Alfredo Landa Movies

Rocio and Raphael are a young couple from a small Spanish town. Rocio must mourn the death of a relative for six months and is forbidden to see Raphael. Very much in love, they are frustrated by the old-fashioned customs of their village. When they can finally see each other, the two plan to soon marry. Unfortunately, the girl's grandfather dies and she must start the process of mourning all over again. This time Raphael begs her to rebel against her family and the villagers, but she refuses for fear of persecution. When Rocio has had enough of putting her own happiness aside, she decides to run away with Raphael in spite of what her family will say. Things do not go as planned, however, when yet another family member passes away. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide

This comedic social satire finds huge targets when it takes aim at the Catholic church and the traditional roles of males and females in Spain. A poor worker is upset because he and his wife keep having children. He finds a supplier for birth control pills, and enlists the source to pose as a bishop. The friend, disguised as the bishop, tells the wife it is not a sin to use birth control. Later she discovers she has been tricked and throws the pills away. The poor couple is faced with the prospect of having even more children as a result. Although the mood of the film is comedic and lighthearted, it induces relevant thoughts about population control and religious interferences that affect hundreds of millions. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

This romantic fantasy finds Eduardo (Alfredo Landa) as the mild-mannered groom whose honeymoon is interrupted when his wife goes to care for her sick mother. He dreams he murders his wife and takes up with her narcissistic friend Dora whom he then kills. He goes on to have an affair with Veronique, the dope-smoking hippie girl, who convinces him to help her and her friends put on a theater engagement. The show goes so badly the crowd beats up the actors. Taking up with the beautiful Sebastiana, the duo are shipwrecked and Eduardo discovers his girlfriend is an uncontrollable sex fiend. Eduardo awakens from his daydream to finds himself about to marry his bride-to-be. After the ceremony, his wife falls down the steps of the church and dies. As he visits her grave, he meets a young widow, and love lives on in the cemetery as the two amorously embrace with little regard or respect for the dearly departed around them. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide