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Con quién andan nuestras hijas (1956)
Character: N/A
The story of a group of young people and the problems they face in modern society slowly begins to decline, due to family disintegration and loss of values.
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La virgen morena (1942)
Character: N/A
Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous visitations of The Virgin Mary to two of the downtrodden and conquered indigenous peons.
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Teresa (1961)
Character: Don Armando
Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, desperately seeking to leave the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives.
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Después de la tormenta (1955)
Character: N/A
This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
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La ilegítima (1956)
Character: Maestro
Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.
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La estrella vacía (1960)
Character: Padre de Olga
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
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El seductor (1955)
Character: Guillermo
A young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her two daughters fall into his orbit.
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Pervertida (1946)
Character: N/A
A country girl finds herself working as a prostitute, but her true love, a musician, comes looking for her. She must fight a cabaret dancer for his love.
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San Francisco de Asís (1944)
Character: San Francisco de Asís
Historical drama on the life of the medieval Italian saint, Francis of Assisi.
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Espiritismo (1962)
Character: Luis Fernández
Satan gives a woman three wishes in this version of the classic tale, "The Monkey's Paw."
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La huella macabra (1963)
Character: Professor Hoffman
(Sequel to El Rostro Infernal.) Count Brankovan, a vampire, returns from the dead to avenge himself himself on some humans who previously had been bugging him.
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Los cuervos están de luto (1965)
Character: Don Lacho
The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.
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Y Dios la llamó Tierra (1961)
Character: Tata Pedro Domínguez
During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
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El vestido de novia (1959)
Character: Dr. Cosme
A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
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La edad de la inocencia (1962)
Character: Don Pascual Farinelli
A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by.
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Rostro infernal (1963)
Character: Professor Hoffman
Investigating a series of kidnappings leads a police inspector to confront a scientist trying to gain immortality.
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Historia de un amor (1956)
Character: Don Gustavo
Elena (Libertad Lamarque), already a star, falls madly in love with Roberto. They make it to the altar. Elena and Roberto adopt a baby. The years go by and everything is happiness in the couple’s life—until one day the girl’s grandfather appears.
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Las señoritas Vivanco (1959)
Character: Don Esteban
Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.
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El pistolero desconocido (1967)
Character: Don Pablo Ortiz
The Sheriff of a small town, in his search of a robber bank, gets to another city, working undercover. There, he tooks the place of man recently killed, and falls in love with his widow.
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Macario (1960)
Character: Dios
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
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La maestra inolvidable (1969)
Character: Sr. Andrade
Idealistic young teacher takes a post in a small, backwoods town and dedicates her life to schooling the village's children.
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La sombra del Caudillo (1960)
Character: Doctor
In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
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Quinceañera (1960)
Character: Don Pedro, María Antonia's mother
María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.
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El tejedor de milagros (1962)
Character: Don Cleofas
Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".
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El vampiro (1957)
Character: Emilio
A pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died. Soon she begins to hear disturbing stories about the town being infested by vampires, and she eventually begins to suspect that her remaining aunt and the mysterious next-door neighbor may be involved.
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La Navidad en sus manos (2023)
Character: Dueño autocine
What would happen if, one year, Santa Claus was forced to cancel his Christmas Eve appointment with the world’s children?A few days before Christmas, the famously cheerful and magical giver of gifts has an accident on his sleigh, right in the middle of Madrid. He ends up in hospital, which is where he’ll have to stay until after Christmas. Fortunately, the guy he’s sharing a room with at the hospital, Salva, is willing to step in and take on his all-important Christmas work. But it won’t be easy… the Christmas countdown clock is ticking and Salva has to find the reindeer, learn to fly the sleigh and, the most difficult part of all… learn to be a good person.
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La Mujer Que Yo Perdí (1949)
Character: Jose Marcos
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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Sobre las olas (1950)
Character: Pepe Reyna
The life of the musician Juventino Rosas, who despite his talent lived an existence of misfortune and poverty.
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Santo en el museo de cera (1963)
Character: Professor Galvan
El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Naturally, El Santo is able to overcome them all - with wrestling!
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El amor de María Isabel (1968)
Character: Maestro
Follow up to Maria Isabel. Newly wed to a rich man, Maria Isabel must still struggle with being branded as a lowly maid and endure the scorn of her adoptive daughter and the infidelity of her husband.
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El Festín de la Loba (1972)
Character: Padre Bernardo
A woman with a troubled past introduces lust, depravity and sex to a religious commune.
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