The best José Calvo’s movies

José Calvo

José Calvo

03/03/1916- 16/05/1980
Today we present the best José Calvo’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 José Calvo’s movies.
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A Fistful of Dollars

A Fistful of Dollars
7.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/01/1964
  • Character: Silvanito
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.

Tristana

Tristana
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/03/1970
  • Character: Bellringer
Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope, a protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don sells his possessions to avoid manual labor and champions the causes of the dispossessed and downtrodden of society. He takes advantage of the vulnerable Tristana, who leaves him when she falls in love with Horacio. Unable to commit to him, she returns to Don Lope when she falls ill. He asks for her hand in marriage, and she accepts after losing her leg to cancer. She chooses to remain in a passionless union rather than be subject to the harsh realities of a society that refuses to change to the needs of women. Taken from the novel by celebrated author Benito Perez Galdos.

Viridiana

Viridiana
8.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/05/1961
  • Character: Don Amalio
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

Day of Anger

Day of Anger
7.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 19/12/1967
  • Character: Blind Bill
Lee Van Cleef stars as Talby, a sadistic gunfighter who rides into town and takes on a young outcast as his apprentice.

The Running Man

The Running Man
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/10/1963
  • Character: Porter
An insurance man (Alan Bates) gets chummy in Spain with a couple (Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick) who have collected on a fake death.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day
5.3/10
Several independent histories in the St Valentine's Day, which they have jointly that a celestial emissary collaborates in solving his conflicts.

Tragic Ceremony

Tragic Ceremony
5.5/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 20/12/1972
  • Character: Sam David
After a peaceful sailboat ride, four young people, including rich kid Bill, Joe, Fred and Jane, knock on the door of a secluded villa after their dune buggy runs out of gas. Earlier in the day, Bill had given the lovely Jane a pearl necklace with a supposedly paranormal history, and this later opens up a can of worms. They are invited to spend the night at the mansion, owned by Lord Alexander and Lady Alexander, who happen to be hosting a strange ceremony that night attended by a group of eccentrics in black robes. During the evening, Jane exits her sleep chamber, seemingly in some kind of trance, and is lured to a sacrificial alter where the robed houseguests are hovering over her. As a knife is about to be plunged into the young lady, her three friends come to the rescue, but they are also witness to a chaotic mass murder catastrophe in which they flee with feelings of guilt and uncertainty.

Murders in the Rue Morgue

Murders in the Rue Morgue
5.2/10
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.

In a Colt's Shadow

In a Colt's Shadow
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 10/12/1965
  • Character: Sheriff
A story about two gunfighters, Duke and Steve. Steve is in love with Duke's daughter but Duke disapproves of the match, envisioning a life of hardship and danger for the girl if she marries Steve..

El Coyote

El Coyote
5.4/10
California, 1848. An invading army has defeated the few opposing forces and the territory has become part of the United States. Don César de Echagüe, an old gentleman, begs his son César to return from Europe, confident that he will know how to confront the oppressor…

A Stranger in Paso Bravo

A Stranger in Paso Bravo
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 23/03/1968
  • Character: Wasserhändler
After spending many years in prison, Gary returns to Paso Bravo, where thugs burned his ranch killing his wife and daughter. Gary seeks revenge, and also finds a people who live terrorized by a group of gunmen led by Acombar. This situation causes Gary skip to face action this gang of murderers.

The Swindlers

The Swindlers
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/09/1963
  • Character: Brigadier (segment "Suore")
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.

Main Street

Main Street
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/10/1956
  • Character: 'El Doctor'
A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of a group of soulless pranksters.

My Uncle Hyacinth

My Uncle Hyacinth
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/03/1956
  • Character: Almacenista
Jacinto, a former bullfighter who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding he, as agreed a few days before, he should go to a bullfight to be held that evening at Las Ventas. The letter infuriates Jacinto who thinks this is a joke, since he retired from the arena for years, has not signed any contract. When Jacinto is located around the square, picking up cigarette butts that pull the audience, make sure the letter was not a joke, because his name appears on the poster.

El gafe

El gafe
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/12/1959

Red Cross Girls

Red Cross Girls
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/11/1958
  • Character: Paciente de Andrés
Paloma, Isabel, Marion and Julia Madrid are four girls belonging to different social strata, who are preparing to apply for the Red Cross on the flag. The four girls will be sought by many young ...

La espada negra

La espada negra
6.6/10

Little Funny Guy

Little Funny Guy
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/04/1973
  • Character: Don Nicolone Salento
Movie starts with a small boy watching his father boarding a ship to America. Years later, all grown up and in colour, Pippolo Cavallo (Adriano Celentano) takes the same route (dressed as a woman) to search for his father and begin a new life.

Ready, Aim, Fire!

Ready, Aim, Fire!
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/09/1975
  • Character: Policía
Madrid, in the forties. In the post-war period, Paca, a chorus girl who aspires to enter the Celia Gámez Company, returns to Madrid after a provincial tour. In the same train travels Luis, undocumented young person to whom Paca allows him to spend the night in the room where she lives with her sick father. Paca's relationship with Julio, a mogul without remorse, offers her financial support, but Luis gives her the tenderness and love she does not have with Julio.

Appointment in Beirut

Appointment in Beirut
4.8/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 20/09/1968
  • Character: Benson
When an international casino crime ring is planning a big score at a fixed roulette game, the casino police enlists the help of Jeff Miller, an alcoholic croupier, to nab the bad guys. Jeff is attracted to Laura, a singer at the casino, but she prefers the company of the leader of the thieving casino ring.

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