Movies: Modesto Cid

Barcelona, Spain. A young man is murdered in the middle of the street in front of the police headquarters. Miguel and Marcial, two agents of the Criminal Brigade in charge of the investigation, find in the victim's room a newspaper where a cryptic cl...

Ernesto and Marta, a couple of newlyweds who have serious financial problems, are visited by a neighbor asking them to keep a large sum of money at home until she goes to the bank the next day....

Province of Valencia, Spain, 19th century. Tonet lives an intense love story with Neleta, whom he has known since childhood, but is forced to leave her to serve in the war in Cuba....

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"Dawn of Hope" (1937) is a film made by Antonio Sau for the anarchist union the CNT and is also one of the most important social films made ​​in Spain. Keep in mind that was filmed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, when the revolutionary imp...

The strange disappearance of the dogs of his neighbors leads Juan to investigate the case on his own. It ends up finding out that the author of the robberies is a young woman called Eloísa, the cocky daughter of a scientist who uses dogs to create an...

Mr. Vila is a family father who has worked a lot during his life to achieve a good life for his family. His oldest daughter, Elvira, causes him many problems because she acts as a rebel....

Two families that hate each other coudn't hinder the marriage of their firstborns. From this relationship born two pair of twins. Unfortunately their parents die and each family take in one pair of twins. Time pass trough, the twins find each other a...

Jacinto is in love with Natalia, but she wishes for a daring hero and he is not that kind of man at all. Then by accident he is mistakenly believed to be just that. Now he will try to live up to her expectations, finding it quite stressful....

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Through a pictoric play, this movie tells the story about the painter Eduardo Miranda who, one night, while he was lokking to a gipsy group that was dancing, discovers a beautifull girl called Carmen. Dazzled by her beauty he decides to paint a pictu...

Arcos de la Frontera, in the early nineteenth century, when Napoleon's troops invaded Spain. In house Alvareda they are preparing the wedding of the daughter with a young man named Ventura. But the wedding is not held because Ventura escapes after ki...

A son of the Marquise of Seven Almenas is robbed by a crook and deposited in Melchor's house, who sells dolls in the street. The administrator of the Marquise discover the whereabouts of the child and goes to pick him up, but Melchior gives him one o...

An animals' collectionist is despised by his wife so that he decide to comeet suicide, but the notice about the death of his brother, a pianist who lives abroad makes him change his mind. He makes his family think that he has commited suicide and som...

A famous painter returns to Spain under a false name as he once had to run away, to meet his half gypsy daughter, who has become a flamenco dancer. He offers her his house, making popular rumors take flight....

Mr Froilán, "Padre Pitillo", is the parish priest from a spanish town. He has a reputation for cantankerous but bellow this appeariance has a kind and humanitarian spirit....

Venice Film Festival 1951...

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