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Bala de Plata (1960)
Character: N/A
Young soldier goes home to Cowboyville to find the man who killed his father.
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Café Colón (1959)
Character: N/A
Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the front lines. Yeah, right.
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El asaltacaminos (1962)
Character: N/A
Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a contested inheritance and several murdered family members. It took him four feature-length movies to do it. (Series: "El Relampago.")
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Herencia trágica (1960)
Character: N/A
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
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La muerte en el desfiladero (1963)
Character: N/A
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
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El último mexicano (1960)
Character: N/A
After the US annexation of Texas, a landowner from Guanajuato faces problems from bigoted new neighbors.
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Los hermanos Muerte (1965)
Character: N/A
Woman swears to avenge her brother's murder.. Then she falls in love with the murderer, before discovering that he's the one.
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Vámonos para la feria (1961)
Character: N/A
Father insists that one of his sons get married... because with no woman in the house, they can't get a good meal. The rest of the movie is devoted to pairing off everybody in sight.
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México nunca duerme (1959)
Character: N/A
Fretful granny is upset when her granddaughter isn't home by 9 PM on Saturday night, so she teams up with a gangster to tour Mexico City nightclubs looking for her.
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Al caer la tarde (1949)
Character: N/A
A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.
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La entrega (1954)
Character: Rosa (sirvienta) (uncredited)
Through hard work, the Spaniard Alejandro has become wealthy and powerful. In contrast, the banker Don Victorino—who once refused a loan to the then-poor Alejandro—has fallen on difficult times. Victorino is married to Ana, who spends her life playing the piano, and they are the parents of the proud Julia, who is engaged to Enrique Régules. Julia is forced to marry Alejandro in order to save her family’s financial situation. Despite her husband’s blunt and often harsh honesty, Julia gradually finds herself falling in love with him, and vainly tries to make him jealous with Licenciado Héctor, who courts her. Julia becomes nervously ill, troubled by the fact that Alejandro does not love her in the romantic, storybook way she longs for.
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Corazón de fiera (1951)
Character: Esbirro de Luis
Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.
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Sol y sombra (1946)
Character: Tacho (uncredited)
Manuel retires from bullfighting and, years later, runs a fighting bull ranch.
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La mujer X (1955)
Character: Revolucionario (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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La hija del penal (1949)
Character: Carcelero isla (uncredited)
A young woman who was born and grew up on an island prison-colony decides to move to the island and try life in the real world. Romance, bad luck and astonishing coincidences wait in her path.
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Horas de agonía (1958)
Character: N/A
Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark.
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Reto a la vida (1954)
Character: Militar (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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La malcasada (1950)
Character: Jugador
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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Se alquila marido (1961)
Character: N/A
Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.
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Audaz y bravero (1965)
Character: N/A
Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character.
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Los pistoleros (1962)
Character: Hermano Martínez
The Jiménez brothers and their allies lead an operation to combat a gang of criminals who have the region under a regime of terror. The bloody confrontations begin to produce the first fatalities.
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Canasta de Cuentos Mexicanos (1956)
Character: N/A
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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Por qué peca la mujer (1952)
Character: Espectador carpa (uncredited)
Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
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Camelia (1954)
Character: Don Antonio (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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Fruto prohibido (1953)
Character: Apolonio Martínez (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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Vino el remolino y nos alevantó (1950)
Character: Capitán (uncredited)
Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
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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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Los tales por cuales (1965)
Character: Esbirro de Domínguez
Western comedy. Stranger-in-town falls into an ambivalent love/hate relationship with the sheriff.
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El Zorro vengador (1962)
Character: N/A
The Scarlet Fox faces his most formidable foes yet, delivering thrilling swordplay and daring heroics in Luis Aguilar’s final portrayal of the masked avenger.
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Padre contra hijo (1955)
Character: Santiago
Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango.
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Sonatas (1959)
Character: Teniente (uncredited)
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
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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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El ciclón (1959)
Character: N/A
Cowboy revenge-drama, paired with a love triangle between two Mexican fellers and a rather unpleasant gringa.
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Asesinos de la noche (1957)
Character: Secuaz del chueco (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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Dos caras tiene el destino (1952)
Character: Capataz violento de chicleros (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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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 Muerte Enamorada (1951)
Character: Hombre en cantina (uncredited)
A man's life changes forever when death -- in the form of a female grim reaper -- moves in with him and his family, all so that he can buy a bit more time on earth. The only catch is, his family has no idea that their houseguest, a woman their father says is a foreign relative, is there to take their daddy away. Miroslava Stern, Fernando Fernandez and Jorge Reyes star in this inventive Spanish-language comedy.
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Cuatro noches contigo (1952)
Character: Agente Policía (uncredited)
Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her.
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El caballo blanco (1962)
Character: N/A
Claimed by his grandmother, who lives in a Mexican village, Joselito begins the journey from Spain. Once there, while traveling in a stagecoach, is assaulted by bandits. Joselito manages to escape and, walking aimlessly, he meets Antoine, a rider who is ex officio of random player, and become close friends.
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Robinson Crusoe (1954)
Character: Leader of the Mutiny
The titular adventurer, after defying his parents to go to sea, survives a shipwreck and becomes a castaway on a deserted island for nearly thirty years, learning to build a new life from scratch, discovering companionship with a native man he names Friday, and eventually returning to civilisation a changed man, finding wealth and new challenges.
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Una cita de amor (1958)
Character: Minion of don Mariano
The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship.
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El río y la muerte (1954)
Character: Cuñado de Filegonio (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 hombre sin rostro (1950)
Character: Hombre en cabaret (uncredited)
A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
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El hombre que logró ser invisible (1958)
Character: Detective
A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.
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Gran Casino (1947)
Character: Complice de Fabio (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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El hacha diabólica (1965)
Character: N/A
In the Age of the Inquisitions, 1603, Santo, El Enmascarado de Plata, is being laid to rest by a group of monks. The Black Hood, an axe-wielder and a tormented soul who sold his soul to the devil after losing his love to El Santo, appears at the foot of his tomb and swears to seek his revenge no matter how many centuries it takes. El Santo is the chosen one and is sworn to fight for good and justice at any cost. After he finds his love, Alicia, dead at the hands of the Black Hood, El Santo must trust his faith and use his strength in this battle of good vs. evil.
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El rebozo de Soledad (1952)
Character: Compadre (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 rebelión de los colgados (1954)
Character: Capataz (uncredited)
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
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La sospechosa (1955)
Character: N/A
After a trip to Europe, Regina de Alba comes home and finds out her mother is nowhere to be found. When her step-father's criminal past becomes known, her suspicions increase.
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La Red (1953)
Character: Policeman
Antonio dives for sponges which are sold by his sweetheart Rossana. One day, the escaped prisoner José-Luis appears and is hid by his friend Antonio. Although José-Luis does not want to betray his friend, a love affair with tragic consequences between him and Rossana develops. The Net was one of Mexico's entries at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
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El alazán y el rosillo (1966)
Character: N/A
Two rival landowners: one is exploiting the local peasantry and dispossessing them of their land, and the other believes in fair play and justice for all.
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Dicen que soy comunista (1951)
Character: Camarada (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 Siete Machos (1951)
Character: (uncredited)
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
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Ahí viene Martín Corona (1952)
Character: N/A
Martin Corona, player and womanizer, defends the underprivileged, the poor and the needy. He will have to defend a Spanish girl and her servant from the clutches of the villainous of the town. Not only will he have to fight the bad guy, but against the pride of the girl who initially believes that he is the bad character and distrusts him. She was very proud to put him at her feet, but there was a problem, Martin Corona was due more to his people than anyone and she was not willing to risk losing it, so before marrying him, made him swear he would not intervene In other problems.
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Marejada (1952)
Character: Hijo de hombre enfermo
Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.
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