
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Actor · 1921 – 2007 · Lima, Peru
Fernando Fernán Gómez was a Spanish actor, novelist and screenwriter, film and theater director, and member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
Movies23
Movie7.6ComedyDramaFollowing the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
Movie6.7ComedyDramaIn 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.
Belle Époque
1992 · 213 votes
Movie5.3ComedyChechu is a 13 year old boy who lives surrounded by peculiar people: his grandfather, his uncle, and two maids. He falls in love with one of them.
Movie7.7DramaFantasyIn 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.
Movie7.0ComedyDramaCristina Guzmán is hired to impersonate the disappeared sister-in-law of a rich man.
Cristina Guzmán
1943 · 1 votes
Movie5.0DramaAdventureAlejandro is a young composer from Madrid who, overwhelmed by a sentimental and artistic failure, decides to enlist as a volunteer soldier and go to war-torn Cuba, where he befriends Antonio, who becomes his best friend.
Bambú
1945 · 2 votes
Movie7.3DramaThe film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.
Movie6.9DramaThe young but traveled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family.
Movie5.8MysteryThrillerTwo seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found on the beach, and a retired inspector makes inquiries; also, Linda, a waitress and ferry attendant, has several lovers and marries one, but continues seeing the others. The police have a suspect in the murder, but the retired inspector is convinced they're wrong; he continues a methodical investigation. Linda and her husband separate, and there are complications. Will the stories cross or are they already twisted together?
Movie7.5ComedyThe famous couplet singer Mimi Pompon leaves everything to marry Heriberto Promenade, a wealthy merchant of Limoges with five marriages behind her. Of course Mimi has also been widowed five times. Saintpaul, an astute police, suspicious of so many accidental deaths and closely monitor both the mansion. Gradually, we discover that Heriberto, fearing that their wives may betray him, the killer, always with the complicity of her mother.
¡Adiós, Mimí Pompón!
1961 · 2 votes
Movie8.0DramaA prestigious, elderly actor performs a monologue about a thespian who is reminiscing about his life. Involuntarily, he begins to recall his own.
Pepe Guindo
1999 · 2 votes
Movie5.6ComedyDramaThe finding of a wallet with a lot of money is the common theme of four stories, featuring a shoeshine from Seville, a clerk from Salamanca, a bullfighter from Cuenca and a newspapers seller from Paris.
Movie5.6ComedyMusicIn the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage of the artistic caprices of the son of a rich man who supports the regime. They try to stage a Pre-war 'zarzuela' (a sort of Spanish operetta), 'La Corte Del Faraón', which ironically, thirty years later, is too obscene for the regime censorship. They finally manage to perform the 'zarzuela' but end up in the police station where they confirm that justice depends on which side are you on
Movie6.0DramaIn the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they prove unable to trace his parents. So they set up providing tender loving care to the little boy. Marcellino lives a happy life among the men of God but, as he grows up, he misses his mother more and more.
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
Movie7.3ComedyRomanceTrini, a gipsy girl, and her uncle Regalito are tried for the theft of several hams. Some time later, she presents herself, disguised as a maid, at the house of her former prosecutor, who ends up falling in love with her.
Morena clara
1954 · 7 votes
Movie6.4DramaRomanceLove is impossible between Manolo, a flamenco singer, and Lola, a flamenco dancer. She leaves for America to forget him and he gives himself to alcohol. Still, the love between them is so strong that it unites them across the ocean.
Embrujo
1948 · 5 votes
Movie6.4ComedyPaolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?
Movie7.0DramaIsabel and Gonzalo, a marriage of high society, see how their happiness is endangered due to the frequent love affairs of the husband, that will eventually lead them to interact with a pair of cynical thieves dedicated to blackmail Isabel and to defraud Gonzalo in his business
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Una historia
1978 · 1 votes
Movie5.8ComedySoledad and Miguel are two young people in a romantic relationship. Don Ramón, a wealthy stranger, arrives in their small town and marries Soledad. Miguel leaves town and wanders aimlessly throughout the region with a peddler.
Soledad
1959 · 4 votes
Movie5.8DramaHistoryIn the 18th century in Madrid, the Marquess of Esquilache, King Charles III of Spain's former minister, bans on wearing the popular wide collar with a long coat and brimmed hat. Along with other measures provoke a massive riot in the city.
Esquilache
1989 · 7 votes
Movie5.5DramaWith the purpose of recalling a youthful adventure, Enrique, a well-placed merchant, decides to travel around Spain in the company of his wife Alicia and his two daughters, Pilar and Carmen.
¡Jo, papá!
1975 · 6 votes
Series9
TV7.1ComedyDramaRecounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
Cuéntame cómo pasó
2001 · 59 votes
TV5.7ComedyLos ladrones van a la oficina
1993 · 6 votes
TV7.7Action & AdventureAnimationDon Quijote de la Mancha
1979 · 37 votes
TV6.7DramaThe aristocrat Juan de Santa Cruz meets Fortunata, a girl of humble origins, and a passionate love arises between them; but his mother decides to marry him to her niece Jacinta.
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El Jardín de Venus
1983 · 1 votes
TV7.2ComedyIn 17th-century Spain, Lucas Trapaza is a lazy liar and con artist who does everything he can to live off others.
El pícaro
1974 · 5 votes
TV7.0Drama
TV6.6DramaThe world of bullfighting seen through the unforgettable adventures of a likeable rogue. A serious goring forced José Álvarez "Juncal", a famous bullfighter from the 1950s, to leave the bullfighting world, but it left him with a distinguished limp.
Juncal
1989 · 5 votes
TV10.0ComedySpanish television anthology series broadcast in 1971, composed of standalone episodes inspired by popular Spanish sayings, portraying everyday situations with social and comedic undertones.
Del dicho al hecho
1971 · 1 votes