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Gregorio Walerstein
Born — Died
1913-02-22 — 2002-01-24
Place of birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Known for
Production
Credits
40 titles
Known for
6.1After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.
Fever Mounts at El Pao
1959
5.4Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselves in a dangerous game of power.
The Sword and the Cross
1956
7.6One man must decide two women: one is mature, confident, and an owner of land while the other is young, beautiful, and impetuous. But there’s a problem, they’re both sisters.
Por Tu Maldito Amor
1990
6.4A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."
La Valentina
1966
6.6Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.
Gutierritos
1959
6.2A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
Camelia
1954
Behind the camera
6.1After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.
Fever Mounts at El Pao
1959
5.4Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselves in a dangerous game of power.
The Sword and the Cross
1956
7.6One man must decide two women: one is mature, confident, and an owner of land while the other is young, beautiful, and impetuous. But there’s a problem, they’re both sisters.
Por Tu Maldito Amor
1990
6.4A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."
La Valentina
1966
6.6Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.
Gutierritos
1959
6.2A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
Camelia
1954
5.7Santo and Jorge Rivero team-up to stop an international syndicate from stealing Mexico's greatest treasure.
The Treasure of Moctezuma
1968
5.4Man is manipulated into thinking his wife is unfaithful and abandons her, taking one of their two sons with him.
Los Hombres No Lloran
1973
5.5Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.
Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)
1964
8.3An honest man emigrates to the capital in search of a better life, but ends up mired in extreme poverty along with his family; forced to overcome tragedy and despair to find, even in misery, a glimmer of hope.
A Place Close to Heaven
1952
5.6Big-league criminal escapes from jail, tracks down his ex-wife at a seaside resort. She kills him in self-defense, and then a guy who looks exactly like him comes along. Massive complications!
Nadie muere dos veces
1953
5.2A 1941 film.
Lo que el viento trajo
1941
4.4No synopsis available yet.
Si volvieras a mi
1954
8.0Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
My Son, the Hero
1961
4.1Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
La mujer que engañamos
1945
5.6Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable cell, he changes his identity, becoming the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, an identity he uses to take revenge on those who betrayed him and sent him to prison.
El conde de Montecristo
1942
5.4A mischievous girl must deal with her idiotic parents and her libertine relatives during the holidays.
Justice is Twelve Years Old
1973
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
6.0A family has their daughter marry a dying man in order to get an inheritance, but get into trouble when the man survives his illness.
On the dead the crowns
1961
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Pecado
1951
7.3Construction worker falls in love with a handicapped woman who aspires to a career as a singer.
El Albañil
1975
5.0After a series of doublecrosses involving stolen diamonds, a gangster's babe in Argentina flees to Mexico; she's kept by a druggy, decadent painter and then falls in love with his brother.
La diosa impura
1963
5.2An archaeologist believes a Mexican woman is the reincarnation of an Aztec princess.
The Living Idol
1957
6.1Two rival landowners: one is exploiting the local peasantry and dispossessing them of their land, and the other believes in fair play and justice for all.
El alazán y el rosillo
1966
5.7Having an example of piety and Christian devotion in their midst may help the girls in this whorehouse reform. Maybe.
The World's Oldest Profession
1970
6.4To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
Me traes de un ala
1953
6.2Based on Ladislas Fodor's "Stranger on the Stairs". A loved triangle composed by a cynical entrepreneur, a loan manager, and a seductive secretary will lead to a criminal plot in Cuba.
A Stranger on the Stairs
1955
5.7This cult-classic was Director Rene Cardona's attempt to capitalize on the popularity of professional wrestling and on of its biggest stars of the 1950's, known as "El Santo". However it is not about wrestling. It chronicles the adventures of a crime-fighting duo known as El Enmascadero de la Plata ( The Silver Mask), and his adolescent sidekick Pecas (Freckles), as they take on a murderous Mad Doctor and an evil gang-leader called El Lobo
El enmascarado de plata
1954
4.7Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
The Three Perfect Wives
1953
6.7Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction.
El ladrón
1947
5.4A motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy.
End of the Party
1972
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
6.3Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, but for information.
May God Forgive Me
1948
6.0A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.
Nunca es tarde para amar
1953
5.4Sculptor becomes infatuated with model. Everyone suffers.
La estatua de carne
1951
6.3Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.
Paradise
1970
6.4The silver masked Santo tries to stop a gang of counterfeiters who conspire to ruin the economy.
Operation 67
1967
5.8Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery.
El misterio del carro express
1953
6.0Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")
Black Is My Color
1951
6.8Papa hires a "boyfriend" to indulge her in her fantasies of old-fashioned romance.
A 16 Year Old Young-Woman
1963
