Raúl Meraz

Acting

Raúl Meraz

Born — Died

1927-03-13 — 1996-04-20

Place of birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Raúl Meraz Estrada (March 13, 1927 – April 20, 1996) was a Mexican actor of film and television.

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 3 titles

1980s · 5 titles

1970s · 9 titles

Rubí poster
7.1

This is the story of Rubí, a young, selfish and hypocritical woman who, through ambition and deception, ruins the lives of those around her and her own.

Rubí

1970

Mad Drivers poster
6.0

Spoiled rich boys get into drag-racing and end up in beeg trobbles.

Mad Drivers

1978

Más allá de la violencia poster
5.7

The young pacifist Claudio is saddened to see some children playing war. He goes with a group of rebels who make fun of him and invite him to participate in a motorcycle race where the prize is a girl. Ál wins the race with the help of Rafael, the head of the band, and decides to buy to join the group, on a trip they meet with some hippies led by a psychologist who opposes drugs. Two of the gang members, Gabriel and Bernardo, attack one of the girls; the hippies in revenge violate Mimi and sa Julia, for which Bernardo kills a hippie. Claudio fights with him but Mimi intervenes and receives a stab aimed at Claudio. Ál recalls that Rafael was a brother and a lover of her. The police arrest the hippies and scold the parents for the behavior of the young people.

Más allá de la violencia

1971

Pobre, pero honrada poster
6.0

Beloved Mexican screen star La India Maria portrays a poor but honorable woman who causes a stir around town when she decides to become a witch doctor in this classic comedy from director Fernando Cortes. When the real medical practitioner in town discovers that there's a new shaman around, the comic trouble that follows is sure to keep viewers in stitches.

Pobre, pero honrada

1973

La presidenta municipal poster
7.3

La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.

La presidenta municipal

1975

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Los hijos del diablo

1978

Hoy he soñado con Dios poster
6.8

Aging widow interferes in the lives of her adult children.

Hoy he soñado con Dios

1972

La Captura De Gabino Barrera poster
5.8

International playboys in NYC get mixed up with a bank robbery and have to evade the police long enough to reach Mexico. long the way, they pick up an orphan boy who says he's running away from an abusive stepfather. Fourth in a series of four.

La Captura De Gabino Barrera

1970

The Corrupted poster
5.8

Hotel with a dozen stories unfolding simultaneously: man with brain tumor, child with leukemia, drug-traffic magnate and his paid escort, rich widow and her paid escort, lesbian seduction scenario, etc etc...

The Corrupted

1971

1960s · 16 titles

No artwork available
NR

During the Mexican Revolution, a butcher is forced to hide stolen train gold, but his wife pushes him into murder to keep it. Sparking guilt, paranoia, and a trap that tightens around them.

The Butcher’s Wife

1969

La Valentina poster
6.4

A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."

La Valentina

1966

The Extra poster
7.2

Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.

The Extra

1962

Seis días para morir poster
6.7

Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.

Seis días para morir

1967

The Unknown Cowboy poster
6.2

The Sheriff of a small town, in his search of a robber bank, gets to another city, working undercover. There, he tooks the place of man recently killed, and falls in love with his widow.

The Unknown Cowboy

1967

Un par a todo dar poster
6.0

Comedy about two friends (Viruta and Capulina) who are swindled when they buy a plot of land. It turns out that the land they just purchased is actually the cemetery of a small town. Moreover, the two bumbling stooges cross paths with the local criminal, a masked robber known as "El Esqueleto" (the Skeleton). The film also stars Dacia Gonzalez.

Un par a todo dar

1961

Pilotos de la muerte poster
5.8

A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.

Pilotos de la muerte

1962

Bala Perdida poster
6.1

Daniel is let out of jail for his mothers funeral. During his furlough he kidnaps his son and takes him to a movie set where a western is being shot.

Bala Perdida

1960

The Door and the Butcher's Wife poster
7.4

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.

The Door and the Butcher's Wife

1969

El ojo de vidrio poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

El ojo de vidrio

1969

Stripping and Dying poster
6.0

A sex killer is on the loose.

Stripping and Dying

1968

Detectives o ladrones..? poster
6.8

Two bumbling bozos with detective licenses get hoodwinked by a pair of jewel-thieves.

Detectives o ladrones..?

1967

The Great Adventure poster
5.7

A humorous adventure story about two boys chasing after their dog who was kicked out of the church, and facing all kinds of, some real and some imagined, trouble, both for them and the dog.

The Great Adventure

1969

Mujeres engañadas poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mujeres engañadas

1961

Mujeres de medianoche poster
4.0

Crime melodrama involving blackmail, murder, mystery and the obligatory police investigation.

Mujeres de medianoche

1969

Modisto de Señoras poster
4.1

Successful fashiondesigner D'Maurice seduces married women while he pretends to be gay in order to avoid arousing suspicion among his clientele's husbands

Modisto de Señoras

1969

1950s · 14 titles

The Stone Crucifix poster
6.2

A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has just died there mistakenly takes her as her grandaugther and takes her to live with her.

The Stone Crucifix

1956

The New Invisible Man poster
5.6

A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.

The New Invisible Man

1958

El gran espectáculo poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

El gran espectáculo

1958

Pensión de artistas poster
7.2

Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.

Pensión de artistas

1956

La Diana Cazadora poster
4.2

A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.

La Diana Cazadora

1957

With my finger on the trigger poster
6.0

The Private detective Raúl Marín with the help of his grandmother and the police commander Aragón try to find out the murder of several homicides in three episodes: El Anónimo, El Ídolo and El Hipnotizador.

With my finger on the trigger

1958

No artwork available
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Con el dedo en el gatillo: El vengador

1958

Land of Men poster
7.2

On his family's farm, Gilberto keeps weapons to support the revolutionaries. When his father find out, he runs out from the hacienda to join them.

Land of Men

1959

Born to Love poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Born to Love

1959

No artwork available
5.8

Woman has plastic surgery and reevaluates her relationships with husband and lover while pretending to be a different person.

Sucedió en México

1958

El dinamitero poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

El dinamitero

1958

La faraona poster
4.4

Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.

La faraona

1956

Flor de canela poster
5.6

Nightclub entertainer discovers the truth about her birth mother while making the right choice in her love life, choosing the good guy over the slimy, exploitative hoodlum.

Flor de canela

1959

No artwork available
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

La tumba

1958

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