
Acting
Arturo Castro 'Bigotón'
Born 1918-03-21 · Mexico City, Mexico
Acting credits
8.1Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
The Little Priest
1964
5.8A dancer is accused of killing a businessman. When her husband finds out, he decides to take her kid away from her.
Noche de perdición
1951
Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly.
Rogaciano el huapanguero
1957
5.5A guy and his girlfriend pretend to come from Mars.
The Flying Saucers
1956
6.0A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
The King of México
1956
6.0The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.
Comedians of the League
1957
6.3Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.
Alazán y enamorado
1966
7.6A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Nazarín
1959
7.7Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
Por mis pistolas
1968
Comical mix-up in the operating room: by mistake, a notorious gangster's arm is grafted onto an accident-victim's stump.
Échenme al gato
1958
8.0It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
El señor doctor
1965
6.0Comedy 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
6.0Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and...
Love of a Cabaret Singer
1958
6.2Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
Ladies Club
1956
5.8Two ranch owners promised their offspring would marry. The intended refused and switched places with their respective servants. They don't discover their real identities till they marry.
Yo no me caso compadre
1960
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Melodías de amor
1955
6.1Saucy-but-naive country girl moves to the big city to look for work.
La criada bien criada
1972
6.0Chofi marry Alberto and very much in love, but her mother continues to intervene in the couple's relationship, which will lead to divorce.
Esposa te doy
1957
6.9A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.
The Paper Man
1963
Incompetent clown is drafted into a Murder Incorporated style squad of hitmen.
Asesinos, S.A.
1957
7.7The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
School for Buglars
1958
5.4Inspired by Alexander Dumas's novel The Corsican Brothers, Alma de Acero presents a delightful spin on the classic story of twin brothers (both played by Luis Aguilar) and their contrasting lives. As a singer in a nightclub, one brother has chosen a life of peaceful simplicity; the other, however, has chosen a troublesome lifestyle that leads to numerous run-ins with the law, forcing the vocalist to risk his own life to save his sibling.
Soul of Steel
1957
Carnival worker is recruited by police to impersonate an old lady whose relatives want to kill her.
Dying of Laughter
1957
5.6Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas.
El fugitivo
1966