Manuel San Román
Actor · 1908 – 2000 · Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Movies20
Movie7.5ComedyFortunato is a loser, a family man, who has lost his job and tries his luck in all the trades he finds. However, it seems that his name —that means “fortunate” in English— is not in line with his situation, since, no matter how hard he tries, fortune does not want to smile at him.
Fortunato
1942 · 2 votes
Movie6.0DramaAdventureThe old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sancho Panza.
Movie6.8ComedyFantasyThe owner of a building tyrannizes his immigrant tenants. Transformed into a dog by an old woman's curse, he experiences all the hardships of his situation; when a child's affection turns him back into a man, his soul is radically changed.
Movie6.5DramaOnce the Spanish Civil War is over, the sons of the wealthy classes, who support politically and militarily the new regime, are preparing to begin their ascent in the social and economic sphere.
Porque te vi llorar
1941 · 6 votes
- Movie6.5Drama
A luminously beautiful, provocative young woman is rescued near a small fishing village on the Spanish coast. The scene is set for a drama of dangerous passion that threatens to tear apart the simple, tranquil life of the village forever.
Thunderstorm
1956 · 4 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaJuanillo, papá y mamá
1957 · 1 votes
Movie5.6ComedyCarlos goes to visit his girlfriend Juana at the asylum where she works. Once there, the director introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says.
Movie6.8ComedyEl gafe
1959 · 4 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDifferent kind of people arrives to Madrid airport. Some goes with their heads and others just landed. Fernando is a pilot who he brings a girl for his relatives. Ceferino and his wife have won a contest and will travel soon to Paraguay and they are there because they want to know the airplane. Mr. Beltran is very nervous because he returned to Spain after many years of exile.
Movie8.3DramaCrimeIn a village in the mountains of Urbión, brothers John and Martin, driven by greed and abetted by Candelas, Martin's wife, kill his father and sink the body in the Black Lagoon. His wife and one daughter of the victim does not know anything. In the village would get missing. However, from now weigh a curse on the land for which they have committed the crime, predicting each year misfortunes and bad harvests.
La laguna negra
1952 · 4 votes
Movie7.5DramaNadie lo sabrá
1953 · 2 votes
Movie5.9DramaA woman who has walked out of an unhappy marriage is unsuccessful trying to earn herself a new living and gets mixed with a man who is a murderer and tries to incriminate her.
Movie5.5DramaWesternCalifornia, 1840s. Wealthy landowner César de Echagüe, secretly acting as El Coyote, the legendary masked hero, continues his fight against the injustices and abuses suffered by the Hispanic population at the hands of the US Army.
Movie6.2ComedyMysteryA noir detective navigates a poor neighborhood's dark streets, investigating murder and theft. Despite uncooperative locals, he must use wit to expose the truth.
Barrio
1947 · 5 votes
Movie5.3DramaFather Santiago Hernández, a Spanish missionary, arrives in Kattinga, India, to replace Father Daniel, who is seriously ill.
La mies es mucha
1948 · 4 votes
Movie10.0DramaComedyYear 1860. Rosa Maria, daughter of a wealthy Cuban landowner, is studying at a convent school in Cadiz and requests to return to Cuba after spending many years in Spain. But now the economic situation of his father is disastrous and therefore he tries to delay the return of his daughter, hiding that fact. Rosa Maria knows nothing and, at the refusal of his father, she runs away from school, embarking as a stowaway on a ship bound for home.
Habanera
1958 · 1 votes
Movie8.3ComedyLa lupa
1955 · 3 votes
Movie6.3MusicCrimeA news story in the newspapers announces the investigation by the police of a major scam. Precisely, following the steps of the author of that crime, we will know the cabaret where the whole action of this drama will take place. A place where the paths of a multitude of characters cross and where it is possible to find men and women of great humanity.
Cabaret
1953 · 3 votes
Movie6.5AdventureFollowing his father's steps, Juan Lucas becomes the most famous highwayman in Sierra Morena mountains, also helping local resistance against Napoleonic troops. In love with Ana, a Count's daughter, his hopes seem to have no future.
Aventuras de Juan Lucas
1949 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ComedyAfter the execution of the spy Mata-Hari, the secret service takes the opportunity to arrest some of her collaborators. To arrest one of the ringleaders, they use his girlfriend Niní, a naive dancer. The girl, tired of being manipulated by everyone, decides to become agent X25.
Yo no soy la Mata-Hari
1950 · 1 votes