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María Eugenia (1943)
Character: José María
Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.
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Doña Diabla (1950)
Character: Hombre en casino (uncredited)
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
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La dama del velo (1949)
Character: Juez
Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...
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Locura pasional (1956)
Character: Sinodal (uncredited)
Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.
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El gran campeón (1949)
Character: Padre de Avelina
El Kid Azteca not only fights to become someone in life; he also fights for the love of Avelina, who shows no interest in him when she sees that fame has gone to his head.
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Adulterio (1945)
Character: (uncredited)
Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.
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Que idiotas son los hombres (1951)
Character: N/A
After divorcing her cheating husband, a newly single still and beautiful woman, (played by Actress Rosa Carmina), travels to Acapulco. She soon becomes the center of attention and spoiled for choice when she finds herself wooed by no less than four handsome suitors, three of whom are very wealthy and prominent men. Initially torn between her head and her heart, but mindful of past mistakes, Carmina's character chooses love over money and picks a humble and hard-working waiter. Directed by Juan Orol, (Carmina's soon-to-be ex-husband in real-life), this drama features the long, drawn-out scenes and shadowy film noir techniques which he became well- known for.
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El crucifijo de piedra (1956)
Character: N/A
A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has just died there mistakenly takes her as her grandaugther and takes her to live with her.
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La adúltera (1956)
Character: Espectador en corte
Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
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Camelia (1954)
Character: Espectador (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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Albur de amor (1947)
Character: N/A
Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.
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Fruto prohibido (1953)
Character: Juez en boda (sin créditos)
A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
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Amor salvaje (1950)
Character: Cura
Alma leaves Panama to go live with her aunt Antonia and with Manuel, her husband. There she meets Julio, who tries to woo her.
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Yo No me Caso Compadre (1960)
Character: Próspero Manzanares
Two ranch owners promised their offspring would marry. The intended refused and switched places with their respective servants. They don't discover their real identities till they marry.
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Bajo la influencia del miedo (1956)
Character: Espectador boxeo (uncredited)
Tony Carpio becomes a dangerous criminal and gains power by fixing boxing matches while seeking revenge on the ones who sent him to serve 5 years in jail, this includes his former lover, the rapacious Marbella.
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Hombres sin alma (1951)
Character: Comisario
Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things impossible for them.
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Si, Mi vida (1953)
Character: Licenciado (uncredited)
Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.
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La extraña pasajera (1953)
Character: Pasajero 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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Una aventura en la noche (1948)
Character: Cliente 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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Me importa poco (1960)
Character: N/A
Anthropologist goes to small town to do field work supporting her theories about the primitive/subhuman origins of machismo.
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La reina de la opereta (1946)
Character: Amigo de Margarito (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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Ama a tu prójimo (1958)
Character: Regueiro (uncredited)
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
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Los Tres Mosqueteros (1942)
Character: Sirviente del rey (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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Una Familia de Tantas (1949)
Character: Sr. Ordorica, invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.
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El río y la muerte (1954)
Character: Pueblerino (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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El circo (1943)
Character: Espectador circo (uncredited)
A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlfriend.
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El inocente (1956)
Character: Invitado 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 oveja negra (1949)
Character: Pueblerino (uncredited)
The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son Silvano, a young kid man that is incapable of passing judgment on his own father.
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Gran Casino (1947)
Character: Cochero (uncredited)
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.
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La fièvre monte à El Pao (1959)
Character: N/A
After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.
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Él (1953)
Character: Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
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Ahora soy rico (1952)
Character: Anciano velador (uncredited)
Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
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La vida no vale nada (1955)
Character: Priest (uncredited)
Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
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Nazarín (1959)
Character: Sacerdote (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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El rebozo de Soledad (1952)
Character: Anciano chismoso (uncredited)
Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
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La hija del engaño (1951)
Character: Cliente (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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Los tres García (1947)
Character: Invitado (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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Ensayo de un crimen (1955)
Character: Wedding guest (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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Vuelven los García (1947)
Character: Invitado a fiesta (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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El bombero atómico (1952)
Character: Juez (uncredited)
Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
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Si yo fuera diputado (1952)
Character: (uncredited)
Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
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El Supersabio (1948)
Character: Miembro jurado (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 gran autor (1954)
Character: Hombre en teatro (sin créditos)
A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.
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Angelitos Negros (1948)
Character: Invitado a boda (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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Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra (1943)
Character: Esteban
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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El Bruto (1953)
Character: Constructor (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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Víctimas del pecado (1951)
Character: Juez (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 noche avanza (1952)
Character: N/A
Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.
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Pepe El Toro (1953)
Character: Acreedor (uncredited)
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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