
Acting
Carlos Orellana
Born 1900-12-28 · Santiago Tezontlale, Mexico
Carlos Orellana was born on December 28, 1900 in Santiago Tezontlale, Hidalgo, Mexico as Carlos Orellana Martinez. He was an actor, director and writer.
Acting credits
7.6An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.
Tizoc
1957
6.7Ruled 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.
Vuelven los García
1947
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Calumnia
1939
6.0Family life of a widowed father with four teenaged and young-adult children.
Amor Prohibido
1945
5.6Santa 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 Hipólito.
Santa
1932
8.2A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
Damned City!
1954
5.8Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.
Café de chinos
1949
6.0Fictional story about the Escuadron 201 de Caza (201st Mexican Fighter Squadron), which participated in military campaigns in the Phillipines during WWII. It focuses primarily on two brothers, one who has a promising future as a doctor, who volunteer for this unit after Mexico declares war on Germany after the sinking of Mexican merchants by U-boats. The story also follows another young man, the son of a Spanish immigrant baker. He volunteers to pay what he feels is an unpaid debt to their new adopted country.
Escuadrón 201
1945
6.6Rich family's maid thinks that maybe if she plays her cards right, she can land a moneybags husband. There's also a really cute auto mechanic, though, and...
Cupido pierde a Paquita
1955
5.7A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...
Miente y serás feliz
1940
6.0Maid tries to smooth over the difficulties in her employers' marriage while juggling five or six potential boyfriends of her own.
Los paquetes de Paquita
1955
6.0No synopsis available yet.
No basta ser madre
1937
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Un principe de la iglesia
1952
6.7No synopsis available yet.
El hotel de los chiflados
1939
After many setbacks, Mr. Prudenciano, in Mexico, came to the conclusion that he had no great future as a bullfighter. He sold what little he had and, along with his wife, settled in Seville. Things didn’t go much better for him in Spain either, although at least he can spend all day doing what he likes best: doing nothing.
Dos mexicanos en Sevilla
1942
6.5Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo.
The Sign of Death
1939
8.4Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
Dos tipos de cuidado
1953
5.9On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.
Pepita Jiménez
1946
6.0Wicked man seduces an innocent country girl into a life of degradation and nightclubs.
It Happened in Havana
1938
6.8Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
Romance de fieras
1954
8.1Ruled 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.
The Three Garcías
1947
6.1No 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.
No te engañes corazón
1937
5.7In modern Mexico, a malevolent spirit targets a family, linking tragic past events of abandoned, infanticidal mothers to a possessed intruder's attempt to sacrifice their son.
The Crying Woman
1933
7.0The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.
Juarez and Maximilian
1934
Behind the camera
7.6An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.
Tizoc
1957
6.7Ruled 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.
Vuelven los García
1947
8.2A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
Damned City!
1954
6.7Two farmworkers emigrate to USA to work on a Texas ranch, then go home and put their lives back in order.
Como México no hay dos
1945
5.8Three murder-mystery fans team up to play detective together; they catch some thieves at the workplace of one of them, then get caught up in an old-dark-house situation...
Un trío de tres
1960
6.8Adaptation 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".
La casa de la Troya
1948
6.8Adaptation 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".
La casa de la Troya
1948
After many setbacks, Mr. Prudenciano, in Mexico, came to the conclusion that he had no great future as a bullfighter. He sold what little he had and, along with his wife, settled in Seville. Things didn’t go much better for him in Spain either, although at least he can spend all day doing what he likes best: doing nothing.
Dos mexicanos en Sevilla
1942
After many setbacks, Mr. Prudenciano, in Mexico, came to the conclusion that he had no great future as a bullfighter. He sold what little he had and, along with his wife, settled in Seville. Things didn’t go much better for him in Spain either, although at least he can spend all day doing what he likes best: doing nothing.
Dos mexicanos en Sevilla
1942
8.4Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
Dos tipos de cuidado
1953
6.4Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.
El gran premio
1958
6.4Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.
El gran premio
1958
6.5The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
Pepe El Toro
1953
6.8Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
Romance de fieras
1954
8.1Ruled 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.
The Three Garcías
1947
6.8Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.
El capitán Malacara
1945
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Mi esposa busca novio
1948
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Mi esposa busca novio
1948
6.8Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
Flor de caña
1948
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Marry And You'll See
1946
5.9A young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame
From the Village to TV
1953
5.5A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.
El gran pillo
1960
6.0Bad girl makes lives miserable.
When Children Sin
1952
7.2On his family's farm, Gilberto keeps weapons to support the revolutionaries. When his father find out, he runs out from the hacienda to join them.
Land of Men
1958