Conchita Montes
Nascimento : 1914-03-13, Madrid, Spain
Morte : 1994-10-18
História
María de la Concepción Carro Alcaraz "Conchita Montes" (1914-1994) was a Spanish film actress. With a degree in Law, she dedicated herself to film at the hand of Edgar Neville, with whom she had a sentimental relationship that lasted 30 years until the director's death. In addition to film, Conchita acted in several plays, TV programmes, and series. Her performances in the film Life on a Thread (Neville, 1945), and the play The Dance (Neville, 1952) are particularly noteworthy.
Herself
Documentary about the life of spanish director Edgar Neville.
Mary
A young couple go an a safari for their honeymoon but they are captured by the guide and sold to a tribe of savages.
Eugenia de Montijo
Ricardo Lopez Aranda's play that follows Isabella II of Spain as she is forced to abdicate and leave the country in 1868.
Soledad
A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm shows full authority over James, who is the real organizer of the meeting. The celebration is diverse characters who live next to absurd situations.
Condesa (uncredited)
A disillusioned and depressed film director is forced to confront his lack of humanity through his involvement in the death of a young actress and the suicide of her husband.
Sophie
Um escritor inglês viúvo viaja com sua jovem namorada para uma casa remota que ele possui na Espanha. Pouco depois de chegar, ela começa a notar um comportamento estranho em seu enteado, um menino de 12 anos, que parece estar obcecado por ela.
Na Pequim de 1900, durante a rebelião dos Boxers (revolta de uma facção do povo chinês contra a presença ocidental na China), é organizada uma comissão que reúne diplomatas, ministros do exército e outros representantes de dezenas de nações. A idéia é encontrar uma solução amigável e diplomática, mas há o evidente conflito de interesses entre os países presentes e o Império Chinês.
Julia
Life events around a city street and its residents are told along the years while time goes by, wars break out and end and life evolves.
Adela
Pedro and Julian, two friends entomologists are in love the same woman, Adela, who decides to marry Peter. Julian attends the marriage, but acts against women as her own husband. The passion that unites the two friends, entomology, leads them to conclude a treaty. The woman, however, is not comfortable with the life she has lived and want to abandon them. Discovered that she suffers from the disease, makes men willing to please her in everything, without her knowing the reason for his change of attitude.
The City Woman (segment "Las vacas")
Four independent stories based on writer Francisco Rojas Gonzáles's work, depicting the reality of Mexican indian people: Las Vacas (The Cow), Nuestra Señora (Our Lady), El Tuerto (One-Eyed) and La Potranca (The Filly). In El Tuerto, a one eyed boy is relentlessly bullied by his mates. His religious mother asks God to make the boy's eyes equal. The outcome is tragic.
Two fairy godmothers struggle to make their godchildren not fight and love each other, but a third person intervenes and worsens the situation.
Isabel, florista
Fernando has just finished the military service. It decides to buy Bucéfalo, the horse that has been his partner for this time and returns to Madrid removing with it to the animal. But everything has changed, the city already neither is the same and even he nor finds stables nor has time to attend to it. This way the things remedy will not have any more that to look for any solution.
Eloisa
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.
María Buschenthal
José de Salamanca was arguably one of the most influential figures of the Spanish 1800s. This films tells his story.
Writer
Barcelona, in the forties. Young Andrea comes to town to start college in the midst of an oppressive environment and extreme poverty. She's staying at her aunt Angustias, along with other family members. But the quarrels between them are continuous, making evident the open wounds left by the Spanish civil war.
Andrea
Barcelona, in the forties. Young Andrea comes to town to start college in the midst of an oppressive environment and extreme poverty. She's staying at her aunt Angustias, along with other family members. But the quarrels between them are continuous, making evident the open wounds left by the Spanish civil war.
Nieves
Madrid, Carnival Sunday. A night watchman finds the body of a woman, a rich and greedy moneylender who has apparently been murdered. The prime suspect is a watchmaker who owed her a lot of money.
Mercedes
After burying his late husband, a young widow leaves his provincial life and heads to the city. It was a very hard stage in her life, and she had to bear it with resignation, but now she's willing to make up for lost time. On the way to the city, she meets a fortune teller who will talk to her about the decisions she made or could have made.
Carmen
After suffering a family tragedy, Carmen leaves Spain and emigrates to Paris, where she will make new friends among some of the most peculiar characters who inhabit the bohemian neighborhoods of the city. (Partially lost film.)
Vera
In the Almenares family there is a story involving a mysterious woman and a pearl necklace that obsesses the young heir. He meets Vera, a Polish woman, and invites her and some relations to a hunting weekend, where the necklace disappears.
A Dutch sailing ship finds the wreckage of a Spanish mail ship, which has collided with an iceberg. Inside, the bodies of a man and a woman are found embraced.
Nadia
Nadia, a young Soviet journalist who is passing through Pompeii, discovers the power that comes from the Catholic faith when the painter she loves, Paolo, and who saved her from drowning during the shipwreck of the cruise in which they met, is at the gates of death because of a serious illness whose symptoms are similar to those of leprosy.
Screenplay
Javier Navarro, a Falangist, is ordered to infiltrate Republican Madrid to deliver a message to a member of the Fifth Column.
Carmen
Javier Navarro, a Falangist, is ordered to infiltrate Republican Madrid to deliver a message to a member of the Fifth Column.