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 · 7 titles

Ni modo... así somos poster
5.2

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

Ni modo... así somos

1981

Mi fantasma y yo poster
5.2

A family of three moves to a haunted house. The couple's 10-year-old son runs into the ghost of the house but isn't scared. He tells the ghost that since his father is a writer of horror novels he lost fear of horror stories. The ghost then confides in the boy that he is a lonely ghost on account of the modern world focused on so many material priorities. Child and ghost become best friends, playing together, telling stories and helping the ghost pay his rent by scaring people every month.

Mi fantasma y yo

1988

Traficante Por Ambición poster
5.0

Two friends travel the world in search of adventure, but ambition blinds them and they become involved in illegal business.

Traficante Por Ambición

1989

No artwork available
6.7

A group of butchers become involved in the world of organized crime, facing life and death situations in a brutal and ruthless environment.

Matadero

1987

Jungle of Death poster
5.8

A Mexican scientific team and an Arab expedition clash over a powerful piece of metal hidden in the jungle. Oh yeah, and there's also aliens, a psychic, a sorcerer and a hostile tribe who do the occasional human sacrifice.

Jungle of Death

1985

El narco poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

El narco

1985

Ratas de la ciudad poster
8.1

A father on the search for his missing child discovers a revealing and shocking drama. The true adventures of thousands of juvenile criminals who live in a big city. They live in ghettos, in a world ful of violence, corruption and hate. They form gangs who attack and rob innocent victims, leaving a trail of terror behind.

Ratas de la ciudad

1985

1970s · 7 titles

1960s · 14 titles

Love Traps poster
5.6

Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance.

Love Traps

1969

Lauro Puñales poster
5.0

One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.

Lauro Puñales

1969

Atrás de las nubes poster
5.7

All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...

Atrás de las nubes

1962

The Revenge of the Shadow poster
5.4

A shadowy adversary emerges, forcing The Scarlet Fox into a dangerous game of wits, swords, and courage in this action-packed adventure.

The Revenge of the Shadow

1962

La muerte en el desfiladero poster
5.8

Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").

La muerte en el desfiladero

1963

El fistol del diablo III poster
NR

Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fistol del diablo". All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo.

El fistol del diablo III

1961

No artwork available
NR

Billionaire Mauricio Brandy picks up two stranded models after a car crash and begins a risky triangle, as his doctor warns his excesses could kill him.

The Dilemma

1969

Under the Cover of Night poster
6.2

The vedette Miriam ignores her pretender Carlos because her daughter Margot, whom she passes as her sister, is in love with him.

Under the Cover of Night

1962

Suerte Te De Dios poster
5.8

Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.

Suerte Te De Dios

1961

No artwork available
5.5

Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a contested inheritance and several murdered family members. It took him four feature-length movies to do it. (Series: "El Relampago.")

El asaltacaminos

1962

No artwork available
5.3

Cowboy drifter goes home for a visit, gets into trouble messing around with another man's woman.

Hombres de roca

1966

Aventuras de Chucho el Roto poster
6.7

Number 2 of 4 in a series about the exploits of a crew of Robin Hood-esque con artists.

Aventuras de Chucho el Roto

1961

El hombre de negro poster
7.0

After his family is murdered by bandits, a young man enlists a wandering cowboy to teach him to gunsling.

El hombre de negro

1969

Valentín Armienta, el vengador poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Valentín Armienta, el vengador

1969

1950s · 22 titles

El plagiario poster
5.7

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

El plagiario

1955

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

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

Love Me Because I Die poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Love Me Because I Die

1953

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

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

El 7 leguas poster
7.9

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

El 7 leguas

1955

Nunca debieron amarse poster
5.8

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

Nunca debieron amarse

1951

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

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

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

No artwork available
5.8

Gambler faces comical mishaps trying to pay off a poker debt.

Quietos todos

1959

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

From Can-Can to Mambo poster
6.2

Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.

From Can-Can to Mambo

1951

Apartment house poster
6.3

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

Apartment house

1951

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

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

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

Diabolical Kidnapping poster
5.7

Second film in the Tigres del ring series.

Diabolical Kidnapping

1957

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mi caballo prieto rebelde poster
6.0

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

Mi caballo prieto rebelde

1967

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

La M60: Protegida por el diablo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La M60: Protegida por el diablo

1996

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

Duelo en el desierto poster
6.0

B-movie western, sequel to El solitario.

Duelo en el desierto

1964

Un yucateco honoris causa poster
6.0

A charitable Chinese barber from Yucatán inherits a fortune of 10 million pesos.

Un yucateco honoris causa

1967

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

Como gallos de pelea poster
5.5

Young man returns from college to his family estate; when he learns that a rival family is trying to take over all available acreage, he gradually warms up to the idea of defending his turf.

Como gallos de pelea

1977

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

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

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

No artwork available
5.5

Teen-romance comedy with unrelated dramatic subplots.

Acapulco a go-gó

1967

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

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

El Cain del bajio poster
6.0

Family conflicts and shady business practices lead to fratricide. And then...

El Cain del bajio

1981

El Cain del bajio poster
6.0

Family conflicts and shady business practices lead to fratricide. And then...

El Cain del bajio

1981

Los Valientes de Guerrero poster
6.3

Weaselly bad guy wants to get in good with a woman he's hot for, so he frames the hero for a murder and then organizes a lynch mob against him... all to further her plans.

Los Valientes de Guerrero

1974

No artwork available
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Río salvaje

1971

No artwork available
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Río salvaje

1971