The best Manuel Zarzo’s drama movies

Manuel Zarzo

Manuel Zarzo

26/04/1932 (92 años)
Today we present the best Manuel Zarzo’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 Zarzo’s movies.
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Dark Habits

Dark Habits
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/03/1983
  • Character: Cura
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.

A Drama of Jealousy (And Other Things)

A Drama of Jealousy (And Other Things)
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/04/1970
  • Character: Ugo
Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist rallies, and enjoy the filthy beach of Ostia. Will the hostile environment leave a way to jealousy?

The Beehive

The Beehive
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/10/1982
  • Character: Consorcio López
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.

Crime on a Summer Morning

Crime on a Summer Morning
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/02/1965
  • Character: L'employé du téléphone
An ill-assorted group of international criminals executes a tightly-planned ransom sting in Spain. Things go along swimmingly until various tensions within the group come to the fore.

The Waitresses

The Waitresses
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/11/1976
  • Character: Javier

The Stash

The Stash
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1976
  • Character: Señorito
Paco, a truck driver who has always been dedicated to smuggling, hires Curro as an assistant, a young man wanting to make money without caring about the way to get it. The two drivers are surprised by an offer that far exceeds what they use to perceive: they have to transport illegal immigrants from Portugal to the French border.

The Redeemer

The Redeemer
7.6/10
El redentor (original title)

The Holy Innocents

The Holy Innocents
8.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/04/1984
  • Character: Don Manuel, el doctor
Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master "needs" their work. When Regula's brother is fired from where he has worked for 61 years, he settles down at their little place... An attack against the archaism of the spanish country of the 60s.

The 317th Platoon

The 317th Platoon
7.3/10
In Laos, 1954, eight days before the french defeat in the Indochina war, the 317th platoon – four french soldiers and 41 laotian combatants – has been ordered to leave its outpost and to retreat for the plains of Diên Biên Phu, where the french army is getting stucked. Led by the inexperienced and idealistic sous-lieutenant Torrens, fresh out of the military academy, and by adjutant Willsdorf, a WWII veteran of the Werhmacht, the group must cross 150 kilometers of jungle. But dripping rainwater, hostile nature, and the Viêt-minh ambushes expose them to constant danger.

Stico

Stico
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/03/1985
  • Character: Claudio
Leopoldo Contreras, a professor emeritus of Roman law has serious economic problems. His translations of classical authors do not give enough money to live and had to sell even their floor. To remedy the situation is offered as a slave to a former student in exchange for room and board.

My Dear Killer

My Dear Killer
6.4/10
Following the mysterious decapitation of an insurance investigator, Police Inspector Peretti is put onto the case, but all the clues lead to an unsolved case of kidnapping and murder.

Lute: Forge On or Die

Lute: Forge On or Die
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/09/1987
  • Character: Policía
In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed "El Lute", steals some chickens and is condemned to six months in jail. El Lute moves to the slum outskirts of Madrid with his common law wife, Chelo, starting an itinerant life as a peddler of pots and pans and living in a quinqui shantytown. He gradually embarks upon as life of petty criminality, eventually participating in the theft of a jewelry store during which a bystander is killed.

The Delinquents

The Delinquents
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/05/1960
  • Character: Julián
In cold print, 1960s Delinquents sound like a Spanish-language precursor to a Mickey Rourke/Sean Penn flick of the 1980s. The delinquents of the title are three restless slum kids, given to petty thievery. When one of the boys expresses a desire to become a bullfighter, the others pool their energies to pull one big heist in order to finance their pal's dream. The would-be bullfighter makes a disastrously dismal debut in the ring, and the gang is rounded up by the cops. Delinquents was originally released in Spain as Los Golfos, but might have been more appropriately titled Los Goofos.

Tiovivo c. 1950

Tiovivo c. 1950
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 16/09/2004
  • Character: Rueda
This movie has any coherent plot. It is more the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how people manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: la colmena or roma (fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.

Nuevo en esta plaza

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

La diputada

La diputada
4.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/03/1988
  • Character: Pepe Anastasio

Climax

Climax
4.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1977
  • Character: Manolo

Aborto criminal

Aborto criminal
3.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/12/1973
  • Character: Carlos

Adolescencia

Adolescencia
5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 21/01/1982
  • Character: Vendedor de motos (as Manolo Zarzo)

Pasión inconfesable

Pasión inconfesable
4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1978
  • Character: Eugenio

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