Tito Davison

Directing

Tito Davison

Born — Died

1912-11-14 — 1985-03-21

Place of birth

Chillán, Biobío, Chile

Known for

Directing

Credits

46 titles

Tito Davison (14 November 1912 – 21 March 1985) was a Chilean-born Mexican film director and screenwriter. He directed 60 films between 1937 and 1982.

Known for

The Minister and Me poster
7.2

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.

The Minister and Me

1976

Corazón salvaje poster
4.7

Calculating Aime sends her sister Monica to distract a love-struck smuggler, Juan del Diablo, when he threatens to reveal their affair to Aime's new rich husband. They are discovered alone together and to save Monica's virtue, Juan del Diablo promises to marry Monica.

Corazón salvaje

1968

Las tres alegres comadres poster
5.7

When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico City, they separate from their boyfriends, form a trio and travel the country singing, dancing and bribing older men, but they fall into a trap when they invest their money in an unreliable business.

Las tres alegres comadres

1952

The Big Cube poster
4.3

A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.

The Big Cube

1969

Cheri-Bibi poster
10.0

Spanish Version of MGM's "The Phantom of Paris". Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him.

Cheri-Bibi

1931

He Who Died of Love poster
5.7

Magicians transfers two peoples' souls (or whatever you want to call them) into each other's bodies.

He Who Died of Love

1945

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Minister and Me poster
7.2

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.

The Minister and Me

1976

Corazón salvaje poster
4.7

Calculating Aime sends her sister Monica to distract a love-struck smuggler, Juan del Diablo, when he threatens to reveal their affair to Aime's new rich husband. They are discovered alone together and to save Monica's virtue, Juan del Diablo promises to marry Monica.

Corazón salvaje

1968

Corazón salvaje poster
4.7

Calculating Aime sends her sister Monica to distract a love-struck smuggler, Juan del Diablo, when he threatens to reveal their affair to Aime's new rich husband. They are discovered alone together and to save Monica's virtue, Juan del Diablo promises to marry Monica.

Corazón salvaje

1968

Las tres alegres comadres poster
5.7

When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico City, they separate from their boyfriends, form a trio and travel the country singing, dancing and bribing older men, but they fall into a trap when they invest their money in an unreliable business.

Las tres alegres comadres

1952

Las tres alegres comadres poster
5.7

When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico City, they separate from their boyfriends, form a trio and travel the country singing, dancing and bribing older men, but they fall into a trap when they invest their money in an unreliable business.

Las tres alegres comadres

1952

The Big Cube poster
4.3

A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.

The Big Cube

1969

He Who Died of Love poster
5.7

Magicians transfers two peoples' souls (or whatever you want to call them) into each other's bodies.

He Who Died of Love

1945

Amigo poster
7.1

No synopsis available yet.

Amigo

1980

Amigo poster
7.1

No synopsis available yet.

Amigo

1980

Natacha poster
6.0

Story of a timid provincial girl Natacha Cervantes, who moves to the capital and enters to work like a maid in the house of the Pereira Family where she falls in love with the rich boy Raul Pereira.

Natacha

1971

Natacha poster
6.0

Story of a timid provincial girl Natacha Cervantes, who moves to the capital and enters to work like a maid in the house of the Pereira Family where she falls in love with the rich boy Raul Pereira.

Natacha

1971

Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket poster
8.1

Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.

Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket

1963

Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket poster
8.1

Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.

Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket

1963

The Kneeling Goddess poster
6.8

Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.

The Kneeling Goddess

1947

Murió el sargento Laprida poster
8.0

A corporal and sergeant in the fire service fight over a woman.

Murió el sargento Laprida

1937

The Fungi Man poster
5.0

Racial conflicts, love triangles and the awakening of passion will lead to disaster for a decadent aristocratic family in the newly independent Mexico.

The Fungi Man

1976

Beyond Pipilco poster
7.0

Following the death of the mayor, an electoral campaign begins in the fictional town of Huevinco to choose a successor. A comedy-like set of situations unfolds, creating a story centred on comedian Manolo González.

Beyond Pipilco

1965

Beyond Pipilco poster
7.0

Following the death of the mayor, an electoral campaign begins in the fictional town of Huevinco to choose a successor. A comedy-like set of situations unfolds, creating a story centred on comedian Manolo González.

Beyond Pipilco

1965

Beyond Pipilco poster
7.0

Following the death of the mayor, an electoral campaign begins in the fictional town of Huevinco to choose a successor. A comedy-like set of situations unfolds, creating a story centred on comedian Manolo González.

Beyond Pipilco

1965

May God Forgive Me poster
6.3

Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, but for information.

May God Forgive Me

1948

May God Forgive Me poster
6.3

Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, but for information.

May God Forgive Me

1948

Para siempre amor mío poster
5.6

A man, annoyed by his wife's interference in the family business, travels to Spain, where he becomes involved with another woman.

Para siempre amor mío

1955

Para siempre amor mío poster
5.6

A man, annoyed by his wife's interference in the family business, travels to Spain, where he becomes involved with another woman.

Para siempre amor mío

1955

Nunca es tarde para amar poster
6.0

A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.

Nunca es tarde para amar

1953

Nunca es tarde para amar poster
6.0

A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.

Nunca es tarde para amar

1953

The Jungle of Fire poster
5.3

A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947

The Jungle of Fire

1945

Los nietos de Don Venancio poster
5.8

A puritanical man travels to the capital to visit nightclubs and introduces himself as a bachelor, but to his surprise, he finds himself there with his wife.

Los nietos de Don Venancio

1946

¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla! poster
5.8

Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.

¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!

1946

Locos de verano poster
6.5

The vicissitudes of the members of a Buenos Aires family facing their economic bankruptcy and the attitude of each one of them in the emergency.

Locos de verano

1942

María poster
7.0

Romance melodrama set in 19th century Colombia.

María

1972

María poster
7.0

Romance melodrama set in 19th century Colombia.

María

1972

Casi un sueño poster
5.8

The romance between a young musician and a girl who dreams of happiness.

Casi un sueño

1943

Casi un sueño poster
5.8

The romance between a young musician and a girl who dreams of happiness.

Casi un sueño

1943

Yo quiero ser artista poster
6.4

The Postman Adalberto is involved by chance in the filming of a scene, which gives the film director the idea of including him as an actor, but without his knowledge.

Yo quiero ser artista

1958

Black Is My Color poster
6.0

Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")

Black Is My Color

1951

Hay que educar a Niní poster
7.2

A young woman pretends to be the daughter of a financier and enters a rich girls' college, where she commits a thousand mischiefs.

Hay que educar a Niní

1940

Música en la noche poster
6.7

An ingenious actor has an idea of making musical numbers without a dialogue when he arrives with a violin and a ladder.

Música en la noche

1958

El haragán de la familia poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

El haragán de la familia

1940

Sabrás que te quiero poster
6.0

Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support.

Sabrás que te quiero

1958

Sabrás que te quiero poster
6.0

Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support.

Sabrás que te quiero

1958