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Conchita Montes

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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.

13-03-1914

Birthday

Pisces

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

25

Total Films

Mona Lisa, Кончита Монтес

Also known as (female)

Madrid, Spain

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

25 Works

producer

0 Works

director

2 Works

writer

2 Works

other

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Neville's Time

Neville's Time

Documentary about the life of spanish director Edgar Neville.
6.0

Year:

1991

White Jungle Slave

White Jungle Slave

A young couple go an a safari for their honeymoon but they are captured by the guide and sold to a tribe of savages.
3.1

Year:

1985

Isabel Reina de Corazones

Isabel Reina de Corazones

Ricardo Lopez Aranda's play that follows Isabella II of Spain as she is forced to abdicate and leave the country in 1868.
0.0

Year:

1984

A Tied Blasé

A Tied Blasé

0.0

Year:

1981

The National Shotgun

The National Shotgun

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.
6.8

Year:

1978

Striptease

Striptease

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.
4.0

Year:

1976

What the Peeper Saw

What the Peeper Saw

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.
5.9

Year:

1972

55 Days at Peking

55 Days at Peking

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.
7.0

Year:

1963

Mi calle

Mi calle

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.
6.5

Year:

1960

El baile

El baile

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.
4.4

Year:

1959

Roots

Roots

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.
6.8

Year:

1954

Flamenco

Flamenco

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.
6.6

Year:

1952

The Devil's Roundup

The Devil's Roundup

Divided in several episodes, this film presents different stories that share the fantasy theme.
0.0

Year:

1952

Fairytale

Fairytale

Two fairy godmothers struggle to make their godchildren not fight and love each other, but a third person intervenes and worsens the situation.
0.0

Year:

1951

The Last Horse

The Last Horse

Fernando has just finished the military service. It decides to buy Bucéfalo, the horse that has been his partner for this time and returns to Madrid removing with it to the animal. But everything has changed, the city already neither is the same and even he nor finds stables nor has time to attend to it. This way the things remedy will not have any more that to look for any solution.
6.2

Year:

1950

My Beloved Juan

My Beloved Juan

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.
6.6

Year:

1950

The Marquis of Salamanca

The Marquis of Salamanca

José de Salamanca was arguably one of the most influential figures of the Spanish 1800s. This films tells his story.
5.8

Year:

1948

Nothing

Nothing

Barcelona, in the forties. Young Andrea comes to town to start college in the midst of an oppressive environment and extreme poverty. She's staying at her aunt Angustias, along with other family members. But the quarrels between them are continuous, making evident the open wounds left by the Spanish civil war.
5.6

Year:

1947

Carnival Sunday

Carnival Sunday

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.
5.6

Year:

1945

La vida en un hilo

La vida en un hilo

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.
5.8

Year:

1945

Café de París

Café de París

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.)
0.0

Year:

1943

Misterio en la marisma

Misterio en la marisma

In the Almenares family there is a story involving a mysterious woman and a pearl necklace that obsesses the young heir. He meets Vera, a Polish woman, and invites her and some relations to a hunting weekend, where the necklace disappears.
4.3

Year:

1943

Correo de Indias

Correo de Indias

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.
6.0

Year:

1942

Sancta Maria

Sancta Maria

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.
0.0

Year:

1942

Carmen and the Reds

Carmen and the Reds

Javier Navarro, a Falangist, is ordered to infiltrate Republican Madrid to deliver a message to a member of the Fifth Column.
5.8

Year:

1939