José Calvo
José Calvo (March 3, 1916 – May 16, 1980) was a Spanish film actor best known for his roles in western films or historical dramas.
He made around 150 appearances mostly in films between 1952 and his death in 1980. He entered film in 1952 and was prolific as an actor throughout the 1950s and 1960s. He made many appearances in crime dramas, often with a historical theme and appeared in a high number of western films.
In 1964 he starred as the innkeeper Silvanito in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western production A Fistful of Dollars as one of Clint Eastwood's few "amigos" in the town of San Miguel. He later appeared in westerns such as I Giorni dell'ira (1967) opposite Lee Van Cleef, Anda muchacho, spara! (1971) and Dust in the Sun (1973) etc.
However, after the Spaghetti western era of the late 1960s, in the 1970s he returned to appearing in primarily Spanish films and in contrast to the roles which dominated much of his career did appear in several Spanish comedy films often with slapstick humor as that genre grew popular in Latin cinema during this period.
He died in Gran Canaria on May 16, 1980 aged 64.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8052 |
| Birthday | 1916-03-03 |
| Place of Birth | Madrid, Madrid, Spain |
| Also Known As | Pepe Calvo, José Selgado Calvo, |
1962
Viridiana
7.658/549
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but th...
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Viridiana
1957
Gioventù disperata
7/1
A doctor whose wife has been accidentally killed by a young man who lives in an impoverished zone of Madrid, goes there with the intention of taking r...
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Gioventù disperata
1970
Tristana
7.226/276
As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his i...
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Tristana
1976
Las delicias de los verdes años
3/3
In the Middle Age, a farmer named Mauro is heading to Madrid following the last will of his father.
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Las delicias de los verdes años
1971
At the End of the Rainbow
5.938/16
Roy runs away from the labor camp of Santa Lucia with Emiliano, a New Mexico rancher, both imprisoned unjustly for three powerful American bankers, to...
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At the End of the Rainbow
1972
Tragic Ceremony
5.02/25
After a peaceful sailboat ride, four young people, including rich kid Bill, Joe, Fred and Jane, knock on the door of a secluded villa after their dune...
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Tragic Ceremony
1967
Day of Anger
7.048/156
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town thro...
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Day of Anger
1965
Weekend, Italian Style
6.5/30
Manager Marletti goes to the sea to meet his wife Giuliana to spend the weekend with her and many friends. After three days Marletti comes back drivin...
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Weekend, Italian Style
1960
Crimen para recién casados
6.4/5
Antonio and Elisa, a newlywed couple, go on honeymoon to a seaside hotel, where he, a crime reporter obsessed with uncovering a major crime, finds his...
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Crimen para recién casados
1968
Twice a Judas
6.026/19
Luke Barrett, having lost his memory due to an accident, does not realize that Dingus had killed his wife and brother to take possession of the Barret...
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Twice a Judas
1965
La primera aventura
6.25/4
In a small town, the towncries assures that they had cought the thief who stole the money to buy a Virgin picture. Some children dont trust this and...
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La primera aventura
1965
The Woman from Beirut
5.4/5
Isabel is a beautiful aspiring singer with great aspirations but persistent bad luck convicted of a crime she did not commit. Serving time in prison s...
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The Woman from Beirut
1966
2 Mobsters Against Al Capone
5.935/23
For a misunderstanding Franco and Ciccio, two Sicilian immigrants of very limited intellectual faculties, are enrolled in the police force in New York...
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2 Mobsters Against Al Capone
1961
Alma aragonesa
7/1
During the last Carlist War, John, guerrillas link , returns to his village. There, relatives and friends up to date with the changes that have occurr...
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Alma aragonesa
1963
El sol en el espejo
10/1
A paltry pension is the scenario in which love is forged between a mysterious woman and a frustrated writer. Based on the comedy "The poor things" by...
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El sol en el espejo
1963
Scheherazade
7.5/6
Sheherazade 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 certa...
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Scheherazade
1969
Cantando a la vida
9/1
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Cantando a la vida
1955
Sucedió en Sevilla
8/2
Don Fernando is a senior engineer of Sevilla for years as a partner had a friend working. But his partner died and his son, Albert, wants to take the...
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Sucedió en Sevilla
1966
Platero y yo
5.667/3
After a long period of absence, living in large and anonymous cities, a poet, Juan, returns to the village of his birth, Moguer, there he finds happin...
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Platero y yo
1975
One Man Against the Organization
4.4/5
An airport employee switches a pack of drugs for baking soda and absconds to Barcelona, meanwhile the drug-runners are on his trail.
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One Man Against the Organization
1971
Nights and Loves of Don Juan
3.556/9
Film inspired on the character from "Don Juan Tenorio".
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Nights and Loves of Don Juan
1968
A Stranger in Paso Bravo
5.625/8
After spending many years in prison, Gary returns to Paso Bravo, where thugs burned his ranch killing his wife and daughter. Gary seeks revenge, and a...
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A Stranger in Paso Bravo
1965
The Man from Oklahoma
7/2
Edward, a powerful rancher, serves as a real chief of a town near the Mexican border. The arrival of Oklahoma John, new sheriff, not to your liking. T...
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The Man from Oklahoma
1972
Love Letter of a Murderer
6.125/8
A man (José Luis López Vázquez) walks into a bar and shoots four people dead. Next day everybody is talking about the murders. The police know who the...
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Love Letter of a Murderer
1965
The Desert Renegades
9/1
In the deserts of the Middle East, circa 1930s, a half-Arab-half-French adventurer named Aldar woos the Princess Yasmin while engaged in selling guns...
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The Desert Renegades
1974
Run, Run, Joe!
6/3
When a don who they were suppose to protect ends up dead, his bodyguard and bodyguard's friend must go under cover to escape the wrath of mob.
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Run, Run, Joe!
1975
Blanca's Weddings
5.667/3
A divorced woman is abandoned by her betrothed on the eve of her second marriage, and resigns herself to a humdrum life with her first husband.
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Blanca's Weddings
1962
Two Against All
10/1
Two brothers, Bull and Jonathan Bullivan, witness the murder of bandit Black Boy who had been terrorizing Golden City. The bandit had been put in pla...
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Two Against All
1976
The Shameful Secret of a Good Boy
7/1
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The Shameful Secret of a Good Boy
1965
In a Colt's Shadow
6.091/11
A story about two gunfighters, Duke and Steve. Steve is in love with Duke's daughter but Duke disapproves of the match, envisioning a life of hardship...
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In a Colt's Shadow
1968
Appointment in Beirut
6/5
When an international casino crime ring is planning a big score at a fixed roulette game, the casino police enlists the help of Jeff Miller, an alcoho...
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Appointment in Beirut
1966
Fort Yuma Gold
6.25/28
Near the end of the Civil War, an imprisoned Confederate raider is sent under guard to warn both his men and the Army at Fort Yuma that an impending r...
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Fort Yuma Gold
1966
For One Thousand Dollars Per Day
5.8/5
Hud's parents were murdered, their land stolen and now Hud will dish out justice to the guilty - the three Clark brothers know they are in danger but...
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For One Thousand Dollars Per Day
1969
The Price of Power
6.038/39
In 1881 Dallas, an ex-Union soldier attempts to expose a conspiracy of Southerners that killed his father, his friend and President James A. Garfield.
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The Price of Power
1965
Six Days a Week
7.4/5
Maria is a young beauty who is busy juggling three boyfriends (a count, a dentist and a student) at the same time. She manages this elaborate deceptio...
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Six Days a Week
1958
Marinai, donne e guai
5.857/7
Four sailors are off duty in Barcelona. Capo Campana ordered them to remain together when in the city. But Mario, one of them, falls for Manuela and l...
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Marinai, donne e guai
1966
Make Love, Not War
7/3
Twenty years after the end of the war, a German submarine has not yet surrendered and continues to wander the seas. Its travelers include a half-witte...
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Make Love, Not War
1956
Main Street
6.261/142
A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of...
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Main Street
1972
Dust in the Sun
6/3
In the dry, dusty western hamlet of San Angelo, landowner Joe Bradford kills his brother and then marries his brother's widow, Gertie. Gertie's son, H...
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Dust in the Sun
1978
The Frenchman's Garden
5.75/12
"The Frenchman" was what locals called the man who ran the bar and restaurant in the small town of Peñaflor in rural Spain in the early part of the 20...
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The Frenchman's Garden
1977
Secretos de alcoba
4.333/3
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Secretos de alcoba
1978
The Last Party
3.667/3
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The Last Party
1980
En mil pedazos
5.5/6
Jorge Sueiro is a private detective who seeks revenge on Da Costa, a criminal who is fault his daughter died. Jorge accepts the proposal to follow a w...
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En mil pedazos
1957
The Teacher and the Miracle
7.667/3
Don Juan, a widowed teacher, asks to be transferred to the capital to create a painting school and improve his son's future.
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The Teacher and the Miracle
1976
La espada negra
5.6/5
Kingdom of Castile, 15th century. A group of nobles, who question the dynastic legitimacy of Princess Juana, daughter of King Enrique IV, conspire wit...
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La espada negra
1960
La quiniela
5.25/4
Don Cándido is a modest old office clerk who makes his first pool coming off of a bad streak at work. He has thirteen hits and wins a considerable sum...
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La quiniela
1965
Life Goes On
7.18/25
Madrid, Spain. Eloísa, a self-sacrificing wife and efficient mother, lives in the neighborhood of Maravillas with her husband, a violent policeman; he...
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Life Goes On
1973
Little Funny Guy
5.25/26
Movie starts with a small boy watching his father boarding a ship to America. Years later, all grown up and in colour, Pippolo Cavallo (Adriano Celent...
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Little Funny Guy
1964
Suspendido en sinvergüenza
9/1
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Suspendido en sinvergüenza
1960
Don Lucio and Brother Pío
7.8/5
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 ri...
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Don Lucio and Brother Pío
1960
El amor que yo te dí
6.4/5
Suave jewelry-thieves caper comedy overlaid with howling family-melodrama coincidences.
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El amor que yo te dí
1961
At Five in the Afternoon
5.5/4
A critical view of the world of bullfighting based on the antagonism between two bullfighters who take part in a bullfight that is crucial to both the...
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At Five in the Afternoon
1966
Web of Violence
7/2
A journalist goes in search of his missing fiance.
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Web of Violence
1978
Mi Mujer no es mi señora
6.714/14
Juan Carlos, a businessman, falls in love with a woman much younger than him, and ends up marrying her. Juan Carlos' mother-in-law, following an incid...
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Mi Mujer no es mi señora
1978
Soldados
6.5/4
Dramatic portrait of men and women discouraged in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, after the odyssey of a group of Republican soldiers trying to re...
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Soldados
1966
Funny Money
5.5/9
Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a...
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Funny Money
1966
Che notte, ragazzi!
7/1
Lawyer Tony Green has to pay a two-million-dollar check as compensation to the widow of a wealthy businessman who died as a result of an explosion on...
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Che notte, ragazzi!
1964
A Fistful of Dollars
7.825/4681
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....
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A Fistful of Dollars
1971
Los días de Cabirio
5.4/10
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Los días de Cabirio
1958
El hincha
6.5/2
A passionate football player complicates the life of his family driven by his passion. Enthusiastic, fanatic, and passionate, the fervor of football r...
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El hincha
1964
Extraconiugale
7/1
Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy.
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Extraconiugale
1956
Uncle Hyacynth
6.673/26
Hyacinth, a former matador who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding him that, as agreed a few days before, he must part...
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Uncle Hyacynth
1955
La Cruz de Mayo
5.5/2
Coral is a girl who works in a Seville ceramics factory to raise her family, but her greatest illusion is to sing. She is chosen for her good voice an...
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La Cruz de Mayo
1959
Vargas Inn
6.5/6
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Vargas Inn
1958
Aquellos tiempos del cuplé
7/1
Mercedes Pavón, a famous singer of cuplés is harassed by three men totaly different.
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Aquellos tiempos del cuplé
1963
El globo azul
7/1
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El globo azul
1955
Juicio final
7.5/2
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Juicio final
1955
Duelo de pasiones
9/1
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Duelo de pasiones
1960
El traje de oro
7.5/2
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El traje de oro
1980
¡Qué verde era mi duque!
5/4
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¡Qué verde era mi duque!
1970
El gran crucero
10/1
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El gran crucero
1960
El Litri y su sombra
4.5/6
Biopic about Miguel Báez "El Litri", a descendant of two generations of bullfighters: his older brother touched the glory before he died at twenty yea...
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El Litri y su sombra
1968
The Stationmaster
10/1
The stationmaster
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The Stationmaster
1978
Tiempos de constitución
5/2
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Tiempos de constitución
1967
The Edge of Fear
7/1
One by one, the Urdaz family is plagued by a series of mysterious disappearances, starting with the tyrannical father that everyone fears.
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The Edge of Fear
1959
Noi siamo 2 evasi
5.5/4
Two inmates escape prison changing clothes with a couple of businessmen. They'll be taken by the financiers and find themselves surrounded by wealth a...
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Noi siamo 2 evasi
1972
Hector the Mighty
6/3
A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal comes up with a plan to force Hector into selling him...
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Hector the Mighty
1959
Una gran señora
6.5/2
Charo is a fashion model, in love with enigmatic Adolfo. The fashion house where she works is ruined. In a parade, an English lady confuses her with...
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Una gran señora
1952
El sistema Pelegrín
6.6/5
Hector Pelegrin, an unsuccessful insurance agent is admitted to the prestigious school Ferran as a gym teacher. The only problem is that he completely...
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El sistema Pelegrín
1973
Barcelona Kill
4.667/3
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Barcelona Kill
1959
Parque de Madrid
7/2
In the Madrid of the fifties, during any day, whether by chance or fate, a series of characters live all kinds of stories, funny stories and some not...
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Parque de Madrid
1975
Pim, pam, pum… ¡fuego!
5.6/5
Spain, 1940s. While returning to Madrid by train, Paca, a chorus girl who aspires to join a prestigious company, meets Luis, a young man of helpless a...
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Pim, pam, pum… ¡fuego!
1967
El secreto de papá
7/1
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El secreto de papá
1957
Messengers of Peace
7/1
Try the descent to Earth, specifically to Spain, of the Three Wise Men.
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Messengers of Peace
1958
Red Cross Girls
5.824/17
Paloma, Isabel, Marion and Julia Madrid are four girls belonging to different social strata, who are preparing to apply for the Red Cross on the flag....
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Red Cross Girls
1959
Valentine's Day
5.5/6
Several independent histories in the St Valentine's Day, which they have jointly that a celestial emissary collaborates in solving his conflicts.
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Valentine's Day
1960
El indulto
5.417/6
Spain, 1906: in a small village and pregnant after having been raped, Antonia is forced to marry the brutal Lucas to save her honor. But the mother of...
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El indulto
1965
Historias de la televisión
6.667/3
Film divided into two stories: 1. Cuando los gorilas hablan por teléfono 2. Una chica de fortuna
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Historias de la televisión
1963
The Swindlers
6.25/12
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological find...
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The Swindlers
1955
Un día perdido
6.8/5
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Un día perdido
1964
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
5.929/7
Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decide to take on human features to study the terrestri...
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The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
1958
El puente de la paz
6.75/4
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El puente de la paz
1964
Júrame
7/1
Alberto wants to conquer the artist Laura Céspedes and invites her to a student party at the Faculty of Medicine. After being rejected, he decides to...
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Júrame
1966
Nuevo en esta plaza
7.25/4
Film that tells the biography of the great bullfighter Sebastian Palomo Linares Linares, with the very skilled actor who plays the character. Palomo L...
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Nuevo en esta plaza
1956
Andalusia Express
6/10
Three men plan a jewelry heist abroad the Andalusia express train.
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Andalusia Express
1956
La mestiza
7/2
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La mestiza
1961
Historia de un hombre
7/1
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Historia de un hombre
1954
La danza de los deseos
5/1
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La danza de los deseos
1959
El gafe
6.75/4
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El gafe
1960
El hombre que perdió el tren
6.167/6
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El hombre que perdió el tren
1961
Fantasmas en la casa
7.5/4
A young playwright meets a girl he was once in love with. The young woman lives in terror in a supposedly haunted mansion, so she feels on the verge o...
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Fantasmas en la casa
1955
The Coyote
6.091/11
California, 1848. An invading army has defeated the few opposing forces and the territory has become part of the United States. Don César de Echagüe,...
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The Coyote
1963
The Castilian
10/1
Also released as Valley of the Swords, this lugubrious US/Spanish co-production features the usual mid-1960s "tax shelter" international cast. Broderi...
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The Castilian
1971
Murders in the Rue Morgue
5.102/49
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Mor...
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
1958
Héroes del aire
0/0
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Héroes del aire
1965
Legacy of the Incas
6.292/12
During the 1800s, Peru's government sends 2 envoys to negotiate peace with the rebellious Incas but a treasure-hunter bandit shoots the Inca ruler and...
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Legacy of the Incas
1967
Night Is Made for Stealing
7/1
A new type of safe, touted as impregnable, alarms insurance companies. To deny the factory's assumptions, three burglars are hired with the task of vi...
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Night Is Made for Stealing
1963
The Running Man
6.681/47
An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an in...
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The Running Man
1956
Ha pasado un hombre
8/1
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Ha pasado un hombre
1952
Magic concert
9/1
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Magic concert
1965
Why Go On Killing?
5.3/10
A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of Mexican landowners. The task is not easy as he is...
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Why Go On Killing?
1952
Dulce nombre
0/0
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Dulce nombre
1952
La forastera
0/0
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La forastera
1952
Babes in Bagdad
5.833/6
The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.
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Babes in Bagdad
1955
El indiano
6.6/5
Nouveau-riche industrialist returns to Spain after 20 years in Mexico and discovers that his adopted son wants to marry into an aristocratic family an...
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El indiano
1954
Elena
0/0
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Elena
1956
El puente del diablo
0/0
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El puente del diablo
1956
También hay cielo sobre el mar
6.667/3
During the absence of her husband, who is fishing at sea, a woman is persecuted by the owner and unjustly convicted of a crime she has not committed.
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También hay cielo sobre el mar
1957
Buongiorno primo amore!
7/1
Michele and Valentina are about to get married despite the financial problems that threaten to make the first years of their marriage very difficult....
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Buongiorno primo amore!
1956
El fenómeno
8/4
A professor at the University of Frankfurt is mistaken for a Russian soccer player on his arrival at Madrid airport. There, he is received as a sports...
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El fenómeno
1956
La gran mentira
6.25/4
César Neira, an almost forgotten Spanish actor, gets involved by chance with Teresa, a teacher from a small village in the province of Cáceres, who ha...
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