Acting
Álvaro de Luna
Born April 10, 1935 · Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Died November 2, 2018 · aged 83
Known For
A Fistful of Dollars · 1964A Fistful of Dollars
★ 7.81964
MovieWestern
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
The Black Tulip · 1964The Black Tulip
★ 6.31964
MovieAdventure
Aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so the local peasants regard him as a hero. Baron La Mouche is convinced Guillaume is the Tulip. During a robbery, he scars the Tulip's face, and hopes to use this to expose Guillaume, but Guillaume is one step ahead.
The Colossus of Rhodes · 1961The Colossus of Rhodes
★ 5.91961
MovieAdventureDrama
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
El Cuervo · 1969El Cuervo
1969
MovieTV MovieHorror
Broken Silence · 2001Broken Silence
★ 5.72001
MovieDrama
Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, because of his smile and the bravery of those men who continue fighting for their ideas, even at the cost of their own lives. When Manuel is pursued (by Franco's Civil Guard) he flees to the mountain and Lucía discovers the reality of political repression, the silence, the horror and fear.
Vampiresas 1930 · 1962Vampiresas 1930
★ 5.31962
MovieComedy
As the era of silent films finds itself at a close, four down-and-out silent film actors and musicians struggle to find work. Fate leads them to a former star of the silent era as she struggles to escape her reputation as a wild and evil vamp of the silver screen and longs to be just thought of as an honest and decent woman. They join forces, and for a short time have a decent amount of success singing and dancing at clubs and bars. But the public has an insatiable taste for foreign black jazz bands, and they will stop at nothing to become a success.
The Adventures of Scaramouche · 1963The Adventures of Scaramouche
★ 5.91963
MovieAdventure
Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, including when he should be on stage, light-heartedly having love affairs and generally enjoying life. One day, a marquis visits him and asks him questions about the birth mark on his shoulder...
Avisa a Curro Jiménez · 1978Avisa a Curro Jiménez
★ 5.81978
MovieDramaAdventure
Córdoba, Spain. Lord Killarney, representative of the British Museum, acquires an Arabic incunabulum at an auction; but he is murdered and the book disappears. All suspicions fall on El Lince, an antique dealer with a shady background, who asks his nephew to warn Curro Jiménez.
Movies
A Fistful of Dollars · 1964A Fistful of Dollars
★ 7.81964
MovieWestern
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
The Black Tulip · 1964The Black Tulip
★ 6.31964
MovieAdventure
Aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so the local peasants regard him as a hero. Baron La Mouche is convinced Guillaume is the Tulip. During a robbery, he scars the Tulip's face, and hopes to use this to expose Guillaume, but Guillaume is one step ahead.
The Colossus of Rhodes · 1961The Colossus of Rhodes
★ 5.91961
MovieAdventureDrama
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
El Cuervo · 1969El Cuervo
1969
MovieTV MovieHorror
Broken Silence · 2001Broken Silence
★ 5.72001
MovieDrama
Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, because of his smile and the bravery of those men who continue fighting for their ideas, even at the cost of their own lives. When Manuel is pursued (by Franco's Civil Guard) he flees to the mountain and Lucía discovers the reality of political repression, the silence, the horror and fear.
Vampiresas 1930 · 1962Vampiresas 1930
★ 5.31962
MovieComedy
As the era of silent films finds itself at a close, four down-and-out silent film actors and musicians struggle to find work. Fate leads them to a former star of the silent era as she struggles to escape her reputation as a wild and evil vamp of the silver screen and longs to be just thought of as an honest and decent woman. They join forces, and for a short time have a decent amount of success singing and dancing at clubs and bars. But the public has an insatiable taste for foreign black jazz bands, and they will stop at nothing to become a success.
The Adventures of Scaramouche · 1963The Adventures of Scaramouche
★ 5.91963
MovieAdventure
Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, including when he should be on stage, light-heartedly having love affairs and generally enjoying life. One day, a marquis visits him and asks him questions about the birth mark on his shoulder...
Avisa a Curro Jiménez · 1978Avisa a Curro Jiménez
★ 5.81978
MovieDramaAdventure
Córdoba, Spain. Lord Killarney, representative of the British Museum, acquires an Arabic incunabulum at an auction; but he is murdered and the book disappears. All suspicions fall on El Lince, an antique dealer with a shady background, who asks his nephew to warn Curro Jiménez.
Las voces de la noche · 2003Las voces de la noche
★ 4.92003
Movie
Spain, fifties. In a town grew around a living factory Jorge (Tristan Ulloa), the youngest son of the founder, and Elisa (Laia Marull), daughter of accounting. The two live with their families and are able to endure the monotony of their lives because they spend the afternoon on Wednesdays and Saturdays at a hotel in the city. This secret life together is essential for both. The small room in the city where encounters occur has become the only place where they can be themselves. That little space, a little sinister, find it more cozy, warm and near the home of Elisa gorgeous, spoiled by the mother, or the great house of George, full of family memories. Both are aware of the type of relationship they have created, and not demand more. Until Elisa decides to break the rules.
Torrejón City · 1962Torrejón City
★ 5.01962
MovieWesternComedy
Tom Rodriguez, a young cowboy, arrives in Torrejón City. However in Torrejón City the unsuspecting Tom is mistaken for the famous outlaw Tim El Malo and the people want to lynch him.
The Mercenary · 1968The Mercenary
★ 6.91968
MovieWesternComedy
While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in.
The Strangers · 1969The Strangers
★ 6.91969
MovieThriller
A violent and ruthless bank robber hides out from the police scouring the countryside for him in the home of a couple living far out in the desert. But the couple not only know who he is, they have secrets of their own and are just as ruthless.
Mi general · 1987Mi general
★ 5.31987
MovieComedy
A group of generals of the army meet for a course about NATO and new weapons. In the beginning everything is normal but as the time passes they behave more and more like school children.
Meow · 2018Meow
★ 5.02018
MovieComedy
Four desperately bored retired men yearn for some excitement in their lives to make them feel alive. Whilst trying to occupy his mind by writing a terrible book, Telmo is reunited with his two best friends from school. Mornreal, who is just out of prison, can’t bare to see his old friends fading away so he comes up with a plan to break the daily boredom and to inject excitement into his friends’ lives. With nothing to lose, the old friends embark on a mad, wild adventure that results in a bizarre robbery of a museum.
Navajo Joe · 1966Navajo Joe
★ 6.21966
MovieWestern
The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.
Compañeros · 1970Compañeros
★ 6.51970
MovieWesternAction
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
Spanish Western · 2015Spanish Western
★ 6.22015
MovieDocumentary
A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, and a walk through the landscapes that made it possible to recreate in Spain, mainly in the desert of Almería, hundreds of adventures set in the remote American Far West.
Maestros · 2000Maestros
★ 5.32000
MovieComedy
Five legendary bank robbers carve out a nice lifestyle for themselves during their long sentences in a Spanish maximum-security prison, where the guards and inmates buckle to their every demand. When they are granted a surprise and immediate release, they flounder on the greatly changed, modern streets of Madrid. They plan one more major heist, but do they have the updated skills and wherewithal to pull it off?
Cemetery Without Crosses · 1969Cemetery Without Crosses
★ 6.31969
MovieWestern
A melancholic gunfighter is drawn into a vengeful and tragic kidnapping plot by his widowed ex-lover.
Amor a la española · 1967Amor a la española
★ 4.01967
MovieComedy
The adventures of a group of Spaniards to win the favors of the numerous young foreigners who spend the summer in the city.
Lázaro de Tormes · 2001Lázaro de Tormes
★ 5.52001
MovieComedyDrama
Tramuntana · 1991Tramuntana
★ 8.01991
MovieHistoryAdventure
In the 13th century, desolation and misery lead the inhabitants of a village in the Pyrenees to emigrate to Burriana, in Valencia, a region considered to be the Promised Land. During the journey, love, hatred and suffering will jeopardize their arrival at their longed-for destination. At the same time, they will be involved in the war waged by King James I to reconquer these lands held by the Muslims. Reaching the end of the journey will be an odyssey.
Los conquistadores del Pacífico · 1963Los conquistadores del Pacífico
★ 5.31963
MovieHistoryAdventure
Frank Latimore is cast as Balboa, the heroic Spanish explorer who discovers the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, he must pacify the wrath of his enemies and battle his way through a forest inhabited by savage natives. This one features some really nice battles, stunning ocean photography, and tolerable reconstruction of historic events.
The Son of Captain Blood · 1962The Son of Captain Blood
★ 6.71962
MovieActionAdventure
The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman.
TV Shows
Curro Jiménez · 1976Curro Jiménez
★ 7.31976
SeriesComedy
Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez
Eurocops · 1988Eurocops
★ 6.51988
SeriesCrimeMystery
Tales to Keep You Awake · 1966Tales to Keep You Awake
★ 7.21966
SeriesDramaComedy
Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts.
Farmacia de guardia · 1991Farmacia de guardia
★ 6.21991
SeriesComedy
A pharmacist attends to her colorful neighbors with the help — or distraction — of her eccentric assistants, restless children and flirty ex-husband.
Estudio Uno · 1965Estudio Uno
1965
Series
El mundo de Juan Lobón · 1989El mundo de Juan Lobón
★ 7.51989
SeriesDrama
La Barraca · 1979La Barraca
★ 5.91979
SeriesDrama
I Sell My Dreams · 1994I Sell My Dreams
★ 7.01994
SeriesDrama
Telenovela in six chapters adapted from the original screenplay by Gabriel García Marquez, directed by Ruy Guerra and shot in Cuba in 1991.
Christopher Colombus · 1968Christopher Colombus
★ 9.01968
SeriesDrama
Vittorio Cottafavi's four part series on the life of Christopher Colombus
Pagina de Sucesos · 1985Pagina de Sucesos
★ 9.01985
SeriesDramaCrime
Curro Jiménez, the Return of a Legend · 1995Curro Jiménez, the Return of a Legend
1995
SeriesDrama
La Máscara Negra · 1982La Máscara Negra
★ 8.01982
SeriesDrama