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Camino de Guanajuato (1955)
Character: N/A
The romantic entanglements of three singers: two boys and a girl who fail in a radio contest and formed a trio.
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El Monje Blanco (1945)
Character: Peregrina
In an Italian monastery during the XIII century, a white image appears sculpted by Fray Paracleto humble mystically and sew clothes. Besides a mysterious woman appears Orsina Galata. She tells her story to the Father Provincial and thus dates back to his past.
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Los Cristeros (1947)
Character: N/A
When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family.
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Barrio bajo (1950)
Character: N/A
Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...
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Huellas del pasado (1950)
Character: Lupe, nana
A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair accusations.
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Fierecilla (1951)
Character: N/A
After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside, removed from corrupting influences. Fifteen years later...
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Los margaritos (1956)
Character: Doña Queta
Two brothers named Margarito butt heads courting the same woman.
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Otra primavera (1950)
Character: N/A
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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Comisario en turno (1949)
Character: N/A
Night shift at police headquarters; criminals and victims of all sorts pass through to get their cases sorted out.
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Cuarto de hotel (1953)
Character: N/A
Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and lots of incidents before they find each other again.
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Enemigos (1956)
Character: N/A
One son takes after mom, one son takes after dad. They don't get along, and the family splits into two households.
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Guardián, el perro salvador (1950)
Character: N/A
Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death! Jail sentences! Inheritances!
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Un divorcio (1953)
Character: N/A
Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..
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Chucho el Roto (1954)
Character: N/A
Humble craftsman runs afoul of a rich girl's father and ends up in prison; the ill-fated romance has repercussions over the course of twenty-odd years and ultimately drives him to a life of crime.
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..Y mañana serán mujeres (1955)
Character: N/A
Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls vacationing at a country villa.
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Cuando Regrese Mamá (1961)
Character: Doña Matilde (uncredited)
A family of six children are orphaned on Christmas Eve and struggle through a year without parental support.
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La dama del velo (1949)
Character: Asistente de Andrea
Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...
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Lo que no se puede perdonar!.. (1953)
Character: Hermana religiosa
Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well.
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Monte de piedad (1951)
Character: Doña Lupita, madre de María
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
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La loca (1952)
Character: Señora de Angostura
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 vida en broma (1950)
Character: Invited to party
Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
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¡Vaya tipos! (1955)
Character: N/A
Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
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Paco, el elegante (1952)
Character: Tia Consuelo
Paco's ordered by a higher-up in his gang to beat up a journalist who wants to write exposes about Mexico City drug traffic, and that ends up opening a whole can of worms.
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Padre contra hijo (1955)
Character: Eloisa Ruiz, madre de Juan de Dios
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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Romance de fieras (1954)
Character: N/A
Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
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Primavera en el corazón (1956)
Character: N/A
Don Juan-type manipulates his roommate into helping him mount ridiculous schemes to get next to a girl he has his eye on.
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Las tres Elenas (1954)
Character: N/A
A woman married to a renowned doctor confesses to her mother that she has fallen in love with her daughter's young boyfriend.
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Él (1953)
Character: Sirvienta en cena (uncredited)
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
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El Mago (1949)
Character: Clienta de Krishnar (uncredited)
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
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Campeón sin Corona (1946)
Character: Doña Gracia, Madre de Roberto (as Ma. Gentil Arcos)
A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rough, he aims to put Roberto in the professional ring. But Roberto finds that his personal challenges must be overcome before he can achieve professional greatness.
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Una familia de tantas (1949)
Character: Invitada a fiesta (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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Un Rincón Cerca del Cielo (1952)
Character: Empleada despedida (uncredited)
On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.
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Los Fernández de Peralvillo (1954)
Character: Doña Gracia; madre de Raquel
A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.
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Susana (1951)
Character: Felisa
The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.
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Ahora soy rico (1952)
Character: Trabajadora (uncredited)
Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
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Doña Perfecta (1951)
Character: Librada
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: Asistente de Facundo (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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El gran premio (1958)
Character: Anciana en asilo (as Ma. Gentil Arcos)
Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.
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El bombero atómico (1952)
Character: Doña Cleofas (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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Cárcel de Mujeres (1951)
Character: Guardia
Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.
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Nosotros los pobres (1948)
Character: La Paralítica
Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
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Rosenda (1948)
Character: Señorita Rocha
A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
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El Portero (1950)
Character: Vecina chismosa (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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Aventurera (1950)
Character: Petra, Rosaura's maid
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
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