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La Panchita (1949)
Character: N/A
Flirty young farmgirl has five or six suitors to choose between.
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El túnel 6 (1955)
Character: N/A
Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide.
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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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Pedro infante vive? (1991)
Character: N/A
Reporter/photographer covering a Pedro Infante commemorative event discover an uncanny look-alike lurking on the periphery.
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Traigo la sangre caliente (1977)
Character: N/A
Footloose roving-gambler type marries a young woman against her father's wishes; she assimilates herself to his rootless, random lifestyle, but her family is working to track them down. Eventually, he decides to settle down and lead a more responsible life, home-and-family style... and then...
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Venus de fuego (1949)
Character: N/A
Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy in her orbit convinces the nice boy to do crimes so he'll have enough money to move in her circle.
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Talpa (1956)
Character: Tanilo
Produced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of the siblings, Tanilo (Victor Manuel Mendoza) is a well-to-do family man; the other, Estaban (Jamie Fernandez), is one step above a wastrel. When Tanilo is felled by illness, Estaban is forced to take over the family's blacksmith business. He also inaugurates a romance with Tanilo's attractive young wife Juana (Lilia Prado). Punishment is eventually doled out in a manner which suggests that God Himself is exacting retribution on the adulterous couple. Originally released at 87 minutes, Talpa was pared down to 73 minutes for American consumption.
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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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Pervertida (1946)
Character: N/A
A country girl finds herself working as a prostitute, but her true love, a musician, comes looking for her. She must fight a cabaret dancer for his love.
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María la Voz (1955)
Character: Pablo Canefa "El espejo"
A small-town woman with psychic sensitivities gets tangled up in the blood-feud between two families and in a romantic rivalry with her best friend.
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El Tigre De Santa Julia (1974)
Character: N/A
Band of ex-soldiers embark on a life of crime; their leader, meanwhile, wants to track down the man who murdered his parents.
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Y si ella volviera (1957)
Character: Guillermo
Fishing captain suspects his wife of infidelity and runs her off. He sours on female companionship, but he gradually warms to the company of his village's new schoolteacher. Meanwhile...
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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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Santa (1943)
Character: Marcelino
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito.
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Las puertas del paraíso (1971)
Character: N/A
Due to betting problems, Andrés and his lover, Blanca, flee the city and travel through several states of the country; During their journey they get involved with a couple of hippies with whom they live for a time until the tragedy is complete.
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La extraña pasajera (1953)
Character: Rodolfo Castillo
During a long train trip, the Police has discovered jewelries in the personal bag of an actress, but she turns out to be innocent.
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La soldadera (1967)
Character: Major Castro Virgen
While waiting for a train which will take them on their honeymoon, two newlyweds, Juan and Lázara, are separated by a federal army commander who is going around enlisting men to fight against the revolutionaries. Traveling with the troops, Lázara follows Juan until he dies in a battle against the Villistas. From that moment on, the young woman's fate will be in the hands of whoever happens to win the latest contest, an uncertain fate for someone whose only wish is for a home of her own.
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¡Qué lindo es Michoacán! (1943)
Character: Roque
When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
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Cowboy (1958)
Character: Paco Mendoza, Ramrod
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...
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La otra virginidad (1975)
Character: Don Luis / Adrián's Father
Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis.
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Reportaje (1953)
Character: García, Press operator
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Les Orgueilleux (1953)
Character: Don Rodrigo
Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.
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Susana (1951)
Character: Jesus
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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La sombra del Caudillo (1960)
Character: General Elizondo
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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The Black Pirates (1954)
Character: Castro
Pirates searching for treasure take over a small town in Central America where they believe the loot is buried, but discover that a church has been built over the spot. They force the townspeople to dig for it, but there are more surprises in store for them than they counted on.
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Los tres García (1947)
Character: Luis Manuel García
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
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Vuelven los García (1947)
Character: Luis Manuel García (as Victor M. Mendoza)
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
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The Wonderful Country (1959)
Character: General Marcos Castro
Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self-defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.
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El ametralladora (1943)
Character: Felipe Carvajal
Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.
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¡Ay, Carmela! (1990)
Character: Oficial (As Victor Mendoza)
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.
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Los hermanos Del Hierro (1961)
Character: Fidencio Cruz
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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Garden of Evil (1954)
Character: Vicente Madariaga
A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.
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