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Cain y Abel (1954)
Character: N/A
Bohemian husband and strait-laced wife get divorced; each takes custody of one son. Twenty years later...
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El casto Susano (1954)
Character: N/A
Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city.
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Los margaritos (1956)
Character: Margarito Hernández II
Two brothers named Margarito butt heads courting the same woman.
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Callejera (1949)
Character: N/A
Struggling songwriter "adopts" a teenaged girl to protect her from her abusive father.
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Una piedra en el zapato (1956)
Character: Jorge
Police procedural: some detail pertaining to a murder case is nagging at the back of a detective's mind "like having a stone in his shoe." Once he teases it to the surface, he solves the case.
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Pasionaria (1952)
Character: N/A
Musicians/dancers look for their big show-biz break while dealing with a melodrama/crime activity that involves an abusive husband, a lecherous employer and a heroin lab.
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Marina (1945)
Character: Alberto
Adaptation of a Spanish operetta about a love triangle between two fisherman and a human female.
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Besito a papá (1961)
Character: N/A
A young man hires somebody to impersonate his father when it comes times to meet his girlfriend's parents.
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Encrucijada (1956)
Character: N/A
Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.
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Magdalena (1954)
Character: N/A
Family melodrama; one sister runs away with the other one's fiance. Twenty-odd years later, her daughter tries to make peace with the rest of the family. Plus accidental deaths and unwed motherhood and miraculous cures for blindness and near death experiences.
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La máscara de la muerte (1960)
Character: N/A
When a ruthless villain dons a deadly mask, The Scarlet Fox must outwit him and restore justice in this fast-paced western suspense story.
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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 fui una callejera (1952)
Character: N/A
Teenaged slum-girl falls into show-biz by accident and rises to the tuxedos-and-furs class. Gangster drama and heartbreak, so she goes back to her own social class at the end, even though other options were available to her.
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Un milagro de amor (1949)
Character: N/A
Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back home, his fiancée the blind woman...
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Venus de fuego (1949)
Character: N/A
Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy in her orbit convinces the nice boy to do crimes so he'll have enough money to move in her circle.
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El crepúsculo de un dios (1969)
Character: Gerente hotel
Sonia meets Roberto, a miserable actor with a few days left of life. Both fall in love, but soon after a policeman comes looking after Sonia, but is distracted by a countess during New Years Eve. Sonia and Roberto take this chance to escape.
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Amor de la calle (1950)
Character: Fernando "el Calavera"
El Pichi, El Trompas and El Orejas are street children who pick up a bill that Fernando has dropped, who prevents them from being arrested and offers them a job at a cake stand. Fernando meets Queta, El Pichi's sister, and they both feel attracted. This will lead Fernando to know the hardness of life for people in the suburbs.
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Ambiciosa (1953)
Character: Manuel Campos
Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.
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Pachín (1961)
Character: N/A
The adventures of a young orphan, who is determined to explore the world no matter what.
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Ferias de México (1959)
Character: N/A
Itinerant card-shark with pre-teen daughter adopts an orphan boy; the children grow up and fall in love. Once they decide to get married, complications arise.
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Viajera (1952)
Character: Alfonso
Music teacher gets all tangled up with a nightclub singer, after seeing his students ogling her advertisements.
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Escuadrón 201 (1945)
Character: N/A
Fictional story about the Escuadron 201 de Caza (201st Mexican Fighter Squadron), which participated in military campaigns in the Phillipines during WWII. It focuses primarily on two brothers, one who has a promising future as a doctor, who volunteer for this unit after Mexico declares war on Germany after the sinking of Mexican merchants by U-boats. The story also follows another young man, the son of a Spanish immigrant baker. He volunteers to pay what he feels is an unpaid debt to their new adopted country.
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La isla de la pasión (1942)
Character: Cantante
1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called the Island of the Passion, in the Pacific. After the outbreak of the revolution, the island becomes administered by the government of France, events that in principle go unnoticed by the islanders.
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Arrabalera (1951)
Character: Roberto
Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
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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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El Zorro Escarlata (1959)
Character: Capt. Antonio Orellana
Luis Aguilar dons the mask of The Scarlet Fox, a daring masked hero who fights injustice across the rugged Mexican frontier in this thrilling introduction to the Scarlet Fox series.
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Las cinco noches de Adán (1942)
Character: Voz
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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Nadie muere dos veces (1953)
Character: Fernando
Big-league criminal escapes from jail, tracks down his ex-wife at a seaside resort. She kills him in self-defense, and then a guy who looks exactly like him comes along. Massive complications!
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La Muerte Enamorada (1951)
Character: Fernando Rivas
A man's life changes forever when death -- in the form of a female grim reaper -- moves in with him and his family, all so that he can buy a bit more time on earth. The only catch is, his family has no idea that their houseguest, a woman their father says is a foreign relative, is there to take their daddy away. Miroslava Stern, Fernando Fernandez and Jorge Reyes star in this inventive Spanish-language comedy.
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Cita con la muerte (1949)
Character: Dr. Ernesto Peralta
A physician launches his own investigation into a gang of opium traffickers, while a mother who lost her son to the drug vows revenge against those who led him into that world.
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Dancing, salón de baile (1952)
Character: Eduardo Ancira
Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.
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Río escondido (1948)
Character: Felipe Navarro
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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Mi campeón (1952)
Character: Luis
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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The Fugitive (1947)
Character: A Singer
Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.
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Un día de vida (1950)
Character: General Felipe Gómez
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.
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Enamorada (1946)
Character: Priest Rafael Sierra
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
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