Bárbara Gil

Acting

Bárbara Gil

Born — Died

1930-03-24 — 2015-09-11

Place of birth

Guadalajara, Jalisco, México

Known for

Acting

Credits

28 titles

Known for

Yo no creo en los hombres poster
7.0

María Dolores is a beautiful woman dating Arturo. He is an unscrupulous man who takes advantage of María's kindness to deceive her; he eventually abandons her to marry another woman. Some time later, Arturo attempts to seduce María. She tries to resist, and a struggle ensues during which Arturo dies. María is found guilty of his death and imprisoned. While in jail, she vows never to trust—let alone get involved with—a man again. After her release, María meets Gustavo, a lawyer who falls in love with her. Through him, she learns to trust men once more. Ultimately, she marries Gustavo, and they live happily.

Yo no creo en los hombres

1991

The Sheriff's Strange Son poster
6.4

In a small western town, a father obliges a doctor to separate two conjoined twins in a very hazardous operation. One of the children dies but years after seems to have survived as his brother's second personality.

The Sheriff's Strange Son

1986

Marejada poster
6.7

Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.

Marejada

1952

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

Dancing, salón de baile poster
5.5

Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.

Dancing, salón de baile

1952

Señoritas a disgusto poster
6.7

Two provincial spinsters host Luis, a young man who comes to work at the bank, and flirts with Maria, who believes it is the opportunity to get married, but in reality he is an adventurer who at the bank learned that she is the second single more fortune. The first is the daughter of her employer, but she is engaged.

Señoritas a disgusto

1989

Film credits

1980s · 4 titles

1960s · 4 titles

1950s · 15 titles

Marejada poster
6.7

Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.

Marejada

1952

Dancing, salón de baile poster
5.5

Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.

Dancing, salón de baile

1952

La marquesa del barrio poster
6.0

Rich widow recovers from a thirty-year alcoholic fugue and resumes her previous life.

La marquesa del barrio

1951

Quinto patio poster
5.7

Model son/employee/student is frustrated by poverty and surrenders to the temptations of a criminal lifestyle... in the same gang that twenty years earlier murdered his father OMG. Meanwhile his sister. Meanwhile his mother.

Quinto patio

1950

School for Buglars poster
7.7

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.

School for Buglars

1958

El derecho de nacer poster
6.9

In Santiago de Cuba in the early 1950s, history begins. A young woman of high society becomes pregnant with a false love, her father orders his black maid (Dolores) to kill the baby (Alberto), but she flees to Havana where Alberto becomes a renowned doctor.

El derecho de nacer

1952

El luchador fenómeno poster
5.8

Amado is an employee of a brewery that dreams of success in football. Inveterate dreamer sends a letter to the pantheon of athletes. There champions Assembly decides to send the spirit of a great scorer for help. However, the devil, a fighter with no luck, decides to take the place of the player and turn beloved wrestling champion. This is one of the first incursions of Mexican cinema to the sub-genre of movies precursor struggle and many others that followed over the decades of the 50s and 60s.

El luchador fenómeno

1952

La tienda de la esquina poster
5.6

Shady characters try to buy the corner shop and destroy a decent family's livelihood.

La tienda de la esquina

1951

El vendedor de muñecas poster
5.3

A man sells his wife, and takes care of street women turning them into ladies to sell to rich men.

El vendedor de muñecas

1955

Ultraje al amor poster
6.7

Mexican feature film

Ultraje al amor

1956

Tierra baja poster
6.3

A poor shepherd is convinced to marry a beautiful woman. This is a Maquiavellian plan schemed by the woman's fiancé and her father.

Tierra baja

1951

Retorno al quinto patio poster
6.3

After getting out of prison, Ramon Vallarta tries to put his life back together, establishing himself in a new career and reconciling himself with his former sweetheart. Also other stuff. Sequel to Quinto Patio.

Retorno al quinto patio

1951

Remember to Live poster
6.0

In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.

Remember to Live

1953

Ladrones de niños poster
6.4

Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.

Ladrones de niños

1958

Siete mujeres poster
6.7

Mexican feature film

Siete mujeres

1953

Series credits

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