Acting

Alberto de Mendoza

Born January 21, 1923 · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Died December 12, 2011 · aged 88

Alberto Manuel Rodríguez-Gallego González de Mendoza was an Argentine film actor who appeared in 114 films between 1930 and 2005, spanning eight decades. A lifelong figure in Argentine films, De Mendoza appeared in film such as Adán y la serpiente in 1946 and A hierro muere in 1962 often working alongside Olga Zubarry. In the late 1960s and 1970 he appeared in a number of spaghetti Westerns. and …

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La adúltera

La adúltera · 1956

MovieDramaCrime

Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.

Tapas

MovieComedyDrama

The film centers on a Spanish tapas bar and the love lives of the loosely interconnected people in the neighborhood surrounding the bar. The pairs of lovers include a middle aged woman and a young man; an elderly, drug dealing woman and her terminally ill husband in poor health; the tapas bar owner and his estranged wife; and two Chinese immigrants.

Psychout for Murder

Psychout for Murder · 1969

Psychout for Murder

MovieDramaThriller

Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.

Horror Express

Horror Express · 1972

Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.

Pasó en mi barrio

Pasó en mi barrio · 1951

Pasó en mi barrio

An italian man is unfairly imprisoned and his wife must work to maintain the family.

Delusions of Grandeur

Delusions of Grandeur · 1971

Delusions of Grandeur

MovieComedyHistory

Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.

And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None · 1974

And Then There Were None

MovieCrimeDrama

Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

La cuna vacía

La cuna vacía · 1949

The film begins with some sequences related to the youth of Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez, his arrival in Buenos Aires from his native Arrecifes, his law studies and a double frustration, as a writer and in his crush on a young woman who loved another man.

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La adúltera

La adúltera · 1956

MovieDramaCrime

Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.

Carlos Alatorre

Tapas

MovieComedyDrama

The film centers on a Spanish tapas bar and the love lives of the loosely interconnected people in the neighborhood surrounding the bar. The pairs of lovers include a middle aged woman and a young man; an elderly, drug dealing woman and her terminally ill husband in poor health; the tapas bar owner and his estranged wife; and two Chinese immigrants.

Don Mariano

Psychout for Murder

Psychout for Murder · 1969

Psychout for Murder

MovieDramaThriller

Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.

Francesco

Horror Express

Horror Express · 1972

Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.

Father Pujardov

Pasó en mi barrio

Pasó en mi barrio · 1951

Pasó en mi barrio

An italian man is unfairly imprisoned and his wife must work to maintain the family.

Mingo

Delusions of Grandeur

Delusions of Grandeur · 1971

Delusions of Grandeur

MovieComedyHistory

Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.

King of Spain

And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None · 1974

And Then There Were None

MovieCrimeDrama

Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Otto Martino

La cuna vacía

La cuna vacía · 1949

The film begins with some sequences related to the youth of Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez, his arrival in Buenos Aires from his native Arrecifes, his law studies and a double frustration, as a writer and in his crush on a young woman who loved another man.

Avisa a Curro Jiménez

Avisa a Curro Jiménez · 1978

Avisa a Curro Jiménez

MovieDramaAdventure

Córdoba, Spain. Lord Killarney, representative of the British Museum, acquires an Arabic incunabulum at an auction; but he is murdered and the book disappears. All suspicions fall on El Lince, an antique dealer with a shady background, who asks his nephew to warn Curro Jiménez.

El Jandalo

Murió el sargento Laprida

Murió el sargento Laprida · 1937

Murió el sargento Laprida

A corporal and sergeant in the fire service fight over a woman.

(as Alberto Mendoza)

The Adventures of Scaramouche

The Adventures of Scaramouche · 1963

The Adventures of Scaramouche

Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, including when he should be on stage, light-heartedly having love affairs and generally enjoying life. One day, a marquis visits him and asks him questions about the birth mark on his shoulder...

Roger - Marquis de la Tour

Madre Alegría

Madre Alegría · 1950

The mother superior of a convent raises an abandoned girl and after twenty years the repentant biological mother returns.

El retrato

El retrato · 1947

MovieComedyRomance

A repressed woman, unable to give love, is possessed by the spirit of her lewd grandmother.

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh · 1971

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh

MovieHorrorMystery

When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently out of town, she falls into the arms of her friend's cousin George, and as the unknown assassin begins to make his move, she fears that one of the three men in her life may be the killer.

Neil Wardh

Adán y la serpiente

Adán y la serpiente · 1946

Adán y la serpiente

A hotel becomes very popular when rumors begin to circulate about a ghost wandering its corridors.

Daniel

The Boss

The Boss · 1958

MovieCrimeDrama

The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.

Berger

Filomena Marturano

Filomena Marturano · 1950

Filomena Marturano

Filomena, a former prostitute in her 40s, tricks a wealthy shopkeeper to marry her and support her three children.

Ricardo

Forgotten Pistolero

Forgotten Pistolero · 1969

Forgotten Pistolero

Mann is a gunman informed by a childhood friend that his father was murdered years earlier by his mother and her lover. To make matters worse, Mann's sister, who is in love with his friend, is held under the thumb of his murderous mom. The two gunmen ride off to have a reckoning with her.

Tomas

The Dictator's Guns

The Dictator's Guns · 1965

The Dictator's Guns

MovieDramaCrime

An experienced skipper is hired to buy a boat from an American heiress in the Caribbean, but when the boat vanishes and bodies surface, he realizes he’s been framed for arms trafficking.

Hendrix

Open Season

Open Season · 1974

MovieActionDrama

Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn them loose and hunt them like animals. However the father of one of their earlier victims is plotting a vicious revenge against them.

Martin

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin · 1971

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

MovieHorrorThriller

Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.

Sergeant Brandon

Gray neighborhood

Gray neighborhood · 1954

Gray neighborhood

Told in flashback, Federico lives in a poor neighbourhood with his siblings and his single mother, working helping in a local bar, he meets Claudio, who begins to lead him on an easy life making him abandon all his connections in consequence.

Claudio

One on Top of the Other

One on Top of the Other · 1969

One on Top of the Other

MovieMysteryThriller

A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.

Henry Dumurrier

A Bullet for Sandoval

A Bullet for Sandoval · 1969

A Bullet for Sandoval

MovieActionWestern

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.

Lucky

Curro Jiménez

Curro Jiménez · 1976

SeriesAction & AdventureComedy

Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez

Lédaux

Los camioneros

Los camioneros · 1973

SeriesComedyDrama

Sargento Sandoval