The best Manuel Alexandre’s movies

Manuel Alexandre

Manuel Alexandre

11/11/1917- 12/10/2010
Today we present the best Manuel Alexandre’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 Manuel Alexandre’s movies.
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The Executioner

The Executioner
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1963
  • Character: Condenado
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.

Death of a Cyclist

Death of a Cyclist
7.7/10
A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.

Welcome Mr. Marshall!

Welcome Mr. Marshall!
7.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/04/1953
  • Character: Secretario
After finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del Río start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive.

Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing

Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/01/1989
  • Character: Paquito - su padre
Theodore, a young Spanish engineer who works as a professor at the University of Oklahoma, returned to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year. Upon arrival, he discovers that his father killed his mother and, to compensate for the loss, he bought a motorcycle with sidecar to travel together. Father and son arrive in a remote mountain village seems empty, what happens is that all residents are in church every day, because the Mass is a true spectacle. Jimmy and Theodore are discovering the peculiarities of the people, attend the elections held each year to appoint mayor, priest, teacher, bitch ... In addition, the town has come a group of students at the American University of Eaton, a Belgian meteorologists, a dissident group of the Russian Army Choir, invading people's hidden above ...

The Wind's Fierce

The Wind's Fierce
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 04/12/1970
  • Character: Agustín
This western is set in Valencia, Spain at the end of the 19th century, and stars Terence Hill as a close-mouthed gunslinger. The bad guy is the local landlord and aristocrat (Fernando Rey), who horribly abuses the laborers in his community.

Elsa & Fred

Elsa & Fred
7.5/10
When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance.

The Wicked Carabel

The Wicked Carabel
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/10/1956
  • Character: Mateo Solá
Since he wants get married, the young Carabel, who is employed in a real estate agent, decides to ask their bosses for a raise in order to maintain his future wife. However, all he gets is to be fired. He then realizes that honesty is what has led him to unemployment and decides to change his life and live outside the law. He plots to steal the safe from his former company

The Rocket from Calabuch

The Rocket from Calabuch
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/09/1956
Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realizes his mistake and runs away from his inventions. He hides in Calabuch, a beautiful seaside town where people still believe in humor and friendship.

Miracles of Thursday

Miracles of Thursday
7.2/10
In the village of Fuentecilla, there is a medicinal spa which was very popular in the past but that now has been forgotten by the public. In order to bring back the tourists, the "prominent men" of the village organize a fake miracle: the apparition of San Dimas, the local patron saint, which will take place every Thursday night. At first it works, but trouble begins when a stranger appears, claiming that he knows what's going on and making peculiar demands in exchange for his silence. Written by Pablo Montoya

Beyond the Walls

Beyond the Walls
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/09/1985
  • Character: Capellán
This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued by the radical Christian Inquisition, one of a plethora of difficulties Spaniards faced at the time. Spanish super star Carmen Maura plays a nun who agrees to a selfless scam, a fake stigmata, only to avoid separation from her lover, another nun. It's a serious and passionate work, highlighting the theme of outspoken women-against-repression, seen in other good gay and lesbian films. This is not a lesbian "Nun sense" or another "Dark Habits" (by Almodovar, which also starred Carmen Maura, and also set in a Spanish convent, with some lesbian nuns). Perhaps, best of all, 'Extramuros' is realistic and frank. It isn't shy about its characters' sexuality. Their sexuality, and the film as a whole are genuine.

Main Street

Main Street
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/10/1956
  • Character: Luciano
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.

Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo

Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/03/1973
  • Character: Mozo del juicio ante Sancho Panza
A new vision of the Knight of the sad figure, which lives obsessed by the chivalry and its codes of honor. Accompanied by his unusual squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote recalls some of the adventures they've shared.

The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid

The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 09/03/1967
  • Character: Manuel Albarca - Gravedigger
This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries with the help of Pat Garrett, a fatherly friend, to change back. However, circumstances force Billy to become violent again and it is Garrett who is credited with the killing.

On Earth as It Is in Heaven

On Earth as It Is in Heaven
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/11/1995
  • Character: San José
Matacanes dies and goes to heaven just to discover that it was not as he expected, and everyone there is revolutionized lately. Peter explains that God was concerned about the progress of the world, and decided to send a second son to Earth. However, Jesus hears and does not agree, as they would have to rewrite history.

Fray Torero

Fray Torero
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/12/1966
  • Character: Intocable #2

Year of Enlightment

Year of Enlightment
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 05/12/1986
  • Character: Emilio
April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, Manolo, surrounded by boys all much younger than he is, feels a bit like the cock of the walk since the only other man around is the handyman Emilio who looks after the gardens and does whatever needs to be done about the place. His wife, Rafaela, is the cook. Manolo meets Irene, a falangist who runs the sanatorium, and the school teacher, Miss Transito, a crabby spinster. He has his first sexual experience, albeit as a voyeur, with his nurse Vicenta. When she has to leave, her place is taken by a girl from the village, Maria Jesus, with whom Manolo falls hopelessly in love. A relationship grows up between them which will mark them both for ever.

Placido

Placido
7.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/10/1961
  • Character: Julián Alonso
In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish.

Life Size

Life Size
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/08/1974
  • Character: Jose-Luis
When Michel gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only intrigued by it at first. Then the silent unresponsiveness of the thing begins to haunt him, and he finds himself reacting to it as if it were an equally unresponsive living woman. As time passes, more and more of his life is spent trying to satisfy or placate its relentless silence, and he goes somewhat mad. He dresses the doll and takes it with him wherever he goes. When his usually very tolerant wife discovers what is going on, her jealousy knows no bounds and she attempts to imitate this threatening love-object. The light-hearted quality of this addle-pated fantasy darkens quickly when various neighborhood men attempt to put the doll to its originally intended use.

Robbery at 3 O'clock

Robbery at 3 O'clock
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/12/1962
  • Character: Benítez
Galindo works in a bank. One day he convinces the other employees in the bank to plan a hold-up in the bank they are working. They prepare everything carefully. However, real robbers come just before the fake ones.

Dream Kiss

Dream Kiss
5.7/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 21/12/1992
  • Character: Padre de Margot
The gorgeous Margot supports her aged father by seducing men on trains, slipping them a Mickey Finn (a beso de sueño) and robbing them. One night her victim is a currency smuggler taking 100 million pesetas out of Spain. He's being watched by a cop and by a burned-out alcoholic.

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