The Brave One

Oct 26, 1956

1h 40m

★ 5.6

The Touch of Greatness

Overview

A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.

Genres

Family

Drama

Production Companies

King Brothers Productions

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Cast

Leonardo

Michel Ray

Rafael Rosillo

Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.

Maria

Elsa Cárdenas

Don Alejandro

Carlos Navarro

Marion Randall

Joi Lansing

Señor Vargas (uncredited)

Rafael Alcayde

Father Valverde (uncredited)

Miguel Ángel Ferriz Sr.

The Bullfighter

Fermín Rivera

Salvador

Jorge Treviño

Manuel

Carlos Fernández

Ticket seller (uncredited)

Eduardo Alcaraz

Police officer (uncredited)

Manuel de la Vega

The story is set during the early 1980s in a small town in rural Spain. El Chiqui is a talented young man about to debut in the local bullring, expected to continue the legacy of his family name. But that is not what he truly wants. His secret relationship with a young man from the town, Nicolás, offers an escape from the village, leaving the family pressures behind.

5.3

You Alone

Sep 1, 1984

In their spare time, after their studies or their work, children and adolescents between the ages of eight and sixteen meet at the School of Bullfighting in Madrid to learn the Art of Cúchares: Torear. In their stomachs there is no hunger as in the past, their dreams do not lie in having a farmhouse and being famous. Their only dreams are to be in front of a bull, animal with which death goes, fact of which they are fully aware, as their teachers continually remind them. These, retired bullfighters, some by age, others by force and all with their bodies full of scars produced by the horns of a bull. The nude bullfighting scene is fascinating without being exploitive, and it serves as an analogy for the vulnerability these young bullfighters have when in the ring with the bulls.

4.0

Carmen

Oct 11, 1978

Carmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day, Carmen fights and hurts to a smuggler woman, so a sergeant in the National Guard, José Navarro, stops detain her. In doing so he also falls in love with her, but jealousy will destroy his passion.

4.3

La fiesta sigue

Dec 21, 1948

No overview available.

6.5

Under the Volcano

Jun 20, 1984

Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.

8.5

Toldi

Oct 20, 2022

Animated version of a famous Hungarian epic tale by János Arany.

6.4

Blood and Sand

May 30, 1941

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

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5.0

Torerillos, 61

Jan 1, 1962

This short film "Torerillos 61" is one of the first works of the master Patino, which tries to portray the Spanish society of the time outside the state convention and dodging the hand of censorship. Social commitment is the brand director throughout his long career, starting with short films such as this one, made in the early sixties, in the wake of the statements in Talks Salamanca. The sadness off the characters portrayed is bleak, "Maletillas" (aspiring bullfighters) in search of luck to pull them out of poverty.

5.0

The Last Rodeo

May 22, 2025

A retired rodeo legend risks it all to save his grandson. Facing his own painful past and the fears of his family, he enters a high-stakes bullriding competition as the oldest contestant ever. Along the way, he reconciles old wounds with his estranged daughter and proves that true courage is found in the fight for family.

5.1

Blood and Sand

Sep 22, 1989

Remake of the tale of an acclaimed matador who finds himself involved with a beautiful woman, jeopardizing both his marriage and career.

5.7

The Reward

Sep 15, 1965

A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.

5.0

Blood in the Bullring

May 19, 1969

Like every night, Manuel remembers the old days of glory, when after the war he was a famous bullfighter. He and his friend Juan were the fashionable couple. Now Juan is a prominent businessman in bullfighting. But Manuel's feelings toward him have changed radically: an inexplicable hated seizes him when someone mentions his name. It has been more than twenty years since that afternoon, when Manuel was bullfighting and fell to the ground.

6.8

Señor Droopy

Apr 9, 1949

The wolf, the champion toreador, and Droopy, the challenger, are competing to see who is best in the bullring in the hopes of winning the hand of actress Lina Romay (who appears in a live action shot).

7.2

Cold of Kalandar

Sep 16, 2016

Mehmet is a man living with his family in a mountain village in the Black Sea region. He earns his living by breeding a few animals, while passionately looking for a mineral reserve on the mountains, but his pursuit is seen useless by his family. Devastated by vain efforts, his hope is renewed with a competition. Mehmet will attend the bull fight held in Artvin, but he returns from Artvin completely lost, once again. This simple story pictures the naive portrait of a touching life, a life struggle in hardship and the relationship between nature, animals and human beings.

6.2

The Delinquents

May 14, 1960

A group of friends who are struggling to survive in the slums of Madrid commit petty crime in order to finance the debut as a bullfighter of one of them.

6.0

The Picasso Summer

Aug 8, 1969

A San Francisco couple travels to France in search of Pablo Picasso.