Acting
Peret
Born March 24, 1935 · Mataró, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Died August 27, 2014 · aged 79
Pedro Pubill Calaf, better known as Peret, was a Spanish Romani singer, guitar player, composer and actor, called the King of Catalan Rumba. Known for his 1971 single “Borriquito,” Peret represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 with the song “Canta y sé feliz.” In 1982, Peret withdrew from the music industry, joining the Iglesia Evangélica de Filadelfia, a large religious community of…
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El mesón del gitano · 1970El mesón del gitano
★ 7.51970
MovieRomanceMusic
The young gypsy Peret and his friend Fidel are owners of an inn frequented by tourists. Peret orders the expansion of the business to a young decorator, who falls madly in love with him. Fifth feature by the Rumelo Peret, built for his brilliance, which here plays the owner of a tourist inn, a gypsy rumba singer whose songs will love both a young woman and her mother. A friendly comedy that has as its background the tourist boom of Spain in the late 1960
Killer Housewives · 2001Killer Housewives
★ 6.02001
MovieComedyThriller
In Madrid, Azu's husband Filipe is smug and boorish, but it's his money she slips to family members constantly in need of cash and that she uses to buy gifts for her lover, Pablo. Things start to fall apart when Pablo wants to leave her and when Filipe wants to evict Azu's cousin from a butcher shop he rents. Azu hatches a plan that relies on her sister, her cousin the butcher, and his mentally-challenged delivery man. When things start to go wrong, can Azu make them right?
Los Tarantos · 1963Los Tarantos
★ 6.41963
MovieRomanceDrama
Roma Romeo and Juliet: A boy and a girl from rival families fall in love.
El taxi de los conflictos · 1969El taxi de los conflictos
★ 8.31969
MovieComedyMusic
Taxi driver Tadeo is about to encounter a busy shift. Throughout the day heterogeneous characters get into his taxi and the most varied situations arise. One of them leaves a baby in the taxi and Tadeo must find out where the little one belongs. He tackles this daunting task while keeping in the back of his mind that at the end of the day he has an appointment with a mysterious woman who apparently needs to tell him something very important.
¡Qué cosas tiene el amor! · 1973¡Qué cosas tiene el amor!
★ 7.01973
MovieComedyMusic
The Loinaz siblings live off petty theft in refined environments. When they find out that Peret is going to shoot a movie in Marbella, the whole family moves their headquarters to Marbella.
Si Fulano fuese Mengano · 1971Si Fulano fuese Mengano
★ 6.31971
MovieComedy
Raúl Arévalo and Miguel García seem like a drop of water to another, but there the similarity ends. Raul is a famous singer, womanizer, despotic, cruel and millionaire. Instead Michael is an honest worker, cheerful and loving who enjoys the simple things forward. Fate will know them and life will never be the same for either.
A mí las mujeres ni fu ni fa · 1971A mí las mujeres ni fu ni fa
★ 6.01971
MovieComedyMusic
Pedro is a famous singer who fall in love with a psychiatrist girlfriend, he decides to attend to the doctor with the story that he does not like women. The psychiatric nurse helps him with the girl as she is in love with the doctor.
Peret: The King of the Gipsy Rumba · 2019Peret: The King of the Gipsy Rumba
★ 8.02019
MovieDocumentaryHistory
An account of the personal and artistic life of the Spanish singer Peret (1935-2014), the artist who imaginatively mixed various musical styles, such as mambo, tanguillo and rock, to create the gypsy rumba. An epic adventure, from a humble neighborhood of Barcelona to the biggest stages of the world.
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