
Antonio Canal
Actor · b. 1936 · Barcelona, Spain
Movies24
Movie7.0DramaHorrorA couple of English tourists arrive at the island of Almanzora, off the Spanish Mediterranean coast, where they discover that there are no adults in a small fishing village, only some children who stare at them and smile mysteriously.
Movie4.0DramaComedyPersecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape
¿Qué hace una chica como tú en un sitio como éste?
What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
1978 · 7 votes
Movie6.1DramaIn 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.
Valentina
1982 · 19 votes
MovieDramaTV MovieAt seventy-five years old Ana Non closes the door behind her to undertake a fabulous journey: she goes, walking, to kiss her son in prison; journey to the north of Spain, journey of love and death, of initiation and knowledge.
Ana non
1985
Movie7.3DramaRomanceThis adaptation of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. The boy's mother is a surgeon and therefore a rather uncommon woman for her society. She and Werther gradually become romantically involved, and his feelings for her begin to run much deeper than is apparent on the surface.
Werther
1986 · 3 votes
Movie6.8DramaHistoryOsa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier.
Movie6.3DramaThrillerWhen Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
The House on Garibaldi Street
1979 · 3 votes
Movie5.1ComedySister Angela and Sister Mary park his van in front of a bank branch. They enter the bank and with the weapons hidden under their habits, commit the robbery of the century, to the astonishment of all employees and customers. After thorough police investigation the two nuns are arrested, but then appears Trini, twin sister of one of them and now all is not so clear. Were the nuns who committed the robbery?
Hermana, ¿pero qué has hecho?
1995 · 14 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceIn 1940's Madrid. Juan plays piano for Pepita and her on-stage partner Mario. Although Mario really wants to steal Juan for himself, Juan is not interested and Mario resorts to a string of lovers as consolation. When he loves (and leaves) a young nobleman, the young man wants revenge.
Movie6.1DramaThe greedy relatives of a paralysed 45-year-old amnesiac millionaire go to extreme lengths to help him recover his memory.
Movie6.5DramaHistoryIn June 1808, Napoleon's troops invade Spain. A boy named Isidro will beat his drum in the mountains of El Bruc, making the French army believe that thousands of armed men are waiting to confront them.
La leyenda del tambor
1981 · 16 votes
Movie4.6ComedyFabrizzio hired the services of a prostitute to pretend to be his wife and accompany him to spend a weekend in the country house of his friend Romolo, where Aristides Almirante, an important official of the Ministry of Health, has also been invited. the approval of a new medicine of doubtful effectiveness called Fagatín, whose patent Fabrizzio owns.
Es pecado... pero me gusta
1978 · 8 votes
Movie4.6CrimeMysteryThe marriage between Federico and Monica is on the rocks. Federico has a mistress named Eva. There is a conspiracy between Monica's friend Elena and Eva to take over the company Eurozone owned by Federico. The situation becomes complicating when Diego appears, Federico's former associate.
Movie6.5WarDramaAt 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.
Movie6.5WarTV MovieThe two weeks leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 are dramatized from many different locations in Spain, Morocco and London.
Dragon Rapide
1986 · 12 votes
Movie6.5DramaThrillerModesto, an honest and responsible professional, is a manager of a small bank branch in Costa del Sol. His daughter died in a forest fire which he had thought to be accidental. One day he wakes up in his bank, after being locked and dragged by unknown men, and finds out in a safety-deposit box that the fire was plotted. From that day on, he sets on a personal crusade for justice.
Movie6.5DramaWhen the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter, and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present.
Movie8.3ComedyAfter a long absence, Ulises, a theatrical author, returns to his home to be with his wife, Carlota, and their son. However, upon arriving in Madrid he discovers that Carlota has become a great theater actress and that she is sentimentally united to Miguel, a renowned playwright who copies the comedies that Ulysses himself had written.
Nosotros que fuimos tan felices
1976 · 3 votes
Movie4.8DramaAn 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.
La petición
1976 · 4 votes
Movie6.6DramaHorrorAfter experiencing a series of traumatic, seemingly unrelated, accidents, Eva begins to notice that her daughter Luna is behaving in increasingly strange ways.
Movie7.0ComedyMysteryTwo private detectives called Salomon (Fernando Fernan-Gomez) and Torcuato (Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez), are engaged in questionable conduct research and work reports
Crimen imperfecto
1970 · 4 votes
Movie4.1ComedyA 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.
Movie7.0ComedyEl mujeriego
1964 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaWarDramatic portrait of men and women discouraged in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, after the odyssey of a group of Republican soldiers trying to reach the east coast to go into exile. Agustín must bear that his libertine father lives with the ironer Remedios, although she does not love him. She escapes and he goes to war; when they finally meet again, anxious amid bursts, it will be impossible to consummate their desires repressed for so long.
Soldados
1978 · 4 votes
Series5
TV7.1ComedyDramaRecounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
Cuéntame cómo pasó
2001 · 60 votes
TV7.3Action & AdventureComedyCurro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez
Curro Jiménez
1976 · 9 votes
TVDramaCrimeCrònica negra is a gripping anthology crime series based on the short stories of renowned Spanish author Andreu Martín. Inspired by actual, real-life headlines from the crime and mystery sections of local newspapers, each self-contained episode masterfully blends reality with fiction. The series delves into the shadows of everyday life, reconstructing the unexpected events, psychological motives, and human tragedies behind some of the era's most shocking crimes.
Crònica negra
1988
- TVComedyDrama
Crónicas urbanas
1991
TV5.8DramaAn account of the life of Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582), from her spiritual awakening to her final days, as she struggles to reform the Order of the Carmelites and with her own faith.
Teresa de Jesús
1984 · 6 votes