
Xan das Bolas
Actor · 1908 – 1977 · La Coruña, Spain
Tomás Ares Pena was a Spanish actor. He started in the theater in the thirties as a comedian and variety actor. After the Spanish Civil War, he began his film career, and in the following years he became one of the supporting actors with one of the longest careers in the history of Spanish cinema.
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Movie6.2WesternPulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa and his band of dedicated men in a march across Mexico battling the Colorados and stealing women's hearts as they go. But each has a nemesis among his friends: Arnold is tormented by Fierro, Villa's right-hand-man; and Villa must face possible betrayal by his own president's naiveté
Villa Rides
1968 · 67 votes
Movie6.2ActionWarAfter being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.
Lost Command
1966 · 63 votes
Movie4.3ComedyYour job as a hostess in Malaga allows Hippolyta meet many men. One of them is a Chinese traveler, just in time to take her to her room, is killed. So, the blame falls on another Hippolyta customers.
Operación cabaretera
1967 · 6 votes
Movie5.8ComedyDramaCatherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.
Movie5.2CrimeHorrorIn Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971 · 51 votes
Movie7.4ComedyHistoryDon Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.
Movie6.0DramaPaco is the boy buttons a luxury hotel. Usually do small businesses with the resale of tickets to bullfights tourists. By a misunderstanding is fired from his job. There is no use of his taste and wanders the Victoria Street taverns. Finally discovers his only chance in bulls, easy craft that believes and loves. The reality is very different and has to accept the truth which manifests itself in a very dramatic.
Movie5.9AdventureRobert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, including when he should be on stage, light-heartedly having love affairs and generally enjoying life. One day, a marquis visits him and asks him questions about the birth mark on his shoulder...
Movie7.0ComedyAlfredo is a homeless man who happens upon a truck full of fruit that appears to be abandoned and takes the opportunity to eat some. Once he's satisfied his hunger, he discovers a fortune inside one of the crates. It's the loot hidden by some thieves who crash during their getaway. Frightened, he hides the money under the church statue and confesses what happened to the local priest. The situation worsens when the robbers reappear in town.
El turista
1963 · 1 votes
Movie5.0WesternComedyTom Rodriguez, a young cowboy, arrives in Torrejón City. However in Torrejón City the unsuspecting Tom is mistaken for the famous outlaw Tim El Malo and the people want to lynch him.
Torrejón City
1962 · 3 votes
Movie6.0WarHistoryDuring the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.
The Pride and the Passion
1957 · 50 votes
Movie7.6ComedyDramaAn 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.
Movie6.5AdventureCrimeBiography of the famous bandit El Tempranillo, acting with impunity in Sierra Morena during the reign of Ferdinand VII.
José María
1963 · 2 votes
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Salomé
1940 · 1 votes
Movie9.0AdventureActionAlan Braves, captain of a pirate ship, is, by the treachery of a comrade, accused of a crime of which he is innocent. He decides to go to America, but during his trip, he finds a Spanish galleon that saved from attack by pirates, and escorting the galleon to Maracaibo. Braves is first received with full honors for saving a Spanish ship but after that is reported to the Governor, Braseeur, the pirate traitor. It is, therefore, arrested and sentenced to death from the visualization of torture ...
Movie5.3WesternComedyOnion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.
Movie5.0WesternDramaThis Western is set in the Mexican valley of Sonora not that far south of the state of Arizona. It's just after the American Civil War, and a former Confederate officer, Mike Summers has taken refuge in a small town in the valley. He has married and is hoping to live in peace the rest of his life. Instead, he and his wife and the rest of the town are suffering the depredations of a brutal gunman, Danny Pose, and his gang of outlaws. Summers holds off picking up a gun because of his personal vow of non-violence. But the situation deteriorates and a new ally comes into the picture, Steve Fallon, a wandering gunslinger who may not be able to handle the bad guys alone.
Movie6.7ActionAdventureThe son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman.
Movie7.3DramaFray Escoba
1961 · 7 votes
Movie5.4WesternRanch owner MacGregor has seven sons and oldest Gregor leads his brothers to Las Mesas, a small town where they want to sell horses. They get into trouble with local people who are related with evil Santillana. After getting imprisoned and losing their horses they decide to go after Santillana's gang.
Movie6.8ComedyUn día perdido
1955 · 5 votes
Movie5.0DramaCrimeA dead musician’s widow seeks revenge against the gun trafficker who betrayed them.
Movie4.2ComedyDrama"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.
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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