The best Manuel Requena’s movies

Manuel Requena

Manuel Requena

21/08/1891- 09/05/1969
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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.

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.

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 lupa

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

Estrella de Sierra Morena

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

The Girl at the Inn

The Girl at the Inn
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 12/11/1951
  • Character: Charanguito
Juan Luis and Dimas arrive to the "Venta del Catite", a tavern run by Rafael and his goddaughter Reyes. The tavern is frequented by tuna fishermen in the region, but in reality it is a cover for smuggling. Rafael decides to hire a beautiful singer, Raquel, to distract customers and the two new arrivals, so that he can do his business without being disturbed.

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.

Suspiros de Triana

Suspiros de Triana
4.9/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 16/12/1955
The famous singer Carlos Ojeda has come to Seville to hire some Spanish figure to accompany him on the show to be presented in Mexico. Negotiations with Dorita, The Cadiz, fail and Carlos is about to return to empty when discovered Reyes, selling beautiful flowers with a magnificent voice.

Dulcinea

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

Sin uniforme

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

Violetas imperiales

Violetas imperiales
5.3/10

Yo no soy la Mata-Hari

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

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

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.

¡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.

Nadie lo sabrá

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

La otra vida del capitán Contreras

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

La fierecilla domada

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

El otro Fu-man-chú

El otro Fu-man-chú

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.

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