Tota Alba

Tota Alba

Nascimento : 1914-03-05, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Morte : 1983-01-01

Perfil

Tota Alba

Filmes

Battered Flesh
Reclusa
Berta (Tota Alba) has entered, once again, in prison accused of fraud. From the first moment she steps in the jail, she becomes the toy of all the veteran inmates. The number of conflicts in which she is immersed causes her to be transferred several times from penitentiary. In all of them will live some experience that will change her life; she will know love, hate, despair, etc.
Inquisição
Mabille
Period piece set during the Inquisition about a witch-finder general who falls in love with the village beauty, who has made a pact with the devil to seduce and condemn the man who is killing off Satan's servants.
La lozana andaluza
Dueña en la casa de Castruccio
In 16th century Rome, Rampín, a friendly and shameless rogue, exploits his arts of deception. He lives with his aunt, Napolitana, a pimp dedicated to the same trades as his nephew. With the arrival of a beautiful Andalusian, Lozana, her fortune enters their house by making her the most beautiful courtesan in Rome. Lozana and Rampín reach an agreement: he will be at her service, taking her lovers home, and she will treat him like a king and give him the best, something that others will never have. But one fine day, Don Sancho, a handsome Spaniard, falls in love with her.
Sábado, chica, motel ¡qué lío aquel!
Enfermera
A la Legión le gustan las mujeres… y a las mujeres, les gusta la Legión
Doña Euduviges
A lieutenant and four others are having a little party before entering combat. Ensign has his girlfriend in a village occupied by the enemy, so it is essential a rescue mission
El chiste
Señora / Embajadora
Strange Love of the Vampires
Catherine's Mother
The Possessed
Mother Gautère
An old witch seeks vengence through the daughter of the politician who had her thrown in jail. Soon the little girl's head is spinning around, and an old priest is called in to perform an exorcism.
Cinco almohadas para una noche
Ana, a girl who is about to get married, discovers in her boyfriend's house a photograph in which her mother, dead at birth, and her future father-in-law appear in a very affectionate way.
Las señoritas de mala compañía
Doña Anunciación
La casa de los Martínez
Tota
Hoy es fiesta
Hamelín
Maestra
Long Play
Madre de Juanjo
A rainy day forces Joaquin, Joe Luis and Alvaro to refuge in Martins' house. They also go there two Swedish girls who want love and spanish ham; a nun with hobbies of racing driver; a fat priest; a policeman unable to establish order; and the father of Joaquin, a fortune hunter. In the chaos that is triggered, the five young people discover their common love for music and they form a band.
The Orgies of Dr. Orloff
Teodora
A doctor invites his relatives to his castle, all the while planning to murder them when they arrive. However, when he himself is murdered, the relatives know they have to find the killer before he gets all of them.
Next Fall
Mercedes
Filmed in 1963, but not released in Spain until 1967, the film depicts the failed romance between a bourgeois french tourist girl and a spanish working class boy.
El padre Manolo
Beata impertinente
Padre Manolo, priest, magician and singer, starts a private investigation on what seems to be a murder...
Don Juan Tenorio
Brígida
10:30 P.M. Summer
A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.
Los árboles mueren de pie
Elena
El arte de no casarse
Four stories about the arts of not getting married. Alfredo Landa performs the roles of a lawyer who has just finished his military service, a young marquis on his wedding day, a flirt and a soldier who deals with three girls at the same time.
Proceso a una estrella
A celebrated cabaret singer, Rosa Lucena, is accused of killing Miguel, her dance partner. She is arrested, but not finding sufficient evidence of guilt, the judges decide to investigate her past, when Rosa and Miguel acted in a theater in Madrid and she fellin love with a young doctor, leaving his career for him. This situation has a direct impact on Miguel, which fails miserably with the withdrawal of his partner.
Eroe vagabondo
Italian melodrama
Residence for Spies
Commander Pendleton
Ms. Pendleton is the commander-in-chief of a women's training camp for western spies, recently established in Turkey. CIA agent Leyton receives a mission, to discover and destroy an enemy group operating in the vicinities of that residence. He will manage, with the help, and sometimes extra zeal, of a team of young women recruits.
La dama del alba
Telva
The Sweet Sound of Death
Sra. Monceau
Pablo is in love with Dominique, whom he wants to marry. The girl leads them to a cemetery, where she convinces Pablo that should either of them die, the other will return and help them prepare for the afterlife. She leaves Madrid on a vacation in Bretagna, and dies en route. Pablo receives a call the next day. It is Dominique.
El tímido
Bullet in the Flesh
Minnea
The Masters and the Cherokees living in relative peace until a key member of this tribe falls in love with a woman from the Masters family. From there the situation is complicated to unknown heights.
Fin de semana
Madre de Paco
Uma Estranha Viajem
Ignacia
Numa pequena cidade perto de Madri, Paquita e seu irmão Venâncio, ambos solteiros e com personalidade infantil, vivem à sombra da mandona irmã mais velha, Ignacia, uma solteirona rabugenta. Uma noite, Paquita ouve sua irmã contar a alguém sobre sua intenção de vender toda a riqueza da família. Assim que o dinheiro for reunido, ela deseja viajar para Paris com a pessoa misteriosa e se livrar de seu irmão e irmã. Paquita e Venâncio ficam apavorados...
Constance aux enfers
Portera
Rear Window meets Estate violenta. The middle-aged Constance watches a young couple that lives across the courtyard; the girl plays loud pop music and goes out of her way to be unpleasant to the classically educated and piano-playing Constance. Then one day Constance sees the boyfriend strangle the little tart in a fit of jealousy. He sees her, too, and has nobody else to turn to for help. Constance keeps silent about the murder and offers the young Hugo a place in her bed. Then the blackmail notes start to arrive...
Chica para todo
Doña Rosario
The Gang of Eleven
Inspired by the American gangster films, a group of thugs decides to dock the Bank of Spain. "El Rubio" explains to his men that, to commit the armed robbery, they will have to dig a gallery in the Cibeles. But, due to the threats of a rival band, "El Rubio" decides to disguise itself and pretend to be one of the most famous actors of the moment.
Cuatro bodas y pico
Sabían demasiado
Nuera de don Sebastián Guzmán
A gang of Spanish pickpockets decide to send one of them to Chicago to learn how to be a gangster...
Those Who Did Not Go to War
First World War. In a largely rural area of neutral Spain, two families confront one another and play a part in embarrassing situations because they don't support the same side in the war. This will influence the breakup of an engagement.
Vampiresas 1930
As the era of silent films finds itself at a close, four down-and-out silent film actors and musicians struggle to find work. Fate leads them to a former star of the silent era as she struggles to escape her reputation as a wild and evil vamp of the silver screen and longs to be just thought of as an honest and decent woman. They join forces, and for a short time have a decent amount of success singing and dancing at clubs and bars. But the public has an insatiable taste for foreign black jazz bands, and they will stop at nothing to become a success.
Kill and Be Killed
Amiga de Sabina #1
A former singer lives alone with her fortune - and with her nephew, Fernando, a low character to whom she refuses to lend more money. Elisa leaves prison and starts a new life as a personal attendant to the aging singer, using her knowledge as a former nurse - a profession she can not return to. Fernando meets Elisa, and together they plan to poison the lonely woman, and use her money abroad. They plan their alibis well. But those who kill by the sword will perish by the sword.
Martes y trece
Inglesa 1
Lola and Maria are two Spanish young ladies engaged to Franz and Pepe, all so eager to spend their honeymoon that the moment seems never to come, as all sorts of problems pave their way.
Cradle Song
Sor Crucifixión
In a Castilian convent of the late nineteenth century, the community of cloistered nuns celebrates the onomastic of their superior with a poem. She is also visited by the doctor, Don Jose, who diagnosed a disease with poor prognosis. Shortly after a sister picks up a beautiful girl who has been abandoned at the door of the convent and the doctor, despite being single, offers to legally adopt her and assign her to the convent as a pupil.
Rosa de Lima
Madre superiora
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.
My Street
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.
Un tipo de sangre
Compadece al delincuente
Those times of the cuplé
Mercedes Pavón, a famous singer of cuplés is harassed by three men totaly different.
Stories from Madrid
Futuróloga (uncredited)
Dawn in Madrid. In the Plaza de la Cibeles begins the daily grind. The statue of the goddess, from its source in the center of the square tells the story of a man, petty speculator, owner of an old building that is going to ask Saint Nicholas for his cooperation to make it sink, and thus be able to lift a twelve-story modern building. But the inhabitants of the block have also implored the Saint to prevent this from happening.
El hombre que viajaba despacito
Gitana
A tank regiment soldier needs a permit to go to his village to meet his newborn son. It will not be easy, leading to absurd situations featuring the legendary humorist Miguel Gila.