Salvador Godínez

Acting

Salvador Godínez

Born 1920-02-17 · Mexico, Mexique

Acting credits

Fitzcarraldo poster
7.6

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Fitzcarraldo

1982

Let's Get Harry poster
6.2

Harry Burck has been kidnapped by South American terrorists, and when the US Government refuses to intervene, Harry's friends decide to take matters into their own hands!

Let's Get Harry

1986

The Brute poster
7.0

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

The Brute

1953

Broken Flag poster
6.9

When a group of young filmmakers witness and film a crime of passion, the most outrageous blackmail of the century begins. By means of a fantastic plan, the filmmakers send to the murderer, a financial and industrial big shot, a copy of the movie that incriminates him and they demand him an improvement of the standard of living for the working class.

Broken Flag

1979

Tarzan and the Mermaids poster
6.0

A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.

Tarzan and the Mermaids

1948

Nazarín poster
7.6

A 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

Arrabalera poster
5.4

Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.

Arrabalera

1951

They also sing of pain poster
7.3

The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.

They also sing of pain

1950

The King of the Neighborhood poster
8.4

A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.

The King of the Neighborhood

1950

Tailored gentleman poster
7.3

Cantinflas 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

El pecado de ser pobre poster
6.7

Ex-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison.

El pecado de ser pobre

1950

It's my Life poster
6.5

Alberto Aguilera arrives from Ciudad Juárez to the capital to pursue a career in music, but in the midst of confusion he is accused of stealing and is sent to prison.

It's my Life

1982

The River and Death poster
6.4

A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.

The River and Death

1954

The Body Snatcher poster
5.9

A 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

New World poster
5.7

Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The court of the Inquisition cracks down on heretics and the natives prepare for a general uprising ...

New World

1978

Illusion Travels by Streetcar poster
6.5

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!

Illusion Travels by Streetcar

1954

Mexico 2000 poster
6.1

In Olympus the Gods decide to exterminate humanity, after deliberating one of the gods advocates not to exterminate those who live in Mexico, which in the year 2000 is a paradise where all calamities have been extinguished.

Mexico 2000

1983

La culta dama poster
6.3

A pregnant and very poor woman has no place to give birth, and turns to a society lady for help.

La culta dama

1957

Samson and Delilah poster
5.1

A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the Great Exodus from Egypt, uses his herculean strength in the fight against the Philistine oppressors. He is seduced by Delilah, a Philistine courtesan, who uses her cunning to discover the secret of her lover's great power and then betrays him.

Samson and Delilah

1984

Victims of Sin poster
7.0

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.

Victims of Sin

1951

Street Love poster
6.0

El Pichi, El Trompas and El Orejas are street children who pick up a bill that Fernando has dropped, who prevents them from being arrested and offers them a job at a cake stand. Fernando meets Queta, El Pichi's sister, and they both feel attracted. This will lead Fernando to know the hardness of life for people in the suburbs.

Street Love

1950

Streetwalker poster
5.7

In Mexico City, two sisters live radically different lives: Maria, who—along with her supportive group of fellow sex workers—must deal with unscrupulous, abusive clients and her exploitative pimp, Rudy, and Elena, a society woman trapped in a marriage of convenience, who falls prey to Rudy’s fortune-seeking seduction.

Streetwalker

1951

Letters from Marusia poster
5.6

Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.

Letters from Marusia

1975

Longitud de Guerra poster
5.9

Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.

Longitud de Guerra

1976