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Doña Diabla (1950)
Character: Asistente desfile de modas (uncredited)
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
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Una mujer decente (1950)
Character: Invitado a boda (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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Burlada (1951)
Character: Invitado en casino (uncredited)
Fancy gentleman uses his charms to exploit a bunch of women.
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La perversa (1954)
Character: Miembro del jurado (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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Cuando me vaya (1954)
Character: Invitado ceremonia (uncredited)
Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
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Otra primavera (1950)
Character: Invitado a fiesta (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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Amor en la sombra (1960)
Character: N/A
A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.
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La noche es nuestra (1952)
Character: Comisario (uncredited)
Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.
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La vida tiene tres días (1955)
Character: Invitado a fiesta (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 loca (1952)
Character: Paciente que se cree rey
Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the disappearance of her daughter. Now, present day, evil relatives are trying to take control of money she's inherited...
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La mujer X (1955)
Character: Miembro jurado (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: Invitado fiesta (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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Reto a la vida (1954)
Character: Viejecito cuida a Raulito (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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Puerto de tentación (1951)
Character: Invitado fiesta (uncredited)
A cabaret dancer helps an injured man, and the two fall in love, unaware that together they will face a tragedy.
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Lágrimas robadas (1954)
Character: Invitado fiesta (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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La culta dama (1957)
Character: Invitado fiesta (uncredited)
A pregnant and very poor woman has no place to give birth, and turns to a society lady for help.
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Dios los cría (1953)
Character: Miembro de comité (uncredited)
Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
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Novia a la medida (1949)
Character: Dr. Mata (uncredited)
Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.
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Canasta de Cuentos Mexicanos (1956)
Character: Hombre negocios (sin créditos)
Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.
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Arrabalera (1951)
Character: Invitado fiesta (uncredited)
Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
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El hambre nuestra de cada día (1960)
Character: Don Leoncio (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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Acuérdate de vivir (1953)
Character: Invitado 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: 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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Rondalla (1949)
Character: Invitado fiesta (uncredited)
A woman who has been raped (Alicia Neira) sets out to rebuild her life with another man (Luis Aguilar), but the bandit who assaulted her (Enrique Zambrano) stands in her way.
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La maldición de Nostradamus (1961)
Character: Asistente del Dr. Gonzalez
An aristocratic vampire swears an oath to kill the enemies who killed his father. In order to terrify them even further, he warns each one when he is coming for them.
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Al son del mambo (1950)
Character: N/A
A fun musical comedy style of the 50s where the infectious rhythm of the son and the mambo, led by the hand by the incomparable Damaso Perez Prado, will a waste of good music and grace. With a formidable cast, and above all a fabulous collector's item.
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Mi mujer no es mía (1951)
Character: Hombre en club (uncredited)
Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.
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Me ha besado un hombre (1944)
Character: Refugiado en Francia (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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Sor Ye-yé (1968)
Character: Señor secretario
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
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Soltera y con gemelos (1945)
Character: Invitado boda (uncredited)
A father imposes conditions on his son in order to inherit his fortune, unaware of what true love is capable of. The son accepts his father's terms and faces a series of challenges that ultimately lead him to become the heir.
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Historia de un amor (1956)
Character: Invitado a cena (uncredited)
Elena (Libertad Lamarque), already a star, falls madly in love with Roberto. They make it to the altar. Elena and Roberto adopt a baby. The years go by and everything is happiness in the couple’s life—until one day the girl’s grandfather appears.
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Al diablo las mujeres (1955)
Character: Invitado a fiesta (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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Extraña cita (1947)
Character: Señor Velasco (uncredited)
After her father's death, María Eugenia is pressured by Don Remigio Pérez who her father owed debts to, to marry her. Instead, the kindly Roberto de los Ríos pays off her debts and she goes to live at his country house with his two twin nephews Carlos and Leonardo. However, she faces an attempt to murder.
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Ella y yo (1951)
Character: Invitado a boda (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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Una aventura en la noche (1948)
Character: Miembro del consejo (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 con niños se acuesta... (1959)
Character: N/A
Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.
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La reina de la opereta (1946)
Character: Invitado fiesta (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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El fantasma de la opereta (1960)
Character: Espectador (uncredited)
Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms.
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Caballero a la medida (1954)
Character: Invitado fiesta (uncredited)
Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
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Mi desconocida esposa (1958)
Character: Cliente restaurante (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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La bestia magnifica (1953)
Character: Espectador lucha libre
Two very good friends become wrestlers to leave poverty behind, but the arrival of an ambitious woman will tragically change their destinies.
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Una familia de tantas (1949)
Character: Invitado a boda (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 socio (1946)
Character: Hombre jugando billar (uncredited)
A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...
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Su Excelencia (1967)
Character: Espectador asamblea (uncredited)
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
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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 ilusión viaja en tranvía (1954)
Character: Miembro del consejo (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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Teatro del crimen (1957)
Character: Espectador (uncredited)
In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.
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La mujer que engañamos (1945)
Character: Invitada a boda (uncredited)
Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
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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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The Magnificent Matador (1955)
Character: Guest dinner (uncredited)
Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.
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El hombre inquieto (1954)
Character: Invitado a boda (uncredited)
Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.
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Yo no creo en los hombres (1955)
Character: Miembro tribunal (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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Se solicitan modelos (1954)
Character: Cliente desfile pasarela (uncredited)
In this Mexican comedy, Mr. Lazaro's fashion house is on the brink of bankruptcy and in desperate need of a new model to replace his current business partner's wife, whose appearance is driving customers away. Lazaro's son, Raul, realizes what a diffucult dilemma his father faces and sets out to restore the integrity of the family-owned business by teaming up with his lovely fiancée to put on a fashion show. Domingo Soler and Sara Montiel star.
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Doña Perfecta (1951)
Character: Invitado a cena (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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Tambien de dolor se canta (1950)
Character: Cliente en cabaret (uncredited)
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
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Una mujer sin amor (1952)
Character: Invitado a fiesta (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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El ladrón (1947)
Character: Banquero (uncredited)
Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction.
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Escuela de rateros (1958)
Character: Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
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Secreto entre mujeres (1949)
Character: Amigo de Gustavo (uncredited)
Marta, a maid at the boarding house run by her aunt Doña Laura, prevents the lodger Elena from committing suicide over the writer Arturo, who has proposed that they live together instead of getting married. Arturo then tries to seduce another lodger, the piano student Claudia, unaware that she is Elena’s younger sister. Claudia is not deceived by him, so he sets his sights on yet another lodger, the model Sara, during a party hosted by the elderly Requena, one of her suitors.
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Dicen que soy mujeriego (1949)
Character: Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.
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Las infieles (1953)
Character: Invitado fiesta (sin créditos)
Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.
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El bombero atómico (1952)
Character: Hombre entre multitud (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: Miembro del jurado (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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Dicen que soy comunista (1951)
Character: Cliente restaurante (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 gran autor (1954)
Character: Hombre entrega premio (sin créditos)
A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.
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Angelitos Negros (1948)
Character: Doctor (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 Campeón Ciclista (1957)
Character: Subscriptor del periódico (uncredited)
Cleto, a poor newspaper boy, dreamed of becoming a cyclist and inventor. His latest invention is delivering newspapers by rockets. When he finds the owner of the newspaper, dismisses him. But Cleto do not give up and shows Don Macario his latest invention: " The telemirófono ", a device that allows you to see the person talking on the phone...
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El gran calavera (1949)
Character: Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.
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Enamorada (1946)
Character: Invitado a boda (uncredited)
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
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El ángel exterminador (1962)
Character: Old Man Trapped at Church (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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El Suavecito (1951)
Character: N/A
Charming but unreliable, Roberto has earned his nickname "El Suavecito" through his constant flirtations and the easy way he moves through life, even when it causes pain to his devoted aging mother and his beautiful neighbor Lupita, who resists his overtures in the hopes he can learn to settle down and behave. When Lupita gains a steady and honest suitor in Carlos, El Suavecito can't resist trying to foul his chances with the help of the unscrupulous gambler "El Nene"--but it all goes badly wrong. This neglected noir asks whether a morally impoverished gangster is capable of redemption.
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¡Ay, pena, penita, pena! (1953)
Character: Hombre en restaurante (no acreditado)
Carmela is a Gypsy singer who sells lottery tickets. She meets two penniless Mexican brothers and they buy a ticket between the three: if it is awarded, could share the prize and go to Mexico, they to return to their homeland and her for bullfighter boyfriend whom has no news. The fate accompanies them, but, on reaching Mexico, her boyfriend rejects her. This way, she ends up acting in a cafe where reaps many successes.
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La intrusa (1954)
Character: Invitado a fiesta (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: Hombre en funeral (uncredited)
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
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