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- DirectorJuan Antonio BardemStarsLucia BosèAlberto ClosasBruna CorràA couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.
- DirectorJosé Antonio Nieves CondeStarsLuis PeñaMaría AsquerinoFrancisco ArenzanaThe struggles of a Spanish family as it emigrates from the country to Madrid circa 1950.
- DirectorIgnacio F. IquinoStarsJosé SuárezSoledad LenceAlfonso EstelaA young policemen witnesses a bank robbery which will become his first case. To catch the thieves he will infiltrate himself as one of the gang members. At first it works, but it won't be so easy afterwards.
- DirectorLawrence HuntingtonJulio SalvadorStarsRichard GreeneAnouk AiméeMichael DenisonA government agent is sent to the French-Spanish border to round up smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered. He is helped by singer Anouk Aimee, who he falls in love with.
- DirectorLuis SaslavskyStarsMaría FélixRossano BrazziVittorio GassmanAn amnesiac woman discovers her past was that of criminal.
- DirectorJosé María ForquéStarsEmma PenellaAmelia BenceLuis PrendesTonight "The Golden Mouse Trap" is a crime scene sealed by the cops. Who stabbed young newcomer Patricia in the face? Her jealous workmate Lola? The pianist who might know her from before? The slick client with money to burn?
- DirectorJulien DuvivierJosé Antonio Nieves CondeStarsGeorge SandersHerbert MarshallPatricia RocAlong the Spanish coast, American smuggler Mike Alexander comes into conflict with human-trafficker Captain Nicarescu and both of them are tracked by undercover Spanish police inspector Carnero.
- DirectorRafael GilStarsMaría FélixAntonio VilarMary DelgadoA 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.
- DirectorAntonio SantillánStarsCarlos López MoctezumaArmando MorenoBeatriz AguirreWith the intention of stealing the compensation for a work accident, Enrique kills an old man. However, it turns out that he had not yet collected it, so he will try, then, to falsify the signature of the check. Meanwhile, at the same time that the police are investigating the case, the son of the police inspector investigates on his own.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsFernando Fernán GómezJean ServaisLaura GranadosIn an unnamed Central American state on the eve of a crucial election, a young police informer working for police officer Miguel Mora bent on uncovering the shady works of popular politician Maurice Leprince is killed. However, thugs working for Leprince began to be killed one by one as well...
- DirectorJuan BoschStarsArturo FernándezGisia ParadísCarlos LarrañagaCarlos is a poor but ambitious young man who lives in the outskirts of Barcelona. Desiring to improve his life and earn a lot of money, even through crime, he will suggest to an old friend who has many contacts the plan to steal in the offices of the company where he used to work.
- DirectorJulio CollStarsRossana PodestàArturo FernándezCarlos LarrañagaVíctor is a handsome boy, skeptical and lover of the pleasures of life. He has no job or benefit and lives on women without realizing that his behavior triggers dramas and disappointments, pain and hopelessness.
- DirectorCarlos Serrano de OsmaStarsManuel LunaRoberto ReyAlicia RomayJoaquin Monegro feels a huge hatred for Abel Sánchez, who was once his best friend. Over the years, Monegro marries without love, and tries to have his children marry, but not forgetting Abel so far.
- DirectorLadislao VajdaStarsMilúGuillermo MarínManolo Morán
- DirectorIgnacio F. IquinoStarsViktor StaalLaya RakiAlbert MatterstockAntonio is a nineteen-year-old orphan to whom his mother has left a huge fortune. Unfortunately his tactless tutor has undertaken to dispossess him - little by little - of his money. Antonio, who is not wet, is aware of his tutor's schemes and decides to put an end to them. To this end, he asks a gang of young bandits to break into his own house and to steal the money ... which is his! The burglars perform their task satisfyingly, not without killing the tutor, but when they leave Antonio's house they are surprised to find the road blocked. In fact the neighboring valley is to be flooded by the opening of a dam...
- DirectorLadislao VajdaStarsHeinz RühmannSigfrit SteinerSiegfried LowitzHaving doubts about the guilt of the obvious suspect in the murder of an eight year old girl, a police detective decides to investigate the case on his own.
- DirectorAntonio SantillánStarsJosefina GüellPhilippe LemaireArturo FernándezRosario is unjustly condemned for a robbery committed in the Variety Theater, where she worked as secretary of businessman Gastón Leducq. When she leaves prison, she tries to prove her innocence. But then Gastón appears murdered and Rosario becomes the main suspect. Mercedes, Gastón's wife, accuses her of being the author of the crime. Then appears a stranger who blackmails Mercedes, demanding a large sum of money in exchange for the evidence that shows the innocence of Rosario, but he is murdered. The police discover the relationship between the two murders and ends up discovering the true culprit of the double crime.
- DirectorJosé Luis BorauStarsSusana CamposCarlos EstradaJosé María PradaAndrés, son of a famous pianist, discovers the corpse of a tuner killed in his shop, located in the basement of his house. Then a suspect leaves, but in the fear of possible reprisals he doesn't tell anything to the police, only to his wife Laura. From that moment on, Andrés feels threatened and persecuted.
- DirectorCésar Fernández ArdavínStarsJosé SuárezFélix FernándezNani FernándezA famous novelist is murdered in a closed room inside and out. Suicide is ruled out, as there are signs of fighting and the shot that killed him was in the back.
- DirectorEdgar NevilleStarsConchita MontesFernando Fernán GómezGuillermo MarínThe story of a crime is unwound during carnival days in 1910s Madrid in this atmospheric Spanish film.
- DirectorJulio SalvadorStarsConrado San MartínElena EspejoFrancisco RabalA newly remarried widow is accused of having murdered her first husband, who died from arsenical poisoning. Being her present husband a lawyer he takes charge of her defense.
- DirectorFrancisco Rovira BeletaStarsJorge MistralMarisa de LezaMara BerniThe handsome Andrade, the undergraduate Miguel and a street vendor called 'El Rubio' plan to steal a shipment of jewelry traveling aboard the express train of Andalusia. But to carry out the action they are forced to kill a couple of operators. The police will keep track of the three thieves, who have tried to sell that jewelry to the antiques dealer Salinas and his beautiful mistress Silvia.
- DirectorFrancisco Rovira BeletaStarsFrancisco RabalJulia MartínezCarlos OteroMiguel, a quick-tempered sailor, is fired from his job and hardly finds another one to support his family as a harbor depot watchman. Unsatisfied, he will plan a robbery.
- DirectorEdgar NevilleStarsConchita MontesFosco GiachettiMaria DenisBarcelona, in the forties. Young Andrea comes to town to start college in the midst of an oppressive environment and extreme poverty. She's staying at her aunt Angustias, along with other family members. But the quarrels between them are continuous, making evident the open wounds left by the Spanish civil war.
- DirectorJosé Antonio de la LomaMarcello BaldiStarsAmedeo NazzariLidia AlfonsiKatia LoritzMiguel is a truck driver who dreams of owning a service station. To raise money he agrees to sabotage a truck of his boss' rival, which results in the death of its driver. Miguel gets his station but is haunted by what he did to obtain it.
- DirectorMario CamusStarsAlberto ClosasGisia ParadísTomás BlancoA salesman discovers that his wife has died under strange circumstances. Examining these circumstances it becomes obvious to him that they were mainly caused by himself.
- DirectorJosé María NunesStarsÁngel ArandaÁngela BravoFernando CebriánDavid is a young man of twenty-five and law student who feels an enormous reluctance to everything around him. This attitude will lead him, in a sterile way, to shut himself up without any kind of interest in what is happening around. Finally, David will be involved in a succession of small crimes that led him to discover the corpse of the husband of his French friend Lucile in the trunk of the car where his fleeing to France, which makes the young woman join the trip.
- DirectorJosé Luis Sáenz de HerediaStarsRaf ValloneElena VarziJulio PeñaMartin, a perfume seller coincide with his former classmate and bright, Roberto, who has left her lover planted tonight. Roberto Martin accompanies her home and meets his wife Berta, which falls in love. To get it, he will devise the perfect murder.
- DirectorJosé Antonio Nieves CondeStarsArturo de CórdovaEmma PenellaFélix DafauceOne night of storm, Hugo and Ivón arrive at a hotel in Gijón (Spain) accompanied by the son of the first one. They go out to see the sea raging and, shortly after, Ivón returns asking for help because the boy has been washed away by the sea. As the corpse does not appear, a commissioner takes charge of the case.
- DirectorEnrique GómezStarsManuel MonroyIsabel de CastroManolo MoránStephan, arrives in Spain with a letter from a friend who died in the prison camp where they were both interned
- DirectorCarlos Serrano de OsmaStarsFernando Fernán GómezIsabel de PomésJosé María LadoGaspar is a saturnine, lackluster bachelor who falls in love with Rita, a moribund phthisic woman. When she passes away, Gaspar adopts her previous out-of-wedlock daughter, thus regaining faith in life. With the purpose of raising the girl, he brings home an English governess and an educated old friend. A toxic love triangle unfolds between the three adults.
- DirectorFrancisco Pérez-DolzStarsJosé SuárezLuis PeñaCarlos OteroIn this noir film, two outlaw men, Martín and Antoine, get in touch with Román in order to obtain machine guns and a fourth men for a robbery, in the Barcelona of the 60s.
- DirectorJosé Antonio de la LomaStarsAgnès LaurentArmand MestralBarbara LaageOn a lonely beach in the Mediterranean, a man and woman meet. She takes his to her summer villa, where he reveals a deadly secret-- a plan of murder. Seeking to dissuade him, the woman relates the story of Andre and Theresa, a story of youthful passion and murderous revenge.
- DirectorMario CamusStarsJulián MateosLuis RomeroCarlos OteroIt is the portrait of the life of an amateur boxer who falls into the hands of a cruel manager while turning into professional.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaJorge GrauStarsEdmund PurdomGeneviève PageGino CerviAn American police detective's investigation into a series of murders leads him to drug smugglers in North Africa.
- DirectorFrancisco Rovira BeletaStarsPierre BriceManuel GilJulián MateosThe film is divided into three parts: 'Restlessness', 'Violence' and 'Death', to explain the motivations, evolution and defeat of three young misfits from Barcelona who end up being robbers. The way of crime is an easy way for them: a boy and a worker without a job or benefit are induced by 'el Señorito', the son of a rich lawyer. Together they form a band. Hard and violent, the film is made with a clear intention of social criticism and research of realism, culminating in a final scene that raised quite controversial.
- DirectorLuis María DelgadoStarsAlberto de MendozaJosé Marco DavóAlberto DalbésA girl, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, is kidnapped by a man and taken to a country house to await the collection of the ransom. But several unforeseen events complicate the kidnapper's plans.
- DirectorJosé A. ZorrillaStarsEusebio PoncelaIsabel MestresPedro Díez del CorralAfter two years inactive, the inspector Crisanto is reintegrated into the service. The first case he will have to solve, apparently very easy, gets complicated. His friend Deputy Commissioner González is then murdered, although tracking the murder will be very difficult because he no longer has the confidants he once had.
- DirectorJulio SalvadorStarsConrado San MartínElena EspejoTomás BlancoBarcelona, 1950. A man is killed in front of a Police station. The case is given to two agents, a skilled veteran and an eager young one, who team to solve it while bit by bit their efforts unveil the truth. We follow them in their progress with ups and downs, to a thrilling climax in a local amusement park. Filmed on location, so many views of Barcelona at the time.
- DirectorJulio CollStarsAlberto ClosasArturo FernándezJesús ColomerFive men commit a robbery and flee each by their side. Later they meet in a local to distribute the money. While they wait for Juan, who is the one who takes the booty, each of them begins to imagine what he will do with his part. But the waiting is prolonged, and the thieves begin to suspect that their companion will never come. They remember then how they knew him and how the events happened until that day.
- DirectorLluís Josep ComerónStarsPatxi AndiónCarme EliasHéctor AlterioA bank robbery goes wrong. The robbers, two of them unemployed family men, take two hostages, one of them needing heart medication, and leave them in an apartment, tied to a bomb. The police has to find the apartment before the bomb explodes. At the same time, in the same house, two old men are solving a jigsaw puzzle, and a female cellist practices the Bach cello suites.
- DirectorGeorge CahanStarsJean-Pierre AumontAlix TaltonTônia CarreroA four-alarm murder mystery, this nerve-tingling story is about a dashing, prominent builder in Brazil who is mistakenly accused of killing his wife, but because of it learns the truth about the woman he thought he knew.
- DirectorEduardo MignognaStarsEulàlia RamonGrégoire ColinMartin LamotteBolivia, 1945. Two murders have been committed in Hotel Central, the inhospitable meeting point of the mixture of indigenous, Creole and European people who live in San Jacinto, a city of despair. Adela, the attractive owner's wife, blames Maria, one of the servants. But Timar, a young traveler, finds out some information that suggests a very different truth. In an oppressive atmosphere, where escaping seems to be the only thing that matters, Timar will struggle between his feelings for Adela and the injustice of convicting an innocent person. The risk of it is losing the few values he still has; the reward, experiencing love at its most.
- DirectorJosé Luis GarciStarsAlfredo LandaMaría CasanovaManuel TejadaPrivate detective Germán Areta gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies. But when Areta starts looking into case, it leads him to the dark underbelly of Madrid where he finds that he is not only one looking for the girl. Someone else is also interested in her, someone powerful and dangerous who will stop at nothing to prevent Areta from discovering the truth..
- DirectorJosé Luis GarciStarsAlfredo LandaMaría CasanovaMiguel RellánPrivate detective Germán Areta is investigating the life of a man who has apparently abandoned another man. When they both turn up dead, it seems one killed the other before committing suicide, but Areta is not convinced. After his assistant is murdered, Areta has to chose between his desire to continue the investigation and his fear of dying for nothing.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsFernando TielveAida FolchAriadna GilBarcelona, 1948: An old man living with 14 y.o. Dani and his mom, arranges for Dani to draw the cute 15 y.o. Susana, bedridden with TB. Her dad's friend visits Susana and her sexy mom and tells about her dad and Shanghai.
- DirectorEdgar NevilleStarsManuel LunaMary DelgadoAntonia PlanaOn a dark night, the body of a well-known society woman is found; the investigators immediately suspect that the killer was the woman's maid. For her part, the maid demands that the woman's fiancé be brought in for questioning. Some journalists covering the story decide to follow up on the maid's suggestion and gradually piece together the chain of events that led to the murder.
- DirectorTulio DemicheliStarsAurora BautistaArturo de CórdovaMaría Dolores PraderaCarlos y Julia se van de vacaciones a una playa. Roldós, un seductor, se queda cerca. Julia recibe un intrigante mensaje que pone celoso a Carlos. Unos disparos y la desaparición de Roldós incriminan a Carlos.
- DirectorRamón TorradoStarsFernando Fernán GómezJulia MartínezJulia Caba AlbaPedro Gutiérrez is a modest bank employee who is in financial difficulties and dreams of marrying María. One night, while he is at the office working overtime, Pedro discovers some thieves. After shooting him in the leg, the thieves flee in terror, leaving a bundle of thirty thousand dollars inside the safe. Puzzled, Pedro decides to appropriate the money with the intention of leading a more comfortable life, which will cause him many problems.
- DirectorRicardo GascónStarsArmando MorenoManuel GasMiguel FletaDuran and his team of the fifth group are secret agents missioned by Inspector Peña to find and capture a gang of dangerous criminals who are planning a major hit.
- DirectorAntonio Isasi-IsasmendiStarsKarl MaldenOlivia HusseyChristopher MitchumA six-year-old boy witnesses mobsters beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the now-grown boy begins to track down and eliminate the men who did it, determined to wipe out the entire gang. A police detective investigating the killings, and the Mafia boss who heads the gang, are just as determined to stop him.
- DirectorJuan FortunyStarsGinette LeclercMario BeutChristine CarèreWill André obey his dad and live on the right side of the law? Or will he follow the baddies in their dishonest deeds?
- DirectorJosé María ForquéStarsAdolfo MarsillachTony LeblancSusana CamposEver since his daughter was taken from him by the fault of a hit-and-run car, Inspector Andrés has been haunted by memories.
- DirectorJuan BoschStarsAdriano RimoldiAntonio PugaAnna AmendolaA dangerous criminal is arrested after a bumpy chase down the mountain. Since he is already getting dark, Inspector Ortega, a soldier and the malefactor are forced to take refuge in a mountain hostel, where they meet other people in the same circumstance. So, to pass the time entertainingly, those present explain various stories that deal with the influence of fate in people's lives. These episodes are the flight of a hotel manager after committing an embezzlement; the encounter in a mountain refuge between a skier and a mysterious woman; the gruesome story of a taxi driver and his afterlife passenger; the arrest of the criminal by the aforementioned Inspector Ortega and, finally, the robbery in a church of a figure of the child Jesus.
- DirectorJuan BoschStarsArturo FernándezEdith ElmayJorge RigaudJuan Valdés, manager of a company, plays a game of cards with a group of people he has met at a cabaret. Realizing that one of them is cheating, he fights with the man and unwittingly kills him. To cope with such a situation, he is forced to embezzle his company, but he is discovered. When, after three years in prison, he comes out and discovers that he was the victim of a scam, he sets out to take revenge on those who ruined his life.
- DirectorJohn GuillerminAlfonso AcebalStarsCarlos ThompsonLinda ChristianCharles KorvinA beautiful slim blonde named Maria is saved from the sea by some fishermen. They take her to their small village and quickly start lusting after her. This leads to infighting and soon all hell breaks loose.
- DirectorJosé Luis MonterStarsEddie ConstantineElisa MontésJosé NietoDown on his luck writer Eddie Ross (Eddie Constantine) comes to the aid of a young woman seemingly being accosted on the street. His heroism nets Eddie a job with an odd underground figure known only as Martinez. The boss gives Eddie enough money to rent an apartment, buy new clothes and get a pet chimp(?!). The down side of the job is that Eddie finds himself becoming an enforcer for Martinez's blackmailing schemes. Teaming up with the young lady he saved earlier, Eddie sets out to to find out what hold Martinez has over her and what the jig is.
- DirectorVíctor MerendaStarsFrank VillardDarío MorenoDany CarrelJean Faran has the misfortune to run over with his car a young woman named Micaela. Once recovered from the fright, she invites him to her house to have a few drinks.
- DirectorFrancisco RegueiroStarsMaurice RonetAmparo Soler LealYelena SamarinaAfter murdering his girlfriend, Amador leaves Madrid, where he lived with his aunt, and goes to Guadalajara with his family. But, as he does not support them, he goes to Torremolinos, where he is involved in the death of a foreigner young woman. There he will also meet a girl from Madrid.
- DirectorMiguel IglesiasStarsJosé GuardiolaIsabel de CastroÁngel JordánA group of robbers assault a factory in the port of Barcelona, but, upon being discovered, they are forced to flee hastily, each one his own way. An exhaustive police device is then initiated with the aim of capturing them. But the police persecution to which the members of the gang are subjected incites distrust between them and, one after another, they will fall, until only two remain.
- DirectorAgustín Díaz YanesStarsVictoria AbrilPilar BardemFederico LuppiEscaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime, Gloria (Victoria Abril), a young woman of lower class, comes back to Madrid, Spain and to her family. There she tries to find work and earn some money...
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsManuel ZarzoLuis MarínÓscar CruzA bunch of scoundrels and members of the Spanish youth, who until now have not paid attention more than in the police stations. They are a group of friends who survive as they can in the suburbs of Madrid.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsIsmael MerloAlfredo MayoJosé María PradaThree men go hunting rabbits during a hot day. Heat and talking about events happened in the past make them angry, until they go totally crazy.
- DirectorDonald TaylorStarsRubén RojoFernando ReyNina Karell
- DirectorAntonio SantillánStarsMarta PadovanVíctor ValverdeGérard TichyAfter committing a robbery, Rafael joins Silvestre and they begin a long run to escape the Police that takes them to Puigcerdà, near the French border they want to cross. Silvestre is tougher and they have some quarrels.
- DirectorRafael MoleónStarsVictoria AbrilCarmen MauraAntonio BanderasPoor gigolo tries to frame his rich mature mistress, but gets tangled in his own wiles.
- DirectorEdward DeinLuis MarquinaStarsHonor BlackmanJosé BódaloGérard TichyA man wanted by the police who, on arriving in Tangier, finds a corpse from which he steals the money and documents, after which he escapes to Mallorca. He'll think he's safe there, but a woman follows in his footsteps.
- DirectorCésar Fernández ArdavínTed LeversuchStarsFernando ReyBob SimmonsJune PowellAn undercover agent tracks a smuggling ring to Morocco, and finds himself involved with a nightclub singer, a seemingly cavalier police inspector and a murder.
- DirectorCésar Fernández ArdavínStarsAmedeo NazzariMärta TorénRafael de CórdobaShortly 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 ruin his family life.