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Su última canción (1933)
Character: N/A
A down on his luck opera singer, prevents the suicide of a young girl and falls in love with her. She inspires him to manage a successful come back but his plans to marry her are abruptly reject it with disastrous consequences.
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El rápido de las 9.15 (1941)
Character: Sr. Legazpi (uncredited)
It tells the stories of the passengers aboard a nonstop train. Each character is portrayed one by one, and the only thing they have in common is the journey they will take that night.
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La perversa (1954)
Character: N/A
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: Hombre en subasta (uncredited)
Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
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La loca de la casa (1950)
Character: Sr. Jordana (uncredited)
A nun reevaluates her life and decides to give up her vows to marry and help her father.
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La familia Dressel (1935)
Character: Sr. Orellana (uncredited)
The Dressel family owns a prosperous hardware store in the city. The business is managed by Mrs. Dressel, a strict widow who has two sons: Federico and Rodolfo. Federico falls in love with the singer Magdalena and marries her against Frau Dressel’s wishes, as she wants her heir to marry a German woman. The young couple must face constant harassment from Frau Dressel and an accusation of adultery.
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La malcasada (1950)
Character: Doctor
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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Historia de un marido infiel (1956)
Character: Doctor
Marital problems and Ofelia’s physical and mental illness (Rosa Carmina) drive Emilio (Francisco Petrone) to seek pleasure. He meets Carmina, a prostitute who, together with her pimp, plans to ruin him by mocking his situation.
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El gallo giro (1948)
Character: Invitado (uncredited)
A young man goes to the city to make his fortune, unaware that fate is preparing a surprise for him. He will fall in love on the train.
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Felipe de Jesús (1949)
Character: Almirante Cumberland
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1935)
Character: Virrey Antonio Sebastián de Toledo (márques de Mancera)
A biopic that narrates the life of the novohispanic poetess.
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Una mujer en la calle (1955)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
An unlikely friendship develops when respectable Doña Nena spends her days looking out her window across the street to the sex workers who spend their nights there. One night, she helps helps Alicia one of the girls, escape a police raid and spend several nights painting her portrait.
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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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Música, mujeres y amor (1952)
Character: Médico (uncredited)
Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.
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Asesinos de la noche (1957)
Character: Padre de Armando (uncredited)
A man orders an enemy to be killed, but the order is not carried out. Filled with rage, he murders the thug and pursues his rival.
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El Portero (1950)
Character: Hombre en velorio (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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Aventura en Río (1953)
Character: Médico forense
Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.
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Tambien de dolor se canta (1950)
Character: Productor de pelicula (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: Don Feliciano (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 revoltoso (1951)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
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Trotacalles (1951)
Character: Ambassador (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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Escuela de rateros (1958)
Character: Sr. de Villareal (uncredited)
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
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Las infieles (1953)
Character: Amante viejo de Enriqueta (sin créditos)
Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.
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Marejada (1952)
Character: Profesor
Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.
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