Emma Penella

Emma Penella

Manuela Ruiz Penella known as Emma Penella (Madrid, March 2, 1931 - Ibidem, August 27, 2007) was a Spanish film, theater and television actress. Daughter of the politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso and Magdalena Penella Silva, granddaughter of the composer Manuel Penella Moreno, great-granddaughter of the also musician Manuel Penella Raga, sister of the also actresses Elisa Montés (1934) and Terele Pávez (1939-2017). She married film producer Emiliano Piedra with whom she had three daughters: Emma, Lola and Emiliana. She was also the aunt of the actress Emma Ozores (daughter of her sister Elisa Montés and the actor Antonio Ozores). Actress of marked personality and prestige since the 1950s, she triumphed in cinema thanks to films such as Luis García Berlanga's El verdugo (The Executioner) and maintained intense theatrical activity. She renewed her popularity in her later years participating in the television series Aquí no hay quien viva (2003-2006) and La que se avecina (2007).

  • Popularity : 1.529
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1930-03-02
  • Place of Birth : Madrid, Spain
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Emma Penella Movies

  • 2021
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    FFG, el último gran conversador

    FFG, el último gran conversador

    8.1 2021 HD

    Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in...

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  • 1963
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    The Executioner

    The Executioner

    7.6 1963 HD

    An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after...

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  • 1964
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    Golden Goddess of Rio Beni

    Golden Goddess of Rio Beni

    8.5 1964 HD

    An aviator of a commercial line disappears in the Brazilian jungle. Two friends organize an expedition to find him. As if there were not enough...

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  • 1986
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    El amor brujo

    El amor brujo

    7 1986 HD

    In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries...

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  • 1963
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    Carta a una mujer

    Carta a una mujer

    5.3 1963 HD

    Flora and Carlos have a marriage of convenience. Realizing that she did not love him, Carlos joined the Blue Division and soon disappeared in Russia....

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  • 1963
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    Alegre juventud

    Alegre juventud

    6 1963 HD

    Luis, Julio, Miguel and Carlos are four young men who, moved by a strong religious vocation, have left behind family, friends, work and a love of...

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  • 1954
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    Comedians

    Comedians

    5.7 1954 HD

    Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, plays only minor roles, but she hopes to succeed and prefers the success to the...

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  • 1953
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    Condemned to Hang

    Condemned to Hang

    5.3 1953 HD

    Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero...

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  • 1962
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    El amor de los amores

    El amor de los amores

    4.7 1962 HD

    Felipe Crespo, because of their anarchist ideology, Barcelona fleeing persecution for justice. Starving, he reaches the manor house and asks for...

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  • 1960
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    Un ángel tuvo la culpa

    Un ángel tuvo la culpa

    6 1960 HD

    Claudio is a kind mand who works as cashier in a company for several years. Whe he finds closed the bank where he has to deposit a millon of pesetas,...

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  • 1952
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    The Eyes Leave a Trace

    The Eyes Leave a Trace

    6.2 1952 HD

    Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night...

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  • 1955
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    El guardián del paraíso

    El guardián del paraíso

    1 1955 HD

    A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in...

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  • 1966
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    Lola, espejo oscuro

    Lola, espejo oscuro

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1964
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    La hora incógnita

    La hora incógnita

    5 1964 HD

    In a small Spanish town, is expected to explode a nuclear bomb to ten at night. All neighbors leave, except for thirteen people who are gathered in...

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  • 1955
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    Red Fish

    Red Fish

    6.5 1955 HD

    Ivón, a chorus girl, and Hugo, a failed writer, arrive at a seaside hotel on a stormy night, along with Carlos, Hugo's 19-year-old son. When...

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  • 1964
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    Badmen of the West

    Badmen of the West

    1 1964 HD

    I Brutos arrive in the town of Fresno during a gunfight and mistakenly think it is a celebration of their arrival and start shooting their guns and...

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  • 1974
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    The Regent's Wife

    The Regent's Wife

    4.3 1974 HD

    Adapted from the novel of the same name by Clarín, which narrates the difficulties of Ana Ozores to adapt to the sordidness of life in...

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  • 1957
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    The Shadow Battalion

    The Shadow Battalion

    5 1957 HD

    Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among them, an inventor who invents always what is already...

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  • 1956
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    Fedra, the Devil's Daughter

    Fedra, the Devil's Daughter

    6.8 1956 HD

    Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female community.

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  • 1960
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    Sentencia contra una mujer

    Sentencia contra una mujer

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1970
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    Fortunata y Jacinta

    Fortunata y Jacinta

    5 1970 HD

    Shows the unfailing love of two women for the same man, one as his mistress, the other as his wife. The lives of these characters intertwine and are...

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  • 1985
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    Our Father

    Our Father

    4.6 1985 HD

    The story of a Spanish Cardinal who is told he only has one more year to live. He decides to return to his hometown, after an absence of 30 years, to...

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  • 1987
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    The Tobacconist of Vallecas

    The Tobacconist of Vallecas

    6.382 1987 HD

    Leandro, an unemployed mason and his friend, Tocho, attempt to rob a tobacconist in the Vallecas district of Madrid, but Mrs. Justa, the tobacconist,...

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  • 1966
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    The Search

    The Search

    5.6 1966 HD

    Manuel Jacques Perrin is a young man from the country who tries to make it in Madrid in this somber melodrama. He struggles to survive in the...

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  • 1992
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    El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes

    El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes

    8.5 1992 HD

    Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel.

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  • 1954
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    La patrouille des sables

    La patrouille des sables

    5 1954 HD

    Three adventurers, Pierre, an engineer, Mailard, an escaped convict and Luis, a guitarist, are in search of gold in the Sahara. They happen to be...

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  • 1959
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    De espaldas a la puerta

    De espaldas a la puerta

    6.5 1959 HD

    Inspector Simón and Inspector Arévalo investigate the stabbing of a nightclub employee.

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  • 1988
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    Viento de cólera

    Viento de cólera

    2 1988 HD

    Two soldiers accompanied by two women enter the Baztán valley on horseback. They are deserters from the army of the Indies who are fleeing to...

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  • 1965
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    Black Humor

    Black Humor

    2 1965 HD

    A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze artist Wilma is going to get rid of a rival during...

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  • 1957
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    Un marido de ida y vuelta

    Un marido de ida y vuelta

    4 1957 HD

    Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife dies victim of a heart attack the day she forces him...

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  • 1952
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    Doña Francisquita

    Doña Francisquita

    6.6 1952 HD

    Francisquita secretly loves Fernando, but he is in love with the beautiful and fickle Aurora.

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  • 1963
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    La cuarta ventana

    La cuarta ventana

    1 1963 HD

    One day, three young seamstresses who love nightlife and fun, upon returning to the house they share, find a seriously injured girl in the bathroom.

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  • 1971
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    First Surrender

    First Surrender

    3.7 1971 HD

    Giallo about a man plotting to kill his wife for her money.

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  • 1953
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    ¡Che, qué loco!

    ¡Che, qué loco!

    1 1953 HD

    A bankrupt man tries to marry a millionaire woman, which triggers a whole series of misunderstandings.

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  • 2000
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    Pídele cuentas al rey

    Pídele cuentas al rey

    5.1 2000 HD

    Fidel, an Asturian miner, after the closure of the mine where he works, decides to walk to Madrid with his family, to ask the king why the...

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  • 1991
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    El crimen de Don Benito

    El crimen de Don Benito

    3.7 1991 HD

    July 18, 1902. A woman and her daughter are brutally murdered in the Extremaduran town of Don Benito. Everybody knows the depraved town boss was...

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  • 1961
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    Scano Boa

    Scano Boa

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1955
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    Tres hombres van a morir

    Tres hombres van a morir

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1952
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    Aimless boat

    Aimless boat

    1 1952 HD

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  • 2003
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    Bulgarian Lovers

    Bulgarian Lovers

    5.6 2003 HD

    Graying Spaniard Daniel has a healthy budget for indulging in the finer things in life. Daniel's favorite luxury is playing sponsor to younger men...

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  • 1952
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    Truhanes de honor

    Truhanes de honor

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1990
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    Doblones de a ocho

    Doblones de a ocho

    1 1990 HD

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  • 1954
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    The Adventurer of Seville

    The Adventurer of Seville

    5.7 1954 HD

    Bandits kidnap Figaro, the famous barber of Seville, and use his wonderful voice to attract travelers and rob stagecoaches. Because of this, the...

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  • 1996
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    Thesis

    Thesis

    7.5 1996 HD

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  • 2007
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    The One That Is Coming

    The One That Is Coming

    8.2 2007 HD

    La que se avecina is a Spanish television comedy created by Alberto Caballero, Laura Caballero and Daniel Deorador. The TV-series focusing around the...

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  • 2003
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    Aquí no hay quien viva

    Aquí no hay quien viva

    8.4 2003 HD

    A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.

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  • 1997
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    Blasco Ibáñez

    Blasco Ibáñez

    6 1997 HD

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  • 2003
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    Aquí no hay quien viva

    Aquí no hay quien viva

    8.4 2003 HD

    A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.

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  • 1989
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    Juncal

    Juncal

    6 1989 HD

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  • 1985
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    Goya

    Goya

    6 1985 HD

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