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7.5Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
Neither Blood Nor Sand
1941
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Pecado
1951
6.3Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected.
El Reino de los Gángsters
1948
6.3A 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
8.2Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
We the Poor
1948
6.3A gangster melodrama set in the slums of Mexico City, following the criminal exploits of a fur smuggler and his attraction to an innocent but determined young woman.
Virgen de medianoche
1942
Film credits
1950s · 15 titles
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Pecado
1951
6.3A 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
7.6Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
Drop the Curtain
1955
6.5The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime. Riotous hijinks ensue.
El beisbolista fenómeno
1952
6.3Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life.
Cuando acaba la noche
1950
6.2Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things impossible for them.
Hombres sin alma
1951
6.5A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as mysterious as typical, you will realize demagoguery and arrangements existing between union leaders to maintain the status quo unchanged and profit from mafia practices.
They Say I'm a Communist
1951
5.2No synopsis available yet.
¡… Y murío por nosotros!
1951
6.8Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
1950
6.0Two sisters, who are devoted to each other, fall in love with the same man. One of them is terminally ill and after she dies there is suspicion she might have been murdered.
Loving Was His Sin
1951
5.8Criminal on the lam assumes the identity of a dead priest and takes his place in a rural parish.
La fe en Dios
1950
6.0Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.
Frontera norte
1953
6.3Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
Mujeres sin mañana
1951
5.8A dancer surrenders herself to a wealthy, depraved man to save the life of her true love.
Piña madura
1950
6.8Tony Ray is not enough to impress Diana thus decides to become a boxer. At last he can have it all: money and feel worthy enough to propose.
Kid Tabaco
1955
1940s · 23 titles
7.5Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
Neither Blood Nor Sand
1941
6.3Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected.
El Reino de los Gángsters
1948
8.2Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
We the Poor
1948
6.3A gangster melodrama set in the slums of Mexico City, following the criminal exploits of a fur smuggler and his attraction to an innocent but determined young woman.
Virgen de medianoche
1942
6.0Everybody at the ranch adjacent to Juan C.'s has a reason to hate him, because he's a bad bad man.
Yo maté a Juan Charrasqueado
1949
7.8Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
You the Rich
1948
6.6A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
Rosenda
1948
6.0Some elderly people mortgage their house to pay the debts of their children, but they do not return the money and lose their house.
Cuando los padres se quedan solos
1949
5.7A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
When the Brave Cry
1947
6.4Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
Confidencias de un ruletero
1949
6.4When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
How Beautiful is Michoacan!
1943
6.3A dangerous gangster, called Álvaro Rambal, is captured by the police. Hoping to be forgiven before his execution, he tells the story of his life to his wife, going from his tragic childhood to the rise and fall of his criminal empire.
Los misterios del hampa
1945
6.4No synopsis available yet.
La reina del trópico
1946
6.2Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.
Las puertas del presidio
1949
4.5In Ciudad Juárez, a prostitute decides to go straight when her drug-dealer lover is trapped. She marries a rich man, but a pimp from her past reappears unexpectedly.
Back Streets of Juarez
1947
5.0Hero on horseback protects a family and their farm from human predators.
El charro Negro en el norte
1949
5.7Young couple weather a marital crisis while older people who have already given up on life interfere from the sidelines.
Tormenta en la cumbre
1943
6.1Marcos Vargas returns home to Ciudad Bolívar after finishing his studies in Trinidad. There he decides to start a business transporting merchandise to the interior of the jungle. A local chieftain will not make things easy for him.
Canaima
1945
6.0Safe-cracker sets up a gangster rival to get arrested; after some unrelated adventures, that guy escapes from jail and pays him back.
Carta Brava
1949
6.3Twin brothers, one of them a bandit, in Mexican California.
Camino de Sacramento
1945
6.5A diamond smuggler from the city is on the lam and takes the identity of a rural schoolteacher, teaching in a small town.
Midnight
1949
5.3Boisterous young charro has to prove to his girlfriend's parents that he's ready to settle down and be a responsible adult... but then somebody frames him for a murder and he has more immediate problems to deal with.
El muchacho alegre
1948
5.1Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.
La casa colorada
1947



