
Sara Montiel
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Sara Montiel (also Sarita Montiel or Saritísima; 10 March 1928 – 8 April 2013) was a Spanish singer and actress. She was a naturalized citizen of Mexico. Montiel was born in Campo de Criptana in the region of Castile–La Mancha in 1928 as María Antonia Abad (complete name María Antonia Alejandra Vicenta Elpidia Isidora Abad Fernández). After her work in Juan de Orduña's El Último Cuplé in 1957, Montiel worked in Europe, Latin America and United States. Montiel's film Varietes was banned in Beijing in 1973. Her films El Último Cuple and La Violetera netted the highest gross revenues ever recorded for films made in the Spanish speaking movie industry during the 1950s/60s. She played the role of Antonia, the niece of Don Quixote, in the 1947 Spanish film version of Cervantes's great novel.
She was portrayed in the Pedro Almodóvar film Bad Education by a male actor in drag (Gael García Bernal) as the cross-dressing character Zahara, and a film clip from one of her movies was used as well.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.539 |
Birthday | 1928-03-10 |
Place of Birth | Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real, Spain |
Also Known As | María Antonia Abad Fernández, Sarita Montiel, Antonia Matia, Maria Alejandra, سارا مونتیل, |

2004

Bad Education
7.4/971
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the...
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1954

Vera Cruz
6.6/236
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane mee...
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1957

Run of the Arrow
6.2/46
When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a...
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1956

Serenade
5.5/19
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in...
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1957

The Last Couplet
5.5/11
A musical drama featuring a tragic love story. Relates a singer's rise to fame and her subsequent downfall because of the death of her lover.
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The Last Couplet

1968

Tuset Street
1/1
Barcelona 1967. The pop culture revolution. Jordi (Patrick Bauchau) is a rich playboy who runs around with a bunch of high-end hippies, smoking, drink...
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1963

Casablanca, Nest of Spies
3.7/3
Casablanca 1942. While French Police Chief Maurice Desjardins is busy having careless fun with some loose girls, members of the French Resistance kill...
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1947

Don Quixote
5.6/12
The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant,...
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1962

The Lovely Lola
6.1/7
"La Bella Lola" is a struggling singer trying to make a living for herself and her sister Ana in late 19th Century Spain. Lola is having an affair wit...
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The Lovely Lola

1966

La mujer perdida
3.4/4
Sara is the daughter of a fisherman. She leaves her small village but she goes to Madrid to work as a flamenco singer in a club
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La mujer perdida

1961

Pecado de amor
4.3/5
Nun Belen works as a spiritual guide in a women's prison. Is a very understanding woman, possibly due to her past. At the past she was Magda, the star...
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1953

That Man from Tangier
1/1
Mary Ellen travels abroad and ends up marrying a Count while she is intoxicated. The Count disappears and with the aid of her father, George, she trac...
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1965

The Woman from Beirut
4.5/4
Isabel is a beautiful aspiring singer with great aspirations but persistent bad luck convicted of a crime she did not commit. Serving time in prison s...
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1965

Samba
2.6/13
Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachetti), who has found out her love affair with Assis...
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Samba

1952

Ahí viene Martín Corona
7.1/24
Martin Corona, player and womanizer, defends the underprivileged, the poor and the needy. He will have to defend a Spanish girl and her servant from t...
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1952

El enamorado
7/27
Martin retired from his job as a hero because of his marriage to Rosario, a beautiful and ambitious girl who passed through the workshop where he work...
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1962

Queen of the Chantecler
5.4/7
A Spanish music hall performer gets caught up in espionage during the First World War.
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1969

Esa mujer
5.4/5
At the end of the 19th century, Soledad Romero, a well-known singer, is accused of murder. During the trial her tragic story is revealed.
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Esa mujer

1948

La mies es mucha
3.7/3
Father Santiago Hernández, a Spanish missionary, arrives in Kattinga, India, to replace Father Daniel, who is seriously ill.
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1958

The Violet Seller
6.8/25
On New Year's Eve 1899, Soledad is peddling violets in a Madrid busy street when she meets aristocrat Fernando. The couple falls in love but their dif...
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1959

Carmen from Ronda
5.9/7
Antonio is the leader of an underground armed group fighting in the village of Ronda against Napoleon's troops which have imposed French rule in 1808...
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Carmen from Ronda

1960

Mi último tango
5.8/5
A young woman working as a maid for a big time stage performer is mistaken for the star in Buenos Aires and becomes a great success in the land of the...
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1948

Locura de amor
4.9/9
The passion that Joan of Castile, daughter of the Catholic Kings and heir to the throne, feels for her husband, Philip the Handsome, sovereign of the...
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Locura de amor

1971

Varietés
5.3/3
Spain 1930s. A troupe of performers travel from city to city entertaining audiences and earning a living. The cast includes a magician, a ventriloquis...
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1974

Five Pillows for One Night
2.7/3
Ana, a girl who is about to get married, discovers in her boyfriend's house a photograph in which her mother, dead at birth, and her future father-in-...
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1966

La vida de Pedro Infante
4.7/6
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1955

Yo no creo en los hombres
2.6/5
Based on the novel by Caridad Bravo Adams.
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2005

Singing to the Gods: Mario Lanza
0/0
A bio-documentary of the Italian American tenor, star of The Great Caruso and inspiration to the Three Tenors.
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1950

El capitán Veneno
4.7/3
In Madrid, under Queen Isabel II reign, rebellions are frequent events. During one of them Captain Jorge de Córdoba, nicknamed Veneno (poison) for his...
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El capitán Veneno

2022

La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961)
4/2
The amazing story of Cifesa, a mythical film production company founded in Valencia by the Casanova family that managed to dominate the box office dur...
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1952

Necesito dinero
7.7/23
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1955

Frente al Pecado de Ayer
2.6/5
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1953

Ella, Lucifer y yo
2.7/7
Playboy uses satanic powers to score with the babes.
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1954

Se solicitan modelos
2.6/5
In this Mexican comedy, Mr. Lazaro's fashion house is on the brink of bankruptcy and in desperate need of a new model to replace his current business...
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Se solicitan modelos

1951

Women's prison
5.4/10
Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An int...
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1956

Where the Circle Ends
4.2/4
A woman murders her lover. Her husband and his mistress are also having murder-shaped thoughts, and their three counterplots all get tangled together....
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1947

Mariona Rebull
1/1
Barcelona, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. Joaquín Rius, a prominent businessman, marries the young Mariona Rebull. Their apparent happiness is...
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Mariona Rebull

1945

Bambú
1/1
Alejandro is a young composer from Madrid who, overwhelmed by a sentimental and artistic failure, decides to enlist as a volunteer soldier and go to w...
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1953

¡Yo soy gallo dondequiera!
6.1/8
Young man returns to his home town from USA to reclaim his inherited properties.
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1951

Furia roja
3.3/6
Mother and daughter return to Mexico to escape the US Civil War... and get caught up in the conflict between the French army and the fighters for inde...
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1953

Cinnamon Skin
6.2/5
Marucha (Sarita Montiel) has had a shattered face since childhood, but she has a beautiful figure and covers half of her face with her hair. She is a...
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1954

¿Por qué ya no me quieres?
5/2
Tired of struggling, Lilia, played by Sara Montiel, moves to the city to live with her aunt, a former actress. There she strives to become a singer an...
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2002

Zero/infinito
0/0
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2011

Enrique Herreros
6.5/2
The story of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977), cartoonist, advertiser, poster designer, talent manager, actor, producer and filmmaker, and the most daring...
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2019

Todos los nombres de Sara
4/2
Born in Campo de Criptana, a small village in the Spanish region of La Mancha, Sara Montiel (1928-2013) conquered Mexico, Hollywood, and the hearts of...
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Todos los nombres de Sara

1971

La casa de los Martínez
1/1
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1975

Canciones de nuestra vida
0/0
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1950

Pequeñeces
2.8/8
Madrid in the 1870s. Amidst political intrigues against King Amadeo de Saboya, wealthy and strong-willed countess Curra de Albornoz makes her own way...
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1948

Alhucemas
0/0
In 1922, Infantry Captain Fernando Salas, arriving from Madrid, joins, without much enthusiasm, a battalion ruled by Commander Almendro, a tough veter...
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1996

Asaltar los cielos
6.5/4
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1996

Sombras y luces: Cien años de cine español
7.5/2
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2013

Barefoot in the Kitchen
6/3
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2006

80s: El soundtrack de una generación
0/0
In Chile, during the mid 80s, a wave of young enthusiasts from different parts of the country decided to rebel against the regime and liberate themsel...
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1944

Empezó en boda
0/0
In-laws and relatives begin to settle in the house of two newlyweds. Even though their intention is to contribute to marital peace, they actually comp...
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Empezó en boda

1988

La última cena... del 88
0/0
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2002

Sara, una estrella
10/1
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