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El Cementerio De Las Aguilas (1938)
Character: General Pedro Ma. Anaya
When the U.S. invasion and the landing of troops in 1847 begins, the former cadet Miguel de la Peña (Jorge Negrete) and his friend Agustin Melgar (Jose Macip) decide to return to the military college and fight heroically in the defense of the Mexican army.
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El plagiario (1955)
Character: N/A
Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.
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Los pobres van al cielo (1951)
Character: N/A
When their parents die, brother and sister run away rather than go to an orphanage. Childless elderly couple adopts them, the neighborhood priest takes an interest in their sad story, and it goes on from there...
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Cuando los hijos odian (1950)
Character: N/A
Woman and her daughter try to get on with their lives and run their family bakery while dealing with abusive alcoholic husband/father and other family problems.
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El rayo del sur (1943)
Character: N/A
Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.
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El criollo (1945)
Character: N/A
After the ending of the War Of Independence, a Mexican officer goes roguish to get personal revenge on an enemy combatant who killed his father and oppressed his townfolk.
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Los dos pilletes (1942)
Character: N/A
Suspicious husband deals with wife's supposed infidelity by making his toddler son disappear into the city's slums, where he grows to boyhood as a thief's apprentice.
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Simón Bolívar (1942)
Character: Sargento Pérez
Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
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La isla de la pasión (1942)
Character: Sargento
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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María la Voz (1955)
Character: Bernabé, the old man
A small-town woman with psychic sensitivities gets tangled up in the blood-feud between two families and in a romantic rivalry with her best friend.
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Reto a la vida (1954)
Character: Prisionero
Self-righteous young Social Services woman puts all her faith in the institutional answers to questions of the Public Good, and she destroys a couple of lives in the process.
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El rencor de la tierra (1949)
Character: Don Teófilo
A couple is struck by tragedy and must prove how great their love is to overcome what happened together.
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Volver a vivir (1941)
Character: N/A
A wealthy young man gets involved in criminal activities and decides to go to rehabilitate himself in the countryside.
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Se alquila marido (1961)
Character: N/A
Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.
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Super agente Botones (1997)
Character: N/A
A secret agent who dies on a mission asks Heaven to let him go back to Earth to complete his mission, and much to his disapproval, he is reincarnated in a bellboy's body.
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La fuerza de los humildes (1955)
Character: N/A
Unethical industrialist gets taken down by a combination of forces including labor activists and a kill-crazy tribal Indian.
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El Zorro de Jalisco (1941)
Character: Sonaja
Isabel, the daughter of Don Antonio; a rich land owner in Tepestates, Jalisco returns to her town after five years away, to visit her father. She is confronted by the unpleasant surprise that her dad has been assassinated by the malicious municiple government, which has the whole town in a clutch of terror. "An excellent sharp-shooter is worth more here, than a good lawyer..." This phrase inspires lawyer Leonardo Torres to convert himself into a guardian of justice, who will defend the right of the weak against tyranny. Nobody would ever guess that the "timid" lawyer is in reality none other than the dreadful "Zorro of Jalisco."
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Mala yerba (1940)
Character: Manuel
Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
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La vírgen roja (1943)
Character: N/A
Aurora’s life changes when her younger sister is brutally assaulted and killed. Seeking justice, she tracks down the attacker and kills him, then escapes the law and rises as the feared outlaw “The Red Virgin".
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La posada sangrienta (1943)
Character: N/A
Young couple are trapped in an isolated mansion while members of a criminal gang are killing each other off on the premises.
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El charro Negro (1940)
Character: Pancho
Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.
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Guadalajara pues (1946)
Character: Don Filiberto Correa
Curious film about the Mexican immigrant stunned by the dollar and the English language. The plot deals with a serious social mood, but narrated as a tale of romantic entanglements. Agustin Isunza is a funny former farm worker, whose employers, young and attractive blond Joan Page and Clifford Carr, dazzle the sibling pair starring Luis Aguilar and Amanda del Llano. Miguel Inclan, a rich potter from the area, has put his eye on them to marry their children, Katy Jurado and Raul Guerrero.
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La Fuga (1944)
Character: N/A
A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.
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Soy puro mexicano (1942)
Character: Pedro
Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.
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Los Tres Mosqueteros (1942)
Character: (uncredited)
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
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Sombra Verde (1954)
Character: Máximo
With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in a remote location called Paradise.
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Doña Bárbara (1943)
Character: Melquiades
A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.
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Los de abajo (1940)
Character: El meco
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.
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Cuando los hijos se van (1941)
Character: Patricio Gómez
Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.
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Maclovia (1948)
Character: Tata Macario
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.
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María Candelaria (Xochimilco) (1944)
Character: Don Damian
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.
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El barbero prodigioso (1942)
Character: N/A
Simple small-town guy's life is turned upside-down when he seems to perform a miraculous cure for a blind man.
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Los olvidados (1950)
Character: Carmelo
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
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Seven Cities of Gold (1955)
Character: Schrichak
In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
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Fort Apache (1948)
Character: Cochise
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
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Indian Uprising (1952)
Character: Geronimo
It's 1885 in Arizona and an Army Captain has dispersed his troops to keep the whites off of Government land thereby keeping the peace with the Apaches. But there are those in Tucson that want the miners back looking for gold and they put pressure on officials in Washington. Soon a new commander arrives, the troops are recalled, and the miners go after gold. Whites then kill a miner with an arrow so they can attack the Indians hoping the troops wipe them out when they retaliate.
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El Siete Machos (1951)
Character: Toño
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
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Nosotros los pobres (1948)
Character: Don Pilar
Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
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Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra (1943)
Character: President Benito Juárez
In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
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The Fugitive (1947)
Character: A Hostage
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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Enamorada (1946)
Character: Capt. Bocanegra
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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La Selva de Fuego (1945)
Character: Rufino
A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947
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Aventurera (1950)
Character: Rengo
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
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Salón México (1949)
Character: Lupe López
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
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Ni sangre ni arena (1941)
Character: Jefe de Policía
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
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