
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
5.2Sketch-comedy collection, heavy on the 'sketchy'.
Ni modo... así somos
1981
No synopsis available yet.
Al cabo qué ni quería
1982
6.7Desperation 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
5.5Armando 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
NRSquadron of mercenaries go out for justice.
Los Profesionales
2003
5.6No synopsis available yet.
Diamantes, Oro y Amor
1973
Film credits
2000s · 3 titles
1990s · 4 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Complot
1997
6.2A secret agent who dies on a mission asks Heaven to let him go back to Earth to complete his mission, and much to his disapproval, he is reincarnated in a bellboy's body.
Super agente Botones
1997
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La M60: Protegida por el diablo
1996
No synopsis available yet.
Solo por hoy
1997
1980s · 7 titles
5.2Sketch-comedy collection, heavy on the 'sketchy'.
Ni modo... así somos
1981
5.2A 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
5.0Two friends travel the world in search of adventure, but ambition blinds them and they become involved in illegal business.
Traficante Por Ambición
1989
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
5.8A 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
6.7No synopsis available yet.
El narco
1985
8.1A 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
5.6No synopsis available yet.
Diamantes, Oro y Amor
1973
5.6The 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
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
6.0Two buddies from Pancho Villa's regiment go on a mission. Light comedy, romance, songs...
El sargento Perez
1973
5.2After 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
No synopsis available yet.
Un camino al cielo
1975
6.4Respected 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
1960s · 14 titles
5.6Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance.
Love Traps
1969
5.0One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.
Lauro Puñales
1969
5.7All 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
5.4A 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
5.8Masked 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
NRPart 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
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
6.2The 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
5.8Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
Suerte Te De Dios
1961
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
Cowboy drifter goes home for a visit, gets into trouble messing around with another man's woman.
Hombres de roca
1966
6.7Number 2 of 4 in a series about the exploits of a crew of Robin Hood-esque con artists.
Aventuras de Chucho el Roto
1961
7.0After his family is murdered by bandits, a young man enlists a wandering cowboy to teach him to gunsling.
El hombre de negro
1969
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Valentín Armienta, el vengador
1969
1950s · 22 titles
5.7Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.
El plagiario
1955
5.2Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
The Black Scorpion
1957
2.9A 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
6.2No synopsis available yet.
Love Me Because I Die
1953
7.4Cantinflas 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
6.4Mad 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
7.9Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.
El 7 leguas
1955
5.8Ranchera romance; two young lovers whose families are hostile to each other.
Nunca debieron amarse
1951
4.1The 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
4.3After 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
5.8Slum child, abandoned almost since birth, is reunited with his father.
El billetero
1953
6.7This 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
6.7A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death".
El sindicato del crimen
1954
5.9A 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
Gambler faces comical mishaps trying to pay off a poker debt.
Quietos todos
1959
6.3Two brothers and their pops end up helping out an orphaned young woman who wants revenge against her father's murderer.
Los aventureros
1954
6.2Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.
From Can-Can to Mambo
1951
6.3Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Apartment house
1951
5.3Amid 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
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
6.2Pedro 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
5.7Second film in the Tigres del ring series.
Diabolical Kidnapping
1957
1940s · 3 titles
6.0A ruthless nightclub owner involved in drug trafficking exploits a naive singer while plotting to kill his rival, who's been hiding for five years due to his own drug-related past.
No me quieras tanto...
1949
6.4José, a driver, and Laura, a dancer, were lovers. José couldn't dance with Laura due to his condition on his legs. Therefore, a man notices Laura's skill to dance and wants to do business with her, taking her on a dancing tour, which made José and Laura miss each other.
Laura's Sin
1949
7.5Hard-living horse-trainer has a thing with an aristocratic woman... but her brothers aren't happy to see her involved with someone beneath her station.
Juan Charrasqueado
1948
Behind the camera
5.2Sketch-comedy collection, heavy on the 'sketchy'.
Ni modo... así somos
1981
No synopsis available yet.
Al cabo qué ni quería
1982
6.7Desperation 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
6.7Desperation 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
5.5Armando 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
6.2No synopsis available yet.
Tampico
1972
5.7Card-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
5.7Card-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
5.6A young Yaqui man fights against intolerant townspeople.
Yaqui
1969
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
5.6The 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
6.3Timid 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
6.0Two buddies from Pancho Villa's regiment go on a mission. Light comedy, romance, songs...
El sargento Perez
1973
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
5.8Three 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
5.2After 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
5.2After 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
6.0Two cowboys fight over ownership of a horse and a woman.
Mi caballo prieto rebelde
1967
No synopsis available yet.
Un camino al cielo
1975
No synopsis available yet.
Un camino al cielo
1975
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La M60: Protegida por el diablo
1996
6.3The 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
6.0B-movie western, sequel to El solitario.
Duelo en el desierto
1964
6.0A charitable Chinese barber from Yucatán inherits a fortune of 10 million pesos.
Un yucateco honoris causa
1967
6.0Band 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
5.5Young 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
5.5The 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
5.5The 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
6.4Respected 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
6.7The 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
Teen-romance comedy with unrelated dramatic subplots.
Acapulco a go-gó
1967
4.1In 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
4.1In 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
5.7A 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
5.7A 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
6.0Family conflicts and shady business practices lead to fratricide. And then...
El Cain del bajio
1981
6.0Family conflicts and shady business practices lead to fratricide. And then...
El Cain del bajio
1981
6.3Weaselly 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 synopsis available yet.
Río salvaje
1971
No synopsis available yet.
Río salvaje
1971


