José Prada

Fray Torero (1966)

Samba (1965)

Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachetti), who has found out her love affair with Assis (Carlos Alberto). Favela-girl Belén (also Montiel) is the look-alike who takes her place, unaware she is ...

Black Angel of the Mississippi (1964)

Early Spanish western. Ramon Torrado's westerns remain among the most obscure ones. Of his four westerns, all shot around 1964. ...

El balcón de la Luna (1962)

The lives of 3 singers during their last few months working at a venue called "The Moon's Balcony" ...

Three Etc.'s and the Colonel (1960)

In Spain, during the Napoleonic rule, the French Governor of Andalusia is besieged by the locals who have countless demands and wishes. ...

Compadece al delincuente (1960)

Letter to heaven (1959)

Héroes del aire (1958)

Revenge (1958)

After spending ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Juan is released. ...

El hombre que viajaba despacito (1957)

A tank regiment soldier needs a permit to go to his village to meet his newborn son. It will not be easy, leading to absurd situations featuring the legendary humorist Miguel Gila. ...

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 ...

The Little Nightingale (1957)

Joselito is a child whose mother left town when he was just a baby and whose father has died. He lives with his grandfather, the bellringer of the town, and his best friend is the sexton. He enjoys singing and has not lost hope of someday meeting her mothe ...

Piedras vivas (1956)

Malagueña (1956)

The film tells of a young woman travels to Malaga to Barcelona to meet and live with his grandfather, a poor blind man selling matches in the Catalan city harbor. The young man with his panache and salt shines in the port environment dominated many young r ...

Main Street (1956)

A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of a group of soulless pranksters. ...

Curra Veleta (1956)

Pasión en el mar (1956)

A young fisherman wishing for a better life will become a smuggler and even involve his friends if necessary. He will make it even worse with his improper concern for his brother's beautiful wife. ...

We Are All Necessary (1956)

After serving their sentence, three prisoners, a doctor, a civil servant and a thief, leave jail. During the train trip they do together to return home, they analyze their respective lives. The doctor has been required to perform an operation on a child ab ...

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 ...

Pride (1955)

A tale of two families, the Mendozas and Alzagas, faced for generations by the water of a river separating their adjoining properties. Old grudges reappear when the two heirs fall in love. ...

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. ...

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. ...

La Cruz de Mayo (1955)

Coral is a girl who works in a Seville ceramics factory to raise her family, but her greatest illusion is to sing. She is chosen for her good voice and qualities to go to an art academy. That's the beginning of a great success in her career and an advantag ...

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 ...

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 ...

Castles in Spain (1954)

When the seductive Frenchwoman Geneviève Dupré, secretary to a Spanish businessman, travels to Madrid to announce the death of her boss to his brother, the famous bullfighter Mario Montes, it's love at first sight. Set in Spain, this melodrama is full of ...

La danza de los deseos (1954)

The Devil Plays the Flute (1954)

When the pieces of a singular figure are unearthed and then joined together, a devil of the lowest category breaks into a small Mediterranean village. From that moment on, the demon will enter the life of a painter named Bernardino, in the affairs of a "mo ...

Rebeldía (1954)

El pescador de coplas (1954)

It is the story of two brothers who have rented a boat to survive. Juan Ramón sings like an angel and an entrepreneur decides to take him to Madrid to succeed. ...

El milagro del sacristán (1954)

El alcalde de Zalamea (1954)

Film version of the historic piece of Calderon de la Barca. ...

Las últimas banderas (1954)

Two Spanish soldiers, good friends, have to fight on the battlefield during the Peruvian war of independence. ...

Brindis al cielo (1953)

Under the Sky of Spain (1953)

Drama film directed and written by Miguel Contreras Torres. ...

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 ...

Feather in the Wind (1952)

Carlos, veterinary, poet, musician in his spare time and a fun-minded Don Juan,pretends to be his friend Fernando who has inherited a pharmacy in Madrid. There he meets an old girl friend that attracts him. ...

De Madrid al cielo (1952)

In the Madrid beginning of the 20th century two young people try to make it as artists: Elena intends to succeed in the music world and Pablo wants to become a famous painter. ...

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 ...

The Devil's Roundup (1952)

Divided in several episodes, this film presents different stories that share the fantasy theme. ...

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. ...

Día tras día (1951)

The everyday stories of a parish priest and his sheep, some more troublesome than others, in Madrid's El Rastro neighborhood. ...

The Great Galeoto (1951)

A young musician and dreamy, called "Ernesto", is forced to live in Madrid to die his father, in the house of executor of the testament, "don Julio Villamil", who is married to actress Teresa Labisbal, of which "Ernesto Acedo" was enamored platonic. Althou ...

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 ...

La señora de Fátima (1951)

The story of the 1917 miracle of Fatima, in which the Virgin Mary appeared to three children--two girls and one boy.. ...

The Black Man Who Had a White Soul (1951)

Peter Ward is a black singer who arrives to Madrid in 1907. He falls in love with Emma, and he offers her to be her dancer. She is restrained by her racial prejudices which will lead to an inevitable separation between them. ...

La noche del sábado (1950)

Rome, Italy, February 1900. While a malaria epidemic sweeps the city, the young and beautiful Donina meets Leonardo, an ambitious sculptor, who makes her his model. ...

The Last Horse (1950)

Fernando has just finished the military service. It decides to buy Bucéfalo, the horse that has been his partner for this time and returns to Madrid removing with it to the animal. But everything has changed, the city already neither is the same and even ...

Sangre en Castilla (1950)

During the war against Napoleon the brave Therese of Pinorrey is erected as Alcaldesa in Castilla, Spain ...

Teatro Apolo (1950)

In the late nineteenth century, Miguel Velasco, the son of a wealthy Spanish immigrant established in Mexico, comes to Madrid, where he falls in love with Celia, a chorus girl working at the Apollo theater. ...

Sin uniforme (1950)

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

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. ...

Aventuras de Juan Lucas (1949)

Following his father's steps, Juan Lucas becomes the most famous highwayman in Sierra Morena mountains, also helping local resistance against Napoleonic troops. In love with Ana, a Count's daughter, his hopes seem to have no future. ...

Loyola, the Soldier Saint (1949)

A historical drama based on St. Ignatius of Loyola as a Warrior, as a Founder of the Jesuit Order and as a Saint . ...

Llegada de noche (1949)

Mare nostrum (1948)

The Spanish merchant "Mare Nostrum", captained by Ulises Ferragut, docked in September 1939 at the port of Naples to repair a breakdown. Walking through the ruins of Pompeii, Ferragut meets Freyra, an enigmatic and beautiful woman of whom she instantly fal ...

La fiesta sigue (1948)

Alhucemas (1948)

In 1922, Infantry Captain Fernando Salas, arriving from Madrid, joins, without much enthusiasm, a battalion ruled by Commander Almendro, a tough veteran of the African war who soon notices a clear lack of military vocation in the new recruit. ...

La dama del armiño (1947)

Toledo, 1585. Samuel, a young Jewish goldsmith, falls in love with Catalina, daughter of Doménikos Theotokópoulos el Greco, a famous painter. ...

The Captain's Ship (1947)

Port of Seville, Spain, 1640. A group of people from very different origins embark on the ship Capitana. They are members of the upper class, adventurers, peasants, convicts, who have only one thing in common: the illusion of arriving in America, the promi ...

The Bullfighter's Suit (1947)

A young bullfighter full of illusions triumphs in Mexico and decides to get married there and forget about his old Spanish girlfriend, who by then has just given birth to his son. ...

Don Quixote (1947)

The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sa ...

María Fernanda la Jerezana (1947)

Madrid, Spain, early 20th century. A woman turns up dead in a modest home. She turns out to be María la Jerezana, a popular singer who was famous years ago until she disappeared. The Police Commissioner in charge, dissatisfied with the official version, w ...

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. ...

Path Unknown (1946)

A 1946 film. ...

The Crime of Bordadores Street (1946)

Madrid, late 19th century. A wealthy woman is found murdered in her home and her maid seems to be the main suspect; but her statement further entangles the case. ...

Audiencia pública (1946)

Two women claim the custody of a child, a son of single mother. They have very different social positions: one is a lady of high society, the other is a nurse working at a maternity clinic. Both will face in a public trial. ...

La luna vale un millón (1945)

An unfortunate accident changes forever the fate of two men who look alike: one of them is desperately poor; the other one is extremely wealthy. ...

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. ...

El hombre que las enamora (1944)

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 ...

Eugenia de Montijo (1944)

Eugenia de Montijo, an extraordinarily beautiful woman, educated and intelligent daughter of the Count of Montijo, decides to start a European tour when she discovers that the Duke of Alba, whom she believed her suitor, actually intends for her sister. ...

Eloísa está debajo de un almendro (1943)

Fernando, who has returned to his hometown after studying in Brussels, finds a strange suicide note written by his father ten years earlier. ...

Mi adorable secretaria (1943)

Sucedió en Damasco (1943)

El 13-13 (1943)

A secret service agent has a great rival, the famous 13-13, which is always ahead in all cases. One day, she meets an old friend with whom she remembers the days when they were happy together. In one of her missions, the agent discovers that her famous riv ...

La condesa María (1942)

A romantic melodrama ...

La culpa del otro (1942)

Rafael works as a valet of the Marquis de la Peña. Accused of having committed a serious offense during his service, it is fired, although all is due to the machinations of the administrator. Shortly after an incident in which the Marquis is impaired occu ...

Malvaloca (1942)

Malvaloca is a good girl who goes wrong until she finds a good man that really loves her, yet her past marks her life. ...

Viaje sin destino (1942)

To save a travel agency in an endangered situation one of the employees has a brilliant idea, announcing a special travel with no defined destiny. ...

El hombre que se quiso matar (1942)

Song of Aixa (1940)

Abslan and Hamed, two cousins of very different character and lives, whose families have put an end to old quarrels, become rivals for the love of the young and beautiful half-breed Aixa. ...

Mariquilla Terremoto (1939)

Mariquilla lives with his uncle in the village of Las Canteras, where she is beloved for his grace and cheerful nature. Her uncle wants her to debut in the theater, but her nervousness and shyness make her performance not a success. ...

Carmen la de Triana (1938)

The story of a beautiful, vivacious gypsy girl and the two doomed men who fall for her. ...