The best Ismael Merlo’s drama movies

Ismael Merlo

Ismael Merlo

01/09/1918- 10/09/1984
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The Cannibal Man

The Cannibal Man
6.3/10
A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to a slaughter house.

La campanada

La campanada
3.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/03/1980
  • Character: Padre

Poachers

Poachers
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/09/1975
  • Character: Cura
Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.

The Hunt

The Hunt
7.5/10
Three veterans of the Spanish Civil War go rabbit hunting. While doing so, old wounds open up.

La madrastra

La madrastra
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1974
  • Character: Marcos

Climax

Climax
4.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1977
  • Character: Don Rafael

Ídolos

Ídolos
4.6/10
Clara Bell, a famous French actress, rejects the protection of a producer and falls in love with a handsome Spaniard. But the story is complicated and his love will not come to fruition.

Tormento

Tormento
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/09/1974
  • Character: Padre Nones
A rich emigrant returns to Madrid where he meets the beautiful Amparo . The girl, however, lives a secret affair with a priest

Las largas vacaciones del 36

Las largas vacaciones del 36
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/09/1976
  • Character: El Abuelo
Set near Barcelona at the time of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, this epic drama explores the adventures suffered by an uncommitted vacationing family caught unawares by the conflict. In focusing on the war's effects on the family, this film was able to offer much more devastating commentary than would normally have been permitted in the late Franco era.

Jugando a morir

Jugando a morir
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/11/1966
  • Character: Empresario
Blas Romero "El Platanito" is a bullfighter who begins to take its first steps in Merida. After a long journey, one day he is lucky enough, his performance is showed on TV and that brings him to top of the charts. From now on, his problems will be centered with the dilemma of having to give up their dreams of making serious classical bullfighting, or jump to a false bullfighting, between slapstick and temerity, which will give offer him numerous well-paid contracts.

Rojo y negro

Rojo y negro
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 25/05/1942
  • Character: Miguel
Since childhood, Luisa and Miguel have always been good friends; but several years later, as adults, when Spain faces the abyss of the Civil War (1936-1939), they support ideologically opposed camps.

Julio César

Julio César
After Pompey's defeat at the Battle of Farsalia, Julius Caesar becomes the beacon of the Roman Republic and the master of its destiny; but many patricians want to avoid the birth of a tyranny and plot to assassinate him…

La batalla del domingo

La batalla del domingo
4.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/09/1963
  • Character: El risitas
Alfredo Di Stéfano plays himself, not as a soccer player but as a man, husband and father. This is a personal portrait of the mythical athlete, in the decline of his career. Film made to the greater glory of the football player Alfredo Di Stefano. In principle it is a portrait of manners of the life of the athlete at the time of professional retirement. Filmed by Luis Marquina, " The Battle of Sunday " mixes the form of a conventional film with the topics of biographical documentaries. However, the film was an important public success, given the importance of Di Stefano in Spanish football.

Experiencia prematrimonial

Experiencia prematrimonial
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/12/1972
In Spain of 1972 a student couple decides to test the marriage before marrying in reality in order to prevent a irremediable failure. But this was like a revolution for the catholic society of this time.

Cristina Guzmán

Cristina Guzmán
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/05/1943
  • Character: Marqués de Atalanta
Cristina Guzmán is hired to impersonate the disappeared sister-in-law of a rich man.

Doce hombres sin piedad

Doce hombres sin piedad
8.3/10
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father.

Ventolera

Ventolera
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 05/03/1962
  • Character: Máximo
Cristina, a beautiful woman, lives in love with her husband Manuel, who believes the most handsome, charming and, above all, the best husband in the world. Unexpectedly, Manuel dies and, thereafter, Cristina not live but to idealize her husband, going so far as to pay a reasonable service. Until a jilted suitor puts aware of the true personality of her husband. Cristina's reaction was swift, gets a 'gale' and women becomes more attractive and desired of Sevilla.

El Litri y su sombra

El Litri y su sombra
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/02/1960
  • Character: Pepe Aguayo
Biopic about Miguel Báez "El Litri", a descendant of two generations of bullfighters: his older brother touched the glory before he died at twenty years after being gored and complicated by gangrene. His father begged everyone until the last minute that they keep him away from the arena, but "El Litri" knew since childhood that his destiny was to succeed in the world of the bulls

La revolución matrimonial

La revolución matrimonial
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/07/1974
  • Character: Padre de Begoña
Begoña and Pedro are stuck. Despite having been married for many years, now the only thing they have in common is a son obsessed with basketball. A new conjuncture will cause love to resurface.

Entre hermanos

Entre hermanos
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1984
  • Character: Padre de Daniel

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