Francisco Arenzana

Half of Heaven (1986)

After the civil war, Rosa, a beautiful and hard worker woman falls in love with a sharpener who turns out to be a con man. When she becomes a widow, she emigrates to Madrid with her daughter beginning to work as a nurse in the home of Don Pedro, an influen ...

El gran crucero (1970)

With the East Wind (1967)

The life of Sebastián, a 28-year-old Roma, changes drastically after he kills a man. From that moment, he must flee, experiencing the torments of loneliness, guilt, and the rejection of his people. ...

Operación Plus Ultra (1966)

Nine children, awarded for their exemplary or heroic conduct by the radio program 'Operación Plus Ultra' in association with the Iberia Airline, meet in Madrid,. ...

Más bonita que ninguna (1965)

Roberto (Luigi Giuliani) and Luisa (Rocío Durcal) are a couple but are not as sincere as they should be. She tells him she works at Telefónica when she actually sells cigarettes at "The Green Windmill" cabaret. She's surprised when she discovers plans fo ...

Isidro el labrador (1964)

Los abanderados de la Providencia (1963)

Cupido contrabandista (1962)

John is a shy and good-natured man who lives in Ceuta and does everything by correspondence, from studying a career or learning judo to getting a girlfriend. She is from Madrid and the time has come for Juan to meet her so he takes a boat to the peninsula. ...

Police Calling 091 (1960)

A police inspector makes his service in a patrol car attenging emergency calls. A memory hauns him, the death of her daughter, who was killed hit by a car that fled. The car is located and the inspector goes there and confrontation will be violent. ...

El destierro del Cid (1960)

A short documentary directed by Jesus Franco. ...

Las playas vacías (1959)

A short documentary directed by Jesus Franco. ...

La Gata (1956)

In a country house dedicated to breeding bulls, bound for bullfighting, a love story emerges, conditioned by social class differences. ...

The Other Life of Captain Contreras (1955)

During archaeological excavations in the crypt of Santo Tomé (Toledo, Spain), a sarcophagus is discovered containing the incorrupt body of Captain Contreras, a man in a state of suspended animation since 1650, due to a potion someone forced him to ingest ...

The Miracle of Marcelino (1955)

Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend in the forbidden attic, hanging on a cross. A friend that would repay Marcel ...

¿Crimen imposible? (1954)

Viento del norte (1954)

Álvaro, a serious and stern man, owner of a stately Galician manor house, leads a monotonous life devoted to studying and managing his property. But one day he falls in love with his maid Marcela, who was abandoned at the manor by her mother, an unmarried ...

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 ...

Judas' Kiss (1954)

The story of Judas's betrayal of Christ. ...

Condemned to Hang (1953)

Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero is a true champion of the disinherited. ...

Puebla de las mujeres (1953)

A young man arrives at Puebla de las Mujeres, a village of Andalusia with the tradition that man that arrives, man that marries there. The foreigner is going to solve some issues of interest of an aunt who lives in the village. Soon as he arrives all women ...

Malaire (1952)

Noguère, an old patriarch, is about to die and decides to confess at last to a priest. He once lived alone with his son Juste, who helped him to farm the Mauvents land. One night Noguère fired at a couple of trespassers, hurting the girl and killing her ...

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 ...

Surcos (1951)

A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything is illegal or immoral or both. ...

The Seventh Page (1951)

Chronicle of the daily activity of a newspaper called La Jornada. Through the events covered by the gossip columnist that occupy precisely the seventh page, a portrait emerges of different classes of Spain in the 50's and a vision of reality where facts ar ...

Reckless (1951)

Javier Mendoza a Catholic missionary established in Alaska, recalls, when about to die, the years of his youth and his relationship with his family and friends. ...

Un hombre va por el camino (1949)

Luis, a tall and strong vagabond, refuses the job offered to him by an old gentleman, which provokes the latter's indignation. ...