Aníbal Vela

El cálido verano del señor Rodríguez (1965)

Pepe Rodríguez, an office worker who has been working while his family went on vacation, leaves Madrid to join them in the countryside. ...

Vuelve San Valentín (1962)

As there are still a lot of problems in the relationships of the Spanish couples Saint Valentine returns to earth and especially to Madrid in order to fix these problems. ...

Historia de una noche (1962)

After a few years, Víctor Morel comes back to the city. He has been a happy and Bohemian man who spent an authentic fortune. His first meeting with the past is with Laura, an extraordinary woman with he had intense relationships. She is now married with D ...

Martes y trece (1962)

Lola and Maria are two Spanish young ladies engaged to Franz and Pepe, all so eager to spend their honeymoon that the moment seems never to come, as all sorts of problems pave their way. ...

La mentira tiene cabellos rojos (1962)

Los pedigüeños (1961)

Honorables Sinvergüenzas (1961)

Bello recuerdo (1961)

Back from vacation, Lucy, a school's music teacher, misses a boy. People say he will not return because he recently lost his father. She is very affected by his favorite student, so she decides to go to see him, finding the house in utter ruin. But chance ...

Margarita se llama mi amor (1961)

Margarita is a beautiful and explosive girl studying in the Faculty of Arts somewhere in Galicia. To the chagrin of the rest of the girls in the class, all the boys want to date her, to the point moniker of "the bride of the Faculty". However, who really s ...

Pachín (1961)

The adventures of a young orphan, who is determined to explore the world no matter what. ...

¡Aquí están las vicetiples! (1961)

Carmen, Merche and Paula are three young singers living in the same pension. Every night are forced to dodge men arriving from Madrid in search of adventure. They are assisted by Don Narciso, a fellow board that has solutions for everything. What I really ...

Rosa de Lima (1961)

Santa Rosa de Lima, who died in the capital of Peru, was barely 31 years old when she died in 1617. José María Elorrieta's film narrates the life of this young woman, daughter of Gaspar Flores, Spanish arquebusier the service of King Philip III, and of M ...

Canción de arrabal (1961)

Set in the 1900s and filmed partially in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Barcelona, Madrid and Sevilla. A young lady of Spanish parents, raised in the neighborhood of La Boca in Buenos Aires, travels to act in Europe after winning a contest, she becomes famous and ...

Compadece al delincuente (1960)

La quiniela (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 hobb ...

Crimen para recién casados (1960)

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 big opportunity. ...

El hombre que perdió el tren (1960)

El gafe (1959)

We Are 18 Years Old (1959)

Comedy about the surreal holiday of two teenage Spanish girls, where they meet a bizarre assortment of villains and new friends. ...

Juego de niños (1959)

¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII? (1959)

Alfonso de Borbón and his cousin María de las Mercedes de Orleans fall in love and, although both families do not maintain good relationships, young people marry when Alfonso became king of Spain. ...

Hospital general (1958)

Anna Said Yes (1958)

Juan does not have a cent but lives beautifully. His nights of revelry and cabaret are famous in the night city environments. As heir to his old and very rich uncle Don Patricio, lives subsidized by creditors on account of his future inheritance. But John ...

Life Ahead (1958)

Finished their careers of Law and Medicine, respectively, Antonio Redondo and Josefina Castro, a pair of young Spanish newlyweds, are looking for work to buy an apartment and start a life together, but they will face enormous difficulties throughout the pr ...

Muchachas en vacaciones (1958)

Spanish comedy of the 50s, with carefree and youthful air. ...

El hincha (1958)

A passionate football player complicates the life of his family driven by his passion. Enthusiastic, fanatic, and passionate, the fervor of football runs through the blood of the main character as if it were a matter of life and death. Raised in an atmosph ...

Aquellos tiempos del cuplé (1958)

Mercedes Pavón, a famous singer of cuplés is harassed by three men totaly different. ...

El aprendiz de malo (1958)

El inquilino (1958)

One unlucky day, a married couple with four children get an eviction notice: the building they live in is to be demolished. The family looks desperately for a new home, which is no easy task in Madrid in the fifties. ...

K. O. Miguel (1958)

By chance, Miguel el Tarta becomes a potential boxing champion. Manipulated by Manolo, his opportunistic and cynical best friend, and several unscrupulous individuals, Miguel is thrown into the ring, where he tries to fight with more enthusiasm than techni ...

El sol sale todos los días (1958)

Historias de Madrid (1958)

Dawn in Madrid. In the Plaza de la Cibeles begins the daily grind. The statue of the goddess, from its source in the center of the square tells the story of a man, petty speculator, owner of an old building that is going to ask Saint Nicholas for his coope ...

Nightingale Song (1957)

Joselito is a naughty boy that sings like the nightingales. He lives in a little town near Sevilla. He has a great success due to his magnificent voice and then he can practice charity with a girl from his town. ...

The War Starts in Cuba (1957)

Year 1898. When war broke out in Cuba, Juanita, a beautiful variety singer without much luck, decides to return to Spain when she discovers that her twin sister Adelaide has married the governor of Badajoz. Adelaide is capricious, vain and embarrassing, th ...

Las muchachas de azul (1957)

Serving the customers of a department store, the salesgirls in their blue uniform go out of their way to serve them. But in their young minds, one idea surpasses all: the hunt for a husband. Ana is in love with Juan, who seems to be very well in his condit ...

Messengers of Peace (1957)

Try the descent to Earth, specifically to Spain, of the Three Wise Men. ...

El anónimo (1957)

Fulano y Mengano (1957)

Eudosio and Carlos were imprisoned by mistake. Now out of prison, are trying to get a job and to adapt to a society that rejects them. ...

La puerta abierta (1957)

Shortly after moving to Madrid, a dancer is killed. His condition as a womanizer, in addition to his arrogance, makes us suspect that it is a crime of passion. As the investigation progresses, the doubts and jealousy of one of his neighbors threatens to ru ...

The Little Nightingale (1957)

Joselito is a child whose mother left town when he was just a baby and whose father has died. He lives with his grandfather, the bellringer of the town, and his best friend is the sexton. He enjoys singing and has not lost hope of someday meeting her mothe ...

Roberto el diablo (1957)

Dos novias para un torero (1956)

Cuerda de presos (1956)

Curra Veleta (1956)

Los maridos no cenan en casa (1956)

Fail in Communism (1956)

The story of two students in a school of terrorism installed in the south of France and considered a "sanctuary" and not by the Virgin of Lourdes, sent to Spain to fulfill a dark mission that failed dismally when mistaken for a priest with his link. ...

Noche de tormenta (1955)

An outsider seduces and deceives a small-town girl, taking advantage of her innocence, in order to kill her mother. ...

Congress in Seville (1955)

Carmen is a Spanish emigrant in Stockholm who does not have the money to run her business or buy a ticket back to Spain. Thanks to a misunderstanding she meets Dr. Petersen who has an invitation to a medical congress in Seville and does not plan to attend. ...

The Other Life of Captain Contreras (1955)

La Cruz de Mayo (1955)

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 and qualities to go to an art academy. That's the beginning of a great success in her career and an advantag ...

The Two of Us (1955)

After the death of her father, María returns to her hometown with Maria, her mother. Lupo and Beto fall in love with her, two brothers whose family is at odds with hers. While Beto tries to rape her, Lupo becomes the girl's protector. ...

The Island Princess (1954)

1470. The Canary Islands try to resist the Spanish invaders. Their inhabitants are divided, their chief and his daughter Guayarmina (for whom a Spanish officer has fallen in love) wanting the peace, while the priest and resistance leader are for war. After ...

Tres eran tres (1954)

An anthology film centered around a film company called Tiacapa. ...

La ciudad de los sueños (1954)

Love on Wheels (1954)

A taxi driver participates in a singing contest of a radio station for non-professionals and enters the final round. Being among the finalists he meets at the radio station a famous singer and falls in love with her. ...

La patrulla (1954)

Madrid, 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Five infantry soldiers of the victorious side take a photograph of themselves somewhere in the defeated city, promising to meet again ten years later at the same place. ...

La danza de los deseos (1954)

Comedians (1954)

Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, plays only minor roles, but she hopes to succeed and prefers the success to the love of Michael. When the company decides to release "Heaven is not far," Ana hopes to be the young protagon ...

Haute Couture (1954)

Tona, model of a fashion house goes to see her ex-boyfriend to claim for some letters and finds him dead. Under the fear that the crime is attributed to her and also because she will soon marry Ramon, a rich young man of good family, she says nothing and g ...

El pescador de coplas (1954)

It is the story of two brothers who have rented a boat to survive. Juan Ramón sings like an angel and an entrepreneur decides to take him to Madrid to succeed. ...

La moza de cántaro (1954)

Doña Maria de Guzman, a beautiful lady of Ronda has seen as Don Diego slapped his elderly father, disguised as a man pretending to be his brother (the expected return from Flanders) duels with him and kills him. Forced to flee, traveling in company with D ...

Tres huchas para Oriente (1954)

Pedro Manolo and Juan, three naughty and full of enthusiasm children go out with their piggy banks collecting money for missions. Near the end of the day, a car ran over one of them and is driven to a nearby hospital. The head of school, not knowing which ...

Vuelo 971 (1953)

Condemned (1953)

In the fields of La Mancha a woman works the land with the help of a young stranger. Her husband is in prison for a crime he committed in a jealous rage. All goes well until the man regained freedom and the ghosts of the past come back to him. ...

El pórtico de la gloria (1953)

This could be considered the inaugural film of the Jacobean fiction film. Its argument follows the adventures of a group of children of a Mexican Children's Choir, who travel as pilgrims to Compostela, coinciding with the Holy Year. On their journey, they ...

Maldición gitana (1953)

Bella, la salvaje (1953)

A young Cuban man and his uncle find a beautiful white woman in the heart of Africa and take her with them to Cuba. ...

Ha desaparecido un pasajero (1953)

The Eyes Leave a Trace (1952)

Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night Robert enlists the help of Martin, because he believes he has killed a man who was about her lover. Martin se ...

Niebla y sol (1951)

A composer decides to give up work to care for his wife after having written a ballet for the famed bailaores Antonio and Rosario. When an old flame of the wife reappears tragedy develops as well as in the ballet. ...

Catherine of England (1951)

Tercio de quites (1951)

Spanish bullfighter and a Mexican one have a friendly rivalry spanning decades. ...

María Antonia "La Caramba" (1951)

El final de una leyenda (1951)

Pequeñeces (1950)

Madrid in the 1870s. Amidst political intrigues against King Amadeo de Saboya, wealthy and strong-willed countess Curra de Albornoz makes her own way in spite of her son and husband, considering her indiscretions as merely trifles ("pequeñeces") until tra ...

Sangre en Castilla (1950)

During the war against Napoleon the brave Therese of Pinorrey is erected as Alcaldesa in Castilla, Spain ...

Agustina of Aragon (1950)

1808. During the Spanish Independence war the city of Zaragoza is besieged by French troops. Spanish forces under General Palafox are scarce. Brave Agustina doesn't hesitate to lead the battle and even fire a cannon to stop the invaders when others run awa ...

Cuentos de la Alhambra (1950)

Mariquilla is a beautiful gypsy who is in love with Lucas, a soldier of the garrison in the Alhambra, but her father wants to marry her with Don Cosme, a rich old clerk for the service of the mayor. Soon, the girl asks for help to the governor of Granada, ...

En un rincón de España (1949)

Audiencia pública (1946)

Two women claim the custody of a child, a son of single mother. They have very different social positions: one is a lady of high society, the other is a nurse working at a maternity clinic. Both will face in a public trial. ...

Inés de Castro (1944)

In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noblewoman, for political reasons; but the impulsive prince ends up giving in to his love for Inés de Castro, his wife's lady-in-waiting. ...

Eugenia de Montijo (1944)

Eugenia de Montijo, an extraordinarily beautiful woman, educated and intelligent daughter of the Count of Montijo, decides to start a European tour when she discovers that the Duke of Alba, whom she believed her suitor, actually intends for her sister. ...