Miguel Mihura

Miguel Mihura

Birth : 1905-07-21, Madrid, Madrid, España

Death : 1977-10-28

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Miguel Mihura

Movies

Todos los nombres de Sara
Himself - Playwright (archive footage)
Born in Campo de Criptana, a small village in the Spanish region of La Mancha, Sara Montiel (1928-2013) conquered Mexico, Hollywood, and the hearts of people. The recognition of an unparalleled professional career, an intimate dialogue with a tireless worker who took the stage at the age of twelve and never got off. A movie star who seduced millions of viewers around the world, a singer who reinvented a musical genre, a woman who broke the mold…
Three Top Hats
Writer
Zarzuela based on the play with the same name by Miguel Mihura. European premiere. Broadcast live from El Teatro de la Zarzuela on November 27, 2019.
Ninette
Writer
Andrés, a dowdy Spaniard, goes to Paris on holiday, hoping to meet a pretty French girl. His wishes may come true after meeting Ninette, his landlord's sensual and possessive young daughter.
Marry Me, Maribel
Writer
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 shy provincial, owner of a chocolate factory in Soria. Pili (Nathalie Seseña), Rufi (Mireia Ros) and Nini (Malena Alterio), the companions of Maribel, truculent by nature suspicious of this relationship and begin to suspect that the provincial could be a murderer. When Maribel Marcelino asks her to marry him, they intervene and away from Marcelino and his "strange family". Adapted from the play "Maribel and the Strange Family" by Miguel Mihura.
Amor es... veneno, Carlota
Writer
La tetera
Writer
Viva lo imposible
Writer
La decente
Writer
El caso del señor vestido de violeta
Writer
Panthers Eat the Rich
Theatre Play
In order to access a more important position in the company, Don José, a wealthy bachelor, must get rid of his lover. To try to achieve this, he must get her romantically entangled with his friend Vicente.
La bella Dorotea
Writer
Ninette and a Gentleman from Murcia
Writer
Andrés (Fernando Fernán Gómez) is a simple man: he owns a store that sells religious articles and he's never left his hometown of Murcia. After unexpectedly inheriting a sum of money, he decides to take a trip to Paris, where his friend Armando (Alfredo Landa) lives. His friend finds him lodging in a boarding house where Andrés meets Ninette (Rosenda Monteros), an attractive Parisian girl.
For Men Only
Novel
Maribel y la extraña familia
Writer
The life of Maribel, a disilluisoned prostitute working the Madrid of 1960, suddenly changes when a simple man that she meets by chance without knowing her profession, decides that she is the woman of her life and that he wants to marry her and to meet his odd family.
Melocotón en almíbar
Writer
El puente de la paz
Story
El puente de la paz
Screenplay
¡Viva lo imposible!
Adaptation
Tired of the hardship imposed by his modest salary, Don Sabino selling their meager belongings and convinces his sons to join him in the adventure of know other cities, other people and another way of living.
Carlota
Screenplay
Carlota
Theatre Play
Pecadora
Writer
A tango singer is involved in the death of a lender.
Fail in Communism
Idea
The story of two students in a school of terrorism installed in the south of France and considered a "sanctuary" and not by the Virgin of Lourdes, sent to Spain to fulfill a dark mission that failed dismally when mistaken for a priest with his link.
El caso de la mujer asesinadita
Story
Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.
Three Dates with Destiny
Writer
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Screenplay
A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the American visitors, in the hopes of benefiting under the Marshall Plan. Hoping to demonstrate the side of Spanish culture with which the visiting foreign officials would be more familiarized, the Castilian citizens don unfamiliar Andalusian costumes, hire a renowned flamenco performer, and re-decorate their town in Andalusian style, meantime waiting for their uncertain arrival.
Yo no soy la Mata-Hari
Story
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, decides to become agent X25.
My Beloved Juan
Writer
The strange disappearance of the dogs of his neighbors leads Juan to investigate the case on his own. It ends up finding out that the author of the robberies is a young woman called Eloísa, the cocky daughter of a scientist who uses dogs to create an antidote against sleep. Juan and Eloísa fall in love, but he will ask her to leave her luxurious mansion to live only with his salary.
Siempre vuelven de madrugada
Writer
A good-for-nothing young man and his friend are involved in a woman's death. To escape Police and wanting a change he goes to the small country village he used to visit with his family. Yet his past will find him there.
An Ordinary Woman
Dialogue
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.
An Ordinary Woman
Story
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.
El extraño caso de la mujer asesinada
Theatre Play
A woman fond of spiritualism and neglected by her husband starts an affair with an American industrialist.
The Sunless Street
Screenplay
Mauricio is a Frenchman who arrived in Barcelona fleeing from justice. He takes refuge in a hostel in Chinatown and falls in love with Pilar, the niece of the owner. When a murder is committed in the neighborhood, Mauricio becomes the prime suspect.
Ni pobre, ni rico, sino todo lo contrario
Writer
Castillo de naipes
Additional Dialogue
Intriga
Dialogue
Un bigote para dos
Lyricist
Enriqueto, the proud owner of a splendid mustache, feels his heart divided between the kindly Manolita and the feckless Lilí. (A redubbed version of the Austrian film Immortal Melodies —Unsterbliche Melodien, 1935—, an operetta based on the life of the Austrian composer Johann Strauss, the Waltz King; with a new humorous plot and new music and songs. The original soundtrack was lost around 1949; only a 2014 subtitled version is preserved.)
Un bigote para dos
Dialogue
Enriqueto, the proud owner of a splendid mustache, feels his heart divided between the kindly Manolita and the feckless Lilí. (A redubbed version of the Austrian film Immortal Melodies —Unsterbliche Melodien, 1935—, an operetta based on the life of the Austrian composer Johann Strauss, the Waltz King; with a new humorous plot and new music and songs. The original soundtrack was lost around 1949; only a 2014 subtitled version is preserved.)
Un bigote para dos
Screenplay
Enriqueto, the proud owner of a splendid mustache, feels his heart divided between the kindly Manolita and the feckless Lilí. (A redubbed version of the Austrian film Immortal Melodies —Unsterbliche Melodien, 1935—, an operetta based on the life of the Austrian composer Johann Strauss, the Waltz King; with a new humorous plot and new music and songs. The original soundtrack was lost around 1949; only a 2014 subtitled version is preserved.)
Un bigote para dos
Director
Enriqueto, the proud owner of a splendid mustache, feels his heart divided between the kindly Manolita and the feckless Lilí. (A redubbed version of the Austrian film Immortal Melodies —Unsterbliche Melodien, 1935—, an operetta based on the life of the Austrian composer Johann Strauss, the Waltz King; with a new humorous plot and new music and songs. The original soundtrack was lost around 1949; only a 2014 subtitled version is preserved.)
Los hijos de la noche
Additional Dialogue
A marginal group celebrates Christmas Eve singing and dancing in the street while a millionaire celebrates the feast offering a great dinner to his friends. The millionaire receives a telegram from his sister in America who announces her visit after more than twenty years without seeing each other…
Victim of Hatred
The Inaccessible Girl
Una de fieras
Story