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Marina (1945)
Character: N/A
Adaptation of a Spanish operetta about a love triangle between two fisherman and a human female.
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Doña Diabla (1950)
Character: Velador (uncredited)
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
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Amor Prohibido (1945)
Character: Fotógrafo (uncredited)
Family life of a widowed father with four teenaged and young-adult children.
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Cortesana (1948)
Character: (uncredited)
A young woman is seduced by her cousin's husband when the couple arrives at his house during the pianist's tour.
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Cada hijo, una cruz (1957)
Character: N/A
Sometimes parents make the mistake of loving one child more than the others. Don José places blind trust in his son Pepe, who turns out to be the one committing the most serious faults within the family, while Raymundo is the one who pays for them. Remake of Cuando los hijos se van (1941).
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La posesión (1950)
Character: Secretario del juez
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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La perversa (1954)
Character: Cajero (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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La mujer del puerto (1949)
Character: Don Blas (uncredited)
Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...
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La loca de la casa (1950)
Character: Maestro de ceremonia (uncredited)
A nun reevaluates her life and decides to give up her vows to marry and help her father.
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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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Locura pasional (1956)
Character: José (Mayordomo)
Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.
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Ángel o demonio (1947)
Character: Mayordomo (uncredited)
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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Prisionera del pasado (1954)
Character: N/A
Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.
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Reto a la vida (1954)
Character: (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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Músico, poeta y loco (1948)
Character: N/A
An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.
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Caballo a caballo (1939)
Character: Mesero
Two con-men end up at a country estate, where they thwart some jewel-thieves.
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Así amaron nuestros padres (1964)
Character: N/A
Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.
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Pobre diablo (1940)
Character: Juez
An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
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La tía de las muchachas (1938)
Character: Calixto
Two middle-aged no-goodniks are trying to marry two young ladies; two age-appropriate young men concoct a scheme to prevent it, which involves one of them masquerading as the young ladies' aunt.
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Mil estudiantes y una muchacha (1942)
Character: El camarero (uncredited)
The dream of Atenodoro is to be a professor at the Faculty of Law. The students show enthusiasm for Ana, the professor’s daughter. Atenodoro resigns from his class, and the students try to make him return by pretending to be the rector and his family.
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Me ha besado un hombre (1944)
Character: Cajero (uncredited)
Spanish refugee could only get across the border using fake documents that belonged to her brother and now she's stuck with the male identity...
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La norteña de mis amores (1948)
Character: N/A
Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.
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Una gringuita en México (1951)
Character: N/A
A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!
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Un gallo en corral ajeno (1952)
Character: N/A
A wealthy sculptor takes in a thief as a servant on her ranch, hoping to reshape him, but their situation is disrupted when she discovers a major robbery has taken place on her estate.
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El ángel negro (1942)
Character: Criado
Despite the strange death of Jorge's previous wives, Elisa decides to marry him.
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Cantaclaro (1946)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
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Ella y Yo (1951)
Character: Empleado tienda (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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Tan bueno el giro como el colorado (1959)
Character: N/A
Two rodeo competitors from neighboring towns get all up in each other's business in the weeks before a big local competition. So do their respective manservants and the priests for each one's parish. Lotta competitive ructiousness going on.
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Dos caras tiene el destino (1952)
Character: Empleado hotel (uncredited)
Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
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¡Ay, qué tiempos señor don Simón! (1941)
Character: Amigo de Don Simón (uncredited)
A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.
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Cada loco con su tema (1939)
Character: Policia
Julio Cesar (Enrique Herrera), writer of soap operas, is very upset nerves. Dr. Jimenez (Alberto Galán) recommends an institution that will give he a therapy to cure these scares. To avoid exposure to bad publicity, is camouflaged by the pseudonym Justiniano Conquian . By chance, a taxidermist (Joaquin Pardavé) also named. His case is different: it is a millionaire heir heritage potential, but will only be legally recognized if it meets a peculiar condition in the will, having to spend a whole month in the gloomy castle Conquian, competing with other heirs of fortune. Dr. Jimenez is bribed by a cousin of Justinian to send the false Conquian scares Castle into thinking that is the sanatorium.
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La reina de la opereta (1946)
Character: Traspunte (uncredited)
Mario marries Blanca, the queen of operetta, but after their daughter is born, they separate and she leaves on a world tour to continue her artistic career. Meanwhile, he stays behind and waits with the baby until they reunite again.
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La rebelión de los fantasmas (1949)
Character: Criado de Arturo (uncredited)
When an old house is about to be demolished to make room for a new radio station the famous ghosts which resides in the house start a revolt to alter the decision.
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El rebelde (Romance de Antaño) (1943)
Character: Pajarero (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 mensaje de la muerte (1953)
Character: Juan (mayordomo) (uncredited)
The film is based on real events, from a case investigated by Detective Valente Quintana.
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Jesús de Nazareth (1942)
Character: José de Arimatea
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
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Los Tres Mosqueteros (1942)
Character: Sacerdote (uncredited)
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
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El Portero (1950)
Character: Empleado secretaria (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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Vuelven los Argumedo (1963)
Character: N/A
The Argumedo cousins have their clothes stolen while taking a shower, and they must find it at all costs, because there's a winning lottery ticket in their pockets.
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El Mago (1949)
Character: Ministro de Arichi (uncredited)
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
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Mi desconocida esposa (1958)
Character: Velador (uncredited)
After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.
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El Peñón de las Ánimas (1943)
Character: Invitada al baile (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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Ansiedad (1953)
Character: Empleado teatro (uncredited)
Twins (both played by Infante) are separated while very young, one raised as a singer by their widowed mother and another as the heir to one of Mexico's richest families. Their paths cross in the future, but they are unable to recognize each other due to their very different social backgrounds.
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Dos tipos de cuidado (1953)
Character: Eulalio (uncredited)
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
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Abajo el Telón (1955)
Character: (uncredited)
Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
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Cuando los hijos se van (1941)
Character: Ramón, delivery man
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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Mi campeón (1952)
Character: Invitado 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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La Devoradora (1946)
Character: Gregorio, portero (uncredited)
After her lover commits suicide, Diana involves her fiancé and his nephew in a scheme to help her disappear with the corpse.
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Yo no creo en los hombres (1955)
Character: Empleado corte (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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Romeo y Julieta (1943)
Character: (uncredited)
Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
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La virgen que forjó una patria (1942)
Character: Segundo Familiar
On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
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El barbero prodigioso (1942)
Character: Boticario (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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Los hijos de María Morales (1952)
Character: Don Serapio
Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.
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El gato sin botas (1957)
Character: Villista (uncredited)
Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to their village for fear of confronting his grandfather, a revolutionary colonel. In love with the movie star Laura, Agustin flee to the capital but encounters the dangerous Humberto, another in love with the actress. Thanks to his "nine lives", he attains overcome perilous adventures and, incidentally, overcome their fears.
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El rey del barrio (1950)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
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El mil amores (1954)
Character: Velador (uncredited)
Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu
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Las Aventuras de Pito Perez (1957)
Character: Amigo de don Pepe (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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El gendarme desconocido (1941)
Character: Vendedor de plumas (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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El revoltoso (1951)
Character: Gardener (uncredited)
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
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El hijo desobediente (1945)
Character: N/A
A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of being a singer.
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El ladrón (1947)
Character: Núñez (incinerador)
Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction.
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Llévame en tus brazos (1954)
Character: Notario
To pay off her father's debts, Rita leaves her humble fishing village in Yucatan and gets exploited by several men, including a married politician who turns her into a big dancing star.
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Vuelven los García (1947)
Character: Notario (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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Por la puerta falsa (1950)
Character: Don Luis (uncredited)
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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Un día con el Diablo (1945)
Character: N/A
Cantinflas, on a drunken night, becomes Army soldier. Soon, he meets the Devil who tries to make it an evil being.
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Soy un prófugo (1946)
Character: Cliente en tienda (uncredited)
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
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El Supersabio (1948)
Character: Velador (uncredited)
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
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El hombre de papel (1963)
Character: El sultán (uncredited)
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.
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Una mujer sin amor (1952)
Character: Empleado de don Carlos (uncredited)
After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.
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Rosauro Castro (1950)
Character: Pueblerino (uncredited)
Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved revenge end the injustices committed by Rosauro Castro.
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Los diablos del terror (1959)
Character: Don Toribio (uncredited)
A federal policeman arrives in a town ravaged by a cult of hooded men who leave a satanic face on their victims.
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En los tiempos de Don Porfirio (1940)
Character: N/A
In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is pregnant, is sent to Paris by the snubbed family.
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Las tandas del principal (1949)
Character: Empleado teatro (uncredited)
Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle.
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La intrusa (1954)
Character: Mayordomo de Raúl (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: Señor de Cordova (uncredited)
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
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Salón México (1949)
Character: Velador (uncredited)
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
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Ni sangre ni arena (1941)
Character: Abelardo
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
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Me traes de un ala (1953)
Character: (uncredited)
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
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