Personal Info
Birth date
1948-12-07 (76 Years)
Day of death
2016-03-30
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Also known as
Paco Algora
Francisco Javier Jiménez Algora
Francisco Algora
Biography
We dont have a biography for Francisco Algora
Filmography
Curro Jiménez
7.1
Overview:
Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro JiménezCervantes
6.5
Overview:
The life of Miguel de Cervantes, writer of the iconic novel Don Quixote of La Mancha.No sé bailar
NYR
Overview:
It is a surrealist comedy where reality and fantasy are mixed, it tells in a humorous tone the daily life and dreams of a 40-year-old film buff, played by Emilio Gutiérrez Caba.Fortunata and Jacinta
5.8
Overview:
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.Sunday Light
6
Overview:
The small Asturian village of Cenciella, Spain, at the beginning of the twentieth century. The quiet life of Urbano and Estrella, a kind and naive couple in love, is seriously altered when they get involved in the fierce struggle between the local political factions.Foul Play
4.9
Overview:
A 1977 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem that won the Golden Prize the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.The Beehive
6.5
Overview:
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.Moon in a Bottle
5
Overview:
Zeta has a month to hand in a novel she has been commissioned to write and every day she searches for inspiration among the strange customers who are regulars at the Café Rossignol. There she becomes close to Alicia, a pretty waitress who doesn't want to fall in love; she gets to know Pascal, the owner of the bar and a cabaret artist who is nervously waiting for the arrival of his old friends and lovers Irene and Kurt. Or she leaves with Don José another regular who is tormented by a letter he doesn't dare to open. They all want to change their lives. The moment has come to be brave and try to do the impossible. Can they put the moon in a bottle..?Traffic Jam
6.858
Overview:
A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactions and other grotesque situations. All the episodes are linked as if in a single plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a larger universe: the congestion.El Dorado
5.8
Overview:
The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.Matías, juez de línea
4.3
Overview:
Matias is a soccer referee. He promised his dying mother never to lie. When he referees a match of the spanish national team and there is a clear penalty against Spain in the last minute of the game he has no choice and marks the foul. As a result Spain does not qualify for the world championship and Matias is forced to escape from the rage of the people. He hides in the town of his father which he hasn't visited since his childhood.The Grandfather
6.4
Overview:
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.Réquiem por un campesino español
5.2
Overview:
Hypocrisy and betrayal are the two dramatic pivots in this effective, emotionally gripping tragedy about the life and death of Paco (Antonio Banderas), a Spanish peasant who had been fighting against the feudal landowning system that kept farmers impoverished. Paco's life is told in flashbacks by a priest (Antonio Ferrandis) who is seen officiating at an anniversary mass attended by three wealthy landowners and no one else. The priest recalls Paco's baptism, his communion, his marriage ceremony and then his work for the peasants as he advocated and led them in a land-reform movement. The rest of the story will rest heavy on the priest's conscience, as he looks out at his empty church.Barrio
6.734
Overview:
Bored 15-year-old school chums Rai Manu and Javi dream of sexual adventures and exotic resorts while the well-off population of Madrid flock to the beaches on a summer holiday. The youths hang around the concrete wasteland killing time by reading the sex classifieds and pushing their luck. They masturbate, thieve, fight with their families and get involved in a drug bust. Finally Rai, the most daring and restless of the trio - gets shot while trying to steal stereo gear from a car. Each adolescent faces a dreary home life but when they get together they enjoy each other's company to the full. The film is an engaging mixture of comedy drama and the pathos of life in a Madrid neighborhood.Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country
4.2
Overview:
A man and a woman hitch a ride in the dark and swap their sad tales of failed relationships.You're the One
7.1
Overview:
Julia, an only child of an affluent, bank owning family living in Madrid, escapes from her family to get over her grief that her boyfriend has been imprisoned. Julia is a well educated woman, having studied in Switzerland and England, who wants to become a writer. Julia drives to a little village in Asturias called "Corralbos del Sella" and there she stays in a mansion "llendelabarca" of an old childhood friend "Pilara" she had spent many a happy summer with. Also living there is Pilara's mother in law Tia Gala, and her grandson Juanito. Julia's relationship with caretakers, teacher and priest makes Julia, a woman of the spanish capital, perhaps for the first time to not feel so alone.Erotic Stories
3.714
Overview:
A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.Fanny Straw-Top
5.3
Overview:
In the slums of Barcelona, Fanny, a woman just released from prison, tries to carry out a revenge that has nourished for years: to kill "El Gallego", the corrupt and brutal policeman who killed her boyfriendThe National Mummy
4.9
Overview:
Saturnino, a young archaeologist, bourgeois and wealthy, lives in a luxurious mansion. He receives a visit from his old teacher, Don Felipe, accompanied by his daughter and a monumental mummy he has just discovered in one of his excavations in the Upper Nile. The Mummy, was in his time a princess and has on his bandages a curse, that when it breaks ... it will be dedicated to chasing and raping all the men it finds in its path.El cianuro… ¿solo o con leche?
NYR
Overview:
A decrepit house in Badajoz, Spain, on a cold winter night in 1925. Laura and her mother Adela, who is confined to a wheelchair, are faced with the possibility of putting an end to the grumpy grandfather's life, who is around ninety-two years old. But then, suddenly, cousin Enrique, a doctor by profession, shows up, which will change the course of events…Tramontana
NYR
Overview:
In the 13th century, desolation and misery lead the inhabitants of a village in the Pyrenees to emigrate to Burriana, in Valencia, a region considered to be the Promised Land. During the journey, love, hatred and suffering will jeopardize their arrival at their longed-for destination. At the same time, they will be involved in the war waged by King James I to reconquer these lands held by the Muslims. Reaching the end of the journey will be an odyssey.Gay Club
1.5
Overview:
A group of homosexual friends tries to set up a gay club in a town in Andalusia, meeting the opposition of the chief who will use all his resources to try to prevent it.The Andalusian Widow
6.2
Overview:
Lozana, a young, beautiful and clever woman decides to move to the city after a tragic love story. There, she meets Rampin, a naughty rascal who soon finds out that her wit surpasses his own by a handful. When he falls in love with her, he can't help suffering as he sees how she plays not only with him, but with all of her lovers as well.Speak, Silent One
5.2
Overview:
Ramiro's grandfather is on vacation in a hostel in the mountains with his family. Decides to send theirs to Madrid and stay in a shelter, saying his health requires. But the reason is another ...Merry-Go-Round c. 1950
5.9
Overview:
This movie doesn't have any coherent plot. It's the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how they manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: La colmena or Roma (Fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.Acting
2007Moon in a Bottle as Tomás
2007Sunday Light as Apolonio Chanfaina
2007Dos rivales casi iguales as Cura Echarren
2006Río seco as Vecino
2005The Wretched Life of Juanita Narboni as Dédé
2004Merry-Go-Round c. 1950 as Povedano
2004Amigo, no gima as Unknown
2002Historia de un beso as Don Lino
2001Retruc as Barman
2001Lázaro de Tormes as Ventero
2000You're the One as Unknown
1999No sé bailar (1 Episode) as Unknown
1998The Grandfather as Don Carmelo
1998Barrio as Ángel
1997El tiempo de la felicidad as Cartero
1997The Rats as Unknown
1996Matías, juez de línea as Metralla, el lugarteniente
1995Mar de luna as Unknown
1991Crónicas urbanas (1 Episode) as Paco
1991Tramontana as Unknown
1990El Obispo Leproso (6 Episodes) as Jeromín
1989El cianuro… ¿solo o con leche? as Unknown
1988Winter Diary as Culebrero
1988El Dorado as Llamoso
1987La guerra de los locos as Domi
1987Silver-beet Face as Cocinero
1986El rey y la reina as Unknown
1985Réquiem por un campesino español as Zapatero
1984Fanny Straw-Top as Julián
1982The Beehive as Ramón Maello
1981The National Mummy as Saturnino
1981Kargus as Tachador 1, Tachador 2
1981Cervantes (9 Episodes) as Ginés
1981Gay Club as Tony
1980Fortunata and Jacinta (10 Episodes) as Nicolás Rubín
1980The Faithful Servants as Natalio
1980Erotic Stories as (voice)
1980Everybody Calls Me 'The Cat' as Chato
1979El buscón as Pablos, el Buscón
1979¡Mi adúltero esposo! ('In Situ') as Luis (as Paco Algora)
1979La insólita y gloriosa hazaña del cipote de Archidona as Andrés
1979Traffic Jam as Ambulance Driver
1978Soldados as El Tellina
1978A Man Called Autumn Flower as Surroca
1978Tiempos de constitución as Unknown
1978Emanuelle - A Woman from a Hot Country as Goyo
1978Una familia decente as Tomás Torres
1977The Andalusian Widow as Rampín
1977I Feel Strange as Lucio
1977Secretos de alcoba as Serafín
1977¡Bruja, más que bruja! as Juan
1977Foul Play as Venancio
1977Such As You Are as Andrecito
1977Girls... The Hall as Cachelo (as Paco Algora)
1976Curro Jiménez (13 Episodes) as El Fraile
1976Nosotros que fuimos tan felices as Unknown
1976Las delicias de los verdes años as Mauro Pacheco
1975Yo soy fulana de tal as Afrodisio
1975País S. A. as Manuel Hernández
1975En un París imaginario as Unknown
1974Tocata y fuga de Lolita as Nicolás Pérez Lobo 'Nicolai' (as Paco Algora)
1974Jaula de todos as Unknown
1973Yankee Dudler as Andreas Hofleitner
1973Speak, Silent One as El Mudo
1972La cera virgen as Matías