The best Manuel Requena’s drama 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.

Mr. Arkadin

Mr. Arkadin
7.1/10
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.

Violetas imperiales

Violetas imperiales
5.3/10

Don Quixote

Don Quixote
6.8/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 01/03/1947
  • Character: First Innkeeper
The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sancho Panza.

La cigarra

La cigarra
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/11/1948
Soledad, known as "La Cigarra", agrees to sing in Buenos Aires to have the opportunity to meet her liar boyfriend, whom she tries to forget in Rio.

Nadie lo sabrá

Nadie lo sabrá
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/12/1953
  • Character: El hacha

The Nail

The Nail
6.7/10
Mérida Nueva, Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed. When he investigates the case in depth, his suspicions fall on the woman who was going to marry the deceased.

Estrella de Sierra Morena

Estrella de Sierra Morena
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/09/1952
  • Character: Alcaide

Messengers of Peace

Messengers of Peace
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/12/1957
  • Character: Tabernero
Try the descent to Earth, specifically to Spain, of the Three Wise Men.

The Captain's Ship

The Captain's Ship
5.6/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 29/09/1947
  • Character: Rafael de Zalabardo
Port of Seville, Spain, 1640. A group of people from very different origins embark on the ship Capitana. They are members of the upper class, adventurers, peasants, convicts, who have only one thing in common: the illusion of arriving in America, the promised land where they can make their dreams and ambitions come true.

Dulcinea

Dulcinea
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/06/1947
  • Character: Juan el Zurdo

Goyescas

Goyescas
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 09/10/1942
  • Character: Mesonero en feria

Una mujer cualquiera

Una mujer cualquiera
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/08/1949
  • Character: Sereno
A woman who has walked out of an unhappy marriage is unsuccessful trying to earn herself a new living and gets mixed with a man who is a murderer and tries to incriminate her.

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.

Con la vida hicieron fuego

Con la vida hicieron fuego
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 20/09/1959
  • Character: Joaquín

Sin uniforme

Sin uniforme
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/02/1950
  • Character: Estraperlista

Tres huchas para Oriente

Tres huchas para Oriente
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1954
  • Character: Vecino que hace gimnasia
Pedro Manolo and Juan, three naughty and full of enthusiasm children go out with their piggy banks collecting money for missions. Near the end of the day, a car ran over one of them and is driven to a nearby hospital. The head of school, not knowing which of the children was injured calls the parents of the three to attend the health center. In parallel, we know the story of the three families. In the upper-class family, the father will leave his mother for another woman, in the middle class one, one sister invites her boyfriend to lunch and family revolutionizes and, finally, in that of lower class, the boy's father is about to be complicit in a crime

El marqués de Salamanca

El marqués de Salamanca
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 13/12/1948
  • Character: Cocinero

The Great Galeoto

The Great Galeoto
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/10/1951
A young musician and dreamy, called "Ernesto", is forced to live in Madrid to die his father, in the house of executor of the testament, "don Julio Villamil", who is married to actress Teresa Labisbal, of which "Ernesto Acedo" was enamored platonic. Although the conduct of the young is flawless, a third person causes slander which oblige "don Julio" to fight in mourning to death.

Chantaje

Chantaje
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/09/1946

Camarote de lujo

Camarote de lujo
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 22/06/1959
  • Character: Don Vicente (uncredited)

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