José María Beltrán
Birth : 1898-06-03, Zaragoza, Spain
Death : 1962-01-22
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Working-class dude grows up surrounded with petty delinquency and ghetto temptations; he marries a rich girl and faces the disapproval of her parents. Then the young couple plans a crime...
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A 1957 Mexico/Span production.
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A 1957 Spanish film.
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The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Paraná. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.
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Tico-Tico no Fubá is a 1952 Brazilian comedy film directed by Adolfo Celi and starring Anselmo Duarte. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. The film is a fictionalized biography of Brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu (1880–1935), who penned the song "Tico-Tico no Fubá" that became an international hit in the 1940s.
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A humble boy who works in a theater company must become the husband of an actress so that she can get her son back.
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“I just tell ’em, I don’t explain ’em,” Red Skelton used to say. But even Freud couldn’t explain International Burlesque, an Arkay Enterprises pic which bounces around more than spit on a hot griddle!
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The captain of a small vessel, regularly sailing between his home island of Margarita Island in the Caribbean and the Venezuelan mainland, has two separate and very different relationships. At home, he is happily married, having named his boat Isabel after his wife. Yet on his visits to the port of La Guaira, he has a passionate affair with Esperanza, a woman working in a seedy cabaret who tries to retain him with hexes and spells.
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In the 19th century, the son of a frivolous countess faces the rigors of a tragic life.
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A man agrees to sell his youth to a strange character.
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A journalist investigates several crimes, one of which involves the well-known riddle of the "closed room".
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A 1947 film.
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A young woman takes care of her father and silblings after the death of her mother, giving up love in the process.
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The life of Saint Rosa de Lima.
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An old timbal performer in a puppet theater has a secret past.
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A young man pretends to be ill to seduce a beautiful doctor, but his niece falls in love with him.
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The alleged uncontrolled romance between a young girl forced to marry another and the poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.
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In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for deserting soldiers.
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The young widow of the viceroy of Peru, facing the dismal prospect of either a convent or a marriage of convenience, sets out to conquer a handsome officer, pretending she’s a duende, a ghost. Voted the best Argentine film of 1945, La dama duende is a beautifully crafted comedy of errors, based on the 17th-century play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. The most ambitious production of Estudios San Miguel, it was brought to the screen mostly by Spaniards exiled in Argentina as a result of the Civil War.
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A singer is trapped in France by the unforeseen outbreak of World War II and a man who serves the German occupiers demands, in exchange for safe conduct for herself and her daughter, to act as a spy and informer for members of the Resistance.
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A 1944 film.
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The conflict of a woman with her husband when she starts defending her individuality.
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A vaudeville singer secretly marries a wealthy landowner, who soon returns to his ranch, fearing the rejection of his snobbish family. To teach him a lesson, she shows up at his estancia pretending to be a maid.
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The romance between a young musician and a girl who dreams of happiness.
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The story of different episodes that happen in each of the sections of a newspaper.
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The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs.
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A young man from America falls in love with a girl who already has a boyfriend.
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A 1941 film.
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The love story between Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, after the independence of the country, and Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos.
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The happiness of a child is marred by the harsh attitude of the captain of a boat.
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A country girl falls in love with an English professor who's in the country studying fossils, but must return to his land.
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In order to seduce a humble man, a rich girl pretends to be a maid.
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A 1941 film.
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A 1940 film.
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Evocation of the Carnival of 1912 and of 1940 through 4 characters: an entrepreneur and three singers.
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A man pretends to be a doctor to kidnap a miser's wife.
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A 1940 film.
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A young woman travels with her uncle to the city, there she works with a singer who she will have to replace. Later, she goes blind.
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The history of a Buenos Aires family over three decades.
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The history of a Buenos Aires family over three decades.
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To save the daughter of a condemned man, an ice cream man pawns his word of honor.
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A laid back woman, a romantic man and a father who allows his son to choose his partner freely, produce a revival of the famous novel treating its characters in an ironical way.
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A melodrama telling the story of Ricardo, a young bourgeois who flees from justice for a crime of passion. It was made during the Spanish Civil War.
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The young Candelas, seduced and abandoned by Arturo, an unscrupulous womanizer, meets two soldiers, Tiburcio and Angelillo, who, in order to help the girl out of her predicament, organize a musical recital to raise money.
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Documentary about the orphan children of Guernica after the infamous carpet bombing by the Luftwaffe of 1937.
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The famous soprano Marta Vélez decides to retire from the operatic stages to rebuild her marriage. Her husband, a heartless scoundrel, tries to swindle a large sum of money from her. But when his scam fails, he devises a plan to kidnap their daughter and get her mother to pay a ransom. Before the inevitable divorce of her parents, Mari-Tere, the child, is in an unexpected "no-man's-land", waiting for someone to love her.
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A chronicle about the misadventures of Don Quintin, a character with a miserable life and a lot of bad humor.
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Spanish musical and religious drama.
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Spanish silent comedy based on Armando Palacio Valdés' novel. It was the first film starring Imperio Argentina.
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