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Huellas del pasado (1950)
Character: Federico Montero
A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair accusations.
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Carne de presidio (1952)
Character: Lic. Antonio Beltrán
Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts his freedom to the one he shouldn't.
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Negra consentida (1949)
Character: N/A
Free-spirited young woman schemes different ways to trying to nudge her spinsterish older sister into falling in love and getting married.
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Noche de perdición (1951)
Character: Señor Martínez
Shortly before a nightclub artist leaves Mexico for an international tour, she's witness to a murder. Shortly after she leaves, she's named as a suspect in the crime, and her husband, assuming she's guilty, turns his back on her. The-e-en...
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El valor de vivir (1954)
Character: N/A
Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.
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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 hermana impura (1948)
Character: N/A
Outsider comes to visit a remote village as a representative of an oil company. Once there, he discovers that the man who owns the land he's interested in has a daughter who's identical to a bad, troubled woman from his bad, troubled past.
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El último round (1953)
Character: N/A
Shady promoter hires a new boy for his boxing stable, but the young champ won't go along with his boss'es scams and machinations.
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Un divorcio (1953)
Character: N/A
Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..
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Lodo y armiño (1951)
Character: N/A
Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior affects five other people; everybody suffers. Enormously.
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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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Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis) (1929)
Character: N/A
Juan is summoned by Goldenberg to offer him a job in the cheap business. To get away from him, Pardo evades his proposals justifying himself by saying that he must consult with his partner; who, in reality, does not exist. As the story progresses we can see how this partner, who is called Mr. Davis, takes on a life of his own inside Juan's mind.
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Doña Diabla (1950)
Character: Lic. Octavio Sotelo Vargas
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
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¡Centinela, alerta! (1937)
Character: Arturo Castellanos
The young Candelas, seduced and abandoned by Arturo, an unscrupulous womanizer, meets two soldiers, Tiburcio and Angelillo, who, in order to help the girl out of her predicament, organize a musical recital to raise money.
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Pecadora (1947)
Character: N/A
Prostitution and drug-smuggling in Mexico City and Cd. Juarez.
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La loca (1952)
Character: Doctor González de la Cueva
Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the disappearance of her daughter. Now, present day, evil relatives are trying to take control of money she's inherited...
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La mujer X (1955)
Character: Alfredo Laroque (Freddy)
A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
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Destino de mujer (1934)
Character: N/A
A young woman is seduced by an evil doctor and then sent to a brothel to be sexually exploited.
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Una mujer en la calle (1955)
Character: N/A
An implausible accident causes a street prostitute to become close friends with an aristocratic old lady.
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Negro es mi color (1951)
Character: Álvaro
Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")
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De carne somos (1955)
Character: Ramón
Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
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Música, mujeres y amor (1952)
Character: Don Eufemio Méndez, papá de Elisa
Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.
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Acapulco (1952)
Character: Don Delfín
Young lady goes shopping for a millionaire husband.
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En Carne Viva (1951)
Character: Don Hilario
A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.
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Yo quiero ser tonta (1950)
Character: Don Antonio Godínez
Dreamer father wants son to become a bullfighter, and daughter to become a singer, so they become instant millionares, although their talent is not apparently there.
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Ley fuga (1954)
Character: N/A
As he rises through the ranks of the police department, a young officer gets more deeply involved in manipulating gang activity for personal gain.
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La venenosa (1949)
Character: Víctor Masseti
A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.
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El rebozo de Soledad (1952)
Character: Médico hospital
Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
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Ensayo de un crimen (1955)
Character: Willy Corduran
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
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Un extraño en la escalera (1955)
Character: Francisco Gutiérrez (as Linares Rivas)
Based on Ladislas Fodor's "Stranger on the Stairs". A loved triangle composed by a cynical entrepreneur, a loan manager, and a seductive secretary will lead to a criminal plot in Cuba.
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El gran autor (1954)
Character: N/A
A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.
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El mártir del Calvario (1952)
Character: Caifás
The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
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El Charro del Cristo (1949)
Character: N/A
Favored son of a wealthy rural family forced to go into hiding after killing someone in a duel.
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Las tres perfectas casadas (1953)
Character: Javier
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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El Monstruo Resucitado (1953)
Character: Herman Ling
Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora who is ordered by her boss to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr Ling. Ling turns out to be a misshapen creature who, rejected by his peers, has become the stereotypical mad scientist, here specializing in plastic surgery. He falls in love with Nora but fearing she will betray him he resuscitates a young man who committed suicide, Ariel by transplanting a new brain into him, and order him to fetch Nora so that he can kill her.
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La Noche Avanza (1952)
Character: Marcial
The arrogant Arizmendi, pelota champion, lives intoxicated by his success and disdain for women who love him. Arizmendi commits blackmail to lose a game. Convinced to get away with it, Arizmendi does not meet the covenant and must face the villainous revenge Marcial Gomez.
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Me traes de un ala (1953)
Character: Gamez
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
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