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Flor de caña (1948)
Character: N/A
Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
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Café de chinos (1949)
Character: N/A
Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.
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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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Guadalupe La Chinaca (1938)
Character: N/A
1830s: An officer from the French army and a leader of the insurgency are both in love with Ms. Guadalupe.
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Caminito alegre (1944)
Character: N/A
An elderly homeless man is welcomed into an Old Folks' Home and becomes acquainted with the dramas of several of his companions.
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Sangre en el barrio (1952)
Character: N/A
Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.
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Yo también soy de Jalisco (1950)
Character: N/A
A dizzy rich woman buys their horse, and three rubes get involved in the problems and intrigues brewing in her household.
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La bienamada (1951)
Character: N/A
Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n...
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El gallero (1948)
Character: N/A
In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.
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Resurrección (1931)
Character: N/A
Simultaneously shot Spanish version of Tolstoy adaptation: After a woman he has formerly mistreated is sentenced for a crime a man who was part of her jury joins her on the trip to Siberia to expatiate his guilt.
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La casa de la Troya (1948)
Character: Don Servando
Adaptation of the novel by Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures in Santiago de Compostela of Gerardo Roquer from Madrid, who stays in a boarding house known as "La Casa de la Troya".
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El que tenga un amor (1942)
Character: N/A
Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that awaits him in his hometown.
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Miente y serás feliz (1940)
Character: Doctor
A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...
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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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Don Juan diplomático (1931)
Character: Doctor
The ambassador of a Ruritanian land charges his attache with cozying up to the wife of the war minister, to get her to make her husband change his mind on a treaty he opposes.Complications both political and romantic ensue.
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El muchacho alegre (1948)
Character: N/A
Boisterous young charro has to prove to his girlfriend's parents that he's ready to settle down and be a responsible adult... but then somebody frames him for a murder and he has more immediate problems to deal with.
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Flor de durazno (1945)
Character: Padre Filemón
City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.
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La vorágine: abismos de amor (1949)
Character: N/A
It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.
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Un gallo en corral ajeno (1952)
Character: Don Raymundo
A wealthy sculptor takes in a thief as a servant on her ranch, hoping to reshape him, but their situation is disrupted when she discovers a major robbery has taken place on her estate.
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Almas rebeldes (1937)
Character: N/A
Mexican Revolution: a small squadron of insurgents are chosen to trek to US border and pick up an arms shipment.
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Morenita clara (1943)
Character: Padre Jesús
Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.
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La negra Angustias (1950)
Character: Antón Farrera
When her father dies, a young Afro-Mexican woman joins the Revolution, the way he was planning to do, and becomes the leader of a Zapatista battalion.
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Cada loco con su tema (1939)
Character: Severo - Cedronio Conquián
Julio Cesar (Enrique Herrera), writer of soap operas, is very upset nerves. Dr. Jimenez (Alberto Galán) recommends an institution that will give he a therapy to cure these scares. To avoid exposure to bad publicity, is camouflaged by the pseudonym Justiniano Conquian . By chance, a taxidermist (Joaquin Pardavé) also named. His case is different: it is a millionaire heir heritage potential, but will only be legally recognized if it meets a peculiar condition in the will, having to spend a whole month in the gloomy castle Conquian, competing with other heirs of fortune. Dr. Jimenez is bribed by a cousin of Justinian to send the false Conquian scares Castle into thinking that is the sanatorium.
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Río escondido (1948)
Character: Marcelino
Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.
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Viva Mi Desgracia (1944)
Character: Don Doroteo
After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
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María Montecristo (1951)
Character: Profesor Fabré
Rich woman manouevres in secret to restore her dead father's good reputation.
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Drácula (1931)
Character: Van Helsing
A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves the agent and drives him to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.
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El circo (1943)
Character: Coronel (as E. Arozamena)
A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlfriend.
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Doña Bárbara (1943)
Character: Melesio Sandoval
A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.
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Los de abajo (1940)
Character: Venancio
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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La Mujer Que Yo Perdí (1949)
Character: Abuelo
A political revolutionary fights against injustice, his adoring wife by his side. But only in her death does he realize the depth of her love for him and their country. A dramatic romance from the 23 film library of the most iconic classic Mexican film and recording star, Pedro Infante.
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La soñadora (1917)
Character: N/A
La soñadora ("The Dreamer") is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.
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Con su amable permiso (1940)
Character: N/A
Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.
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Maclovia (1948)
Character: Cabo Mendoza
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.
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El gendarme desconocido (1941)
Character: (uncredited)
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
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The Torch (1950)
Character: Don Joaquín
The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as the girl is concerned, but this will soon change.
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Flor silvestre (1943)
Character: Melchor
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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La malquerida (1949)
Character: Pastor
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.
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Lluvia roja (1950)
Character: Shopman
Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.
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Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra (1943)
Character: Señor Salas
In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
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Ahí está el detalle (1940)
Character: Juez sordo
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
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Un día de vida (1950)
Character: Pomposo
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.
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Enamorada (1946)
Character: Mayor Joaquín Gómez
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
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El Suavecito (1951)
Character: Sr. Soto
Charming but unreliable, Roberto has earned his nickname "El Suavecito" through his constant flirtations and the easy way he moves through life, even when it causes pain to his devoted aging mother and his beautiful neighbor Lupita, who resists his overtures in the hopes he can learn to settle down and behave. When Lupita gains a steady and honest suitor in Carlos, El Suavecito can't resist trying to foul his chances with the help of the unscrupulous gambler "El Nene"--but it all goes badly wrong. This neglected noir asks whether a morally impoverished gangster is capable of redemption.
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