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Vivir a todo dar (1956)
Character: Hermana de Belinda
Clavillazo is a likeable drifter who gets his diploma because his teachers want to lose sight of him. He lives on what he can find in the street. However, nothing can stop him from helping those around him.
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Cinco fueron escogidos (1943)
Character: N/A
Cinco fueron escogidos taking place in Slavko, a "peaceful town in Yugoslavia," with only Yugoslavians and Germans as characters, not a Mexican or Spaniard in sight. Another interesting point about Cinco fueron escogidos is the existence of an alternate version, shot in English with a different cast (at least in major roles). Sadly, this film, usually referred to as "Five Were Chosen" but sometimes called "Hostages" (not to be confused with the somewhat similar 1943 Hollywood movie with that title), appears to be lost. García Riera indicates the English-language version was screened in Mexico, at least for the press, but does not seem to have been released commercially in the Mexico or the USA. Since Herbert Kline was well-known for his leftist views, it's not surprising to note that many of the imported Hollywood actors were also left-leaning (and in fact more than one was blacklisted during the Red Scare era).
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Me he de comer esa tuna (1945)
Character: N/A
In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.
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Barrio bajo (1950)
Character: N/A
Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...
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Las medias de seda (1956)
Character: N/A
Vineyard worker is happy when her long-estranged artist brother comes to visit her. But then...
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Asesinos, S.A. (1957)
Character: N/A
Incompetent clown is drafted into a Murder Incorporated style squad of hitmen.
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Tierra brava (1938)
Character: N/A
Financier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off the owner's debt and saves the day.
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Delirio tropical (1952)
Character: N/A
Vindictive rich girl spreads rumors about her rival being a witch. Townsfolk get all agitated.
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La pequeña madrecita (1944)
Character: N/A
Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her.
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La fe en Dios (1950)
Character: N/A
Criminal on the lam assumes the identity of a dead priest and takes his place in a rural parish.
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Dos cadetes (1938)
Character: N/A
Mama thinks one of her sons is going into the priesthood... but he wants to join the army instead. Naughty uncle from Paris help him get out from under Mom's thumb.
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La segunda mujer (1953)
Character: N/A
Couple with preteen children break up; Dad meets a new woman and they marry. The children grow up, and they're spoiled-y rich kids flirting with criminal lawlessness. Cue the violins.
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Guardián, el perro salvador (1950)
Character: N/A
Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death! Jail sentences! Inheritances!
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Martín Garatuza (1935)
Character: N/A
Sixteenth-century swashbuckler helps a young woman claim a rightful inheritance in the face of opposition from her father's widow and co-conspirators.
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Mi adorado salvaje (1952)
Character: N/A
The old folks back home in Spain have arranged a marriage for their niece living in Mexico. To side-step their demands, she pretends to be already married, with a male acquaintance who agrees to pose as her husband while her relatives are visiting.
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No me platiques más (1956)
Character: N/A
The owner of their performance space dies, and a group of young singer/dancers is concerned about the future of their musical revue. The new owner seems to be an uptight old Legion Of Decency fuddy-duddy, so... much anxiety, until a happy ending is contrived.
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Pobre huerfanita (1955)
Character: N/A
Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home.
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Lodo y armiño (1951)
Character: N/A
Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior affects five other people; everybody suffers. Enormously.
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Cuando tú me quieras (1951)
Character: N/A
A shoe-clerk's aunt and uncle send him to a remote fishing village to retrieve a distant cousin and bring her back to the bosom of the family.
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Cuando Regrese Mamá (1961)
Character: Doña María (uncredited)
A family of six children are orphaned on Christmas Eve and struggle through a year without parental support.
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¡Acá las Tortas! (1951)
Character: Manuelita
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
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La loca de la casa (1950)
Character: Tía Eulalia
A nun reevaluates her life and decides to give up her vows to marry and help her father.
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Lo que no se puede perdonar!.. (1953)
Character: Nana Rafaela
Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well.
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Tentación (1943)
Character: Doña Claudia
Upon reaching the capital, an old man and his daughter are victims of abuse, where their goodwill becomes the way to gain control of the low instincts of a man who sought favors he did for an uncontrolled temptation.
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La virgen desnuda (1950)
Character: N/A
Melodrama based on the homonymous novel by the Spanish writer José María Carretero Novillo (El Caballero Audaz), which tells a romantic story about a pair of lovers who endure great suffering in their attempt to be together.
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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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Yo, el mujeriego (1963)
Character: Directora de colegio
Playboy bachelor poses as a woman's husband to protect her daughter's reputation at a private school. Remake of El Mil Amores (1955).
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Miente y serás feliz (1940)
Character: Doña Julita
A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...
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¡Que viene mi marido! (1940)
Character: Genoveva
Rom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's marital status.
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Músico, poeta y loco (1948)
Character: N/A
An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.
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El muchacho alegre (1948)
Character: N/A
Boisterous young charro has to prove to his girlfriend's parents that he's ready to settle down and be a responsible adult... but then somebody frames him for a murder and he has more immediate problems to deal with.
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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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Pobre diablo (1940)
Character: Blandina
An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
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El infierno de los pobres (1951)
Character: N/A
A young woman becomes pregnant but when his boyfriend leaves her she gets a job as a prostitute in order to provide for her child.
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Mil estudiantes y una muchacha (1942)
Character: Tía Brígida
The dream of Atenodoro is to be a professor at the Faculty of Law. The students show enthusiasm for Ana, the professor’s daughter. Atenodoro resigns from his class, and the students try to make him return by pretending to be the rector and his family.
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Yo No me Caso Compadre (1960)
Character: Tía Agrícola
Two ranch owners promised their offspring would marry. The intended refused and switched places with their respective servants. They don't discover their real identities till they marry.
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¡Vaya tipos! (1955)
Character: N/A
Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
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Hombres sin alma (1951)
Character: Doña Cristina
Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things impossible for them.
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El museo del crimen (1945)
Character: Clementina Cardoso de Ramos
Stage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.
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Suerte Te De Dios (1961)
Character: N/A
Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
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El ángel negro (1942)
Character: Doña Meche
Despite the strange death of Jorge's previous wives, Elisa decides to marry him.
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El secreto de la solterona (1945)
Character: Federica
A homeless orphan girl is adopted by a wealthy man against his wife wishes. When the man dies, the girl endures endless humiliations under the wife's harsh grip, so she finds solace with mysterious old maid who lives near by.
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Ella y Yo (1951)
Character: Doña Tacha (uncredited)
Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.
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Cuatro contra el mundo (1950)
Character: Doña Trini
After ambushing a brewery’s money truck, four gangsters hide out in the attic of a gangster’s lover while the police search the city. As the heat closes in, jealousy, desire, and mistrust begin to fracture the gang from within.
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Romance de fieras (1954)
Character: Tía Remedios
Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
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El rebelde (Romance de Antaño) (1945)
Character: Criada de don Pablo
After a vengeance taken too far costs his father his Hacienda and his life, young Juan Manuel Mendoza becomes a bandit. He will get a chance for revenge and for love after he infiltrates his enemy house as a piano teacher.
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El Rey de México (1956)
Character: Dueña de vitrina
A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
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El Portero (1950)
Character: Doña Cuca, vecina
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
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Gran Hotel (1944)
Character: Doña Estefania
Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.
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Caballero a la medida (1954)
Character: Doña Manuelita
Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
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El Peñón de las Ánimas (1943)
Character: Madame
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.
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Una Familia de Tantas (1949)
Character: Doña Jovita, invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.
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La Mujer Que Yo Perdí (1949)
Character: Madre de Laura
A political revolutionary fights against injustice, his adoring wife by his side. But only in her death does he realize the depth of her love for him and their country. A dramatic romance from the 23 film library of the most iconic classic Mexican film and recording star, Pedro Infante.
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La Llorona (1933)
Character: Criada
Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variations of the story.
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La ilusión viaja en tranvía (1954)
Character: Pasajera con santo
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
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Dos monjes (1934)
Character: N/A
In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them.
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Cinco rostros de mujer (1947)
Character: Casera de Roberto (as Concha Gentil Arcos)
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
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Mi campeón (1952)
Character: Empleada de doña Lupe (uncredited)
Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
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La Devoradora (1946)
Character: Jacinta
After her lover commits suicide, Diana involves her fiancé and his nephew in a scheme to help her disappear with the corpse.
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Por ellas aunque mal paguen (1952)
Character: Madame Florita
Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter Isabel with wealthy rancher. Isabel and her family refuse to work, Jose Manuel takes them to the ranch, where they are forced to work for food.
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La mujer del puerto (1934)
Character: Vecina
Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night...
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Romeo y Julieta (1943)
Character: (uncredited)
Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
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Tiburoneros (1963)
Character: Madre de Aurelio
Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he decides to move to the big city.
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El 7 leguas (1955)
Character: Mariquita
Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.
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El mil amores (1954)
Character: Maestra
Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu
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La hija del engaño (1951)
Character: Toña García
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
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El bombero atómico (1952)
Character: Vecina (uncredited)
Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
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Nosotros los pobres (1948)
Character: The Pawnbroker
Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
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Rosenda (1948)
Character: Señorita Rocha
A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
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El señor fotógrafo (1953)
Character: Mamá de Chelito
Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...
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Miguel Strogoff (1944)
Character: Mujer en tren
A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines. He encounters many colorful characters along the way.
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Rosauro Castro (1950)
Character: Señora Campos
Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved revenge end the injustices committed by Rosauro Castro.
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En los tiempos de Don Porfirio (1940)
Character: doña Julia
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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