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El deseo llega de noche (1969)
Character: Pitanguelli
Prison colony on an island: the staff Doctor has some neuroses he's trying to overcome, and his "weakness" makes him vulnerable to exploitation by a sociopathic prisoner.
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¡Que seas feliz! (1956)
Character: Duarte
Career criminal hooks up with famous singer because she looks like a long-term meal ticket.
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Peluquero de señoras (1973)
Character: N/A
Beauty-products czar can't attend an important industry function, so he hires a look-alike as a stand-in. The body double will have to learn to behave like a massive queen for the imposture to work...
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La cuna vacía (1938)
Character: N/A
Male half of a young couple gets distracted from his family duties and considers abandoning his wife and daughter.
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Cuando el amor ríe (1930)
Character: N/A
José Mojica plays a singing vacquero who stops off in la cantina to have muchas cervezas with los muchachos. While José is all beered up, he boasts that he can tame the wild mare -- a horse no man can ride -- owned by local ranchero Don Alvarado (a stolid performance by Carlos Villarias). While he's in the neighbourhood, José also boasts that he can tame the Don's daughter, a Mexican spitfire played by Mona Maris.
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El pequeño Robin Hood (1975)
Character: N/A
Directed by René Cardona, and written by René Cardona Jr., «El Pequeño Robin Hood» is a 1975 Adventure/Comedy/Drama/Family film . René Cardona III and Patricia Aspíllaga are starring, alongside René Cardona, Arturo Cobo, Jorge Russek and Alfredo Wally Barrón.
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Dos caballeros de espada (1964)
Character: N/A
It's Mexico in the 1600's. Fifteen years after arriving from Spain, Pedro "Dagoberto Rodríguez" teaches his son Carlos "Rodolfo De Anda" his famous fencing moves. One day as he is going home, Carlos runs into some men who are trying to kidnap two young ladies. While defending them, Carlos kills one of the assistants to the viceroy and has to flee so he can later attempt to prove his innocence. He will have to use all his cunning and swordsmanship to survive the dangers he will face.
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Raza de viboras (1978)
Character: N/A
Two cousins have always been rivals in everything, and to top it all off, they fall in love with the same woman.
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Soledad (1947)
Character: Roberto Covarrubias
Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
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Crónica roja (1979)
Character: N/A
After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.
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Marchands de filles (1957)
Character: N/A
A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
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Mulata (1954)
Character: Guevara
In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and of a black laundress of African origin. Over the years, Mateo falls for Caridad, but she doesn't love him back because she has fallen for a Mexican captain, Martin (Pedro Armendáriz), who she happened to meet at the port. The captain also fell in love with Caridad and proposes that they live together and she accepts. Caridad works in a cabaret in the port and the owner, Guevara (René Cardona), feels an attraction for the girl, and in a moment of jealousy, tries to kill Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara. When Martin returns to Veracruz, Mexico, Guevara feels that he's the new owner of Caridad.
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Una luz en mi camino (1939)
Character: N/A
In a small city, talented María was trained as a singer by blind composer Joaquín. They both dream of making it big in the capital but, when they finally make the move, they find that success is not achieved without struggles.
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Bal de nuit (1959)
Character: N/A
Martine is a young woman plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can provide the kind of nurturing that Martine needs during her adolescent years. As a result of her family situation, Martine runs away from home and gets involved with a group of teens and young adults from the wrong side of the moral tracks.
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El calvario de una esposa (1936)
Character: Sebastián Urquizo
Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is presumed dead. Soon after he returns, scavengers destroy the family home and he and Betty escape westward. Meanwhile, Gen. John Harvey (William Welch), Betty's father, has been seriously injured but is not dead. He arrives at the deserted plantation with the help of Union soldier Tom (Bob Steele), who then pledges to help John find his family
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La disputa (1974)
Character: N/A
The wife of a philandering husband tries to engineer a situation in which she can photograph him in a compromising position in order to file for divorce. Meanwhile, subplots.
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Masajista de señoras (1973)
Character: N/A
This fun comedy presents two masseurs who, by getting a job, dress up as women and thus live comic adventures.
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La mula de Cullen Baker (1971)
Character: Capitán
A young Cullen Baker rides his mule throughout the old west with his father, when bandits attack them, killing his father. Cullen becomes a loner, again riding a mule through the west and getting into trouble wherever he goes. When a soldier shows him the Colt Dragon revolver, a newly invented six shooter, he becomes obsessed with obtaining this gun as a means to empower himself. After murdering two soldiers and taking their revolvers, Cullen proceeds to rob banks and shoot down anyone who dares confront him.
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El conde de Montecristo (1942)
Character: Fernando Mondego / Conde de Morcef
Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable cell, he changes his identity, becoming the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, an identity he uses to take revenge on those who betrayed him and sent him to prison.
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As negro (1954)
Character: N/A
Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
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Sobre las olas (1933)
Character: Raúl
Based on the brief life of the Mexican composer of the famous waltz, "Over the Waves" ("Sobre las Olas"), Juventino Rosas.
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La vorágine: abismos de amor (1949)
Character: N/A
It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.
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Del mismo barro (1930)
Character: N/A
A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.
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Tempestad (1978)
Character: N/A
The emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.
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La casa del rencor (1941)
Character: Hugo
Martina, a sorrowful woman, is the sole inhabitant of an abandoned and eerie house, where a couple arrives on a stormy night seeking shelter. Martina tells them how what was once a happy hacienda turned into a hell filled with resentment when Doña Adelaida—the master’s second wife—and her son Hugo came to live there; the despotism and cruelty of both ultimately destroyed the entire family.
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Mala yerba (1940)
Character: Don Julián Andrade
Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
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El matrimonio es como el demonio (1967)
Character: Ramón
The story of a Playboy bachelor who does not know the good that is, until he is married. Slowly, the man discovers that having a woman is not easy, but sometimes ... being faithful recomended. After sympathetic experiences and funny situations, he realizes that there are two uncorrectable errors committed by the man in your life: Being born and married!
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El príncipe del desierto (1947)
Character: Omar
A girl meets a young boy in Arabia who falls in love with her. When they grow up, he goes to Mexico while hiding the fact that he is a prince.
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Prisión de mujeres (1977)
Character: Mr. Williams
'Prisión de Mujeres' is a film by Fernando A. Rivero that narrates a harsh reality: the strength of women in a prison, how they lose their dignity and do not stop for anything.
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Asesinato en los estudios (1946)
Character: Director (uncredited)
During the filming of a movie an actor has to be attacked with blanks but dies because they were real bullets.
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El baúl macabro (1936)
Character: Dr. Armando del Valle
A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
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Los hijos de Rancho Grande (1956)
Character: Don Felipe
Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.
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Yo el ejecutor (1987)
Character: N/A
A retired mercenary known as 'The Executioner', is forced to take one more case especially when his girlfriend is kidnapped and raped, he then wages a one-man war against the mob with his execution style.
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Carne de Cabaret (1931)
Character: Eddie Miller
This is the Spanish-language version of Ten Cents a Dance (1931), shot concurrently with a different cast but the same director, Christy Cabanne (as "Wiliam Cabana"), and also Mexican director Eduardo Arozamena.
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El valle de los miserables (1975)
Character: Don Luis Aguirre
In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, but end up owing everything to the company store. All are tortured, raped, or killed when they protest. Another landowner whose brother was killed by Zamarripa and who falls in love with one of his daughters is going to be punished, but he flees and becomes a revolutionary.
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¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla! (1946)
Character: Mauricio Gómez
Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
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Las Viboras Cambian De Piel (1974)
Character: Monk
An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along the way, the two men meet a hired gun that loves money just as much as he loves the company of women, so the two men decide to hire him in order to help them on their mission. However, things become complicated when the man they all seek to kill has risen to become a wealthy sheriff with a small army of gunmen at his disposal.
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Verano salvaje (1980)
Character: Papá
After a romantic betrayal, young Cecilia decides to sleep around with the men she grew up with.
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Operación carambola (1968)
Character: Scorpio Leader
Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack.
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El Peñón de las Ánimas (1943)
Character: Manuel
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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Marihuana (El monstruo verde) (1936)
Character: Antonio Pedroza
An agent of the anti-drug brigade is captured and ends up addicted to marijuana, which causes him to enter the mafia.
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El socio (1946)
Character: Corredor de bolsa (uncredited)
A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...
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Santo contra los cazadores de cabezas (1971)
Character: Don Alonso Grijalva
Famed wrestler/secret agent El Santo must venture deep into the Amazon jungle to rescue a girl who is set to be sacrificed under the full moon by the Jibaro Indians.
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Con su amable permiso (1940)
Character: N/A
Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.
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Viaje fantástico en globo (1975)
Character: N/A
1862. Commodore Sir Francis and inventor Douglas initiated on behalf of the Royal Society of London Geography of a balloon ride under the command of Dr. Ferguson, who plans to cross Africa from east to west. But to accomplish this feat will have to overcome numerous adventures in which their lives are at serious risk.
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Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936)
Character: Felipe
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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Divorciadas (1943)
Character: Luis Reiner
Divorciadas tells the story of three women: Cristina, recently divorced after refusing to endure her husband's lack of love, especially following the death of their young son; Carmen, divorced for many years and living on the fortune left to her by her late husband, leading a free and unconventional life; and Juanita, an employee at the courthouse where she meets Cristina, married but long abandoned by her husband.
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La faraona (1956)
Character: (uncredited)
Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.
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La casta divina (1977)
Character: Consul Cubano
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.
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La Bandida (1963)
Character: General Robles
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.
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Cartas Marcadas (1948)
Character: N/A
A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected.
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El barón del terror (1962)
Character: Baltasar de Meneses / Luis Meneses
In 1661 Mexico, Baron Vitelius is executed for witchcraft. 300 years later, during a comet's return, he resurfaces as a brain-eating monster seeking revenge on the Inquisitors' descendants.
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El puma (1959)
Character: N/A
Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series.
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The Children of Sanchez (1978)
Character: N/A
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
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Un extraño en la casa (1968)
Character: Tomas
An American serial killer, known for his handiwork with a straight razor, manages to escape while being transported in Mexico and hides out inside a publisher's home, where he claims many more victims.
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Ciclon (1978)
Character: N/A
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well.
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Juana Gallo (1961)
Character: Capitán Esquivel
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
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Las tres perfectas casadas (1953)
Character: Jorge
Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
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Un novio para dos hermanas (1967)
Character: Sr. Mateos
Pili and uncle Angel travel to Mexico to see Mili dancing at her debut in a theater in the capital. When Mili finds out the bad economic situation of her uncle, she decides to seek work. Meanwhile, Pili works in a department store and meets Rodolfo, the grandson of Mrs. Caceres, owner of the store, which she takes for the chauffeur of the lady. In turn, Ms. Caceres hires Mili to dance at her party, where she meets and falls for Rodolfo. Rodolfo, who does not know of the existence of a twin sister, is convinced that the girl in the party is Pili. And the sisters do not know they are in love with the same man, which will lead to an unexpected conflict.
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