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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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La ladrona (1954)
Character: N/A
Twin sisters butt heads over a feller. One goes into a convent, the other becomes a professional thiefstress.
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Los inocentes (1961)
Character: N/A
Three party-animal cowboys are hired by a dying man to bring his daughter to meet him.
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Marina (1945)
Character: Pueblerina (uncredited)
Adaptation of a Spanish operetta about a love triangle between two fisherman and a human female.
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El judicial (1984)
Character: N/A
Law enforcement vs drug-traffickers: two buddy cops etc etc etc.
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Pedro infante vive? (1991)
Character: N/A
Reporter/photographer covering a Pedro Infante commemorative event discover an uncanny look-alike lurking on the periphery.
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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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Doña Clarines (1951)
Character: N/A
Aging wastrel wants to have his sister declared incompetent so he can take control of her estate.
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Yo también soy de Jalisco (1950)
Character: N/A
A dizzy rich woman buys their horse, and three rubes get involved in the problems and intrigues brewing in her household.
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Las Braceras (1981)
Character: N/A
Widow and daughters team up with a crusading journalist to find the murderers of their migrant-farmworker father, run afoul of two INS blackmailer/rapists.
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Se Sufre pero se Goza (1986)
Character: Luz
A man who married a very rich woman wishes to help his brother-in-law who is having financial problems, and for that he starts a business as women wrestling promoter - a business in which you suffer, but that has an enjoyable side to it. Eventually there is a side business that goes well, too: selling oxygen pumps for use by the older men spectators, who can't stand so much emotions without the help of a breathing apparatus. To enhance the popularity of the matches, the masked vs bikini wrestler matches are announced as no time limit, best 2 of 3 falls, the loser to dispose either of her mask, or her bikini, in the center ring. With so much at stake, the crowds do grow at the ticket office.
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Los hijos de nadie (1952)
Character: María
A man is making a research about the importance of familiar environment in children's future. First, he interviews a prostitute, Rosa, who's in jail because of the murderer of her pimp. She was a poor child, living only with her father. He wants to send his daughter to school, but they don't find place and the father has to leave the child with the neighbour, while he's working. But the man is hit by a car and dies. Years later, Rosa finds herself alone after her adoptive mother dies. A young man from his same vicinity, wants to help her, after hearing her singing. But the truth is that he wants to turn Rosa into a prostitute and live from her money. The other story is about a boy, who goes with his father to sign up in the school.
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Pedro Só (1972)
Character: N/A
Pedro is a young agricultural worker who gets caught in the middle of a fight between two families, kills a man and escapes to the capital. He can't find work,resorts to begging, but keeps his mountaineer pride. He starts a new life with a prostitute who is nice to him, but nothing works. He returns home, and alone, and now he finds life there is sad as well.
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Espiritismo (1962)
Character: Alicia Viuda de García
Satan gives a woman three wishes in this version of the classic tale, "The Monkey's Paw."
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Huracán Ramírez (1953)
Character: Laura
Family comedy and family melodrama involving father and son wrestlers, little brothers, little sisters, girlfriends, waitresses...
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S.O.S., abuelita (1959)
Character: N/A
Clemen is very sad. After three years of marriage, Raul, her husband, is moving away from it and, what is worse, is getting dangerously close to other women. Desperate, she cries under the portrait of his late grandmother. And the miracle occurs. Granny leaves the frame and proposes to take its place Clemen. Clemen remains painted on the wall, while his grandmother set about reconquering Raul.
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Pura vida (1956)
Character: Lucía
Hapless Melquiades arrives in the city and embarrasses his relatives.
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El gallo giro (1948)
Character: N/A
Mom and Pop want him to settle down , but the youngun's convinced he could be a big star singing rancheras; he convinces his folks to give him six months in the big city to launch a career and prove himself.
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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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El hijo del bandido (1949)
Character: Margarita
Due to his family's bad reputation, a young man is accused of robbery and of murdering the father of the woman he loves.
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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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Mimí Derba (2000)
Character: Self
Mimí Derba is a documentary about one of the pioneers in acting and film production in México. In 1917, along with photographer Enrique Rosas, she founded one of the first film production companies: Azteca Films. Alejandra Moya captures a brief glimpse into the first Mexican female director.
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El barchante Neguib (1946)
Character: Isabelita
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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Bodas de oro (1956)
Character: N/A
On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage
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La trinca del aire (1951)
Character: Irene
Alberto, "Zanahoria" and "Jabato" are three students of the Parachute School. They are the "lashing the air," friends, good partners but rivals and competitive in love. When they see Nati, a beautiful woman who falls in love with Alberto, jealousy will lead to situations that jeopardize their great friendship.
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Ángeles de arrabal (1949)
Character: Lolita (Dolores Gómez)
Small-time crooks and bargirls, and also their mothers, get involved in a situation over some stolen jewels.
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Amor que mata (1994)
Character: Doña Tencha
Diego is a young musician who lives the terrible death of his uncle to AIDS. While in his deep depresion he meets Gabriela, which brings back a smile to his face. Just when life seems more promising than ever, one beutiful night death once again took a toll on his life. It seems as though the phantoms of the past are never going to let him go.
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El Misterio de Huracán Ramírez (1962)
Character: Laura
Hurricane Ramirez is the new manager of the arena and champion of the ring. He must battle with The Prince, a ruthless criminal who will try to end with his life.
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AR-15: Comando implacable (1988)
Character: N/A
A crazed forest dwelling rapist / killer attacks and murders a family. The husband / father ends up survives and sets out for revenge in this sadistic and splattery shocker.
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Se la llevó el Remington (1948)
Character: Gloria
While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds, seemingly based on his desire to wreck as many lives as possible. Doesn't really have anything to do with the historical figure known as Remington, though they used his name for the character here.
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Bestia nocturna (1986)
Character: N/A
A sadistic psycho, disguised as a military man and wearing a helmet, attacks and murders (mostly) women in a small town. It's up to the police captain and his girlfriend (who must act as a decoy) to stop him.
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La reina de la opereta (1946)
Character: Invitada fiesta (uncredited)
Mario marries Blanca, the queen of operetta, but after their daughter is born, they separate and she leaves on a world tour to continue her artistic career. Meanwhile, he stays behind and waits with the baby until they reunite again.
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Motel (1984)
Character: Carolina López viuda de Pérez
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
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La venganza de Huracán Ramírez (1969)
Character: N/A
Landru, a French businessman, arrives Mexico with the idea of promoting their fighters, what nobody knows is that besides Landru promoter and fighter is a mad scientist who seeks to alter human genetics mixing it with the animal to make stronger and fiercer to their gladiators.
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Dos tipos de cuidado (1953)
Character: Rosario
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
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La pachanga (1981)
Character: Doña Eugenia
In a building, at the same time a girl's birthday is celebrated and an old man who died of cold is being watched.
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Reportaje (1953)
Character: Edmundo's servant
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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El señor doctor (1965)
Character: Paciente neurótica (uncredited)
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
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Los hijos de María Morales (1952)
Character: Gloria Magaña
Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.
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Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Cartas de amor de una monja (1978)
Character: Novicia
Spain 1640, the reverend superior nun Mariana, attends the death of her younger sister, Isabel's husband, who is overcome with hopelessness and heartache. Isabel then kisses and caresses the cadaver's exposed body as if he were still alive. Mother Mariana
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Soy un prófugo (1946)
Character: Rosita
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
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El Diablo El Santo Y El Tonto (1985)
Character: N/A
When rancher, Don Trinidad is on his deathbed, he confesses to his fumbling son Rogelio, that he has two other illegitimate sons and that he wishes them to be included in his will. When Rogelio tracks them down, he discovers that each of them has a completely different life.
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Subida al cielo (1952)
Character: Albina
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
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Que Dios me perdone (1948)
Character: Alicia
Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, but for information.
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Cautivo del mas allá (1968)
Character: N/A
Vicky loves Ricardo but Ricardo loves Barbara. So, Vicky goes to a gypsy witch who convinces her she must make a pact with Satan in order to cast an effective love spell on Ricardo. After Vicky gives her body and soul to the Dark One, she engages with Ricardo in a passionate night of lovemaking that is cut short by Satan, who, sensing that Ricardo has not completely fallen under the spell, orders Vicky to kill him. Following Ricardo's death, his brother Carlos is haunted by nightmares of the dead sibling, who appears and takes possession of Carlos in order to get his revenge on Vicky.
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