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Chilam Balam (1955)
Character: N/A
Priest defies the gods by refusing to sacrifice his daughter. Also: conquistadores.
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Cayó de la gloria el diablo (1972)
Character: Don Eme (Emeterio Sánchez)
Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an inadvertantly-comical fire-eater act. The novelty of him wears off very quickly, and then...
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Codicia mortal (1991)
Character: N/A
Drug dealer tries to force local subsistance farmers to sell their land to him. The village's "good" rich guy eventually gets around to helping them mount a resistance.
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La estrella vacía (1960)
Character: Luis Arvide
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
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¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal? (1977)
Character: N/A
Working-class dude grows up surrounded with petty delinquency and ghetto temptations; he marries a rich girl and faces the disapproval of her parents. Then the young couple plans a crime...
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Renuncia por motivos de salud (1976)
Character: Gustavo Sánchez Campero
A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption and his own integrity.
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Corazón de niño (1963)
Character: Prof. Ezequiel Almeyda
The story tells us about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die, entrusts his sixth-grade class to a colleague who had also been his student. Asking him to help them so that they could survive.
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Muelle rojo (1987)
Character: N/A
Three episodes from the "history" of organized labor in the harbors of Tampico, 1912 to modern-times.
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La mujer del carnicero (1969)
Character: Melitón Torres
During the Mexican Revolution, a butcher is forced to hide stolen train gold, but his wife pushes him into murder to keep it. Sparking guilt, paranoia, and a trap that tightens around them.
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Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin (2015)
Character: Self
"Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one that I prefer." "As inexplicable as the accidents that set it off, our imagination is a crucial privilege."
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El hambre nuestra de cada día (1960)
Character: Pablo
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
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Y Dios la llamó Tierra (1961)
Character: Efrén 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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Ellas también son rebeldes (1961)
Character: Dr. Gabriel Renteria
The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.
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Los Lobos No Están Hechos Para El Circo (2021)
Character: Don Cristóbal
After an all-nighter, Ricardo gets to his apartment only to find his family ready to have an intervention for him. His struggle with addiction is the least of his problems in this peculiar event where he faces his drug dealer, a prostitute and the worst company of all: his family.
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Sonatas (1959)
Character: Jefe de guerrilleros
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
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Reclusorio (1997)
Character: Viejo (segment "Quiero quedarme en la carcel")
The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal processes of a prison. The cases presented are: "I want to stay in jail", "Blood between women", "The raped prostitute", "The kidnapped policeman", and "Euthanasia or murder?"
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Un hombre en la trampa (1965)
Character: N/A
Odyssey of a man involved in a criminal activity, which leads him to his moral and material failure.
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Un largo viaje hacia la muerte (1968)
Character: Dr. David
Juan is subjected to shock treatment in the hands of Dr. David, and apparently is able to resume a "normal" life. He and his wife María make dolls in a workshop attached to their apartment in New York. However, John does not heal and he starts looking for the nurses to murder them.
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Ama a tu prójimo (1958)
Character: (voice)
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
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Astucia (1986)
Character: Don Polo
A landowner known as Bulldog seeks to take over a ranch, but is opposed by the Brotherhood of the Blade, a group of tobacco smugglers made up of skilled horsemen who operated during the turbulent times of General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
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Rosa blanca (1961)
Character: Jacinto Yáñes
An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.
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Antonieta (1982)
Character: Vargas
Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who killed herself in 1931 in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.
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La Generala (1971)
Character: Rosauro Márquez
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.
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Macario (1960)
Character: Macario
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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El gallo de oro (1964)
Character: Dionisio Pinzón
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.
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El Profeta Mimí (1973)
Character: Ángel Peñafiel, Mimi
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer.
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Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor (1963)
Character: Francisco Gabilondo Soler 'Cri-Cri'
Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
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La puerta y la mujer del carnicero (1969)
Character: Melitón Torres (segment "La mujer del carnicero")
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
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Días de otoño (1963)
Character: Albino
Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently...
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La Noria (2013)
Character: Old Man
In a small town, time stops for a father who has lost his son.
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La Cucaracha (1959)
Character: Trinidad
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
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La sombra del Caudillo (1960)
Character: General Hilario Jiménez
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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Nazarín (1959)
Character: Thief in church
A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
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Cien años con Juan Rulfo (2017)
Character: Self
This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.
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La casta divina (1977)
Character: Don Wilfrido
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.
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Viva México y sus corridos (1982)
Character: N/A
Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.
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Curandero (2025)
Character: El Curandero
Manuel is desperate to save his wife from death. A mysterious man appears to him one day at church, convincing him to go to a Healer who can help her.
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Morenita: el escándalo (2009)
Character: Santiago
Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing pandemonium throughout Mexico.
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La Bandida (1963)
Character: Anselmo
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.
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Pedro Páramo (1967)
Character: Fulgor Sedano
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
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Las Visitaciones del Diablo (1968)
Character: Felix Estrella
A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.
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Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo (2018)
Character: Joselito
Teo, a young and struggling actor, disguises himself as a 79 year old man to take advantage from the benefits of a retirement home, while also trying to sort out his personal and love life.
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El otro (1986)
Character: Sr. Tabares
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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Santo Luzbel (1997)
Character: Father Leopoldo Santos Higareda
A conflict arises between the people of the town and the local priest when they have to decide how to represent certain biblical episode.
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Rapiña (1975)
Character: Porfirio
Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of all the occupants killed in the accident.
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Identidad Tomada (2020)
Character: Don Jesus
Felino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival, so they decide to submit it as major filmmaker Tomas Guevara latest film.
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El hombre de papel (1963)
Character: Adán
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.
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Vainilla, bronce y morir (1957)
Character: Ricardo Castillo
A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire.
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The Children of Sanchez (1978)
Character: Ignacio
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
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Los albañiles (1976)
Character: Don Jesus
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
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Tirano Banderas (1993)
Character: Coronel de la Gándara
In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.
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En busca de un muro (1974)
Character: José Clemente Orozco
The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.
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Juana Gallo (1961)
Character: Pioquinto
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
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Under the Volcano (1984)
Character: Dr. Vigil
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
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Los hermanos Del Hierro (1961)
Character: Gunslinger
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
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Tarahumara (Cada vez más lejos) (1965)
Character: Raúl
An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.
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Toña Machetes (1985)
Character: N/A
A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man.
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