Elvira Quintillá
1928 - 2013
Junts
Mireia Ros
Elvira Quintillá, Joan Vallès
Helena is a 70 year old woman living in a nursing home. His daughter, and especially his son, not want to have at home. Already expelled six residences, Helena thinks if escape this, it will not be accepted in another and can not do anything but let her go home. For this flight uses the help of James, another resident who has no family and is in love with him.
Junts
¡Bienvenido, Míster Marshall!
Luis García Berlanga
José Isbert, Lolita Sevilla
A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the American visitors, in the hopes of benefiting under the Marshall Plan. Hoping to demonstrate the side of Spanish culture with which the visiting foreign officials would be more familiarized, the Castilian citizens don unfamiliar Andalusian costumes, hire a renowned flamenco performer, and re-decorate their town in Andalusian style, meantime waiting for their uncertain arrival.
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Placido
Luis García Berlanga
Cassen, Elvira Quintillá
In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish.
Placido
La colmena
Mario Camus
Ana Belén, Concha Velasco
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.
The Beehive
Esa pareja feliz
Luis García Berlanga, Juan Antonio Bardem
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Elvira Quintillá
Juan and Carmen are a humble couple living in Madrid. She does the housework and he works as an electrician in a film studio. Their dreams of wellness come true when they win a contest sponsored by a soap brand.
That Happy Couple
Manicomio
Luis María Delgado, Fernando Fernán Gómez
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Susana Canales
Carlos goes to visit his girlfriend Juana at the asylum where she works. Once there, the director introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says.
Asylum
Aprendiendo a morir
Pedro Lazaga
Manuel Benítez 'El Cordobés', Maruja Bustos
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.
Learning to Die
