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Luz en el páramo (1953)
Character: N/A
Life changes for an Andean family when oil wealth and a fugitive arrive in town.
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El zarco (1959)
Character: N/A
Upperclass girl and notorious bandit leader fall in love. She agrees to "let him kidnap her" so they can be together, but she gets disillusioned when she sees the sordidness of his Camp Of Banditry. Also he keeps killing off members of her family.
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Marina (1945)
Character: Capitán
Adaptation of a Spanish operetta about a love triangle between two fisherman and a human female.
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Dos hijos desobedientes (1960)
Character: N/A
Meddling mom tries to set up her two cowboy sons to marry two sisters who are looking for domesticated, 'indoor' husbands that cook and keep house.
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María Pistolas (1963)
Character: N/A
Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends.
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El deseo llega de noche (1969)
Character: Coronel Riquelme
Prison colony on an island: the staff Doctor has some neuroses he's trying to overcome, and his "weakness" makes him vulnerable to exploitation by a sociopathic prisoner.
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Fugitivos: Pueblo de proscritos (1955)
Character: N/A
After breaking out of jail, a group of convicts finds a ghost town they can take possession of. They send word out along the grapevine that criminals and marginal people can make a home there... and as the population grows, their self-policing efforts turn the whole town into a model community.
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Ángel del infierno (1959)
Character: N/A
Young woman moves to a remote border town to take charge of properties she inherited from her father.
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El centauro del norte (1962)
Character: N/A
A Villista girl and a Huertista boy -- can their love cross ideological lines and heal a trembling nation?
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Los murciélagos (1964)
Character: N/A
Cowboy-justice guy breaks up a criminal gang who are terrorizing a small town with the appearance of vampire activity.
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Juan El Desalmado (1970)
Character: N/A
Cowboy on a revenge trip gets caught up in the sadistic games of some black-hats and goes through a whole narrative cycle with them before discovering the identity of the people he was originally looking for.
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Los aventureros (1954)
Character: N/A
Two brothers and their pops end up helping out an orphaned young woman who wants revenge against her father's murderer.
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Entre hermanos (1945)
Character: Coronel
During the Mexican Revolution, brothers Ramón and Geraldo fall in love with Pilar who is uncertain of which brother she loves. Pilar ends up marrying Ramón but gets pregnant when Geraldo rapes her.
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Bodas trágicas (1946)
Character: Coronel Torres
Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan Manuel still holds a grudge against Diego, having once been his employer when Diego was just a laborer. Their secret marriage stirs jealousy and resentment, particularly in Octavio, Diego’s servant, and his wife Laura, who harbors unspoken feelings for him. As Diego departs for a military mission in Guadalajara, Juan Manuel, unaware of the marriage, attempts to arrange a match between Amparo and the Spaniard José Luis.
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Juventud sin ley (1965)
Character: Padre Francisco
Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father.
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El rápido de las 9.15 (1941)
Character: Empleado hotel (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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Simitrio (1960)
Character: Don Cipriano
A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.
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La mujer que yo amé (1950)
Character: N/A
A musician is injured and threatened for defending a girl and decides to go to the capital, where fame and success achieved. She is glad to know that he has succeeded, however, has become a street prostitute prone to paralysis. Finally one day he takes courage and decides to look for, since it has become invalid again ...
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El impostor (1960)
Character: General Juan Navarro
Cesar Rubio, a school teacher in the city, is fired for staying true to his ideals and values, and is also accused of encouraging rebellion among his students, who were demanding the principal's resignation through a strike.
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La perversa (1954)
Character: Padre
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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La doncella de piedra (1956)
Character: N/A
Adaptation of Rómulo Gallegos' novel Sobre la misma tierra. A young mixed-race woman is forced to choose between her tribal heritage and her position in white society.
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La risa de la ciudad (1963)
Character: N/A
The underside of Mexico City: street performers, factory workers, a drunk, an old man with civic pride, a pickpocket, and others live and interact in a shantytown near the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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Flor de durazno (1970)
Character: Padre Filemón
Farm-girl, seduced and abandoned, goes to the big city to have her baby and live out her shameful soiled disgrace away from her birth people.
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Monte de piedad (1951)
Character: Jefe policía
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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Eterna agonía (1949)
Character: Julio Zamora
Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.
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La mujer X (1955)
Character: General Pancho Villa
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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Tentación (1943)
Character: Servando (uncredited)
Upon reaching the capital, an old man and his daughter are victims of abuse, where their goodwill becomes the way to gain control of the low instincts of a man who sought favors he did for an uncontrolled temptation.
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Rapto al sol (1956)
Character: Capitán Pepe
An arrogant woman who owns a successful coffee company is abducted by the owner of some islands.
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El mexicano (1944)
Character: N/A
Felipe Rivera is a mysterious, dedicated young Mexican revolutionary living in exile in Los Angeles. To fund the revolution against Porfirio Díaz, Rivera fights in rigged boxing matches, using his immense, revenge-fueled determination to triumph and purchase weapons for the cause.
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Carnaval en el trópico (1942)
Character: N/A
Three Mexican friends decide to go to Vercacruz Carnaval to celebrate. There they watch Cantinflas' show of torero and boxer.
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Matrimonio y mortaja (1950)
Character: N/A
A series of misadventures leaves a city slicker trapped into a shotgun marriage with a country gal. Back home in Mexico City, he tries to scam his way out of his marriage and set things right with his previous fiance...
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La marcha a Zacatecas (1969)
Character: Don Eusebio
Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendado. Everybody has an agenda, everybody butts heads in comical ways. Or not so much.
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El hombre de negro (1969)
Character: Robert O'Connor
After his family is murdered by bandits, a young man enlists a wandering cowboy to teach him to gunsling.
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Nido De Aguilas (1965)
Character: N/A
Driven from their homestead by bandits, three brothers and sisters form an outlaw crew of their own and hide out in the mountains, orchestrating their revenge.
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Bodas de fuego (1951)
Character: N/A
When the doctor's city girlfriend falls ill, a handsome rancher takes her to his ranch to get better. It's a disastrous decision, as he and the lady begin to fall in love and secretly meet. As the wedding day approaches, Rodolfo tries to make her forget about the doctor for the sake of his love.
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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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Remolino (1961)
Character: N/A
Young woman manipulates all three of the men of the hacienda, planning to marry the father and play with one or both of the young ones.
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La bestia negra (1939)
Character: Rielero (uncredited)
Two train drivers find a little girl who escaped from a circus due to mistreatment and one of them decides to adopt her.
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Yo El Valiente (1964)
Character: N/A
A young man wants to create a reputation for himself as a gunslinger; an older mentor tries to warn him that he's making life decisions he'll regret and never be able to undo.
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Medianoche (1949)
Character: Comandante Enrique Robles
A diamond smuggler from the city is on the lam and takes the identity of a rural schoolteacher, teaching in a small town.
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Nunca es tarde para amar (1953)
Character: N/A
A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.
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La casa chica (1950)
Character: Carlos Villanueva
Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the town where she lived. They worked together and became his love. Although he was engaged to another, Fernando decided to return to the city to complete his commitment to her and finally reunited with Amalia, but the facts do not happen as they had planned.
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De carne somos (1955)
Character: Doroteo
Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
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Bodas de oro (1956)
Character: N/A
On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage
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Un Ángel de la Calle (1967)
Character: Padre Antonio
Doña Margarita, a lady of high society, wants for her son Pablo a wife of the same social level. He, however, loves the dressmaker’s daughter, whom he secretly marries thanks to the services of a priest friend. The couple must continue fighting against the matron’s crooked plans, until in an unfortunate accident, Pablo kills his wife’s stepfather and must flee to Europe. Years pass, and Pablo is unaware that he has a son. When he finally returns, thanks to the child, he reunites with the love of his life and definitively puts an end to the perverse plans of his mother.
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La familia Pérez (1949)
Character: Toribio Sánchez
Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money.
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El gallo colorado (1957)
Character: N/A
A young street vendor who is a cockfighting aficionado, attracted by the image of one of them, settles on the ranch of its owner where he falls in love with the foreman's daughter. All the problems happen and some that afflicted the ranch in the past are solved by him.
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La hija del ministro (1952)
Character: N/A
A young bureaucrat's career takes off when it's believed he's keeping company with the daughter of a higher-ranking official.
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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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Virgen de medianoche (1942)
Character: Cantinero (sin créditos)
A gangster melodrama set in the slums of Mexico City, following the criminal exploits of a fur smuggler and his attraction to an innocent but determined young woman.
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El tesoro de Atahualpa (1968)
Character: N/A
Mexican medical researchers are lost in a plane crash in the Amazon basin, which triggers a whole bunch of adventure-movie subplots.
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La vírgen roja (1943)
Character: N/A
Aurora’s life changes when her younger sister is brutally assaulted and killed. Seeking justice, she tracks down the attacker and kills him, then escapes the law and rises as the feared outlaw “The Red Virgin".
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Extraña cita (1947)
Character: Esteban (chofer)
After her father's death, María Eugenia is pressured by Don Remigio Pérez who her father owed debts to, to marry her. Instead, the kindly Roberto de los Ríos pays off her debts and she goes to live at his country house with his two twin nephews Carlos and Leonardo. However, she faces an attempt to murder.
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Variedades de medianoche (1960)
Character: N/A
Two unknown performers try to break into television. Meanwhile, a guy that calls himself 'El Vengador' is doing a Phantom of the Opera number on the studio executives...
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Cuatro contra el mundo (1950)
Character: Comandante Canseco
After ambushing a brewery’s money truck, four gangsters hide out in the attic of a gangster’s lover while the police search the city. As the heat closes in, jealousy, desire, and mistrust begin to fracture the gang from within.
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Ángeles de arrabal (1949)
Character: El aguador
A thief commits several misdeeds and, to mislead the police, keeps jewelry in the house of his fiancée, whom he seduces to prevent her from discovering the theft.
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Atrás de las nubes (1962)
Character: Chofer de carruaje
All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...
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El Yaqui (1969)
Character: Pedro
A young Yaqui man fights against intolerant townspeople.
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La guerrillera de Villa (1967)
Character: General Pancho Villa
Reyes Mendoza (Carmen Sevilla) is a Spanish artist who arrives in Mexico in 1913 and finds herself involved in the Pancho Villa (Jose Elias Moreno) revolution.
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Aventura al centro de la tierra (1965)
Character: Profesor Díaz
After a young man is killed in an unexplored subterranean cavern and his girlfriend driven mad by something she saw there, a track found at the scene cannot be identified with any known animal and thus a scientific expedition is launched to find out just what it is that is living there.
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A la sombra del puente (1948)
Character: Policía (uncredited)
In this Mexican version of Winterset (inspired by the 20s Sacco Vanzetti case) an idealistic youth searches for the culprit behind a crime that his father was wrongly accused of several years before.
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Así es mi tierra (1937)
Character: Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life.
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Jesús de Nazareth (1942)
Character: Barrabas
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
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Los Tres Mosqueteros (1942)
Character: Portos
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
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Una cita de amor (1958)
Character: Juez de Acordada
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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La casa del ogro (1939)
Character: Invitado al baile (uncredited)
Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
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Viento negro (1965)
Character: Lorenzo Montes
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
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La bestia magnifica (1953)
Character: Maravilla Lopez
Two very good friends become wrestlers to leave poverty behind, but the arrival of an ambitious woman will tragically change their destinies.
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El río y la muerte (1954)
Character: Don Nemesio
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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Dos tipos de cuidado (1953)
Character: El General
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
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Rage (1966)
Character: Fortunato
Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
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El padrecito (1964)
Character: Don Silvestre
Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
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Pulgarcito (1958)
Character: The Ogre
A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.
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Reportaje (1953)
Character: Mariachi
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Bugambilia (1945)
Character: Socio de Ricardo
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.
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La sombra del Caudillo (1960)
Character: Gobernador Catarino Ibáñez
In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
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El pasajero diez mil (1946)
Character: N/A
Shipboard romance/comedy between a female executive and a guy with a lot of buttons on his tunic.
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Santa Claus (1959)
Character: Santa Claus
Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to save the day!
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La virgen que forjó una patria (1942)
Character: Capitán Ordaz
On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
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El barbero prodigioso (1942)
Character: Principal accionista (sin créditos)
Benedito the barber, mocked by everyone in the village, lathers the head of a blind customer just as the man regains his sight. Benedito becomes a celebrity, and everyone seeks his services.
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Doña Perfecta (1951)
Character: Cristóbal Ramos
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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Espaldas mojadas (1955)
Character: Frank Mendoza
Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life. English translation of title is “Wet Backs”.
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El 7 leguas (1955)
Character: Don Pioquinto
Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.
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Los desarraigados (1960)
Character: N/A
Family in crisis: the American Dream collapses for four members of a Mexican family in Texas, all at the same time.
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Caperucita y Pulgarcito contra los monstruos (1962)
Character: El Ogro
The film follows adventures of Little Red Riding Hood (Maria Gracia) and Tom Thumb (Cesaro Quezadas) and their friends, fighting against the wicked Witch Queen (Ofelia Guilmáin) and her band of monsters. The film starts at the meeting of the evil monsters in the castle in the Haunted Forest, heart of the Devil's dominion, during which the Vampire (Quintín Bulnes) accuses the Wolf (Manuel Valdés) and the Ogre (José Elías Moreno) of betraying the Witch Queen (La Reina Bruja, renamed Queen of Badness in the English dub), who orders them to ber executed. Their friend Stinky the Skunk (Santanón) however escapes and informs Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, who promise to help. Meanwhile, the Queen and her sister the Old Witch cast a terrible curse, turning villagers into monkeys and mice for trying to defy her magic. The rest of the story details the heroes' quest to conquer evil.
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El rapto (1954)
Character: Don Constancio
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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Soy un prófugo (1946)
Character: Gargantúa / El Pimpón
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
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El Siete Machos (1951)
Character: El Chacal
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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Flor silvestre (1943)
Character: Coronel Pánfilo Rodríguez
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
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Al rojo vivo (1969)
Character: N/A
Three parallel romances among young people working in a steel mill.
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Los Gavilanes (1956)
Character: N/A
The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes, a group of men who live live hidden and looting to give to the poor. Revenge, love and hate will at the end bring out the truth and everyone will get what he deserves.
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La loba (1965)
Character: Professor Fernandez
Professor Fernandez is studying the metamorphosis in living organisms to cure his daughter of a strange disease that occurs in full moon nights.
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Las tres perfectas casadas (1953)
Character: Máximo
Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
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Los hermanos Del Hierro (1961)
Character: Don Refugio
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
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La Valentina (1966)
Character: Don Juna Zúñiga
A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."
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Águila o sol (1938)
Character: (uncredited)
When three orphans that were raised together and love like brothers knows about plans to be separated and work outside, they escape and live in the street. They sell lottery and newspapers. When older, they became artists.
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