Manuel ZarzoFilmography

El Jardin Secreto

Actors: Assumpta Serna, Xavier Elorriaga, Taida Urruzola, Cecilia Roth

Synopsis: This is an off-beat, fast-paced, and well-wrought love story involving two very different people: Lucia (Assumpta Serna) is a computer operator whose sexual inclinations are alternately normal and kinky, and Arturo (Xabier Elorriaga) is a company representative from another town, with a wife and Read More

Stico

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Agustin Gonzalez, Carmen Elias

Synopsis: Leopoldo Contreras (Fernando Fernán Gómez) is a burnt-out university professor who convinces a married couple to take him on as a live-in servant, in exchange for room and board. The absurdity of this supposedly serious proposition only worsens when the "servant" discovers he has $200,000 in Read More

Los Santos Inocentes

Actors: Alfredo Landa, Francisco Rabal, Agustin Gonzalez, Juan Diego

Synopsis: Meant to reflect the harsh realities of segments of society in 1960s, Franco-era Spain, this slow-moving, drawn-out story is about a struggling, impoverished family who work on the estate of a wealthy aristocrat. Paco (Alfredo Landa) is the head of his small family who constantly tries to placate Read More

Dark Habits

Actors: Julieta Serrano, Marisa Paredes, Carmen Maura, Mary Carrillo

Synopsis: In this Pedro Almodóvar film, a singer at a low-end nightclub hides out at a convent after her lover dies of a bad dose of drugs, and she meets a group of off-the-wall nuns while in hiding. The nuns range from one who writes sensationalist pulp fiction under a pseudonym to another who takes drugs Read More

Mi Amigo El Vagabundo

Latidos de Panico

Epilogo

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Francisco Rabal, Charo Lopez, Manuel Zarzo

Synopsis: Director Gonzalo Suárez wrote this sequel to his 1967 film Ditirambo in which the lead character has a friend and fellow writer named Rocabruno (Francisco Rabal) who struggles with writer's block on a grand scale. Ditirambo (José Sacristán) has more enthusiasm than his friend, and unflinchingly Read More

La Colmena

Actors: Victoria Abril, Ana Belén, Francisco Rabal, Mario Pardo

Synopsis: Based on a 1943 book of the same title by Camilo José Cela, Colmena features the comings and goings of a wide variety of characters, all trying to survive in a poverty-stricken Madrid during World War II. Rather than feature any single story line, these people from all walks of life cross paths Read More

Vertigo En la Pista

Sabato, Domenica E Venerdi

Actors: Barbara Bouchet, Edwige Fenech, Michele Placido, Milena Vukotic, Adriano Celentano, Lino Banfi

Synopsis: This Italian anthology uses the standard sex comedy format but lacks the subtle social commentary present in its predecessors. In the "Saturday" episode, a modest accountant is sent by his boss to entertain a visiting Japanese engineer who turns out to be a pretty woman (Edwige Fenech). In the Read More

Mission to Kill

Actors: Helmut Berger, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: Order to Kill was originally shipped out to Spanish-speaking theatres under the title El Clan de los Immorales. The story concerns a mob family, headed by gambling czar Jose Ferrer. When one of family's hit men (Helmut Berger) fails to come up to expectations, Ferrer orders the man's execution. Read More

Odio A Mi Cuerpo

Synopsis: In this sci-fi horror film, the brain of a male engineer is transplanted into a female's body. He soon finds himself unable to cope with the daily sexist discrimination most women deal with. For example, he is surprised when no one will hire a female engineer. When he is faced with dealing with 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

Volver a Vivir

Un Tipo con una faccia strana

Actors: Christopher Mitchum, Barbara Bouchet, Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis: Robert Mitchum's son Christopher heads the cast of this Italian melodrama. Despite the horrific title, the film is actually a Mafia yarn. Arthur Kennedy shows up as a WASP-ish Godfather type, while Barbara Bouchet is the love interest. The presence of Hollywood names in the cast was supposed to Read More

La Spada Normanna

L'Arciere di Sherwood

Synopsis: This bunch is none other than the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest and their feisty leader, Robin Hood. This is a '70s release of the often-played Robin Hood story. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Dramma della Gelosia - Tutti i Particolari in Cronaca

Actors: Hercules Cortes, Monica Vitti, Marcello Mastroianni, Giancarlo Giannini, Marisa Merlini

Synopsis: The Pizza Triangle is a freewheeling satire of Italian mores, hilarious despite its outwardly morbid plotline. The murder of flower girl Monica Vitti triggers a long flashback involving Vitti, middle-aged Communist bricklayer Marcello Mastrioanni, and young pizza chef Giancarlo Giannini. The Read More

Il Prezzo del Potere

Synopsis: Italian director Tonino Valerii recreates a fistful of JFK conspiracy theories in Western settings with this bizarre look at the assassination of President James Garfield in 1890 Dallas. Granted, the assassination really occurred in Washington in 1881, but Valerii and screenwriter Massimo Patrizi Read More

Commando Suicida

Actors: Aldo Ray, Pamela Tudor

Synopsis: Gravel-voiced Aldo Ray stars as Sgt. Cloadec in the Italian-Spanish Suicide Commandos. As you've probably already guessed, the film takes place during World War 2. Cloadec is one of the many Allied guerilla fighters assigned to destroy an enemy airport deep within occupied territory. Pamela Tudor Read More

El Precio de un Hombre

Actors: Richard Wyler, Tomas Milian

Synopsis: In this spaghetti western, based on the Marvin H. Albert novel The Bounty Killer, a bounty hunter swears he will bring in a notorious Mexican outlaw. The outlaw is captured, but then, with the help of a pretty lady, escapes and goes to his hometown. There he enlists the aid of the locals and gets Read More

Uno Scacco Tutto Matto

Actors: Maria Grazia Buccella, Edward G. Robinson

Synopsis: It's Your Move (Uno Scacco Tutto Matto) stars Edward G. Robinson as MacDowell, a dilettante criminal who masterminds a fantastic bank heist. MacDowell exploits the fact that his butler's niece Monique (Maria Grazia Buccella) is the exact double of the bank president's secretary. Hiring three Read More

Al Ponerse El Sol

Synopsis: This Spanish-speaking film depicts gals trying out for a stage show and how they get involved with the fellows picking the parts. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Un Treno Per Durango

Sette Pistole per i MacGregor

Actors: Manuel Zarzo, Julio Perez Tabernero

Synopsis: This Latin western comedy chronicles the epic saga of the MacGregors, a Scottish clan of ranchers living on the Mexican border, who are in conflict with the local crooked sheriff, the local horse salesman, and a gang of banditos. The trouble begins when the horse trader tries to bilk them on a Read More

Sette Uomini D'oro

Actors: Rossana Podestà, Philippe Leroy, Gastone Moschin, Ennio Balbo, Alberto Bonucci, Maurice Poli, José Suárez, Gabriele Tinti, Manuel Zarzo, Giampiero Albertini, Renato Terra, Gianni di Benedetto, Renzo Palmer

Synopsis: The bulk of this amusing crime film consists of a plan to steal a fortune in gold from the supposedly impregnable vaults of Geneva's Credit Suisse Bank. A criminal genius (Philippe Leroy) watches from across the street as his six henchmen -- whose names all begin with the letter "A" -- carry out Read More

Hoy Como Ayer

La 317e Section

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Bruno Cremer, Pierre Fabre, Manuel Zarzo

Synopsis: Set near the end of the bloody Indo-Chinese War in which the Vietnamese struggled to shuck off the yoke of French colonialism, this taut, provocative French war drama chronicles the events leading up to the slaughter of the French Army's 317th Platoon, a unit comprised of 41 Laotians and a quartet Read More

Nuevo En Esta Plaza

Margarita Se Llama Mi Amor

Los Golfos

Actors: Manuel Zarzo, Luis Marin

Synopsis: In cold print, 1960's Delinquents sound like a Spanish-language precursor to a Mickey Rourke/Sean Penn flick of the 1980s. The delinquents of the title are three restless slum kids, given to petty thievery. When one of the boys Read More

Saeta Del Ruisenor

Sierra Maldita

Actors: Lina Rosales, Ruben Rojo, José Guardiola, Manuel Zarzo

Synopsis: Sierra Maldita translates to Cursed Mountain, a most appropriate title for this mystical melodrama. Legend has it that all women born under the shadow of a certain mountain range in Southern Spain will be rendered barren and thus ineligible for marriage. Young Juan (Ruben Rojo) flies in the face Read More