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El ropavejero (1947)
Character: N/A
Cirilo, a used clothes dealer, falls in love with Maria, who works as a cook in a house. One day they find by chance in the basement something that will change their lives.
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El lunar de la familia (1953)
Character: N/A
Fernando Mendez's 1953 Spanish-language melodrama El Lunar de la Familia unfurls against the backdrop of a deceptively innocent-sounding family reunion. Two freewheeling, party-happy young men, Luis and his buddy Antonio, catch the train in to San Miguel, on a visit to Luis's grandmother, Doña Luisa, and his sister Esther. Unfortunately for the visitors, Luisa's goddaughter Rosita, is sitting near them in the same train car. She soon catches wind of the boys' wild tendencies, and makes a point of telling Luisa. Furious, the crotchety old woman decides to teach the bad boys a lesson by beating them senseless with her cane and forcing Luis to seek out a proper mate for Esther. Unfortunately, Esther has already fallen in love with Antonio - who could care less.
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El Capitan Aventurero (1939)
Character: Catalina, corregidora
Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations in order to save the love of his life, Carmina (Manolita Saval), who is engaged to marry a terrible nobleman. Based upon the libretto "Don Gil de Alcala" by Manuel Penella, this classic black-and-white romance also stars Margarita Mora, Carlos Orellana and Sara García.
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Los Cristeros (1947)
Character: N/A
When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family.
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Dueña y señora (1948)
Character: N/A
After his wife dies, the master of the house can... maybe... acknowledge that he had children with the houseekeeper. But will he?
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El buena suerte (1961)
Character: N/A
An acquaintance from Venezuela visits the owner of a Mexican ranch, causes upheavals in the love-life of the foreman.
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Como gallos de pelea (1977)
Character: N/A
Young man returns from college to his family estate; when he learns that a rival family is trying to take over all available acreage, he gradually warms up to the idea of defending his turf.
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Flor marchita (1969)
Character: Paula la nana
Adult seduces and abandons a teenaged girl, she has a baby. Fifteen years later...
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¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla! (1946)
Character: Doña Severa
Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
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La abuelita (1942)
Character: N/A
Granny rules the roost, but little sister's a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she wears make-up, she goes out un-chaperoned... Granny sees her rubbing up against a married man and it shatters her health.
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Misericordia (1953)
Character: N/A
Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on behalf of sick and disabled friends. Is there no end to her nobility of spirit?
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Nadie te querrá como yo (1972)
Character: N/A
A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God's glorious plan.
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Novia a la medida (1949)
Character: N/A
Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.
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Póker de ases (1952)
Character: N/A
Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
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Canta mi corazón (1965)
Character: N/A
Teen-pop singer launches his career. Family conflicts and girlfriend troubles.
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La señora de enfrente (1945)
Character: N/A
Two travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church ladies.
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Las amiguitas de los ricos (1968)
Character: N/A
On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus engineers a miracle that will rehabilitate three kept women into orthodox 'decency' and marriage.
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Nobleza ranchera (1977)
Character: N/A
Respected civic leader hired a gunman twenty five years ago to commit a murder for him. Now that guy is blackmailing him, and meanwhile his two daughters are competing over a boyfriend.
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Regalo de reyes (1942)
Character: N/A
Class conflicts between two families; one's upper-class but decaying, one's industrious middle-class on the rise. Also Christmas.
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Dos cadetes (1938)
Character: N/A
Mama thinks one of her sons is going into the priesthood... but he wants to join the army instead. Naughty uncle from Paris help him get out from under Mom's thumb.
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La reina del mambo (1951)
Character: N/A
Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.
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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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Nos lleva la tristeza (1965)
Character: N/A
Love in bloom between two ranching families: boy A and girl B, boy B and girl A, the surviving grandparent of each family, their elderly man-baby house stewards, and the prize racehorse from each family all end up pairing off together. Transitory problems, inevitable happy solutions.
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No se mande, profe (1969)
Character: N/A
Strait-laced teacher at a girl's school unleashes his wild side when he debuts as a pop singer in his spare time.
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Paloma brava (1961)
Character: N/A
Paloma is bound and determined to kill the heck out of the guy that dishonored her sister, but mistaken identities and stuff.
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Doña Clarines (1951)
Character: N/A
Aging wastrel wants to have his sister declared incompetent so he can take control of her estate.
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Toros, amor y gloria (1944)
Character: N/A
Farmhand moves to the city to be with his mother. He falls in love with the daughter of the rich family for whom she works as housekeeper, and decides to take advantage of his skill as a bullfighter to earn money and status enough to be able to court her.
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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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La inocente (1972)
Character: La abuela
The innocence of a woman due to a mental deficit will become the worst nightmare for her loved ones, after the harsh reality of the outside world made her their victim.
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No matarás (1943)
Character: N/A
A mother stands by helplessly while a scandal involving marital infidelity, blackmail and murder takes shape around her daughter.
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¡Acá las Tortas! (1951)
Character: Dolores
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
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Mis hijos! (1944)
Character: María
An endless series of disasters separates a mother from her children. It takes her over twenty years to find her way back to the bosom of her family.
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Mi madrecita (1940)
Character: Doña María (as Sarah Garcia)
Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down...
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Eterna agonía (1949)
Character: Doña Cholita
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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El crucifijo de piedra (1956)
Character: N/A
A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has just died there mistakenly takes her as her grandaugther and takes her to live with her.
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No te engañes corazón (1937)
Character: Doña Petro
No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.
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Miente y serás feliz (1940)
Character: Constancia
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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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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Solicito marido para engañar (1988)
Character: Tía Mariana
Rich and misogynistic Fabián is determined to seduce married women, whom he literally undresses with his eyes due to a strange obsession. He also receives an inheritance from an aunt and announces that he will give part of it to his three cousins when they become widows. They harass him out of interest and he becomes Virginia's lover, and harasses Maura, who rejects him.
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Sexo contra sexo (1983)
Character: Lady Owner of Can-Can Club
The engineer José Luis, husband of the fichera and dancer Estrella Raleigh, dies in a plane crash. During the burial, Estrella discovers that her husband was having an affair. It's quickly revealed that things are a bit more complicated than they initially appear.
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Los santos reyes (1959)
Character: N/A
Three criminals break out of jail and head for a town where they've hidden their steals.
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México de mis amores (1979)
Character: N/A
Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.
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La Hermanita Dinamita (1970)
Character: Madre Ana
After accidentally hitting a boy with her car, a young woman pretends to be a nurse in order secretly help him to recover.
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Los que volvieron (1948)
Character: Marta Ortos
A small disparate group of people board a multi-day, multi-stop flight from Mexico City to Buenos Aires. A remake of the film Five Came Back (1939) directed by John Farrow.
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Azahares para tu boda (1950)
Character: Eloísa
During the time of the Mexican Revolution, the eldest daughter of a conservative family must respect the decision of her parents, and follow the traditions of using the wedding flowers her mother used.
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Fe, esperanza y caridad (1974)
Character: Old woman (segment "Caridad")
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
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Los fenómenos del fútbol (1964)
Character: N/A
Working class family owns a restaurant: one brother's a rising star in local soccer, one's a priest/semi-pro boxer, sister's an aspiring ranchera singer and the other brother's a waterboy at the stadium.
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El barchante Neguib (1946)
Character: Sara
Small-town Arabic family moves to Mexico City to live with the oldest son who made his career there. Follow-up (not a direct sequel) to El baisano Jalil (1942).
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¿Quién te quiere a tí? (1942)
Character: Dolores
Neither he nor she are very handsome, not to say ugly, and how they would like to be good looking to give and receive compliments, and that someone loves them.
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El baisano Jalil (1942)
Character: N/A
Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughter of the Veradada wasteful. Being invited to the house of Don Guillermom, Jalil and his wife Suan and Selim are teased and contempt. Finally, the Lebanese family worker puts in place the family of Don Guillermo ridiculous.
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Dos pesos dejada (1949)
Character: N/A
Comedy/melodrama: player runs out on his pregnant girlfriend, and her mother's boyfriend steps in to set matters straight.
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La familia Pérez (1949)
Character: Natalia Vivanco de Pérez
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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Sor Ye-yé (1968)
Character: Madre María de los Ángeles
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
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Los dos apóstoles (1966)
Character: Doña Angustias
Two boys and two girls hook up at the big festival in a neighboring town. Once they get back home they have to deal with their families' plans for them, which may not include their new sweethearts.
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Alejandra (1942)
Character: Doña Elena
There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married.
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Yo quiero ser hombre (1950)
Character: N/A
In order to come into a large inheritance, young Divina must marry her cousin Pablo. Her aunt, Milagros, hatches a plan to disguise themselves as a maid and her nephew in order to get to know him better.
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El proceso de las señoritas Vivanco (1961)
Character: Doña Hortensia Vivanco y de la Vega
After being arrested the two adorable grannies spend some time in jail and then stand trial for the robberies they've committed.
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El secreto de la solterona (1945)
Character: Marta
A homeless orphan girl is adopted by a wealthy man against his wife wishes. When the man dies, the girl endures endless humiliations under the wife's harsh grip, so she finds solace with mysterious old maid who lives near by.
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Yo pecador (1959)
Character: N/A
Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
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Los leones del ring (1974)
Character: Doña Refugio
Young wrestler runs afoul of gambling-syndicate Mafiosi; his twin brother and two friends meet at his funeral and decide to avenge his murder (which they don't even start doing until the sequel).
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Yo quiero ser tonta (1950)
Character: Doña Atilana
Dreamer father wants son to become a bullfighter, and daughter to become a singer, so they become instant millionares, although their talent is not apparently there.
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Las señoritas Vivanco (1959)
Character: Hortensia Vivanco y de la Vega
Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.
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Al Son De La Marimba (1940)
Character: N/A
Shabby-genteel big city family tries to marry their daughter off to a wealthy landowner from the southern provinces.
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Con el Dedo en el Gatillo (1958)
Character: La abuela
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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Las chivas rayadas (1964)
Character: Doña Pancha
The comical misadventures of two brothers who are part of the local soccer team and their family.
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La miel se fue de la luna (1952)
Character: Doña Martirio
Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats África, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in Cuba. With her, he poses as a friend industrial, Ricardo and his intention is not to see her again. While Africa is out he marries Mini, which proves to be terribly jealous. Complications ensue when Africa returns to Mexico and start searching for the fake Richard. By chance a friend of Mini will be in a beauty salon and this ensures she can take to "Ricardo" because is "a friend of her husband". A typical sitcom with a blistering pace.
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El caballo blanco (1962)
Character: Doña Refugio
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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Bello recuerdo (1961)
Character: Dona Sara
Back from vacation, Lucy, a school's music teacher, misses a boy. People say he will not return because he recently lost his father. She is very affected by his favorite student, so she decides to go to see him, finding the house in utter ruin. But chance makes Lucy forced to take the child and immediately found in him the son that was kidnapped years ago in America when she was a famous artist.
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El analfabeto (1961)
Character: Doña Epifanita
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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Ahí está el detalle (1940)
Character: Clotilde Regalado
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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El inocente (1956)
Character: Madre de Mané
After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
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Los Fernández de Peralvillo (1954)
Character: doña Conchita Fernández; doña Chita
A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.
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Historia de un gran amor (1942)
Character: doña Josefa
Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love.
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Cuando los hijos se van (1941)
Character: Doña Lupe Rosales
Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.
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Joselito vagabundo (1966)
Character: Mrs. Guadalupe
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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Mecánica Nacional (1972)
Character: Doña Lolita
A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
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Los dinamiteros (1964)
Character: Doña Pura
Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month in the queues of the mutuality windows to collect their pension, an opportunity they take advantage of to talk about life. When they learn that the old don Felipe, an acquaintance, is very sick and is alone and without money for a decent funeral, they decide to ask for a loan to help him, but, as they do not grant it, they decide to rob the savings bank. To do this, they will plan everything thoroughly and manufacture a homemade explosive.
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Mis abuelitas... no más! (1961)
Character: N/A
Bush-league actor allows two adorable grannies to believe he's their long-lost grandson. Then: complications!
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El hijo del pueblo (1974)
Character: Vicenta Aurelia Fernandez; Chenta
At the end of an unhappy romance, a Mexico City cabdriver decides he's fed up with big-city classism and hypocrisy, and goes home to his ranch. Soon, a group of city-folk are stranded on his property and dependent on him for help and sustenance.
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El gran premio (1958)
Character: Soledad Fuentes Lagos 'Cholita'
Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.
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La tercera palabra (1956)
Character: Matilde
The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.
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The Living Idol (1957)
Character: Elena
An archaeologist believes a Mexican woman is the reincarnation of an Aztec princess.
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Los tres García (1947)
Character: Grandma Luisa 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: Grandma Luisa 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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Dicen que soy mujeriego (1949)
Character: Doña Rosa
Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.
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La trepadora (1944)
Character: N/A
Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.
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Fin de Fiesta (1972)
Character: Doña Beatriz
A motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy.
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El día de las madres (1969)
Character: N/A
Three interwoven stories about generational conflicts beween single mothers and their adolescent/adult children.
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¿Por qué Nací Mujer? (1970)
Character: Doña Rosario
A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.
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Un novio para dos hermanas (1967)
Character: Sra. Cáceres
Pili and uncle Angel travel to Mexico to see Mili dancing at her debut in a theater in the capital. When Mili finds out the bad economic situation of her uncle, she decides to seek work. Meanwhile, Pili works in a department store and meets Rodolfo, the grandson of Mrs. Caceres, owner of the store, which she takes for the chauffeur of the lady. In turn, Ms. Caceres hires Mili to dance at her party, where she meets and falls for Rodolfo. Rodolfo, who does not know of the existence of a twin sister, is convinced that the girl in the party is Pili. And the sisters do not know they are in love with the same man, which will lead to an unexpected conflict.
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