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Los Cristeros (1947)
Character: N/A
When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family.
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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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Esos de Pénjamo (1953)
Character: N/A
When he hears how his grandfather left illegitimate children scattered all over the county, a young landowner is seized with an obsessive desire to make babies.
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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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Nuestras vidas (1950)
Character: N/A
Frivolous woman falls in reallytruly love for the first time, but her past catches up with her and her fiancé kicks her to the curb. Then joining a convent and amnesia and stuff.
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Todos son mis hijos!... (1951)
Character: N/A
Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off Pops' debt. Meanwhile, daughter and bad son neglect their aging parents, whose fortunes decline precipitously.
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Bodas trágicas (1946)
Character: Agustina
Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan Manuel still holds a grudge against Diego, having once been his employer when Diego was just a laborer. Their secret marriage stirs jealousy and resentment, particularly in Octavio, Diego’s servant, and his wife Laura, who harbors unspoken feelings for him. As Diego departs for a military mission in Guadalajara, Juan Manuel, unaware of the marriage, attempts to arrange a match between Amparo and the Spaniard José Luis.
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Al caer la tarde (1949)
Character: Tomasa
A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.
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El rápido de las 9.15 (1941)
Character: Esposa de Ulises
It tells the stories of the passengers aboard a nonstop train. Each character is portrayed one by one, and the only thing they have in common is the journey they will take that night.
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La posesión (1950)
Character: Sirvienta de Rosaura
Two old friends get hinky with each other over the deed to a tract of land, and their children's engagement gets broken over it.
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¡Acá las Tortas! (1951)
Character: Jacinta
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
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La mujer ajena (1955)
Character: N/A
This is the story of a gambler whose mistress is the wife of a renowned philanthropist. The gambler himself is cheating on his mistress with another woman. The secret love triangle gradually becomes public due to the jealousy, ambition, and weaknesses of its protagonists, including the guilt felt by the lovers.
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Las engañadas (1955)
Character: Nachita
Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.
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Camelia (1954)
Character: Cresencia (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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Flor de durazno (1945)
Character: Doña Apolonia
City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.
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Vino el remolino y nos alevantó (1950)
Character: Antonia Ramírez
Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
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Padre contra hijo (1955)
Character: Fermina, sirvienta
Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango.
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Las mañanitas (1948)
Character: N/A
Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...
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Historia de un amor (1956)
Character: Amelia, sirvienta
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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El Asesino X (1955)
Character: Chona
A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
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Guadalajara pues (1946)
Character: Petra (as Guadalupe Inclan)
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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Así se quiere en Jalisco (1942)
Character: N/A
Because of a debt, Lupe is forced to work as a housekeeper for Luis, a ranch owner who is madly in love with her. However, Luis’s feelings are not reciprocated because Lupe is in love with Juan Ramón.
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La marca del zorrillo (1950)
Character: The Witch
In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.
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El rey del barrio (1950)
Character: Woman at Antonio's House
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
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Camino del infierno (1951)
Character: Doña Chole (sin créditos)
When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexpected way.
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Las Aventuras de Pito Perez (1957)
Character: Pelagia (enfermera)
After a long absence, a man returns to his village and recounts all his adventures with a touch of nostalgia.
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María Candelaria (Xochimilco) (1944)
Character: Gossip
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 revoltoso (1951)
Character: Mrs. Trini
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
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Lluvia roja (1950)
Character: Perpetua
Colonel Montero kills a man, which triggers a series of events, deaths and reprisals in 1923 Mexico. The people want revenge, and Montero will do everything possible to protect his beloved Elisa, who loves him despite his crimes.
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Las abandonadas (1945)
Character: Gualupita
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.
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El niño y la niebla (1953)
Character: Jacinta, sirvienta
Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband.
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