The Black Siren (Spanish:La sirena negra) is a 1947 Spanish drama film directed by Carlos Serrano de Osma and starring Fernando Fernán Gómez, Isabel de Pomés and María Asquerino. A man falls in love with a dying young woman. It was based on a novel by Emilia Pardo Bazán.
, 1h25 Directed byEdgar Neville GenresDrama, Comedy ActorsFernando Fernán Gómez, Conchita Montes, Julia Lajos, Julia Caba Alba, Manuel Arbó, Rafael Bardem Rating69% Fernando, the protagonist, finishes his military service in the cavalry and decides to buy the horse that has been his companion during this time. However, living with the horse becomes a grave problem, as the city that Fernando knew is not the same. He struggles to find accommodation for the animal, and he faces resistance from both his social circle as well as the new, modern world.
, 1h18 Directed byLadislao Vajda OriginEspagne GenresDrama ThemesBullfighting films ActorsManuel Arbó, María Asquerino, Jesús Tordesillas, Manolo Morán León, Mariano Azaña, Félix Dafauce Rating63% Les arènes de Madrid. De prestigieux toreros se préparent au combat. Deux d'entre eux, Rondeno et Puente, triomphent. Carmona, malchanceux, est blessé à la jambe et doit renoncer à un contrat aux États-Unis mais, il a le bonheur d'être un jeune papa. Ombre au tableau : dans l'arène, un débutant est mortellement atteint par un taureau...
, 1h37 Directed byVictor Erice OriginEspagne GenresDrama, Comedy-drama, Fantasy ThemesFilms about children, Frankenstein films, Political films ActorsFernando Fernán Gómez, Ana Torrent, Teresa Gimpera Flaquer, Laly Soldevila, Miguel Picazo Rating77% Six-year-old Ana is a shy girl who lives in the manor house in an isolated Spanish village on the Castilian plateau with her parents Fernando and Teresa and her older sister, Isabel. The year is 1940, and the civil war has just ended with the Francoist victory over the Republican forces. Her aging father spends most of his time absorbed in tending to and writing about his beehives; her much younger mother is caught up in daydreams about a distant lover, to whom she writes letters. The entire family is only ever seen together in a single shot towards the end of the movie, there is no discussion. Ana's closest companion is Isabel, who loves her but cannot resist playing on her little sister's gullibility. Teresa writes to her past lover while she seems to stare out the window at the old house where Ana will find the republican soldier: "Little but the walls remain of the house you once knew, I often wonder what became of everything we had there." This supposes the house has a history for her, and implies the escaped republican soldier who will run straight to this now empty and crumbling house and hide in it may have been her lover. [...]See more...