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Tres angelitos negros (1960)
Character: Doña Perfecta, ama de llaves
Three Black Angels (Spanish: Tres angelitos negros) is a 1960 Mexican comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring Miguel Aceves Mejía, Yolanda Varela and Pedro Vargas.
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Una mujer decente (1950)
Character: Doña Petra (uncredited)
Rosa, a working-class young woman, falls in love with the physician Armando de la Vega. After they spend a night together, she discovers that she is pregnant. Armando, however, marries another woman, and the couple leaves for Paris, where he remains for several years. Upon his return, disillusioned with his marriage, he meets the famous cabaret star Alma Rosa, not realizing that she is Rosa, now performing under a stage name.
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La perversa (1954)
Character: Transeúnte quejosa (uncredited)
A single, hard-working, girl looks to improve her situation by becoming a "kept woman". In doing so, she turns away from church and family, thereby violating the mandates of both God and Man.
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Otra primavera (1950)
Character: Sirvienta (uncredited)
His wife dies and now he's free to marry his mistress and adopt their children officially. How will this play out?
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Misericordia (1953)
Character: Doña Florita (uncredited)
Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on behalf of sick and disabled friends.
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La mujer X (1955)
Character: Beata en Zacateca s(uncredited)
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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Inmaculada (1950)
Character: Criada burdel (uncredited)
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
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El rencor de la tierra (1949)
Character: Cresencia (uncredited)
A couple is struck by tragedy and must prove how great their love is to overcome what happened together.
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Lágrimas robadas (1954)
Character: Empleada hospicio (uncredited)
Melodrama involving a young woman returning to Mexico from abroad after a failed romance and dealing with an unwanted pregnancy and a meddling Aunt.
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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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El vestido de novia (1959)
Character: Criada de burdel
A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
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Ella y yo (1951)
Character: Beata (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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La venganza de los Villalobos (1955)
Character: Doña Martina
Cowboy-hero series, number two of two: Townsfolk pledge all their jewels and valuables as security for a large loan to undertake a public works project... and then the swag is stolen.
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Una aventura en la noche (1948)
Character: Clienta de la espiritista (uncredited)
After a party, two friends pick up two beautiful girls with whom they spend a wonderful night. The next day, the two friends return to look for them and a neighbor surprises them when she tells them that the girls died some time before. Intrigued by the events of the previous night, one of them decides to investigate the mystery of the two dead girls.
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El que murió de amor (1945)
Character: Criada de Rita (uncredited)
Magicians transfers two peoples' souls (or whatever you want to call them) into each other's bodies.
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Confidencias de un ruletero (1949)
Character: Doña Cholita (uncredited)
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
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A la sombra del puente (1948)
Character: Doña Pachita (uncredited)
In this Mexican version of Winterset (inspired by the 20s Sacco Vanzetti case) an idealistic youth searches for the culprit behind a crime that his father was wrongly accused of several years before.
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Un rincón cerca del cielo (1952)
Character: Vecina (uncredited)
An honest man emigrates to the capital in search of a better life, but ends up mired in extreme poverty along with his family; forced to overcome tragedy and despair to find, even in misery, a glimmer of hope.
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El Rey de México (1956)
Character: Puestera de bebidas
A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
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Río escondido (1948)
Character: Pueblerina (uncredited)
Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.
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Macario (1960)
Character: Vecina de Macario (uncredited)
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 río y la muerte (1954)
Character: Doña Eulalia (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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Muchachas de uniforme (1951)
Character: Hermana Catalina
Orphan Manuela's passionate crush on her teacher Lucila scandalizes their all-girl Catholic school.
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Run for the Sun (1956)
Character: Paco's Wife
Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down in the hope of getting the biggest scoop of her career. Mike falls for Katie. On a flight to Mexico City, their plane crashes near a remote hideaway of Nazi war criminals in hiding. The Nazis want to stay hidden and plan to dispose of their new guests
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Él (1953)
Character: Anciana en iglesia (uncredited)
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
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El hombre inquieto (1954)
Character: Clienta del carnicero (uncredited)
Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.
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Nazarín (1959)
Character: Anciana en casa de josefa (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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Doña Perfecta (1951)
Character: Guadalupe (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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Las Aventuras de Pito Perez (1957)
Character: Clienta enojona panaderia (uncredited)
After a long absence, a man returns to his village and recounts all his adventures with a touch of nostalgia.
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La cabeza de Pancho Villa (1957)
Character: N/A
Rival factions struggle over a box that was entrusted by Pancho Villa to several members of his higher command. Second of three films in series "El jinete sin cabeza."
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El revoltoso (1951)
Character: Neighbor (uncredited)
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
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Trotacalles (1951)
Character: Ruth's Old Friend
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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Ensayo de un crimen (1955)
Character: Maid (uncredited)
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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Por la puerta falsa (1950)
Character: Candelaria
Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man.
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Dicen que soy comunista (1951)
Character: Doña Brigida (uncredited)
A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as mysterious as typical, you will realize demagoguery and arrangements existing between union leaders to maintain the status quo unchanged and profit from mafia practices.
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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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La tijera de oro (1960)
Character: Vecina (uncredited)
The charitable Emilio is a jealous barber tries to prevent at all costs the rich toting Mario mess with his girlfriend Rosita. Although Emilio help with money from neighbors, gets entangled in a misunderstanding and ends up in jail but his friends are out of charge so much trouble.
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Subida al cielo (1952)
Character: Doña Sixta- mamá de Silvestre (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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Víctimas del pecado (1951)
Character: Carcelera (uncredited)
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
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La intrusa (1954)
Character: Anciana con bulto (uncredited)
Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decides to separate them by simulating a car accident from which Gabriela temporarily becomes paralized. Aware that they will marry, Tania makes the girl believe that Raúl is marrying her out of compassion, causing Gabriela to disappear from the residence...
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La otra (1946)
Character: Casera (uncredited)
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
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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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