Tota Alba

Tota Alba

Born: March 5, 1914
Died: January 1, 1983
in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Movies for Tota Alba...

Battered Flesh
Title: Battered Flesh
Character: Reclusa
Released: January 27, 1978
Type: Movie
Berta (Tota Alba) has entered, once again, in prison accused of fraud. From the first moment she steps in the jail, she becomes the toy of all the veteran inmates. The number of conflicts in which she is immersed causes her to be transferred several times from penitentiary. In all of them will live some experience that will change her life; she will know love, hate, despair, etc.
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Inquisition
Title: Inquisition
Character: Mabille
Released: December 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Period piece set during the Inquisition about a witch-finder general who falls in love with the village beauty, who has made a pact with the devil to seduce and condemn the man who is killing off Satan's servants.
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La lozana andaluza
Title: La lozana andaluza
Character: Dueña en la casa de Castruccio
Released: September 14, 1976
Type: Movie
In 16th century Rome, Rampín, a friendly and shameless rogue, exploits his arts of deception. He lives with his aunt, Napolitana, a pimp dedicated to the same trades as his nephew. With the arrival of a beautiful Andalusian, Lozana, her fortune enters their house by making her the most beautiful courtesan in Rome. Lozana and Rampín reach an agreement: he will be at her service, taking her lovers home, and she will treat him like a king and give him the best, something that others will never have. But one fine day, Don Sancho, a handsome Spaniard, falls in love with her.
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Sábado, chica, motel ¡qué lío aquel!
Title: Sábado, chica, motel ¡qué lío aquel!
Character: Enfermera
Released: September 12, 1976
Type: Movie
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A la Legión le gustan las mujeres… y a las mujeres, les gusta la Legión
Title: A la Legión le gustan las mujeres… y a las mujeres, les gusta la Legión
Character: Doña Euduviges
Released: March 16, 1976
Type: Movie
A lieutenant and four others are having a little party before entering combat. Ensign has his girlfriend in a village occupied by the enemy, so it is essential a rescue mission
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El chiste
Title: El chiste
Character: Señora / Embajadora
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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Strange Love of the Vampires
Title: Strange Love of the Vampires
Character: Catherine's Mother
Released: September 30, 1975
Type: Movie
In a 19th century village, a young aristocrat suffering from a terminal disease finds herself being drawn to the underground world of vampires and their strange rituals.
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The Possessed
Title: The Possessed
Character: Mother Gautère
Released: March 3, 1975
Type: Movie
After an old witch desecrates a church and abducts a baby, the police take her in for questioning, leading her to attempt suicide. To exact revenge, a fellow witch curses the police commissioner's daughter, and as the old witch dies, her spirit latches onto the young girl and causes her to wreak havoc.
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Five Pillows for One Night
Title: Five Pillows for One Night
Character: Tía de Leandro
Released: June 7, 1974
Type: Movie
Ana, a girl who is about to get married, discovers in her boyfriend's house a photograph in which her mother, dead at birth, and her future father-in-law appear in a very affectionate way.
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Las señoritas de mala compañía
Title: Las señoritas de mala compañía
Character: Doña Anunciación
Released: December 17, 1973
Type: Movie
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La casa de los Martínez
Title: La casa de los Martínez
Character: Tota
Released: April 26, 1971
Type: Movie
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Spaniards in Paris
Title: Spaniards in Paris
Released: April 26, 1971
Type: Movie
Four Spanish women of very different origins and motivations work in Paris as handmaids.
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Hoy es fiesta
Title: Hoy es fiesta
Released: March 12, 1970
Type: Movie
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Hamelín
Title: Hamelín
Character: Maestra
Released: August 2, 1969
Type: Movie
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Long Play
Title: Long Play
Character: Madre de Juanjo
Released: December 2, 1968
Type: Movie
A rainy day forces Joaquin, Joe Luis and Alvaro to refuge in Martins' house. They also go there two Swedish girls who want love and spanish ham; a nun with hobbies of racing driver; a fat priest; a policeman unable to establish order; and the father of Joaquin, a fortune hunter. In the chaos that is triggered, the five young people discover their common love for music and they form a band.
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The Orgies of Dr. Orloff
Title: The Orgies of Dr. Orloff
Character: Teodora
Released: October 4, 1967
Type: Movie
A doctor invites his relatives to his castle, all the while planning to murder them when they arrive. However, when he himself is murdered, the relatives know they have to find the killer before he gets all of them.
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Next Fall
Title: Next Fall
Character: Mercedes
Released: August 18, 1967
Type: Movie
Filmed in 1963, but not released in Spain until 1967, the film depicts the failed romance between a bourgeois french tourist girl and a spanish working class boy.
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El padre Manolo
Title: El padre Manolo
Character: Beata impertinente
Released: March 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Padre Manolo, priest, magician and singer, starts a private investigation on what seems to be a murder...
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Don Juan Tenorio
Title: Don Juan Tenorio
Character: Brígida
Released: November 2, 1966
Type: Movie
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10:30 P.M. Summer
Title: 10:30 P.M. Summer
Released: October 24, 1966
Type: Movie
A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.
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Los árboles mueren de pie
Title: Los árboles mueren de pie
Character: Elena
Released: October 4, 1966
Type: Movie
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El arte de no casarse
Title: El arte de no casarse
Released: June 8, 1966
Type: Movie
Four stories about the arts of not getting married. Alfredo Landa performs the roles of a lawyer who has just finished his military service, a young marquis on his wedding day, a flirt and a soldier who deals with three girls at the same time.
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Title: Tales to Keep You Awake
Released: February 4, 1966
Type: TV
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Proceso a una estrella
Title: Proceso a una estrella
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A celebrated cabaret singer, Rosa Lucena, is accused of killing Miguel, her dance partner. She is arrested, but not finding sufficient evidence of guilt, the judges decide to investigate her past, when Rosa and Miguel acted in a theater in Madrid and she fellin love with a young doctor, leaving his career for him. This situation has a direct impact on Miguel, which fails miserably with the withdrawal of his partner.
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Eroe vagabondo
Title: Eroe vagabondo
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Noah earns his living as a plastic flower seller and despite his crushes and hardships, his sweet and dreamy character pushes him to go forward, as well as the love for a girl to whom he usually gives a flower every week . One day he discovers that his loved one has lost her life and begins to wander aimlessly, eventually becoming a hero after saving a clown from certain death but at the same time remains a slave to interest games by shady individuals. When he attends the representation of Romeo and Juliet, he finds in the female protagonist the features of the girl he loved.
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Residence for Spies
Title: Residence for Spies
Character: Commander Pendleton
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Ms. Pendleton is the commander-in-chief of a women's training camp for western spies, recently established in Turkey. CIA agent Leyton receives a mission, to discover and destroy an enemy group operating in the vicinities of that residence. He will manage, with the help, and sometimes extra zeal, of a team of young women recruits.
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La dama del alba
Title: La dama del alba
Character: Telva
Released: December 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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Title: Estudio Uno
Character: Sra. Bradman
Released: November 24, 1965
Type: TV
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The Sweet Sound of Death
Title: The Sweet Sound of Death
Character: Sra. Monceau
Released: September 28, 1965
Type: Movie
Pablo is in love with Dominique, whom he wants to marry. The girl leads them to a cemetery, where she convinces Pablo that should either of them die, the other will return and help them prepare for the afterlife. She leaves Madrid on a vacation in Bretagna, and dies en route. Pablo receives a call the next day. It is Dominique.
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El tímido
Title: El tímido
Released: July 15, 1965
Type: Movie
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Bullet in the Flesh
Title: Bullet in the Flesh
Character: Minnea
Released: December 30, 1964
Type: Movie
The Masters and the Cherokees living in relative peace until a key member of this tribe falls in love with a woman from the Masters family. From there the situation is complicated to unknown heights.
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Fin de semana
Title: Fin de semana
Character: Madre de Paco
Released: November 23, 1964
Type: Movie
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Strange Voyage
Title: Strange Voyage
Character: Ignacia
Released: August 9, 1964
Type: Movie
In a small town near Madrid, Paquita and her brother Venancio, both single and with a childish personality, live under the shadow of their bossy older sister, Ignacia, a grumpy old maid.
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Billy the Kid
Title: Billy the Kid
Released: July 8, 1964
Type: Movie
Tom Carter, his wife and his son Billy, live quietly on the family farm until a dispute arises between him and his rich neighbour John Price who organizes a punitive expedition against Carter. Billy is sent to Littleton by his father and when he returns he finds the house burnt down, his father killed and his mother injured. The cautious sheriff prefers to conclude to an accident despite Billy's insistance. So Billy decides to take the law into his own hands...
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Constance aux enfers
Title: Constance aux enfers
Character: Portera
Released: May 30, 1964
Type: Movie
Rear Window meets Estate violenta. The middle-aged Constance watches a young couple that lives across the courtyard; the girl plays loud pop music and goes out of her way to be unpleasant to the classically educated and piano-playing Constance. Then one day Constance sees the boyfriend strangle the little tart in a fit of jealousy. He sees her, too, and has nobody else to turn to for help. Constance keeps silent about the murder and offers the young Hugo a place in her bed. Then the blackmail notes start to arrive...
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Chica para todo
Title: Chica para todo
Character: Doña Rosario
Released: November 18, 1963
Type: Movie
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The Gang of Eleven
Title: The Gang of Eleven
Released: July 26, 1963
Type: Movie
Inspired by the American gangster films, a group of thugs decides to dock the Bank of Spain. "El Rubio" explains to his men that, to commit the armed robbery, they will have to dig a gallery in the Cibeles. But, due to the threats of a rival band, "El Rubio" decides to disguise itself and pretend to be one of the most famous actors of the moment.
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Cuatro bodas y pico
Title: Cuatro bodas y pico
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
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Sabían demasiado
Title: Sabían demasiado
Character: Nuera de don Sebastián Guzmán
Released: September 18, 1962
Type: Movie
A gang of Spanish pickpockets decide to send one of them to Chicago to learn how to be a gangster...
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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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Vampiresas 1930
Title: Vampiresas 1930
Released: May 7, 1962
Type: Movie
As the era of silent films finds itself at a close, four down-and-out silent film actors and musicians struggle to find work. Fate leads them to a former star of the silent era as she struggles to escape her reputation as a wild and evil vamp of the silver screen and longs to be just thought of as an honest and decent woman. They join forces, and for a short time have a decent amount of success singing and dancing at clubs and bars. But the public has an insatiable taste for foreign black jazz bands, and they will stop at nothing to become a success.
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Kill and Be Killed
Title: Kill and Be Killed
Character: Amiga de Sabina #1
Released: May 3, 1962
Type: Movie
A former singer lives alone with her fortune - and with her nephew, Fernando, a low character to whom she refuses to lend more money. Elisa leaves prison and starts a new life as a personal attendant to the aging singer, using her knowledge as a former nurse - a profession she can not return to. Fernando meets Elisa, and together they plan to poison the lonely woman, and use her money abroad. They plan their alibis well. But those who kill by the sword will perish by the sword.
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Martes y trece
Title: Martes y trece
Character: Inglesa 1
Released: March 2, 1962
Type: Movie
Lola and Maria are two Spanish young ladies engaged to Franz and Pepe, all so eager to spend their honeymoon that the moment seems never to come, as all sorts of problems pave their way.
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Cradle Song
Title: Cradle Song
Character: Sor Crucifixión
Released: December 4, 1961
Type: Movie
In a Castilian convent of the late nineteenth century, the community of cloistered nuns celebrates the onomastic of their superior with a poem. She is also visited by the doctor, Don Jose, who diagnosed a disease with poor prognosis. Shortly after a sister picks up a beautiful girl who has been abandoned at the door of the convent and the doctor, despite being single, offers to legally adopt her and assign her to the convent as a pupil.
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Rosa de Lima
Title: Rosa de Lima
Character: Madre superiora
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Santa Rosa de Lima, who died in the capital of Peru, was barely 31 years old when she died in 1617. José María Elorrieta's film narrates the life of this young woman, daughter of Gaspar Flores, Spanish arquebusier the service of King Philip III, and of Maria de Oliva, who will become principal patron of the New World, the Philippines and West Indies in 1670.
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My Street
Title: My Street
Released: November 21, 1960
Type: Movie
Life events around a city street and its residents are told along the years while time goes by, wars break out and end and life evolves.
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Un tipo de sangre
Title: Un tipo de sangre
Released: June 19, 1960
Type: Movie
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Compadece al delincuente
Title: Compadece al delincuente
Released: June 13, 1960
Type: Movie
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Those times of the cuplé
Title: Those times of the cuplé
Released: April 6, 1958
Type: Movie
Mercedes Pavón, a famous singer of cuplés is harassed by three men totaly different.
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Stories from Madrid
Title: Stories from Madrid
Character: Futuróloga (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1958
Type: Movie
Dawn in Madrid. In the Plaza de la Cibeles begins the daily grind. The statue of the goddess, from its source in the center of the square tells the story of a man, petty speculator, owner of an old building that is going to ask Saint Nicholas for his cooperation to make it sink, and thus be able to lift a twelve-story modern building. But the inhabitants of the block have also implored the Saint to prevent this from happening.
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El hombre que viajaba despacito
Title: El hombre que viajaba despacito
Character: Gitana
Released: April 21, 1957
Type: Movie
A tank regiment soldier needs a permit to go to his village to meet his newborn son. It will not be easy, leading to absurd situations featuring the legendary humorist Miguel Gila.