Carlos Casaravilla

The Frenchman's Garden (1978)

"The Frenchman" was what locals called the man who ran the bar and restaurant in the small town of Peñaflor in rural Spain in the early part of the 20th century. But Juan Andrés Aldije Monmeja was not your usual jolly innkeeper. He ran an illegal gamblin ...

Pasión inconfesable (1978)

Rain for a Dusty Summer (1971)

In Mexico, a mad general is leading his own war against the Church. Priests are rounded up, churches burned down and religion outlawed. The suffering of one pious catholic priest could bring the tide of change however. ...

The Horsemen (1971)

In Afghanistan, the ruthless sport of buzkashi is a game of great pride. When Uraz breaks his leg and loses a spirited match, he brings shame to his village, especially his father. After losing his leg below the knee, Uraz, to regain his honor, must learn ...

Vivi ragazza vivi! (1971)

Lola la Piconera (1970)

During the Napoleonic era, when Napoleon's army tried to complete the conquest of Spain and headed towards Cádiz, they met a cantaora from Cádiz (Rocío Jurado) in the streets. However, her outward joy is deceptive since the man she is in love with is th ...

Fangs of the Living Dead (1969)

A beautiful virgin inherits a castle, but when she arrives at it, she finds that the inhabitants include a strange nobleman and a bevy of beautiful women she suspects may be vampires. ...

Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968)

A man suffers from the curse of lycanthrope and seeks help from doctor and wife team. They both turn out to be vampires and end up dueling it out with the werewolf star. ...

Las golondrinas (1968)

Prohibido suicidarse en primavera (1967)

Doctor Ariel comes from a family that for several generations, once they reach old age, have decided to commit suicide because they lose the will to live. This situation affects the doctor greatly and therefore he decides to study the psychology of the fat ...

The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid (1967)

This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries wit ...

Buenos días, condesita (1967)

A young woman, who sells music recordings in the flea market in Madrid, passes herself off as a friend's girlfriend so that he doesn't lose his inheritance. ...

Return of the Seven (1966)

Chico, one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven, now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin ano ...

Django Does Not Forgive (1966)

A halfbreed seeks revenge for the death of his sister, who kills herself after being raped by an officer of the Canadian Mounted Police. He gets involved in the historical revolt of halfbreeds and Indians led by Louis Riel in 1885 against the Canadian gove ...

Acompáñame (1966)

Eduvigis is an Eldery Lady who lives in Madrid, and visits bad luck on everyone that she looks at through glasses that her late husband gave her, which were made from crystals from an Egyptian Tomb. To arrange the sale of an inherited house, she must trave ...

Platero y yo (1966)

After a long period of absence, living in large and anonymous cities, a poet, Juan, returns to the village of his birth, Moguer, there he finds happiness through; the friendship of a small donkey, Platero, a free spirited girl, Aguedilla, and recalling mem ...

The Woman from Beirut (1965)

Isabel is a beautiful aspiring singer with great aspirations but persistent bad luck convicted of a crime she did not commit. Serving time in prison she is released under parole and lands a singing gig at a dive in Barcelona where she meets Sandro "The Gre ...

Operation Double Cross (1965)

In Barcelona, secret agent Antoine Donadieu thwarts the plans of a Nazi scientist. ...

Our Agent Tiger (1965)

The Tiger is sent to oversee the excavation of a sunken ship. While busy to retrieve the gold tresure in it, he is constantly thwarted by international enemies. Among them is an old Nazi named Hans von Wunchendorf who dreams of world domination. He hides b ...

Assassination in Rome (1965)

In this crime-thriller, Rome proves to be an unhappy destination for an American couple when the husband is kidnapped and his wife begins a desperate search for him. ...

Crime on a Summer Morning (1965)

An ill-assorted group of international criminals executes a tightly-planned ransom sting in Spain. Things go along swimmingly until various tensions within the group come to the fore. ...

Saul and David (1964)

David of Bethlehem slays the giant and becomes a rival to King Saul. ...

The New Cinderella (1964)

Antonio, the famous dancer is preparing a big performance for the TV. But he is missing a good female dancer. One day he sees a girl dancing in the streets but when he is going to talk to her she runs away. She lost one of her shoes and this will be the on ...

Constance aux enfers (1964)

Rear Window meets Estate violenta. The middle-aged Constance watches a young couple that lives across the courtyard; the girl plays loud pop music and goes out of her way to be unpleasant to the classically educated and piano-playing Constance. Then one da ...

Pyro... The Thing Without a Face (1964)

A married man has a brief affair, then goes back to his wife and children. His jilted mistress, believing that if he had no more family he'd come back to her, sets fire to his house, hoping to kill them. The man, unsuccessfully trying to rescue them, is ho ...

El señor de La Salle (1964)

Biography of San Juan Bautista de la Salle , where the effort and hardships that this canon of the nobility had to overcome in order to offer universal and free education to children, his main devotion, in the time of Louis XIV, are appreciated. ...

The Ceremony (1963)

A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier. ...

Los conquistadores del Pacífico (1963)

Frank Latimore is cast as Balboa, the heroic Spanish explorer who discovers the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, he must pacify the wrath of his enemies and battle his way through a forest inhabited by savage natives. This one features some really nice batt ...

Pacto de silencio (1963)

55 Days at Peking (1963)

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed r ...

Los abanderados de la Providencia (1963)

Commando (1962)

A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost ...

Face of Terror (1962)

A scientist develops a serum that can eradicate scar tissue. He tries it on a girl with a horribly disfigured face. It succeeds, but then he discovers the girl is an escaped mental patient from a local asylum. ...

Los desamparados (1962)

Detective con faldas (1962)

The Son of Captain Blood (1962)

The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman. ...

Miracle to Cowards (1962)

The Passion of the Christ from the point of view of Ana and Ruben, two christians who try to free him with the help of a group of followers who have been saved by the Messiah. The struggle to reach an agreement is the first hard step. Between conspirators ...

Usted tiene ojos de mujer fatal (1962)

Julia y el celacanto (1961)

In Tordesa, a small fishing village in the Spanish Levant, appears a coelacanth, an important fish that in recent years has attracted the attention of the press and scientists around the world. In this village, the only one who realizes the importance of t ...

Conqueror of Maracaibo (1961)

Alan Braves, captain of a pirate ship, is, by the treachery of a comrade, accused of a crime of which he is innocent. He decides to go to America, but during his trip, he finds a Spanish galleon that saved from attack by pirates, and escorting the galleon ...

Teresa de Jesús (1961)

The life and tribulations of Carmelist nun Teresa de Jesús, who had transcendental experiences. She would write several works and would reform the Carmelist order. ...

La paz empieza nunca (1960)

Inspired by the classic novel by journalist and writer Emilio Romero. Shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), a group of Phalangist friends, who dream of a revolution to transform Spain, are dedicated to spreading their ideas amon ...

Mi calle (1960)

Life events around a city street and its residents are told along the years while time goes by, wars break out and end and life evolves. ...

María, matrícula de Bilbao (1960)

Bilbao in the fifties. To continue the family marine tradition, El Viejo, an old sailor, forces his grandson Luiso to follow the profession of their ancestors as skipper of the ship Maria. ...

Un ángel tuvo la culpa (1960)

Claudio is a kind mand who works as cashier in a company for several years. Whe he finds closed the bank where he has to deposit a millon of pesetas, he decides to go to a friends party. Due to alcohol effects, he share out the money to the people who need ...

The Crossroads (1960)

The Crossroads (Spanish: La encrucijada) is a 1960 French-Spanish drama film directed by Alfonso Balcázar. ...

Robinson et le triporteur (1960)

A modern re-telling of the Robinson Crusoe story. But, this time, our hero is a macguivering expert. So he creates himself a modern paradise based on his beloved delivery tricycle that we saw in the previous movie"The tricyclist". ...

El amor que yo te dí (1960)

Suave jewelry-thieves caper comedy overlaid with howling family-melodrama coincidences. ...

Bon Voyage, Pablo (1959)

In a station bar, a business traveler meets a girl and decides to leave his fiancee and merry her. ...

El Lazarillo de Tormes (1959)

An adaptation of the anonymous sixteenth century novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), it tells the story of Lazarillo, a poor boy who has to live by his wits after being sold to a series of cruel masters. ...

S.O.S., abuelita (1959)

Clemen is very sad. After three years of marriage, Raul, her husband, is moving away from it and, what is worse, is getting dangerously close to other women. Desperate, she cries under the portrait of his late grandmother. And the miracle occurs. Granny le ...

Sonatas (1959)

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, ...

Molokai: la isla maldita (1959)

Kingdom of Hawaii, 1866. Fearful that leprosy would spread throughout the archipelago, the king banishes the sick to the island of Molokai. In 1873, the Belgian Catholic missionary Damien de Veuster arrives on the island to help improve the lives of its un ...

Charlestón (1959)

Silvia Pinal stars as Beatriz, a woman whose troubles are brought on by the fact that she has two wildly different suitors. ...

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. ...

Las locuras de Bárbara (1959)

Llegaron los franceses (1959)

On May 2, 1808 the Spanish took up arms against Napoleon. The war are surprised by a traveling company of actors formed by Damian and their four daughters. Rosita, the eldest, is in love with a revolutionary, but Duvalliers, a French officer, also sought. ...

Ejército blanco (1959)

La muralla (1958)

Héroes del aire (1958)

The Man Who Wagged His Tail (1957)

The owner of a building tyrannizes his immigrant tenants. Transformed into a dog by an old woman's curse, he experiences all the hardships of his situation; when a child's affection turns him back into a man, his soul is radically changed. ...

The Pride and the Passion (1957)

During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the w ...

Un fantasma llamado amor (1957)

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 ...

Andalusia Express (1956)

Three men plan a jewelry heist abroad the Andalusia express train. ...

Ha pasado un hombre (1956)

Death of a Cyclist (1955)

A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed. ...

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. ...

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 ...

Cerca del cielo (1952)

Tiempos felices (1950)

La fiesta sigue (1948)

Mar abierto (1946)

Carmiña, an old Galician woman, tells a painter a story of her youth, when a miracle saved the life of her beloved Antonio. ...

Un señor mucamo (1940)

Well-to-do idler loses his fortune, ends up going to night-school and working as butler for a wealthy family. Still posing as a rich toff, he courts a young lady who turns out to be the daughter of his employer. ...