Amparo Soler LealFilmography

Paris-Tombuctu

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Concha Velasco, Amparo Soler Leal, Juan Diego, Eusebio Lazaro

Synopsis: Veteran Spanish director Luis Garcia Berlanga created this anarchic black comedy about sexual impotence and millennial anxiety. Though a Paris-based plastic surgeon spends much of his time and wealth on prostitutes, he is plagued by impotence. Despondent, he plans to commit suicide. After Read More

El Angel De La Guarda

Actors: Manuel Alexandre, Zoe Berriatua, Javier Albala, Amparo Soler Leal, Marta Fernandez-Muro

Synopsis: Set in the mid-1980s, this sitcom-like domestic comedy centers on a bright young man's endeavors to escape his crazy family life. Jorge's ordeal began when his recently-widowed mother Carmen moved herself, him and his brother Alvaro into her parent's comfortable but strange middle-class home. Read More

Los Papeles De Aspern

Actors: Silvia Munt, Hermann Bonnin, Amparo Soler Leal, Rosa Novell, Marc Martinez

Synopsis: This eccentric retelling of a classic short novel by Henry James was so shabbily produced that one trade reviewer (for Variety) rather insultingly suggested that it was made solely as a means for receiving federal grant money set aside especially for the production of Catalan-language films. At Read More

La Telarana

Hay Que Deshacer la Casa

Actors: Amparo Rivelles, Amparo Soler Leal, Joaquin Kremel, Josep Maria Pou, José Luis Lopez Vasquez

Synopsis: After their wealthy fascist father dies, Ana and her sister Laura have the job of settling his estate. The two sisters have not seen one another for some time and imagine they have nothing in common. Ana stayed at home and married a pretty ordinary middle-class man, Laura moved to Paris and lives Read More

Cara de Acelga

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Marisa Paredes, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba

Synopsis: Antonio (Jose M. Sacristan) is a vagabond traveler who hitches a ride into a small town. He takes a job in a restaurant before landing a better job in the local movie theater. Antonio remembers the owner as the woman who employed his acting troupe years before when he was a young child. He later Read More

La Vaquilla

Actors: Guillermo Montesinos, Alfredo Landa, José M. Sacristán, Carlos Velat, Violeta Cela

Synopsis: This entertaining comedy is set in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War when a group of Republican soldiers sneak into a village in enemy territory to steal a bull with plans of butchering it to feed themselves. Fate and the bull itself, however, have other plans. One of the surreptitious Read More

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

Actors: Carmen Maura, Ángel de Andrés Lopez, Verónica Forqué, Gonzalo Suárez, Chus Lampreave

Synopsis: Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, the Luis Buñuel of the 1980s, cooks up another perversely funny descent into urban hell in What Have I Done to Deserve This? Carmen Maura plays a middle-class housewife hemmed in by her wildly eccentric relatives. Her principal purpose in life is a balancing act: to keep Read More

Las Bicicletas Son Para El Verano

Actors: Amparo Soler Leal, Agustin Gonzalez, Victoria Abril, Patricia Adriani

Synopsis: In his second successful starring role in 1983, Agustín Gonzalez is a father who runs a wine shop in Madrid, a city under a three-year siege (1936-1939) because the Nationalists forces of Francisco Franco need to take Madrid before the fascist dictator can be installed in power. The siege has left Read More

Bearn o la Sala de las Muñecas

Actors: Fernando Rey, Ángela Molina, Amparo Soler Leal, Imanol Arias

Synopsis: In this inconclusive, confusing story about an aristocratic Majorcan family with connections to the Pope and much more darkly, to the secrets of a Masonic Order kept in a doll's room, the patriarch of the family (Fernando Rey) and his wife and cousin come to no good end for reasons that are never Read More

Hablamos Esta Noche

Actors: Amparo Muñoz, Amparo Soler Leal, Mercedes Sampietro

Synopsis: In this movie with a title that refers to putting off an important discussion ("we'll talk tonight, dear"), a major fault line running right under a newly-constructed nuclear power plant is the "important discussion" that needs attending. The head engineer at the plant warns its director of the Read More

Tac-Tac

Las Aventuras De Enrique y Ana

Actors: Luis Escobar, Amparo Soler Leal, Agustin Gonzalez

Synopsis: Enrique (Enrique del Pozo) and Ana (Ana Anguita) are two popular singers-turned-actors in this adventure story of the evil Baron Von Nekrus and his minions who are intent on becoming masters of the world, and the two youngsters who are out to stop him. Ana's good-hearted grandfather has been Read More

Nacional 3

Actors: Luis Escobar, Amparo Soler Leal, Agustin Gonzalez, José-Luis de Villalonga

Synopsis: This is the third film in a sequence that started in 1978, about the Marquis de Leguineches, his hopeless son Luis José, his mistress/servant Viti, and in this instance, a Catholic priest. The Marquis has been living in Madrid since he lost his villa, and when his father-in-law dies, the family Read More

Gary Cooper, Que Estas En Los Cielos

Actors: Mercedes Sampietro, Jon Finch, Carmen Maura

Synopsis: In the three days before an operation on the cancer that is threatening to kill her, a film director (Mercedes Sampietro) remembers a few of the most poignant and meaningful relationships and dreams of her life. The premise for this partially autobiographical movie was taken from the real-life Read More

127 Millones Libres de Impuestos

El Crimen De Cuenca

Actors: Amparo Soler Leal, Héctor Alterio, Fernando Rey, Jose Manuel Cervino

Synopsis: In a gross miscarriage of justice, based on an actual event, two men are falsely accused and convicted of the murder of a missing shepherd from a small Spanish village. A despotic district court judge and a right-wing congressman orchestrate the trial. The two men are subjected to brutal torture Read More

Patrimonio Nacional

Actors: Luis Escobar, José Luis Lopez Vasquez, Amparo Soler Leal, Luis Ciges, José-Luis de Villalonga

Synopsis: A Marquis (Luis Escobar) suddenly becomes inspired to reclaim his palace, now gone to seed, right in the heart of Madrid. He and his son head for the city, without taking into account that his wife, the aged Marquesa is thoroughly ensconsed in the palace, has been for more than 40 years, and has Read More

Vamonos, Barbara

Actors: Amparo Soler Leal, Julieta Serrano, Jose Ruiz Lifante

Synopsis: At age 40, the married woman in this film has her first adulterous affair and decides suddenly that marriage is not for her. Impulsively leaving home with her daughter for a resort on the beach, she hangs out with her girlfriends and essays a few romances until she receives a legal summons from Read More

La Escopeta Nacional

Actors: Jose Sazatornil, Antonio Ferrandis, José Luis Lopez Vasquez, Rafael Alonso, Luis Escobar

Synopsis: Few sacred cows go un-gored in this satirical Spanish movie. In Spain, as in England, instead of getting together over a round of golf, it is customary for the power elite to gather at a country estate for a long weekend of "hunting," which basically consists of standing in one spot shooting at Read More

Mi Hija Hildegart

Actors: Amparo Soler Leal, Carlos Velat, Pedro Diaz del Corral

Synopsis: Aurora is a dedicated feminist in the early part of this century, who doesn't need men in her life. She successfully arranges to be impregnated by a man so that she can have a child. The child turns out to be the girl Hildegart, an intellectual prodigy, gifted at languages, music, and literature. Read More

Nosotros Que Fuimos Tan Felices

Retrato de Familia

Actors: Antonio Ferrandis, Amparo Soler Leal, Monica Randal, Miguel Bose, Gabriel Llopart

Synopsis: This film follows the experiences of a Spanish family living near the Portuguese border at the time of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in February of 1936. The story also reveals the long-standing romantic rivalry between the father and the son of the family, as well as their mutual caring Read More

El Amor del Capitan Brando

Actors: Ana Belén

Synopsis: Aurora (Ana Belen) is a high-school teacher. When two attractive men fall in love with her, she enjoys their attention. One of them is a young student of hers (Jaime Gamboa), the other is a man returning from his many years of exile following the Spanish Civil War (Fernando Fernan Gomez). Her Read More

Los Nuevos Espanoles

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Maria Luisa San Jose, Amparo Soler Leal, Antonio Ferrandis, Manuel Zarzo

Synopsis: In Los Nuevos Espanoles, the slow-paced and happily inefficient lives of the "old" Spaniards is transformed as international corporations demand that they conform to more modern standards. In this spoof/satire, five "old Spaniard" insurance brokers suffer through the training techniques of the Read More

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Actors: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Frankeur

Synopsis: In typical Luis Buñuel fashion, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie surrealistically skewers the conventions of society. Buñuel applies his surrealist touch to a mundane event: a dinner party that may never come to pass. A group of well-to-do friends attempt to gather for a social evening, but Read More

Marianela

Synopsis: We can find predecessors of the Spanish Marianela dating back to the dawn of cinema (take a look at D.W. Griffith's Blind Love, vintage 1910). But there's no such thing as an old story if it's done with finesse. Rodio Ducal plays a disfigured young woman who falls in love with blind Pierre Orcel. Read More

El Bosque De Ancines

Actors: Amparo Soler Leal, Antonio Casas, John Steiner

Synopsis: This colorful horror tale begins with Benito Freire (Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez), a pedlar and trader of charms and fabrics in a small village in northern Spain. He spends his spare time as a wolf man, murdering women and burying their corpses in the Ancines Woods. Only a forest dwelling witch knows Read More

La Familia Y...Uno Mas

Amador

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Amparo Soler Leal

Synopsis: After Amador (Maurice Ronet) murders his aunt and another woman, he tries to resolve his differences with the mother of his child. His girlfriend (Amparo Soler Leal) talks the thirtysomething Amador out of another murder. He seems to kill out of human weakness as the film takes an almost humorous Read More

La Gran Familia

Vuelve San Valentin