Classic Spanish Movies
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1. The Executioner (1963)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Comedy
An undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and must continue his father-in-law's profession after his retirement, although he doesn't like it.
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella, José Isbert, José Luis López Vázquez
Votes: 7,436
2. Welcome Mr. Marshall! (1953)
78 min | Comedy
After finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del Río start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive.
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Lolita Sevilla, Manolo Morán, José Isbert, Alberto Romea
Votes: 4,823
3. Placido (1961)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
In a small Spanish town, a group of old ladies decides to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "seat a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintillá, Manuel Alexandre
Votes: 3,769
4. El mundo sigue (1965)
121 min | Drama
Two sisters who have a tumultuous sibling rivalry each try to find success, love, and status in 1960s Madrid.
Director: Fernando Fernán Gómez | Stars: Lina Canalejas, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Gemma Cuervo, Milagros Leal
Votes: 744
5. Main Street (1956)
99 min | Drama
A couple of friends decide to have a good time and play a trick on an unmarried woman. Therefore one of them has to pretend to fall in love with her.
Director: Juan Antonio Bardem | Stars: Betsy Blair, José Suárez, Yves Massard, Luis Peña
Votes: 1,662
6. The Hunt (1966)
91 min | Drama, Thriller
Three 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.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Ismael Merlo, Alfredo Mayo, José María Prada, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
Votes: 2,455
7. Surcos (1951)
104 min | Crime, Drama
The struggles of a Spanish family as it emigrates from the country to Madrid circa 1950.
Director: José Antonio Nieves Conde | Stars: Luis Peña, María Asquerino, Francisco Arenzana, Marisa de Leza
Votes: 812
8. Robbery at 3 O'clock (1962)
92 min | Comedy
Galindo works in a bank. One day he convinces the other employees in the bank to plan a hold-up in the bank they are working. They prepare everything carefully. However, real robbers come ... See full summary »
Director: José María Forqué | Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Cassen, Gracita Morales, Katia Loritz
Votes: 1,351
9. El cochecito (1960)
PG | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
Seventy-something Don Anselmo, a retired minister, becomes obsessed with owning a motorized wheelchair and fakes infirmity to get it.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: José Isbert, Pedro Porcel, José Luis López Vázquez, María Luisa Ponte
Votes: 1,576
10. The Rocket from Calabuch (1956)
93 min | Comedy
Professor Jorge Serra Hamilton, an American atomic-bomb specialist, flees from his transcendental duties to take shelter incognito in Calabuch, a small, idyllic Spanish village on the ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Valentina Cortese, Juan Calvo, Franco Fabrizi
Votes: 1,281
11. The Moment of Truth (1965)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
The rise and fall of a famous torero, Miguelin, inside and outside of the bullfighters ring.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Miguel Mateo 'Miguelín', José Gómez Sevillano, Pedro Basauri 'Pedrucho', Linda Christian
Votes: 1,028
12. The Little Apartment (1958)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
Rodolfo and Petrita live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, and each is looking for a little apartment ("pisito" in Spanish dialect), but their low salaries keep them in their old ... See full summary »
Directors: Marco Ferreri, Isidoro M. Ferry | Stars: Mary Carrillo, José Luis López Vázquez, Concha López Silva, Ángel Álvarez
Votes: 948
13. Girl from La Mancha (1962)
94 min | Drama
A young lady named Aldonza receives a communication from the famous Don Quixote, via Sancho Panza, and takes on the identity of the Cervantes character Dulcinea, which gets her into trouble.
Director: Vicente Escrivá | Stars: Millie Perkins, Folco Lulli, Walter Santesso, Vittoria Prada
Votes: 121
14. Red Fish (1955)
100 min | Crime
One 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 ... See full summary »
Director: José Antonio Nieves Conde | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Emma Penella, Félix Dafauce, Pilar Soler
Votes: 327
15. Nunca pasa nada (1963)
95 min | Drama
A young French cabaret showgirl spends a few days in a provincial Spanish city recovering from an operation, altering with her brash self-confidence the narrow-minded customs of the place ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Antonio Bardem | Stars: Corinne Marchand, Antonio Casas, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Julia Gutiérrez Caba
Votes: 234
16. Cielo Negro (1951)
113 min | Drama
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.
Director: Manuel Mur Oti | Stars: Susana Canales, Fernando Rey, Luis Prendes, Teresa Casal
Votes: 365
17. Vida en sombras (1949)
90 min | Drama
His director's only film, Vida en Sombras tells the story of a man who from his childhood falls in love with cinema and grows to be a director and cameraman. While struggling to make ... See full summary »
Director: Lorenzo Llobet Gracia | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, María Dolores Pradera, Isabel de Pomés, Fernando Sancho
Votes: 311
18. Mi tío Jacinto (1956)
90 min | Drama
Jacinto, a retired bullfighter who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter in which he is informed that, according to an old agreement, he must participate in a mock ... See full summary »
Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Pablito Calvo, Antonio Vico, José Marco Davó, Juan Calvo
Votes: 356
19. Los Tarantos (1963)
83 min | Drama, Romance
A boy and a girl from two rival Gypsy families fall in love.
Director: Francisco Rovira Beleta | Stars: Carmen Amaya, Sara Lezana, Daniel Martín, Antonio Gades
Votes: 399
20. Orgullo (1955)
106 min | Drama
The story of rivalry between the Mendozas and the Alzagas recommences as the two heirs fall in love.
Director: Manuel Mur Oti | Stars: Marisa Prado, Alberto Ruschel, Enrique Diosdado, Cándida Losada
Votes: 155
21. La calle sin sol (1948)
95 min | Drama, Mystery
Mauricio is a Frenchman who arrived in Barcelona fleeing from justice. He takes refuge in a pension in Chinatown (today called Raval) and falls in love with Pilar, the niece of the owner. ... See full summary »
Director: Rafael Gil | Stars: Amparo Rivelles, Antonio Vilar, Manolo Morán, Alberto Romea
Votes: 116
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