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Sor Batalla (1990)
Character: N/A
As punishment for participating in a game show a nun is sent to a small town. The chief and presidential hopeful municipal Instead, a pinko comecuras that attacks capitalism and refuses to let children be vaccinated and go to school, is opposed to the presence of the newcomer, but as the religious conquest people and helps to rescue the kidnapped daughter of the chief, the evil becomes good.
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El hijo del viento (1986)
Character: N/A
Young heiress has an illegitimate baby, and only two people are in on the secret. Twenty years later...
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La tumba de Matías (1988)
Character: N/A
Gambler with a heart condition races the clock to get his mausoleum finished. His wife and her lover wait on the sidelines.
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Los inocentes (1961)
Character: N/A
Three party-animal cowboys are hired by a dying man to bring his daughter to meet him.
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Aquí está Heraclio Bernal (1958)
Character: N/A
Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series.
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Las tres pelonas (1958)
Character: N/A
Pseudo-historical drama about a semi-civilian who decides to run guns across the border for Villa's troops.
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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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El renegado blanco (1960)
Character: N/A
Cowboy comedy turns serious and adventure-y in the middle. Sequel to Los hermanos diablo.
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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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Alma grande (1966)
Character: N/A
Yaqui Indian fights for justice in Northern Mexico. Adaptation of popular comic-book, first in series.
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Vuelve el Norteño (1964)
Character: N/A
Two rival gangs of outlaws are terrorizing a small town; el Comandante and his sidekicks pit them against each other and pick up the pieces.
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¡Qué bonito amor! (1960)
Character: N/A
Bride backs out of her wedding at the last possible minute; she and her fiance get caught up in a power-struggle that ends with both running for mayor.
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Simplemente vivir (1970)
Character: N/A
Lawyer and his secretary enter into a midlife marriage, deal with complications coming from their adult children and the former partners of each.
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Furias bajo el cielo (1971)
Character: N/A
Five inmates escape Death Row and hole up with their women in the ruins of an abandoned hacienda.
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Estoy sentenciado a muerte (1983)
Character: N/A
When his father dies, a Colombin child decides to go to Mexico to find his grandfather. And become a ranchera singer.
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Juan guerrero (1963)
Character: N/A
Government official in charge of land grants for tenant farmers gets into a ruckus with the feisty daughter of a landower whose estate is up for redistribution.
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El norteño (1963)
Character: N/A
Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.
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Las figuras de arena (1970)
Character: N/A
Separated Mom, Dad and son all come into conflict with each other during a brief reunion visit. Everyone learns and grows.
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Los siete proscritos (1969)
Character: N/A
A motley crew of seven outlaws are pressed into service to defend a town from marauding Apaches, then two of them are appointed co-Sheriffs. Also some stuff about hunting for a lost treasure.
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Fuera de la ley (1966)
Character: N/A
Three outlaws get arrested, and the fourth tries several times to break them out of jail. Also, there are can-can girls.
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Los pepenadores de aca (1985)
Character: N/A
Street-vendor believes he's wanted for a murder he didn't commit, so he hides among the "gleaners" at the city dump.
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La emboscada mortal (1962)
Character: N/A
Third film of a trilogy -- all the secondary tasks have been completed and cowboy-justice-action-hero El Norteno settles the score with those cheating cheaters who deprived the young heiress of her inheritance.
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Que Te Vaya Bonito (1978)
Character: N/A
Roman a clef, based on the final years of the life of singer/songwriter Jose Alfredo Jimenez.
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Venganza Apache (1960)
Character: N/A
Three good guys vs a bad dude who sells weapons to the Apaches and provokes a range war between US Cavalry and a splinter group of tribesmen, breaking the standing treaty between their tribe and the invaders. Sequel to Los Hermanos Diablo.
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La Dinastía de Los Pérez (1994)
Character: N/A
After the deadly conflict between the Perez and the Orozco dynasties, only 3 remain. Eric Orozco, and 2 of the Perez, Gabino and Jesus.
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Flor de durazno (1970)
Character: Don Germán
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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El juicio de Martín Cortés (1974)
Character: Licenciado Alfredo Requena
A politically-themed stage play provokes a murder. Police detective walks the cast through a reenactment of their performance as a way of investigating the crime.
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¡Que viva Tepito! (1981)
Character: Ramón
Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring blocks cope with the loss and arrange her funeral.
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Corazón de niño (1963)
Character: The 202
The story tells us about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die, entrusts his sixth-grade class to a colleague who had also been his student. Asking him to help them so that they could survive.
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Tres noches de locura (1970)
Character: David (episodio "Luisa")
Anthology movie, episodes about three women who undergo stressful experiences that cause their minds to snap.
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Cita con la muerte (1989)
Character: Don Alfredo
A horror anthology composed of four episodes from the TV series "La Hora Marcada".
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La guerrera vengadora (1988)
Character: Comte. Treviño
A chemistry teacher decides to take matters into her own hands when her brother is murdered and the police cannot help her.
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Don Juan 67 (1967)
Character: Dimas
Mauricio, millionaire, and irreclaimable Don Juan, lives only for and to seduce women of every class and condition. With the help of his butler manages to capture the hearts of many to abandon and then having a panic marriage.
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Héroe a la fuerza (1964)
Character: N/A
Child suffers a brain injury and falls into a coma. When he regains consciousness, twenty years later, he has to deal with having become a grown-up 'overnight'.
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La risa trabajando (1994)
Character: N/A
A series of comedy skits performed by some of Mexico's more popular comedians and actors.
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Tierra de violencia (1966)
Character: N/A
Western sheriff's black-sheep son becomes responsible for keeping order in town while his father is recovering from a gunshot.
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Que me maten en tus brazos (1961)
Character: N/A
Card-shark takes a job as bodyguard-bouncer-etcetera in an upscale casino. Meanhile, a love triangle and the Mexican Revolution.
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Los hermanos Diablo (1959)
Character: N/A
The three Diablo brothers are effete dandies who love chamber music and afternoon tea... but they also love brawling and whoring and all that wild west stuff. They inherit a ranch, and all hell breaks loose when they go to take ownership of it.
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Sangre en Rio Bravo (1966)
Character: Doctor Ramos
Foreign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and dispossessed and they become outlaws in revenge.
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Tres amigos (1970)
Character: N/A
Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.
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La trenza (1975)
Character: Don Martin
A town confused by religion persecutes a woman who stole the braid from the statue of the Virgin.
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Tirando a gol (1966)
Character: Felipe
Blended family comedy/drama -- the narrative hook is that the two original families are fans of opposing soccer teams.
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Canción del alma (1964)
Character: N/A
Life in a theatre-people hotel, mostly focusing on a singer and her young-adult daughter who just graduated from an expensive private school.
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Mariachi - Fiesta de sangre (1977)
Character: Silvestre Vargas
Tells the story of the formation of Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, spanning three generations: the grandfather, Amado Vargas; the father, Gaspar Vargas; and the son, Silvestre Vargas.
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Primera Comunión (1969)
Character: N/A
A very humble boy longs conditions make their first communion, but circumstances do not allow it until, after a tragic accident, Paco Malgesto and a group of people who help make his dream.
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El negocio del odio (1972)
Character: Leonardo
An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion.
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Un hombre salvaje (1993)
Character: Comandante Vega
A street brawler becomes a cop after his best friend is murdered. He finds out his killers, drug traffickers and cops are one and the same and his mortal enemies.
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El bracero del año (1964)
Character: Joe Martínez
The movie theme is the migration of Mexicans to the United States in search of the "American dream". Piporro crosses the Rio Grande swimming illegally, and lives a series of events that lead him from walking away from the police to winning the award for "Bracero of the Year" for his work in the harvest. Prize that he will lose before returning to Mexico just as he had gone: no money in the bag.
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Primero el dólar (1972)
Character: N/A
In a spectacular manhunt, a band of outlaws race cross-country with a million dollars and a newly married couple. A dramatic story of greed and sexual passion for the possession of a large fortune and the love of a brave and beautiful woman.
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Sonatas (1959)
Character: Teniente Elizondo
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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Muerte a sangre fría (1978)
Character: N/A
A man is murdered. His father tracks the killer, hoping to get revenge before the police capture him. What happened to cause his son's death is gradually revealed.
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Cinco en la cárcel (1968)
Character: N/A
Five criminals are arrested after a bank-robbery. One escapes, and the police officer in charge of transporting them arrests a new person at random to cover up for his negligence.
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La Puerta Negra (1988)
Character: N/A
A horse breeder needs to acquire his rival's horse at the same time protecting his three beautiful daughters from marrying three musicians who work for his rival.
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Ante el cadáver de un líder (1974)
Character: Lic. Requena
A union leader dies in a sleazy hotel room, then the wife, mistress, police, co workers, reporters, colleagues, and political figures arrive to the hotel and each has its own intentions.
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El Corrido de los Perez (1992)
Character: N/A
Two families are united by economic interests until one day the rancher Mariano Pérez tires of this union, leading to misunderstandings and a tragic event.
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Las Fuerzas Vivas (1975)
Character: N/A
It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.
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La casa del Sur (1976)
Character: Don Augusto Rojas
Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.
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Un hombre en la trampa (1965)
Character: N/A
Odyssey of a man involved in a criminal activity, which leads him to his moral and material failure.
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La sangre enemiga (1971)
Character: Esteban, the Hunchback Clown
A group of people suffering from mental retardation, blindness and physical malformations work in a traveling circus.
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Aventura al centro de la tierra (1965)
Character: Jaime Rocha
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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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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Rosa blanca (1972)
Character: Secretario de la CTM
An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property.
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El gran perro muerto (1981)
Character: Don Lorenzo
In a small town a dead dog lays on the middle of the main street. A bureaucratic process begins to determine who is responsible for removing it
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Vuelven los Argumedo (1963)
Character: N/A
The Argumedo cousins have their clothes stolen while taking a shower, and they must find it at all costs, because there's a winning lottery ticket in their pockets.
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Ánimas Trujano (1961)
Character: Criton
Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his village, a place of great honor usually conferred upon the wealthiest and most respected citizens. Animas has a loyal wife, but cheats on her and gambles away every cent they raise. Chances arise for Animas to turn over a new leaf and even hope realistically for the honor of mayordomio.
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Viento negro (1965)
Character: Manuel Iglesias
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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El Siete de Copas (1960)
Character: El jugador
Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance.
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Rage (1966)
Character: Pancho
Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
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Museo del Horror (1964)
Character: Commissioner
A mysterious killer abducts girls off the street and covers them in wax.
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Domingo salvaje (1967)
Character: Jaime Cuéllar
Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
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Joselito vagabundo (1966)
Character: Fair (butler)
Rene, a street urchin, is coerced by the head of a gang of thieves, Frank, who wants to force him to remain in their organization. One day, Rene meets Anita, a young aristocrat to whom Frank attempted to rob. And because she feels sympathy for him, the boy will have the opportunity to change his life and leave the country to make a deal with a rich heir, Fernando de Ponce, which proposes Rene to supplant him before his old aunt, who does not know him.
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La Cucaracha (1959)
Character: Coronel Ricardo Zúñiga
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
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El gángster (1965)
Character: Joe Gatillo
An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family.
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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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Nazarín (1959)
Character: Juan
A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
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Emiliano Zapata (1970)
Character: Pancho Villa
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
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Stick (1985)
Character: Luis
After getting out of jail, car thief Ernest "Stick" Stickley witnesses the murder of his friend Rainy during a drug deal. To avoid getting killed by the same people, who work for mobster Chucky, Stick gets a job as a chauffeur for millionaire Barry Braham and lies low. As he gets used to his new routine, Stick woos Barry's financial consultant, Kyle McClaren, but must fight back when Chucky's men come after him.
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Torero por un día (1963)
Character: José
El Piporro, desperate to earn more money, decides to fight and put his skills to the test in the rodeo using a nickname.
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Las siete cucas (1981)
Character: Cuco
A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere.
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Maten al León (1977)
Character: Mariscal Belaunzáran
A pilot is called back to his homeland, the Latin American republic of Arepa, by the rich islanders to participate in a complot to kill the dictator known as El León (The Lion).
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La Joven Mancornadora (1961)
Character: N/A
Young woman disguised as a man sets out to kill two brothers that she believes cheated her father out of his property. She discovers they were innocent of that, and takes a job on their farm, provoking some gender-fluid wooing confusion from both of them.
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Los 3 reyes magos (1976)
Character: N/A
The Three Wise Men, Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthazar, set off for Bethlehem to worship the newborn Jesus, but the devil, in the guise of Prince Olbaid, decides to hinder the Kings' journey with the help of the devil Murcio, creating problems at every turn.
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El puma (1959)
Character: N/A
Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series.
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Presagio (1974)
Character: Tomas
While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.
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Miércoles de ceniza (1958)
Character: Enrique
1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.
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Los hermanos Del Hierro (1961)
Character: Manuel Cárdenas
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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Mi alma por un amor (1964)
Character: N/A
Crushed-out octogenarian makes a pact with the devil so he can make time with his sixteen-year-old sweetie.
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Cautivo del mas allá (1968)
Character: Detective Méndez
Vicky loves Ricardo but Ricardo loves Barbara. So, Vicky goes to a gypsy witch who convinces her she must make a pact with Satan in order to cast an effective love spell on Ricardo. After Vicky gives her body and soul to the Dark One, she engages with Ricardo in a passionate night of lovemaking that is cut short by Satan, who, sensing that Ricardo has not completely fallen under the spell, orders Vicky to kill him. Following Ricardo's death, his brother Carlos is haunted by nightmares of the dead sibling, who appears and takes possession of Carlos in order to get his revenge on Vicky.
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El muro del silencio (1974)
Character: Jorge
Regina, who lives with her son Daniel, loses her teaching job because his illegitimacy. She opens a sewing shop and keeps her child away from people. The movie narrates the dramatic relationship between a mother, her illegitimate child and the puritanical society around them.
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