Francisco Martínez Allende
Actor · 1906 – 1954 · Cangas de Onís, Oviedo, Spain
Francisco Martínez Allende (Cangas de Onís, Oviedo, Spain; 1906 – Buenos Aires, Argentina; August 25, 1954) was a Spanish actor, theater director, and playwright who became a naturalized Argentine citizen. He was one of the Spanish theater figures whose careers were eclipsed by exile after the Spanish Civil War. At the age of fifteen, he emigrated to Buenos Aires, where he studied and began his theatrical career as an actor and writer, eventually meeting Federico García Lorca. In Spain, he directed the Tribuna Theater and was in charge of theatrical groups for the Republican Army. After the fall of the Second Spanish Republic, he went into exile in Cuba and later returned to Argentina, where he worked in theater and film until his death.
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Movie8.5DramaA woman's dilemma between love for her mother and passion for a man.
Vacaciones
1947 · 2 votes
Movie9.0HistoryAfter the May Revolution occurred, a young man abandoned his royalist uncle and became a drummer for the revolutionary army and his father's guide.
El tambor de Tacuarí
1948 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaHistoryAspects of the life of Juan Facundo Quiroga, a caudillo who for many years ruled the province of La Rioja in Argentina and was assassinated in 1835.
Facundo, el tigre de los llanos
1952 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyA man pretends to be dead and his dying wish causes his wife to marry a drifter and lose her inheritance.
El hombre de las sorpresas
1949 · 1 votes
MovieDramaA rancher makes a pact with the devil to achieve happiness and love.
El gaucho y el diablo
1952 · 1 votes
Movie9.5ComedyFantasyA woman fond of spiritualism and neglected by her husband starts an affair with an American industrialist.
El extraño caso de la mujer asesinada
1949 · 2 votes
Movie8.0CrimeDramaThe protagonist commits a crime and abandons his brother, on whom the shadow of suspicion falls, to avoid punishment. In his escape he meets for the first time the emotion of a true love, but fatality takes it upon himself, pushing him back onto the criminal path.
La muerte está mintiendo
1950 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaA vile woman has a change of attitude and starts helping a scientist who deliberately infects himself to test the efficacy of a vaccine.
María Magdalena
1954 · 1 votes
Movie10.0MusicDramaIn the mid nineteenth century, flamenco singing and dancing bring together their most loyal fans in a tablao in Andalusia where Rosarillo, an attractive singer unleashes the passions of his audience. On her wedding night, while the gypsy sings from deep emotion of her heart, her husband is murdered. Her feelings will be truncated at once, and in front of all those present, she swears revenge.
Movie9.0DramaA woman who's just about to commit adultery gets compromised due to an unpredicted mistake during her adventure.
Mujeres casadas
1954 · 1 votes