
Birthday:
06-03-1943
Deathday:
01-16-2024 (80 years)
Birthplace:
Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Biography
José Lifante was born on June 3, 1943 in Barcelona (Catalonia) as José Ruiz Lifante. He is a spanish actor, known for The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Hard Times for Dracula (1976), Josefina (TV-series, 1979), Dagon (2001) and The Biggest Robbery Never Told (2002).
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The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
Act like Martin
event1974 star_border 6.4
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When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to kill insects.
The Last Script
Act like José Lifante
event2016
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Actress Lone Fleming suffers terrible nightmares in which she is pursued by zombie Templars.
Fiesta
Act like La Fuente
event1995 star_border 4.8
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A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War.
The Dog in the Manger
Act like Octavio
event1996 star_border 6.7
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Countess Diana de Belflor is in love with Teodoro, her secretary, but he is engaged to Marcela.
Devil's Kiss
Act like Charles
event1976 star_border 3.1
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Former Countess Clair and Professor Gruber conduct occult research in castle basement of Count Victor, re-animating people to kill for them.
Sanjulián: el poder de la ilustración
Act like Francisco de Goya (voice) (uncredited)
event2021 star_border 5
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An account, in his own words and those of his relatives, of the life and work of the brilliant Manuel Pérez-Sanjulián Clemente, one of the most important Spanish illustrators of all times.
The Night of the Walking Dead
Act like Vampire
event1975 star_border 4.6
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In a 19th century village, a young aristocrat suffering from a terminal disease finds herself being drawn to the underground world of vampires and their strange rituals.
Las aventuras de Enrique y Ana
Act like El tío Stanley
event1981 star_border 6.7
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Enrique is a gym teacher who along with his sister want to start a musical career with the support of their grandfather, a great scientist who wants to stop an evil despot from getting an artifact that would endanger the entire world.
Scarab
Act like Ocultista
event1984 star_border 5.5
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Dr. Wilfred Manz performs a magical experiment on a beetle-shaped amulet. His patience exhausted, he smashes his fist into some bottles and a few drops of blood fall onto the scarab. His laboratory is rocked by an explosion, the god Khepera appears and Manz is transformed into a demi-god magician. Thirty years later, Manz has assumed the name Khepera and lives in mysterious castle. Using his magical powers, he is killing heads of government and causing the collapse of major financial institutions. Jack Murphy, an American correspondent, witnesses the pandemonium following the suicide of the Spanish prime minister and notices an attractive nurse, Elena, take a small scarab which has fallen from the prime minister's lapel. Later, he visits an occult shop where the scarab is identified as being associated with the Egyptian god, Khepera. Murphy is captured and Elena — who was tricked into sacrificing her brother when they were children — once more takes up the sacrificial dagger...
Butterfly on the Shoulder
Act like Le commissaire
event1978 star_border 6
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On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains evidence that it wasn't a dream.
Spanish Fly
Act like Pedro
event1976 star_border 5.1
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British sex comedy. Sir Percy de Courcy accidentally turns some poor tasting wine into an aphrodisiac when his old school chum, Mike Scott arrives with a photographer and several gorgeous models.
Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
Act like Barman at Opera
event1988 star_border 6.6
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Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and unhappy marriages.
¡Esto es un atraco!
Act like Carlos
event1987 star_border 6.2
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A group of people are recruited by the brain of a band of robbers to commit the theft of some gold bars. Each character has a particular problem why he needs the money, but all are pretty sloppy.
Gran Slalom
Act like Director Hotel
event1996
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A young officer of the Guardia Civil moves to a ski resort in the Pyrenees traveling on official business. On the way his car has a breakdown and he is picked up by a woman who is staying at the hotel. From this situation several adventures and tangles happen. Things get complicated as he must dress as a woman to avoid being surprised.
At the Service of Spanish Womanhood
Act like Cura (as José Ruiz Lifante)
event1978 star_border 2
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A sexually dissatisfied woman is confronted with a man who is the victim of a puritanic education.
Der Tiefstapler
Act like Sperber
event1978
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The German ambassador to a small republic is expecting the visit of his Minister of Development. When the visit is called off, the Ambassador persuades two tourists to take over the role of Ambassador.
Panic
Act like Sergeant O'Brien
event1982 star_border 4.2
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A scientist's experiment with a deadly bacteria goes awry and leaves him horribly deformed. The monstrous man then runs amok in his town.
Let's Go, Barbara
Act like Andreu
event1978 star_border 3.5
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Ana is Catalan, daughter of a bourgeois family and works in a studio in advertising. She is 38 years old and has only lived with her husband, with whom she has a relationship cold but accepted by both. Although his family is opposed, decides to leave her husband and takes a vacation with her daughter Barbara, of 12 years, in order to leave behind all the past and start a freer life, with fewer ties, less conventional.
Mar brava
Act like Don Santiago
event1983 star_border 5
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Mingo, a kid whose father and brother have disappeared in shipwrecks, finds an amnesic man lying on the beach. Might he be St. Elmo?
Cutting Heads
event1970 star_border 4.3
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In a castle, somewhere in the Thirld World, Diaz is delirious, dreaming of the power he had in Eldorado, while oppressing the indians, workers and peasants. He is well aware of the menace his old victims represent, while a miracle-making shepherd fascinates and frightens him. Diaz finds a countrywoman, symbol of purity, and prepares a ceremony in his castle resembling his own funeral.
Beatriz
Act like Rata
event1976 star_border 3.9
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A child is witness to an assault on a monk by the gang of Lorenzo the Fifth. The monk escapes and takes refuge in the estate of Doña Carlota, a countess who lives with her son Juan and daughter Beatriz. Basilisa, the maid, conjures the devil to free her son from an irreversible illness, but to do so the evil must be transmitted to an innocent soul, and for that she chooses Beatriz. The child begins to be the victim of a possession, for which everyone blames the monk.
Party Town
Act like Padre Silvia
event2016 star_border 5.2
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Two brothers, Juan and Richi, once had a duo act, Supergalactic, with a one-off pop hit in the 1990s. When the mayor of their hometown asks them to reunite, the two decide to overlook their differences for one last taste of stardom – and a quick payday. However, their fans, local traditions and hidden agendas complicate their plans
Chocolate
Act like Farmacéutico
event1980 star_border 5.4
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El Muertes and El Jato travel to Morocco to get some chocolate but run into trouble when they are assaulted by locals. Magda, El Jato's girlfriend, waits for them in Algeciras where they decide to steal a car to get back.
The Killer of Dolls
Act like Servent
event1975 star_border 5.2
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A groundskeeper's son, who is mentally unstable due to childhood trauma, goes on a murdering spree where his perception of reality is distorted by imagining people as mannequins and vice versa.
Pasos Largos (El último bandido andaluz)
Act like Forense
event1986 star_border 4.5
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"Pasos largos" (long steps) is an alias for the last Andalusian bandit, after engaging in poaching for a living, he begins to commit small crimes in the mountainous area of Ronda (Malaga, Spain), but everything gets even more complicated.
Berlanga!!
Act like Self - Actor
event2021 star_border 8
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How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to do with his own? Since to understand the secrets of an artist it is essential to know the person behind, his family, his friends, his collaborators, as well as prestigious filmmakers and actors trace a collective portrait of a creator as singular as he is universal.
¡¡¡A tope!!!
Act like Don Braulio
event1984 star_border 2.2
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Madrid, 80 A couple, Juanjo and Rachel, threatening their relationship when Juanjo falls in love with another girl, Marta.
El gran mogollón
Act like Monseñor
event1982
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In a western and Mediterranean country, very fond of bullfighting and soccer, legislative elections are held, that is, "El Gran Mogollón" is elected from the bosses. Each leader feels that his position is secure, and some are preparing to take the presidency of "El Gran Mogollón", when the surprise arises: the P.E.R. has won by a wide margin.
Green Inferno
Act like Hamid
event1973 star_border 5.5
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Green Inferno hits the heart of the Amazon for big action.
Birds of Prey
Act like Governor
event1987 star_border 3.7
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Vanessa, a television reporter covering a story of a farmer attacked by his chickens, discovers that this is not an isolated incident. Travelling to Spain with her cameraman Peter, the two discover the survivors of a town wiped out by the birds thirty years ago. Meanwhile, attacks continue as a child's birthday party ends in tragedy and doves devour a poultry farmer and his wife. Vanessa soon comes to the conclusion that the birds are organizing themselves against the ecological ravages of man, but time is running out as thousands of birds launch an attack against a train Vanessa is traveling on.
¡Bruja, más que bruja!
Act like Juez
event1977 star_border 5.9
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A small provincial town lives under the caprices of Don Justin, the local cacique. This forces the young Mariana to marry him, taking advantage of the fact that her nephew Juan, the boyfriend of the girl, is far away from military service. Upon his return, Juan is mocked and goes to a witch to assist him in his revenge.
El fin de la inocencia
Act like Eusebio
event1977 star_border 3
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A student, expelled from school for her behaviour, moves into the house of her uncle, a man with sadistic tendencies.
Till Divorce Us Do Part
Act like Sacerdote
event1977 star_border 4
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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.
Love Ravings
Act like Chófer (segment "Delirio 1")
event1986 star_border 5.8
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In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young man.
Las locuras de Jane
event1978
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An unstable young woman commits crazy actions both inside and outside the mental institution in which she lives.
Gay Club
Act like Don Alfonso
event1981 star_border 1.5
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A group of homosexual friends tries to set up a gay club in a town in Andalusia, meeting the opposition of the chief who will use all his resources to try to prevent it.
Criminal Abortion
Act like Cirujano
event1973 star_border 6
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Barcelona police is following the actions of a pimp. A web of forced illegal abortions on prostitutes is discovered.
Dagon
Act like Hotel Receptionist
event2001 star_border 6.1
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A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's secret..they worship Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea...and Dagon's unholy offspring are on the loose...
Cake of Blood
Act like El hombre (segment "La danza o las supervivencias afectivas")
event1971 star_border 3
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Four part anthology horror film, with segments featuring witchcraft, ghosts, Frankenstein and his monster, and ancient Christians battling Celtic vampires.
Violent Blood Bath
event1974 star_border 5.9
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A notoriously harsh French judge, vacationing at a luxury resort, finds his holiday interrupted when a mysterious killer begins murdering those in and around the hotel.
The Evil Faces of Víctor Israel
Act like Himself
event2010
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Hour-long documentary about distinctive-looking Spanish character actor Víctor Israel.
Foul Play
Act like Inventor
event1977 star_border 4.9
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A 1977 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem that won the Golden Prize the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.
Devil's Exorcist
Act like The Man
event1975 star_border 6
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Teresita, the only daughter to a wealthy couple, begins to be troubled by loud sounds and visions of a tall man in black walking towards her menacingly. Soon she becomes plagued by strange physical symptoms, visions of arms extending from the walls to grab at her...and sometimes she gets violent. A priest is called in to try and wrench the devil from her body.
Life, Love and Death
event1982 star_border 1.7
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Divided into three grotesque stories of absurd humor that, as the title suggests, are based on life, love and death.
Cuentos para una escapada
event1981
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With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's film.
Madrid, Costa Fleming
Act like José Vicente de la Mora
event1976 star_border 6
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Sexy comedy.
Afraid to Go Out at Night
Act like Bank President
event1980 star_border 5.4
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A bank employee, shy and skittish, is falling into the web of fear of the events he sees around him and the crime wave that seems to invade the city.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Act like Dr. Death
event1988 star_border 7
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An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
Firme Usted Aquí
Act like Matías
event2014 star_border 5
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Spain. Faced with the progressive aging of the population and the dire economic situation, the Administration launches an assisted euthanasia campaign aimed at so-called -unproductive beings-. Keen to get their hands on the amount of money set for the substitution of the old man, the Arevalo family will try to get rid of Granddad unaware that he has plans of his own.
Cuando los maridos se iban a la guerra
Act like Alcaide (as José Ruiz Lifante)
event1976 star_border 1
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In the medieval Castile, Don Tello de Buinesa, the boastful feudal lord, lives with his three sons and their beautiful wives.
La familia bien, gracias
Act like (as Jose Ruiz Lifante)
event1979 star_border 5.7
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Sequel to "The Great Family" and "Family and one more". A widower and the godfather of his 16 children, aged two, wistfully contemplate the past. The father was left alone in the family home, but loneliness overwhelms him so he decides to spend some time at home for each of their children, most of whom are married. But the experience ends up being disastrous.
Casa de citas
event1978 star_border 5
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Luciano has been working in an important company for fifteen years without be rewarded for his efforts, his fidelity and submission. On the recommendation of a cousin, he acts as front man for the shameful business of his managers. They get it so far as to force him to marry the former mistress of one of the directors. Finally, because of a fire in the chalet where he lives and where they cook the dirty business of which he is not responsible for, Luciano ends up in jail for covering up and taking on some responsibilities that are not his, fulfilling his role of straw man until the end.
María, la santa
Act like Médico
event1977 star_border 4.2
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Diego , the son of a prostitute stabs Maria , suddenly it begins to happen a number of miracles attributed to the intercession of the dead woman . Patients from all over town arrive to implore and consider her as a saint.
Lentejuelas de sangre
Act like Himself
event2012 star_border 5
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Antonio Gracia José (1942-2011), known as “Pierrot,” was a prominent member of the Barcelona art scene, a pioneer in the filmmaking of underground short films and Fantaterror movies, writer and playwright, magazine editor, movie poster painter, cartoonist and cabaret showman.
País S. A.
Act like Hombre Forgiano (as José Ruiz Lifante)
event1975 star_border 5
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A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist.
The Chosen One
Act like Presentador
event1985 star_border 5.8
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Federico is a cashier in a bank. He is bored with his life. But one day a body falls on his car. The suspected suicide victim is collected by a group of men that disappear in a car. Federico's life is about to change completely.
Companys, procés a Catalunya
Act like Oficial
event1979 star_border 3.8
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1939: The remains of the Spanish Republican Army crossed the French border. Among the exiles are Lluís Companys, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and also Aguirre, President of the Basque Government. After the invasion of France by Nazi troops, Companys will be arrested by the Gestapo and handed over to the Francoist authorities. Led by the Count of Mayalde, he is transferred to Madrid and later to Barcelona. After a summary trial, Companys is condemned to death and shot.
The Biggest Robbery Ever Told
Act like El Gran Shazam
event2002 star_border 5.9
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Lucas Santos, named El Santo is petty thief going continuously in and out of jail. Tired of small thefts, he aims to strike a blow that makes him famous and become the star of all media. His wife Lucia, a comprehensive and sweet woman, while awaiting the return of her husband, works as a stripper at a nightclub. Finally, Lucas gathers a band of petty thieves and decides to steal, from the National Museum of Art Reina Sofía, its most valuable painting: Picasso's Guernica.
Wild Session
Act like Self - Actor
event2019 star_border 6.9
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A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a low-budget cinema and great popular acceptance that exploited cinematographic fashions: westerns, horror movies, erotic comedies and thrillers about petty criminals.
La siesta
Act like Jacinto
event1976 star_border 4
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The seemingly peaceful life of a little village located in the Spanish Levant hides the most turbid and ardent passions. Calixto, a repairman of television antennas, is required by the fiery midwives to quench their sexual instincts.
The Unsatisfied
Act like Gamberro (uncredited)
event1961 star_border 6.6
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A young woman is stabbed in a bar frequented by criminals and her boyfriend is arrested as the main suspect. However, when the girl finally dies, they assign the case to a commissioner, father of the detainee. He will discover that behind the crime is a dark network of blackmail and drugs.
Los atracadores
Act like Policeman (uncredited)
event1962 star_border 4.2
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The film is divided into three parts: 'Restlessness', 'Violence' and 'Death', to explain the motivations, evolution and defeat of three young misfits from Barcelona who end up being robbers. The way of crime is an easy way for them: a boy and a worker without a job or benefit are induced by 'el Señorito', the son of a rich lawyer. Together they form a band. Hard and violent, the film is made with a clear intention of social criticism and research of realism, culminating in a final scene that raised quite controversial.
Aquí, el que no corre... vuela
Act like Joyero
event1992 star_border 4.2
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Lola, a member of a gang of crooks, is visited by a cousin who comes to work in a multinational.
Vecinos
Act like Representante
event1981 star_border 5
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Luis and Aurora live in the outskirts of Madrid, his life is quiet and peaceful until it reaches Antonio, her new neighbor. Luis says that neighbors are classic bores who put loud music, no wave and always call at inopportune to ask for something. But Aurora considers friendly, helpful and willing to help where needed. Things get complicated when Antonio Aurora and strike up a friendly relationship.
National Heritage
Act like Goyo
event1981 star_border 7
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After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exile, with the purpose of returning to Madrid to actively participate in the social events of the aristocracy and to get closer to the closest circle of the Spanish monarch. The obsession of the old marquis is centered on getting in touch with the most illustrious surnames, to ascend socially and to resume the pomp and courtly life that his family lost a long time ago. To this end, he decides to move into an old palace he owns, located in the center of the capital, but not before overcoming the difficulties posed by his wife, who deeply hates both her husband and her son. To regain control of the palace, the Marquis of Leguineche tries to handicap his wife, arguing an incurable mental illness, and then undertake a reform of the place in order to adapt it to aristocratic life.
Tobi
Act like Compañero de Marga
event1978 star_border 4.4
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A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow back.
The Long Winter
Act like Funcionario
event1992 star_border 5.2
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In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in the intervening years. The only person he can find who is able to remember those years clearly is his family's old butler Claudio.
Paco the Infallible
Act like Le médecin
event1979 star_border 5
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In Madrid of the 20's, many women were hired as wet nurses for middle class families. Milk is paid very well, so women are turning to the honest services of Paco, glazier by trade, which completes his monthly salary getting pregnant the clients who pay for it.
The Hit
Act like Police Officer
event1984 star_border 6.5
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Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
José Lifante, mi aventura en el cine
event2024
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First-person testimony of the life and work of one of the most important and prolific supporting actors in our country. The last legacy of one of the actors who most loved his profession and for which he continued working until his last days.
Dalí Deliriums
Act like Dalí
event2024
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An elderly Dali, paints in his studio and gets angry by his own imposibility to make a new painting at the level of his artworks. Dali gets tormented by delusions. Gala comes to help.
Curro Jiménez
Act like Capitán Rigaud (1 ep.)
event1976 star_border 7.1
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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
Cuéntame cómo pasó
Act like Benito (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 7.2
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Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
La que se avecina
Act like Teodoro Pellicer (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 8.2
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La que se avecina is a Spanish television comedy created by Alberto Caballero, Laura Caballero and Daniel Deorador. The TV-series focusing around the inhabitants of Mirador de Montepinar, a fictional building located on the outskirts of a big city. Both its storylines and cast are heavily based on Aquí no hay quien viva, which ended when Telecinco bought Miramón Mendi, the series production company.
The episodes debuted on the Telecinco network, and were later rerun by the same network as well as cable/satellite channels FactoríaDeFicción and Paramount Comedy. The series debuted in 22 April 2007 and became popular thanks to its funny characters, witty script, use of catchphrases and capacity to integrate and poke fun at contemporary issues; the program presents a caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.
The name of the show involves wordplay, as "vecina" is the Spanish word for neighbour.
Relic Hunter
Act like Dr. Vasquez (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 6.7
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Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the descendants of the original owner. She is aided by her linguistic assistant Nigel and occasionally by her somewhat air-headed secretary Claudia. She often ends up battling rival hunters seeking out artifacts for the money.
No One Could Live Here
Act like Exorcista (1 ep.)
event2003 star_border 8.4
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A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.
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