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Los salvajes (1958)
Character: N/A
Pedro, a wealthy Mexican landowner, is convinced he can get everything he wants with money and arrogance.
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Los salvajes (1958)
Character: Bautista
Pedro, a wealthy Mexican landowner, is convinced he can get everything he wants with money and arrogance.
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Amor Prohibido (1945)
Character: N/A
Family life of a widowed father with four teenaged and young-adult children.
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Dueña y señora (1948)
Character: N/A
After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?
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El barbero prodigioso (1942)
Character: N/A
Simple small-town guy's life is turned upside-down when he seems to perform a miraculous cure for a blind man.
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Mujer (1947)
Character: N/A
Orphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace.
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El joven Juárez (1954)
Character: Don Antonio Salanueva
"Early-years" biography of important 19th century politician.
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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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Mi candidato (1937)
Character: N/A
Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.
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Fierecilla (1951)
Character: N/A
After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside, removed from corrupting influences. Fifteen years later...
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Las 5 noches de Adán (1942)
Character: N/A
Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.
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Historia de un amor (1956)
Character: N/A
Singer relives her love-life in flashback: she adopts another woman's illegitimate daughter, she gets married, the grandparents of the baby raise a fuss, etc.
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Aquí está Heraclio Bernal (1958)
Character: N/A
Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series.
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Azahares rojos (1961)
Character: Don Antonio Carbajal
Family with young-adult children returns to Mexico after many years in Spain.
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La sobrina del señor cura (1954)
Character: N/A
A pregnant parishioner can't get her boyfriend to marry her and the home office thinks that foundling girl the priest took in is too old now to live under the same roof with him. It's always something, ain't it?
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Los pobres van al cielo (1951)
Character: N/A
When their parents die, brother and sister run away rather than go to an orphanage. Childless elderly couple adopts them, the neighborhood priest takes an interest in their sad story, and it goes on from there...
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Matrimonio y mortaja (1950)
Character: N/A
A series of misadventures leaves a city slicker trapped into a shotgun marriage with a country gal. Back home in Mexico City, he tries to scam his way out of his marriage and set things right with his previous fiance...
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Necesito un marido (1955)
Character: N/A
After being stood up at the altar, a young heiress hires a burglar to pose as her husband to help her save face.
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Cuando viajan las estrellas (1942)
Character: N/A
A Hollywood star travels to Mexico to take flamenco dancing lessons for her next movie. In the airport she meets a Mexican rancher, and while both dislike each other at first, things may change.
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Comisario en turno (1949)
Character: N/A
Night shift at police headquarters; criminals and victims of all sorts pass through to get their cases sorted out.
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Tío de mi vida (1952)
Character: N/A
Hard-partying college student wants his parents to think he's a serious and respectable young man, so Uncle Felipe pays all his bills and takes the blame for his misdeeds and wildnesses.
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Yo... el aventurero (1959)
Character: N/A
A crew of happy ne'er do wells comes to town to gamble and party during the town fair... but then their leader gets serious about a local girl and about finding the rustlers who are stealing all of her daddy's horses.
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Siete pecados (1957)
Character: N/A
Seven dresses/seven models at a fashion show, and each one represents one of the seven deadly sins.
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La hermana impura (1948)
Character: N/A
Outsider comes to visit a remote village as a representative of an oil company. Once there, he discovers that the man who owns the land he's interested in has a daughter who's identical to a bad, troubled woman from his bad, troubled past.
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Mas alla del amor (1946)
Character: N/A
A street urchin helps a severe alcoholic with recovery, and he repays the favor by mentoring the boy and putting him through school. When the boy grows up, there are romantic problems to deal with...
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Locura pasional (1956)
Character: N/A
Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.
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Los miserables (1943)
Character: N/A
Police officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.
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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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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 último round (1953)
Character: N/A
Shady promoter hires a new boy for his boxing stable, but the young champ won't go along with his boss'es scams and machinations.
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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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Desnúdate, Lucrecia (1958)
Character: N/A
Commercial artist and her fiancé go to Acapulco for a weekend, and she discovers that their engagement was a mistake. Lookie-here, Mr. Right just came along! (But he's got his own comical baggage.)
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Los apuros de mi ahijada (1951)
Character: N/A
Irresponsible playboy-type needs to cut down on his nightclubbing and his expensive women-friends and buckle down to his Uni studies. Meanwhile, his godfather...
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Muerte en la feria (1962)
Character: N/A
Four bad eggs from the traveling carney are setting up local men for a blackmail scam, and it's up to western-series hero El Hijo Del Charro Negro! to make things right.
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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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Ocho hombres y una mujer (1946)
Character: N/A
Eight shipwrecked men do the Robinson Crusoe thing on an uninhabited island... and then they're joined by an aviatrix whose plane conks out in their airspace.
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Se acabaron las mujeres (1946)
Character: N/A
Widower with three grown daughters wants to go out and mack on chorus girls and stuff with his Argentine best-buddy.
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Sublime melodía (1956)
Character: N/A
Young widow with kindergarten-age daughter butts heads with her mother-in-law.
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Simón Bolívar (1942)
Character: General Jacinto Lara
Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
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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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La reina del cielo (1959)
Character: N/A
A tribe of Venezuelan Indians in the jungle, commanded by chief Coromoto live with fear because of the presence of a Spanish colony settled in the outskirts. Coromoto's fears are increased because of the presence of a snake and the prophecies of the sorcerers. His government is threatened by the rebellious character of Piache, a warrior who also has his followers. One day Coromoto and his people have a vision in the lake of the Virgin Mary, but he doesn't trust on it, thinking that it's a negative spirit despite its beauty. However, the tribe exiled a woman, Guaita and his little son Jesus. Guaita and Jesus run away to the Spanish colony, where they're received in the local governor's house. The governor and a soldier, Bartolome offer to help Guaita and Jesus. Maybe the father of the child is a Spaniard known by Bartolome and his brother.
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La posesión (1950)
Character: N/A
Two old friends get hinky with each other over the deed to a tract of land, and their children's engagement gets broken over it.
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Lo que no se puede perdonar!.. (1953)
Character: Don Javier
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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Eterna agonía (1949)
Character: Padre Domingo
Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.
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El crucifijo de piedra (1956)
Character: N/A
A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has just died there mistakenly takes her as her grandaugther and takes her to live with her.
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¡Que viene mi marido! (1940)
Character: Don Segundo
Rom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's marital status.
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La fuerza de los humildes (1955)
Character: N/A
Unethical industrialist gets taken down by a combination of forces including labor activists and a kill-crazy tribal Indian.
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Azahares para tu boda (1950)
Character: Alberto
During the time of the Mexican Revolution, the eldest daughter of a conservative family must respect the decision of her parents, and follow the traditions of using the wedding flowers her mother used.
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La casa chica (1950)
Character: Profesor Alfaro
Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the town where she lived. They worked together and became his love. Although he was engaged to another, Fernando decided to return to the city to complete his commitment to her and finally reunited with Amalia, but the facts do not happen as they had planned.
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Nostradamus, el Genio de las Tinieblas (1962)
Character: Professor Duran
In order to stop a vampire from terrorizing the countryside, some locals decide to break into his coffin at night and steal his ashes. Complications ensue.
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La maldición de Nostradamus (1961)
Character: Professor
An aristocratic vampire swears an oath to kill the enemies who killed his father. In order to terrify them even further, he warns each one when he is coming for them.
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Tierra de hombres (1958)
Character: Don Juan
On his family's farm, Gilberto keeps weapons to support the revolutionaries. When his father find out, he runs out from the hacienda to join them.
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La golondrina (1938)
Character: N/A
American journalist in Yucatan falls into the orbit of a local politician.
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Cuatro noches contigo (1952)
Character: Gobernador Peralta
Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her.
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Sol en llamas (1962)
Character: N/A
A powerful rancher loses his power and wealth during the Revolution, and his daughter falls in love with a revolutionary.
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Pancho Villa y la Valentina (1958)
Character: Don Abraham González
The second chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican revolutionary general.
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La fièvre monte à El Pao (1959)
Character: Professeur Juan Cárdenas
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
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La escondida (1956)
Character: Tata Agustino Rojano
Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she cannot forget her love for a rebel leader.
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Las tres Elenas (1954)
Character: N/A
A woman married to a renowned doctor confesses to her mother that she has fallen in love with her daughter's young boyfriend.
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Caballero a la medida (1954)
Character: Padre Feliciano
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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Río escondido (1948)
Character: Señor cura
Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.
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Sensualidad (1951)
Character: Comandante Santos
A saloon singer is released from prison after being convicted on a prostitution charge. She plans to blackmail the judge from her case by seducing him, but after she grows close to the judge she has a change of heart.
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Los de abajo (1940)
Character: Anastasio Montañéz
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.
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Historia de un gran amor (1942)
Character: padre Trinidad
Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love.
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La alegre casada (1952)
Character: N/A
Housewife gets ticked off at her philandering hubby, falls under the influence of a cougarish rich widow and decides to start partying the way her husband does.
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Reportaje (1953)
Character: Father Márquez
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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La sangre de Nostradamus (1961)
Character: Professor Duran
Vampire hunters track down a vampire and attempt to steal the ashes from his coffin in order to stop him from reviving nightly.
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La vida no vale nada (1955)
Character: Leandro
Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
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¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (1936)
Character: Francisco 'Pancho' Villa
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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La mujer del puerto (1934)
Character: Alberto Venega
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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Flor de mayo (1959)
Character: Sacerdote
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife had been lovers years and years ago -- and now the fisherman begins to suspect that the son he always thought was his, is really the offspring of this foreign intruder.
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Se solicitan modelos (1954)
Character: N/A
In this Mexican comedy, Mr. Lazaro's fashion house is on the brink of bankruptcy and in desperate need of a new model to replace his current business partner's wife, whose appearance is driving customers away. Lazaro's son, Raul, realizes what a diffucult dilemma his father faces and sets out to restore the integrity of the family-owned business by teaming up with his lovely fiancée to put on a fashion show. Domingo Soler and Sara Montiel star.
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La virgen que forjó una patria (1942)
Character: Fray Martín
On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
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El rebozo de Soledad (1952)
Character: Padre Juan
Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
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Perdida (1950)
Character: Pascual
Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...
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El ladrón (1947)
Character: Licenciado Marcelo Gómez Sosa
Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction.
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La Barraca (1945)
Character: Batiste Borrull
The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.
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Lluvia roja (1950)
Character: Mr. Tadeo
Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.
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Sube y baja (1959)
Character: Don Gaspar
It is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.
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