Juan José Ortega

Directing

Juan José Ortega

Born — Died

1904-10-27 — 1996-12-27

Place of birth

Matehuala, San Luis Potosí, México.

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Juan J. Ortega (27 October 1904 – 27 December 1996), born Juan José Ortega García, was a Mexican film director, distributor, and journalist. Born in Matehuala, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, he worked as a journalist for more than 15 years before entering the film industry. In 1935, while serving on the Irrigation Commission, he participated in the production of the documentary features Irrigación en México and Gigantes de piedra. His experience with these productions led him to pursue filmmaking. He made his directorial debut with Sendas del destino (1939), beginning a career that would span more than four decades. Among his notable films are La casa de la Zorra (1945), La mujer legítima (1945)…

Known for

El rosario poster
6.0

Directed by Juan Ortega and set in 19th Century Victorian England, a struggling single woman of the noble class , named Juana Champion (played by actress Andrea Palma), has absolutely no marriage prospects. After finally resigning herself to becoming a Spinster or "Old Maid", she decides to go live with her very wealthy Aunt, none other than the Dutchess of Meldrum. Not long after her arrival, she quickly becomes infatuated with a charming, good-looking and talented painter named Garth, who works for her prim and proper Aunt. Although there is a mutual attraction between them from the start, Garth does not truly fall in love with Juana until he hears her sing a wonderful song called "The Rosary".

El rosario

1944

Las bravuconas poster
5.7

Three big-city wimps have to pass for machos when they go to their home-town.

Las bravuconas

1963

Cuando el alba llegue poster
5.7

Bad guy who runs a ritzy nightclub is trying to keep his younger brother out of the gutter and get him into a professional career. Unknowingly, he takes up with his brother's fiancee. Also other complications.

Cuando el alba llegue

1950

No artwork available
4.5

The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.

Ellas también son rebeldes

1961

La razón de la culpa poster
6.2

Roberto on a journey to Mexico knows to Maria de La Paz, a woman older than he, who falls in love, she also has feelings for him, but doesn't give him hopes cause she is married. Fate reunites them without imagine it, they will have to face a moral dilemma.

La razón de la culpa

1943

El río de las ánimas poster
5.4

Traveling lawman comes to town and schools the residents in collective farming practices. There's also a bad guy with a lot of money who's cut off the water supply to the area's farmers, and the soul of a murder victim that manifests as a flying fireball.

El río de las ánimas

1964

Behind the camera

El rosario poster
6.0

Directed by Juan Ortega and set in 19th Century Victorian England, a struggling single woman of the noble class , named Juana Champion (played by actress Andrea Palma), has absolutely no marriage prospects. After finally resigning herself to becoming a Spinster or "Old Maid", she decides to go live with her very wealthy Aunt, none other than the Dutchess of Meldrum. Not long after her arrival, she quickly becomes infatuated with a charming, good-looking and talented painter named Garth, who works for her prim and proper Aunt. Although there is a mutual attraction between them from the start, Garth does not truly fall in love with Juana until he hears her sing a wonderful song called "The Rosary".

El rosario

1944

El rosario poster
6.0

Directed by Juan Ortega and set in 19th Century Victorian England, a struggling single woman of the noble class , named Juana Champion (played by actress Andrea Palma), has absolutely no marriage prospects. After finally resigning herself to becoming a Spinster or "Old Maid", she decides to go live with her very wealthy Aunt, none other than the Dutchess of Meldrum. Not long after her arrival, she quickly becomes infatuated with a charming, good-looking and talented painter named Garth, who works for her prim and proper Aunt. Although there is a mutual attraction between them from the start, Garth does not truly fall in love with Juana until he hears her sing a wonderful song called "The Rosary".

El rosario

1944

Las bravuconas poster
5.7

Three big-city wimps have to pass for machos when they go to their home-town.

Las bravuconas

1963

Cuando el alba llegue poster
5.7

Bad guy who runs a ritzy nightclub is trying to keep his younger brother out of the gutter and get him into a professional career. Unknowingly, he takes up with his brother's fiancee. Also other complications.

Cuando el alba llegue

1950

No artwork available
4.5

The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.

Ellas también son rebeldes

1961

La razón de la culpa poster
6.2

Roberto on a journey to Mexico knows to Maria de La Paz, a woman older than he, who falls in love, she also has feelings for him, but doesn't give him hopes cause she is married. Fate reunites them without imagine it, they will have to face a moral dilemma.

La razón de la culpa

1943

El río de las ánimas poster
5.4

Traveling lawman comes to town and schools the residents in collective farming practices. There's also a bad guy with a lot of money who's cut off the water supply to the area's farmers, and the soul of a murder victim that manifests as a flying fireball.

El río de las ánimas

1964

Santo in the Mystery of the Black Pearl poster
5.0

Santo fights diamond smugglers.

Santo in the Mystery of the Black Pearl

1976

Caribbean Rhythms poster
6.0

A Cuban rumbera dancer undergoes an ordeal to fall in love with a married Mexican doctor.

Caribbean Rhythms

1950

Caribbean Rhythms poster
6.0

A Cuban rumbera dancer undergoes an ordeal to fall in love with a married Mexican doctor.

Caribbean Rhythms

1950

Santo Faces Death poster
5.4

A group of international criminals steal a large emerald from a heavily guarded Colombian mine and they plan to sell it on the black market. Unfortunately, the evil Dr. Igor is also manipulating other criminals, as well as the ones who stole the emerald, for his own benefit. Santo, a Mexican wrestler/Interpol agent works with the Colombian authorities in an attempt to recover the emerald and to stop Dr. Igor and his subordinates, as well.

Santo Faces Death

1970

No me olvides nunca poster
6.0

Publicist on a movie set invents a romance between two stars, and then they start getting all mushy for real. But one of them's married, uh-oh.

No me olvides nunca

1956

Una lección de amor poster
6.0

An older gentleman takes responsibility for molding a young showgirl's career; there seems to be a romantic link between them, but she has lots of side-pieces running around, and a serious boyfriend waiting in the wings...

Una lección de amor

1956

Tropicana poster
5.8

Behind-the-scenes at a famous nightclub's floor-show. Those wacky choreographers and hotel managers!

Tropicana

1957

Me gustan todas poster
6.0

Wealthy Mexican tourist gets swindled by a Cuban woman pretending to be his daughter from a previous visit.

Me gustan todas

1954

Frente al Pecado de Ayer poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

Frente al Pecado de Ayer

1955

La insaciable poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

La insaciable

1947

La insaciable poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

La insaciable

1947

La casa de la zorra poster
6.4

The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.

La casa de la zorra

1945

El ángel caído poster
6.0

Two gangsters on the lam end up in Cuba.

El ángel caído

1949

Ay Chabela...! poster
6.7

Two guys fight over two girls, ranchera style.

Ay Chabela...!

1961

No artwork available
5.7

Mexican feature film

Su primer amor

1960

No artwork available
5.7

Mexican feature film

Su primer amor

1960

Yo no creo en los hombres poster
3.8

In Havana, humble office girl Maria Caridad becomes the victim of rich playboy Arturo who seduces her and takes her to bed under false pretenses.

Yo no creo en los hombres

1955

Yo no creo en los hombres poster
3.8

In Havana, humble office girl Maria Caridad becomes the victim of rich playboy Arturo who seduces her and takes her to bed under false pretenses.

Yo no creo en los hombres

1955

Preciosa poster
6.3

Successful nightclub singer has difficulties with her love life.

Preciosa

1965

La mujer legítima poster
5.7

Widower wants to remarry, but his adult children are slow to warm to his new wife. One daughter in particular tries very hard to discredit her in his eyes.

La mujer legítima

1945

Lo que sólo el hombre puede sufrir poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Lo que sólo el hombre puede sufrir

1943

Herencia maldita poster
5.0

Itinerant cowboy impersonates the missing-presumed-dead owner of a hacienda to set matters straight and bring criminals to justice.

Herencia maldita

1963

No artwork available
5.8

Frivolous young society woman gains depth and maturity through contact with the director of an orphanage and his wards.

Cuentan de una mujer

1959

Zorina poster
6.7

This overlooked, if not almost forgotten romantic melodrama from Director Juan Jose Ortega, features a South American-born beauty named Lenora Amar, (whom the Mexican press quickly dubbed "The Brazilian Beauty"), in the title role. Although her acting career was rather short-lived because she chose to end it when she was just 27 years of age, her Zorina co-star and then-husband, Luis Aldas, (starring as" Bardo" in this film), seem to still have made an impact on movie audiences due to some favorable news publicity and the relative success of the handful of films the pair made.

Zorina

1949

Zorina poster
6.7

This overlooked, if not almost forgotten romantic melodrama from Director Juan Jose Ortega, features a South American-born beauty named Lenora Amar, (whom the Mexican press quickly dubbed "The Brazilian Beauty"), in the title role. Although her acting career was rather short-lived because she chose to end it when she was just 27 years of age, her Zorina co-star and then-husband, Luis Aldas, (starring as" Bardo" in this film), seem to still have made an impact on movie audiences due to some favorable news publicity and the relative success of the handful of films the pair made.

Zorina

1949

Toda una vida poster
5.6

A beautiful young woman, adopted as a child by a man, falls in love with her stepfather and wants to conceive a child with him.

Toda una vida

1945

Frente al destino poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Frente al destino

1964

Horizontes de sangre poster
6.0

Bad Comanches persuade good Apaches to go on the warpath.

Horizontes de sangre

1962

Flor de fango poster
4.0

Wicked man seduces virtuous young woman; she leaves home in disgrace. Etc.

Flor de fango

1942

Lodo y Armiño poster
5.6

Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior affects five other people; everybody suffers. Enormously.

Lodo y Armiño

1951

Lodo y Armiño poster
5.6

Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior affects five other people; everybody suffers. Enormously.

Lodo y Armiño

1951

Lodo y Armiño poster
5.6

Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior affects five other people; everybody suffers. Enormously.

Lodo y Armiño

1951

El abanico de Lady Windermere poster
6.7

A woman with a dubious reputation causes problems in an aristocratic marriage.

El abanico de Lady Windermere

1944