António Vilar
Actor · 1912 – 1995 · Lisbon, Portugal
António Vilar Justiniano dos Santos worked as an actor mainly in Portugal, where he was born, but also in Spain, where he took residence until he died. He also did some acting in France, Italy, Argentina and Brazil. Before becoming an actor, he worked as a make-up artist and as a decorator.
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Movie6.8DramaHistoryThe adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.
Camões
1946 · 8 votes
Movie7.4DramaAdventureSheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero.
Movie6.5WesternAfter witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be behind the killings. The sheriff himself is not above suspicion, so Sartana must uncover the culprit all on his own.
Movie5.4DramaRomanceHandsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him.
Movie10.0DramaHistoryIn seventeenth century's Chile a woman kills her lover because she wants to conquer a priest.
Movie10.0DramaA member of the jet-set dies in Lisbon, of drug overdose. A journalist tries to pass through disinformation nets to get to the traffick ring leader who is acting with such impunity. He is up to a surprise, when all evidence points him towards a lady of immaculate repute...
Disco rojo
1973 · 1 votes
Movie7.3DramaRomancePhilippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu.
Il padrone delle ferriere
1959 · 3 votes
Movie6.8DramaJorge, a successful engineer and employee of a ministry and Luísa, a romantic and dreamy girl, star as the typical bourgeois couple of the Lisbon society of the 19th century.
O Primo Basílio
1959 · 3 votes
Movie6.8AdventureComedyDon Juan leaves Venice and gets back to Seville, his home city. When he arrives there, he learns that his father is dead and has left all his properties to him, on codition that he marries Doña Inés. Don Juan makes up a former marriage, but when he meets her he becomes fascinated by her beauty.
Don Juan
1950 · 4 votes
Movie6.4DramaThrillerThe prestigious composer Virgilio Delise, suspected of being involved in the death of his stepfather, unexpectedly runs away. Doria, an ambitious insurance detective, will stop at nothing to prove his guilt.
Movie8.0ActionThrillerA scientist discovers the formula of a particular resistant steel, and a spy ring from an enemy power sets after him to obtain it.
Movie10.0DramaA French crew is working on location in Spain. But when they want to film a scene in which Gérardn the male star is supposed to be swimming across a river, the matinée idol proves water-shy and the director decides to double him. The one that replaces him is Antonio, a local fisherman. The latter does the job so well that he is chosen as a stunts man for the whole film. This does not please Lola,his fiancée; all the more as Antonio has fallen in love with Martine, the female star.
Movie10.0DramaA child suffering from leukemia craves getting on a plane, so at a U.S. base located in Zaragoza will make the kid a favor and grant his wish.
Alerta en el cielo
1961 · 2 votes
Movie8.0RomanceComedyThe story of how the conflicting relationship of Eduardo and vaudeville actress Isabel is affected by the passion he feels for their neighbor, Mariana, a young overprotected, and the unexpected visit of his uncle Plácido, a moral teacher.
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El Maestro
1959 · 1 votes
Movie6.6DramaHistoryIn 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noblewoman, for political reasons; but the impulsive prince ends up giving in to his love for Inés de Castro, his wife's lady-in-waiting.
Inés de Castro
1944 · 8 votes
Movie6.8DramaA guy with bad feelings and worst methods, willing to do anything to satisfy his greed and vanity, is unhappy with the role of Judas in the Passion a play that is traditionally represented in his town because he prefers the role of Jesus.
Movie6.2CrimeThrillerThe story unfolds through the twists and turns of a strange curse attributed to a jewel that, passed from hand to hand, carries a deadly destiny. Its theme spans the three countries where it was filmed (Spain, Mexico, and Argentina), beginning in Spain and then moving to Mexico. The jewel, which takes on the character of another figure in the narrative as it travels through different parts of the world, arrives in Buenos Aires. The film ultimately presents the jewel's final destination in Mexico, where its owner dies, like others who were also marked by its malevolent influence.
3 citas con el destino
1954 · 6 votes
Movie8.7MusicComedyA portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes of humour, friendship, rivalry, love.
Movie10.0DramaWith his own money, Pappier produced this ambitious adaptation of Manuel Gálvez's "Miércoles Santo", whose release was delayed for three years due to political reasons. When it finally came out, it bombed, but its formal originality was mentioned even in unfavorable reviews. Later, it became a cursed film, impossible to see due to lack of prints. To date, it remains lost in great part.
El festín de Satanás
1958 · 1 votes
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Movie7.0DramaHistoryFour Spanish Blue Division soldiers captured after the German invasion of Soviet territory face a choice in forced labor camps: renounce their Spanish nationality for better conditions. While two accept, Captain Adrados leads a group resisting, labeling those who comply as traitors, showcasing a struggle for loyalty to Franco's values.
Embajadores en el infierno
1956 · 11 votes
Movie7.0DramaHistoryThe Passion of Jesus, starting with His arrest and trial, was shot near Madrid and features narration by Sebastien Cabot. Jesus' face is never seen, but in the English version, He is voiced by veteran Hollywood actor Macdonald Carey.
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.