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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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Café de chinos (1949)
Character: N/A
Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.
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El renegado blanco (1960)
Character: N/A
Cowboy comedy turns serious and adventure-y in the middle. Sequel to Los hermanos diablo.
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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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Las cinco advertencias de Satanás (1945)
Character: N/A
Satan plays a trick on two roues, telling them five things that are predestined to happen to them, but leaving out some crucial details. Then he sits back and laughs as they struggle against their preordained situations.
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Vuelva el sábado (1951)
Character: N/A
Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
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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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Donde nacen los pobres (1950)
Character: N/A
Working-class boy, pampered rich girl. She thinks their love is strong enough to overcome all the class issues; he knows better, but he decides to give it a whirl anyway. It ends badly for everyone.
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La vírgen 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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Hay un niño en su futuro (1952)
Character: N/A
Wacky rich woman subjects her husband, servants and friends to a series of elaborate masquerades, remodeling her house and wardrobe every couple of days to represent different historical eras or cultural milieux. Today she's Marie Antoinette, tomorrow she may be Pancho Villa's common-law wife or a nun.
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Tropicana (1957)
Character: N/A
Behind-the-scenes at a famous nightclub's floor-show. Those wacky choreographers and hotel managers!
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Venganza Apache (1960)
Character: N/A
Three good guys vs a bad dude who sells weapons to the Apaches and provokes a range war between US Cavalry and a splinter group of tribesmen, breaking the standing treaty between their tribe and the invaders. Sequel to Los Hermanos Diablo.
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Vive como sea (1952)
Character: N/A
A rich uncle thinks he's married with children, so a young gadabout recruits all his friends to pass themselves off as his wife, inlaws and children.
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La morena de mi copla (1946)
Character: N/A
In Cordoba, Spain, a girl singer and her mother are falsely accused of stealing a donkey. They are saved by a famous painter who becomes infatuated with the girl and asks her to be his model for a painting. Things get complicated when a Mexican bullfighter arrives in town and falls for the same girl.
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Paula (1969)
Character: N/A
The story of a young woman falling for an older man.
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El caso de la mujer asesinadita (1955)
Character: Lorenzo
Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.
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La fuerza del deseo (1955)
Character: Ricardo
Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
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Tres hermanos (1943)
Character: N/A
The three sons of a Mexican family emigrated to USA end up fighting in WWII.
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Los hermanos Diablo (1959)
Character: N/A
The three Diablo brothers are effete dandies who love chamber music and afternoon tea... but they also love brawling and whoring and all that wild west stuff. They inherit a ranch, and all hell breaks loose when they go to take ownership of it.
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Cadetes de la naval (1945)
Character: N/A
During World War II, two Mexican naval cadets become best friends and share some good times when off duty. However when Mexico joins the war effort, they must leave their carefree existence and serve in the gruesome conflict.
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El conde de Montecristo (1942)
Character: Alberto 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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El pecado de Laura (1949)
Character: José
José, a driver, and Laura, a dancer, were lovers. José couldn't dance with Laura due to his condition on his legs. Therefore, a man notices Laura's skill to dance and wants to do business with her, taking her on a dancing tour, which made José and Laura miss each other.
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Por qué peca la mujer (1952)
Character: Don Héctor
Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
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Dos pesos dejada (1949)
Character: N/A
Comedy/melodrama: player runs out on his pregnant girlfriend, and her mother's boyfriend steps in to set matters straight.
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Me ha besado un hombre (1944)
Character: Ing. Álvaro Álvarez
Spanish refugee could only get across the border using fake documents that belonged to her brother and now she's stuck with the male identity...
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El indomable (1966)
Character: N/A
Wandering cowboy stops to help a widow out against the man who killed her husband.
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Yo quiero ser hombre (1950)
Character: N/A
In order to come into a large inheritance, young Divina must marry her cousin Pablo. Her aunt, Milagros, hatches a plan to disguise themselves as a maid and her nephew in order to get to know him better.
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Yo quiero ser mala (1950)
Character: Roberto Pando
In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.
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El príncipe del desierto (1947)
Character: Ahmed
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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Cucurrucucú Paloma (1965)
Character: N/A
Biography of a fictional ranchera singer whose career trajectory seems to parallel that of the actress performing the role.
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Menores de edad (1951)
Character: Absalón Rojas
Late-teens girl is trapped into masquerading as a 12 year old. Wacky complications.
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Serenata en México (1956)
Character: N/A
Mariachi with dual vocalists is broken up by a promoter who wants one of them as a solo act.
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El marido de mi novia (1951)
Character: Paco
Raquel's life is turned upside down when a terrible accident results in the death of her child and the confinement of her husband to a wheelchair. Without any way to support her and her disabled husband, Raquel turns to a life of crime and partners with a petty thief named Paco who falls in love with her.
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Nadie muere dos veces (1953)
Character: Raúl García / Ricardo
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 miel se fue de la luna (1952)
Character: Pablo
Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats África, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in Cuba. With her, he poses as a friend industrial, Ricardo and his intention is not to see her again. While Africa is out he marries Mini, which proves to be terribly jealous. Complications ensue when Africa returns to Mexico and start searching for the fake Richard. By chance a friend of Mini will be in a beauty salon and this ensures she can take to "Ricardo" because is "a friend of her husband". A typical sitcom with a blistering pace.
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Ella, Lucifer y yo (1953)
Character: Jorge
A man makes a pact with Lucifer in order to gain the love of a beautiful singer. To achieve his goal, the devil endows him with the ability to become invisible at will.
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El Coyote (1955)
Character: El Coyote
California, 1848. An invading army has defeated the few opposing forces and the territory has become part of the United States. Don César de Echagüe, an old gentleman, begs his son César to return from Europe, confident that he will know how to confront the oppressor.
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El vampiro (1957)
Character: Dr. Enríquez
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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El hombre y el monstruo (1959)
Character: Ricardo Souto
A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.
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Los tres García (1947)
Character: José Luis García
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
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Vuelven los García (1947)
Character: José Luis García
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
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El barón del terror (1962)
Character: Baron Vitelius d'Estera
In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet that was passing overhead on the night of the Baron's execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor's descendants
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El otro (1986)
Character: Sr. Heredia
A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.
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La cabeza viviente (1963)
Character: Inspector Toledo
A group of archaeologists break into the tomb of an ancient Aztec general, arousing the warrior's head and sending his undead servant out to take revenge on the careless scientists.
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La justicia del Coyote (1956)
Character: El Coyote
California, 1840s. Wealthy landowner César de Echagüe, secretly acting as El Coyote, the legendary masked hero, continues his fight against the injustices and abuses suffered by the Hispanic population at the hands of the US Army.
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El ataúd del Vampiro (1958)
Character: Dr. Enrique Saldivar
In Sierra Negra, graverobbers Barraza and Mendoza steal the coffin of Count Karol de Lavud, before heading to a hospital. Barraza sees a medallion upon the coffin's opening and demands more money from Mendoza. Meanwhile, Marta González, recovering from traumatic events, works as a nurse with Dr. Saldívar. When Barraza removes the wooden stake in order to steal Lavud's medallion, the vampire returns to life and begins a crime spree, hunting down Marta to marry her.
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Misterios de ultratumba (1959)
Character: N/A
Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.
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