
Acting
Conchita Gentil Arcos
Born — Died
1897-01-01 — 1982-12-23
Place of birth
Valencia, Spain
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Spanish-born supporting actress of the '30s-50s, usually playing somebody's aunt, neighbor, or servant. A bit friendlier-looking than her sister, María Gentil Arcos, although she did play a killer in La llorona (1933).
Known for
7.8Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
El Portero
1950
7.4Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.
Gran Hotel
1944
6.5Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
Illusion Travels by Streetcar
1954
7.4Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
Tailored gentleman
1954
8.5Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
The Atomic Fireman
1952
6.8Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
Romeo y Julieta
1943
Film credits
1960s · 5 titles
6.9Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he decides to move to the big city.
Shark Hunters
1963
5.8Two ranch owners promised their offspring would marry. The intended refused and switched places with their respective servants. They don't discover their real identities till they marry.
Yo no me caso compadre
1960
5.8Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
Suerte Te De Dios
1961
6.0Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.
Así amaron nuestros padres
1964
6.0No synopsis available yet.
México de mis recuerdos
1963
1950s · 24 titles
7.8Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
El Portero
1950
6.5Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
Illusion Travels by Streetcar
1954
7.4Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
Tailored gentleman
1954
8.5Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.
The Atomic Fireman
1952
5.8In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
Daughter of Deceit
1951
8.3Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...
Mr. Photographer
1953
6.0Vindictive rich girl spreads rumors about her rival being a witch. Townsfolk get all agitated.
Delirio tropical
1952
5.7A comedy of errors in which a young married couple finds themselves caught up in a web of intrigue when they take in a three-year-old girl whose grandmother is being slowly poisoned by another pair of crooks.
Sígueme corazón
1952
6.5Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter Isabel with wealthy rancher. Isabel and her family refuse to work, Jose Manuel takes them to the ranch, where they are forced to work for food.
Por ellas aunque mal paguen
1952
6.3A shoe-clerk's aunt and uncle send him to a remote fishing village to retrieve a distant cousin and bring her back to the bosom of the family.
Cuando tú me quieras
1951
6.0A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
The King of México
1956
Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest.
Hay ángeles con espuelas
1957
3.8Mexican romantic musical.
Mujeres en mi Vida
1950
6.6A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.
Los Fernández de Peralvillo
1954
6.8Melodrama based on the homonymous novel by the Spanish writer José María Carretero Novillo (El Caballero Audaz), which tells a romantic story about a pair of lovers who endure great suffering in their attempt to be together.
La virgen desnuda
1950
5.5Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
Mi campeón
1952
6.2Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things impossible for them.
Hombres sin alma
1951
5.7Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...
Slum
1950
6.4Mexican-American playboy anchors his yacht offshore of a Veracruz fishing village and chases skirts in town.
¡Qué bravas son las costeñas!
1955
Clavillazo is a likeable drifter who gets his diploma because his teachers want to lose sight of him. He lives on what he can find in the street. However, nothing can stop him from helping those around him.
Vivir a todo dar
1956
5.9After a long absence, a man returns to his village and recounts all his adventures with a touch of nostalgia.
The Adventures of Pito Pérez
1957
5.0The owner of their performance space dies, and a group of young singer/dancers is concerned about the future of their musical revue. The new owner seems to be an uptight old Legion Of Decency fuddy-duddy, so... much anxiety, until a happy ending is contrived.
No me platiques más
1956
6.8A young woman becomes pregnant but when his boyfriend leaves her she gets a job as a prostitute in order to provide for her child.
The Hell of the Poor
1951
6.5Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home.
Pobre huerfanita
1955
1940s · 29 titles
7.4Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.
Gran Hotel
1944
6.8Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
Romeo y Julieta
1943
8.2Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
We the Poor
1948
4.0Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.
Naná
1944
6.2In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.
Me he de comer esa tuna
1945
6.2Historical drama on the life of the medieval Italian saint, Francis of Assisi.
San Francisco de Asís
1944
6.2After a vengeance taken too far costs his father his Hacienda and his life, young Juan Manuel Mendoza becomes a bandit. He will get a chance for revenge and for love after he infiltrates his enemy house as a piano teacher.
El rebelde (Romance de Antaño)
1943
7.9A 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.
The Woman I Lost
1949
6.0Upon reaching the capital, an old man and his daughter are victims of abuse, where their goodwill becomes the way to gain control of the low instincts of a man who sought favors he did for an uncontrolled temptation.
Tentación
1943
6.7"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
Cinco rostros de mujer
1947
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Me persigue una mujer
1947
6.0The corregidor, or magistrate, of a small Spanish village tries to seduce the miller's wife, with rather humorous results.
El sombrero de tres picos
1944
5.0A 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
No synopsis available yet.
De Nueva York a Huipanguillo
1943
6.6Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that awaits him in his hometown.
El que tenga un amor
1942
6.6A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
Rosenda
1948
5.7A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado.
Mi viuda alegre
1942
6.6Episodes from the life of an alcoholic hobo.
The Useless Life of Pito Perez
1944
5.8Stage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.
El museo del crimen
1945
6.8The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.
A Family Like Many Others
1949
6.0Carita finds herself forced to reject the advances of her wealthy godfather because she already has a steady boyfriend. Spurned, the godfather changes his will, stipulating that the five million pesos he leaves to his goddaughter can only be claimed once she becomes a widow. Hoping to inherit the fortune quickly, Carita marries Lázaro Bermejo, a dying indigent. However, the beggar makes a miraculous recovery and regains his health.
¡Que viene mi marido!
1940
5.8The dream of Atenodoro is to be a professor at the Faculty of Law. The students show enthusiasm for Ana, the professor’s daughter. Atenodoro resigns from his class, and the students try to make him return by pretending to be the rector and his family.
Mil estudiantes y una muchacha
1942
6.5Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere.
El Gran Makakikus
1944
6.4Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
Confidencias de un ruletero
1949
6.2The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.
The Rock of Souls
1943
7.6An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.
Músico, poeta y loco
1948
6.4Ranchera/western; white hats vs. black hats.
Allá en el bajio
1942
6.0In a Mexican village during XIX century, word spread of a curse. Old José tells Carmen about the curse surrounding the Bridge of Punishment, said to affect anyone who wishes for another person’s death.
El puente del castigo
1946
6.3A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
El jefe máximo
1940


