The best Vicente Parra’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Vicente Parra’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Vicente Parra.
The Transsexual
5.2/10
Sympathetic look at the tragic life of cabaret singer Lorna, who was born a man but really just wants to be a woman. She meets a man who loves her but she can't tell him the truth and decides instead to get an operation so she'll be all woman.
The Cannibal Man
6.3/10
A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to a slaughter house.
La siesta
6.5/10
The seemingly peaceful life of a little village located in the Spanish Levant hides the most turbid and ardent passions. Calixto, a repairman of television antennas, is required by the fiery midwives to quench their sexual instincts.
Cotolay
6.6/10
St Francis arriving in Santiago with two other monks - Juan of Florence and Bernardo de Quintavalle - during a pilgrimage there to visit the tomb of St James the Apostle in the cathedral. He receives a divine revelation to tarry there until the meaning of his vision becomes clear. Faint with hunger he meets Cotolay (the 14-year-old Didier Haudepin) who gives the monks (stolen) figs to eat and leads them to the nearby Mount Pedroso where logging-master Tarna gives them food and lodging in return for work during their stay. While praying on the mountain St Francis believes he has been divinely instructed that his order of mendicant friars...
Cariño mío
4.5/10
Miguel and Verónica meet in a plane and lie to each other about their true self: she tells him she's a secretary while she actually is the billionaire niece of a duchess, and he tells her he's a trumpet player while he is a Teutonic king. Eventually they fall in love, without knowing about each other's true identity, all of this while Miguel is being urged by his ministers to choose a wife of royal blood and get married as soon as possible, and a revolutionary group, one of which members is Verónica's brother, plans a terrorist attack against the king.
Fair of the Dove
6/10
Life goes quietly in a traditional neighborhood of Madrid. Two beautiful girls, Susana and Casta, trade workers in the area, accepting mature attentions of a pharmacist, Don Hilarion. This affection dislike the young Julian, who is in love with Susan. Third movie version of the famous zarzuela by Tomas Breton. With musical arrangements by Gregorio Garcia Segura, the film tries to update the original story to fit the Madrid of the 60's.
¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII?
5.4/10
Alfonso de Borbón and his cousin María de las Mercedes de Orleans fall in love and, although both families do not maintain good relationships, young people marry when Alfonso became king of Spain.
Varietés
5.4/10
Spain 1930s. A troupe of performers travel from city to city entertaining audiences and earning a living. The cast includes a magician, a ventriloquist, muscle men, dancers, singers and a full orchestra. The star of the show is Carmen Soler (Trini Alonso) a celebrated singer, now way past her prime, who refuses to retire gracefully and defends her stardom ruthlessly. On her shadow lives and works Ana Marques (Sara Montiel) a younger singer who dreams of the big time and patiently waits for her break.
Vacations in Majorca
5.3/10
Ugly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laughed of, especially by his ultra handsome rival, but with his firm insistence, and gradually emerging charm, he seduces the lady, to the total shocked surprise of his rival.
Asylum
6.4/10
Carlos visit his girlfriend Juana at the mental hospital where he works. Once there, the asylum director introduces him to his disturbed niece, who's playing the harp obsessively, and to a nurse who doesn't stop repeating what Carlos says.
Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
7.4/10
Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female community.
Rustic Chivalry
4.5/10
Maria del Pilar is in love with Sebastian, a servant of his house. But her father wants her to marry Marcos a rich landowner. The girl refuses Marcos and he decides to take revenge.
Los cobardes
5.3/10
Daddy's War
5.8/10
No One Heard the Scream
6.2/10
A woman sees a man throw a person into an elevator shaft and helps him to get rid of the body. During this adventure the man falls in love with the witness to his crime.
El espiritista
3.7/10
Alberto Ramos, known as ‘the best photographer in Lisbon’, is also a famous medium who uses his professional gift to enjoy a libertine lifestyle that gives him access to the upper social classes. Margarida Malveira, a rich 50-year-old widow, consults him in the hopes of establishing contact with the love of her life, deceased 30 years prior. After one session, the spirit of Margarida’s husband possesses Alberto’s mind, forcing him to take care of his wife. - MOTELX
La leyenda del tambor
6.4/10
Cuando Almanzor perdió el tambor
4.5/10
El pescador de coplas
5.8/10
It is the story of two brothers who have rented a boat to survive. Juan Ramón sings like an angel and an entrepreneur decides to take him to Madrid to succeed.
Buenos días, condesita
6.3/10
