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Quinto patio (1950)
Character: N/A
Model son/employee/student is frustrated by poverty and surrenders to the temptations of a criminal lifestyle... in the same gang that twenty years earlier murdered his father OMG. Meanwhile his sister. Meanwhile his mother.
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La entrega (1954)
Character: Empleado banco (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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La estrella vacía (1960)
Character: Doctor
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
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Cuando los hijos se van (1969)
Character: Cliente de Amalia (uncredited)
Federico announces that his dream is to become a great singer; his father does not take it well and gradually distances himself from him. Federico is forced to leave his beautiful home after being accused of theft.
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La vida tiene tres días (1955)
Character: Invitado a reunión (uncredited)
María dreams of going to the capital to study piano and begins exchanging letters with Alberto, a composer. He takes advantage of the situation by sending his family away so he can deceive María and make her fall in love with him.
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Monte de piedad (1951)
Character: Hampon compra medallón
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 rosa blanca (1954)
Character: Fermín Valdés Domínguez
For the centenary of Cuban patriot Jose Marti, the 1950s pre-Castro dictator Batista collected funds for an official film commemoration and hired renowned director Fernandez from Mexico to erect this memorial work.
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Camelia (1954)
Character: Redactor de candilejas (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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Piel canela (1953)
Character: N/A
Marucha (Sarita Montiel) has had a shattered face since childhood, but she has a beautiful figure and covers half of her face with her hair. She is a singer and performs in neighborhood theaters. Marucha and Ramon are professionals in crime.
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Para siempre amor mío (1955)
Character: N/A
A man, annoyed by his wife's interference in the family business, travels to Spain, where he becomes involved with another woman.
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El negocio del odio (1972)
Character: N/A
An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion.
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Noche de perdición (1951)
Character: Amigo de Armando (uncredited)
A dancer is accused of killing a businessman. When her husband finds out, he decides to take her kid away from her.
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Con el Dedo en el Gatillo (1958)
Character: Luciano
The Private detective Raúl Marín with the help of his grandmother and the police commander Aragón try to find out the murder of several homicides in three episodes: El Anónimo, El Ídolo and El Hipnotizador.
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Cuatro noches contigo (1952)
Character: Joaquín de Orizaba
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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Triángulo (1972)
Character: Abogado de Diana
The story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun.
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Cri-Cri el Grillito Cantor (1963)
Character: Cliente en restaurante (uncredited)
Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
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El profe (1971)
Character: Profesor casado (uncredited)
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.
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Los Campeones Justicieros (1971)
Character: N/A
Blue Demon and pals square off against the Black Hand's army of super powered midgets. Five luchadores (Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, El Medico Asesino, La Sombra Vengadora, Tinieblas plus Black Shadow) face off against a mad scientist and his army of powerful wrestling midgets.
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El analfabeto (1961)
Character: Empleado del banco (uncredited)
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
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Su Excelencia (1967)
Character: Secretario (uncredited)
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
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Esposa te doy (1957)
Character: Mesero (uncredited)
Chofi marry Alberto and very much in love, but her mother continues to intervene in the couple's relationship, which will lead to divorce.
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Reportaje (1953)
Character: Waiter
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Huracán Ramírez (1953)
Character: Empleado cabaret
Family comedy and family melodrama involving father and son wrestlers, little brothers, little sisters, girlfriends, waitresses...
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Santo vs. las mujeres vampiro (1962)
Character: N/A
A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.
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Gutierritos (1959)
Character: Doctor
Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.
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La primavera de los escorpiones (1971)
Character: Periodista
A lady photographer and her preteen son on vacation at a beautiful Mexican resort, befriend two men whose homosexual relationship is going through some tough times.
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¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer? (1951)
Character: Pretendiente de Marianela (uncredited)
This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.
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El bueno para nada (1973)
Character: Trabajador de procuraduría
Bumbling inventor/jack of all trades does sketch-comedy stuff for 65 minutes, then rescues Mexico City from a Mad Scientist triggering earthquakes.
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A.T.M. ¡A toda máquina! (1951)
Character: Hombre escandaloso (uncredited)
A drifter lands a job as an officer in México City's elite motorcycle police unit and gets home with a mate of this unit. The mate is in love with a girl, but he and she are always making jealous to each other. The drifter and the mate get involved themselves in a fight to become the winner of conquering ladies and performing unit acrobatic tricks, interfering with their friendship and profession.
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El Extra (1962)
Character: Asistente de director escena azteca
Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.
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Ensayo de un crimen (1955)
Character: Draftsman (uncredited)
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
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Santo y Blue Demon contra el doctor Frankenstein (1974)
Character: Dr. Mora
Innocent women are being kidnapped and used as guinea pigs for a brain transplant experiment. The diabolical Dr. Frankenstein continues his quest to perfect his brain transplant operation to bring back his deceased wife at any cost - even if it means playing with the lives of others. El Santo and Blue Demon are called in to help when their friend Alicia becomes Dr. Frankenstein's next target. It'll take both heroes to go up against the dastardly doctor and go mano a mano with his super strong zombie Golem.
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El metiche (1972)
Character: N/A
Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
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Conserje en condominio (1974)
Character: Vecino (uncredited)
After reading in the newspaper, Úrsulo runs to seek employment. It is the position of caretaker of a luxury apartment building habited by people more heterogeneous: the professional model, the spiritualist, hippies and all turn to him to solve their problems. But someone in the building, kidnapped an important person and Úrsulo becomes a private investigator.
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