Terror
Title: 99.9: The Frequency of Terror
Character: Psiquiatra
Released: November 7, 1997
Type: Movie
Lara, the host of a radio call-in show dealing in psychic phenomena, discovers that her gay estranged lover has been found dead in a small Spanish village. She learns that he was conducting secret experiments searching for tortured souls trapped behind the energy of the living world. This leads her to an old, abandoned house where the experiments took place - and there she finds a world of secrets and horror...
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Siempre hay un camino a la derecha
Title: Siempre hay un camino a la derecha
Character: Bene
Released: August 29, 1997
Type: Movie
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Eso
Title: Eso
Character: Carmona
Released: June 5, 1997
Type: Movie
Since he began to work, Domingo lives against the trend: he sleeps during the day, care for her younger sister in the afternoon and at night vacuums in a department store.
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Taxi
Title: Taxi
Released: September 9, 1996
Type: Movie
A young girl, after failing an exam, is forced by her father, a taxi-driver, to learn his profession. Soon she discovers that her father is not only a driver but also a member of a racist group eliminating immigrants, homosexual, transvestite, etc. people. She also falls in love with a boy, also a taxi-driver and a "socio" of the group.
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Robo en el cine Capitol
Title: Robo en el cine Capitol
Character: 2nd Patrolman
Released: July 13, 1996
Type: Movie
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Freedomfighters
Title: Freedomfighters
Character: Obispo
Released: April 19, 1996
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.
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Matías, juez de línea
Title: Matías, juez de línea
Character: El capitán ucraniano
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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The Day of the Beast
Title: The Day of the Beast
Character: Huge Guy
Released: October 20, 1995
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a Basque Roman Catholic priest dedicated to committing as many sins as possible, a death metal salesman from Carabanchel, and the Italian host of a TV show on the occult. These go on a literal "trip" through Christmas-time Madrid to hunt for and prevent the reincarnation of the Antichrist.
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Justino, un asesino de la tercera edad
Title: Justino, un asesino de la tercera edad
Character: Renco
Released: November 24, 1994
Type: Movie
Justino was working in a bull-ring but now he is retired. For him it is very difficult to adapt to the new situation although he will find soon a hobby without forgetting his profession.
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Title: Colegio Mayor
Character: Julio
Released: January 12, 1994
Type: TV
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Everyone Off to Jail
Title: Everyone Off to Jail
Character: Iñaki
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 Devil's Breath
Title: The Devil's Breath
Character: Odo
Released: October 29, 1993
Type: Movie
A small family of travelers arrives after a long journey at a village hut, which they claim as home. The family consists of Damian, a mute but skilled hunter, his wife Priscila, and their two children, a mute son named Pablo and a beautiful daughter named Agueda. Before long, Don Rodrigo, the feudal lord of the village, sets his sights on both Priscila and Agueda.
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Mutant Action
Title: Mutant Action
Character: El abuelo
Released: February 3, 1993
Type: Movie
Waging war against all things glamorous and beautiful, crippled terrorists Acción Mutante plot a series of attacks on society's elite, and attempt the kidnapping of a wealthy socialite at her elaborate wedding reception.
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The Sow
Title: The Sow
Character: Guardia
Released: November 6, 1992
Type: Movie
After spending three years in captivity in Tunis, Bartolomé returns home Extremadura with the only hope to eat his favorite dish: the pork. Along the way he meets a deserter who is traveling with a sow.
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Al-Andalus: las artes islámicas en España
Title: Al-Andalus: las artes islámicas en España
Released: April 21, 1992
Type: Movie
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Winter Diary
Title: Winter Diary
Released: September 29, 1988
Type: Movie
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Lute: Forge On or Die
Title: Lute: Forge On or Die
Character: Chato
Released: September 19, 1987
Type: Movie
In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed "El Lute", steals some chickens and is condemned to six months in jail. El Lute moves to the slum outskirts of Madrid with his common law wife, Chelo, starting an itinerant life as a peddler of pots and pans and living in a quinqui shantytown. He gradually embarks upon as life of petty criminality, eventually participating in the theft of a jewelry store during which a bystander is killed.
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La mitad del cielo
Title: La mitad del cielo
Character: Guest
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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Pasos Largos (El último bandido andaluz)
Title: Pasos Largos (El último bandido andaluz)
Character: Señorito 2
Released: June 11, 1986
Type: Movie
"Pasos largos" (long steps) is an alias for the last Andalusian bandit, after engaging in poaching for a living, he begins to commit small crimes in the mountainous area of Ronda (Malaga, Spain), but everything gets even more complicated.
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Romanza final (Gayarre)
Title: Romanza final (Gayarre)
Released: April 29, 1986
Type: Movie
Biography of Julian Gayarre (1844-1890), one of the best tenors of all times. At 19, a professor at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid heard him singing for the first time and offered him a scholarship to continue his studies. His artistic life runs between continued success, becoming the world's greatest tenor. But in 1890, while singing at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a failure in his voice is like a cruel reminder of what would happen a few days later: his death at a young age. The doctors gave a diagnosis, but his friends know that Julian Gayarre died because he could not sing anymore.
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La pantalla diabólica
Title: La pantalla diabólica
Released: November 14, 1985
Type: Movie
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Y del seguro… líbranos, Señor!
Title: Y del seguro… líbranos, Señor!
Character: Camillero
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Bésame, tonta
Title: Bésame, tonta
Character: Cerdito (as Paco Maestre)
Released: April 5, 1982
Type: Movie
A young bank clerk is transferred, in view of his special way of being, to a branch for misfits, where he will meet a whole series of very strange characters.