Carlos Orellana

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

Tizoc poster
7.6

An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.

Tizoc

1957

Vuelven los García poster
6.7

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.

Vuelven los García

1947

Calumnia poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Calumnia

1939

Amor Prohibido poster
6.0

Family life of a widowed father with four teenaged and young-adult children.

Amor Prohibido

1945

Santa poster
5.6

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 Hipólito.

Santa

1932

Damned City! poster
8.2

A 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

Café de chinos poster
5.8

Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.

Café de chinos

1949

Escuadrón 201 poster
6.0

Fictional 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

Cupido pierde a Paquita poster
6.6

Rich 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

Miente y serás feliz poster
5.7

A 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

Los paquetes de Paquita poster
6.0

Maid 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

No basta ser madre poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

No basta ser madre

1937

Un principe de la iglesia poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Un principe de la iglesia

1952

El hotel de los chiflados poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

El hotel de los chiflados

1939

No artwork available
6.7

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

The Sign of Death poster
6.5

Two 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

Dos tipos de cuidado poster
8.4

Jorge 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

Pepita Jiménez poster
5.9

On 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

It Happened in Havana poster
6.0

Wicked man seduces an innocent country girl into a life of degradation and nightclubs.

It Happened in Havana

1938

Romance de fieras poster
6.8

Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.

Romance de fieras

1954

The Three Garcías poster
8.1

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.

The Three Garcías

1947

No te engañes corazón poster
6.1

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.

No te engañes corazón

1937

The Crying Woman poster
5.7

In 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

Juarez and Maximilian poster
7.0

The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.

Juarez and Maximilian

1934

Behind the camera

Tizoc poster
7.6

An Indian arouses envy for his expertise in hunting animals without ruining their skins, for his wisdom and his kindness.

Tizoc

1957

Vuelven los García poster
6.7

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.

Vuelven los García

1947

Damned City! poster
8.2

A 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

Como México no hay dos poster
6.7

Two 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

Un trío de tres poster
5.8

Three 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

La casa de la Troya poster
6.8

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".

La casa de la Troya

1948

La casa de la Troya poster
6.8

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".

La casa de la Troya

1948

No artwork available
6.7

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

No artwork available
6.7

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

Dos tipos de cuidado poster
8.4

Jorge 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

El gran premio poster
6.4

Elderly 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

El gran premio poster
6.4

Elderly 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

Pepe El Toro poster
6.5

The 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

Romance de fieras poster
6.8

Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.

Romance de fieras

1954

The Three Garcías poster
8.1

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.

The Three Garcías

1947

El capitán Malacara poster
6.8

Misogynist 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

Mi esposa busca novio poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mi esposa busca novio

1948

Mi esposa busca novio poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mi esposa busca novio

1948

Flor de caña poster
6.8

Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.

Flor de caña

1948

Marry And You'll See poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Marry And You'll See

1946

From the Village to TV poster
5.9

A 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

El gran pillo poster
5.5

A 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

When Children Sin poster
6.0

Bad girl makes lives miserable.

When Children Sin

1952

Land of Men poster
7.2

On 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