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Negra consentida (1949)
Character: N/A
Free-spirited young woman schemes different ways to trying to nudge her spinsterish older sister into falling in love and getting married.
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Las cinco advertencias de Satanás (1945)
Character: N/A
Satan plays a trick on two roues, telling them five things that are predestined to happen to them, but leaving out some crucial details. Then he sits back and laughs as they struggle against their preordained situations.
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Doña Diabla (1950)
Character: Carmela
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
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Ojos de juventud (1948)
Character: María Luisa / Ratita
A bad woman exploits her husband's love. Infidelity, illegitimate children, self-sacrificing fatherhood... Also: Cabarets!
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La loca de la casa (1950)
Character: Sor María
A nun reevaluates her life and decides to give up her vows to marry and help her father.
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¡Que viene mi marido! (1940)
Character: Caridad Melendez (Carita)
Rom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's marital status.
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Músico, poeta y loco (1948)
Character: N/A
An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.
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La gaviota (1955)
Character: N/A
Local gal in a fishing/seaport resort has to decide between a local fisherman and a doctor who comes for vacations.
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El infierno de los pobres (1951)
Character: N/A
A young woman becomes pregnant but when his boyfriend leaves her she gets a job as a prostitute in order to provide for her child.
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El vestido de novia (1959)
Character: Beatriz - esposa de Rodolfo
A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
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La noche y tú (1946)
Character: N/A
Tango singer exploits his popularity in high society to commit crimes.
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El misterio del rostro pálido (1935)
Character: Angelica
Dr. Forti carries out strange experiments, assisted by his son Pablo. They embark on an expedition to the jungle. Eight years later Forti returns without his son but strange things start to happen in the old house where they live.
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Menores de edad (1951)
Character: Señorita Secante
Late-teens girl is trapped into masquerading as a 12 year old. Wacky complications.
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The Brave One (1956)
Character: Señorita Sanchez (uncredited)
A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.
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El socio (1946)
Character: Esposa de Davis
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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Los de abajo (1940)
Character: Mujer de Demetrio
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.
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Reportaje (1953)
Character: Reporter
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Les Orgueilleux (1953)
Character: Brothel Madam (uncredited)
Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.
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Sombrero (1953)
Character: Señora Inocente
Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
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María Candelaria (Xochimilco) (1944)
Character: Reporter
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.
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El Mártir del Calvario (1952)
Character: María Cleofas
The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
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La perla (1947)
Character: N/A
Fisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor refuses to treat their son Coyotito, who has been bitten by a scorpion. When Quino unexpectedly finds a magnificent pearl in the sea, Juana senses that the discovery will only bring them misfortune and tries to convince her husband to return it to the sea.
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El rapto (1954)
Character: Perfecta
In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
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The Big Steal (1949)
Character: Carmencita, shopkeeper (uncredited)
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.
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El señor fotógrafo (1953)
Character: Enfermera de Dr. Saldívar
Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...
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El Bruto (1953)
Character: Doña Marta
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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Subida al cielo (1952)
Character: Elisa
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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Distinto Amanecer (1943)
Character: Ignacio's lover
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
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