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La Adelita (1937)
Character: N/A
Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.
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Ave sin rumbo (1937)
Character: N/A
A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas?
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Diablillos de arrabal (1940)
Character: Lorenzo
In a poor neighborhood in Mexico City, two gangs of kids fight for control of the center where they work as "boleros", musicians or announcers. "Completo" joins the gang led by "Rorro", a rival of the group headed by "Curricán".
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Los miserables (1943)
Character: Cochepaille
An ex-convict struggling to start anew faces relentless pursuit by a remorseless cop while protecting an orphan amid the 1832 Paris student uprisings.
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Tormenta en la cumbre (1943)
Character: Empleado de Jorge
Young couple weather a marital crisis while older people who have already given up on life interfere from the sidelines.
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Mala yerba (1940)
Character: Péon Emiliano
Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
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El ángel negro (1942)
Character: Jerónimo
Despite the strange death of Jorge's previous wives, Elisa decides to marry him.
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Soy puro mexicano (1942)
Character: N/A
Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.
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El rebelde (Romance de Antaño) (1943)
Character: Jacinto (uncredited)
After a vengeance taken too far costs his father his Hacienda and his life, young Juan Manuel Mendoza becomes a bandit. He will get a chance for revenge and for love after he infiltrates his enemy house as a piano teacher.
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El Signo de la Muerte (1939)
Character: Matlatzín
Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo.
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Janitzio (1935)
Character: Don Pablo
First all Mexican sound film. Story is based on the ancient customs and legends of the fisherfolk as they come into conflict with the exploitation of agents sent by "big business" from the cities.
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Marihuana (El monstruo verde) (1936)
Character: Camarero (uncredited)
An agent of the anti-drug brigade is captured and ends up addicted to marijuana, which causes him to enter the mafia.
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Los de abajo (1940)
Character: Primer indio
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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El compadre Mendoza (1934)
Character: N/A
In the midst of the Mexican Revolution, the landowner Mendoza manages to get along with both the government and the revolutionary group. For the former, he is a supporter of Huerta. For the latter, he is a Zapata supporter. Depending on the political preference of whoever visits him at his hacienda, he has portraits of Huerta or Zapata put up, and organizes a party in honor of his visitors. However, time goes by and the situation becomes untenable. For whom will he take sides?
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Cuando los hijos se van (1941)
Character: Empleado de Patricia (uncredited)
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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¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (1936)
Character: El Flaco
The 1910 Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as "Los Leones de San Pablo", decide to join Pancho Villa's army and help end the suffering in their community by assisting in the struggle. Together, they will endure the tragedies and hardships of a civil war.
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El barbero prodigioso (1942)
Character: Secretario
Benedito the barber, mocked by everyone in the village, lathers the head of a blind customer just as the man regains his sight. Benedito becomes a celebrity, and everyone seeks his services.
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El gendarme desconocido (1941)
Character: Policía (uncredited)
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
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La perla (1947)
Character: N/A
Fisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor refuses to treat their son Coyotito, who has been bitten by a scorpion. When Quino unexpectedly finds a magnificent pearl in the sea, Juana senses that the discovery will only bring them misfortune and tries to convince her husband to return it to the sea.
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Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra (1943)
Character: Lider conservador
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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Ahí está el detalle (1940)
Character: Policía
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
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Las tandas del principal (1949)
Character: Don Nicolás Zúñiga Miranda
Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle.
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