Fortunio Bonanova

Fortunio Bonanova

Fortunio Bonanova, pseudonym of Josep Lluís Moll, (13 January 1895 – 2 April 1969) was a Spanish baritone singer and a film, theater, and television actor. He occasionally worked as a producer and director. According to Lluis Fàbregas Cuixart, the pseudonym Fortunio Bonanova referred to his desire to seek fortune, and his love of the Bonanova neighborhood in his native Palma. As a young man, living under his birthname, he was a professional telegraph operator. He studied music with the Italian Giovachini. In 1921, he debuted as a singer in Tannhäuser, at the Teatre Principal in Palma. That year, along with a group of Majorcan intellectuals and Jorge Luis Borges (who was briefly living in Majorca with his parents and sister), he signed the Ultraist Manifesto, using the name Fortunio Bonanova. Also in 1921, he appeared in a silent film of Don Juan Tenorio by the brothers Baños, which was shown the following year in New York City and Hollywood. He later directed his own Don Juan in 1924. In 1927, he acted in Love of Sunya, directed by Albert Parker and starring Gloria Swanson. In 1932 he had small parts in Hollywood productions featuring Joan Bennett and Mary Astor. In the same period, he appeared in New York in several operas as well as the zarzuelas La Canción del Olvido ("The song of forgetting"), La Duquesa del Tabarín ("The Duchess of Tabarín"), Los Gavilanes, and La Montería. In 1934, he returned to Spain, where he had a major role in the film El Desaparecido ("The disappeared one") written and directed by Antonio Graciani. In 1935 he acted and sang in the film Poderoso Caballero ("A Big Guy"), directed by Màximo Nossik. In 1936, with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he returned to the United States, where he played the role of Captain Bill in a film called Capitán Tormenta, directed by Jules Bernhardt. A sequence of increasingly larger acting and singing roles mostly in English-language films followed, especially after 1940. Among his roles were Signor Matiste, Susan Alexander Kane's opera coach in Citizen Kane (1941); General Sebastiano in Five Graves to Cairo (1943); Don Miguel in The Black Swan (1942); Fernando in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943); Sam Garlopis in Double Indemnity (1944); and a singing Christopher Columbus in Where Do We Go From Here?. He continued for the next several decades in a miscellany of character roles.

  • Title : Fortunio Bonanova
  • Popularity : 3.453
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1895-01-13
  • Place of Birth : Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
  • Homepage :
  • Also Known As : Josep Lluís Moll
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Fortunio Bonanova Movies

  • 1941
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    Citizen Kane

    Citizen Kane

    8 1941 HD

    Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning,...

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  • 1944
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    Double Indemnity

    Double Indemnity

    8.1 1944 HD

    A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy.

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  • 1941
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    A Yank in the R.A.F.

    A Yank in the R.A.F.

    5.5 1941 HD

    An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

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  • 1953
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    Second Chance

    Second Chance

    5.9 1953 HD

    A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.

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  • 1957
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    An Affair to Remember

    An Affair to Remember

    7.4 1957 HD

    A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

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  • 1948
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    Adventures of Don Juan

    Adventures of Don Juan

    6.4 1948 HD

    Spanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a scandal and comes to the aid of his queen, who is under...

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  • 1950
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    Whirlpool

    Whirlpool

    6.406 1950 HD

    The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous...

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  • 1955
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    New York Confidential

    New York Confidential

    5.8 1955 HD

    Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to...

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  • 1943
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    Five Graves to Cairo

    Five Graves to Cairo

    6.9 1943 HD

    The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He...

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  • 1947
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    The Fugitive

    The Fugitive

    5.9 1947 HD

    Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining...

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  • 1953
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    Thunder Bay

    Thunder Bay

    6.1 1953 HD

    Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.

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  • 1948
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    Romance on the High Seas

    Romance on the High Seas

    6.7 1948 HD

    Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband...

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  • 1941
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    Moon Over Miami

    Moon Over Miami

    6.1 1941 HD

    After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find...

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  • 1940
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    Down Argentine Way

    Down Argentine Way

    6 1940 HD

    The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their...

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  • 1944
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    Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

    Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

    6.2 1944 HD

    Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the...

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  • 1947
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    Fiesta

    Fiesta

    4.7 1947 HD

    When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.

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  • 1945
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    The Red Dragon

    The Red Dragon

    6.1 1945 HD

    Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.

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  • 1944
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    Mrs. Parkington

    Mrs. Parkington

    6 1944 HD

    In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by...

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  • 1942
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    Larceny, Inc.

    Larceny, Inc.

    7 1942 HD

    Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...

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  • 1953
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    The Moon Is Blue

    The Moon Is Blue

    6.4 1953 HD

    Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her...

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  • 1950
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    September Affair

    September Affair

    6 1950 HD

    An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the...

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  • 1950
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    Nancy Goes to Rio

    Nancy Goes to Rio

    5.7 1950 HD

    Mother and daughter compete over same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man.

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  • 1947
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    The Kneeling Goddess

    The Kneeling Goddess

    6.6 1947 HD

    Businessman Antonio is carrying on an affair with Raquel, who wants him to divorce his wife Elena. He purchases for Elena as an anniversary gift a...

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  • 1958
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    The Saga of Hemp Brown

    The Saga of Hemp Brown

    5.6 1958 HD

    Ex-army sergeant Jed Givens and his gang rob an army payroll shipment led by Lt. Hemp Brown. Givens kills a civilian woman and all the soldiers,...

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  • 1938
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    Tropic Holiday

    Tropic Holiday

    5.5 1938 HD

    A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.

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  • 1945
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    Man Alive

    Man Alive

    5.1 1945 HD

    A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.

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  • 1953
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    So This Is Love

    So This Is Love

    5.5 1953 HD

    Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.

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  • 1942
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    Four Jacks and a Jill

    Four Jacks and a Jill

    6 1942 HD

    Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little...

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  • 1954
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    With This Ring

    With This Ring

    1 1954 HD

    Dramatised promotional film for the Miller Brewing Company.

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  • 1941
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    That Night in Rio

    That Night in Rio

    6.2 1941 HD

    An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.

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  • 1945
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    Hit the Hay

    Hit the Hay

    1 1945 HD

    An unsophisticated farm girl pursues a career as an opera singer.

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  • 1945
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    Where Do We Go from Here?

    Where Do We Go from Here?

    5.3 1945 HD

    Bill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has slight problems with his history knowlege, so he sends...

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  • 1938
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    Bulldog Drummond in Africa

    Bulldog Drummond in Africa

    5.5 1938 HD

    Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an...

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  • 1953
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    The Girl on The Roof

    The Girl on The Roof

    4.4 1953 HD

    A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the observation deck of the...

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  • 1940
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    I Was an Adventuress

    I Was an Adventuress

    6.3 1940 HD

    Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con...

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  • 1941
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    Blood and Sand

    Blood and Sand

    6.4 1941 HD

    Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face...

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  • 1932
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    Careless Lady

    Careless Lady

    5.3 1932 HD

    Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.

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  • 1942
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    Girl Trouble

    Girl Trouble

    6.5 1942 HD

    A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.

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  • 1943
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    Dixie

    Dixie

    3 1943 HD

    A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music...

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  • 1946
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    Pepita Jimenez

    Pepita Jimenez

    4.8 1946 HD

    On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor...

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  • 1948
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    Angel on the Amazon

    Angel on the Amazon

    4.8 1948 HD

    An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them--and apparently has found...

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  • 1944
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    My Best Gal

    My Best Gal

    1 1944 HD

    A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.

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  • 1944
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    Brazil

    Brazil

    5.2 1944 HD

    Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot...

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  • 1944
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    Going My Way

    Going My Way

    6.73 1944 HD

    Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a...

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  • 1956
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    Jaguar

    Jaguar

    7 1956 HD

    Oil explorers suspect a South American jungle boy of murder.

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  • 1943
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    The Sultan's Daughter

    The Sultan's Daughter

    3 1943 HD

    A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.

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  • 1940
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    The Mark of Zorro

    The Mark of Zorro

    7.061 1940 HD

    Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays...

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  • 1943
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    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    6.542 1943 HD

    Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the...

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  • 1932
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    A Successful Calamity

    A Successful Calamity

    5.2 1932 HD

    Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy...

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  • 1949
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    Bad Men of Tombstone

    Bad Men of Tombstone

    6.3 1949 HD

    A marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his own.

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  • 1953
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    Conquest of Cochise

    Conquest of Cochise

    5.1 1953 HD

    A cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is being prodded into starting a war.

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  • 1959
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    Thunder in the Sun

    Thunder in the Sun

    6 1959 HD

    A band of Basque immigrants treks through the Old West toward California, where they hope to put down roots and open wineries. When the group's...

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  • 1922
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    Don Juan Tenorio

    Don Juan Tenorio

    5.8 1922 HD

    Don Juan Tenorio makes a bet with a friend as to which of them will commit more outrages in a year. He wins, killing twirty-two men and seducing...

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  • 1936
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    El carnaval del diablo

    El carnaval del diablo

    1 1936 HD

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  • 1941
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    Unfinished Business

    Unfinished Business

    5.3 1941 HD

    Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment –...

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  • 1942
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    Obliging Young Lady

    Obliging Young Lady

    5 1942 HD

    A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

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  • 1941
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    Two Latins from Manhattan

    Two Latins from Manhattan

    5 1941 HD

    Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela...

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  • 1945
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    La pícara Susana

    La pícara Susana

    5 1945 HD

    Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.

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  • 1938
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    Romance in the Dark

    Romance in the Dark

    3 1938 HD

    A baritone aids a young servant in making her dream of singing professionally come true.

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  • 1951
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    Havana Rose

    Havana Rose

    1 1951 HD

    Ambassador Rico DeMarco is in Washington trying to raise a five-million dollar loan for his country, Lower Salamia. Filbert Filmore and his...

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  • 1935
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    Poderoso caballero

    Poderoso caballero

    1 1935 HD

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  • 1945
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    A Bell for Adano

    A Bell for Adano

    5.625 1945 HD

    Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without...

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  • 1955
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    Kiss Me Deadly

    Kiss Me Deadly

    7.2 1955 HD

    One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum....

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  • 1964
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    Death Whistles the Blues

    Death Whistles the Blues

    4.4 1964 HD

    Vogel, an important trafficker, betrayed two of his accomplices, Castro and Smith. The first was shot by police, while the latter was imprisoned....

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  • 1942
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    Mr. and Mrs. North

    Mr. and Mrs. North

    4.5 1942 HD

    Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.

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  • 1963
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    The Running Man

    The Running Man

    6.6 1963 HD

    An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an...

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  • 1942
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    The Black Swan

    The Black Swan

    6.4 1942 HD

    When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of...

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  • 1929
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    Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)

    Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)

    1 1929 HD

    Juan is summoned by Goldenberg to offer him a job in the cheap business. To get away from him, Pardo evades his proposals justifying himself by...

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  • 1964
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    The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog

    The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog

    1 1964 HD

    Hector, the dog of an officer of the merchant navy, wanders during a stopover in Lisbon. Captured by smugglers, he is soon used as a mule in a case...

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  • 1928
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    Las cuatro plumas

    Las cuatro plumas

    1 1928 HD

    Venezuelan adaptation of The Four Featehr by A.E.W. Mason. A story of courage and redemption set in the British Empire's colonial era. When Harry...

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  • 1946
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    Monsieur Beaucaire

    Monsieur Beaucaire

    5.6 1946 HD

    A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the...

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  • 1929
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    Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)

    Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1928
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    Las cuatro plumas

    Las cuatro plumas

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1928
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    Las cuatro plumas

    Las cuatro plumas

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1928
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    Las cuatro plumas

    Las cuatro plumas

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1958
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    77 Sunset Strip

    77 Sunset Strip

    6.7 1958 HD

    Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office...

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  • 1954
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    December Bride

    December Bride

    5.5 1954 HD

    December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series...

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    6 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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  • 1951
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    I Love Lucy

    I Love Lucy

    8 1951 HD

    Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana...

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  • 1956
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    The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    4.4 1956 HD

    The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by...

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  • 1951
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    Racket Squad

    Racket Squad

    6 1951 HD

    Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco,...

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