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Mi esposa me comprende (1959)
Character: N/A
Bachelor friend of a married couple gets caught up in the drama generated by the husband's philandering.
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La Panchita (1949)
Character: N/A
Flirty young farmgirl has five or six suitors to choose between.
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El indio (1938)
Character: N/A
Social-justice movie about exploitation of Indians by white people in pre-Revolution Mexico.
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La otra mujer (1972)
Character: N/A
Businessman hires a stand-in to pass as the father of his mistress' children.
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La casa colorada (1947)
Character: N/A
Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.
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María Pistolas (1963)
Character: N/A
Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends.
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El cariñoso (1959)
Character: N/A
Romcom with music: owner of an auto-repair shop woos the owner of a beauty parlor.
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He matado a un hombre (1964)
Character: N/A
A mature woman looks for a judge to hand over after having murdered a man and recounts everything that happened. Sequel to "Historia de un canalla".
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Picardía mexicana (1978)
Character: N/A
An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.
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La abuelita (1942)
Character: N/A
Granny rules the roost, but little sister's a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she wears make-up, she goes out un-chaperoned... Granny sees her rubbing up against a married man and it shatters her health.
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Negra consentida (1949)
Character: N/A
Free-spirited young woman schemes different ways to trying to nudge her spinsterish older sister into falling in love and getting married.
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Noche de perdición (1951)
Character: Tencha
Shortly before a nightclub artist leaves Mexico for an international tour, she's witness to a murder. Shortly after she leaves, she's named as a suspect in the crime, and her husband, assuming she's guilty, turns his back on her. The-e-en...
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Debieron ahorcarlos antes (1974)
Character: N/A
Three convicts break out of jail to retrieve a bunch of gold stolen by one of them. The warden of the jail wants it too. And so does the army.
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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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El rayo del sur (1943)
Character: N/A
Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.
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Las cuatro milpas (1937)
Character: N/A
Bad dude tries to make time with a good dude's fiancée. When he can't get anywhere with her, he and his sidekick frame the good dude for a murder and a bunch of thefts.
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Viva Jalisco que es mi tierra (1961)
Character: N/A
Mom doesn't approve of her son's fiancée, so she schemes a scheme to throw him together with a woman she likes better. It involves him leaving town to become a bullfighter, and...
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El Intruso (1944)
Character: N/A
A man discovers that the second child he is expecting is the product of his wife's infidelity, who dies in childbirth. The boy, named Alberto, is treated as if he were a servant. His brother José Manuel, on the other hand, is treated well and all his whims are fulfilled and therefore he becomes lazy and irresponsible.
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El gallero (1948)
Character: N/A
In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.
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Tres hermanos (1943)
Character: N/A
The three sons of a Mexican family emigrated to USA end up fighting in WWII.
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El que tenga un amor (1942)
Character: N/A
Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that awaits him in his hometown.
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Barrio de campeones (1981)
Character: N/A
Extended family in working-class neighborhood; story mostly focuses on a young man who aspires to a pro boxing career, his grandma and the restaurant she owns.
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El Gran Makakikus (1944)
Character: N/A
Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere.
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Así amaron nuestros padres (1964)
Character: N/A
Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.
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El barchante Neguib (1946)
Character: Regina (as Fraustita)
Small-town Arabic family moves to Mexico City to live with the oldest son who made his career there. Follow-up (not a direct sequel) to El baisano Jalil (1942).
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Viviré otra vez (1940)
Character: Nana Tomasa
Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.
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Medianoche (1949)
Character: Tía de Rosita (as Dolores Camarillo 'Fraustita')
A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.
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La mujer que engañamos (1945)
Character: Toña
Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
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Enemigos (1934)
Character: Doña
The bride of a Federale colonel rejects him on their wedding night, and begins extramarital relations with a strapping young leader of the peasant revolution against which the colonel is fighting.
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El cobarde (1939)
Character: Pancha
Alberto is born in wartime, where his father dies a hero. He grows up effeminate. His mother sends him to military college where Fernando bullies him, but they become friends. When war comes, he has to face his fears.
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El baisano Jalil (1942)
Character: N/A
Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughter of the Veradada wasteful. Being invited to the house of Don Guillermom, Jalil and his wife Suan and Selim are teased and contempt. Finally, the Lebanese family worker puts in place the family of Don Guillermo ridiculous.
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Sor Ye-yé (1968)
Character: Monja
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
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Tú, solo tú (1950)
Character: N/A
Small-town guy goes to The City to look up his absent girlfriend. He discovers she's become a sex-worker, so he gets a job at a riding stable and meets a new girl.
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Una joven de 16 años (1963)
Character: María, la criada
Papa hires a "boyfriend" to indulge her in her fantasies of old-fashioned romance.
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Alejandra (1942)
Character: Juana (Minana)
There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married.
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El ángel negro (1942)
Character: Nana
Despite the strange death of Jorge's previous wives, Elisa decides to marry him.
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Pistoleros asesinos (1986)
Character: N/A
Returning to his grandmother's ranch, this northerner falls in love with the daughter of a great criminal. He will have to confront murderous gunmen trying to steal his land and the woman he adores.
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Al Son De La Marimba (1940)
Character: N/A
Shabby-genteel big city family tries to marry their daughter off to a wealthy landowner from the southern provinces.
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La Sonrisa de los Pobres (1964)
Character: N/A
A mechanical marries a young but both lose their jobs and happiness again when they know they are expecting a child.
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¡Ay, qué tiempos señor don Simón! (1941)
Character: Adelaida Méndez (as Lolita Camarillo)
A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.
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¡Qué lindo es Michoacán! (1943)
Character: Nacha
When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
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Ama a tu prójimo (1958)
Character: Mamá de Rodolfo
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
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Mystery in Mexico (1948)
Character: Señora Gómez
Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent. His first lead is the agent's fetching sister, Victoria, whom he trails to Mexico City. After charming his way into her confidence, Steve helps Vicki unravel the mystery.
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Viva Mi Desgracia (1944)
Character: Cleta
After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
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Ahí está el detalle (1940)
Character: Paz 'Pacita'
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
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México de mis recuerdos (1944)
Character: Conchita
After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don Susanito was named patron protector of artists and aspiring young stars of the stage, which leads to a series of adventures in the middle of songs, dances and loves.
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El primer paso... de la mujer (1974)
Character: N/A
Three girls from different social classes are forced to take that first step into adulthood that leads them to live fun adventures and also unfortunate events.
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Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936)
Character: Marcelina
Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
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¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (1936)
Character: Dona Lupe Maya
The 1910 Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by assisting in the struggle. Together, they will endure the tragedies and hardships of a civil war.
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Escuela de vagabundos (1955)
Character: Pancha
Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.
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Canasta Uruguaya (1951)
Character: Petra, Cocinera (as Lolita Camarillo)
Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.
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Tu camino y el mio (1973)
Character: N/A
She rejects him, but he's there for her, even after she gets married and then is abandoned by her babydaddy. Remake of Bajo El Cielo De Mexico (1958) (and also 1937?).
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El hombre de papel (1963)
Character: Encargada del deposito de papel
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.
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Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra (1943)
Character: Sirvienta
In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
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Tlayucan (1962)
Character: Dolores
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
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Los hermanos Del Hierro (1961)
Character: Handmaid
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
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En los tiempos de Don Porfirio (1940)
Character: Chole
In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is pregnant, is sent to Paris by the snubbed family.
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