Joaquín Roa
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1890-08-15
Locus Natus: Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
Et ut: Joaquín María Fernández Roa
El fantasma y doña Juanita
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,...
release : 1945.03.31popularis : 2.795
Viridiana
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...
release : 1962.04.01popularis : 8.851
Love and Desire
A French crew is working on location in Spain. But when they want to film a scene in which Gérardn the male star is supposed to be swimming...
release : 1951.10.09popularis : 6.325
Carnival Sunday
Madrid, Carnival Sunday. A night watchman finds the body of a woman, a rich and greedy moneylender who has apparently been murdered. The prime...
release : 1945.10.22popularis : 3.734
La vida alrededor
Josephine and Antonio have reached a delicate economic balance after marriage. The salary of lawyer from him, and wins her in the hospital, allows...
release : 1959.10.08popularis : 1.204
The Nail
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...
release : 1944.10.05popularis : 3.682
La vida en un hilo
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...
release : 1945.04.26popularis : 3.009
Los pecados de una chica casi decente
A very enthusiastic girl kills her boyfriend, a carabinieri, after a long love session. She will suffer during the rest of the film to hide the body.
release : 1975.09.01popularis : 1.495
Aventuras de Juan Lucas
Following his father's steps, Juan Lucas becomes the most famous highwayman in Sierra Morena mountains, also helping local resistance against...
release : 1949.07.07popularis : 2.555
Strange Voyage
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...
release : 1964.08.09popularis : 6.798
Don Juan
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...
release : 1950.10.16popularis : 3.534
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to...
release : 1953.04.04popularis : 8.899
Vuelve, querida Nati
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...
release : 1976.01.01popularis : 2.646
Till Divorce Us Do Part
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...
release : 1977.03.11popularis : 1.379
El monumento
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...
release : 1970.09.18popularis : 0.912
Foul Play
A 1977 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem that won the Golden Prize the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.
release : 1977.03.11popularis : 3.15
L'Âge d'or
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are...
release : 1930.11.28popularis : 11.032
La venganza de Don Mendo
Don Mendo, Marquess of Cabra, gallant and dashing knight of medieval Castilian, is also a virtuous mandoline player and a specialist in climbing...
release : 1961.02.19popularis : 3.413
Los chicos con las chicas
The musical group Los Bravos is enjoying a short holidays. It's in a mountain hut, near a girls' school, eager to see and hear.
release : 1967.09.25popularis : 2.265
The Miller's Saucy Wife
In a region of Andalusia, all the men lust after the miller's young wife.
release : 1955.12.05popularis : 0.709
Tuvo la culpa Adán
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...
release : 1944.10.09popularis : 1.507
A Devil Under the Pillow
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...
release : 1968.02.26popularis : 3.938
La quiniela
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...
release : 1960.05.18popularis : 0.922
El camino
Shortly before leaving his small town to go to the big city to study, young Daniel recalls his childhood, surrounded by family and friends.
release : 1964.01.01popularis : 1.924
Café de París
After suffering a family tragedy, Carmen leaves Spain and emigrates to Paris, where she will make new friends among some of the most peculiar...
release : 1943.12.27popularis : 1.564
The Wicked Carabel
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...
release : 1956.10.15popularis : 1.445
Susanna and Me
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...
release : 1957.03.11popularis : 2.218
Pecados conyugales
Film consisting of three episodes. The first, "Doubt": Sofia, early summer, young and beautiful, always choose a dog that matches their outfits and a...
release : 1969.08.27popularis : 0.55
Un rayo de luz
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...
release : 1960.09.09popularis : 1.984
Amor bajo cero
In the resort of La Molina an international competition is held and ski racers from different countries come to Barcelona. They become friends,...
release : 1960.09.01popularis : 2.211
La vida en un bloc
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...
release : 1956.04.01popularis : 1.827
Puebla de las mujeres
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...
release : 1953.03.23popularis : 1.379
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
In Spain, during the Napoleonic rule, the French Governor of Andalusia is besieged by the locals who have countless demands and wishes.
release : 1960.08.26popularis : 1.733
Fantasmas en la casa
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...
release : 1961.08.17popularis : 2.493