Juan de Landa
Actor · 1894 – 1968
Movies24
Movie6.0ActionAdventureA disgraced member of the Spanish Navy must redeem his family's honor after his father betrays his country to the French.
Movie6.1AdventureComedyA group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
Beat the Devil
1953 · 178 votes
Movie5.8DramaA woman takes her ill husband's place in a smuggling ring and steals the heart of his partner.
Alina
1950 · 4 votes
Movie7.5CrimeDramaGino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.
Movie8.0DramaReleased from jail, Nanni punches prison guard Stefano who has denounced him. In order to take revenge, Stefano suggests the suspicion that, during his absence, his wife has had business with the Count Paolo. A few days later, at night, a deadly ambush will be prepared. Based on the novel The Trap (1928) by Toscan Delfino Cinelli.
Movie5.3DramaRogelia, the orphan of an Asturian miner who died in a work-related accident, marries Máximo, a man as robust as jealous, drunk and violent. But when her husband is jailed, the woman will take advantage to escape with the doctor of the village so as to see the world and perhaps to form a family.
Movie7.0Drama
Movie6.2ComedyCesare Mancini is a tram driver who lives in Bologna. One day he accidentally hits a woman on a bicycle, the accident costs Cesare the relegation to a ticket seller.
Movie7.0DramaBased on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.
Movie6.8AdventureAn old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of proud pride.
Movie6.5ComedyA group of taxi drivers try to reanimate a young woman who has been close to being run over by one of them. To improve her mood all of them tell her curious anecdotes featured by peculiar customers
Movie6.5DramaCrimeA French National Treasury van is assaulted and they steal the gold bullion it was carrying. According to confidences received by the Police Headquarters of Barcelona, it seems that part of the gold is clandestinely introduced into Spain through the Pyrenees. In order to discover and eradicate such smuggling infiltration, an agent pretends to be a day laborer at a farm located on the border and in a suspicious area.
Cuatro en la frontera
1958 · 4 votes
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.
Movie10.0WesternA cowboy avenges his father's murder, but must flee the law as a result. He attempts the rescue of a young woman from an outlaw, but becomes entangled with the outlaw's wife.
Movie8.0DramaAl margen de la ley
1936 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaThe Woman Who Invented Love (Italian: La donna che inventò l'amore) is a 1952 Italian historical melodrama film
Movie9.0ComedyThe comedy that is making the whole world laugh!
Su Última Noche
1931 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaCrimeSpanish-language remake of the 1929 film of the same name. Broadway showgirl Mary Dugan is charged with murder in the knifing death of her wealthy lover and goes on trial for her life. When her defense counsel appears to bungle his job, Mary's brother Jimmy, a newly-licensed attorney, jumps into the case to defend his sister. Jimmy's courtroom style is unconventional, but he seems to be holding his own against the prosecuting attorney—until a surprise testimony changes the course of the trial...
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.
Movie7.0DramaGaribaldi, after landing in Marsala, moves on to Naples. The liberals are overjoyed but the Bourbons are terrified. The so-called Baron Tucci, on a recommendation from England, arrives at the home of Count Sereni, a notable liberal. But he turns out not to be a patriot who has returned to Italy to take part in the fight but a degraded Bourbon official who has been promised rehabilitation if he can succeed as a spy. Tucci discovers old Sereni's second wife is one of his former lovers and persuades her to murder her husband so as to gain his inheritance. She does indeed cause the count to die, by withholding his heart medicine, but not before he destroys his will.
Movie6.5ComedyDramaMin, a hard-boiled proprietress of a waterfront hotel, who has as her sweetheart Bill, a fisherman, brings up Nancy, a girl who was deserted by her own mother in infancy. However the Local authorities are trying to persuade Min that she is not a fit mother and that Nancy should be sent to school.
Movie7.0Drama
Movie6.7CrimeDramaThe Spanish-language version of 1930's The Big House.
Movie8.0ComedyIn Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to make assaulting the island from a mock pirate ship and, with a mock battle, defeat the aggressors and throw them back into the sea.
Il pirata sono io!
1940 · 1 votes