Benito Pérez Galdós
Benito Pérez Galdós (May 10, 1843 – January 4, 1920) was a Spanish realist novelist. He was a leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Works
What is Spain?
Documentary on culture, education and scientific research in the Spain of the twenties of the last century.
Release Date1926-12-01
Charactersd Self (archive footage)
Tristana
As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horacio is doomed.
Release Date1970-03-29
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count274
Viridiana
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
Release Date1962-04-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count547
Fortunata and Jacinta
The aristocrat Juan de Santa Cruz meets Fortunata, a girl of humble origins, and a passionate love arises between them; but his mother decides to marry him to her niece Jacinta.
Release Date1980-05-07
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count10
Vote Count5
Nazarín
A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Release Date1959-06-04
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count155
Flor y canela
Release Date1988-10-03
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count2
The Grandfather
After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true, and which one is bastard.
Release Date1998-10-16
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count41
Tormento
A rich emigrant returns to Madrid where he meets the beautiful Amparo . The girl, however, lives a secret affair with a priest
Release Date1974-09-02
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count7
Doña Perfecta
Pepe Rey, Doña Perfecta's nephew, arrives in Orbajosa, a quiet and provincial city, with the task of building a reservoir. However, the presence of Pepe, a man of liberal ideas to whom unfounded revolutionary and even anticlerical intentions are attributed, is not well received in the town. So each of its inhabitants will have a reason not only to hate Pepe, but to want him to get out of there as soon as possible
Release Date1977-10-24
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count3
Doña Perfecta
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
Release Date1951-10-10
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count11
Misericordia
Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on behalf of sick and disabled friends.
Release Date1953-03-13
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count6
Marianela
Marianela is an orphan young girl living in a small village where she guides the blind young son of a rich country man. She is secretly in love with him, knowing that he loves her only because he can't see her ugly face. But one day a famous doctor appears and promises to operate him so he can see. His father is happy to know this way he will be able to marry his rich cousin. Nela gets desperate knowing his luck will turn into her disgrace when he finally sees her face.
Release Date1940-11-11
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count7
La loca de la casa
A nun reevaluates her life and decides to give up her vows to marry and help her father.
Release Date1950-10-06
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count4
El abuelo
Based on the novel of the same name by Benito Pérez Galdós.
Release Date1954-07-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
La mujer ajena
This is the story of a gambler whose mistress is the wife of a renowned philanthropist. The gambler himself is cheating on his mistress with another woman. The secret love triangle gradually becomes public due to the jealousy, ambition, and weaknesses of its protagonists, including the guilt felt by the lovers.
Release Date1955-10-26
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count5
Solicito marido para engañar
Rich and misogynistic Fabián is determined to seduce married women, whom he literally undresses with his eyes due to a strange obsession. He also receives an inheritance from an aunt and announces that he will give part of it to his three cousins when they become widows. They harass him out of interest and he becomes Virginia's lover, and harasses Maura, who rejects him.
Release Date1988-12-22
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count6
The Grandfather
Release Date1925-12-06
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count6
Blood of May
Revolution in Spain, around the events of 2 May 1808, when the people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation.
Release Date2008-10-03
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
Marianela
A young man regains his eyesight after a life of blindness and rejects his best friend Marianela for her ugliness.
Release Date1955-09-15
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
Marianela
Marianela is a poor girl with a disfigured face who works as Pablo's guide, a blind young man from a wealthy family. Pablo falls in love with Marianela because of her spirit and vitality and imagines her as the most beautiful woman in the world. When Pablo has the chance to recover his sight, Marianela becomes very sad because she is sure that the young man will reject her when he can see her
Release Date1972-02-15
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count15
The Mad One of our House
Release Date1928-05-19
DepartmentWriting
JobBook
Vote Count1
Beauty in Chains
Rosarita, a young relative of the powerful Doña Perfecta in the small Spanish village of Orbajosa, has been betrothed since infancy to her cousin, Pepe Rey Don Jose, although the two have never met. When Pepe comes to visit Rosarita, she immediately falls in love with him, but his offhand remark about the lack of enterprise in the small town alienates Doña Perfecta, and the old woman becomes determined to prevent the marriage.
Release Date1918-03-11
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
El primer siglo del Prado
Documentary on the first hundred years of the history of the Prado Museum. Based on the exhibition "The 19th century in the Prado" (October 2007-April 2008). Study the first year of the Prado Museum, its evolution, the concept of the mentioned exhibition, the Museum Collection, the masterpieces and the restoration work.
Release Date2007-01-04
DepartmentWriting
JobOther
Adultery
Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.
Release Date1945-03-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count7