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Conchita Montes

Conchita Montes

Acting

Biography

María de la Concepción Carro Alcaraz "Conchita Montes" (1914-1994) was a Spanish film actress. With a degree in Law, she dedicated herself to film at the hand of Edgar Neville, with whom she had a sentimental relationship that lasted 30 years until the director's death. In addition to film, Conchita acted in several plays, TV programmes, and series. Her performances in the film Life on a Thread (Neville, 1945), and the play The Dance (Neville, 1952) are particularly noteworthy.

Known For

What the Peeper Saw
5.9

A wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect that her 12-year old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub accident.

What the Peeper Saw

1972
55 Days at Peking
6.9

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

55 Days at Peking

1963
Striptease
5.5

A disillusioned and depressed film director is forced to confront his lack of humanity through his involvement in the death of a young actress and the suicide of her husband.

Striptease

1976
Mi calle
6.6

Life events around a city street and its residents are told along the years while time goes by, wars break out and end and life evolves.

Mi calle

1960
Carmen and the Reds
6.6

Javier Navarro, a Falangist, is ordered to infiltrate Republican Madrid to deliver a message to a member of the Fifth Column.

Carmen and the Reds

1939
Nothing
5.6

When young Andrea arrives in Barcelona to begin her university studies, she stays at her aunt Angustias' house, where she lives with several relatives with whom she has constant arguments.

Nothing

1947
The National Shotgun
6.8

A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm shows full authority over James, who is the real organizer of the meeting. The celebration is diverse characters who live next to absurd situations.

The National Shotgun

1978
White Jungle Slave
3.5

A young couple go an a safari for their honeymoon but they are captured by the guide and sold to a tribe of savages.

White Jungle Slave

1985
Roots
7.1

Four independent stories based on writer Francisco Rojas Gonzáles's work, depicting the reality of Mexican indian people: Las Vacas (The Cow), Nuestra Señora (Our Lady), El Tuerto (One-Eyed) and La Potranca (The Filly). In El Tuerto, a one eyed boy is relentlessly bullied by his mates. His religious mother asks God to make the boy's eyes equal. The outcome is tragic.

Roots

1954
Flamenco
7.0

Title changed to "Flamenco" when it was first released in the USA in 1954, this is a program of Spanish songs and dances with the emphasis on "flamenco" or gypsy contributions. The USA version has an English narrative written by Walter Terry, the dance critic of the "New York Herald Tribune" newspaper. Heading the cast are Antonio (I), Pilar Lopez and Maria Luz, three of Spain's foremost dancers of the time, accompanied by members of the Ballet Espanol. Filmed in Cinefotocolor in which orange and blue dominated, a combination that should appeal to the fans of Auburn University athletic teams. Distributed in the USA by Martin J. Lewis.

Flamenco

1952
La vida en un hilo
6.0

After her husband's sudden death, a young widow leaves her small town to start anew in the big city. On the train, she meets a fortune teller who will fill her in about the life she could've led had she never met her late husband.

La vida en un hilo

1945
My Beloved Juan
7.0

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 antidote against sleep. Juan and Eloísa fall in love, but he will ask her to leave her luxurious mansion to live only with his salary.

My Beloved Juan

1950
Correo de Indias
7.0

A Dutch sailing ship finds the wreckage of a Spanish mail ship, which has collided with an iceberg. Inside, the bodies of a man and a woman are found embraced.

Correo de Indias

1942
Café de París
7.0

After suffering a family tragedy, Carmen leaves Spain and emigrates to Paris, where she will make new friends among some of the most peculiar characters who inhabit the bohemian neighborhoods of the city. (Partially lost film.)

Café de París

1943
El baile
5.0

Pedro and Julian, two friends entomologists are in love the same woman, Adela, who decides to marry Peter. Julian attends the marriage, but acts against women as her own husband. The passion that unites the two friends, entomology, leads them to conclude a treaty. The woman, however, is not comfortable with the life she has lived and want to abandon them. Discovered that she suffers from the disease, makes men willing to please her in everything, without her knowing the reason for his change of attitude.

El baile

1959
Carnival Sunday
5.8

Madrid, Carnival Sunday. A night watchman finds the body of a woman, a rich and greedy moneylender who has apparently been murdered. The prime suspect is a watchmaker who owed her a lot of money.

Carnival Sunday

1945
Sancta Maria
7.0

Nadia, a young Soviet journalist who is passing through Pompeii, discovers the power that comes from the Catholic faith when the painter she loves, Paolo, and who saved her from drowning during the shipwreck of the cruise in which they met, is at the gates of death because of a serious illness whose symptoms are similar to those of leprosy.

Sancta Maria

1942
Isabel Reina de Corazones
N/A

Ricardo Lopez Aranda's play that follows Isabella II of Spain as she is forced to abdicate and leave the country in 1868.

Isabel Reina de Corazones

1984
Fairytale
N/A

Two fairy godmothers struggle to make their godchildren not fight and love each other, but a third person intervenes and worsens the situation.

Fairytale

1951
The Marquis of Salamanca
6.3

José de Salamanca was arguably one of the most influential figures of the Spanish 1800s. This films tells his story.

The Marquis of Salamanca

1948