Manuel Alexandre

Elsa & Fred is a story about two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love; or to dream. (ElsaYFred.com)

In a small Spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person dining with them. The celebrations also include a parade, and in it we find Plácido, the humble owner of a three-wheeler, whose family is forced to live in a public lavatory because of the lack of money to pay the rent, and who has to pay the second bill of his vehicle before midnight or else he will lose it.

A couple of friends decide to have a good time and play a trick on an unmarried woman. Therefore one of them has to pretend to fall in love with her. (imdb)

In the celebration of the day of the political prisonner the victims of the Franco repression meet in the jail of Valencia. Among them are parvenues, mafiosi, bankers, and a communist priest... (imdb)

Non-horror outing from Franco until about half way through when it suddenly lurched into a comedy-thriller narrative. Up to that point it had been a quite amusing romantic comedy based around the last days of silent cinema. (imdb)

Eurospy film directed by Jesus Franco, notorious godfather of exploitatoin.

There's gonna be a heist at a casino!!!

Piccoli, as a chic dentist, forsakes his 'liberated' but arid marriage for a new love. His job slides as he devotes himself entirely to her; they marry, but soon their bliss becomes contaminated and he tries to kill her. What makes Life Size a suitably bizarre project for Piccoli in his running battle with the bourgeoisie is that the object of his affections is a lifelike doll, complete with mucous membranes. (Time Out)

In a flashback, Ernesto, a young con man, tells us how he got to the edge of a big score: childhood in an orphanage, youthful smash-and-grab burglaries until his partner is caught, then tutelage from Lefty, an aging swindler. After some years of success, they're joined by Federico, the best, a true artist. Things go well until Pilar, a woman from Federico's past, re-enters his life with a proposal to con a golden goose - a swindle that will put them all on easy street. (imdb)

After ten years of being locked up for a crime he did not commit, Juan is released. He is determined to kill Luis 'El Torcido', who he believes is responsible for his misfortunes.

Gwenn plays a retired atomic scientist who settles in a peaceful Spanish village. But he can't remain sedentary for long, and soon he's off and about developing a new kind of rocket. So much for his retirement, and so much for the peace and quiet in his village, which is soon overrun with reporters and spies. (allmovie.com)

A Spanish professor working in the U.S. returns to Spain for a sabbatical and finds himself in a small village with a series of strange characters.

Galindo, a bank worker, convinces his coworkers to help him stage a bank robbery, but not everything goes as planned.

Despite being educated professionals, a doctor and lawyer, Antonio and Josefina find it tough to get a jobs and a place to live.

Year 2598. Three days ago, the end of days in London, an small and lost castillian village. Lorenzo, sheep shepard, tell us the events that came before the apocalypse: cows wanted to go to school, walls fall suddenly, Paquita appears in unexpected places... (FilmAffinity)

Faced with a mountain of debt, hopeless hitman Paco (Antonio Resines) is forced to take a job teaching gangster Don Rodrigo's (Manuel Alexandre) idiotic nephew (Jordi Vilches) how to kill people. But training this fool to become a killer will be a very difficult assignment. With the bumbling amateur by his side, Paco finds his life continually threatened as he faces one disaster after another. (rottentomatoes)

In order to bring back the tourists to the village, their inhabitants organize a fake miracle: the apparition of San Dimas. (Written by Pablo Montoya (imdb)

When a Spanish judge has the courage to look into a political murder... (imdb)

Don Rodrigo goes to the bank and when he is going to take his money there is a robbery (imdb)

Rural comedy. After being captived in Tunisia, Bartolomé (Landa) comes back to Extremadura expecting to be hired by Columbus and travel in a ship for a long period (and eating twice a day!). On his journey he will find Ruy (Resines), a deserter that has a pig. Bartolomé is sure than having a pig will be key to get access to Columbus' ships, but Ruy has other plans.

Miss Flora Sandoval, in Madrid in 1895, takes a heroic resolution: instead of looking for a boyfriend to maintain her, as advised her own family, decides to be official of the Ministry of Public Works. The scandal is so great in a deeply patriarchal society, that even the Government is forced to intervene, having it no choice but to accept the claim of Florita, if only by way of experiment. (imdb)

Emilio and Virtudes Palomo are invited by don Alberto, the boss of Emilio, to a dinner at his chalet. Don Alberto, which confuses simplicity with stupidity, intends to submit the Palomo's as a suspicious of a crime he has committed.

Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, performs only small roles, but she hopes to succeed and puts her success before the love of Miguel (imdb).

Pilar and Juan are a happy married couple with very few resources. One day they decide to play Christmas Lottery. But Pilar purchase tickets behind her husband's back for a raffle of a lamb... (imdb).

A comedy about a kind and innocent man that after being fired snaps and tries to become a criminal (cinecromos).

"Ugly, Catholic and sentimental", Javier de Montenegro is best known for the noble title he holds: that of Marqués de Bradomín. Rid of dying on the gallows thanks to Captain Casares, Bradomín helps him, in return, to flee to Mexico. Then, Bradomín retakes his old passion of youth towards Concha, married now with the Count of Bradesco. Six years later, Bradomín, now a gambler in Mexico, seduces the beautiful Niña Chole, lover of General Bermúdez (imdb).

A car mechanic travels to the south of Spain, to Torremolinos, with the idea of enjoying the so-called "bridge" (a business day that is between two holidays and is taken free by people). (imdb)

In the middle of the Spanish Golden Age, a Castilian convent is about to be closed and the nuns residing there dispersed. Then, one of the sisters comes up with a saving idea that could restore well-being to the community: to pretend that she has stigmata on her hands. (imdb)

In Madrid in 1968, the sad daily life of a family whose parents fought for the Republic is interrupted by the appearance of a brother who had to go into exile in Argentina. (FILMAFFINITY)

The establishment of an obligatory school for children divides a father and his little son. (imdb)

Two night watchmen take a man sleeping on a park bench to the police station (filmaffinity).

The gorgeous Margot supports her agèd father by seducing men on trains, slipping them a Mickey Finn 'beso de sueño' and robbing them of money and jewelry. One night her victim is a currency smuggler taking 100 million pesetas out of Spain (imdb).

A woman arrives in town to work as a teacher during 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's future is impossible because of the past (imdb).

Snack Bar "La Oficina" (The Office), managed by psychological mute Smith and his wife Pruden, is the meeting point for the local con-men (the "los ladrones" of the title). They get together to slightly plan their moves while focusing on social life