José Isbert

Spanish Western (2015)

A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, and a walk through the landscapes that made it possible to recreate in Spain, mainly in the desert of Almería, hundreds of adventures set in the remote Ame ...

Songs for After a War (1976)

A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), through popular culture: songs, newspapers and magazines, movies and newsreels. ...

Lo que cuesta vivir (1967)

Mr Antonio is undergoing a bad economic situation that shares with his daugther Leonor, a lovely teenager who makes him happy and helps him sewing to make end meet. But its not enough and Mr Antonio has no other choice than working as a thug of a night clu ...

Operation Delilah (1967)

A couple try to help the residents of a small Caribbean island overthrow a dictator. ...

The Family and One More (1965)

The life of the family inordinate surveyor Carlos Alonso has undergone several changes over the course of the years: the birth of child number 16, little Maria, coincided with the death of the mother, who left behind a hollow refillable. The grandfather al ...

Un americano en Toledo (1965)

Los dinamiteros (1964)

Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month in the queues of the mutuality windows to collect their pension, an opportunity they take advantage of to talk about life. When they learn that the old do ...

The Executioner (1963)

An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement. ...

The Gang of Eleven (1963)

Inspired by the American gangster films, a group of thugs decides to dock the Bank of Spain. "El Rubio" explains to his men that, to commit the armed robbery, they will have to dig a gallery in the Cibeles. But, due to the threats of a rival band, "El Rubi ...

Perro golfo (1963)

A widower butcher uses the grace of his child's pet, a tramp dog, to attract customers to his post. One day, seen how effective is this system, he decides to use the same trick for a more delicate issue: conquering the florist who has a stall in front of h ...

The Big Family (1962)

Carlos Alonso and Mercedes Cebrián are parents of fifteen children of different ages. ...

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. ...

Sabían demasiado (1962)

A gang of Spanish pickpockets decide to send one of them to Chicago to learn how to be a gangster... ...

You and I Are Three (1962)

When Manolina saw a picture of Rodolfo, a South American poet, she falls in love for him. Three months after marriage by proxy, Rodolfo meets with her, which takes a major surprise to meet the twin brother of her husband. ...

Those Who Did Not Go to War (1962)

First World War. In a largely rural area of neutral Spain, two families confront one another and play a part in embarrassing situations because they don't support the same side in the war. This will influence the breakup of an engagement. ...

Vamos a contar mentiras (1962)

A happily married woman lies with surprising ease because, according to her husband, she leads too idle a life. ...

Despedida de soltero (1961)

A couple of friends, "Carmen" (Silvia Solar) and "Miguel"(Germán Cobos), fail to raise the money needed to marry. These difficulties encouraged the illusion of the boy, who wants a shot leaving for another country. The dreams of "Miguel" are approved and ...

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 ...

Don José, Pepe y Pepito (1961)

The arrival of Francis, who owns a factory of surgical material in New York, caused a real stir in a family composed by her grandfather, Pepe, the son, Jose, and grandson, Pepito. Pepito falls in love with her even though Francis consider him a child. But ...

Punto y banca (1961)

The Wheelchair (1960)

Don Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. ...

Don Lucio and Brother Pío (1960)

Brother Pío, intending to collect charity for a group of nuns who run an orphanage, travels to Madrid with a statue of the Baby Jesus. On the train ride there, he meets Lucio, a slick-talking small-time thief, who steals the statue from him in order to co ...

Vida sin risas (1960)

Días de feria (1960)

El Litri y su sombra (1960)

Biopic about Miguel Báez "El Litri", a descendant of two generations of bullfighters: his older brother touched the glory before he died at twenty years after being gored and complicated by gangrene. ...

Bombs for Peace (1959)

Professor Don Carlos is a scientist who, after much research, discovers a chemical compound that, in the form of bomb, is capable of making people become peaceful beings. ...

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura (1959)

Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been seeking a promotion and a raise that never comes, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don Cà ...

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 ...

Villa Alegre (1958)

Pepe and his partner are two truck drivers in the middle of a trip, they decide to stop in the road and stop at the nearest town. This town, which is called Villa Alegre of Songs, apparently normal, but they do not need much time to realize that it is not ...

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. ...

Angels at the Wheel (1957)

A group of taxi drivers try to reanimate a young woman who has been close to being run over by one of them. ...

Miracles of Thursday (1957)

In Fontecilla, a Spanish village in decline, the mayor and other illustrious citizens hatch a crazy plan to revitalize tourism. ...

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. ...

Faustina (1957)

A conquering woman of love, power, and fame is challenged by the devil, as he too wants to conquer all. Even the devil learns that there is no wrath like a woman's scorn. ...

Tremolina (1957)

A 1957 Spanish film. ...

Dos novias para un torero (1956)

Manolo guardia urbano (1956)

Manolo, a cheerful and kind traffic policeman is happy at the birth of his first child, after twenty years of marriage. ...

The Rocket from Calabuch (1956)

Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realizes his mistake and runs away from his inventions. He hides in Calabuch, a beautiful seaside town where people still believe in humor and friendship. ...

Los ladrones somos gente honrada (1956)

A gang of robbers enters a house, hosting a party with intent to commit a robbery. But the leader of the gang met the daughter of the house ... and falls for her. Free version of the play of Henry Jardiel Poncela. ...

Sucedió en mi aldea (1956)

Two young and innocent altar boys leave in search of money to buy a new bell for the tower of the village church. ...

Uncle Hyacynth (1956)

Hyacinth, a former matador who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding him that, as agreed a few days before, he must participate in a bullfight to be held that same afternoon. ...

La chica del barrio (1956)

Afternoon at the Bulls (1956)

Right-handers Ricardo Puente, Juan Carmona and Rondeño II, which will take the alternative are advertised in the poster. The first is an old bullfighter, famous in the past, as now, bitter and full of rancor, lives with Paloma, a woman who is not resigned ...

The Miller's Saucy Wife (1955)

In a region of Andalusia, all the men lust after the miller's young wife. ...

Un día perdido (1955)

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. ...

Radio Stories (1955)

Three short stories based on radio competitions, all linked by speaker Gabriel and his fiancee. Two inventors who want to patent a piston and need money, a thief who answers a phone call while robbing and a child who needs to go to Sweden for an operation ...

El guardián del paraíso (1955)

A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in the black market, and his own witness of a robbery and as a lover. ...

Un caballero andaluz (1954)

In the farmhouse Los Laureles, owned by Don Juan Manuel Almodovar, wealthy Andalusian landowner, everything is being prepared to receive José Luis, only child of Juan Manuel, who is being educated in a Jesuit school in England and is returning for a holid ...

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. ...

Eleven Pairs of Boots (1954)

Ignacio, a professional footballer, has sentimental and labor problems. His girlfriend is about to abandon him because of the constant displays of affection that the player receives from an attractive admirer. At the same time, Ignacio discovers that two o ...

Como la tierra (1954)

The Adventurer of Seville (1954)

Bandits kidnap Figaro, the famous barber of Seville, and use his wonderful voice to attract travelers and rob stagecoaches. Because of this, the police chases him as an accomplice of the bandits. Then Figaro decides to join the army as a volunteer to fight ...

Nuits andalouses (1954)

When her father died, Dominique de Bellocombes inherited her ancestors' château, some worthless shares and a mine in Spain. To save the castle, which is in danger of falling into ruin, and pay off her debts, she is determined to marry Armand de Puysherbeu ...

All Is Possible in Granada (1954)

Following meetings between Spain and the United States a delegation of a mining company arrives to Granada in search of uranium. The company contacted with the landowners, who agree to sell less of them. Such owner refuses because his ground a treasure sup ...

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. ...

This is Madrid (1953)

In Madrid during the fifties' the calm life from some neighbors will be changed since the arrival of Antonio, a man without scruples who lives running the risk. ...

Airport (1953)

Different kind of people arrives to Madrid airport. Some goes with their heads and others just landed. Fernando is a pilot who he brings a girl for his relatives. Ceferino and his wife have won a contest and will travel soon to Paraguay and they are there ...

Welcome Mr. Marshall! (1953)

A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the American visitors, in the hopes of benefiting under the Marshall Plan. Hoping to demonstrate the side of ...

¡Che, qué loco! (1953)

A bankrupt man tries to marry a millionaire woman, which triggers a whole series of misunderstandings. ...

The Lovers of Toledo (1953)

Toledo, 1825. To save her fiancé, an opponent of the regime, the beautiful Inès agrees to marry the chief of police. ...

Doña Francisquita (1952)

Francisquita secretly loves Fernando, but he is in love with the beautiful and fickle Aurora. ...

Último día (1952)

Estrella de Sierra Morena (1952)

Lola the Coalgirl (1952)

Cadiz, during the War of Independence. The Lola singer in love with a French military entrusted an important message ... ...

Near the city (1952)

Path to the Kingdom (1952)

Soledad is a famous singer who, one fine day, decides to turn her life around and enter a convent to help others. The press and her family are baffled: now, the great figure of Spanish singing has become Sister María de la Asunción and works caring for t ...

Spanish Round (1951)

Over a hundred members of the chorus girls and dance groups from the Spanish "Sección Femenina" embark to America to show the richness of their national folklore. The girls have left parked their daily tasks to enjoy this great adventure aboard "Mount Alb ...

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 ...

Una cubana en España (1951)

Blanquita, a very superstitious Cuban young woman, visits a fortune teller on the eve of her wedding to Roberto. She predicts that her first husband is destined to die, as well as would not make her happy. Believing this and according to her uncle, Blanqu ...

Black Sky (1951)

A woman who works as employee in a fashion store has to care for her ill mother. At the same time she falls in love with a bohemian man. ...

Me quiero casar contigo (1951)

El capitán Veneno (1950)

In Madrid, under Queen Isabel II reign, rebellions are frequent events. During one of them Captain Jorge de Córdoba, nicknamed Veneno (poison) for his quarrelsome disposition, bad temper and outright misogyny, is hurt and taken to a house where two women, ...

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, ...

Un soltero difícil (1950)

Servicio en la mar (1950)

La familia Vila (1950)

Mr. Vila is a family father who has worked a lot during his life to achieve a good life for his family. His oldest daughter, Elvira, causes him many problems because she acts as a rebel. ...

My Beloved Juan (1950)

The strange disappearance of the dogs of his neighbors leads Juan to investigate the case on his own. It ends up finding out that the author of the robberies is a young woman called Eloísa, the cocky daughter of a scientist who uses dogs to create an anti ...

Sin uniforme (1950)

Several different people meet in Tangier, where they will have to join efforts to survive. ...

En un rincón de España (1949)

Siempre vuelven de madrugada (1949)

A good-for-nothing young man and his friend are involved in a woman's death. To escape Police and wanting a change he goes to the small country village he used to visit with his family. Yet his past will find him there. ...

Pacto de silencio (1949)

A woman is told his military husband is considered dead, the truth is he has been transferred to the secret service. When he returns to Spain and they get reunited he ends killing a German spy, and then she gets prosecuted. ...

El señor Esteve (1948)

Barcelona, 1860. Mr. Esteve, owner of a haberdashery and proud of his son, attends the christening of his grandson who, years later, determined to become a renowned artist, seems unwilling to continue the tradition and take over the family business. (Only ...

La fiesta sigue (1948)

Love Charm (1947)

Berta is a young manicurist whose boyfriend, Jorge, is too shy to ask for a raise, something she always blames him for. On the occasion of a special job that Berta must do in a big house, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, the couple fantasizes about what their ...

Un hombre de negocios (1945)

El fantasma y doña Juanita (1945)

Fearing that her niece Rosita will abandon her true love and enter into a marriage of convenience, doña Juanita tells her the story of when, many years ago, she fell in love with an accountant who worked in a circus. ...

Ella, él y sus millones (1944)

Arturo Salazar is a powerful businessman who wants to be related to the nobility, so he asks an aristocratic friend to find him a blue-blooded bride. ...

La vida empieza a medianoche (1944)

Silvia Heredia, since her arrival to Madrid is staying at her best friends' house, Mary. Her aim is to work as a secretary of a famous novelist. But at night the house is full of people and they confuse her with the owner of the floor. A series of misunder ...

Orosia (1944)

Una chica de opereta (1944)

A poor composer sells his songs to a music publisher who attributes them to his son, who sells them to a famous singer. Seeking the son, the musician's daughter will unexpectedly find a job as secretary to the singer, disguised as an unattractive and autho ...

Fin de curso (1943)

Alma de Dios (1941)

The Dancer and the Worker (1936)

The wealthy father of a young girl who has a relationship with a boy who has just won a waltzing contest employs him in a factory in order to make him a profitable man. ...

La bien pagada (1935)

Broken Lives (1935)