Joaquín Roa

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El fantasma y doña Juanita
3.5
Fearing that her niece Rosita will abandon her true love and enter into a marriage of convenience, doña Juanita tells her the story of when, many years ago, she fell in love with an accountant who worked in a circus.
Comedy
Viridiana
7.64

Viridiana

Apr 01, 1962
La jeune Viridiana souhaite entrer au couvent, mais la mère supérieure exige avant tout que la jeune femme aille rendre visite à son vieil oncle et bienfaiteur Don Jaime. Celui-ci, troublé par la ressemblance de sa nièce et de sa femme décédée, tente d'abuser sexuellement de la jeune femme. Choquée, Viridiana s'enfuit mais apprend que son oncle s'est suicidé. Se sentant coupable la jeune femme décide de revenir au domaine et de dédier sa vie à aider les gens pauvres. Elle héberge donc les mendiants du village dans la maison de son oncle dont elle a hérité à sa mort…
Drama
Domingo de carnaval
5.6

Domingo de carnaval

Oct 22, 1945
Madrid, Carnival Sunday. A night watchman finds the body of a woman, a rich and greedy moneylender who has apparently been murdered. The prime suspect is a watchmaker who owed her a lot of money.
Thriller
La vida alrededor
5.2

La vida alrededor

Oct 08, 1959
Josephine and Antonio have reached a delicate economic balance after marriage. The salary of lawyer from him, and wins her in the hospital, allows them to survive and fantasize about some freak. The situation is complicated by the news that Josephine is pregnant. Ahead of the debacle that may involve having a "child who eats everything, including food," Josephine teaches the baby still in her womb, higher education courses in order to save some money in schools. Meanwhile, Antonio enters the underworld scene, looking for customers who offer their services as a lawyer.
Comedy
El clavo
5.9

El clavo

Oct 05, 1944
Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed. When he investigates the case in depth, his suspicions fall on the woman who was going to marry the deceased.
Drama
La vida en un hilo
5.8

La vida en un hilo

Apr 26, 1945
After burying his late husband, a young widow leaves his provincial life and heads to the city. It was a very hard stage in her life, and she had to bear it with resignation, but now she's willing to make up for lost time. On the way to the city, she meets a fortune teller who will talk to her about the decisions she made or could have made.
Drama
Aventuras de Juan Lucas
1
Following his father's steps, Juan Lucas becomes the most famous highwayman in Sierra Morena mountains, also helping local resistance against Napoleonic troops. In love with Ana, a Count's daughter, his hopes seem to have no future.
Adventure
El extraño viaje
7.3

El extraño viaje

Aug 09, 1964
In a small town near Madrid, Paquita and her brother Venancio, both single and with a childish personality, live under the shadow of their bossy older sister, Ignacia, a grumpy old maid.
Comedy
Don Juan
6.3

Don Juan

Oct 16, 1950
Don Juan leaves Venice and gets back to Seville, his home city. When he arrives there, he learns that his father is dead and has left all his properties to him, on codition that he marries Doña Inés. Don Juan makes up a former marriage, but when he meets her he becomes fascinated by her beauty.
Adventure
Bienvenue monsieur Marshall
7.379
Villar del Río est un petit village castillan où le maire, le curé, des notables, un hidalgo et quelques villageois vivent paisiblement. Mais une nouvelle extraordinaire va tout bouleverser : la délégation américaine du Plan Marshall doit s’y arrêter. Comment la recevoir ?
Comedy
Vuelve, querida Nati
3.4

Vuelve, querida Nati

Jan 01, 1976
Doña Nati, the owner of a house of prostitutes, takes a little vacation to attend his niece's first communion in the village. She is accompanied on the trip by three of his pupils: Barbara, Mercedes and Eva who pretend to be her friends. But soon, men realize what they are and begin to try to flirt with them. Doña Nati makes a splendid gift to the people and thus wins the favor of its inhabitants.
Comedy
Hasta que el matrimonio nos separe
4
Miguel is a young Spanish naval engineer in love with an American student of History of Art. When she becomes pregnant, she decides that the easiest solution to her situation is to marry her civilly. However, in Spain in the 1970s, prior to the passage of the Divorce Law, the only way to do so is to apostatize the Catholic Church. For Miguel, a believing devotee, taking this step involves a deep inner conflict.
Comedy
El monumento
10

El monumento

Sep 18, 1970
Vincent is married to a very sexy woman, who everyone knows as "The Monument", and envy the fate of her husband. However, Vincent is very busy with his work and doesn't pay her enough attention. The situation complicates when the richest man in town gets interested in her.
Comedy
Le pont
4.944

Le pont

Mar 11, 1977
Le Madrilène Juan passe son week-end sur sa moto, flânant et allant à la rencontre des séduisantes touristes de Torremolinos.
Comedy
L'Âge d'or
6.8

L'Âge d'or

Nov 28, 1930
Sur un scénario de Buñuel et Dali des images folles, un film choc qui fut longtemps frappe d'interdiction et provoqua la parution du « Manifeste surréaliste ».
Romance
La venganza de Don Mendo
6.281
Don Mendo, Marquess of Cabra, gallant and dashing knight of medieval Castilian, is also a virtuous mandoline player and a specialist in climbing towers. But he has a bad run, all played and all lost at seven-thirty (card game), and lost his honor playing in his latest escalation of love to the apartment of his beloved and beautiful Magdalena. Don Nuño Manso de Jarama, father of Magdalena, has pledged the hand of his daughter to the Duke of Toro, and surprises Don Mendo in the room of Magdalena. To save the honor of his beloved one, Don Mendo says that no love has led him to the Tower, but he has climbed to steal. Magdalena is clean of all suspicion, and he is condemned to die buried in the castle wall. The Marquess of Moncada and other noble gentlemen, all friends of Don Mendo, facilitate his escape.
Comedy
Solo para hombres
5.8

Solo para hombres

Sep 08, 1960
Spain, late 19th century. When, in a time of great political instability, Flora, a beautiful young woman, starts working in a ministry doing a job that supposedly only a man can do, a great scandal breaks out.
Comedy
Tuvo la culpa Adán
1

Tuvo la culpa Adán

Oct 09, 1944
Nora leaves the convent where she has been raised to marry a relative. Just arrived she has an accident resulting in total amnesia. Her identity mistaken a new life begins for her, where she will encounter love, adventure and even crime.
Comedy
Un diablo bajo la almohada
2
Anselmo is a young anthropologist who is tormented by jealousy, and although his wife Camilla does not give reasons, keeps a close eye on her. After consulting a psychiatrist, the doctor says the problem is him and not his wife. So he plots to verify, once and for all, if his suspicions are true. By chance he meets an old friend, Lotario, who seems the ideal person to carry out his plans. What Anselmo does not know is that his friend is a real womanizer who ends seducing his wife.
Comedy
La quiniela
4.5

La quiniela

May 18, 1960
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 of money. This causes him to be blinded by ambition, changing his character, spreading his newfound hobby to his family, and gambling becoming the center of his life.
Comedy
Le Chemin
6.4

Le Chemin

Jan 01, 1964
Peu avant de quitter sa petite ville pour aller étudier dans une grande ville, le jeune Daniel se souvient de son enfance, entouré de sa famille et de ses amis.
Drama
Café de París
1

Café de París

Dec 27, 1943
After suffering a family tragedy, Carmen leaves Spain and emigrates to Paris, where she will make new friends among some of the most peculiar characters who inhabit the bohemian neighborhoods of the city. (Partially lost film.)
Comedy
El malvado Carabel
5.222

El malvado Carabel

Oct 15, 1956
Since he wants get married, the young Carabel, who is employed in a real estate agent, decides to ask their bosses for a raise in order to maintain his future wife. However, all he gets is to be fired. He then realizes that honesty is what has led him to unemployment and decides to change his life and live outside the law. He plots to steal the safe from his former company
Comedy
Susana y yo
5.5

Susana y yo

Mar 11, 1957
An expulsive star of a variety theatre cannot decide between the love of an honest archaeology professor and the love of an extravagant official who turns himself into a cabaret comedian in his sparetime.
Comedy
Pecados conyugales
5

Pecados conyugales

Aug 27, 1969
Film consisting of three episodes. The first, "Doubt": Sofia, early summer, young and beautiful, always choose a dog that matches their outfits and a lover that matches them. It is up to Ricardo, a playboy who is not known for their intelligence. The second, "Ambition" Amparo and Vincent are married. She is ambitious and wants her husband to be important and famous. To discover a process that infallible: that her husband will be burnt in the street bonzo. The third, "Jealousy" Manolo and Eulogio are friends and colleagues. For certain indications Eulogio think your wife is cheating on him with Gregory and advised by Manolo, he decides to wash his honor.
Comedy
Un rayo de luz
5.6

Un rayo de luz

Sep 09, 1960
A man and a woman have been secretly married. He belongs to a rich family and she is a poor actress and singer that is failing to success in her career. One day, he decides to tell his family that he's married and flies to Italy, where they live, but the flight has an accident and he dies. The man's brother goes to Spain to look for the body, and he discovers not only that his brother is married, also that his brother's wife is pregnant.
Comedy
Amor bajo cero
5.5

Amor bajo cero

Sep 01, 1960
In the resort of La Molina an international competition is held and ski racers from different countries come to Barcelona. They become friends, especially Nuria and Ramon, but Nuria already has a boyfriend
Comedy
La vida en un bloc
5

La vida en un bloc

Apr 01, 1956
Dr. Nicomedes Gutiérrez carefully points out to the last detail everything that happens in his life. Doctor in a small village, he is in love with the village teacher, but, before getting married, he decides to treat himself to having his last fling.
Comedy
Puebla de las mujeres
1

Puebla de las mujeres

Mar 23, 1953
A young man arrives at Puebla de las Mujeres, a village of Andalusia with the tradition that man that arrives, man that marries there. The foreigner is going to solve some issues of interest of an aunt who lives in the village. Soon as he arrives all women mobilize, captained by the mayor, for electing bride and organize the wedding. The designated Juanita de la Rosa, does not want to participate and he laughs at the arrangements saying that he has a girlfriend in Madrid.
Comedy
Fantasmas en la casa
7.3

Fantasmas en la casa

Aug 17, 1961
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 of madness…
Comedy
Séptima página
1

Séptima página

Oct 10, 1951
Chronicle of the daily activity of a newspaper called La Jornada. Through the events covered by the gossip columnist that occupy precisely the seventh page, a portrait emerges of different classes of Spain in the 50's and a vision of reality where facts are mixed comedy, police, emotional, dramatic and even tragic.
Drama
El capitán Veneno
4.7

El capitán Veneno

Oct 12, 1950
In Madrid, under Queen Isabel II reign, rebellions are frequent events. During one of them Captain Jorge de Córdoba, nicknamed Veneno (poison) for his quarrelsome disposition, bad temper and outright misogyny, is hurt and taken to a house where two women, a widow and her daughter, are to take care of him.
Comedy
Le Désir et l'Amour
1

Le Désir et l'Amour

Oct 09, 1951
Un film est réalisé en Espagne, péniblement. Il doit s'appeler Le Désir et l'amour, mais de nombreuses difficultés ralentissent les techniciens. Un jeune pêcheur de la région, Antonio, est prié de doubler le premier rôle, incapable de nager. Antonio n'est pas insensible à la séduction de la belle Martine, ce qui irrite Lola, sa fiancée, obligée d'aller le surveiller à Madrid. Cris, pleurs, réconciliations. Antonio n'aime plus le cinéma. L'équipe repart pour Paris sans avoir pu boucler le film et Martine reste la plus versatile des femmes.
Drama
L'aventurier de Séville
5.7
Le comte Almaviva est amoureux de Rosine, promise au vieux Bartholo. Amalviva les suit jusqu'à Séville, où il retrouve son ancien valet Figaro, devenu barbier dans la maison du docteur. Les deux acolytes vont tout mettre en oeuvre pour séparer les deux futurs époux...
Comedy
Buenas noticias
1

Buenas noticias

Apr 05, 1954
Beliche, a naive postman, suffers from depression because he has almost no letters to deliver. The neighbors to whom Beliche takes their correspondence decide then to launch a plan to receive many more.
Comedy
Marcelin, pain et vin
7.2

Marcelin, pain et vin

Feb 24, 1955
Une abbaye de capucins découvre un matin un bébé abandonné devant sa porte. Le supérieur demande aux frères de trouver une famille d'adoption. Mais entre celles qui refusent et celles qui ne plaisent pas aux frères, Marcelino restera à l'abbaye. Il grandit et les frères, vite dotés de surnoms malicieux, découvrent qu'ils ne peuvent pas tout lui apporter. Même si frère Potage le nourrit, et frère Malade lui fait la classe, il lui manque l'amour et la tendresse d'une mère. Finalement l'enfant sera comblé grâce à un évènement merveilleux...
Drama
Tout est possible à Grenade
5
Following meetings between Spain and the United States a delegation of a mining company arrives to Granada in search of uranium. The company contacted with the landowners, who agree to sell less of them. Such owner refuses because his ground a treasure supposedly hidden Muslim and refuses to sell them to Margaret, representative of the company. When he refused, Margaret convinces the owner to locate the treasure on your own and sell it in case you find it ... but love gets in his plans.
Comedy