The best Andrés Mejuto’s drama movies

Andrés Mejuto

Andrés Mejuto

30/01/1909- 22/02/1991
Today we present the best Andrés Mejuto’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Andrés Mejuto’s movies.

Tobi

Tobi
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/12/1978
  • Character: Profesor Burman
A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow back.

Poppers

Poppers
5/10

Nuevo en esta plaza

Nuevo en esta plaza
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/05/1966
  • Character: Andrés
Film that tells the biography of the great bullfighter Sebastian Palomo Linares Linares, with the very skilled actor who plays the character. Palomo Linares belongs to a poor family but with great human values​​. He, like many others of his age, has a dream: to be a bullfighter. He works as an apprentice shoemaker fights secretly at night in the meadows. After a career of suffering and obstacles, the boy never lost hope, typical of his strong Christian convictions, and became a teacher, finally achieving success in the sand. The film shows with particular clarity the great Spanish tradition, as is the art of bullfighting.

A Nun at the Crossroads

A Nun at the Crossroads
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/12/1967
  • Character: Michel
During an uprising in the Belgian Congo, a convent of nuns are besieged and the Reverend Mother is killed and Sister Maria is raped. Returning to Belgium, Sister Maria finds out to her horror that she is pregnant. Rejected by her family and her sister, she is told by the Vatican that she is supposed to either give the baby to the church and still be a nun or keep the baby and leave the order. This film follows her decision.

Girl from La Mancha

Girl from La Mancha
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/03/1963
  • Character: El hidalgo
The story of Dulcinea, the love of Don Quixote, who was only a normal girl named Aldonza that is suddenly involved by the legend of the brave and ingenous gentleman.

Hamlet

Hamlet
Hamlet, the young and indolent prince of Denmark, who is sure that his father, the king, has been treacherously murdered by those closest to the throne, decides to take revenge, so he cleverly manipulates the hearts of the members of the court in search of the crack through which he will be capable to see the tainted souls of the coward assassins…

The Vampire of Santiago

The Vampire of Santiago
8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/01/1955
  • Character: Catalina's Uncle
In seventeenth century's Chile a woman kills her lover because she wants to conquer a priest.

Siempre es domingo

Siempre es domingo
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/10/1961
  • Character: Padre de Víctor
In a sector of Madrid inhabited by families of a well-off class, a gang of boys and girls has continuous fun, sleep and drink, while their parents ignore practically everything. However, each of these young people has, to a greater or lesser degree, a problem. The parties and parties enjoyed by a group of young people from the upper class are the basis of the story that explains this film. Among them we find the famous couple, once happy, formed by Carlos Larrañaga and María Luisa Merlo. Directed by Fernando Palacios, and with a script by Rafael J. Salvia and Pedro Masó, " It's always Sunday " has no greater intention than entertainment, despite giving history a certain sociological touch, for that of valuing the behavior of the Youth of the time.

The Tyrant of Castile

The Tyrant of Castile
5.8/10
it's a fast moving blood and thunder tale well rendered and at least rooted in fact, and has a good feel for the period. It's interesting to have a look at somewhere else in medieval Europe besides England and France for a change. After all, Spain, Portugal, and the Italian states and some other principalities were big players at that time, too.

Days of Hope

Days of Hope
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 14/06/1945
  • Character: Captain Muñoz
Spanish Civil War, 1937. A platoon of Republican soldiers plans to stop the advance of the rebel troops by bombing a bridge on the road to Zaragoza, near the city of Linás. With the close collaboration of the peasants of the area, the soldiers try to overcome the continuous bombardments and endure the harsh and tireless opposition of the powerful enemy…

The Sword of El Cid

The Sword of El Cid
4.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 24/12/1962
  • Character: Berenguer Ramón

El mejor alcalde, el Rey

El mejor alcalde, el Rey
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/04/1974
  • Character: El Rey

Mir reicht's - ich steig aus

Mir reicht's - ich steig aus
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/01/1983
  • Character: Zapata

Café Cantante

Café Cantante
In the mid nineteenth century, flamenco singing and dancing bring together their most loyal fans in a tablao in Andalusia where Rosarillo, an attractive singer unleashes the passions of his audience. On her wedding night, while the gypsy sings from deep emotion of her heart, her husband is murdered. Her feelings will be truncated at once, and in front of all those present, she swears revenge.

Inspiración

Inspiración
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/09/1946

The Phantom Lady

The Phantom Lady
6.8/10
The young widow of the viceroy of Peru, facing the dismal prospect of either a convent or a marriage of convenience, sets out to conquer a handsome officer, pretending she’s a duende, a ghost. Voted the best Argentine film of 1945, La dama duende is a beautifully crafted comedy of errors, based on the 17th-century play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. The most ambitious production of Estudios San Miguel, it was brought to the screen mostly by Spaniards exiled in Argentina as a result of the Civil War.

Tirarse al monte

Tirarse al monte
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/02/1971

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