Xan das Bolas
Birthday: 1908-10-31
Place of Birth: La Coruña, Spain
Biography: Tomás Ares Pena was a Spanish actor. He started in the theater in the thirties as a comedian and variety actor. After the Spanish Civil War, he began his film career, and in the following years he became one of the supporting actors with one of the longest careers in the history of Spanish cinema.
Movies
Gunfight at Red Sands
An avenging stranger guns down a gang of ruthless bandits in revenge for the murder of his family....
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Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
A man gains access to a treasure map and persuades a guide to accompany him in his search to recover...
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Sabata the Killer
After giving a ride to a man who recently ripped-off his thieving business partner, Sabata and his b...
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Crimen para recién casados
Antonio and Elisa, a newlywed couple, go on honeymoon to a seaside hotel, where he, a crime reporter...
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Farmacia de guardia
A Pharmacy on night duty is the location for all kinds of episodes that one might imagine to happen ...
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La Cruz de Mayo
Coral is a girl who works in a Seville ceramics factory to raise her family, but her greatest illusi...
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El mejor regalo
The day of his wedding, Carlos recibes the most unexpected present he coud receive, a son. Carlitos,...
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El rey de la carretera
A bus driver, Rafael, sacrifices his carriage and his true love, Rosario, to get money and buy a mor...
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La vida alrededor
Josephine and Antonio have reached a delicate economic balance after marriage. The salary of lawyer ...
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Un paso al frente
Rafael, Miguel and Gabriel are three boys of different social status, who come to the call of the Fl...
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The Savage Guns
This Western is set in the Mexican valley of Sonora not that far south of the state of Arizona. It's...
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The Tough One
The elderly O'Hara, owner of a fortune in emeralds, offers half of his estate to whoever manages to ...
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Clint the Stranger
Clint Harrison is a gunfighter who has been on the run from a vengeful family for years. He returns ...
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Faustina
A conquering woman of love, power, and fame is challenged by the devil, as he too wants to conquer a...
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La chica del gato
Guadalupe is an orphan as a child by Eulalio host and Euphrasia, who incite to steal and commit crim...
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Una pareja... distinta
Zoraida is a single mother and bearded woman in a circus, while Charly works in transvestite shows. ...
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Jaguar
A murderous villain takes over a family's ranch, killing everyone but the youngest son, still a todd...
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Eroe vagabondo
Noah earns his living as a plastic flower seller and despite his crushes and hardships, his sweet an...
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Strange Voyage
In a small town near Madrid, Paquita and her brother Venancio, both single and with a childish perso...
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Death and the Lumberjack
An organ grinder called “El Rubio” has the crank of his street organ confiscated because he did not ...
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The Implacable Three
Guzman, a rich U.S. landowner is forced to leave for a short time, leaving his pregnant wife alone i...
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Niebla y sol
A composer decides to give up work to care for his wife after having written a ballet for the famed ...
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The Executioner
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must c...
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Objetivo: BI-KI-NI
In Cape Kennedy, a con man accidentally swallows a valuable microfilm, believing it a pill for heart...
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Life Ahead
Finished their careers of Law and Medicine, respectively, Antonio Redondo and Josefina Castro, a pai...
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Vuelve, querida Nati
Doña Nati, the owner of a house of prostitutes, takes a little vacation to attend his niece's first ...
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Volvoreta
Sergio falls in love with Federica, the maid of the house whom everyone calls "Volvoreta" ("butterfl...
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Those Who Did Not Go to War
First World War. In a largely rural area of neutral Spain, two families confront one another and pla...
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Placido
In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculi...
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A la Legión le gustan las mujeres… y a las mujeres, les gusta la Legión
A lieutenant and four others are having a little party before entering combat. Ensign has his girlfr...
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Dead Are Countless
Johnny was mentally traumatised when he witnessed as a child the killing of his father (a deserter) ...
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Tuvo la culpa Adán
Nora leaves the convent where she has been raised to marry a relative. Just arrived she has an accid...
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Diez fusiles esperan
During the first Carlist war in the 1830s in Spain a lieutenant falls into the enemy's hands and is ...
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Educando a una idiota
Eurico intends to make a film about the life of Queen Elizabeth the Catholic. He wants the beautiful...
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Pride
A tale of two families, the Mendozas and Alzagas, faced for generations by the water of a river sepa...
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Pasión en el mar
A young fisherman wishing for a better life will become a smuggler and even involve his friends if n...
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Un marido de ida y vuelta
Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife die...
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La Carmen
A young ex-seminarian named José is doing his military service in Córdoba. There he meets Carmen, a ...
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El fenómeno
A professor at the University of Frankfurt is mistaken for a Russian soccer player on his arrival at...
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Backfire
A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompan...
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Mar abierto
Carmiña, an old Galician woman, tells a painter a story of her youth, when a miracle saved the life ...
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A Lady Called Andrew
From the Olymp the gods keep an eye on a married couple whose disputes are endangering the stability...
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The Adventures of Scaramouche
Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, includi...
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Madame
Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revoluti...
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Una chica casi decente
Cesar Martin, better known as El Duque, is an elegant, charming and intelligent man, who has been ob...
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El apartamento de la tentación
Juliet and Alberto are a marriage in which peace reigns home. Mood surely be upset if Juliet suspec...
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¡Cómo está el servicio!
Vicenta Verruguillo came to Madrid to work as a bridesmaid in the house of a doctor and falls in lov...
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Los que tocan el piano
Cayetana, her boyfriend Paco and Venancio, her foster brother, commit small thefts and, from time to...
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Escala en Hi-Fi
A group of young people pretending to achieve fame rehearse in a kind of pediment. Finally they will...
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¡Cuidado con las señoras!
Henry is sent by his Aunt Nati to Madrid to begin practice as a doctor because seven years ago he fi...
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An Almost Decent Girl
An almost decent girl is a German-Spanish Romance of Ladislao Vajda from 1963. In Spain he was entit...
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Aquellos tiempos del cuplé
Mercedes Pavón, a famous singer of cuplés is harassed by three men totaly different....
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The Wicked Carabel
Since he wants get married, the young Carabel, who is employed in a real estate agent, decides to as...
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Cotolay
A loose retelling of the 13th century Galician legend of the boy Cotolay who helped three pilgrims e...
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Delusions of Grandeur
Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and colle...
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Five Pillows for One Night
Ana, a girl who is about to get married, discovers in her boyfriend's house a photograph in which he...
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Pecado de amor
Nun Belen works as a spiritual guide in a women's prison. Is a very understanding woman, possibly du...
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Air Lashings
Alberto, "Zanahoria" and "Jabato" are three students of the Parachute School. They are the "lashing ...
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Conqueror of Maracaibo
Alan Braves, captain of a pirate ship, is, by the treachery of a comrade, accused of a crime of whic...
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Celos, amor y Mercado Común
The film follows the adventures of several couples in Spain in the early 70s, whose stories intermin...
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Two Crosses in Danger Pass
Judy and Alex are the only two survivors of a punishment mission ordered by the rich and ruthless Mo...
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Vamos a contar mentiras
A happily married woman lies with surprising ease because, according to her husband, she leads too i...
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One by One
Bill learns that his father, during the American Civil War, was accused of theft and killed. Convinc...
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¡Aquí están las vicetiples!
Carmen, Merche and Paula are three young singers living in the same pension. Every night are forced ...
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Susanna and Me
An expulsive star of a variety theatre cannot decide between the love of an honest archaeology profe...
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Der Löwe von Babylon
In the ruins of Nim Bis Rub, in Babylon, is a band of smugglers den. There goes Nemsi Kara Ben and h...
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Revolt of the Mercenaries
Duchess Patrizia is determined to marry, although against her will, effeminate but powerful Prince S...
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Pasto de fieras
The orphan shepherd boy Tino loses his flock to save a lost sheep. After this event, he tries to emb...
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El pobre García
García is employed of advertising at a factory of razor blades and goes out in secret with Conchita,...
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Relevo para un pistolero
A stranger from Boston offers a notorious Arizona outlaw a job he can’t refuse....
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Dos chicas locas locas
A millionaire leaves all his fortune to his older granddaughter. But his two granddaughters are twin...
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Torrejón City
Tom Rodriguez, a young cowboy, arrives in Torrejón City. However in Torrejón City the unsuspecting T...
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Girl from La Mancha
The story of Dulcinea, the love of Don Quixote, who was only a normal girl named Aldonza that is sud...
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Amador
After killing his girl friend, Ana, Amador (a dark and strange man) joins his family (which he can't...
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Death Whistles the Blues
Vogel, an important trafficker, betrayed two of his accomplices, Castro and Smith. The first was sho...
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La montaña rebelde
Abel Garrido, a doctor, returns to his hometown to stay. There he meets Mingo and his girlfriend Rit...
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Zorro the Avenger
Don Jose disguises himself as Zorro, the masked freedom fighter, who tries to protect his people fro...
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Two Against All
Two brothers, Bull and Jonathan Bullivan, witness the murder of bandit Black Boy who had been terro...
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The Shadow of Zorro
A battle between revolutionary Mexicans and the U.S. cavalry brings Zorro onto the scene to enact ve...
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Cavalry Charge
Two men pretend to the same woman in a fort located in the wilds of Canada. Also, one of them will b...
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Texas Jim
A band of fierce rustlers is ravaging the region of Las Cruces. Appears an outsider who saves the ra...
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La reina mora
During the April Fair in Seville neighborhood of Santa Cruz, Antonio, in love with Coral, will meet ...
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Botón de ancla
Marín, Galicia, Spain. Carlos, José Luis and Enrique, three good friends and final year students in ...
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El indulto
Spain, 1906: in a small village and pregnant after having been raped, Antonia is forced to marry the...
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Martes y trece
Lola and Maria are two Spanish young ladies engaged to Franz and Pepe, all so eager to spend their h...
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The Fair of the Dove
In Madrid, Spain, an omniscient narrator transforms Mari Loli and Merche, two beautiful sales clerks...
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40 grados a la sombra
Three men, one scorching Madrid summer, and wildly different escape plans. Evaristo braves the beach...
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Juicio de faldas
When truck driver Manolo is accused of a grave crime by a young woman from a nearby town, his fate h...
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I motorizzati
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remai...
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La boda o la vida
Elena is pregnant and Carlos, the future father does not have financial means to marry her. The solu...
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The Swindlers
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, tw...
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The Palomos
Emilio and Virtudes Palomo are invited by Don Alberto, Emilio's boss, to a dinner at his chalet. Don...
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Tres huchas para Oriente
Pedro Manolo and Juan, three naughty and full of enthusiasm children go out with their piggy banks c...
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Las muchachas de azul
Serving the customers of a department store, the salesgirls in their blue uniform go out of their wa...
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The Redeemer
The Passion of Jesus, starting with His arrest and trial, was shot near Madrid and features narratio...
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El camino
Shortly before leaving his small town to go to the big city to study, young Daniel recalls his child...
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Hollyhock
Malvaloca, dancer and singer, go to Las Canteras when she finds out that Salvador, her exboyfriend h...
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Blame Me
A Mexican steer rancher goes to Spain to get some bulls he bought but that were never delivered. He ...
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Don erre que erre
Don Rodrigo goes to the bank and when he is going to take his money there is a robbery. Then the ban...
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La alegre caravana
Miguel, a young adventurer with a good social position, flees his home to prevent his marriage qith ...
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Ella, él y sus millones
Arturo Salazar is a powerful businessman who wants to be related to the nobility, so he asks an aris...
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¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII?
Alfonso de Borbón and his cousin María de las Mercedes de Orleans fall in love and, although both fa...
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The Girl at the Inn
Juan Luis and Dimas arrive to the "Venta del Catite", a tavern run by Rafael and his goddaughter Rey...
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The Marquis of Salamanca
José de Salamanca was arguably one of the most influential figures of the Spanish 1800s. This films ...
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Yo no soy la Mata-Hari
After the execution of the spy Mata-Hari, the secret service takes the opportunity to arrest some of...
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Poison at 2:30
Don Senen has spent inheritance Begoña sprees, his niece, who only had to administer. It remains to...
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Doubt
A newly remarried widow is accused of having murdered her first husband, who died from arsenical poi...
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Streetcar for Sale
This excellent short film written by the magnificent filmmaker duo of Luis García Berlanga and scree...
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Ama Rosa
Rosa gives birth to a child who, by circumstances of life, is given for adoption to a wealthy family...
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Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
In Spain, during the Napoleonic rule, the French Governor of Andalusia is besieged by the locals who...
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The Great Galeoto
A young musician and dreamy, called "Ernesto", is forced to live in Madrid to die his father, in the...
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Fantasmas en la casa
A young playwright meets a girl he was once in love with. The young woman lives in terror in a suppo...
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La venganza de Don Mendo
Don Mendo, Marquess of Cabra, gallant and dashing knight of medieval Castilian, is also a virtuous m...
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The Son of Captain Blood
The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful you...
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The Devil Plays the Flute
When the pieces of a singular figure are unearthed and then joined together, a devil of the lowest c...
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Airport
Different kind of people arrives to Madrid airport. Some goes with their heads and others just lande...
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The Four Truths
"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all ...
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Mathias Sandorf
1868. Revolutionary Mathias Sandorf is determined to oust the dictatorship oppressing his country. T...
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Buenas noticias
Beliche, a naive postman, suffers from depression because he has almost no letters to deliver. The n...
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Love on Wheels
A taxi driver participates in a singing contest of a radio station for non-professionals and enters ...
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The Coyote
California, 1848. An invading army has defeated the few opposing forces and the territory has become...
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Radio Stories
Three short stories based on radio competitions, all linked by speaker Gabriel and his fiancee. Two ...
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Para siempre amor mío
A man, annoyed by his wife's interference in the family business, travels to Spain, where he becomes...
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Noche de tormenta
An outsider seduces and deceives a small-town girl, taking advantage of her innocence, in order to k...
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Sign of Zorro
General Gutierrez, the evil governor of Mexico, terrorizes the people and demands high taxes. The yo...
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The Castilian
Also released as Valley of the Swords, this lugubrious US/Spanish co-production features the usual m...
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La revoltosa
Mari Pepa, a beautiful laundress of Madrid, and Felipe, a carpenter, are in love but they are always...
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The Ceremony
A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier....
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Afternoon at the Bulls
Right-handers Ricardo Puente, Juan Carmona and Rondeño II, which will take the alternative are adver...
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¡Aquí hay petróleo!
In a Spanish town that has been dying of thirst for years, some Americans who claim to be experts in...
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Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female communi...
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Saeta rubia
Some urchins simulate an accident and steal a wallet. To their surprise, it turns out to be that of ...
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El hombre que viajaba despacito
A tank regiment soldier needs a permit to go to his village to meet his newborn son. It will not be ...
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José María
Biography of the famous bandit El Tempranillo, acting with impunity in Sierra Morena during the reig...
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The Pride and the Passion
During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are...
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Fulano y Mengano
Eudosio and Carlos were imprisoned by mistake. Now out of prison, are trying to get a job and to ada...
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Heroes of the West
Two stage robbers impersonate the heirs to a gold mine but end up defending the families they intend...
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The Spy
The British Admiralty is worried: several cargo ships carrying troops have mysteriously jumped off G...
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Como dos gotas de agua
The lawyer Angela Goñi is working in two cases at once: an man that wants to take to Pilo, a young o...
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Gunfighters of Casa Grande
In this western, a gambler wins a big Mexican ranch and decides to herd all of the cattle upon it in...
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Black Angel of the Mississippi
Early Spanish western. Ramon Torrado’s westerns remain among the most obscure ones. Of his four west...
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The Rash One
Paco is the boy buttons a luxury hotel. Usually do small businesses with the resale of tickets to bu...
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Los dinamiteros
Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month...
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Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
Wyatt Earp comes to a small town, Rio Bravo, to help the woman saloon owner against the town villain...
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In a Colt's Shadow
A story about two gunfighters, Duke and Steve. Steve is in love with Duke's daughter but Duke disapp...
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue ...
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El guardián del paraíso
A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelt...
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Historias de Madrid
Dawn in Madrid. In the Plaza de la Cibeles begins the daily grind. The statue of the goddess, from i...
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Revenge
After spending ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Juan is released....
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Torbellino
Carmen, a young Sevillian woman who wants to succeed on the radio, arrives at a decrepit station tha...
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Anna Said Yes
Juan does not have a cent but lives beautifully. His nights of revelry and cabaret are famous in the...
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Goyescas
Two women (both played by Imperio Argentina) from different social backgrounds, a singer and a count...
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Die Sklavenkarawane
The dreaded slave hunter Abu el Mot attacks the caravan and abducts the travelers, including Kara Be...
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Sonatas
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares,...
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La vida empieza a medianoche
Silvia Heredia, since her arrival to Madrid is staying at her best friends' house, Mary. Her aim is ...
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Seven Guns for the MacGregors
Ranch owner MacGregor has seven sons and oldest Gregor leads his brothers to Las Mesas, a small town...
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Lost Command
After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quel...
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Ypotron: Final Countdown
Agent Lemmy Logan is investigating the case of a missing NASA scientist and discovers that an ex naz...
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La mujer perdida
Sara is the daughter of a fisherman. She leaves her small village but she goes to Madrid to work as ...
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Proceso a una estrella
A celebrated cabaret singer, Rosa Lucena, is accused of killing Miguel, her dance partner. She is ar...
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La niña del patio
An orphan child arrives at a house courtyard where the neighbours must organise a flamenco show to a...
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Run Like a Thief
The theft of a fortune in diamonds and the attempt by soldier of fortune Johnny Dent to outwit his p...
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Operación cabaretera
Your job as a hostess in Malaga allows Hippolyta meet many men. One of them is a Chinese traveler, j...
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Villa Rides
Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins band...
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El mesón del gitano
The young gypsy Peret and his friend Fidel are owners of an inn frequented by tourists. Peret orders...
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Cut-Throats Nine
A group of ruthless convicts is led to prison through an inhospitable mountain range by a small cava...
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Cry, Onion!
Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of...
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My Daughter Hildegart
Madrid 1933. Aurora Rodriguez kills her daughter Hildegart and turn herself over to the police. In j...
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Post Office Box 1001
Barcelona, Spain. A young man is murdered in the middle of the street in front of the police headqua...
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Pequeñeces
Madrid in the 1870s. Amidst political intrigues against King Amadeo de Saboya, wealthy and strong-wi...
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Jeromín
In the biography of John of Austria the Spanish hero of Flanders, brother of Philip II, as an argume...
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