Antón García Abril
Known for Sound
Born
May 19, 1933 (age 93)
Birthplace
Teruel, Aragón, Spain
Filmography
147 films, 5 shows
Known for Sound
Born
May 19, 1933 (age 93)
Birthplace
Teruel, Aragón, Spain
Filmography
147 films, 5 shows

The Holy Innocents
1984 · 1h 47m
country: Spain
In 60s Extremadura, Paco el Bajo and his relatives work during day in a farmhouse, and silently suffer submission to their masters, who exploit them and treat them almost like animals. Meanwhile, Paco dreams that one day his children will be able to study.

The Crime of Cuenca
1981 · 1h 29m
country: Spain
Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier.

Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven
1980 · 1h 38m
country: Spain
A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to reconsider her life--work, family, friendships, men-- causing a psychological and emotional crisis pushes her toward a drastic decision.

Rocky Carambola
1979 · 1h 21m
country: Mexico
The circus in which Rocky Carambola and Coco, his chimpanzee friend, work, arrives in a city where strange things happen.

Avisa a Curro Jiménez
1978 · 1h 31m
country: Spain
Córdoba, Spain. Lord Killarney, representative of the British Museum, acquires an Arabic incunabulum at an auction; but he is murdered and the book disappears. All suspicions fall on El Lince, an antique dealer with a shady background, who asks his nephew to warn Curro Jiménez.

A Dog Called... Vengeance
1977 · 1h 54m
country: Spain
A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog.

Celedonio y yo somos así
1977 · 1h 39m
country: Spain
Daniel has as the only fortune a stud bull named Celedonio, which he rents for living.

Estoy hecho un chaval
1977 · 1h 31m
country: Spain
Juan, a 65-year-old accountant, is going to be a father. At the same time, he's going to retire. Needing extra money, he tries all kinds of jobs, with no success. But his wife saves the day, with her embroidery which sells well in Germany.

Los días del pasado
1977 · 1h 49m
country: Spain
A woman arrives in town to work as a teacher. It is the time of the 'maquis', the anti-Franco guerrilla that fights with little hope in some regions of Spain just after the end of the civil war. She has a love affair with one of the guerrillas, but their relationship will have an impossible future because of the past.

Night of the Seagulls
1975 · 1h 29m
country: Spain
A bizarre cult that practices a ritual of sacrificing humans terrorizes a young doctor and his wife, who have just moved to the group's village.

Naked Weekend
1974 · 1h 33m
country: Spain
Angustias, a hotel maid, and Rodolfo, play boy who will spend a few days in that hotel with Octavia, witness how a wealthy lady, seeking to steal her jewelry by thieves, is accidentally killed by her lover in a discussion.

The Ghost Galleon
1974 · 1h 29m
country: Spain
After a pair of models go missing from a boat, a rescue party discover an empty galleon carrying the coffins of the long dead Knights Templar. The rescue party board the galleon and then discover their own boat has vanished. The survivors struggle to fight off the spectral knights with what little knowledge they have of them.

Curse of the Devil
1973 · 1h 24m
country: Spain
An ancient curse causes the ancestor of a witch hunter to turn into a bloodthirsty werewolf.

The Loreley's Grasp
1973 · 1h 25m
country: Spain
The legendary Loreley has been living for centuries in a grotto beneath the river Rhein in Germany. Every night when the moon is full, she turns into a reptile-like creature craving for human blood. When one girl after another of a nearby boarding school is killed by her, a hunter named Sigurd is engaged to kill the monster.

Attack of the Blind Dead
1973 · 1h 31m
country: Spain
Nearly a half-millenium after they were blinded and executed for committing human sacrifices, a band of Templar knights returns from the grave to terrorize a rural Portuguese village during its centennial celebration. A small group of people take refuge in a deserted cathedral and must find a way to escape from the creatures.

El abuelo tiene un plan
1973 · 1h 30m
country: Spain
Leandro Cano, grandfather of many grandchildren, coincides in the clinic of Dr. Bolt with Elena, a lady already advanced in years. The doctor makes every effort to make them meet, and thus overcome their feelings of loneliness.

Disco rojo
1973 · 1h 37m
country: Portugal
A member of the jet-set dies in Lisbon, of drug overdose. A journalist tries to pass through disinformation nets to get to the traffick ring leader who is acting with such impunity. He is up to a surprise, when all evidence points him towards a lady of immaculate repute...

El vikingo
1972 · 1h 38m
country: Spain

Pancho Villa
1972 · 1h 32m
country: Spain
In 1916, during the Mexican Revolution, General Pancho Villa manages to escape from the clutches of General Goyo, his greatest enemy, only to face an even greater problem when he meets McDermott, a mysterious adventurer who promises to get him weapons and ammunition for his troops.

Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf
1972 · 1h 26m
country: Spain
Waldemar Daninsky comes to swinging seventies' London, seeking a cure to his malady. Unfortunately, he meets Dr. Jekyll who injects him with a serum that turns him into the lascivious killer Mr. Hyde. In his top hat and black cloak, Hyde haunts the fleshpots of Soho, while two gorgeous women fight for possession of his wolfman soul...

Tombs of the Blind Dead
1972 · 1h 41m
country: Portugal
In 13th century Berzano, a legion of knights known as the Templar were executed for conducting black magic rituals and committing human sacrifices in a quest for eternal life. 700 years later, they rise from the dead and attack a group of vacationing college students who visit the remains of their abandoned monastery.

Black Story
1971 · 1h 36m
country: Spain
Peter is a widower who writes crime novels, signing as Peter P. Peter, and is about to marry Beatriz (Analia Gade), a widow who proves to be a ruthless woman who makes his life miserable. As an expert in inventing crimes committed by his characters, he imagines a plan to get rid of his new wife. The trouble is that she also plans to kill him.

The Ibéricas Football Club
1971 · 1h 30m
country: Spain
The Iberian F.C. is a female football team makes a splash in the world of football, rather than their athletic skills, their physical attraction for the male audience. Each of the components of the whole suffers a different and peculiar relationship status, derived from its new sports.

The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
1971 · 1h 35m
country: Germany
Elvira is travelling through the French countryside with her friend Genevieve, searching for the lost tomb of a medieval murderess and possible vampire, Countess Wandessa. They find a likely site in the castle of Waldemar Daninsky, who invites the women to stay as long as they like. As Waldemar shows Elvira the tomb that supposedly houses the countess, she accidentally causes the vampire to come back to life, hungrier than ever. Daninsky has a hidden secret of his own, but will it be enough to save the two girls from becoming Wandessa's next victims?

El astronauta
1970 · 1h 22m
country: Spain
After witnessing man's landing on the Moon on television, several friends from the Spanish village of Minglanillas decide to do the same and build their own rocket.

Verano 70
1970 · 1h 43m
country: Spain
Typical Spanish comedy of the seventies set in Benidorm, the famous coastal town of Alicante where numerous families come to spend the summer. It tells the travel arrangements and incidents that occur before arriving to the apartments as well as the return of working husbands to the city, once the families have settled on the beach, and their unsuccessful attempts to flirt while alone

Cateto a babor
1970 · 1h 23m
country: Spain
Miguel Cañete is a village man who is called up by the Navy to do military service, but he lives alone with his little brother and doesn't know where to leave him...

Pasto de fieras
1969 · 1h 28m
country: Spain
The orphan shepherd boy Tino loses his flock to save a lost sheep. After this event, he tries to embark for America.

¡Cómo sois las mujeres!
1968 · 1h 28m
country: Spain
Mario and Teresa are a seemingly happy marriage, but she reproaches that he does not value enough her work at home. As he is not willing to recognize the importance of domestic chores, Teresa offers him to exchange roles. While Teresa gets a job, and develops very well, Mario is unable to keep the house in order.

No desearás la mujer de tu prójimo
1968 · 1h 36m
country: Spain
The plot narrates how a group of inseparable friends feel, suddenly, the urgent need to deceive each other with their respective wives. Ladies, attractive, intelligent and wealthy, decide to teach a lesson to the new "Don Juans".

El turismo es un gran invento
1968 · 1h 32m
country: Spain
After a vacation to a seaside resort, a Spanish mayor attempts to modify his small rural town for tourists in an attempt to make money.

No le busques tres pies...
1968 · 2h 4m
country: Spain
The lieutenant Miguel Aguirre's dream is to become a military pilot, but a dispute with a superior is about to make him abandon his studies, had it not been for the intervention of his mother and his girlfriend, Luisa. Miguel's first destination is Granada Air Base. There he meets an attractive young woman, Patricia, whom he takes for an American tourist.

Las secretarias
1968 · 1h 25m
country: Spain
Three young and attractive secretaries, Julia, Paula and Doli, work in an insurance company.

Sor Citroen
1967 · 1h 24m
country: Spain
Madrid, Spain. When a religious community running an orphanage buys a car, the vivacious and intrepid Sister Tomasa accepts the task of getting behind the wheel.

Los chicos del Preu
1967 · 1h 29m
country: Spain
A group of pre-university boys and girls experience all kinds of problems and joys that arise in their lives. Among other worries, they have to deal with the pressure of their studies, difficulties with their families and, of course, their first loves.

Hand of the Assassin
1967 · 1h 8m
country: Spain
A group of people take shelter from the storm in an old spa served by a marriage and a servant. It is a very diverse group, highlighting a man who, with his wife, carrying a briefcase full of money. At night, at dinner in honor of the newcomers is a power outage and shortly afterwards, they realize that the man with the briefcase has been murdered.

The Cobra
1967 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
A disgraced treasury agent Mike Rand, who teams with his boss to halt a Red Chinese plot to destroy the free world by flooding the market with opium and turning everyone into addicts. Along the way he manages to bed junkie Lou, get into various fights and destroy the refinery that is ending out the drugs.

Un millón en la basura
1967 · 1h 30m
country: Spain
In the vast army of human society, Pepe, a sweeper, occupies one of the last places: anonymous, gray, vague. Pepe is a member of that ghostly dawn brigade, to blow hose, clean the streets at dawn. One day Pepe finds a million in the trash. Financial need of the poor sweeper suggests keeping the money, but his wife advises him to do his civic duty and return the money ...

Island of the Doomed
1967 · 1h 28m
country: Germany
A group of tourists arrive to see the botanical gardens on a small island off the Italian coast. The only inhabitants of the island are the famous botanist Baron von Weser and his two faithful servants; all of the other residents fled after a series of mysterious deaths. When the car driven by the tourists' guide hits one of the baron's servants, von Weser explains that the death was due to a rare and incurable disease, not the accident. That night, the guide and Cora Robinson, one of the guests, are found murdered with all the blood drained from their bodies.

La ciudad no es para mí
1966 · 1h 36m
country: Spain
Agustin, a widower who lives in a village in Aragon, where he is much loved by all neighbors, is lonely and decides to go to the big city, where his son, a famous doctor, lives with his wife and daughter. Agustineis received by his children with great coolness, as he does not fit in the environment in which they operate. The life of his son, his daughter-in-law, and even the maid is too sad for this simple town man.

Los ojos perdidos
1966
country: Spain

El cálido verano del señor Rodríguez
1965 · 1h 20m
country: Spain
Pepe Rodríguez, an office worker who has been working while his family went on vacation, leaves Madrid to join them in the countryside.

Death Whistles the Blues
1964 · 1h 25m
country: Spain
A dead musician’s widow seeks revenge against the gun trafficker who betrayed them.

The Gang of Eleven
1963 · 1h 35m
country: Spain
Inspired by the American gangster films, a group of thugs decides to dock the Bank of Spain. "El Rubio" explains to his men that, to commit the armed robbery, they will have to dig a gallery in the Cibeles. But, due to the threats of a rival band, "El Rubio" decides to disguise itself and pretend to be one of the most famous actors of the moment.

Learning to Die
1962 · 1h 36m
country: Spain
Despite the advice that friends have given, Manuel wanders tentaderos and squares to see if they let him fight. After many calamities and thanks to Rafael, get a bullfight in Cordoba. From here, it rains contracts and get a series of victories, winning his first money.

The Savage Guns
1961 · 1h 23m
country: Spain
This Western is set in the Mexican valley of Sonora not that far south of the state of Arizona. It's just after the American Civil War, and a former Confederate officer, Mike Summers has taken refuge in a small town in the valley. He has married and is hoping to live in peace the rest of his life. Instead, he and his wife and the rest of the town are suffering the depredations of a brutal gunman, Danny Pose, and his gang of outlaws. Summers holds off picking up a gun because of his personal vow of non-violence. But the situation deteriorates and a new ally comes into the picture, Steve Fallon, a wandering gunslinger who may not be able to handle the bad guys alone.

For Men Only
1960 · 1h 26m
country: Spain
Spain, late 19th century. When, in a time of great political instability, Flora, a beautiful young woman, starts working in a ministry doing a job that supposedly only a man can do, a great scandal breaks out.

Los tramposos
1959 · 1h 28m
country: Spain
Two guys live without working quite well using thousands of tricks and fakes. But they soon change their attitudes when love arrives at their hearts.