María Isbert

Propios y extraños (2010)

Happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you have. ...

Semen, a History of Love (2005)

A biologist in an insemination clinic unexpectedly falls in love with a free-spirited trapeze artist and the idea of fathering her child. A hilarious romantic comedy about love at first sight, with complications to follow...and more laughs than you could p ...

R2 y el caso del cadáver sin cabeza (2005)

R2 is going through hard times: his past failures have earned the anger of the Chief Inspector. He finds consolation visiting Didi's bar to cheer listening to music, especially blues. In addition, the Chief Inspector is jealous since he knows that R2 recei ...

Marry Me, Maribel (2003)

Maribel (Natalia Dicenta) is a prostitute working in Madrid in the late fifties. One night he meets Marcelino (Carlos Hipolito), shy and quiet man who falls for her. For Maribel is in principle a client more, but gradually begins to feel attracted to the s ...

Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure (2003)

In the Headquarters of the T.I.A. (Terminal Intelligence Agency), someone has stolen Professor Bacterio's most dangerous invention, the D.O.T. (Demoralizer of Troops), an artifact that ends up in the hands of a very short, wacky dictator who is ready to us ...

First and Last Love (2002)

An elderly man returns to his native town with the hope of finding his childhood love. ...

El florido pensil (2002)

"El Florido Pensil" is a humorous reflection of the education of several generations of Spaniards from the 1940s to the 1960s. Based on the book of the same name by Andrés Sopeña, it evokes, from the present, his memories of that time: everyday school, l ...

Y decirte alguna estupidez, por ejemplo, te quiero (2000)

The adventures of a group of secondary school . Juan, one of the group, falls in love with Sara, the new girl. ...

Speaking of Buñuel (2000)

Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Tho ...

Jara (2000)

Jara is an enigmatic girl who lives in the forest alone since she was a child. Tato, a lonely young boy, finds her one day and a love and passion story starts. ...

The Ugliest Woman in the World (1999)

Somebody has decided to celebrate New Year's Eve 2011 in a very twisted way - by dressing as a nun and brutally dismembering a little old lady. Lt. Arribas, a bald, toothless, one-eyed and lonely detective is called in on the case. His investigations lead ...

Pecata minuta (1999)

Atilano, presidente (1998)

Atilano Bermejo is a petty crook who gets involved in the scam of his life: to be Prime Minister. His charisma and lack of social concern make him an ideal political candidate for a group of bankers looking for a good public image behind which to hide and ...

La duquesa roja (1997)

An Andalusian duchess has the dilemma of what to do with a grove, whether to convert it into a natural reserve or to make a luxury urbanization. The duchess, who is torn between her aristocratic privileges and a social commitment that has cost her more tha ...

Los porretas (1996)

I Get Off at the Next Stop, What About You? (1992)

A divorcing couple remembers the best years of their lives. ...

Pareja enloquecida busca madre de alquiler (1990)

In this Spanish comedy, a couple's attempt to find a surrogate mother leads to a whirlwind of humorous situations and misunderstandings. Directed by Mariano Ozores, the film explores the unpredictable twists of family life and the lengths people go to fulf ...

Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing (1989)

Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year. ...

The Enchanted Forest (1987)

In Galicia, in northern Spain, Malvís, a frustrated day laborer who, fed up with his life, has become a clumsy bandit, tries to make a name for himself by robbing travelers passing through a forest inhabited by colorful characters. ...

Policía (1987)

Silver-beet Face (1987)

On a road in the deep Spain, a wanderer with no fixed course and light luggage awaits someone to take him somewhere. His name is Antonio and this is how he will end up in a small provincial town, where he will be involved in a plan to steal a canvas of inc ...

Los presuntos (1986)

Some gangsters believe they have been betrayed by Camilo, a small-time photographer, so they plan to kill him. First they send to Alexis, a murderer for hire, but his machine gun fails at the decisive moment. From that moment, Camilo and Alexis become inse ...

Los nuevos curanderos (1986)

Capullito de alhelí (1986)

Moises is a mature homosexual, which is having an affair by correspondence with Hilario, a recently widowed man who lives in Valencia. They decide to meet in Madrid and live together. But the chosen day is 23 February, the one in which Lieutenant Colonel T ...

A la pálida luz de la luna (1985)

Carmen leaves her husband Julio to go live with an intellectual who has made a career in the United States. While, Julio goes away to live of rent to house of an aristocrat come to less. After meeting several colorful characters, Julio decides to recover C ...

Réquiem por un campesino español (1985)

Hypocrisy and betrayal are the two dramatic pivots in this effective, emotionally gripping tragedy about the life and death of Paco (Antonio Banderas), a Spanish peasant who had been fighting against the feudal landowning system that kept farmers impoveris ...

El donante (1985)

Tato Montini (Andrés Pajares), a popular radio show host and ladies man, agrees to donate his penis for a transplant after his death. He dies, goes to Heaven and discovers that even in afterlife he would have still needed his penis. ...

Todo va mal (1984)

Los caraduros (1983)

Parody of a real event, the expropriation of RUMASA holding, owned by businessman Jose Maria Ruiz Mateos by the government led by Felipe González. The film chronicles the adventures of three friends José María (Antonio Ozores), Ruiz (Juanito Navarro) an ...

Una pequeña movida (1983)

Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor (1982)

El primer divorcio (1982)

Amor es... veneno, Carlota (1981)

Exit: Dead End (1981)

"El Rata" is released from prison after having served a sentence for "political" crimes during Franco's dictatorship. Now, on the street and with very few opportunities to work, he decides to commit a crime again. ...

Los chulos (1981)

Félix rebolledo is a pimp who owns a cabaret, two bingo halls and three dating houses. He now intends to open a party hall, and for this he has - as he always has - the support of the Bishop, whom he has bribed with frequent donations. Counting on the sup ...

Pepe, no me des tormento (1981)

Préstame tu mujer (1981)

The Magic Garter Belt (1980)

A solicitor's secretary goes to a creepy mansion to hand an inheritance to the deceased's niece. The house's service is trying to terrify the girl out of the house, where they know a treasure is hidden. ...

El erótico enmascarado (1980)

Manolo (Fernando Esteso) is a porn actor who no longer has any attraction towards women, having become "a decent man". But, of course, there is a horny doctor, who happens to be a fan of this actor, that will do everything to help him, even trying to turn ...

The Faithful Servants (1980)

The service staff of a luxurious Catalan farmhouse has prepared a large banquet because the arrival of the guests is expected. Everything is ready, but nobody arrives. Then, the housekeeper and the other servants will occupy for a few moments the place of ...

Un cero a la izquierda (1980)

The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)

When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him. ...

¡Vaya par de gemelos! (1978)

Pedro and Lucas are two twin brothers, residents of Tarazona, whom fortune smiles very differently. Luke is married to the owner of a modest supermarket and works as dependent, porter and whatever is needed ... Moreover, unlike his brother, he has never le ...

Las marginadas (1977)

Four women-one an alcoholic, one a former prostitute, one whose age hasn't forgiven her, and another whose boyfriend has dumped her-join forces to overcome their problems and find happiness. ...

La dudosa virilidad de Cristóbal (1977)

Esclava te doy (1976)

El adúltero (1975)

Tormento (1974)

A rich emigrant returns to Madrid where he meets the beautiful Amparo . ...

Onofre (1974)

Onofre, who is forty years old, is still a virgin. He's going to put great efforts to leave this state... ...

A Chaste Spanish Man (1973)

Don Santiago, a forty-year-old owner of a pastry shop in Madrid de los Austrias, receives surprising news: a woman, in fact his real mother, leaves him with a brothel in England. ...

The Lonely Heart (1973)

Antoñito is a bachelor who works in a cabaret as a clarinetist. He has put an advertisement in the newspaper, looking for a good and honest girl, and to which responds Rocío, who escapes from her native Córdoba to hide the embarrassment of her pregnancy ...

La curiosa (1973)

Soltero y Padre en la Vida (1972)

El avaro (1972)

Venta por pisos (1972)

Four families intend to buy a flat. In one of them, Margarita wants to marry Ernesto, despite his reluctance. The purchase of the flat is a great inconvenience and he uses this to delay the wedding as much as possible. ...

Una chica casi decente (1971)

Cesar Martin, better known as El Duque, is an elegant, charming and intelligent man, who has been obliged to be known by heart the Penal Code, as their profession is the scam. Cesar has another weakness: his beautiful daughter Silvia is always a decent per ...

El apartamento de la tentación (1971)

Juliet and Alberto are a marriage in which peace reigns home. Mood surely be upset if Juliet suspecte that her her husband uses the vet who runs to assist clients instead of animals. ...

La casa de los Martínez (1971)

Hay que educar a papá (1971)

A young woman who wants to marry an earl's son wants to refine the habits of their parents, people from a village that has been enriched in the overnight by selling their land. ...

La orilla (1971)

Simón, contamos contigo (1971)

A Lady Called Andrew (1970)

From the Olymp the gods keep an eye on a married couple whose disputes are endangering the stability of their marriage. In order to repair the relationship they use unconventional methods... ...

Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Fifth Floor Neighbour (1970)

Pedro, a handsome gynecologist who lives in Toledo (Spain), does not have just a clientele due to the jealousy that his sex appeal causes in the husbands and boyfriends of his patients. To make matters worse, his mother still treats him like a child and th ...

Los hombres las prefieren viudas (1970)

Marisa is an employee in a travel agency. She is in mourning and her workmates call her in fun 'the little widow'. One day, Carlos, the owner of a hotel in Almuñécar, visits the agency and is attracted by her thinking that she really is a widow. She fall ...

Coqueluche (1970)

La tonta del bote (1970)

Susana is an unappreciated, naive and somewhat clumsy orphan who has lived since she was a child at doña Engracia's house, because her mother died a few days after she was born. In this house, which also houses three nephews of doña Engracia without a pe ...

Con ella llegó el amor (1970)

Unmarried and Mother in Life (1969)

The frog test confirms Julita is pregnant. This is usually a great news. In this case, no. She is a victim of premarital sex, and he, Paco, a mechanic who, according to some theories of French biologist, explained by a podiatrist friend, will not be liable ...

Amor a todo gas (1969)

Un adulterio decente (1969)

Federico is having an affair with Fernanda, which he believes widow, when in fact she is married. When the trick is discovered, a doctor appears very opportunely saying that infidelity is a disease caused by bacteria and has no cure. In his private clinic ...

Cuatro noches de boda (1969)

After getting married in a church in Madrid, four couples, who have already left behind the anxiety of the chaotic wedding preparations, face the joys and disappointments of the honeymoon trip. ...

Mi marido y sus complejos (1969)

A married man with mother expected every day and especially forward to the arrival of the night to let off steam in a nightclub and escape from the daily drudgery family. ...

Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés (1969)

A band of young musicians will do the impossible to boycott a song they didn't like that's supposed to represent Spain in a famous musical contest. ...

¡Cómo está el servicio! (1968)

Vicenta Verruguillo came to Madrid to work as a bridesmaid in the house of a doctor and falls in love with his son. The boy, to keep his family is left without service, follow the advice of his father and pretends to be in love with her. Meanwhile, his cou ...

Operation Mata Hari (1968)

A Nun at the Crossroads (1967)

During an uprising in the Belgian Congo, a convent of nuns are besieged and the Reverend Mother is killed and Sister Maria is raped. Returning to Belgium, Sister Maria finds out to her horror that she is pregnant. Rejected by her family and her sister, she ...

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 ...

El secreto de papá (1967)

The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid (1967)

This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries wit ...

La mujer perdida (1966)

Sara is the daughter of a fisherman. ...

El arte de no casarse (1966)

Four stories about the arts of not getting married. Alfredo Landa performs the roles of a lawyer who has just finished his military service, a young marquis on his wedding day, a flirt and a soldier who deals with three girls at the same time. ...

Un beso en el puerto (1966)

Acompáñame (1966)

Eduvigis is an Eldery Lady who lives in Madrid, and visits bad luck on everyone that she looks at through glasses that her late husband gave her, which were made from crystals from an Egyptian Tomb. To arrange the sale of an inherited house, she must trave ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mi canción es para ti (1965)

Find Me That Girl (1964)

Sixteen-year-old Marisol sings her way across Spain with her father, chasing dreams and survival. On a sunlit campsite in Mallorca, she meets two students and dares to perform at a bullfighting event—hoping to be discovered. When talent scout Mr. Morriso ...

El camino (1964)

Shortly before leaving his small town to go to the big city to study, young Daniel recalls his childhood, surrounded by family and friends. ...

Un rincón para querernos (1964)

Un demonio con ángel (1963)

Escala en Hi-Fi (1963)

A group of young people pretending to achieve fame rehearse in a kind of pediment. Finally they will get a contract to act in television, but an error floods the study. ...

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 Big Family (1962)

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

Queen of the Chantecler (1962)

A Spanish music hall performer gets caught up in espionage during the First World War. ...

Viridiana (1962)

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised ...

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 ...

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 ...

El indulto (1960)

Spain, 1906: in a small village and pregnant after having been raped, Antonia is forced to marry the brutal Lucas to save her honor. But the mother of the girl pays Lucas 20,000 reales so that the man will never get any closer to Antonia or the child to be ...

Mi calle (1960)

Life events around a city street and its residents are told along the years while time goes by, wars break out and end and life evolves. ...

The Wheelchair (1960)

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

Un rayo de luz (1960)

A man and a woman have been secretly married. He belongs to a rich family and she is a poor actress and singer that is failing to success in her career. One day, he decides to tell his family that he's married and flies to Italy, where they live, but the f ...

El gafe (1959)

College Boarding House (1959)

As he shows a considerably higher interest in night life and vaudeville chorus girls than in textbooks, Gerardo Roquer is sent by his father from Madrid to the University of Santiago de Compostela, with the purpose of having him center in studying. There, ...

El puente de la paz (1958)

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 ...

El aprendiz de malo (1958)

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. ...

Un fantasma llamado amor (1957)

El rey de la carretera (1956)

A bus driver, Rafael, sacrifices his carriage and his true love, Rosario, to get money and buy a more powerful vehicle. This is all due to the rivalry he has with Peter, also bus driver with whom competes in all areas. ...

Como la tierra (1954)

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. ...

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 ...

Air Lashings (1951)

Alberto, "Zanahoria" and "Jabato" are three students of the Parachute School. They are the "lashing the air," friends, good partners but rivals and competitive in love. When they see Nati, a beautiful woman who falls in love with Alberto, jealousy will lea ...

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. ...

Currito de la Cruz (1949)

Currito de la Cruz's dream is to become a bullfighter. When he gets the chance to bullfight for the first time, he meets Carmona, a retired renowned bullfighter whom he manages to fascinate. As his protégé, Currito begins to be famous. At the same time, ...

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)

Botón de ancla (1948)

Marín, Galicia, Spain. Carlos, José Luis and Enrique, three good friends and final year students in the Naval Academy, argue due to love issues. ...

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 ...

Los habitantes de la casa deshabitada (1946)

In a dark and stormy night, Raimundo's car suffers a breakdown, so he and Gregorio, his chauffeur, must try to ask for shelter in the only nearby house, a sinister mansion, of those that seem inhabited by ghosts. ...

La mantilla de Beatriz (1946)

In XVII century Portugal two friends change identities so one of them can escape an unwanted marriage to Beatriz. ...

Un hombre de negocios (1945)

El camino de Babel (1945)

On the day that they receive their university diplomas, three young men make a bet: they will marry a rich woman and meet again one year later. ...

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 ...