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Vivir a todo dar (1956)
Character: Belinda
Clavillazo is a likeable drifter who gets his diploma because his teachers want to lose sight of him. He lives on what he can find in the street. However, nothing can stop him from helping those around him.
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Pobre huerfanita (1955)
Character: N/A
Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home.
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Las tres alegres comadres (1952)
Character: Casera
When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico City, they separate from their boyfriends, form a trio and travel the country singing, dancing and bribing older men, but they fall into a trap when they invest their money in an unreliable business.
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La posesión (1950)
Character: Mujer de Pánfilo
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 mujer del puerto (1949)
Character: Cabaretera (uncredited)
Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...
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La vida tiene tres días (1955)
Character: Vecina pueblerina (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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Corazón de niño (1963)
Character: Mamá de Atilano
Story about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die, entrusts his sixth-grade class to a colleague who had also been his student. Asking him to help them so that they could survive.
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Mujeres que trabajan (1953)
Character: Empleada de Laura
Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.
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Inmaculada (1950)
Character: Merceditas (tendera)
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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La culta dama (1957)
Character: Amiga de Antonia
A pregnant and very poor woman has no place to give birth, and turns to a society lady for help.
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Espiritismo (1962)
Character: Doña Elvira
Satan gives a woman three wishes in this version of the classic tale, "The Monkey's Paw."
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Los cuervos están de luto (1965)
Character: Doña Gude
The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.
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El hambre nuestra de cada día (1960)
Character: Virucha
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
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El amor llegó a Jalisco (1963)
Character: Petra
In a small Mexican town, two rival groups clash over water irrigation rights. While the local priest attempts to mediate, his nieces charm the landowners' sons to force a peaceful resolution.
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El medio pelo (1972)
Character: Reliquias
A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.
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Fruto prohibido (1953)
Character: Mamá de Juanito (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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El vagabundo (1953)
Character: N/A
Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.
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Ella y yo (1951)
Character: Hermana Jiménez (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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Los muertos no hablan (1958)
Character: Doña Bárbara
Bandit crew with mysterious masked leader is doing lots of crimes. Mauricio Rosales and his sidekick ride into town all incognito and stuff to set things right.
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Misterios de la magia negra (1958)
Character: Mujer en audiencia
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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Un rincón cerca del cielo (1952)
Character: Supervisora de oficina
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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La Bruja (1954)
Character: N/A
Thieves break into a scientist's laboratory to steal a secret formula, and in the process they kill his daughter. Enraged, he develops a formula that will turn an extremely ugly woman into a spectacular beauty, and then uses the woman to take his revenge on those responsible for his daughter's murder.
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El río y la muerte (1954)
Character: Doña Lupe (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 gallo de oro (1964)
Character: N/A
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.
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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: Maestra del internado
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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Al fin a solas (1969)
Character: N/A
Every time the newlyweds think they'll be able to consummate their marriage, some obstacle comes up. Months go by... Sequel to "Adios, cunado."
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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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Trampa para un cadáver (1969)
Character: Marga
Following their mother’s passing, two brothers plot to claim the inheritance left in their stepfather’s care, but life has a way of turning things around.
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Nazarín (1959)
Character: Vecina de Josefa (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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Yo no creo en los hombres (1955)
Character: Prisionera (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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Doña Perfecta (1951)
Character: Inesita (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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¡Paso a la juventud..! (1958)
Character: N/A
Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate.
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Trotacalles (1951)
Character: Ruth's Friend (uncredited)
In Mexico City, two sisters live radically different lives: Maria, who—along with her supportive group of fellow sex workers—must deal with unscrupulous, abusive clients and her exploitative pimp, Rudy, and Elena, a society woman trapped in a marriage of convenience, who falls prey to Rudy’s fortune-seeking seduction.
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Vainilla, bronce y morir (1957)
Character: Mamá de Enrique
A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire.
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Doña Macabra (1972)
Character: Gossipy Neighbor
The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.
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El bruto (1953)
Character: Esposa de Lencho
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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Los paquetes de Paquita (1955)
Character: N/A
Maid tries to smooth over the difficulties in her employers' marriage while juggling five or six potential boyfriends of her own.
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La tercera palabra (1956)
Character: Tía Lulú
A young teacher is sent to a remote estate to educate a wealthy man who has grown up isolated from society. As she introduces him to formal education and social conventions, their contrasting views of the world lead to a series of unexpected encounters.
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La tijera de oro (1960)
Character: Hija de prestamista
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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Subida al cielo (1952)
Character: Esposa de Manuel (uncredited)
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
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