Chus Lampreave

Chus Lampreave

Born: December 11, 1930
Died: April 4, 2016
in Madrid, Spain
María Jesús Lampreave Pérez (11 December 1930 – 4 April 2016), known as Chus Lampreave, was a Spanish actress. Born in Madrid, she began appearing in films in 1958, but she became internationally known thanks to her roles in films by Pedro Almodóvar, where she played old ladies with maternal or pastoral traits. She died in Almería in 2016 at the age of 85.

Movies for Chus Lampreave...

Me, the President
Title: Me, the President
Released: March 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Spain's recent election have alarmed europe. It's the second time blank votes win, plunging the country into chaos. The European Union decides to elect the new Spanish president using a rather unique method, Facebook.
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Torrente 5
Title: Torrente 5
Character: Reme
Released: October 3, 2014
Type: Movie
Crooked cop Torrente gets out of jail in the year 2018 to find a different Spain from the one he knew.
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Title: Fenómenos
Character: Amelia
Released: November 27, 2012
Type: TV
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The Artist and the Model
Title: The Artist and the Model
Character: María
Released: September 28, 2012
Type: Movie
In occupied France in summer 1943, a world-weary famous sculptor finds the desire to work again with the arrival of a beautiful young Spanish refugee.
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Broken Embraces
Title: Broken Embraces
Character: Concierge
Released: March 18, 2009
Type: Movie
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
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Chef's Special
Title: Chef's Special
Character: Celia
Released: April 11, 2008
Type: Movie
Maxi thinks his life is perfect. He is a famous cook who owns a successful restaurant in Chueca and is living his life as a gay man without much complex. But when his son Edu and his daughter Alba appear, and a new attractive neighbor comes along, it will have a strong effect on his life resulting in his values being challenged for ever.
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Volver
Title: Volver
Character: Tía Paula
Released: March 17, 2006
Type: Movie
While a woman attempts to cover up her daughter's murder and reinvent her life, her sister is visited by their mother, who was thought to have died.
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Trailer for Lovers of the Prohibited
Title: Trailer for Lovers of the Prohibited
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 2005
Type: Movie
Short written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar to promote his movie "What Have I Done to Deserve This?".
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Say I Do
Title: Say I Do
Character: Madre de Víctor
Released: January 13, 2004
Type: Movie
An unlikely couple fake a relationship to win a TV game show prize. Wannabe actress Estrella dreams of becoming a hostess on a romance reality-TV show presented by Amador Rosales. Meanwhile, movie usher and film buff Victor, who hates such reality shows, is being pressured by his mother to be a contestant.
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Robbery at 3 O'clock… and Half
Title: Robbery at 3 O'clock… and Half
Character: Doña Vicenta
Released: June 14, 2003
Type: Movie
A German bank buys a small Spanish entity and announces to its employees that it will pre-retire them on January 1st. The cashier Galindo proposes his fellow coworkers a plan to steal a large sum of euros which will arrive on New Year's Eve.
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El florido pensil
Title: El florido pensil
Character: Doña Pepa
Released: March 22, 2002
Type: Movie
"El Florido Pensil" is a humorous reflection of the education of several generations of Spaniards from the 1940s to the 1960s. Based on the book of the same name by Andrés Sopeña, it evokes, from the present, his memories of that time: everyday school, local radio, Roberto Alcázar's comics, Thursday cinema with Franco opening swamps and "Yon Güein" chasing and killing Indians. Through the childish eyes of a child Sopeña (Daniel Rubio) and his schoolmates, we discover a way of understanding the world, society and a Spain "of glories and flowery pensil", as the national anthem of those years used to sing.
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Talk to Her
Title: Talk to Her
Character: Concierge
Released: March 15, 2002
Type: Movie
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
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Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella
Title: Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella
Character: Reme
Released: March 30, 2001
Type: Movie
For this second film in the cult comedy series Torrente takes our fat police officer from Madrid to Marbella in Spain to investigate a villain’s plot to destroy the city with a missile. This James Bond style slapstick comedy became the most successful box-office film in Spanish film history beating out only the first Torrente film.
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A Perfect Couple
Title: A Perfect Couple
Released: June 12, 1998
Type: Movie
Forty-two-year-old Lorenzo finds himself out of work. Through an ad placed in the local newspaper, he gets a job as a helping hand for an aging homosexual poet who can barely manage on his own. From this moment on, Lorenzo juggles his strange line of work with the life he leads alongside his long-suffering wife and his secret encounters with Faustina, his lover. Everything goes awry from one day to the next due, amongst other things, to some compromising photos and an unexpected funeral.
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Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
Title: Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
Character: Reme
Released: March 13, 1998
Type: Movie
Torrente, The Stupid Arm of The Law by Santiago Segura stars Javier Cámara as a corrupt, poor, delusional, sexist, egocentric, drunk and right-winged Madrid cop named Torrente. This over the top comedy shows Torrente on his search for heroin drug dealers and the outrageous characters he passes on his way. A cult film and one of the funniest Spanish films was the most successful box-office film.
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Mátame mucho
Title: Mátame mucho
Character: Josefa
Released: February 6, 1998
Type: Movie
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Title: Hermanas
Released: February 1, 1998
Type: TV
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Pastas Ardilla
Title: Pastas Ardilla
Character: Chus
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Advertising short from 1996, directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring two of his regular actresses, Rossy de Palma and Chus Lampreave.
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On Earth as It Is in Heaven
Title: On Earth as It Is in Heaven
Character: Doña Asunción
Released: November 3, 1995
Type: Movie
Matacanes dies and goes to heaven just to discover that it was not as he expected, and everyone there is revolutionized lately. Peter explains that God was concerned about the progress of the world, and decided to send a second son to Earth. However, Jesus hears and does not agree, as they would have to rewrite history.
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The Flower of My Secret
Title: The Flower of My Secret
Character: Madre de Leo
Released: September 22, 1995
Type: Movie
Leo is a middle-aged writer of popular romantic novels who writes under a pseudonym, but despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works overseas, is distant both physically and emotionally. As she reevaluates her life and writing, Leo is led to an unexpected relationship with Angel, a sensitive newspaper editor.
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Long Life Together
Title: Long Life Together
Character: Sofia
Released: January 27, 1995
Type: Movie
Petra and Matthias are a bad marriage. He works as a janitor at the school of anatomy. Petra has a bitter and uncompromising character, so that their discussions with Matthias are constant, but she is careful not to ever lift his voice. He, however, does not care who tell and shouts without hesitation. The neighbors, who are some gossips are at the end of the street everything that happens in the house of Petra and Matthias.
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Casque bleu
Title: Casque bleu
Character: Alicia's Mother
Released: June 15, 1994
Type: Movie
Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another woman. By way of atonement, he takes his wife back to the Mediterranean island where, 13 years earlier, they spent their honeymoon. Not such a good move, as it turns out. The peacemaking holiday coincides with the outbreak of a bloody civil war. Having failed to leave the country, Patrick, his wife and their eccentric entourage are taken hostage by merciless guerrillas…
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Everyone Off to Jail
Title: Everyone Off to Jail
Character: Chus
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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Title: ¿De parte de quién?
Character: Doña Rosa
Released: November 30, 1993
Type: TV
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Supernova
Title: Supernova
Character: Avelina
Released: February 26, 1993
Type: Movie
Count Nado, is in love with Fénix, an intergalactic singer. Unable to achieve it with traditional methods, the evil Nado kidnaps the scientist Avelina to make a replica of the singer, creating Supernova.
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Belle Époque
Title: Belle Époque
Character: Doña Asun
Released: December 4, 1992
Type: Movie
In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.
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La mujer inesperada
Title: La mujer inesperada
Released: March 23, 1990
Type: Movie
A man wakes up in a train to Malaga. A mysterious woman helps him get in time to his marriage, which is a few hours later.
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Going Down in Morocco
Title: Going Down in Morocco
Character: Doña Antonia
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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Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
Title: Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
Character: Álvarez
Released: January 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.
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Miss Caribe
Title: Miss Caribe
Character: Doña Petra
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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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Title: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Character: Jehovah's Witness Goalkeeper
Released: March 25, 1988
Type: Movie
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
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Wait for Me in Heaven
Title: Wait for Me in Heaven
Character: Emilia
Released: January 28, 1988
Type: Movie
Pepe Soriano plays a Madrid shopkeeper who is kidnapped by henchmen of Franco in this political comedy. After his kidnapping, he is forced to become the dictator's double for many official ceremonies. Due to his long and unexplained absence, Pepe's wife believes her husband has been abducted and killed, so she tries to reach her husband through spiritualism. After Pepe surprises her with a nocturnal visit, he tells her he will touch his ear to signal it is he and not Franco in public appearances.
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Moors and Christians
Title: Moors and Christians
Character: Antonia
Released: October 28, 1987
Type: Movie
A peculiar family, which owns a nougat factory, decides to set out on a trip to Madrid in order to advertise its products in a Food Fair. Besides the disapproval from the family head and company founder, events are not as expected.
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The Impeccable Sinner
Title: The Impeccable Sinner
Character: Beni
Released: August 13, 1987
Type: Movie
Honorio Sigüenza is a man in his forties who has always lived under the yoke of his possessive mother. When his mother dies, he undergoes a radical transformation that will lead him to live numerous love affairs in the face of the disapproval of his cousin Veni, who wanted to marry him.
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Eulalia
Title: Eulalia
Character: Carmen
Released: May 5, 1987
Type: Movie
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La vida alegre
Title: La vida alegre
Character: Vecina
Released: April 14, 1987
Type: Movie
Ana starts working as a Doctor in the S.T.I.U. (sexual transmission illnesses unit) at a Hospital. She begins meeting a lot of strange and bizarre characters there, while her jealous husband has to deal with it...
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Year of Enlightment
Title: Year of Enlightment
Character: Doña Tránsito
Released: December 5, 1986
Type: Movie
April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, Manolo, surrounded by boys all much younger than he is, feels a bit like the cock of the walk since the only other man around is the handyman Emilio who looks after the gardens and does whatever needs to be done about the place. His wife, Rafaela, is the cook. Manolo meets Irene, a falangist who runs the sanatorium, and the school teacher, Miss Transito, a crabby spinster. He has his first sexual experience, albeit as a voyeur, with his nurse Vicenta. When she has to leave, her place is taken by a girl from the village, Maria Jesus, with whom Manolo falls hopelessly in love. A relationship grows up between them which will mark them both for ever.
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Matador
Title: Matador
Character: Pilar
Released: March 7, 1986
Type: Movie
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
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Lulú de noche
Title: Lulú de noche
Character: Farmacéutica #2
Released: February 20, 1986
Type: Movie
German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While looking for the protagonist, Rufo appears, an introvert jazz musician. He could play Jack the ripper.
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The House of Ulloa
Title: The House of Ulloa
Released: December 9, 1985
Type: Movie
Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion, this gloriously comic and gothic story follows the fortunes of an innocent young priest as he enters a world of moral decadence, sexual intrigue and corruption of an aristocratic family in nineteenth-century Galicia.
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Title: Los Pazos de Ulloa
Character: Bibiana
Released: December 9, 1985
Type: TV
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Move Over, Mrs. Markham
Title: Move Over, Mrs. Markham
Character: Adela Mora
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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Title: Pagina de Sucesos
Character: Araceli
Released: October 25, 1985
Type: TV
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The Chosen One
Title: The Chosen One
Character: Florita
Released: September 24, 1985
Type: Movie
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Tatuaje
Title: Tatuaje
Released: April 10, 1985
Type: Movie
A short film starring Pedro Almodovar and Marisa Paredes, parodying the famous spanish copla "tatuaje".
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El rollo de septiembre
Title: El rollo de septiembre
Character: Doña Aurelia
Released: February 28, 1985
Type: Movie
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The Secret Garden
Title: The Secret Garden
Character: María
Released: November 5, 1984
Type: Movie
A few days ago, Lucia (Assumpta Serna) receives anonymous letters in which he is forced to perform certain actions that she accepts without question. Her current boyfriend, Arthur (Xabier Elorriaga), suspects the mysterious sender can be Lucia's former lover, whose strange death never reached clarified. Now it's time it's Arthur who put the cards on the table to get to the bottom of it.
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What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Title: What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Character: Abuela
Released: October 25, 1984
Type: Movie
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.
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Bajo en nicotina
Title: Bajo en nicotina
Character: Puri
Released: April 25, 1984
Type: Movie
A film buff can't watch his videos in peace as he is disturbed by his clingy girlfriend and noisy neighbours. He will take drastic measures to get them to shut up for once and for all.
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Title: Teresa de Jesús
Character: Criada
Released: March 12, 1984
Type: TV
Teresa de Jesús is a 1984 film mini-series that premiered on Spanish television in 1984. It presents the life of Teresa of Avila, a Spanish saint, mystic, and doctor of the Roman Catholic Church. Its dialogue is in Spanish, but versions with English subtitles are available. The film stars Concha Velasco as Teresa. Also appearing are Gonzalo Abril as Lorenzo de Cepeda, María Massip as Juana Suárez, Francisco Rabal as Peter of Alcantara, Héctor Alterio, and Marina Saura as another nun. It tells the story of Teresa's life from age 23 until her death at age 67.
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Epilogue
Title: Epilogue
Character: Flo-Flo
Released: January 20, 1984
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of two writers in love with the same woman. For years, they have worked together. One day they separate. Ten years later and Ditirambo meets up with Rocabruno, at the very least to tell him his latest story. An epilogue that closes what they together have opened.
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Dark Habits
Title: Dark Habits
Character: Sor Rata de Callejón
Released: October 3, 1983
Type: Movie
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.
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Total
Title: Total
Character: Álvarez
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
"Total" opens the trilogy that close "Amanece que no es poco" and "Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra" Year 2598. Three days ago, the world has come to the end in London, a lost and a small Castilian village atmosphere. Lorenzo, a shepherd, tells a series of extraordinary events that have been announcing the end of the world: the cows want to go to school, walls crumble, or Doña Paquita appears in the most unexpected places ..
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National III
Title: National III
Character: Viti
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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Cuentos para una escapada
Title: Cuentos para una escapada
Released: July 27, 1981
Type: Movie
With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's film.
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National Heritage
Title: National Heritage
Character: Viti
Released: March 26, 1981
Type: Movie
After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exile, with the purpose of returning to Madrid to actively participate in the social events of the aristocracy and to get closer to the closest circle of the Spanish monarch. The obsession of the old marquis is centered on getting in touch with the most illustrious surnames, to ascend socially and to resume the pomp and courtly life that his family lost a long time ago. To this end, he decides to move into an old palace he owns, located in the center of the capital, but not before overcoming the difficulties posed by his wife, who deeply hates both her husband and her son. To regain control of the palace, the Marquis of Leguineche tries to handicap his wife, arguing an incurable mental illness, and then undertake a reform of the place in order to adapt it to aristocratic life.
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El erótico enmascarado
Title: El erótico enmascarado
Character: Doña Gertrudis
Released: July 21, 1980
Type: Movie
Manolo (Fernando Esteso) is a porn actor who no longer has any attraction towards women, having become "a decent man". But, of course, there is a horny doctor, who happens to be a fan of this actor, that will do everything to help him, even trying to turn him on with his own wife.
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The National Shotgun
Title: The National Shotgun
Character: Viti
Released: September 14, 1978
Type: Movie
A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm shows full authority over James, who is the real organizer of the meeting. The celebration is diverse characters who live next to absurd situations.
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Nunca es tarde
Title: Nunca es tarde
Character: Manoli
Released: December 11, 1977
Type: Movie
Antonio and Teresa are a couple who live in a flat in San Sebastian. Ursula Michelena, an elderly woman over 70 years old, lives on the top floor. Ursula is secretly in love with Antonio, whom he continually spies from one of the windows of her house. One night she sees Antonio and Teresa making love and that fact excites her violently, in such a way that she asks Antonio for a secret appointment and tells her that she is pregnant and that the son she is waiting for is his. Úrsula, according to her version, has become pregnant looking at Antonio and Teresa making love.
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El bengador gusticiero y su pastelera madre
Title: El bengador gusticiero y su pastelera madre
Character: Rosalinda
Released: March 7, 1977
Type: Movie
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El monosabio
Title: El monosabio
Character: Clara
Released: February 4, 1977
Type: Movie
Juanito, a peaceful fan of bullfighting, has become picador's assistant to see from the same arena the show in which he brags he is one of the protagonists. Furthermore, he believes he has discovered in a neighbor a potential figure of bullfighting sphere.
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And They Lived Happily Ever After
Title: And They Lived Happily Ever After
Character: Aurora
Released: November 16, 1976
Type: Movie
Manoli and Fernando, a couple of communist ideas, want to live their love freely, fleeing from any bourgeois convention. At first, the couple rejects the help of her parents, but soon they will begin to give in and accept all kinds of comforts.
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Al fin solos, pero...
Title: Al fin solos, pero...
Character: Chus (as María Jesús Lampreave)
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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The Love of Captain Brando
Title: The Love of Captain Brando
Character: Mayor's Wife
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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My Dearest Senorita
Title: My Dearest Senorita
Character: Sobrina de Chus
Released: February 17, 1972
Type: Movie
A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society?
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La Lola... dicen que no vive sola
Title: La Lola... dicen que no vive sola
Released: November 3, 1970
Type: Movie
A prostitute promises to the Virgin Mary not to practice her trade for a year if she heals her sick child.
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Les combinards
Title: Les combinards
Character: (scenes deleted)
Released: February 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Léo and Claude, two penniless friends turned con artists, answer matrimonial classified ads to trap women. But one of the friends soon finds his own game turned against him.
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The Executioner
Title: The Executioner
Character: Visiting Woman of the Work
Released: August 31, 1963
Type: Movie
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
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La becerrada
Title: La becerrada
Character: Chus
Released: May 27, 1963
Type: Movie
San Ginés de la Sierra is a small village lost in the mountains in southern Spain. It is known throughout the region for two peculiar characteristics: its "persistent" drought and a "Home of the Vanquished". This "home" is an institution that houses some twenty old people, to whose care are eleven nuns and crosses a distressing economic situation. The nuns are desperately seeking a solution and decide to hold a charity bulls run.
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The Wheelchair
Title: The Wheelchair
Character: Yolanda Proharán
Released: November 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Don Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. His family strongly refuses him to purchase the vehicle, so don Anselmo decides to take extreme measures to achieve his goal…
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Streetcar for Sale
Title: Streetcar for Sale
Character: Marujita
Released: October 11, 1959
Type: Movie
This excellent short film written by the magnificent filmmaker duo of Luis García Berlanga and screenwriter Rafael Azcona was to be part of a series entitled Los Pícaros (The Rogues) which was never continued. These two artists were responsible for such masterpieces of Spanish cinema as Plácido and El verdugo (The Executioner). Here, Berlanga and Azcona collaborated for the first time, setting the stage for the post-war "Berlanguiana" vision that would develop. José Luis López Vázquez plays Julián, a seedy swindler, who with his cronies tries to sell a streetcar to a rich but naive farmer, a newcomer to the city. High jinx ensue. With this film begins the great stage of Berlanga's filmmaking in which he mixes a little social criticism and notes of anti-clericalism with a great deal of farce.
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The Little Apartment
Title: The Little Apartment
Character: Adelina - secretaria de Don Manuel (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1959
Type: Movie
Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or "pisito", in Spanish dialect). Unfortunately their low salaries prevent them from acquiring one. Soon, Rodolfo's co-workers urge him to marry the old and frail Doña Martina, who is the main tenant in the apartment he boards in. According to Spanish rent-control law, he could inherit the lease from his spouse. Thus begin his misgivings and Petrita's. Written by Emilio