Manuel Requena

Una chica de Chicago (1960)

Con la vida hicieron fuego (1959)

The sailor Quico Carola, alleged war hero of the Francoist side, emigrated to America and amassed a great fortune. Fifteen years later he returns to Ferrera (Asturias), his homeland, in search of a wife who makes him forget his late girlfriend. There he wi ...

Luxury Cabin (1959)

Aurelio leaves his village and goes to the capital to work with a relative in an emigration shipping company. He soon discovers that his relative earns a bonus extorting migrants who sell tickets. But Aurelio is an honest, sensible man who cannot allow suc ...

Soledad (1959)

Soledad and Miguel are two young people in a romantic relationship. Don Ramón, a wealthy stranger, arrives in their small town and marries Soledad. Miguel leaves town and wanders aimlessly throughout the region with a peddler. ...

Historias de Madrid (1958)

Dawn in Madrid. In the Plaza de la Cibeles begins the daily grind. The statue of the goddess, from its source in the center of the square tells the story of a man, petty speculator, owner of an old building that is going to ask Saint Nicholas for his coope ...

The War Starts in Cuba (1957)

Year 1898. When war broke out in Cuba, Juanita, a beautiful variety singer without much luck, decides to return to Spain when she discovers that her twin sister Adelaide has married the governor of Badajoz. Adelaide is capricious, vain and embarrassing, th ...

Gioventù disperata (1957)

A doctor whose wife has been accidentally killed by a young man who lives in an impoverished zone of Madrid, goes there with the intention of taking revenge, but after meeting the man's little sister, he goes through a change of heart and decides to stay a ...

Messengers of Peace (1957)

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

Un marido de ida y vuelta (1957)

Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife dies victim of a heart attack the day she forces him to shave his beloved beard to go to a costume ball dressed as a bullfighter. Its spectrum then begins to w ...

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. ...

Encuentro en la ciudad (1956)

La fierecilla domada (1956)

Suspiros de Triana (1955)

The famous singer Carlos Ojeda has come to Seville to hire some Spanish figure to accompany him on the show to be presented in Mexico. Negotiations with Dorita, The Cadiz, fail and Carlos is about to return to empty when discovered Reyes, selling beautiful ...

The Miller's Saucy Wife (1955)

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

Finally Alone (1955)

La lupa (1955)

Mr. Arkadin (1955)

Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new ac ...

The Other Life of Captain Contreras (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. ...

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. ...

Como la tierra (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 ...

Tres huchas para Oriente (1954)

Pedro Manolo and Juan, three naughty and full of enthusiasm children go out with their piggy banks collecting money for missions. Near the end of the day, a car ran over one of them and is driven to a nearby hospital. The head of school, not knowing which ...

Nadie lo sabrá (1953)

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 ...

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. ...

Imperial Violets (1952)

Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis Napoleón of France she takes the young girl with her. The empress'cousin readily makes her his focus of attention, th ...

Agua sangrienta (1952)

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. ...

Estrella de Sierra Morena (1952)

Facultad de Letras (1952)

Lola the Coalgirl (1952)

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

The Girl at the Inn (1951)

Juan Luis and Dimas arrive to the "Venta del Catite", a tavern run by Rafael and his goddaughter Reyes. The tavern is frequented by tuna fishermen in the region, but in reality it is a cover for smuggling. Rafael decides to hire a beautiful singer, Raquel, ...

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 ...

María Antonia "La Caramba" (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 ...

Yo no soy la Mata-Hari (1950)

After the execution of the spy Mata-Hari, the secret service takes the opportunity to arrest some of her collaborators. To arrest one of the ringleaders, they use his girlfriend Niní, a naive dancer. The girl, tired of being manipulated by everyone, decid ...

Flor de lago (1950)

Historia en dos aldeas (1950)

Sin uniforme (1950)

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

En un rincón de España (1949)

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. ...

¡Olé torero! (1949)

Manuel is a friendly taxi driver in Buenos Aires that helps its beginnings to a famous Spanish bullfighter dubbed "The Carthusian". He travels to Spain to marry a young Sevillian, rich and beautiful, and Manuel accompanies him on the trip, as administrator ...

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. ...

La cigarra (1948)

Soledad, known as "La Cigarra", agrees to sing in Buenos Aires to have the opportunity to meet her liar boyfriend, whom she tries to forget in Rio. ...

Pototo, Boliche y Compañía (1948)

Póker de ases (1947)

A Christmas Carol (1947)

A Christmas Carol ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dulcinea (1947)

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. ...

Barrio (1947)

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 ...

Chantaje (1946)

The Other Fu Manchu (1946)

An obscure, unauthorised 1946 Spanish spoof The Other Fu Manchu, the Devil Doctor ...

El pirata Bocanegra (1946)

Un hombre de negocios (1945)

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. ...

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 ...

Tuvo la culpa Adán (1944)

Nora leaves the convent where she has been raised to marry a relative. Just arrived she has an accident resulting in total amnesia. Her identity mistaken a new life begins for her, where she will encounter love, adventure and even crime. ...

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. ...

Café de París (1943)

After suffering a family tragedy, Carmen leaves Spain and emigrates to Paris, where she will make new friends among some of the most peculiar characters who inhabit the bohemian neighborhoods of the city. (Partially lost film. ...

Goyescas (1942)

Two women (both played by Imperio Argentina) from different social backgrounds, a singer and a countess, become entangled in a love triangle over their love for the same man. ...