The best Manuel Requena’s comedy movies

Manuel Requena

Manuel Requena

21/08/1891- 09/05/1969
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Manuel Requena’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Manuel Requena.

Morena clara

Morena clara
6.1/10
Trini, a gipsy girl, and her uncle Regalito are tried for the theft of several hams. Some time later, she presents herself, disguised as a maid, at the house of her former prosecutor, who ends up falling in love with her.

Violetas imperiales

Violetas imperiales
5.3/10

Aeropuerto

Aeropuerto
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/09/1953
  • Character: Nemesio
Different kind of people arrives to Madrid airport. Some goes with their heads and others just landed. Fernando is a pilot who he brings a girl for his relatives. Ceferino and his wife have won a contest and will travel soon to Paraguay and they are there because they want to know the airplane. Mr. Beltran is very nervous because he returned to Spain after many years of exile.

¡Olé torero!

¡Olé torero!
4.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/02/1949
Manuel is a friendly taxi driver in Buenos Aires that helps its beginnings to a famous Spanish bullfighter dubbed "The Carthusian". He travels to Spain to marry a young Sevillian, rich and beautiful, and Manuel accompanies him on the trip, as administrator. During the voyage dies "The Carthusian" afflicted with a terrible disease, and before dying makes him promise to his friend Manuel to comfort Soledad, his fiancee. But to get to Seville is confused with the bullfighter.

Un marido de ida y vuelta

Un marido de ida y vuelta
6.4/10
Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife dies victim of a heart attack the day she forces him to shave his beloved beard to go to a costume ball dressed as a bullfighter. Its spectrum then begins to walk around the house and the most unexpected cause tangles. When she finally decides to settle definitely get materialize and get his wife, who has meanwhile become a being sweet and understanding.

Ella, él y sus millones

Ella, él y sus millones
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/12/1944
  • Character: Viajero gordo
Arturo Salazar is a powerful businessman who wants to be related to the nobility, so he asks an aristocratic friend to find him a blue-blooded bride.

Facultad de letras

Facultad de letras
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/05/1952
  • Character: Bedel

Stories from Madrid

Stories from Madrid
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/01/1958
  • Character: Vecino en la partida de cartas
Dawn in Madrid. In the Plaza de la Cibeles begins the daily grind. The statue of the goddess, from its source in the center of the square tells the story of a man, petty speculator, owner of an old building that is going to ask Saint Nicholas for his cooperation to make it sink, and thus be able to lift a twelve-story modern building. But the inhabitants of the block have also implored the Saint to prevent this from happening.

Fulano y Mengano

Fulano y Mengano
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/07/1957
  • Character: Vendedor ambulante de lotería
Eudosio and Carlos were imprisoned by mistake. Now out of prison, are trying to get a job and to adapt to a society that rejects them.

La fierecilla domada

La fierecilla domada
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/01/1956
  • Character: arcipreste de Gandía

El último caballo

El último caballo
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/11/1950
  • Character: Encargado cuadra
Fernando has just finished the military service. It decides to buy Bucéfalo, the horse that has been his partner for this time and returns to Madrid removing with it to the animal. But everything has changed, the city already neither is the same and even he nor finds stables nor has time to attend to it. This way the things remedy will not have any more that to look for any solution.

Soledad

Soledad
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/02/1959
Italian comedy

Carnival Sunday

Carnival Sunday
6.5/10
Madrid, Carnival Sunday. A night watchman finds the body of a woman, a rich and greedy moneylender who has apparently been murdered. The prime suspect is a watchmaker who owed her a lot of money.

The Devil Plays the Flute

The Devil Plays the Flute
6.4/10
When the pieces of a singular figure are unearthed and then joined together, a devil of the lowest category breaks into a small Mediterranean village. From that moment on, the demon will enter the life of a painter named Bernardino, in the affairs of a "modern" marriage, in the existence of a frightened gardener and, finally, in the day-to-day life of the Great Momo.

Pototo, Boliche y Compañía

Pototo, Boliche y Compañía
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1948

Tres eran tres

Tres eran tres
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/12/1954
  • Character: (segment "Una de monstruos")
An anthology film centered around a film company called Tiacapa.

La lupa

La lupa
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1955
  • Character: (uncredited)

Yo no soy la Mata-Hari

Yo no soy la Mata-Hari
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/08/1950
  • Character: Mozo

La otra vida del capitán Contreras

La otra vida del capitán Contreras
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/06/1955

It's Your Fault, Adam

It's Your Fault, Adam
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/10/1944
  • Character: Feliciano Sánchez
Nora leaves the convent where she has been raised to marry a relative. Just arrived she has an accident resulting in total amnesia. Her identity mistaken a new life begins for her, where she will encounter love, adventure and even crime.

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