Ernesto Cortázar

Directing

Ernesto Cortázar

Born 1897-12-10 · Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Ambitious poster
5.8

Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.

Ambitious

1953

Juan Charrasqueado poster
7.5

Hard-living horse-trainer has a thing with an aristocratic woman... but her brothers aren't happy to see her involved with someone beneath her station.

Juan Charrasqueado

1948

El pueblo sin Dios poster
6.5

Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.

El pueblo sin Dios

1955

El señor gobernador poster
6.0

Newly-elected state governor is challenged by his responsibilities.

El señor gobernador

1951

Se solicitan modelos poster
3.8

In this Mexican comedy, Mr. Lazaro's fashion house is on the brink of bankruptcy and in desperate need of a new model to replace his current business partner's wife, whose appearance is driving customers away. Lazaro's son, Raul, realizes what a diffucult dilemma his father faces and sets out to restore the integrity of the family-owned business by teaming up with his lovely fiancée to put on a fashion show. Domingo Soler and Sara Montiel star.

Se solicitan modelos

1954

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

No artwork available
6.0

Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.

Love Pays for Love

1950

Cuando tú me quieras poster
6.3

A shoe-clerk's aunt and uncle send him to a remote fishing village to retrieve a distant cousin and bring her back to the bosom of the family.

Cuando tú me quieras

1951

Hotel de verano poster
6.4

This Musical-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, features American actress Janice Logan as the dutiful daughter who is about to wed a much older man and widower as part of an arranged marriage orchestrated by her Father. Plans quickly change, however, once she meets a handsome singer and rising radio star, (played by actor Jose Pulido), who soon sweeps her off her feet-much to the dismay of her dear old Dad. Catchy musical numbers and a charismatic cast add to the charm of this war-time movie release.

Hotel de verano

1944

Estrella sin luz poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Estrella sin luz

1953

Heart of beast poster
6.3

Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.

Heart of beast

1951

Heart of beast poster
6.3

Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.

Heart of beast

1951

Cartas Marcadas poster
6.5

A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected.

Cartas Marcadas

1948

El mil amores poster
7.6

Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu

El mil amores

1954

Radio Patrulla poster
6.3

Mexican feature film

Radio Patrulla

1951

Radio Patrulla poster
6.3

Mexican feature film

Radio Patrulla

1951

Mi madre adorada poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mi madre adorada

1948

Golden Wedding poster
6.4

On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage

Golden Wedding

1956

En la Hacienda de la Flor poster
5.8

Sequel to "Juan Charrasqueado." Juan Jr. discovers that the woman he's engaged to is the daughter of the man who killed his father.

En la Hacienda de la Flor

1948

Las cariñosas poster
8.2

When three beautiful young nurses from Jalisco, afflicted with a rare disease called "sexappealitis", create commotion among the patients in a hospital, they are forced to resign. They travel to Mexico City following the suggestion of a crazy scientist, who tells them they will be cured when they get married. But they are attracted to three men who are indifferent to their sexy looks, being themselves sick with "lovetitis".

Las cariñosas

1953

For Loving a Woman poster
6.3

Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.

For Loving a Woman

1951

El Cristo de mi Cabecera poster
6.3

1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his fiancé, and...

El Cristo de mi Cabecera

1951

Death in Love poster
6.4

A man's life changes forever when death -- in the form of a female grim reaper -- moves in with him and his family, all so that he can buy a bit more time on earth. The only catch is, his family has no idea that their houseguest, a woman their father says is a foreign relative, is there to take their daddy away. Miroslava Stern, Fernando Fernandez and Jorge Reyes star in this inventive Spanish-language comedy.

Death in Love

1951

Death in Love poster
6.4

A man's life changes forever when death -- in the form of a female grim reaper -- moves in with him and his family, all so that he can buy a bit more time on earth. The only catch is, his family has no idea that their houseguest, a woman their father says is a foreign relative, is there to take their daddy away. Miroslava Stern, Fernando Fernandez and Jorge Reyes star in this inventive Spanish-language comedy.

Death in Love

1951