Writing

Jesús Cárdenas

Known for

Writing

Credits

24 titles

Known for

Series credits

Behind the camera

El puma poster
6.3

Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series.

El puma

1959

The Shadow of the Tyrant poster
7.0

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.

The Shadow of the Tyrant

1960

Para siempre amor mío poster
5.6

A man, annoyed by his wife's interference in the family business, travels to Spain, where he becomes involved with another woman.

Para siempre amor mío

1955

Casadas en Apuros poster
NR

Comedy about infidelities between several engaged couples.

Casadas en Apuros

1958

Cape Horn poster
6.3

The whaling captain, Antonio Grez, meets in a bar in the port of Valparaiso a very beautiful woman who lives haunted by the tragic premonition that fate will give her a violent death. Grez takes command of a whaler bound for Cape Horn and Antarctica. In Punta Arenas, the owner of the whaling company embarks on together with his fiancee, who is none other than the mysterious woman with whom Grez has fallen in love. The final route of the ship is the 'Land of Desolation', a place on which there is a curse and everyone knows that, for centuries, is has been fulfilled inexorably.

Cape Horn

1956

Maratón de baile poster
6.0

Several couples are lured into becoming contestants in a dance marathon that awards a large cash prize to the couple still standing at the end of this grueling test of endurance.

Maratón de baile

1958

La mujer del puerto poster
6.2

Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...

La mujer del puerto

1949

Prisionera del pasado poster
5.5

Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.

Prisionera del pasado

1954

El rayo de Sinaloa: La venganza de Heraclio Bernal poster
5.8

Disgruntled 19th century peasants get militant and start redistributing some wealth. Part two of a historical-drama trilogy.

El rayo de Sinaloa: La venganza de Heraclio Bernal

1958

Night Falls poster
6.6

Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.

Night Falls

1952

Las tres alegres comadres poster
5.7

When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico City, they separate from their boyfriends, form a trio and travel the country singing, dancing and bribing older men, but they fall into a trap when they invest their money in an unreliable business.

Las tres alegres comadres

1952

Mujeres sin mañana poster
6.3

Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.

Mujeres sin mañana

1951

Vagabunda poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Vagabunda

1950

No artwork available
5.4

A gunslinger avenges his father's murder.

A Clean Shot

1960

Here is Heraclius Bernal poster
6.3

Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series.

Here is Heraclius Bernal

1958

Estos años violentos poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Estos años violentos

1962

No artwork available
6.0

A young street vendor who is a cockfighting aficionado, attracted by the image of one of them, settles on the ranch of its owner where he falls in love with the foreman's daughter. All the problems happen and some that afflicted the ranch in the past are solved by him.

El gallo colorado

1957

La mujer de dos caras poster
6.7

A beautiful woman will stop at nothing in her quest for money and power. Not even murder.

La mujer de dos caras

1957

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Los secretos del sexo débil

1962

Las puertas del presidio poster
6.3

Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.

Las puertas del presidio

1949

Simitrio poster
7.4

A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.

Simitrio

1960

La rebelión de la sierra: El Fin de Heraclio Bernal poster
5.8

Third and last film in the trilogy about Heraclio Bernal. Heraclio continues his fight against the Federales in the Juarista era.

La rebelión de la sierra: El Fin de Heraclio Bernal

1958

María la Voz poster
5.8

In rural Mexico, a psychic finds herself caught between warring families while competing with her closest friend for the same man's affections.

María la Voz

1955