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El Cementerio De Las Aguilas (1938)
Character: Capitán Alemán
When the U.S. invasion and the landing of troops in 1847 begins, the former cadet Miguel de la Peña (Jorge Negrete) and his friend Agustin Melgar (Jose Macip) decide to return to the military college and fight heroically in the defense of the Mexican army.
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Acuérdate de Acapulco (2013)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A captivating diva, incarnation of Acapulco, remembers when she was the most famous movie star of Mexico. Meanwhile, Marco, Javier, Félix, Alfonso and Yolanda are getting ready for Easter Week, the period when the city revives, recovering for a few days its past glory. Each one tries to survive his own way in that paradisiacal set that everyday looks more like hell.
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El desalmado (1950)
Character: Mayor Rosales, Comandante de policía
Fictional biography of a career criminal.
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El asaltacaminos (1962)
Character: N/A
Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a contested inheritance and several murdered family members. It took him four feature-length movies to do it. (Series: "El Relampago.")
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Herencia trágica (1960)
Character: N/A
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
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La muerte en el desfiladero (1963)
Character: N/A
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
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El Bronco Reynosa (1961)
Character: N/A
Star of cowboy-movies returns to his home and locals expect him to be heroic like he is onscreen.
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Duelo en El Dorado (1969)
Character: N/A
Saloon-owner's a hard guy and none too law-abiding; his twelve year old son comes to live with him and he starts changing his ways... but his past is likely to catch up with him.
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El rifle implacable (1965)
Character: N/A
Two young women need a hired gun to protect their ranch from marauders; the feistier of the two arranges for a gunman who has the right stuff to be busted out of jail so he can work for them.
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Duelo indio (1961)
Character: Panfilo Pardo
A cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but Pancho fights to defend them... while a messenger is securing copies of some needed legal documents. Etc. Second film of four in the series "Pancho Pistolas."
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Los tigres del ring (1960)
Character: N/A
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
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Canción del alma (1938)
Character: N/A
Jose and Esperanza got married just before the Revolution blew up, and they got separated in the chaos, each assuming the other was dead. Six or eight years later...
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La malagueña (1947)
Character: N/A
Traveling salesman falls for shopkeeper's daughter in one of the towns on his route. Bad news: she already has two suitors among the local fellers.
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Enterrado vivo (1961)
Character: N/A
Final four episodes of Pancho Pistolas serial, reedited into feature format. PP finally thwarts the Four Bad Brothers in their plan to take over the lands belonging to local indigenous tribe and in getting that territory restored to tribal governance.
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Furias desatadas (1957)
Character: N/A
College student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father. Third of four in a series.
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Yolanda (1943)
Character: N/A
About the Russian dancer Yolanda who arrives in Mexico with her company in 1909. There she falls in love with the young cadet Julio. However, the influential Carlos opposes this love. He wants Yolanda for himself and threatens her with a possible deportation to Siberia if she rejected his romantic advances.
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El torneo de la muerte (1960)
Character: N/A
Three stories of the tigers of the ring "The love of the beast", "The tiger brothers" and "The tigers of the ring".
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Doña Diabla (1950)
Character: Esteban
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
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Cortesana (1948)
Character: N/A
A young woman is seduced by her cousin's husband when the couple arrives at his house during the pianist's tour.
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Ambiciosa (1953)
Character: Oscar Ramírez
Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.
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El Tigre De Santa Julia (1974)
Character: N/A
Band of ex-soldiers embark on a life of crime; their leader, meanwhile, wants to track down the man who murdered his parents.
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Yo maté a Rosita Alvírez (1947)
Character: N/A
Based on the famous corrido, this film tells the story of Rosa, a young coquette who comes to town only to face two men, Hipolito and Marcos, who fight for her affection. Rosa plays with the feelings of both without realizing that this can end in tragedy for her and for the men. In the village dance passions are unleashed when Hipolito finds Rosa flirting with another man, to make him jealous
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Caballo a caballo (1939)
Character: Empleado hotel (uncredited)
Two con-men end up at a country estate, where they thwart some jewel-thieves.
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Las rosas del milagro (1960)
Character: Moctezuma
Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.
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Rosa de las nieves (1944)
Character: N/A
It follows a group of mountaineers who take shelter from a fierce blizzard in the isolated cabin of a man named Leonardo. When he refuses to open the door, a local guide reveals to them the tragic story of love, sacrifice, and heartbreak that led him to cut himself off from the world.
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Pasiones tormentosas (1946)
Character: José
In a small tropical town, two sisters fight over the love of a young man named José. Fabiola is a noble woman but Sandra will do anything to get him, including witchcraft.
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La ley de las pistolas (1960)
Character: El Yaqui Ramírez
Fancy shooting-iron awarded as a prize in a marksmanship competition, passes from hand to hand.
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El jinete negro (1958)
Character: Hilarión Mercado
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
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El caudillo (1957)
Character: N/A
Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white ally fight back. One of four in a series.
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En Carne Viva (1951)
Character: Fernando Herrera
A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.
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Una rosa sobre el ring (1973)
Character: N/A
After killing an opponent in a freak wrestling accident, El Enmascarado Negro has a midlife crisis and considers retiring from show business.
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El jinete sin cabeza (1957)
Character: Don Álvaro
A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won't stay in its grave. This is the first in a trilogy of horror/western hybrids that also includes the films La marca de Satanás ("The Mark of Satan") and La cabeza de Pancho Villa ("The Head of Pancho Villa").
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Vuelven las calaveras del terror (1944)
Character: N/A
A group of friends form a masked gang nicknamed 'The Skulls of Terror' and confront a local political boss. Originally produced as a six-hour collection of serial chapters (1943), then edited down (1944) into a 3-hour feature... then re-released (1950s?) as two 90-minute features. The first one seems to have disappeared, this is the second one.
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Calaveras del terror (1944)
Character: N/A
Feature-length version of a serial, originally in twelve chapters. Three-hour runtime, later re-edited into two 90 minute features called Las Calaveras Del Terror and Vuelven Las Calaveras Del Terror. Good guys vs bad guys for possession of a map showing the location of a lost mine.
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La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano (2024)
Character: El Angel
Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs become a cinematic genre? Join us to learn about this trajectory.
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Jesús de Nazareth (1942)
Character: Simón Cirineo
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
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La bestia magnifica (1953)
Character: David
Two very good friends become wrestlers to leave poverty behind, but the arrival of an ambitious woman will tragically change their destinies.
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Reportaje (1953)
Character: Young doctor
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Juan Colorado (1966)
Character: Amigo de Juan
Silvia's father wants to marry her off to Rafael who, out of jealousy, wants to finish off Juan. Silvia dresses up as Juan to save his skin.
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La Momia Azteca (1957)
Character: Pinacate
A scientist discovers through hypnosis a mummy who watches over the jewels of an Aztec god for all eternity.
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El barbero prodigioso (1942)
Character: Octavio (amante de Fanny)
Benedito the barber, mocked by everyone in the village, lathers the head of a blind customer just as the man regains his sight. Benedito becomes a celebrity, and everyone seeks his services.
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La isla de los dinosaurios (1967)
Character: Caveman
A group of scientists in search of lost Atlantis are plane wrecked on an uncharted island full of stock footage monsters fresh from One Million BC. Occasionally we get an original papier mache monster peaking out from behind an alcove, but for the most part this is typical Mexican filmmaking for the period. With Armond Silvestre and Alma Delia Fuentes.
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El camino de los espantos (1967)
Character: El Zopilote
A group of people, including Capulina and Viruta, head towards the city by train. A heavy storm interrupts their journey and now they must take a haunted path to reach they city. (English Subtitled)
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Attack of the Mayan Mummy (1964)
Character: Dr. Redding's Assistant
A scientist seeking loot of the Nile regresses a woman to her past incarnation, a princess in ancient Egypt. (Edited from the Mexican horror film LA MOMIA AZTECA, and follows its general plot but with 36 minutes of new, American-made footage and English narration in lieu of dubbed dialogue for the original footage.)
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La Red (1953)
Character: Antonio
Antonio dives for sponges which are sold by his sweetheart Rossana. One day, the escaped prisoner José-Luis appears and is hid by his friend Antonio. Although José-Luis does not want to betray his friend, a love affair with tragic consequences between him and Rossana develops. The Net was one of Mexico's entries at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
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Naná (1944)
Character: Fontan
Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.
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Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1965)
Character: Redding's Aide
A scientist experimenting with past lives finds a reincarnated Aztec who can lead him to lost treasure—and to a creature that should remain lost. (Composed of footage from two unrelated Mexican horror films, LA CASA DEL TERROR and LA MOMIA AZTECA, plus new American-made footage.)
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Atacan las brujas (1968)
Character: Lawyer / henchman
Santo must battle an evil witch and the demons and evil spirits she brings up from Hell.
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El enmascarado de plata (1954)
Character: Julio
This cult-classic was Director Rene Cardona's attempt to capitalize on the popularity of professional wrestling and on of its biggest stars of the 1950's, known as "El Santo". However it is not about wrestling. It chronicles the adventures of a crime-fighting duo known as El Enmascadero de la Plata ( The Silver Mask), and his adolescent sidekick Pecas (Freckles), as they take on a murderous Mad Doctor and an evil gang-leader called El Lobo
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La loba (1965)
Character: Crumba
Professor Fernandez is studying the metamorphosis in living organisms to cure his daughter of a strange disease that occurs in full moon nights.
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Ladrón de cadáveres (1957)
Character: Capt. Carlos Robles
A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...
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Santo contra Capulina (1969)
Character: Chief of Police
Capulina is a night-watchman in a warehouse, a perfect job for him. When some thieves break in and steal some crates, El Santo is after them because they are using the warehouse for diamond smuggling. Capulina hinders their capture. He then decides that he will put on a wrestler's mask and help El Santo to caputre the crooks.
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Juan Pistolas (1966)
Character: N/A
Picaresque adventures of two small-time crooks, ligging around on the periphery of the Mexican revolution.
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La mujer murciélago (1968)
Character: Inspector
When a mad scientist begins kidnapping wrestlers and extracting their spinal fluid to create a race of Gill Men, two cops call in Batwoman to investigate. But when her mission leaves the scientist horrifically scarred, he seeks revenge.
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La maldición de la momia azteca (1957)
Character: Pinacate / El Ángel
The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - Xochitl's tomb. Confusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor's lover, Dr. Almada, his assistant, and wrestling superhero, El Angel. Krupp finally meets his match, however, when he comes up against Popoca, the warrior mummy who guards Xochitl's tomb.
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