Young heiress discovers irregularities in the handling of her late father's mine and goes into action-hero mode to correct them.
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Young heiress discovers irregularities in the handling of her late father's mine and goes into action-hero mode to correct them.
An experimental and critical view on the decadence of Honduran society. It practically has no narrative structure, as it plays out as a day-in-the-life-of the eponymous Ángel, a kid who's a shoe-shiner.
Snow White tale with political and moral reflections.
Roberto (Luigi Giuliani) and Luisa (Rocío Durcal) are a couple but are not as sincere as they should be. She tells him she works at Telefónica when she actually sells cigarettes at "The Green Windmill" cabaret. She's surprised when she discovers plans for a bachelor party there in honor of Roberto, who is marrying a wealthy heiress. In revenge, Luisa adopts the role of Luisito and faces Roberto in disguise.
A group of married couples intend to celebrate their traditional joyous dinner together. The festivities turn sour when an anonymous telephone caller informs the husbands that one of the wives is guilty of adultery. But...which one?
The racing stables of Gandia family go to auction. Tomy, son of the owner, manages to save his favorite horse, "Cantador". Now, his only obsession is to resolve the problems of his father, providing him a new wife and riding his horse at the races. After a while, in the Official Prize, "Cantador", ridden by Tomy wins. This fact causes everyone to be interested in the horse and eventually Tomy will be forced to auction it to liquidate their debts. But the new owner is the father of Luchy, Tomy's classmate , and he will do everything possible to recover it.
Evil aristocrat covets his brother's wife, swordsman-for-hire comes to her rescue.
A young writer wants to make a different cinema and a director presents a plot divided into 3 episodes.
Mr Antonio is undergoing a bad economic situation that shares with his daugther Leonor, a lovely teenager who makes him happy and helps him sewing to make end meet. But its not enough and Mr Antonio has no other choice than working as a thug of a night club. A job that brings unexpected changes tto his life.
An innocent love withers when a terrible truth is uncovered.
Don Juan, a rich man with a reputation as a seducer, has reserved half of the rooms in a hotel on the beach. While waiting for him, all the staff is nervous imagining what the entourage that will accompany him will be like.
Brother Pío, intending to collect charity for a group of nuns who run an orphanage, travels to Madrid with a statue of the Baby Jesus. On the train ride there, he meets Lucio, a slick-talking small-time thief, who steals the statue from him in order to collect the donations for himself.
The elderly O'Hara, owner of a fortune in emeralds, offers half of his estate to whoever manages to get him out of jail. The adventurer Don Casey arrives in the town of Guaynas, ruled by the tyrant Villarde, to fulfill that wish.
The boredom of a young middle-class woman at home a Sunday afternoon. Not to be confused with Carlos Saura's short of the same name produced in 1957.
After a few years, Víctor Morel comes back to the city. He has been a happy and Bohemian man who spent an authentic fortune. His first meeting with the past is with Laura, an extraordinary woman with he had intense relationships. She is now married with Daniel Romero, a man dedicated to the business that, precisely in the last days, has had a money problem. Due to this matter, Daniel will have to ask Víctor for help because it knows that he can extract it of the difficulty, in spite of the fact that he does not have any sharm.
Documentary on the electoral system in Uruguay. It focused on the upcoming federal elections, criticizing both of the country's political parties.
Juan arrives in Madrid with the intention of succeeding as a singer. With the only company of his guitar, he goes from club to club asking for work.
Antonio has two wishes he would like to see come true--having friends and seeing the sea. The friendship part was hard for him because of the bullying, but he managed and with their help he was also able to fulfill his second wish.
After the experience with 'Será tu tierra,' Soler becomes aware of this cruel reality, until then unknown; Soler makes this documentary on his own initiative and with complete freedom. The film analyzes and quantifies, using extensive data, the social and economic consequences of internal migration during the 1960s, especially in Barcelona and its metropolitan area, focusing on the problems that arise from a lack of housing, with people crammed together in old apartments without hygienic conditions; and the phenomenon of shantytowns.
Portrait of the life of an amateur boxer, who falls into the hands of a cruel manager while turning into professional.
In the vast army of human society, Pepe, a sweeper, occupies one of the last places: anonymous, gray, vague. Pepe is a member of that ghostly dawn brigade, to blow hose, clean the streets at dawn. One day Pepe finds a million in the trash. Financial need of the poor sweeper suggests keeping the money, but his wife advises him to do his civic duty and return the money ...
A brief tribute to those that have haunted a moment of film history, stars of yesterday: Garbo, Del Rio, Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Lupe Velez, Sylvia Sydney, Louise Rainer, etc.
Three young seamstresses who share a flat and their love for a night out find an injured girl none of them know in their bathroom.
María belongs to the upper bourgeoisie and has always had everything in life, even a brilliant, educated husband; in short, an intellectual to presume. Alejandro, on the other hand, has been going up day by day, he has grown up with his work, believing in himself -he is an economist- he has fought with all his strength to achieve a higher social level and he has succeeded. He is a professor in the University, executive of a great company, owner, in short, of a beautiful villa in the outskirts. But he is, nevertheless, in the critical age, in the age of taking stock of his past, of justifying himself. And the truth is that, despite his material triumph, he is not happy, there is no reason to be in his participation in society, he is not satisfied with anything. It is, in a word, a step away from his inner failure. In this situation he discovers, in turn, that María accuses him of having dedicated more time to succeed than to love her.
The 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.
Mari Pepa, a beautiful laundress of Madrid, and Felipe, a carpenter, are in love but they are always quarreling over trifles. However, she must marry with the fence Don Leo to help his father, a drunk player who has committed a robbery and has determined the family jewels.
Retornar a Baracoa focuses on a town, the oldest in Cuba, that remained accessible only by sea for more than three hundred years. While the documentary showcases government projects to build a radio station, a high school, an airport and a park, the images and voices of the residents leave the viewer with the feeling that all of this may be too little.
Andres and Luis are two young taxi drivers eager to succeed. The first one sings and the other composes songs, and together they intend to record an album to finally jump to fame. They have it all planned. Taking advantage of a visit to the city of the famous singer Silvia, Luis tries to gain the confidence of her manager and, in this way, be directly launched to fame.
Four people meet in a chalet in the Madrid area. During the play it is discovered that all four are dead.
Inmates in a prison plan a massive break. When they put their plan into action, however, they find that they may have underestimated the guards and prison officials, and the situation quickly turns into a bloody gun battle. This action feature from director Enrique Carreras was the official entry for Argentina at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival.
On May 22, 1960, an earthquake with an intensity of 9.6 on the Richter Scale was recorded in the city of Valdivia, considered to date the largest and most violent earthquake ever recorded in the world. The cataclysm devastated the entire Chilean territory between Talca and Chiloé, which corresponds to more than 400,000 km. It resulted in the deaths of around three thousand people, while two million were left homeless. The film documents the efforts of a hundred workers in the face of the threat of the overflowing of Lake Riñihue.
Machuchal is a rural healer that uses ancient methods and herbs as cures, obtaining the confidence of the community for many years. After an emergency in which a child almost dies, Machuchal is persuaded to attend nursing school.
Bastard son kidnaps legitimate heir in attempt to suborn their father's estate... but a surrogate comes forward to impersonate the real heir while the other problem getss resolved.
In Spain, Antoñito, a child, is punished to remain standing doing the fascist salute. As an adult, turned into a young college student, he tries to free himself from the perverse amalgam of ideas, values and beliefs with which his family, the Catholic Church and the repressive elements of the Franco Regime poisoned his mind during his childhood.
Three brothers meet three sisters from the nearest town.
Sequences that illustrate moments in a woman's life, in parallel to the political events happening in South America during the 60's.
Teen-romance comedy with unrelated dramatic subplots.
Self-hating mixed-race woman denies her African heritage.
Third film of a trilogy -- all the secondary tasks have been completed and cowboy-justice-action-hero El Norteno settles the score with those cheating cheaters who deprived the young heiress of her inheritance.
A girl abused by her widowed father becomes interested in books and witchcraft.
In a small town, the administrator, confronted with the baker, forbids his children fto talk with those of the baker, and vice versa. One day, Paco and Pablo, the baker's children, listen to two builders who plan to kidnap Mary, the daughter of the administrator. Children decide to keep the secret and save the girl themselves. Meanwhile, a young teacher arrives to the village with his wife and kids get back to school. But the administrator's wife is furious because it is not her brother the one who gets the job and, along with her husband, will try to convince everyone to get rid of the teacher.
Economic difficulties separating a young couple who, after the attempt to survive, decide to meet again.
An old boat is a silent witness of how the lives of the characters on board are fleetingly intertwined on a predetermined day.
16mm black & white with ending in colour. A fantasy about the origin of colour in the world. It was filmed at the dunes of Miramar's vivarium. The actor in the film, José Luis Leduc was disappeared years later by Videla's dictatorship. As of today, the film is listed as not available or lost.