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La inocente (1972)
Character: Mujer en parque
The innocence of a woman due to a mental deficit will become the worst nightmare for her loved ones, after the harsh reality of the outside world made her their victim.
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Cuando los hijos se van (1969)
Character: Invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
Federico announces that his dream is to become a great singer; his father does not take it well and gradually distances himself from him. Federico is forced to leave his beautiful home after being accused of theft.
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Lo que no se puede perdonar!.. (1953)
Character: Reverenda madre
Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well.
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Locura pasional (1956)
Character: Pasajera tren (uncredited)
Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.
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Reto a la vida (1954)
Character: Abuela con niño (sin créditos)
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 infierno de los pobres (1951)
Character: N/A
A young woman becomes pregnant but when his boyfriend leaves her she gets a job as a prostitute in order to provide for her child.
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Camelia (1954)
Character: Invitada a cena (uncredited)
A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
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Fruto prohibido (1953)
Character: Invitada fiesta (sin créditos)
A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
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Amor salvaje (1950)
Character: Señora López (uncredited)
Alma leaves Panama to go live with her aunt Antonia and with Manuel, her husband. There she meets Julio, who tries to woo her.
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Para siempre amor mío (1955)
Character: Cocinera
A man, annoyed by his wife's interference in the family business, travels to Spain, where he becomes involved with another woman.
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Campeón del barrio (1964)
Character: Doña Encarna
A young man eagerly prepares for triumph as a boxer in a neighborhood gym with the firm intention of escaping poverty to marry his girlfriend, who sings in a nightclub.
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Noche de perdición (1951)
Character: Carcelera (uncredited)
A dancer is accused of killing a businessman. When her husband finds out, he decides to take her kid away from her.
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Historia de un amor (1956)
Character: Nana de Roberta (uncredited)
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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Ella y Yo (1951)
Character: Cocinera (uncredited)
Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.
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Confidencias de un ruletero (1949)
Character: Amante casada de Rigoberto (uncredited)
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
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Ama a tu prójimo (1958)
Character: Acompañante de novia de Rodolfo (uncredited)
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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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
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El patrullero 777 (1978)
Character: Vecina de hombre suicida (uncredited)
Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
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El Mago (1949)
Character: Invitada a cena (uncredited)
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
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El Peñón de las Ánimas (1943)
Character: Modista (uncredited)
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.
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El río y la muerte (1954)
Character: Pueblerina (uncredited)
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
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El castillo de la pureza (1973)
Character: María Luisa
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.
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El padrecito (1964)
Character: Mujer de Pueblo
Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
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El Profeta Mimí (1973)
Character: Mujer en iglesia (uncredited)
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer.
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Mi campeón (1952)
Character: Invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
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El tejedor de milagros (1962)
Character: Mujer en iglesia (uncredited)
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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Nazarín (1959)
Character: Mujer de la piña (uncredited)
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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Yo no creo en los hombres (1955)
Character: Celadora (uncredited)
In Havana, humble office girl Maria Caridad becomes the victim of rich playboy Arturo who seduces her and takes her to bed under false pretenses.
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Tiempo de morir (1966)
Character: N/A
A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.
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La isla de los dinosaurios (1967)
Character: Misha
A group of scientists in search of lost Atlantis are plane wrecked on an uncharted island full of stock footage monsters fresh from One Million BC. Occasionally we get an original papier mache monster peaking out from behind an alcove, but for the most part this is typical Mexican filmmaking for the period. With Armond Silvestre and Alma Delia Fuentes.
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Doña Perfecta (1951)
Character: Beata (uncredited)
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
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Eva y Darío (1973)
Character: Clienta tienda
Two young people are in love, but at the same time very confused about sex, love and the world.
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La hija del engaño (1951)
Character: Vecina (uncredited)
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
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La sospechosa (1955)
Character: Madre de paciente
After a trip to Europe, Regina de Alba comes home and finds out her mother is nowhere to be found. When her step-father's criminal past becomes known, her suspicions increase.
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La tía Alejandra (1980)
Character: Neighbor
The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk.
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El hombre y el monstruo (1959)
Character: N/A
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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Trotacalles (1951)
Character: Ambassador's Wife (uncredited)
In Mexico City, two sisters live radically different lives: Maria, who—along with her supportive group of fellow sex workers—must deal with unscrupulous, abusive clients and her exploitative pimp, Rudy, and Elena, a society woman trapped in a marriage of convenience, who falls prey to Rudy’s fortune-seeking seduction.
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Los tres García (1947)
Character: Invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
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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Las infieles (1953)
Character: Monja (sin créditos)
Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.
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El Siete Machos (1951)
Character: Invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
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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La pasión según Berenice (1976)
Character: Rodrigo's mother
When a man appears in her life, a young woman of traditional manners who lives with her godmother suffers a deep and unusual transformation.
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Ustedes los ricos (1948)
Character: Mujer en club (uncredited)
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
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El infierno de todos tan temido (1981)
Character: Old Nurse
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.
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El águila descalza (1971)
Character: Dona Tencha
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
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El Bruto (1953)
Character: Vecina (uncredited)
A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
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Las tres perfectas casadas (1953)
Character: Mujer en aeropuerto (uncredited)
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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Enamorada (1946)
Character: Invitada a boda (uncredited)
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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Subida al cielo (1952)
Character: Doña Clara (uncredited)
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
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El Topo (1970)
Character: Señora 4
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.
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La otra (1946)
Character: Mujer en funeral (uncredited)
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
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El ministro y yo (1976)
Character: Cliente (uncredited)
Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
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