Art
Carlos Toussaint
Born — Died
1901-08-23 — 1975-03-07
Place of birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Known for
Art
Credits
19 titles
Carlos Toussaint (1901–1975) was a Mexican film director and production designer. He was active during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema and worked as art director on many productions. He also directed fourteen films between 1940 and 1964 including the Cantinflas short Cantinflas y su prima. He was married to the makeup artist Sara Mateos.
Known for
6.7Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.
Marejada
1952
5.4A newlywed couple find themselves broke when the woman's father dies deeply in debt. Forced to sell their belongings, they move into a rundown house from which they get very bad vibes. It's not long before some very strange and disturbing people begin showing up at the house.
El beso de ultratumba
1963
6.2A 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.
The Stone Crucifix
1956
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Mi lupe y mi caballo
1944
No synopsis available yet.
Mi guitarra y mi caballo
1961
5.7During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
Then God Named It Earth
1961
Behind the camera
6.7Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.
Marejada
1952
6.7Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.
Marejada
1952
5.4A newlywed couple find themselves broke when the woman's father dies deeply in debt. Forced to sell their belongings, they move into a rundown house from which they get very bad vibes. It's not long before some very strange and disturbing people begin showing up at the house.
El beso de ultratumba
1963
6.2A 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.
The Stone Crucifix
1956
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Mi lupe y mi caballo
1944
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Mi lupe y mi caballo
1944
No synopsis available yet.
Mi guitarra y mi caballo
1961
5.7During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
Then God Named It Earth
1961
5.7During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
Then God Named It Earth
1961
7.1Cantinflas appears flirting with a lady until her lover arrives. Angry, Cantinflas call the husband causing a number of situations.
Cantinflas y su prima
1940
6.3Mexican feature film
El fusilamiento
1962
6.7Mexican feature film
De Tequila, su mezcal
1950
No synopsis available yet.
Este amor sí es amor
1964
6.0Three spoiled rich kids live profligately and set a bad example for an ambitious middle-class friend.
Los falsos héroes
1962
Entry, 1958 Brussel's Experimental Film Exhibition
The Song of Jean Richepin
1958
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Me dicen el consentido
1962
Asked by his beloved to bring his mother's heart for her dog, a hopeless lover tears it out, stumbles with it, lets it fall. Rolling across the floor, the heart gasps out: “Are you hurt, my son?"
La Canción de Jean Richepin
1958
8.0Collection of the most famous short films starring Cantinflas, where the great comedian plays a taxi driver who makes his passengers work without taking them to their destination, and even tries his luck in a boxing ring
Festival de Cantinflas
1939
5.7Mexican feature film
Baile de graduación
1963