Francisco Arenzana

Movies

Half of Heaven
After the civil war, Rosa, a beautiful and hard worker woman falls in love with a sharpener who turns out to be a con man. When she becomes a widow, she emigrates to Madrid with her daughter beginning to work as a nurse in the home of Don Pedro, an influential food manager.
El gran crucero
With the East Wind
Sargento
The girlfriend of a young gypsy tries to guide her life in a proper way but does not achieve it. When she gets difficulties because of a fight everything changes.
Operación Plus Ultra
Isidro el labrador
Claudio
Los abanderados de la Providencia
Cupido contrabandista
John is a shy and good-natured man who lives in Ceuta and does everything by correspondence, from studying a career or learning judo to getting a girlfriend. She is from Madrid and the time has come for Juan to meet her so he takes a boat to the peninsula. In the boat he coincides with Maria, a beautiful young woman who goes to the capital to study chant and which he had previously met accidentally. During the trip, foreign smugglers try to use John to pass inadvertently stolen diamonds in Tangier.
091: Police speaking
Juan
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.
El destierro del Cid
Voice
A short documentary directed by Jesus Franco.
Las playas vacías
Voice
A short documentary directed by Jesus Franco.
La Gata
Jornalero
In a country house dedicated to breeding bulls, bound for bullfighting, a love story emerges, conditioned by social class differences.
The Other Life of Captain Contreras
Fiscal
Viento del norte
Juan
Haute Couture
Policía
Tona, model of a fashion house goes to see her ex-boyfriend to claim for some letters and finds him dead. Under the fear that the crime is attributed to her and also because she will soon marry Ramon, a rich young man of good family, she says nothing and goes to work as usual to show models. Meanwhile, the police opens an investigation.
Judas' Kiss
Dimas
The story of Judas's betrayal of Christ.
Hanging meat
Novato
On the XIX Century in Sierra Morena in Serranía de Ronda spread bandits thant cause panic in the cities robbing and killing travellers.
Puebla de las mujeres
Pepe Lora
A young man arrives at Puebla de las Mujeres, a village of Andalusia with the tradition that man that arrives, man that marries there. The foreigner is going to solve some issues of interest of an aunt who lives in the village. Soon as he arrives all women mobilize, captained by the mayor, for electing bride and organize the wedding. The designated Juanita de la Rosa, does not want to participate and he laughs at the arrangements saying that he has a girlfriend in Madrid.
Malaire
Noguère, an old patriarch, is about to die and decides to confess at last to a priest. He once lived alone with his son Juste, who helped him to farm the Mauvents land. One night Noguère fired at a couple of trespassers, hurting the girl and killing her fiancé. Giving Catoune, the girl, the shelter of his home, Noguère was forced - however reluctantly it may have been - to break the bad news to the fiancée. For all that Catoune recovered, settled down and later married Juste. After a while Juste left for the war and was soon reported missing. Noguère comforted the distressed young woman so well that she became her mistress. But Juste had not been killed.
Dawn of America
Francisco Arias
Kingdom of Castile, the late fifteenth century. The film chronicles the events that Cristóbal Colón lived (Antonio Vilar) from their stay in the Convent of La Rabida, his meeting with the Catholic Monarchs and, above all, the great odyssey that led to cross the Atlantic and reach the shores of America (1492), thus beginning a new era in the history of mankind.
Surcos
Pepe
A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything is illegal or immoral or both.