Ana Belén

Ana Belén

Born: May 27, 1951
in Madrid, Spain
María del Pilar Cuesta Acosta, better known as Ana Belén, is a Spanish actress and singer.

Movies for Ana Belén...

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
Title: The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
Character: Self - Actress
Released: November 10, 2023
Type: Movie
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances.
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Title: A Perfect Story
Character: Madre de Margarita
Released: July 28, 2023
Type: TV
When Margot flees her own wedding, she is left feeling adrift. Little does she know, it is David and his delightful chaos who can help her find her way.
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El viaje de Julieta
Title: El viaje de Julieta
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: Dúos Increíbles
Character: Concursante
Released: September 29, 2022
Type: TV
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Cruce de caminos
Title: Cruce de caminos
Character: Self
Released: March 20, 2022
Type: Movie
An account of the life and work of the singer and songwriter Miguel Ríos, pioneer and true icon of Spanish rock music.
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Title: Milá Vs Milá
Character: Entrevistada
Released: October 13, 2021
Type: TV
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Official Competition
Title: Official Competition
Character: Cóctel
Released: September 4, 2021
Type: Movie
When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?
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FFG, el último gran conversador
Title: FFG, el último gran conversador
Character: Self - Actress / Various Roles (archive footage)
Released: August 27, 2021
Type: Movie
Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being an excellent conversationalist, capable of hypnotizing and seducing those who listened to him.
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Olea… ¡Más alto!
Title: Olea… ¡Más alto!
Character: Self - Singer and Actress
Released: November 6, 2020
Type: Movie
An account of the life and work behind the camera of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Olea, whose very personal viewpoint, interested in all kinds of subjects, approached in very different ways, but always with a very characteristic style, has analyzed the social and political life of Spain for more than five decades.
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Víctor Manuel: el abuelo Víctor
Title: Víctor Manuel: el abuelo Víctor
Released: July 9, 2020
Type: Movie
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La corte de Ana
Title: La corte de Ana
Character: Herself - Actress / Singer
Released: March 19, 2020
Type: Movie
She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a girl who, in time, would become a symbol of freedom and a total artist. Actress, singer, friend, lover. This is the story of Ana Belén.
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Title: Lo de Évole
Released: February 2, 2020
Type: TV
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Stories of Our Cinema
Title: Stories of Our Cinema
Character: Herself - Actress / Singer
Released: November 22, 2019
Type: Movie
In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country are projected. From that event, the Spanish actor Antonio Resines intends to compile a series of anecdotes to shape the amazing history of Spanish cinema, holding several conversations with prominent figures of the Spanish film industry.
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Aute retrato
Title: Aute retrato
Character: Herself
Released: September 13, 2019
Type: Movie
A journey through the different creative facets of Luis Eduardo Aute: singer and songwriter, painter, poet, filmmaker. Collaborators and friends tell the life of this total artist and reveal the impact his work has had in the past, has in the present and will have in the future.
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¡Ay, Carmen!
Title: ¡Ay, Carmen!
Character: Self - Actress
Released: October 29, 2018
Type: Movie
The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant artist in her own right.
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Querido Fotogramas
Title: Querido Fotogramas
Character: Herself
Released: October 5, 2018
Type: Movie
The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic of voices represented by people who make films, those who write them and those who consume them. The documentary pays tribute to the readers of “Fotogramas” helped by the leading figures of Spanish cinema, who will read to the camera the most representative letters received at its offices in the history of the magazine.
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Title: Maestros de la costura
Character: Invitada
Released: February 12, 2018
Type: TV
Talent show of sewing, fashion and design, to find the best Spanish amateur dressmaker. Only 12 lucky people, among the more than 10,000 registered casting will fight to make their dream come true.
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Mi Querida Cecilia
Title: Mi Querida Cecilia
Character: Herself
Released: December 24, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Traición
Character: Pilar del Riego
Released: November 28, 2017
Type: TV
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The Queen of Spain
Title: The Queen of Spain
Character: Ana
Released: November 25, 2016
Type: Movie
After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to The Girl of Your Dreams, 1998.)
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Raphael: 50 años después - En directo y al completo
Title: Raphael: 50 años después - En directo y al completo
Character: Self
Released: May 7, 2009
Type: Movie
Performed at Las Ventas Spain, In celebration of Raphael's 50th anniversary as a performer, this comprehensive collection offers incredible videos from throughout his career. The vaunted Spanish singer and actor first hit the stage as a toddler, and has since played with the biggest Latin artists such as Juanes, Rocio Jurado, Miguel Bose, and many more. 50 ANOS DESPUES features 18 hits including "A Mia Minera," "Cantares," and "Adoro."
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Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
Title: Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
Character: Self
Released: October 27, 2006
Type: Movie
What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profession. Thirty-six Spanish actors reflect on their work and contrasted their experiences. As thread, the contrast between the voices of veterans and images of young theater students , for whom everything is still possible. Among the many actors are interviewed Javier Bardem, Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Luis López Vázquez, José Coronado, Emma Suarez, Alberto San Juan, Ariadna Gil, Ana Belén, Pilar Lopez de Ayala and many other.
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Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena
Title: Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena
Character: Hortensia
Released: November 26, 2004
Type: Movie
Hortensia is a mature officer of the INEM office. She has been abandoned by her husband so she doesn't believe in love anymore. One day Eduardo Fernandez goes to the employment office because after overcoming a deep depression, he has decided that his life has to get better.
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With Good Reason
Title: With Good Reason
Released: November 12, 2004
Type: Movie
A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media.
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Title: Operación triunfo
Character: Self - Judge
Released: October 22, 2001
Type: TV
Reality-show talent contest aimed to find the country's next solo singing sensation, putting a selection of hopefuls through their paces by getting them to sing a variety of cover versions of popular songs, with tutoring from various professionals.
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Title: Operación triunfo
Character: Self - Invitada
Released: October 22, 2001
Type: TV
Reality-show talent contest aimed to find the country's next solo singing sensation, putting a selection of hopefuls through their paces by getting them to sing a variety of cover versions of popular songs, with tutoring from various professionals.
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Antigua vida mía
Title: Antigua vida mía
Character: Josefa Ferrer
Released: May 3, 2001
Type: Movie
An abused wife (Cecilia Roth) seeks information about her dead mother, a freedom fighter buried in Antigua.
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Title: Petra Delicado
Character: Petra Delicado
Released: September 9, 1999
Type: TV
Based on the novels of Alicia Giménez Bartlett, it is a police series in which the inspector Petra Delicado, a divorced and independent woman manages to solve complicated criminal plots episode by episode, with the collaboration of sub-inspector Fermín Garzón.
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La parrilla
Title: La parrilla
Character: Petra Delicado
Released: September 5, 1999
Type: Movie
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Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
Title: Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
Character: Diana
Released: July 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.
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El gusto es nuestro
Title: El gusto es nuestro
Released: August 4, 1996
Type: Movie
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Freedomfighters
Title: Freedomfighters
Character: Pilar
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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Title: De pé a pá
Character: Self
Released: January 7, 1996
Type: TV
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Turkish Passion
Title: Turkish Passion
Character: Desideria
Released: November 18, 1994
Type: Movie
A young woman’s passion forms the basis of this erotic Spanish drama adapted from a popular novel by Antonio Gala. The night before Desideria’s marriage, her girl friends give her some valuable advice on sex. The marriage takes place, and while it is generally happy, her husband Ramiro suffers from sexual dysfunction and Desideria is frustrated. The two end up on holiday in Istanbul with two friends. Desideria falls madly in love with the sensual ambiance of the ancient, teeming city. She begins a passionate affair with a handsome Turkish guide, Yaman. Upon her return home, she learns that she is pregnant. Ramiro agrees to support the child, but unfortunately it dies in infancy and the grieving Desideria flees for Istanbul to find her lover. She finds him and they renew their torrid affair. Later she learns some distressing things about Yaman, but this does not stop her from becoming his sexual slave and a call girl for wealthy carpet sellers.
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Ana Belén y Víctor Manuel: mucho más que dos
Title: Ana Belén y Víctor Manuel: mucho más que dos
Released: June 4, 1994
Type: Movie
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Banderas, the Tyrant
Title: Banderas, the Tyrant
Character: Lupita
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.
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The Perfect Husband
Title: The Perfect Husband
Character: Natasha
Released: June 2, 1993
Type: Movie
Dostoevsky-inspired drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men's wives and dueling. He begins an affair with his friend's wife, but falls in love with her.
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Rosa Rosae
Title: Rosa Rosae
Released: October 28, 1992
Type: Movie
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After the Dream
Title: After the Dream
Character: Ángeles
Released: September 9, 1992
Type: Movie
Amós is a sailor and owner of a ship. He is impatient with the arrival of his uncle who returns from the Soviet Union, after having exiled there after the Civil War. They have no time to meet because the old man unexpectedly dies. Amos knows, thanks to the letters his mother received, that his uncle had a treasure. However, this one is not among the objects that were in the old man's room.
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The Flight of the Dove
Title: The Flight of the Dove
Released: February 14, 1989
Type: Movie
A film team arrives at a more authentic and old square in Madrid to shoot a film. The area is full of children, working families and simple people who see the cinema as something unattainable. From his balcony, Paloma, does not lose detail of the shooting, nor of the movements of the gallant, for which he feels a strong attraction.
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Miss Caribe
Title: Miss Caribe
Character: Alejandra
Released: April 13, 1988
Type: Movie
A woman's father dies in a Central American country and leaves her a bizarre inheritance: a ship which acts as a floating brothel under the appearance of being a restaurant. Alejandra, our heroine, decides to put an end to the ship's dissolute activities and use her inheritance as a school. Customers, cooks, waiters and the girls will meet her idea with considerable resistance.
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Divine Words
Title: Divine Words
Character: Mari Gaila
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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The House of Bernarda Alba
Title: The House of Bernarda Alba
Character: Adela
Released: April 3, 1987
Type: Movie
After the death of her husband Bernarda Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house.
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Bilbao Blues
Title: Bilbao Blues
Character: Beatriz Artetxe
Released: October 31, 1986
Type: Movie
Beatriz is an attractive young lawyer who enjoys an enviable position thanks to the influence of his father, a prominent businessman. Lucas, a young guy with a rather shady past, struggling to emerge from the unfavorable situation in which life has placed him. When Lucas is arrested with a stash of cocaine adulterated becomes a client of Beatrice. The pure cocaine has hidden with intent to distribute it only with your partner Uriarte, for it has had to deceive another of his buddies into thinking that the business has failed.
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Move Over, Mrs. Markham
Title: Move Over, Mrs. Markham
Character: Rosa
Released: December 5, 1985
Type: Movie
Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him use his house for a love tryst while Fernando wines and dines Adela. At the same time, Paco's wife, Carmen, will be taking her lover to Rosa's house. From here on the rout begins, as Paco tries to get rid of Silvia, his secretary, and Carmen, her husband. Fernando thinks Rosa is cheating on him with Oscar, who thinks Fernando is gay and having an affair with his partner, while the soldier thinks his girlfriend is a professional...
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The Court of the Pharaoh
Title: The Court of the Pharaoh
Character: Mari Pili / Lota
Released: September 26, 1985
Type: Movie
In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage of the artistic caprices of the son of a rich man who supports the regime. They try to stage a Pre-war 'zarzuela' (a sort of Spanish operetta), 'La Corte Del Faraón', which ironically, thirty years later, is too obscene for the regime censorship. They finally manage to perform the 'zarzuela' but end up in the police station where they confirm that justice depends on which side are you on
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Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado
Title: Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado
Character: Self
Released: November 7, 1983
Type: Movie
A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely opportunistic, who brought it to a successful conclusion in the tribunes and offices; on the other hand, the citizens who, in the streets, supported it sincerely or fought it with ferocity.
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Demons in the Garden
Title: Demons in the Garden
Character: Ana
Released: October 18, 1982
Type: Movie
Juan is the handsome, irresponsible, best-loved second son. When his older brother, who runs the family's black-market business with their steel-willed mother, marries Juan's lover Ana, Juan heads for Madrid to work for Franco. Juan also leaves behind his impoverished cousin, Ángela, pregnant with his son. Jump ten years. Juanito, the lad, has rheumatic fever. The doctor says to pamper the boy. Ángela, Ana, and his grandmother comply. As Juanito recovers, his father returns in desperate need of cash; Juanito witnesses a theft blamed on his innocent mother. Things come to a head at a saint's-name party for father and son. Jealousies, betrayals, and a bullet converge.
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The Beehive
Title: The Beehive
Character: Victorita
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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Dolores
Title: Dolores
Character: Ana Belén
Released: March 27, 1981
Type: Movie
Based on the life of Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria), president of the PCE. The film is a documentary, prepared over three years with archive material from Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Havana, Yugoslavia and Basque and Spanish film libraries.
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Title: Fortunata and Jacinta
Character: Fortunata
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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Erotic Stories
Title: Erotic Stories
Character: Carmen (segment "Tiempos rotos")
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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El buscón
Title: El buscón
Character: La Bailarina
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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Check to the Queen
Title: Check to the Queen
Character: Paula
Released: February 1, 1979
Type: Movie
After Paula's suicide, her best friend, Ana, recalls the circumstances that united both women in the past and how they lived a close relationship that could have become more than just a friendship if social conventions had not prevented it.
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Somnambulists
Title: Somnambulists
Released: September 18, 1978
Type: Movie
Ana works side by side with her mother Maria Rosa in the fight to save the anti-Franco militants from the death penalty during the process of Burgos. Ana's mother is a former actress and Ana, her mother and a few other actors prepare an act of protest in the theater where an international festival on Strinberg is being held. But there are more things in Ana's life. The mother lives with her uncle, the brother of his father, Norman, an old doctor of devious methods. Helped by Fatima, an old nurse who loves her father, the doctor will try to experiment with Ana's ideas and feelings as well
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The Creature
Title: The Creature
Character: Cristina
Released: November 30, 1977
Type: Movie
Tender and erotic love story of a respectable bourgeois housewife and a large black Alsatian dog. Shot in 1977, the film employs bestiality as a symbol of Spain's political landscape. It makes references to the massacre of Atocha and to political right wing groups that, after the death of Francisco Franco, tried to maintain the dictator’s political ideals.
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La oscura historia de la prima Montse
Title: La oscura historia de la prima Montse
Character: Montse
Released: August 18, 1977
Type: Movie
Paco, a middle-class young man, tells his lover the shady story of his cousin Montse, a social worker.
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La petición
Title: La petición
Character: Teresa
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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Emilia... parada y fonda
Title: Emilia... parada y fonda
Character: Emilia
Released: August 15, 1976
Type: Movie
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¡Jo, papá!
Title: ¡Jo, papá!
Character: Pilar
Released: November 21, 1975
Type: Movie
With the purpose of recalling a youthful adventure, Enrique, a well-placed merchant, decides to travel around Spain in the company of his wife Alicia and his two daughters, Pilar and Carmen.
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País S. A.
Title: País S. A.
Character: Aurora (archive footage)
Released: October 27, 1975
Type: Movie
A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist.
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The Love of Captain Brando
Title: The Love of Captain Brando
Character: Aurora
Released: November 28, 1974
Type: Movie
During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old republican exile, returns to his home in a small Castilian village and befriends Aurora, a young and attractive teacher.
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Tormento
Title: Tormento
Character: Amparo
Released: September 2, 1974
Type: Movie
A rich emigrant returns to Madrid where he meets the beautiful Amparo . The girl, however, lives a secret affair with a priest
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Vida conyugal sana
Title: Vida conyugal sana
Character: Ana
Released: February 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Enrique is a thirty-year-old lawyer who is married to Ana. Apparently he is a normal man who has only one obsession: the commercials. He feels a real passion for the erotic world of the ads either in billboards, trash cans, public transport, magazines or television. The continuous publicity bombardment ends up leading him towards a neurosis that changes his personality.
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Separación matrimonial
Title: Separación matrimonial
Character: Isabel
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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Romeo y Julieta
Title: Romeo y Julieta
Character: Julieta
Released: October 6, 1972
Type: Movie
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To the Devil, with Love
Title: To the Devil, with Love
Character: Pilar
Released: September 24, 1972
Type: Movie
On an island buffeted by storms, the seamen are confined with no desire to abandon the life by the sea. They spend days and nights drunk in the tavern. The young woman who serves them has one desire: to go far away. This sets the stage for a musical in the open, and will frame a story of love and adventure, reminiscent of the director's film Aoom.
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Morbidness
Title: Morbidness
Character: Alicia
Released: September 15, 1972
Type: Movie
Newlyweds have decided to spend the honeymoon in the middle of a forest and sheltered in a caravan. Relations between the two start to get confused, especially when she begins to obsess over a nearby house and with eyes that seem to spy on her with lust.
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Aunque la hormona se vista de seda...
Title: Aunque la hormona se vista de seda...
Character: Paloma Gil de la Viña
Released: September 9, 1971
Type: Movie
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Spaniards in Paris
Title: Spaniards in Paris
Character: Isabel
Released: April 26, 1971
Type: Movie
Four Spanish women of very different origins and motivations work in Paris as handmaids.
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Title: Crimen y castigo
Character: Dunia
Released: September 7, 1970
Type: TV
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Zampo y yo
Title: Zampo y yo
Character: Ana Belén
Released: July 4, 1966
Type: Movie
Ana Belén, motherless and daughter of a powerful businessman, lives in a luxurious mansion; but she is not happy, until she attends a circus performance, where she meets Zampo, an old clown with whom she becomes close friends.
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Title: Viña del Mar International Song Festival
Character: Self - Musical Guest
Released: February 14, 1963
Type: TV
A yearly musical contest organized by the municipality of Viña del Mar, Chile which takes place during the last week of February at the Quinta Vergara Amphitheater since February 21, 1960.
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Conciertos: Ana Belén y Víctor Manuel
Title: Conciertos: Ana Belén y Víctor Manuel
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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2014 Hijos de puta
Title: 2014 Hijos de puta
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The story will begin with the suicide of a finance man on a golf course. After the death of the banker, the chain effect will lead to the emergence of the true social natures of the elite class. A journey from the most humble to the most powerful, and like all of them, deep down, they are made of the same material. A social film that offers a different approach to the components of life in society.