Manuel Arbó

El hombre que se quiso matar (1970)

Things go terribly wrong for Federico. He lost his job as professor of Latin and his girlfriend has left him for a dental technician. So, he decides to commit suicide. After several failed attempts, including the throw from the Roman aqueduct of Segovia, h ...

Vestida de novia (1967)

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. ...

La visita que no tocó el timbre (1966)

Two unmarried siblings live together without problems until the day a friend leaves her baby in their apartment because she does not have time to take care of him. ...

La ciudad no es para mí (1966)

Agustin, a widower who lives in a village in Aragon, where he is much loved by all neighbors, is lonely and decides to go to the big city, where his son, a famous doctor, lives with his wife and daughter. Agustineis received by his children with great cool ...

Un vampiro para dos (1965)

A Spanish couple emigrates to Germany looking for employment, in a desperate attempt to reconcile their marriage. The only work they can find, however, is in a castle inhabited by a strange baron, who is actually a vampire. ...

Julio César (1965)

After Pompey's defeat at the Battle of Farsalia, Julius Caesar becomes the beacon of the Roman Republic and the master of its destiny; but many patricians want to avoid the birth of a tyranny and plot to assassinate him… ...

Rustic Chivalry (1965)

Maria del Pilar is in love with Sebastian, a servant of his house. But her father wants her to marry Marcos a rich landowner. The girl refuses Marcos and he decides to take revenge. ...

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 ...

El cálido verano del señor Rodríguez (1965)

Pepe Rodríguez, an office worker who has been working while his family went on vacation, leaves Madrid to join them in the countryside. ...

Historias de la televisión (1965)

Film divided into two stories: 1. Cuando los gorilas hablan por teléfono 2. ...

The Devil Also Cries (1965)

Isidro el labrador (1964)

La revoltosa (1963)

Mari Pepa, a beautiful laundress of Madrid, and Felipe, a carpenter, are in love but they are always quarreling over trifles. However, she must marry with the fence Don Leo to help his father, a drunk player who has committed a robbery and has determined t ...

Eva 63 (1963)

Elena is a writer and is in a relationship with a painter, Fernando. Charo works as a waitress in a hotel and continues to dream of John Sargent, her platonic love, although when she discovers that the actor is gay she returns to her boyfriend Luis. Mara, ...

Los derechos de la mujer (1963)

Juan marries prestigious lawyer María José. As she won't give up her career to become a housewife, during their wedding night Juan pretends to leave his job and acts out the role of a traditional housewife himself. ...

Operación: Embajada (1963)

La bella Mimí (1961)

At Five in the Afternoon (1961)

A critical view of the world of bullfighting based on the antagonism between two bullfighters who take part in a bullfight that is crucial to both their careers. One is already in decline and fearful; the other is at the peak of his career. ...

Goliath Against the Giants (1961)

Muscleman fights sea monsters and Amazon warriors, then returns home to find a race of giants living in a valley, into which fellow countrymen are being thrown as punishment for opposing a usurper king and his consort. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

El precio de la sangre (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. ...

El cerro de los locos (1960)

Some bizarre figures (bullfighters and future fighters, athletes and boxers) get together in a park from Madrid to improve and rehearse their techniques. ...

El gafe (1959)

Duelo en la cañada (1959)

Andalusia, Spain, 1890. ...

Valentine's Day (1959)

Several independent histories in the St Valentine's Day, which they have jointly that a celestial emissary collaborates in solving his conflicts. ...

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, ...

Una gran señora (1959)

Charo is a fashion model, in love with enigmatic Adolfo. The fashion house where she works is ruined. In a parade, an English lady confuses her with a countess and invites her to spend some days in Estoril. There, Charo will try to save the company from b ...

María de la O (1959)

María de la O leaves her family and her former boyfriend Miguel to go with a rich landowner who's supposedly in love with her... ...

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. ...

¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII? (1959)

Alfonso de Borbón and his cousin María de las Mercedes de Orleans fall in love and, although both families do not maintain good relationships, young people marry when Alfonso became king of Spain. ...

Hospital general (1958)

Red Cross Girls (1958)

Paloma, Isabel, Marion and Julia Madrid are four girls belonging to different social strata, who are preparing to apply for the Red Cross on the flag. The four girls will be sought by many young ... ...

La Rana Verde (1958)

Cimera de los Infantes, Castile, Spain. The young men who meet every day in the bar La Rana Verde are bored because they barely have fun, so they decide to seduce the girls who attend a summer course in the historic castle of the town. ...

Aquellos tiempos del cuplé (1958)

Mercedes Pavón, a famous singer of cuplés is harassed by three men totaly different. ...

Familia provisional (1958)

Farmacia de guardia (1958)

A Pharmacy on night duty is the location for all kinds of episodes that one might imagine to happen in any night in Spain in the fifties. ...

Música de ayer (1958)

Laura Gayán, a young singing student, is secretly in love with Carlos, Count of San Telmo, and she lives in his palace because his father is the porter. Stephen, a fellow student, drinker and womanizer, attempts to seduce her, taking advantage of the girl ...

Polvorilla (1957)

Messengers of Peace (1957)

Try the descent to Earth, specifically to Spain, of the Three Wise Men. ...

El anónimo (1957)

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. ...

El genio alegre (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 ...

The Irony of Money (1957)

The finding of a wallet with a lot of money is the common theme of four stories, featuring a shoeshine from Seville, a clerk from Salamanca, a bullfighter from Cuenca and a newspapers seller from Paris. ...

Piedras vivas (1956)

Dos novias para un torero (1956)

Curra Veleta (1956)

Alexander the Great (1956)

An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of thinking will bring enlightenment to people. The son of the barbaric and ruthless ...

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 ...

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. ...

Juicio final (1955)

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. ...

Zalacaín el aventurero (1955)

During the third Carlist war on Basque soil, Zalacaín, no frowns that his great enemy of the people pretend to love his sister, but he lives the reverse situation, in love with his sister. ...

Morena clara (1954)

Trini, a gipsy girl, and her uncle Regalito are tried for the theft of several hams. Some time later, she presents herself, disguised as a maid, at the house of her former prosecutor, who ends up falling in love with her. ...

Tres eran tres (1954)

An anthology film centered around a film company called Tiacapa. ...

La ciudad de los sueños (1954)

¿Crimen imposible? (1954)

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 ...

Buenas noticias (1954)

Beliche, a naive postman, suffers from depression because he has almost no letters to deliver. The neighbors to whom Beliche takes their correspondence decide then to launch a plan to receive many more. ...

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 ...

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. ...

Brindis al cielo (1953)

Jeromín (1953)

In the biography of John of Austria the Spanish hero of Flanders, brother of Philip II, as an argument, the tape is a praise of Spain Emperor Charles V and the values ​​of Franco. ...

Nadie lo sabrá (1953)

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. ...

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 ...

La alegre caravana (1953)

Miguel, a young adventurer with a good social position, flees his home to prevent his marriage qith a woman chosen by his family. In their flight is hidden in a gypsy caravan merchants. There he meets Rocío, a beautiful young woman with an extraordinary v ...

That Happy Couple (1953)

Juan and Carmen are a humble couple living in Madrid. She does the housework and he works as an electrician in a film studio. Their dreams of wellness come true when they win a contest sponsored by a soap brand. ...

Sobresaliente (1953)

Ha desaparecido un pasajero (1953)

Habitación para tres (1952)

Facultad de Letras (1952)

Truhanes de honor (1952)

Near the city (1952)

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 ...

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. ...

La Leona de Castilla (1951)

Crown of Castile, 1520. The Comuneros rise up against Charles I, king of Castile and Aragon and emperor of the Hispanic Monarchy. While Juan de Padilla, leader of the uprising, and his captains, Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado, fight against the imperia ...

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. ...

Black Crown (1951)

A woman suffers from amnesia after killing her husband, who was just about to demand a divorce for having found her engaging in an affair with a lover, who is only interested in her to find where some precious jewels are hidden. ...

La mariposa voló sobre el mar (1951)

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 ...

Pequeñeces (1950)

Madrid in the 1870s. Amidst political intrigues against King Amadeo de Saboya, wealthy and strong-willed countess Curra de Albornoz makes her own way in spite of her son and husband, considering her indiscretions as merely trifles ("pequeñeces") until tra ...

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. ...

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, ...

Agustina of Aragon (1950)

1808. During the Spanish Independence war the city of Zaragoza is besieged by French troops. Spanish forces under General Palafox are scarce. Brave Agustina doesn't hesitate to lead the battle and even fire a cannon to stop the invaders when others run awa ...

El rey de Sierra Morena (1950)

José María, popularly known as "El Tempranillo" throws himself into the mountains after killing his father's murderer. ...

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, ...

La mujer, el torero y el toro (1950)

El duende y el rey (1950)

Dora la espía (1950)

Dora, daughter of the Marchioness of Río Zares, marries the politician Andrés. Despondent, Countess Zicka launches the lie that she is a spy. ...

Historia en dos aldeas (1950)

The Unruly Girl (1950)

Adaptation of the operetta of the same title. Mari Pepa, who works as a laundress, has gone to live in the neighborhood courtyard house, which is also tenant Felipe, who courted. ...

Rumbo (1950)

Rumbo is a nice and splendid young man of gypsy origin who is in Seville with Gabriel, an old friend who was saved from suicide thanks to his intervention, who got rich in Paris thanks to the money Rumbo gave him, to the point of become an important and mi ...

Sin uniforme (1950)

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

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. ...

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 . ...

Jalisco canta en Sevilla (1949)

A charro and his sidekick go to Spain to collect an inheritance. ...

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 ...

The Marquis of Salamanca (1948)

José de Salamanca was arguably one of the most influential figures of the Spanish 1800s. This films tells his story. ...

Locura de amor (1948)

The passion that Joan of Castile, daughter of the Catholic Kings and heir to the throne, feels for her husband, Philip the Handsome, sovereign of the Netherlands and son of Maximilian of Austria and Mary of Burgundy, is not reciprocated. ...

Póker de ases (1947)

The Faith (1947)

Father Luis Lastra is a young priest who does his job in the village of Peñascosa. There he meets Marta, a beautiful parishioner very interested in religious matters, so much that she convinces the priest to accompany her to the convent to become a cloist ...

Dulcinea (1947)

Dos mujeres y un rostro (1947)

Lupe, an adventurer and film specialist, takes advantage of her strong resemblance to the actress she has to voice to defraud her fiancé, a banker. ...

Path Unknown (1946)

A 1946 film. ...

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. ...

Carnival Sunday (1945)

Madrid, Carnival Sunday. A night watchman finds the body of a woman, a rich and greedy moneylender who has apparently been murdered. The prime suspect is a watchmaker who owed her a lot of money. ...

Los últimos de Filipinas (1945)

The Philippines, 1898, during the Spanish-American War. ...

Empezó en boda (1944)

In-laws and relatives begin to settle in the house of two newlyweds. Even though their intention is to contribute to marital peace, they actually complicate their lives. ...

The Nail (1944)

Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed. ...

Tarjeta de visita (1944)

El rey de las finanzas (1944)

Directed by Ramón Torrado ...

Sucedió en Damasco (1943)

Follow the Legion! (1942)

In North Africa, in a detachment of the Spanish Legion, el Grajo, a brave veteran, and Mauro, who has just enlisted, become close friends. When an unfortunate circumstance results in the death of a man, suspicions fall on one of them. ...

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. ...

Flora y Mariana (1942)

El hombre que se quiso matar (1942)

Raza (1942)

The troubled story of the Churruca family, a noble lineage of brave seamen, descendants of Cosme Damián Churruca, the Spanish hero of the Battle of Trafalgar; from the Spanish-American War (1898) to the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). (In 1950, a ...

Porque te vi llorar (1941)

Once the Spanish Civil War is over, the sons of the wealthy classes, who support politically and militarily the new regime, are preparing to begin their ascent in the social and economic sphere. ...

¡A mí no me mire usted! (1941)

Anselmo is a teacher who, for his love to hypnotize people is fired from his job. When going through these bad times, he receives an inheritance from America and travels there to collect it. Although not much money, at least in America he gets an employmen ...

Jai-Alai (1940)

Two fishermen and pelotaris, Josechu and Mikel, compete for Mirentxu's love. ...

Boy (1940)

Leyenda rota (1940)

Excuse (1939)

An English lady decides to buy a gypsy boy but she is deceived and receives a stolen child with dyed skin. The lady searches his real parents and they get their child back. ...

Nuestro culpable (1938)

A burglar with a big heart is arrested in a banker's house for a theft he did not commit. ...

Who Loves Me? (1936)

In order to save her marriage, the famous soprano Marta Vélez decides to retire from the stage. ...

El cura de aldea (1936)

Father Juan is a humble priest in a small 19th-century village in Salamanca. The quiet, even somber life of this village is recounted by the priest, who is always concerned for the well-being of his parishioners and the condition of the church, which is be ...

The Daughter of Juan Simón (1935)

Carmen and Ángel are in love but her mother does not approve their relationship. ...

Don Quintín, el amargao (1935)

A chronicle about the misadventures of Don Quintin, a character with a miserable life and a lot of bad humor. ...

Broken Lives (1935)

It Happened in Spain (1934)

A miller falls in love with the wife of a magistrate who, in turn, courts the miller's wife. (Lost film. ...

There Were Thirteen (1931)

This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On, in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer of an American found dead in a London hotel room. ...

Cheri-Bibi (1931)

Spanish Version of MGM's "The Phantom of Paris". Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him. ...

Do You Know Your Wife? (1931)

At a big party, Robert Felton, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Heriberto Drake. Heriberto who is happily married, bets Felton that the next woman who walks into the room, whoev ...

You Have to Marry the Prince (1931)

Tomson, a financial adviser, is called to the aid of the country of Sylvania by the Grand Duke Constantino, known as "Tino." Tomson refuses to aid Tino until the Duke's son Alexis is married. However, Alexis, a romantic, is not interested in the blue-blood ...