António Vilar

Black Jack (1981)

Sir Thomas Bedford orchestrates the heist of a Spanish casino, with the aid of a singer performing there. The police are aware of their activities, and a hostage situation arises. ...

Estimado Sr. juez... (1978)

Fulanita y sus menganos (1976)

The Spanish official representative of the European Congress of prostitutes, held in Paris, is dedicated to remembering various stories that have occurred in the performance of their profession over the years. ...

Disco rojo (1973)

A member of the jet-set dies in Lisbon, of drug overdose. A journalist tries to pass through disinformation nets to get to the traffick ring leader who is acting with such impunity. He is up to a surprise, when all evidence points him towards a lady of imm ...

Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay (1970)

After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be behind th ...

High Season for Spies (1966)

A scientist discovers the formula of a particular resistant steel, and a spy ring from an enemy power sets after him to obtain it. ...

Scheherazade (1963)

Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero. ...

Alerta en el cielo (1961)

A child suffering from leukemia craves getting on a plane, so at a U.S. base located in Zaragoza will make the kid a favor and grant his wish. ...

Cuidado con las personas formales (1961)

Two men, father and son, meet Carmen la Martillo, a regular at the soirees organized in the evenings of flamenco. The contact with this woman will altere their lives, especially when one death cames to scene and nobody knows where it came from. ...

The Prince in Chains (1960)

The King of Poland abandons his newborn son after predicting a prophecy that would cause destruction in the country in the future. ...

Death at Dawn (1960)

The prestigious composer Virgilio Delise, suspected of being involved in the death of his stepfather, unexpectedly runs away. Doria, an ambitious insurance detective, will stop at nothing to prove his guilt. ...

O Primo Basílio (1959)

Jorge, a successful engineer and employee of a ministry and Luísa, a romantic and dreamy girl, star as the typical bourgeois couple of the Lisbon society of the 19th century. ...

El Maestro (1959)

The Redeemer (1959)

The Passion of Jesus, starting with His arrest and trial, was shot near Madrid and features narration by Sebastien Cabot. Jesus' face is never seen, but in the English version, He is voiced by veteran Hollywood actor Macdonald Carey. ...

Il padrone delle ferriere (1959)

Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu. ...

A Woman Like Satan (1958)

Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him. ...

La noche y el alba (1958)

Pedro, a street photographer who fought during the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side, becomes obsessed with a young model. ...

Historias de la feria (1958)

El festín de Satanás (1958)

With his own money, Pappier produced this ambitious adaptation of Manuel Gálvez's "Miércoles Santo", whose release was delayed for three years due to political reasons. When it finally came out, it bombed, but its formal originality was mentioned even in ...

Embajadores en el infierno (1956)

Four Spanish Blue Division soldiers captured after the German invasion of Soviet territory face a choice in forced labor camps: renounce their Spanish nationality for better conditions. While two accept, Captain Adrados leads a group resisting, labeling th ...

Los hermanos corsos (1955)

The Vampire of Santiago (1955)

In seventeenth century's Chile a woman kills her lover because she wants to conquer a priest. ...

3 citas con el destino (1954)

The story unfolds through the twists and turns of a strange curse attributed to a jewel that, passed from hand to hand, carries a deadly destiny. Its theme spans the three countries where it was filmed (Spain, Mexico, and Argentina), beginning in Spain and ...

Fuego en la sangre (1953)

Judas (1952)

A guy with bad feelings and worst methods, willing to do anything to satisfy his greed and vanity, is unhappy with the role of Judas in the Passion a play that is traditionally represented in his town because he prefers the role of Jesus. ...

Dawn of America (1951)

Kingdom of Castile, the late fifteenth century. The film chronicles the events that Cristóbal Colón lived (Antonio Vilar) from their stay in the Convent of La Rabida, his meeting with the Catholic Monarchs and, above all, the great odyssey that led to cr ...

Love and Desire (1951)

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 across a river, the matinée idol proves water-shy and the director decides to double him. The one that replaces hi ...

Beautiful Love (1951)

Dr. Claude Moulin leaves his wife and child for a younger woman but the child needs attention and the wife falls very ill. ...

Don Juan (1950)

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 properties to him, on codition that he marries Doña Inés. Don Juan makes up a former marriage, but when he meets ...

El duende y el rey (1950)

Santo disonore (1950)

Alas de juventud (1949)

An Ordinary Woman (1949)

A woman who has walked out of an unhappy marriage is unsuccessful trying to earn herself a new living and gets mixed with a man who is a murderer and tries to incriminate her. ...

The Sunless Street (1948)

Mauricio is a Frenchman who arrived in Barcelona fleeing from justice. He takes refuge in a hostel in Chinatown and falls in love with Pilar, the niece of the owner. When a murder is committed in the neighborhood, Mauricio becomes the prime suspect. ...

Guarany (1948)

Based on José de Alencar's novel, directed by Riccardo Freda. ...

Reina santa (1947)

A virtuous Spanish princess becomes queen of Portugal, and soon is affected by the social struggles and the reckless fight to power between the king's faction and that of his son's. ...

Camões (1946)

The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões. ...

La mantilla de Beatriz (1946)

In XVII century Portugal two friends change identities so one of them can escape an unwanted marriage to Beatriz. ...

The Girl Next Door (1945)

The story of how the conflicting relationship of Eduardo and vaudeville actress Isabel is affected by the passion he feels for their neighbor, Mariana, a young overprotected, and the unexpected visit of his uncle Plácido, a moral teacher. ...

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. ...

Doomed Love (1943)

The fatalism caught up and the amorous tragedy between Teresa de Albuquerque and Simão Botelho, who survives the intolerant litigation of her noble families. ...

The Courtyard of the Ballads (1942)

A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes of humour, friendship, rivalry, love. ...

The Spell of the Empire (1940)

Luís immigrated to the USA and intends to become an American. But after his father invites him on a journey to the Portuguese territories in Africa, he will find true love, and also learn to value his country and its colonial grandeur. ...

Disco rojo (1973)

A member of the jet-set dies in Lisbon, of drug overdose. A journalist tries to pass through disinformation nets to get to the traffick ring leader who is acting with such impunity. He is up to a surprise, when all evidence points him towards a lady of imm ...

O Primo Basílio (1959)

Jorge, a successful engineer and employee of a ministry and Luísa, a romantic and dreamy girl, star as the typical bourgeois couple of the Lisbon society of the 19th century. ...

Camões (1946)

The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões. ...

The Girl Next Door (1945)

The story of how the conflicting relationship of Eduardo and vaudeville actress Isabel is affected by the passion he feels for their neighbor, Mariana, a young overprotected, and the unexpected visit of his uncle Plácido, a moral teacher. ...

O Violino de João (1944)

João, a music teacher, tells his students the story of how twenty years earlier he fell in love with Anustchka, a circus performer, whom he left everything for. ...

Doomed Love (1943)

The fatalism caught up and the amorous tragedy between Teresa de Albuquerque and Simão Botelho, who survives the intolerant litigation of her noble families. ...

Aniki-Bóbó (1942)

Two schoolboys, Carlitos and Eduardo, fight for the affection of a girl, Teresinha. ...

Ala-Arriba! (1942)

It focuses on maritime tragedy of the town and a forbidden love between Julha and João Moço, from different fisher castes, in a community where mixed-caste marriages were not allowed and dating without parent's assent was seen as a disgrace to the family ...

Mountain Wolves (1942)

The film deals with the story of smugglers operating in the border areas of northern Portugal. A group of smugglers who escaped police installed in a village to have a quiet life, but facing hard times have to go back to smuggling. ...

The Courtyard of the Ballads (1942)

A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes of humour, friendship, rivalry, love. ...

The Tyrannical Father (1941)

While rehearsing the annual play, a clerk tries to regain the attention of his beloved, in a comedy of equivoques. ...

The Spell of the Empire (1940)

Luís immigrated to the USA and intends to become an American. But after his father invites him on a journey to the Portuguese territories in Africa, he will find true love, and also learn to value his country and its colonial grandeur. ...

João Ratão (1940)

João Ratão is one of many young Portuguese soldiers fighting in Flandres, France, during World War I. Back home, he now needs to fight for the love Vitória, to whom he sent love letters from France... written by a fellow soldier. João Ratão is illiter ...

Maria Papoila (1937)

Maria Papoila, a shepherdess from Beira working in Lisbon, one day meets a rich young man, Eduardo, whom she assumes to be of her own social standing due to his uniform as a private soldier. Some time later, arrested as a suspect in a major robbery, Eduard ...

Bocage (1936)

Gado Bravo (1934)

A love triangle set in Lisbon between German singer Nina, bullfighter Garrido and local girl Branca. ...