Manuel Manzaneque
Actor · 1940 – 2016 · Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real, Spain
Manuel Manzaneque (Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real, September 20, 1940 - Madrid, October 8, 2016), was an actor, director and theater producer. He is also a winemaker and father of another, Manuel Manzaneque Suárez. He was the founder in 1967 and director for more than twenty years of the Tirso de Molina theater company. In 1979 he created the Teatro Espronceda in Madrid, being its director until its closure as such in 1988.
Movies11
Movie6.4HorrorA man suffers from the curse of lycanthrope and seeks help from doctor and wife team. They both turn out to be vampires and end up dueling it out with the werewolf star.
Movie7.0WarDramaDuring the Spanish Civil War, a command takes the night to reach an advanced position, surrounded by the enemy, to protect the ford of a river. The next day, soldiers from both sides arrange a truce for fishing trouts and exchange cans and cigarettes. But foreign forces relieve the besiegers during the night and kill an unsuspecting soldier who was waving to return to fishing. While the position is strengthened, a soldier escapes to the nearby village to see his family.
Posición avanzada
1966 · 3 votes
Movie7.3ComedyDramaFilm that tells the biography of the great bullfighter Sebastian Palomo Linares Linares, with the very skilled actor who plays the character. Palomo Linares belongs to a poor family but with great human values. He, like many others of his age, has a dream: to be a bullfighter. He works as an apprentice shoemaker fights secretly at night in the meadows. After a career of suffering and obstacles, the boy never lost hope, typical of his strong Christian convictions, and became a teacher, finally achieving success in the sand. The film shows with particular clarity the great Spanish tradition, as is the art of bullfighting.
Nuevo en esta plaza
1966 · 4 votes
Movie6.3ComedyElena is a writer and is in a relationship with a painter, Fernando. Charo works as a waitress in a hotel and continues to dream of John Sargent, her platonic love, although when she discovers that the actor is gay she returns to her boyfriend Luis. Mara, a model, and Miguel is dating a sick man much older than them. Eugenia is a haute couture dressmaker and cares for her niece Soledad, who wants to be a singer. All of them have ambitions of love, but none is happy with their current situation.
Eva 63
1963 · 4 votes
Movie7.0ComedyFin de semana
1964 · 4 votes
Movie5.4DramaRomanceFilmed in 1963, but not released in Spain until 1967, the film depicts the failed romance between a bourgeois French tourist girl and a Spanish working class boy.
Movie8.0DramaLa frontera de Dios
1965 · 1 votes
Movie5.0CrimeHorrorThe same day of their marriage, Jean's wife dies of a strange ailment in the middle of surgery. Afflicted by the loss, the young man abandons his medical studies and takes refuge in the memories of his time of courtship. At the same time that this happens, a wave of murders shakes the city with the same pattern of behavior: the victims are surgery students whose bodies have had both hands amputated.
Movie8.0DramaWarIn the Spain of 1939 during the Civil War, a woman searches for her husband who has disappeared, a search that takes her across the border into France.
Diálogos de la paz
1965 · 1 votes
Movie5.5ComedyA group of students preparing to be midshipmen at the Naval Academy live very different experiences: from the typical hazing the new responsibilities they will face when they obtain graduation.
Movie8.0DramaThe unstoppable ambition of a young lover of the bullrings and the support of her sister and a friend, will enable him to become a great figure of bullfighting, overcoming the various barriers that every torero finds when entering the world of bullfighting .... Pedrin, the son of a newscaster, decides to be a bullfighter and, after the death of a partner, struggles to succeed in the bullrings.
Las cicatrices
1967 · 1 votes