Manuel de Blas

Manuel de Blas

Birth : 1941-04-12, Extremadura, Spain

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Manuel de Blas

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Something Is About to Happen
A woman whose life takes a definitive turn the day that loses her job as a computer programer.
Marauders from the Mediterranean: The Macabre Magic of the Spanish Zombie Film
Self
A feature-length documentary exploring the history of the Spanish zombie film.
Uncharted
Armando Moncada
A young street-smart, Nathan Drake and his wisecracking partner Victor “Sully” Sullivan embark on a dangerous pursuit of “the greatest treasure never found” while also tracking clues that may lead to Nathan’s long-lost brother.
A Dead Man Cannot Live
Manuel
Tano works for Manuel, a businessman who’s made his fortune in the construction sector and who has a tight network of friends in local government who help him carry out his business safely, in exchange for making sure that the drugs enter and leave the city without causing any violence or making any noise. Tano knows that the golden era is long gone. Now, he’s 54 and struggling to make ends meet. His mission is to keep the drug-trafficking business from Morocco under control and to make sure the money keeps flowing, but someone has brought some samples of a new drug into the city and its effects are devastating, causing the local junkies to go completely crazy. Angel, Manuel’s son and heir to his business empire, is convinced that if they start dealing this new drug, they could go back to making the millions they were before the economic crash.
Ama
Carlos
A portrait of the myth of maternity around the story of Pepa and her daughter, who are evicted from their home and forced to wander for a place to live with no support network.
Una noche fría
Music
Una noche fría
Producer
Estándar
Tomás’ two great passions are classical music and a compulsion for putting things in order, which has led to his nickname “rarito” (weirdo). In Tomás’ tidy world, where he works stacking shelves in the supermarket of a quiet, uneventful neighborhood, something changes when his secret platonic love, Laura, disappears. However, thanks to his fondness for tidying up things and noting down everything, he analyses the habits and obsessions of an eccentric array of clients to find out who is behind Laura’s disappearance. In this town nothing is as “standard” as Tomás would like…
The (Silent) War
Colonel Cortés
Northern Spain, October 1944. Several groups of guerrilla fighters, former Republican soldiers exiled in France after the end of the Spanish Civil War, infiltrate the country in order to provoke a popular uprising against General Franco's dictatorship.
27 Minutes
Padre
Something just happened, a disturbing horn breaks the quiet of the town.
Fishbone
Grey and Black
Jos
The story of Maria, a woman betrayed by his companion, David, when he steals a sack of money and flees, taking refuge in the island of Pico. Furious and determined to avenge herself, she proposes to an Police Inspector, Lucas, to chase and to find David. However, David, on a visit to the island of Faial, falls in love with a local, Marina. Maria and Lucas look for David in the Azores, they cross with Mariana in Faial and the three will discover David in his house of the mountain, at the top of the Peak. In a final confrontation, as in a Greek tragedy, Mary and David adjust the accounts that fate has traced to them.
Thalion Ltd.
Scientist
Aragón rodado
Self
A look at the Aragonese countryside, star of the movie screen, accompanied by various trades of cinema.
El clavo de oro
A Catholic Easter ritual has been banned for 20 years in a Spanish village due to an incident. Now, the Archbishop has lift the ban on one condition: there will be no stoning during the enactment of "The Gold Nail".
Day of the Flowers
Ignatio Palma
Two young, strong-willed Scottish sisters, one a left-wing activist, the other a most-popular-girl-in-school type, take their late father's ashes to Cuba, the site of many family legends of his services to the Revolution. Arriving in Havana, the two women promptly lose the ashes and go through a series of misadventrues - both romantic and dangerous - to try to retrieve them. A colourful and wryly humourous tale of cross-cultural misunderstandings and lost illusions.
O Cônsul de Bordéus
This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. As the Portuguese General Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, he issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal. He defied the direct orders of his government and exhibited courage, moral rectitude, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice by issuing visas to all refugees regardless of nationality, race, religion or political opinions.This narrative film expresses his heroic actions towards humanity, which will perpetuate his legacy of justice for a new generation. In 1966, Yad Vashem named him Righteous Among the Nations. He is considered to have achieved the largest single rescue operation of World War II.
Las nornas
Archimedes
Paranormal Xperience
Dr. Matarga
In 2011, five Medical students investigated an abandoned mining town in search of paranormal evidence... They found them.
The Angel of Budapest
Miguel Ángel Muguiro
El ángel de Budapest (Angel of Budapest) is a Spanish 2011 television World War II-Holocaust miniseries based on the book "Un español frente al Holocausto" (A Spanish against the Holocaust) written by journalist and radio executive director Diego Carcedo. The plot focuses on Ángel Sanz Briz, a Spanish ambassador in Hungary during World War II who helped to save the lives of thousands of jews from the Holocaust by lodging them in Spanish safe houses in Budapest.
This Is Me
La duquesa
XVII Duque de Alba, padre de Cayetana
Dos billetes
Beltrán
Masala
Abuelo de Rai
Antonio is the principal of a high school in a downtown immigrant neighborhood. His aim is to avoid the school's closing and the scattering of the students. Along with Antonio's ever-increasing help, Judith the new music teacher, takes on the difficult task of obtaining her student's interest in her subject while helping them become active participants in a common project.
Goya's Ghosts
Pyre Monk
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.
A King in Havana
Cayetano
Mr. Arturo, an old rich Spanishman who arrives to Havana to marry Yoli, dies suddenly in bed. Yoli's family, afraid of losing all the money, convinces her ex-boyfriend Papito to go to Spain and get the money. Papito will have to be clever enough to deceive everybody and succeed in Spain
Earth's Skin
Mateo el enterrador
In the middle of a war, a deserter arrives in a village where only five people live.
Una pasión singular
Pedro Parias
Spain, August 1936, the first days of the Spanish Civil War. During the painful pilgrimage of the Andalusian writer Blas Infante (1885-1936) from prison to prison, always on the verge of death, various images cross his mind: people, dreams, remnants of his past.
Callas Forever
Esteban Gomez
A fictionalized account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas.
Arderás conmigo
Zero/infinito
(voice)
Off Key
Jean François
A trio of opera singers are reunited by a wedding ten years after their stormy breakup.
Love, Money and Health, in This Order
Don Cosme
At 30 Amelia thinks that time is only an excuse for putting off the arrival of a fate which she has been warned about by fortune tellers and horoscopes.
His Master's Voice
Zurbano
Basque Country, Spain, 1980s. In Bilbao, a gray city dominated by political corruption and nationalist terrorism, Charli works as a chauffeur for Oliveira, a businessman engaged in shady deals. Alarmed by a series of threats and attacks, Oliveira decides to entrust Charli with the protection of his daughter Marta.
Gipsy
Isidoro Heredia
Andres is a flamenco singer who has just gotten out of prison after being falsely convicted of the murder of Romero, a member of his band. As Andres tries to re-acclimate himself to freedom, he discovers things have not been going his way while he was up the river; his wife Lucia is having an affair with another man, while his bullying father Isidoro is obsessed with getting revenge against Don Manuel, who rules a local crime syndicate known as the Junco Family.
Chevrolet
Women
Père d'Alice
Every Sunday, Mary, Alice and Joan, three long-time friends, find themselves at the pool to talk about their love affairs. Mary, who is a stockbroker, leads her love life with meetings. One night she is raped by Franck in a nightclub toilet. The young woman then discovers she is pregnant. Alice, a student dominated by an authoritarian father, she has difficult relationship with men. She meets a painter who wants to make her his model. Jeanne lives a dreary relationship with her husband and decides to work and earn a living through prostitution.
La viuda del capitán Estrada
Coronel Ordóñez
After the Second World War, the United Nations has declared the blockade of Franco's Spain. In this historical context, for a time little known, lies the story of the widow of a Spanish army captain.
Don Juan in Hell
Buhonero
While the last remnants of the Empire are extinguishing and King Philip II (1559-1598) is dying in the shadow of lost splendor, a man, defying the divine and human justice, turns his passions into fate and his will into law. His fame is as great as his pride. His conviction, eternal. His name, a legend: Don Juan. Free adaptation of "Don Juan" by Moliere.
Captain Escalaborns
Ribes
After the death of his parents, Juan goes into an adventure to find Captain Escalaborns to whom he must deliver the map of a treasure to be searched together.
El crimen de Don Benito
July 18, 1902. A woman and her daughter are brutally murdered in the Extremaduran town of Don Benito. Everybody knows the depraved town boss was responsible, but nobody dares to declare against him.
Les aparences enganyen
Padre de Laura
Barcelona, Lament
Pedro Merlo
A young man named Pau Arrese, maintaining a relationship, somewhat deteriorated, with a girl (Gloria), seen as the reins of his life escape him, when, after a series of unfortunate incidents, ends up in jail. Inside prison, he become sortta friend a with David Velasco, a guy who lives on odd jobs done for a certain mobster. After being released, Pau will be involved in some rackets, with David and other gangsters, that will lead him to the lowest point of his existence.
The Monk
Inquisitor
In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. But when he discovers the beautiful Matilda hidden in his own monastery, all his repressed passions begin to show themselves, and he is soon using the girl, and her powers, in his lust for more innocent prey.
The Trace of Lynx
An international spy is about to unravel an European conspiracy.
The Dark Night of the Soul
Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989's La Noche Oscura (The Dark Night). Juan Diego stars as San Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross), the legendary 16th-century poet-prophet. Galvanized into action by the spirit of Santa Teresa de Jesus, San Juan fought to install reforms in the Carmelite Order. Like many another visionary, he was regarded as a heretic, and promptly subjected to the most appalling of tortures. Writer-director Saura manages to draw several parallels between the religious persecution of the 1700s and the political despotism of Fascist Spain.
Brumal
Padre de Adriana
Adriana and her mother left Brumal, a strange and remote village, and moved to the city while still a child. Once Adriana's mother dies, she's marked by memories and intense nostalgia for her hometown, and returns to Brumal.
The Tunnel
Hunter
A painter becomes obsessed and begins an affair with a mysterious woman who was touched deeply by one of his works.
Slugs
Mayor Eaton
People are dying mysteriously and gruesomely, and nobody has a clue what the cause is. Only health worker Mike Brady has a possible solution, but his theory of killer slugs is laughed at by the authorities. Only when the body count begins to rise and a slug expert from England begins snooping around does it begin to look like Mike had the right idea after all.
El juego más divertido
Luciano Milán
Two popular television actors, Ada and Bruno, are filming " Hotel de Fez ", a popular and popular television series that upsets the lives of its two protagonists. Together they will initiate a romance behind the small screen very particular since there will be no time or way to consummate it, which will cause a tremendous tangle sown with nonsense.
Lute: Forge On or Die
Policía
In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed "El Lute", steals some chickens and is condemned to six months in jail. El Lute moves to the slum outskirts of Madrid with his common law wife, Chelo, starting an itinerant life as a peddler of pots and pans and living in a quinqui shantytown. He gradually embarks upon as life of petty criminality, eventually participating in the theft of a jewelry store during which a bystander is killed.
Redondela
Valladares
4,000 tons of oil have been stolen from a Galician deposit. The alleged thieves are defended by the lawyer Ramos, but the witnesses die and suspicions point to Franco's brother.
L'Inchiesta
A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.
Dragon Rapide
The two weeks leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 are dramatized from many different locations in Spain, Morocco and London.
Marbella, un golpe de cinco estrellas
Juez
Comedy thriller directed by Miguel Hermoso.
Eternal Fire
Padre Robillot
The movie is based on a popular tale from the Basque Country and tells the story of a woman that becomes a widow the same day she gets married, and decides to keep living with the husband's dead body for 6 years.
Poppers
Dan
A guy named Santos is released from prison after having killed his best friend. The dead friends father then organizes a manhunt to kill Santos. Santos escapes and then turns things around as he starts hunting the hunters.
The Story of O Part 2
James Pembroke II
James Pembroke, a powerful industrialist, has become a nuisance to his rivals. That is the reason why they have decided to neutralize him. To this end they call on O, who has turned from victim to dominatrix. Her mission is to compromise not only James in person but his whole family as well. And to tell the truth, O does not find much resistance on her way...
Juana la Loca… de vez en cuando
Soldado
Adolescencia
Quico
Too Much for Galvez
El dinámico ejecutivo
Gálvez is a bumbling journalist investigating a real state shady business.
I viaggiatori della sera
Bertani
Five Forks
Doctor Ibáñez
Aurelio and Maruja are a couple who has a fancy restaurant. Both have to take care of his godson Miguel as his father, the cook of the restaurant, flees from justice after having killed his wife because she was unfaithful. Miguel, a handsome young man, tricks Maruja and leaves her pregnant.
Pepito Piscinas
Piloto rival
A Dog Called... Vengeance
Mayor Araes
A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog.
¡Susana quiere perder... eso!
Enrique
Nosotros que fuimos tan felices
After a long absence, Ulises, a theatrical author, returns to his home to be with his wife, Carlota, and their son. However, upon arriving in Madrid he discovers that Carlota has become a great theater actress and that she is sentimentally united to Miguel, a renowned playwright who copies the comedies that Ulysses himself had written.
La espuela
Roberto
El avispero
El segundo poder
Duque de Alba
The Great Adventure
John McKenzie
During the American Gold Rush era, an orphaned boy and his wild dog who must battle against the Yukon wilderness and human greed to help save a frontier town.
Vice and Virtue
Regueiro
The Protected
Salas
Shoot First… Ask Questions Later
Major Donovan
The White, the Yellow, and the Black (Italian: Il bianco, il giallo, il nero, also known as Shoot First… Ask Questions Later) is a 1975 Spaghetti Western comedy film. It is the last spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci. Differently from his previous western films, this is openly parodic.
Whisky and Ghosts
A snake-oil salesman is chased across the desert by a gang of Mexican bandits. He finds out, however, that he is being protected by the spirits of Davey Crockett, Pecos Bill and Johnny Appleseed.
The Ghost Galleon
Sergio
After a pair of models go missing from a boat, a rescue party discover an empty galleon carrying the coffins of the long dead Knights Templar. The rescue party board the galleon and then discover their own boat has vanished. The survivors struggle to fight off the spectral knights with what little knowledge they have of them.
The Protector
Beppo Manzoni
Recently released from prison, Samuel Malakian, a wealthy architect, investigates the disappearance of his daughter, Nathalie, kidnapped by thugs linked to the underworld. When he discovers that she is a prostitute, he will descend into the slums of the city and rub shoulders with these dangerous environments. For him, from now on, all means will be good in order to find the fruit of his entrails.
I Hate My Body
Ernesto Knoll
The brain of a male engineer is transplanted into a female’s body. He soon finds it very frustrating to cope with the daily sexist discrimination most women deal with. For example, he is surprised when no one will hire a female engineer. When he is faced with dealing with female sexuality, he quickly begins exhibiting lesbian tendencies.
Watch Out, We're Mad
Paganini
After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.
El talón de Aquiles
The Girl from the Red Cabaret
Malcolm Higgins
Harvey hires Mary to seduce his rival Larry and help him gain his revenge. But Maria and Larry fall in love and things become complicated.
Special Killers
Franco Bertoni
Sandro, a detective, finds his wife strangled. His girl-friend Tiffany, who works as photographer, makes a "Blow up" from a photo, what Sandro finds beside the victim. Sandro and Tiffany are looking for the woman on the photo, Laura. They finds her in a Night Club in Rome...
Hunchback of the Morgue
Police Inspector
Paul Naschy plays a hunchback with below average intelligence who works at the morgue. He is in love with a sickly girl who happens to be the only person who is kind to him. Each day he brings her flowers until the day she dies.
The Vampires' Night Orgy
Marcos
A busload of tourists stops in to visit a small European town. What they don't know is that the town is completely inhabited by vampires.
Las tres perfectas casadas
Actor de la obra
La curiosa
Don Arturo
The Dead, The Flesh, and The Devil
A writer's dead wife returns from the grave to haunt him, and he finds himself attracted to her "spiritual" sexuality.
Forbidden Love
Embajador
In the Canary Islands there is a love story between a young and attractive woman, dissatisfied in her marriage to a man older than her, and a handsome sculptor of her age who lives in a bohemian way.
Black Story
Jerónimo
Peter is a widower who writes crime novels, signing as Peter P. Peter, and is about to marry Beatriz (Analia Gade), a widow who proves to be a ruthless woman who makes his life miserable. As an expert in inventing crimes committed by his characters, he imagines a plan to get rid of his new wife. The trouble is that she also plans to kill him.
Una chica casi decente
Julio
Cesar Martin, better known as El Duque, is an elegant, charming and intelligent man, who has been obliged to be known by heart the Penal Code, as their profession is the scam. Cesar has another weakness: his beautiful daughter Silvia is always a decent person.
Hembra
A woman takes a man home for shelter after a robbery
The Wind's Fierce
Rafael
This western is set in Valencia, Spain at the end of the 19th century, and stars Terence Hill as a close-mouthed gunslinger. The bad guy is the local landlord and aristocrat (Fernando Rey), who horribly abuses the laborers in his community.
El dinero tiene miedo
Joaquín, el abogado
John is a rogue that convinces two friends to be trusted with your money, ensuring that you will place in Switzerland in very good condition, but his plan will encounter some difficulties.
El mejor del mundo
Dominguez
A professional runner can't run anymore since he has a heart condition.
Awkward Hands
Johnny
Peter is whipped (twice) and chased away from his sweetheart, but his rescuer leaves him with a Chinese master who teaches him how to seek revenge on his tormentors.
Versatile Lovers
Jean-Marie
Isabelle (Marisa Mell) runs a nursing home for wealthy women who are trying to detox from their various obsessions. Her lover, Serge Belaiev (Robert Hossein), a petty gangster, has pulled off a big hit but his partners have denounced him to the police in order to appropriate his share of the loot. Isabelle takes him in and hides him in an attic of this strange house. In love with Isabelle, Philippe Lansac (Alberto Dalbes), the owner of the place, decides to close the castle...
Verano 70
Patricio
Typical Spanish comedy of the seventies set in Benidorm, the famous coastal town of Alicante where numerous families come to spend the summer. It tells the travel arrangements and incidents that occur before arriving to the apartments as well as the return of working husbands to the city, once the families have settled on the beach, and their unsuccessful attempts to flirt while alone
Assignment Terror
Count Janos de Mialhoff
Aliens from a dying world plot to conquer earth by praying on man's superstitions. Bringing two dead scientists back to life, they use their knowledge to re-animate various earth monsters, including the werewolf, Frankenstein's monster, the mummy Tao-Tet, and the vampire Count de Meirhoff.
El coleccionista de cadáveres
Lenny
A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus unaware that the skeletons he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is the next target.
A 45 revoluciones por minuto
Eduardo
Juan arrives in Madrid with the intention of succeeding as a singer. With the only company of his guitar, he goes from club to club asking for work.
Las nenas del mini-mini
Alberto
Murder by Music
Katharine Milford commits suicide by jumping out the window. Her brother, Richard refuses to believe the police story about suicide, and when it is discovered that more people had contact with Katharine died in the same way he starts a private investigation, which leads the man into Londons 'dirtiest hippie clubs. It seems that music is the common factor in all suicide - or was it murder?
A Bullet for Sandoval
After his girlfriend dies in childbirth, Confederate deserter John Warner travels to Mexico, where the woman's father, Don Pedro Sandoval, grudgingly hands over his child. But with no locals willing to provide milk, the baby dies. Rounding up a group of rebels, Warner goes on a rampage through northern Mexico, with the ultimate goal of taking down Sandoval in this gritty Western.
Sharon vestida de rojo
Emil Kramer
Why Does Your Husband Deceive You?
Jimmy
Eduardo, a man about to get married to his lifelong sweetheart, begins having second thoughts about the step he is going to take. His future wife is not one-of-a-kind and, among the wedding guests, there are several women he would not mind spending the rest of his days with. So, while the ceremony carries on, he fantasizes about the lifestyle he could experience with some of them.
Cruzada en la mar
Capitán Díaz del Real
Un día después de agosto
Las secretarias
Three young and attractive secretaries, Julia, Paula and Doli, work in an insurance company.
Los amores difíciles
Cita en Navarra
Carlos
Lost Command
Minor Role (uncredited)
After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.
Los oficios de Cándido
Sign of Zorro
General Gutierrez, the evil governor of Mexico, terrorizes the people and demands high taxes. The young Ramon Martiney, after discovering that his father was murdered by Gutierrez, dons the mask of Zorro and starts fighting against the injustice.
Trotín Troteras
A Club Client
Trotín Troteras is the disinterested witness of the absurd situations lived first by a lecturer and then by a soldier with an umbrella, which opens when it stops raining and closes when it rains…
Rosa de Lima
Chambelán (uncredited)
Santa Rosa de Lima, who died in the capital of Peru, was barely 31 years old when she died in 1617. José María Elorrieta's film narrates the life of this young woman, daughter of Gaspar Flores, Spanish arquebusier the service of King Philip III, and of Maria de Oliva, who will become principal patron of the New World, the Philippines and West Indies in 1670.
Raiz
Arcadio
An old couple is looking forward to a visit from their son. The father cuts a tree so that his son could park his car.