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Nuestros maridos (1946)
Character: Sirvienta de Anita (uncredited)
Three sisters discover that the men in their lives are philandering trash and band together to build new lives for themselves instead of continuing to enable their unworthy partners.
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Doña Diabla (1950)
Character: Madre superiora
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
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La gallina clueca (1941)
Character: Doña Petra, clienta de Ángel (uncredited)
The story follows Teresa, a widowed and protective mother who travels with her children to Mexico City, where she meets a merchant named Ángel, who helps her build a new life.
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La vida tiene tres días (1955)
Character: Invitada a boda (uncredited)
María dreams of going to the capital to study piano and begins exchanging letters with Alberto, a composer. He takes advantage of the situation by sending his family away so he can deceive María and make her fall in love with him.
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La mujer X (1955)
Character: Vecina en Zacatecas (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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Ángel o demonio (1947)
Character: Marta
Wealthy young gentleman falls in love with a cabaret girl of no breeding; he overcomes his prejudices and accepts her in spite of her past... will she live up to his expectations of her?
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No niego mi pasado (1952)
Character: Mamá de Octavio
This is a film by Alberto Gout that deals with the story of a marriage in crisis. It all starts when Leonardo surprises his wife Susana with her lover and threatens him with death for stealing her.
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Inmaculada (1950)
Character: Vecina de Merceditas (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: Sra. del Valle (uncredited)
A couple is struck by tragedy and must prove how great their love is to overcome what happened together.
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La malcasada (1950)
Character: N/A
A woman leaves her life as a cabaret performer behind thanks to a man who, after finding her unconscious, takes her to his home.
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El que tenga un amor (1942)
Character: N/A
Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that awaits him in his hometown.
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El hambre nuestra de cada día (1960)
Character: Doña María (uncredited)
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
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Piña madura (1950)
Character: Mamá de Leonardo (uncredited)
A dancer surrenders herself to a wealthy, depraved man to save the life of her true love.
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Acuérdate de vivir (1953)
Character: Invitada fiesta
In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.
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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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Para siempre amor mío (1955)
Character: Elodia
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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Vino el remolino y nos alevantó (1950)
Character: Pueblerina entre multitud (uncredited)
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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Mujer de medianoche (1952)
Character: Chepina (uncredited)
Young woman elopes with her fiancé; during their honeymoon, things happen that cause them to be separated, and she finds herself alone in a big city with no resources to fall back on.
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Yo quiero ser mala (1950)
Character: Invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.
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Sonatas (1959)
Character: Hermana tornera (uncredited)
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
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Al diablo las mujeres (1955)
Character: Pueblerina (uncredited)
Rosa, a mayor, faces pressure from her police chief father to imprison her cousins. After a kidnapping and tampering with vaccines, Rosa realizes politics isn't for women.
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Misterios de la magia negra (1958)
Character: Mercedes, sirvienta
Six hundred year old witch butts heads with a scholar over the possession of a rare ancient grimoire and then discovers that his daughter's fiance is the reincarnation of her first boyfriend.
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La extraña pasajera (1953)
Character: Pasajera en tren (sin créditos)
During a long train trip, the Police has discovered jewelries in the personal bag of an actress, but she turns out to be innocent.
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El misterio del carro express (1953)
Character: Esposa de Hermenegildo (uncredited)
Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery.
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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 Portero (1950)
Character: Doña Guadalupe (uncredited)
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
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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 inocente (1956)
Character: Invitada a recepción (uncredited)
After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
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La ilusión viaja en tranvía (1954)
Character: Pasajera con santo (uncredited)
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
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La sombra del Caudillo (1960)
Character: Madre de Axcaná
In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
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El hombre inquieto (1954)
Character: Doña Eulalia (uncredited)
Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.
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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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¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer? (1951)
Character: Madre de Ruth (uncredited)
This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.
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El barbero prodigioso (1942)
Character: Madre de niño enfermo (sin créditos)
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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Las Aventuras de Pito Perez (1957)
Character: Doña Cholita (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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Ensayo de un crimen (1955)
Character: Dress shop owner (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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Cada quién su vida (1960)
Character: Doña Concha
The days go by dizzyingly for the girls who work at the cabaret ´El Paraíso´. However, on New Year's Eve, in the heat of the glasses and cigarette smoke, they narrate their hapless destinies
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Angelitos Negros (1948)
Character: Profesora (uncredited)
Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"
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El bolero de Raquel (1957)
Character: (uncredited)
The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy.
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El ángel exterminador (1962)
Character: (uncredited)
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
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La tijera de oro (1960)
Character: Mamá de Rosita (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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La otra (1946)
Character: Sirvienta (uncredited)
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
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Pepe El Toro (1953)
Character: Doña Rafaela
The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
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