Arturo Martínez

Acting

Arturo Martínez

Born — Died

1918-01-23 — 1992-09-26

Place of birth

San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

100 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 6 titles

1970s · 10 titles

Diamantes, Oro y Amor poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Diamantes, Oro y Amor

1973

El pueblo del terror poster
6.4

Federal-agent/cowboy battles crime

El pueblo del terror

1970

El sargento Perez poster
6.0

Two buddies from Pancho Villa's regiment go on a mission. Light comedy, romance, songs...

El sargento Perez

1973

Leyenda Macabras de La Colonia poster
5.6

The Mexican luchador Tinieblas buys an ancient painting of a dead woman ignoring the warning that it is haunted. Later, after a fight his partners El Fantasma Blanco and Mil Máscaras joins him in a party at his apartment with two beautiful ladies, but when the clock reaches midnight the painting transports them all to colonial times. In order to return home they must face Spanish Conquistadores, Aztec Warriors and an evil witch whose mother, an unstoppable living dead hungry for human sacrifices, is the woman in the painting.

Leyenda Macabras de La Colonia

1974

Nobleza Ranchera poster
6.4

Respected civic leader hired a gunman twenty five years ago to commit a murder for him. Now that guy is blackmailing him, and meanwhile his two daughters are competing over a boyfriend.

Nobleza Ranchera

1977

Contrabando y Traicion poster
4.8

Two criminals, Emilio and Camelia try to smuggle drugs into the USA.

Contrabando y Traicion

1977

Los Hombres No Lloran poster
5.4

Man is manipulated into thinking his wife is unfaithful and abandons her, taking one of their two sons with him.

Los Hombres No Lloran

1973

Vuelve el ojo de vidrio poster
6.9

Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the Mexican Revolution.

Vuelve el ojo de vidrio

1970

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un camino al cielo

1975

Inspector Calzonzin poster
7.5

A rumor reaches a small town, San Garabato, that a government infiltrator will arrive to check the conditions of the community. Quickly, the municipal president, Don Perpetuo del Rosal, orders the imprisonment of those who might give a bad image. An indigenous man named Calzonzin arrives in town, pursued by two men. He is quickly taken as the infiltrated inspector, and protected by all the local authorities.

Inspector Calzonzin

1974

1960s · 9 titles

1950s · 23 titles

The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy poster
2.9

A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries old living mummy.

The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy

1958

The Black Scorpion poster
5.2

Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.

The Black Scorpion

1957

Love Me Because I Die poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Love Me Because I Die

1953

El sindicato del crimen poster
6.7

A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death".

El sindicato del crimen

1954

Tailored gentleman poster
7.4

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 plagiario poster
5.7

Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.

El plagiario

1955

The Hidden One poster
5.3

Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she cannot forget her love for a rebel leader.

The Hidden One

1956

El 7 leguas poster
7.9

Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.

El 7 leguas

1955

Los aventureros poster
6.3

Two brothers and their pops end up helping out an orphaned young woman who wants revenge against her father's murderer.

Los aventureros

1954

Return of the Monster poster
6.4

Mad scientist is trying to transplant the soul of an animated, talking skeleton into a living body. Also, there's a monster. Number three of three in Zorro Escarlata series.

Return of the Monster

1958

Nuevo amanecer poster
5.7

Mexican feature film

Nuevo amanecer

1954

A Place Close to Heaven poster
8.3

An 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

Nunca debieron amarse poster
5.8

Ranchera romance; two young lovers whose families are hostile to each other.

Nunca debieron amarse

1951

Apartment house poster
6.3

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

Apartment house

1951

Thirst for Love poster
6.2

Pedro Ortiz, a brave charro, arrives to a fishing village that is passing hard times. There's no fish in the waters. His manners and his love for Maria, a local attractive widow, will get him into trouble

Thirst for Love

1959

The Curse of the Aztec Mummy poster
4.1

The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - Xochitl's tomb. Confusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor's lover, Dr. Almada, his assistant, and wrestling superhero, El Angel. Krupp finally meets his match, however, when he comes up against Popoca, the warrior mummy who guards Xochitl's tomb.

The Curse of the Aztec Mummy

1957

Fierecilla poster
4.3

After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside, removed from corrupting influences. Fifteen years later...

Fierecilla

1951

El billetero poster
5.8

Slum child, abandoned almost since birth, is reunited with his father.

El billetero

1953

Love Your Neighbor poster
6.7

This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.

Love Your Neighbor

1958

La hija del ministro poster
6.5

A young bureaucrat's career takes off when it's believed he's keeping company with the daughter of a higher-ranking official.

La hija del ministro

1952

Hombres sin alma poster
6.2

Final 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

Oh shorties… how many! poster
6.0

The reading of a will turns into a scavenger hunt among the heirs.

Oh shorties… how many!

1956

The Body Snatcher poster
5.9

A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...

The Body Snatcher

1957

1940s · 4 titles

Behind the camera

Ni modo... así somos poster
5.2

Sketch-comedy collection, heavy on the 'sketchy'.

Ni modo... así somos

1981

No artwork available
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Al cabo qué ni quería

1982

Deportados poster
6.7

Desperation drives Raul & two friends to leave Mexico in search of a better life in the United States. Raul accepts the hardships of being undocumented in the United States for the sake of supporting the wife and son he left behind.

Deportados

1977

Deportados poster
6.7

Desperation drives Raul & two friends to leave Mexico in search of a better life in the United States. Raul accepts the hardships of being undocumented in the United States for the sake of supporting the wife and son he left behind.

Deportados

1977

Tampico poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Tampico

1972

El trinquetero poster
5.7

Card-shark risks getting caught cheating. Safe in his home town, he may turn over a new leaf... but his previous victims are still looking for him.

El trinquetero

1976

El trinquetero poster
5.7

Card-shark risks getting caught cheating. Safe in his home town, he may turn over a new leaf... but his previous victims are still looking for him.

El trinquetero

1976

Yaqui poster
5.6

A young Yaqui man fights against intolerant townspeople.

Yaqui

1969

Inseminación artificial poster
5.5

Armando doesn't tell his wife Alícia that he is estranged. As it happens, she is looking for both herself and the man she wants to marry, and between the two of them the relationship is destroyed.

Inseminación artificial

1984

Los tres compadres poster
6.3

Timid smalltown schoolteacher has a look-alike who leads a gang of bandits; when that gang invades the teacher's town, it gives rise to all manner of confusions and complications.

Los tres compadres

1975

No artwork available
5.8

The son of a famous vigilante returns to his home town... but he's all citified and pantywaisted. Or is he?

El hijo del charro negro

1961

El sargento Perez poster
6.0

Two buddies from Pancho Villa's regiment go on a mission. Light comedy, romance, songs...

El sargento Perez

1973

Leyenda Macabras de La Colonia poster
5.6

The Mexican luchador Tinieblas buys an ancient painting of a dead woman ignoring the warning that it is haunted. Later, after a fight his partners El Fantasma Blanco and Mil Máscaras joins him in a party at his apartment with two beautiful ladies, but when the clock reaches midnight the painting transports them all to colonial times. In order to return home they must face Spanish Conquistadores, Aztec Warriors and an evil witch whose mother, an unstoppable living dead hungry for human sacrifices, is the woman in the painting.

Leyenda Macabras de La Colonia

1974

Nobleza Ranchera poster
6.4

Respected civic leader hired a gunman twenty five years ago to commit a murder for him. Now that guy is blackmailing him, and meanwhile his two daughters are competing over a boyfriend.

Nobleza Ranchera

1977

No artwork available
6.7

Two secret agents are after a couple of car thieves who belong to a band of criminals headed by Ernesto. The band has kidnapped the son of Daniel, a boxer who is about to fight for the world title. The agents must destroy Ernesto's band and rescue Daniel's son before the fight so Daniel doesn't lose his chance at the title under the kidnapper's threats.

Servicio secreto

1962

Los hombres de Lupe Alvírez poster
5.8

Three bad dudes are each hot for Lupe. They kill a guy while committing some crimes together, and that guy's brother goes gunning for them. Eventually, he meets Lupe; she helps him track down the killers and a thing develops between them.

Los hombres de Lupe Alvírez

1967

Contrabando y Traicion poster
4.8

Two criminals, Emilio and Camelia try to smuggle drugs into the USA.

Contrabando y Traicion

1977

Contrabando y Traicion poster
4.8

Two criminals, Emilio and Camelia try to smuggle drugs into the USA.

Contrabando y Traicion

1977

Contrabando y Traicion poster
4.8

Two criminals, Emilio and Camelia try to smuggle drugs into the USA.

Contrabando y Traicion

1977

El ausente poster
6.8

Young man returns to his childhood home-town, planning to git the people that killed his father.

El ausente

1972

El ausente poster
6.8

Young man returns to his childhood home-town, planning to git the people that killed his father.

El ausente

1972

Mi caballo prieto rebelde poster
6.0

Two cowboys fight over ownership of a horse and a woman.

Mi caballo prieto rebelde

1967

Rancho solo poster
6.7

The film is a typical whodunit story, combined with a "ranchero" and western flavor. A young engineer arrives to his godfather hacienda, along with his fiancée. But the things got complicated when the godfather's wife reveals that she had an affair with the young man. One night, the young man's father is murdered in the wood, and he will look for revenge.

Rancho solo

1967

La M60: Protegida por el diablo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La M60: Protegida por el diablo

1996

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un camino al cielo

1975

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un camino al cielo

1975

El Tigre De Santa Julia poster
6.0

Band of ex-soldiers embark on a life of crime; their leader, meanwhile, wants to track down the man who murdered his parents.

El Tigre De Santa Julia

1974

No artwork available
5.7

Stage-struck small town girl is invited to join a vaudeville troupe.

Asi Es Mi Mexico

1963

Duelo en el desierto poster
6.0

B-movie western, sequel to El solitario.

Duelo en el desierto

1964

No artwork available
5.5

Teen-romance comedy with unrelated dramatic subplots.

Acapulco a go-gó

1967

A Rose in the Ring poster
5.2

After killing an opponent in a freak wrestling accident, El Enmascarado Negro has a midlife crisis and considers retiring from show business.

A Rose in the Ring

1973

A Rose in the Ring poster
5.2

After killing an opponent in a freak wrestling accident, El Enmascarado Negro has a midlife crisis and considers retiring from show business.

A Rose in the Ring

1973

El solitario poster
6.3

The bad guy's trying to push through a land-speculation deal and force his sister to marry someone against her wishes. The good guy interferes.

El solitario

1964

Me Cai De La Nube poster
5.7

A struggling ranch hand (Cornelio Reyna) is deeply in love with a wealthy woman (Sonia Amelio). Unfortunately, she doesn't share his feelings. As he maneuvers to win her affection, the ranch hand learns a valuable lesson about rich people and the negative, corrupting power of money. Nonetheless, he remains unsullied and proves that bundles of cash have no power over the human heart.

Me Cai De La Nube

1974

Me Cai De La Nube poster
5.7

A struggling ranch hand (Cornelio Reyna) is deeply in love with a wealthy woman (Sonia Amelio). Unfortunately, she doesn't share his feelings. As he maneuvers to win her affection, the ranch hand learns a valuable lesson about rich people and the negative, corrupting power of money. Nonetheless, he remains unsullied and proves that bundles of cash have no power over the human heart.

Me Cai De La Nube

1974

The Vampires of Coyoacan poster
4.1

In the service of Satan, a murderous vampire is turning wrestlers into his unwitting thrall, and it's up to Mil Máscaras and Superzan to stop him and save the world.

The Vampires of Coyoacan

1974

The Vampires of Coyoacan poster
4.1

In the service of Satan, a murderous vampire is turning wrestlers into his unwitting thrall, and it's up to Mil Máscaras and Superzan to stop him and save the world.

The Vampires of Coyoacan

1974

Nuestros buenos vecinos de Yucatán poster
6.0

Evelio tears apart a document that gamblers had forced his friend to sign. In revenge, the villains sabotage his godson’s car, causing a tragic accident. Struggling to save him, Evelio and his family sell everything they own to pay for the surgery—with the support of their community.

Nuestros buenos vecinos de Yucatán

1967

El valiente vive... hasta que el cobarde quiere poster
5.5

The arrival of a new school-teacher to a small town triggers various large and small upheavals, including the Police Chief's total meltdown into raging psychosis.

El valiente vive... hasta que el cobarde quiere

1979

El valiente vive... hasta que el cobarde quiere poster
5.5

The arrival of a new school-teacher to a small town triggers various large and small upheavals, including the Police Chief's total meltdown into raging psychosis.

El valiente vive... hasta que el cobarde quiere

1979