The best José Orjas’s drama movies

José Orjas

José Orjas

26/02/1906- 17/12/1983
Today we present the best José Orjas’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 Orjas’s movies.
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The Executioner

The Executioner
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1963
  • Character: Marqués
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.

Accidente 703

Accidente 703
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/08/1962
  • Character: Don Jesús
Hector travels with Luisa by the road linking Madrid with Barcelona. When another car suddenly crosses his path, his vehicle leaves the road and plunges into a tree. Hector dies and she is seriously injured. The other car was occupied by Jorge and Paula, her lover. Several vehicles cross before the car crash and do not stop, each for a different reason. Among them is Julio, a truck driver who does not stop in order to reach his destination on time, not knowing that at the wrecked car travels his old girlfriend.

La gran familia

La gran familia
6.6/10

Radio Stories

Radio Stories
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/07/1955
  • Character: Ayudante del inventor
Three short stories based on radio competitions, all linked by speaker Gabriel and his fiancee. Two inventors who want to patent a piston and need money, a thief who answers a phone call while robbing and a child who needs to go to Sweden for an operation are the protagonists of these stories around the radio.

Esa mujer

Esa mujer
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/05/1969
  • Character: Herrera

The Castilian

The Castilian
4.9/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 13/04/1963
  • Character: Vendedor de ungüentos
Also released as Valley of the Swords, this lugubrious US/Spanish co-production features the usual mid-1960s "tax shelter" international cast. Broderick Crawford plays a despotic 10th century Spanish king who, in cahoots with the invading Moors, has banished handsome Castilian nobleman Spartaco Santoni. With the surreptitious aid of Crawford's daughter Teresa Velasquez, Santoni assembles an army to march against the Moors. In keeping with the 13th century epic poem from which this film was derived ("El Poema de Fernan Gonzales") Santoni's path is smoothed by the celestial intervention of patron saints Milan and Santiago. Among the big names picking up a few tax-free dollars in The Castilian are Cesar Romero, Linda Darnell, Alida Valli and Fernando Rey.

El camino

El camino
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1963
  • Character: Don Moisés
A sharp, sly portrait of small-town life dominated by a conservative church seeking to police community morals.

The Guerrilla

The Guerrilla
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/02/1973
  • Character: Aldeano
Adaptation of the text of Azorin theater play. In 1808, Napoleon's troops invaded a village in the Sierra de Madrid. Love triangle between a girl, guerrilla leader and French officer who falls in love with the girl.

091 Policía al habla

091 Policía al habla
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/11/1960
  • Character: Sr. Ele
A police inspector makes his service in a patrol car attenging emergency calls. A memory hauns him, the death of her daughter, who was killed hit by a car that fled. The car is located and the inspector goes there and confrontation will be violent.

Ventolera

Ventolera
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 05/03/1962
  • Character: Quejido
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.

Historias de la televisión

Historias de la televisión
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/05/1965
  • Character: Miembro Comité organizador Festival #1
Film divided into two stories: 1. Cuando los gorilas hablan por teléfono 2. Una chica de fortuna

De profesión: polígamo

De profesión: polígamo
4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/11/1975
  • Character: Don Anselmo

Learning to Die

Learning to Die
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/06/1962
  • Character: Jerónimo
Despite the advice that friends have given, Manuel wanders tentaderos and squares to see if they let him fight. After many calamities and thanks to Rafael, get a bullfight in Cordoba. From here, it rains contracts and get a series of victories, winning his first money.

A House Without Boundaries

A House Without Boundaries
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1972
  • Character: Anciano
Daniel is a member of The Organization. He is sent on an assignment to Bilbao to determine what has become of a lad his age, a former member. He takes over the boy's room in an odd rooming house. When he is given the photo of the boy's girlfriend, he is so taken with it that he puts off his quest. The Organization requires him to continue, however, so he tracks her down to a remote fishing village.

Doña Perfecta

Doña Perfecta
5.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/10/1977
  • Character: Don Cayetano

El juego de la verdad

El juego de la verdad
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/09/1963
  • Character: Julio
Lucia is a mature woman who maintains a relationship with the young John. When he is found murdered in a bullring with a nail stuck in his chest, Lucia is the prime suspect, it is believed that the motive for the crime was jealousy because it felt for her daughter Marta, which had also been seduced by John.

Ready, Aim, Fire!

Ready, Aim, Fire!
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/09/1975
  • Character: Ramos, padre de Paca
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.

La mujer perdida

La mujer perdida
5.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 21/10/1966
  • Character: Diputado #2
Sara is the daughter of a fisherman. She leaves her small village but she goes to Madrid to work as a flamenco singer in a club

Nuevo en esta plaza

Nuevo en esta plaza
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/05/1966
  • Character: Sacerdote
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.

Siempre es domingo

Siempre es domingo
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/10/1961
  • Character: Taxista
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.

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