
Acting
Roberto Cobo
Born — Died
1930-02-20 — 2002-08-02
Place of birth
General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
61 titles
Roberto Cobo was born on February 20, 1930 in General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico as Roberto Garcia Romero. He was an actor, known for Los olvidados (1950), Dulces compañías (1996) and Subida al cielo (1952). His apartment collapsed during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. Fortunately, he was rescued but his hip was damaged badly. He had to use a staff to walk after the earthquake. He died on August 2, 2002 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
Known for
7.0No synopsis available yet.
La pasión de Isabela
1984
8.1A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
The Young and the Damned
1950
6.3In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the aesthetic spark through editing, the keystone. The author performs the work of a sculptor. The hand, for this, is essential. He praises it at the start. “There are the five fingers. The five senses. The five parts of the world (…). The true condition of man is to think with his hands. Jean-Luc Godard composes a dazzling syncopation of sequences, the surge of which evokes the violence of the flows of our contemporary screens, taken to a level of incandescence rarely achieved. Crowned at Cannes, the last Godard is a shock film, with twilight beauty.
The Image Book
2018
6.3Gaby, a gay guy, lives with his sick father. One day Salvador, an ex-lover, appears in his apartment, who comes to borrow money from him and to ask him to be a couple again.
Amsterdam Boulevard
1991
6.8In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.
Cabeza de Vaca
1991
4.8El Vago (Martinez) has recently won an old-fashioned billiards hall in a heated contest with the joint's former owner El Mexicano (Jesus Ochoa). The first order of business: El Vago enlists the aid of ambitious assistant El Perro (Luna) in shooting an instructional billiards video. Trouble soon begins to brew, however, as El Perro is repeatedly distracted from his camera duties by El Mexicano's sexy daughter La Pujara (Hidalgo). Increasingly aggressive in his attempts to transform the venerable gaming establishment into a techno-throbbing youth hot spot, El Perro later crosses the line when he uses his lens to shoot a pornographic video with willing exhibitionist La Pujara. As an impressive array of billiards champs descend upon the pool hall for a high profile tournament, El Mexicano comes into possession of the steamy sex tape and flies into a vengeful fury.
Carambola
2005
Film credits
2000s · 9 titles
4.8El Vago (Martinez) has recently won an old-fashioned billiards hall in a heated contest with the joint's former owner El Mexicano (Jesus Ochoa). The first order of business: El Vago enlists the aid of ambitious assistant El Perro (Luna) in shooting an instructional billiards video. Trouble soon begins to brew, however, as El Perro is repeatedly distracted from his camera duties by El Mexicano's sexy daughter La Pujara (Hidalgo). Increasingly aggressive in his attempts to transform the venerable gaming establishment into a techno-throbbing youth hot spot, El Perro later crosses the line when he uses his lens to shoot a pornographic video with willing exhibitionist La Pujara. As an impressive array of billiards champs descend upon the pool hall for a high profile tournament, El Mexicano comes into possession of the steamy sex tape and flies into a vengeful fury.
Carambola
2005
6.0Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
7.0Iñaki, a petty thief, is forced to leave Spain because of a crime that got complicated. He decides to go to Mexico to meet his father, and realizes that he has lived a life of lies, but also discovers other things, within a group of guys with little luck.
Caiman's Dream
2001
5.8The beloved screen legend Katy Jurado, the lights one last time in the history of a special friendship that develops between a lonely old woman and Jorge, a rebellious teenager in Mexico City in 1984. Through the use flashbacks, Jorge, now an adult, remembers the unforgettable lessons and conversations about human nature and society in general. This fascinating film provides a beautiful tribute to the legendary actress in a history of heart that will make you laugh and think.
A Beautiful Secret
2002
4.4Minerva, a middle age writer, decides to break the uncertainty that prevents her from creating the novel that for years she has nested in her mind. Unintentionally, she returns to the port where she was born and she encounters a past full of ghosts and chimeras. Paradoxically, she founds herself because of this journey back home, so she begins writing the story of her life, of her own childhood, with its magical past and tragedy.
The Magic Hour
2000
4.5A young man witnesses the horrible death of his girlfriend. He then sells his sexual services to a woman who brings him home to her dying husband.
Beso nocturno
2002
5.6Sin Destino follows the life of a 15 year old Mexican boy, Francisco, as he struggles to survive on the streets. His primary source of income is money raised by prostituting himself to men for sex, and the film implies that this learned behaviour has arisen as a result of a contact with a single man when Francisco was 9 years old. This man, Sebastien, is an "artist" who initially claimed to want to photograph the boy, but it is clear that their relationship at one time extended far beyond that of photographer/model.
Without Destination
2002
4.2Bruno, a young prostitute on the streets of Mexico city, spends his free time yearning for his straight friend Umberto. When Umberto rejects him, Bruno reacts with his own violent and misguided actions...
Long Sleepless Nights
2000
6.3Mexican feature film
Una luz en la calle
2002
1990s · 13 titles
6.3Gaby, a gay guy, lives with his sick father. One day Salvador, an ex-lover, appears in his apartment, who comes to borrow money from him and to ask him to be a couple again.
Amsterdam Boulevard
1991
6.8In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.
Cabeza de Vaca
1991
5.0After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza to challenge her own beliefs and face her fears in order to be reunited with her beloved daughter.
Little Saints
1999
5.3The husbands of a charismatic nurse devise a plan to free her from prison when she is arrested for being a polygamist.
Esmeralda Comes by Night
1997
6.3A geography teacher hires a male sex worker, yet the man is not what he appears to be.
Dulces Compañías
1996
5.6Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe Aguilar star in this action film.
El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
1990
3.4No synopsis available yet.
Me alquilo por amor
1990
6.2After twenty or thirty or forty unproductive years "up north" an emigrant gives up and goes home.
El agujero
1997
No synopsis available yet.
Contigo en la distancia
1991
4.6A lawyer fears he's gay after falling for a girl he thinks is a transvestite.
Hembra o macho
1991
5.2Three part anthology with stories involving a Phantom of the Opera-style killer haunting a theater, four punks who pick the wrong house to rob and a man on the hunt for Bigfoot.
Slaughter Night
1990
5.1A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"
The Legend of a Mask
1991
6.0A documentary covering the years Luis Buñuel spent in Mexico making films.
A Mexican Buñuel
1997
1980s · 14 titles
5.5The inhabitants of a condominium prepare to party and have a baile where various things happen caused by alcohol.
El Dia Del Compadre
1983
5.9Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
Violent Stories
1985
6.3Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.
D.F./Distrito Federal
1981
4.5Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
At a Lame Pace
1980
6.4Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.
El Mil Usos II
1984
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Pancho cachuchas
1989
5.1A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
The Heart of the Night
1984
6.0Mexican TV film about spiritism. Part of the series "Cuentos de Madrugada".
Dulce espiritu
1987
4.7Based on the Émile Zola same name novel. The life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century. The film includes numerous musical acts performed by Irma Serrano.
Naná
1985
4.6The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.
Deceitful Appearances
1983
6.0Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.
The Glories of the Great Púas
1984
6.8Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
Knock Out
1984
5.8Aging rancher reaches out to absorb an illegitimate son from long ago into his family. That son turns out to be a big ol' hairdresser; will he ever fit into the rodeoin' machista ranch society?
Los hermanos Machorro
1988
6.7Patada de Mula, an old retired boxer, lives with the guilt of having killed his opponent in his last fight, but he works as a masseur in a gym, sells balloons on Sundays and with the proceeds supports the widow of the opponent he killed and his son El Kid, an aspiring boxer, without his knowledge. Patada is also in love with his neighbor Marga, a young woman who is pushed into prostitution by the gangster Duque and his own father, but to whom Patada sends letters as an anonymous lover. The Kid is sponsored by Duke and detests Patada for the death of his father, but when he throws him out of the inn that his mother tends she confesses to him what he has done for them and the Kid asks her forgiveness and makes him his second.
Angel del barrio
1981
1970s · 6 titles
4.2In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already pledged to marry another man.
Estas ruinas que ves
1979
5.2Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.
Free Love
1978
7.2Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
The Place Without Limits
1978
6.8After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.
Life Sentence
1979
5.8Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
1978
5.8Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
El águila descalza
1971
1960s · 2 titles
8.0The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
Black Wind
1965
6.2Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house.
House of the Frights
1963
1950s · 11 titles
8.1A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
The Young and the Damned
1950
8.4A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
The King of the Neighborhood
1950
6.0A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!
Una gringuita en México
1951
6.7Ex-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison.
El pecado de ser pobre
1950
6.2Working-class boy, pampered rich girl. She thinks their love is strong enough to overcome all the class issues; he knows better, but he decides to give it a whirl anyway. It ends badly for everyone.
Donde nacen los pobres
1950
5.5Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.
Dancing, salón de baile
1952
6.6Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
Mexican Bus Ride
1952
6.2Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her because she can't find the ticket.
Los enredos de una gallega
1951
6.0A Cuban rumbera dancer undergoes an ordeal to fall in love with a married Mexican doctor.
Caribbean Rhythms
1950
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Si fuera una cualquiera
1950
5.8Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
Vuelva el sábado
1951
1940s · 4 titles
5.8A couple in crisis receives a mysterious visit from the devil, who offers them a tempting solution to their problems-but his true intention is to claim their souls in exchange.
El diablo no es tan diablo
1949
6.8No synopsis available yet.
El secreto de Juan Palomo
1947
6.2Classic movie of Mexican cinema.
La niña de mis ojos
1947
6.0Two gangsters on the lam end up in Cuba.
El ángel caído
1949
