Conchita Gentil Arcos

Acting

Conchita Gentil Arcos

Born 1897-01-01 · Valencia, Spain

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).

Acting credits

Mi campeón poster
5.5

Catita 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

Gran Hotel poster
7.3

Cantinflas 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

The Adventures of Pito Pérez poster
5.9

After 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

Daughter of Deceit poster
5.9

In 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

Ojos tapatios poster
6.3

Mexican feature film

Ojos tapatios

1938

The King of México poster
6.0

A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.

The King of México

1956

El jefe máximo poster
6.3

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

El jefe máximo

1940

Naná poster
4.0

Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.

Naná

1944

La pequeña madrecita poster
5.7

Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her.

La pequeña madrecita

1944

Calumnia poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Calumnia

1939

Tentación poster
6.0

Upon 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

Dos cadetes poster
6.6

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.

Dos cadetes

1938

Pobre huerfanita poster
6.5

Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home.

Pobre huerfanita

1955

Rosenda poster
6.6

A 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

The Atomic Fireman poster
8.5

Cantinflas 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

Mr. Photographer poster
8.3

Cantinflas, 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

Sígueme corazón poster
5.7

A 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

La virgen desnuda poster
6.8

Melodrama 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

No artwork available
6.2

Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest.

Hay ángeles con espuelas

1957

Delirio tropical poster
6.0

Vindictive rich girl spreads rumors about her rival being a witch. Townsfolk get all agitated.

Delirio tropical

1952

El Portero poster
7.6

Cantinflas 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

Tailored gentleman poster
7.3

Cantinflas 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

El sombrero de tres picos poster
6.0

The 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

We the Poor poster
8.1

Carpenter 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