The best Nestor Paiva’s movies

Nestor Paiva

Nestor Paiva

30/06/1905- 09/09/1966
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHorrorRomance
  • Release: 29/12/1939
  • Character: Man in Street When Gypsies Arrive (uncredited)
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a gypsy young girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.

Revenge of the Creature

Revenge of the Creature
5.6/10
Men from an oceanarium capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.

Mighty Joe Young

Mighty Joe Young
7/10
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.

Boom Town

Boom Town
7/10
McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.

Creature from the Black Lagoon

Creature from the Black Lagoon
6.9/10
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.

Midnight

Midnight
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 24/03/1939
  • Character: Woman's Escort (uncredited)
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

Beau Geste

Beau Geste
7.5/10
  • Genre: AdventureDramaWar
  • Release: 24/07/1939
  • Character: Corporal Golas (uncredited)
Academy Award winners Gary Cooper and Ray Milland star along with Robert Preston in the epic adventure Beau Geste. When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards, Beau Geste has been universally acclaimed by generations of critics and audiences alike as a true motion picture classic.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/02/1962
Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. Marcelo and his children Julio and Chichi became Argentinean citizens but later returned to Paris. Karl became a general with a son (Heinrich) in the SS and in WWII he got a high job within the occupation administration in France.

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 22/12/1948
  • Character: Henri le Royer, Catherine's husband
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army and conquers Orleans.

Humoresque

Humoresque
7.3/10
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

Another Thin Man

Another Thin Man
7.3/10
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

All That Heaven Allows

All That Heaven Allows
7.6/10
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.

The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk
7.6/10
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

Tarantula

Tarantula
6.4/10
A lone-wolf scientist sequestered in a mansion near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new, and very female, assistant, they discover that, far worse, something much larger and hungrier than it ever should be, is devouring local cattle - and humans - in increasingly large quantities.

Union Pacific

Union Pacific
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 05/05/1939
  • Character: Canadian Pacific Conductor (uncredited)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/03/1948
  • Character: Joe Appollonio
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.

Alias Jesse James

Alias Jesse James
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 20/03/1959
  • Character: Grigsby (uncredited)
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.

Santa Fe Trai

Santa Fe Trai
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 20/12/1940
  • Character: Abolitionist Noticing Army Horse Brand (uncredited)
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.

Road to Morocco

Road to Morocco
7/10
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.

The Left Handed Gun

The Left Handed Gun
6.4/10
When a crooked sheriff murder his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.

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