Antonio Cánovas

Las marginadas (1977)

Four women-one an alcoholic, one a former prostitute, one whose age hasn't forgiven her, and another whose boyfriend has dumped her-join forces to overcome their problems and find happiness. ...

Criminal Abortion (1973)

Barcelona police is following the actions of a pimp. A web of forced illegal abortions on prostitutes is discovered. ...

Mortal Spring (1973)

An adaptation of a well-known novel by Hungarian writer Lajos Zilahy. ...

Amor y medias (1969)

Island of the Doomed (1967)

A group of tourists arrive to see the botanical gardens on a small island off the Italian coast. The only inhabitants of the island are the famous botanist Baron von Weser and his two faithful servants; all of the other residents fled after a series of mys ...

Who Killed Johnny R.? (1966)

An assumed-dead gangster wants to implicate a completely innocent man to pay for his crimes so he can give the slip to his avengers and persecutors. ...

From the Other Side (1965)

Four people meet in a chalet in the Madrid area. During the play it is discovered that all four are dead. ...

La Tirana (1958)

Rosario, Tirana, actress of the late eighteenth century, enjoys the protection of the Duke of Fornells, Chief Justice of the Kingdom, which paves for the actress the way to fame on stage at the Prince theater. The secret love of Rosario, the Earl of San E ...

The Last Couplet (1957)

A musical drama featuring a tragic love story. Relates a singer's rise to fame and her subsequent downfall because of the death of her lover. ...

Escuela de periodismo (1956)

Report on the activities of the Spanish journalists. Series of separate episodes of various kinds, including almost all the areas normally covered by the national journalism, from sports to chronicle events. ...

Pasaporte al infierno (1956)

A forger (Carpenter) flees to Spain but his daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang. ...

Reeds and Mud (1954)

Province of Valencia, Spain, 19th century. Tonet lives an intense love story with Neleta, whom he has known since childhood, but is forced to leave her to serve in the war in Cuba. ...

El duende de Jerez (1954)

During the popular Harvest Festival, arrives in the city of Jerez a young teacher from England to investigate the benefits of wine for humans. In turn, the painting "Drunks" by Velázquez, escaping a character, with the task of Bacchus to defend and spread ...

Magic concert (1952)

The Evil Forest (1951)

Brave hero Parsifal, orphan and raised among wolves, must recover the Holy Grail from the hands of the evil wizard Klingsor, a Barbarian chieftain who killed his father, and thus save the wounded Amfortas, ruler of the Grail kingdom. Kundria, a beautiful ...

Catherine of England (1951)

Rostro al mar (1951)

In the final days of the Spanish Civil War, a married couple of Republican refugees goes into hiding in a northern Spanish seaside town. While the wife stays there with their recently born child, the husband continues North to an uncertain future in France ...

La virgen gitana (1951)

Through a pictoric play, this movie tells the story about the painter Eduardo Miranda who, one night, while he was lokking to a gipsy group that was dancing, discovers a beautifull girl called Carmen. Dazzled by her beauty he decides to paint a picture. Th ...

Si te hubieses casado conmigo (1948)

La casa de las sonrisas (1948)

Los habitantes de la casa deshabitada (1946)

In a dark and stormy night, Raimundo's car suffers a breakdown, so he and Gregorio, his chauffeur, must try to ask for shelter in the only nearby house, a sinister mansion, of those that seem inhabited by ghosts. ...

Orosia (1944)

Follow the Legion! (1942)

In North Africa, in a detachment of the Spanish Legion, el Grajo, a brave veteran, and Mauro, who has just enlisted, become close friends. When an unfortunate circumstance results in the death of a man, suspicions fall on one of them. ...

Los ladrones somos gente honrada (1942)

Based on a play ...

Pepe Conde (1941)

Héroe a la fuerza (1941)

Marianela (1940)

Marianela is an orphan young girl living in a small village where she guides the blind young son of a rich country man. She is secretly in love with him, knowing that he loves her only because he can't see her ugly face. But one day a famous doctor appears ...

Into the Breach (1937)

Short fictional film made by the anarcho-syndicalist labour union, the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), about the development of the social revolution in Spain. ...

The Front and the Rear (1937)

A pro-Republican propaganda documentary from the Spanish Civil War that combines real images of industrial and agricultural production with fictionalized scenes of fighting on the Aragon front. ...

Barcelona Works for the Front (1936)

A propaganda documentary about the Comité Central de Abastos. This committee provided food and support for the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War. ...

Reportaje del movimiento revolucionario en Barcelona (1936)

A pro-Republican documentary filmed on the streets of Barcelona between July 19-24, 1936. It showcases the revolutionary fervor in the city at the onset of the Spanish Civil War. ...