Known for
7.5Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
Neither Blood Nor Sand
1941
7.4Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
Si yo fuera diputado
1952
8.1Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Your Excellency
1967
5.8A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.
The Sun Also Rises
1957
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
5.5After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.
A Woman Without Love
1952
Film credits
1970s · 11 titles
5.6Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and after being blackmailed by the feds, is forced to head to South America to finish the mobsters off.
Slaughter
1972
6.7A newly ordained priest, Capulina, is sent to a town where a gang of criminals has driven out the priest who needs to be replaced. Rogelio, the gang’s leader, forces Capulina to take part in a robbery, and the police mistake him for the gang’s leader, calling the group “the priest’s gang.” Capulina must set the record straight and catch the gang on his own.
Un cura de locura
1979
6.4No synopsis available yet.
Jesús, el niño Dios
1971
4.2The comic book hero foils animal smugglers in the circus.
Chanoc en el Circo Union
1979
5.1Bumbling inventor/jack of all trades does sketch-comedy stuff for 65 minutes, then rescues Mexico City from a Mad Scientist triggering earthquakes.
El bueno para nada
1973
5.8Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her.
El juicio de los hijos
1971
6.0No synopsis available yet.
El vals sin fin
1972
5.8Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.
Tres amigos
1970
4.5Rom-com anthology movie with three anecdotes.
Besos, Besos... y Más Besos
1973
4.8Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
El metiche
1972
6.1Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.
Cananea
1978
1960s · 16 titles
8.1Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Your Excellency
1967
7.6Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
Simon of the Desert
1965
4.3A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.
The Big Cube
1969
4.2A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.
Santo vs. the Vampire Women
1962
5.5In 1661 Mexico, Baron Vitelius is executed for witchcraft. 300 years later, during a comet's return, he resurfaces as a brain-eating monster seeking revenge on the Inquisitors' descendants.
The Brainiac
1962
5.3No synopsis available yet.
La vida de Pedro Infante
1966
7.0Tween girl in an orphanage does little-ray-of-sunshine stuff all over the place and puts particular energy into creating a romance between her facility's twentyish nurse and some rando guy from USA that they see in the market.
Ven a cantar conmigo
1967
6.2Three-episode sex farce.
Mujeres, mujeres, mujeres
1967
6.0The future of the world rests on Blue Demon's shoulders yet again when crazy scientists create a mind-control machine and put an evil plan in motion.
Blue Demon: Destructor of Spies
1968
Father insists that one of his sons get married... because with no woman in the house, they can't get a good meal. The rest of the movie is devoted to pairing off everybody in sight.
Vámonos para la feria
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
6.0Two tough Mexican ladies avenge their father when he is set-up and shot during a cockfight.
Las dos galleras
1964
6.8Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms.
The Phantom of the Operetta
1960
5.8A phony psychic convinces a young widow that her nest husband will die soon after the wedding... so she tells her fiancé to take a number, and marries a rando to sidestep that problem.
Un nuevo modo de amar
1968
5.6No synopsis available yet.
De color moreno
1963
5.8Young army officer gets involved with two sisters; one of them's a chronic invalid and her family has protected and sheltered her from all possible harm with such smothering care that she's a spoiled, petulant bag of temper tantrums. She forms a big ol' crush on the dashing lieutenant, and everyone involved goes completely nuts and makes an infinite number of bad decisions in the wake of her pouting and her crying jags and her passive-aggressive crap.
Impaciencia del corazón
1960
1950s · 20 titles
7.4Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
Si yo fuera diputado
1952
5.8A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.
The Sun Also Rises
1957
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
5.5After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.
A Woman Without Love
1952
5.7In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
Seven Cities of Gold
1955
6.0Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.
The Magnificent Matador
1955
5.7Two very good friends become wrestlers to leave poverty behind, but the arrival of an ambitious woman will tragically change their destinies.
The Magnificent Beast
1953
5.0Ernesto, a composer, is madly in love with Amalia. He decides to help her pay the rent and wants her to start singing at the cabaret where he works, but she ends up falling in love with another man.
Lost Love
1951
6.5A wealthy sculptor takes in a thief as a servant on her ranch, hoping to reshape him, but their situation is disrupted when she discovers a major robbery has taken place on her estate.
The Straying Rooster
1952
7.0A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Victims of Sin
1951
4.8Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.
La reina del mambo
1951
6.0Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
La adúltera
1956
5.8Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.
La noche es nuestra
1952
6.0Flamenco artist in Mexico draws attention from three suitors.
Los tres amores de Lola
1956
7.6Two clownish incompetents get mixed up in power struggles between state officials.
A sablazo limpio
1958
5.1In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
Sonatas
1959
NRComedy about infidelities between several engaged couples.
Casadas en Apuros
1958
5.5A cellist and a pianist, along with the daughter of the owner of a musical home, form a classical trio. A television producer challenges confronting the modern equipment. Accept and so begin a new career in popular music, so despises his former employer, thus limiting the affair between his daughter and one of them.
Locos Peligrosos
1957
6.7When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexpected way.
Hell Road
1951
6.3Slice-of-life melodrama: backstage at the wrestling arena.
La última lucha
1959
1940s · 12 titles
7.5Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
Neither Blood Nor Sand
1941
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
6.1A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.
Hipócrita..!
1949
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
6.0A physician launches his own investigation into a gang of opium traffickers, while a mother who lost her son to the drug vows revenge against those who led him into that world.
Cita con la muerte
1949
6.0Argentine woman stranded in plane-crash, falls for Mexican plantation-owner.
Cuando quiere un mexicano
1944
5.8Remake of famous 1936 ranchera musical.
Out on the Big Ranch
1949
6.3Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.
When the Children are Gone
1941
7.7The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
Jesus of Nazareth
1942
6.7About the Russian dancer Yolanda who arrives in Mexico with her company in 1909. There she falls in love with the young cadet Julio. However, the influential Carlos opposes this love. He wants Yolanda for himself and threatens her with a possible deportation to Siberia if she rejected his romantic advances.
Yolanda
1943
6.5Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money.
Perez Family
1949
7.2Fermín is a young taxi driver but also a playboy. He sets out to woo the daughter of a merchant who has amassed a small fortune. His plans go off track, and the consequences are imminent.
Dos pesos dejada
1949

