
María Isbert
Actor · 1917 – 2011 · Madrid, Spain
María Vicenta Ysbert Soriano, better known as María Isbert, was a Spanish actress whose credits included more than 250 Spanish films during her career. She worked with most major Spanish film actors and directors, including Luis García Berlanga and Luis Buñuel. She was the daughter of Pepe Isbert and was the mother of seven children, including actor Tony Isbert.
Movies23
Movie7.7DramaViridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
Viridiana
1962 · 567 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.
Movie5.9ActionComedyIn the Headquarters of the T.I.A. (Terminal Intelligence Agency), someone has stolen Professor Bacterio's most dangerous invention, the D.O.T. (Demoralizer of Troops), an artifact that ends up in the hands of a very short, wacky dictator who is ready to use it for criminal purposes. The T.I.A Chief, though, is firm in his resolve: if he wants to get the D.O.T. back, he must NOT count on his agents Mortadelo & Filemon. But when the crime fighting duo discover that the T.I.A. has engaged a cocky and slimy detective from outside the agency, they decide to act at their own risk, even if that risk involves all of Humanity.
Movie5.9RomanceDramaA Spanish music hall performer gets caught up in espionage during the First World War.
Movie5.4CrimeWarHypocrisy and betrayal are the two dramatic pivots in this effective, emotionally gripping tragedy about the life and death of Paco (Antonio Banderas), a Spanish peasant who had been fighting against the feudal landowning system that kept farmers impoverished. Paco's life is told in flashbacks by a priest (Antonio Ferrandis) who is seen officiating at an anniversary mass attended by three wealthy landowners and no one else. The priest recalls Paco's baptism, his communion, his marriage ceremony and then his work for the peasants as he advocated and led them in a land-reform movement. The rest of the story will rest heavy on the priest's conscience, as he looks out at his empty church.
Réquiem por un campesino español
1985 · 19 votes
Movie4.9FantasyComedyA solicitor's secretary goes to a creepy mansion to hand an inheritance to the deceased's niece. The house's service is trying to terrify the girl out of the house, where they know a treasure is hidden.
Movie4.5ComedyLa casa de los Martínez
1971 · 2 votes
Movie6.1WesternThis spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries with the help of Pat Garrett, a fatherly friend, to change back. However, circumstances force Billy to become violent again and it is Garrett who is credited with the killing.
Movie6.6DramaLife 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.
Mi calle
1960 · 7 votes
Movie4.6ComedyRomanceA biologist in an insemination clinic unexpectedly falls in love with a free-spirited trapeze artist and the idea of fathering her child. A hilarious romantic comedy about love at first sight, with complications to follow...and more laughs than you could possibly conceive!
Movie7.0ComedyFrom the Olymp the gods keep an eye on a married couple whose disputes are endangering the stability of their marriage. In order to repair the relationship they use unconventional methods...
Movie5.6DramaPedro Martín, a young and ambitious doctor, is studying the effect of cancerous cells on mice, but he has run out of mice in his laboratory, since they do not breed there, and he has no funds to purchase more of these expensive laboratory animals from the United States. Nevertheless, his assistant, Amador, informs him that he gave some of the mice to an old trapper, nicknamed “el Muecas”, who lives in precarious conditions in a shanty town outside Madrid, and that this poor man has successfully bred them with the help of the natural heat of his daughters. The incredulous scientist goes to the shanty town to obtain the mice. There, Pedro meets Muecas, Muecas's wife Ricarda and their two daughters Florita and Conchi. With the warmth of the women’s breasts, as the flirtatious Florita shows Pedro, the mice are able to reproduce.
Tiempo de silencio
1986 · 20 votes
Movie6.0ComedyThe arrival of Francis, who owns a factory of surgical material in New York, caused a real stir in a family composed by her grandfather, Pepe, the son, Jose, and grandson, Pepito. Pepito falls in love with her even though Francis consider him a child. But Don Jose is also in love with the American. This situation creates a difficult situation between parent and child, that Francis seeks to remedy returning to the United States. But the grandfather, Pepe, has the solution ...
Don José, Pepe y Pepito
1961 · 3 votes
Movie6.2DramaShortly before leaving his small town to go to the big city to study, young Daniel recalls his childhood, surrounded by family and friends.
El camino
1964 · 18 votes
Movie6.8ComedyDon Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. His family strongly refuses him to purchase the vehicle, so don Anselmo decides to take extreme measures to achieve his goal…
Movie5.3ComedyAn Andalusian duchess has the dilemma of what to do with a grove, whether to convert it into a natural reserve or to make a luxury urbanization. The duchess, who is torn between her aristocratic privileges and a social commitment that has cost her more than one dislike in the past, must make a decision about her lands, to which she wants to get some money without harming the people. On the other hand, An ambitious Basque financier, Antónón Ibarrondo, intends to build a luxury urbanization in the Marbella style in the grove. Around the duchess, the businessman, environmentalists and other members in the conflict, problems begin to arise and everything will be decided in a referendum, convened with the idea that it is the people who decide, which coincides with the annual celebration of the Pilgrimage del Pueblo.With a cast "
La duquesa roja
1997 · 3 votes
Movie7.5ComedyIn this Spanish comedy, a couple’s attempt to find a surrogate mother leads to a whirlwind of humorous situations and misunderstandings. Directed by Mariano Ozores, the film explores the unpredictable twists of family life and the lengths people go to fulfill their dreams.
Pareja enloquecida busca madre de alquiler
1990 · 2 votes
Movie10.0DramaSoledad is a famous singer who, one fine day, decides to turn her life around and enter a convent to help others. The press and her family are baffled: now, the great figure of Spanish singing has become Sister María de la Asunción and works caring for the sick in a hospital that has serious financial problems. At first, everything is difficult, but the intrepid nun manages to get ahead through courage and generosity.
Movie5.2MusicSixteen-year-old Marisol sings her way across Spain with her father, chasing dreams and survival. On a sunlit campsite in Mallorca, she meets two students and dares to perform at a bullfighting event—hoping to be discovered. When talent scout Mr. Morrison sees her spark, he whisks her into a new world of ambition and refinement, determined to transform her into “a lady with great talent.” But as Marisol rises, she must decide what she's willing to leave behind to become the star she’s always dreamed of being.
Movie6.2ComedyA married man with mother expected every day and especially forward to the arrival of the night to let off steam in a nightclub and escape from the daily drudgery family.
Mi marido y sus complejos
1969 · 10 votes
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
Movie4.5ComedyPedro, a handsome gynecologist who lives in Toledo (Spain), does not have just a clientele due to the jealousy that his sex appeal causes in the husbands and boyfriends of his patients. To make matters worse, his mother still treats him like a child and the traditionalist members of his girlfriend's family don't look kindly upon Pedro. But on a trip to Madrid to attend a conference on medicine he meets Antón, his effeminate neighbor of the fifth floor, whose fashion boutique for women thrives thanks to the complicity he knows to establish with his customers.
Movie6.0DocumentarySurrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.
Series4
TV4.5SoapDramaLa verdad de Laura
2002 · 2 votes
TV5.0La Comedia Musical Española
1985 · 2 votes
TV4.0DramaSegunda Enseñanza
1986 · 4 votes
TV8.3CrimePlinio
1972 · 3 votes