Acting

Lidia Franco

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Acting

Credits

46 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 8 titles

Macario poster
8.7

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.

Macario

1960

El analfabeto poster
7.8

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.

El analfabeto

1961

¡Ay, Jalisco no te rajes! poster
6.2

A man hated by his father and in love with a beautiful woman whose brothers do not approve of the relationship and persecute him.

¡Ay, Jalisco no te rajes!

1965

Sol en llamas poster
5.8

A powerful rancher loses his power and wealth during the Revolution, and his daughter falls in love with a revolutionary.

Sol en llamas

1962

Pa' qué me sirve la vida poster
6.3

A property owner dies from shock after his opponent tricks him into thinking his land was legally seized.

Pa' qué me sirve la vida

1961

Autumn Days poster
7.1

Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently...

Autumn Days

1963

La hermana blanca poster
6.2

A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.

La hermana blanca

1960

Los cinco halcones poster
5.4

Elías, a banker and the secret leader of a gang, tries to persuade Pedro—the father of young Laura and little Chava—to sell him his ranch. Five friends—the shopkeeper Trini, the blacksmith Quique, the horseman Cuco, the barber Javier, and the doctor Demetrio—serenade Laura. After her father is murdered, the five friends, encouraged by the judge, who reveals the banker’s guilt to them, disguise themselves as The Five Hawks and fight against the gang.

Los cinco halcones

1962

1950s · 20 titles

Nazarín poster
7.6

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.

Nazarín

1959

El bolero de Raquel poster
7.4

The film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy.

El bolero de Raquel

1957

The Atomic Fireman poster
8.5

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.

The Atomic Fireman

1952

Tailored gentleman poster
7.4

Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.

Tailored gentleman

1954

Locura pasional poster
5.6

Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.

Locura pasional

1956

El sol sale para todos poster
6.7

A bullfighter suffers an accident during an afternoon of bullfighting in a town square and his ex-lover tells his story.

El sol sale para todos

1950

Ella, Lucifer y yo poster
3.4

A man makes a pact with Lucifer in order to gain the love of a beautiful singer. To achieve his goal, the devil endows him with the ability to become invisible at will.

Ella, Lucifer y yo

1953

Reto a la vida poster
5.8

Self-righteous young Social Services woman puts all her faith in the institutional answers to questions of the Public Good, and she destroys a couple of lives in the process.

Reto a la vida

1954

La visita que no tocó el timbre poster
6.8

Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby.

La visita que no tocó el timbre

1954

The Three Perfect Wives poster
4.7

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.

The Three Perfect Wives

1953

In the Palm of Your Hand poster
6.0

A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat?

In the Palm of Your Hand

1951

La noche es nuestra poster
5.8

Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.

La noche es nuestra

1952

Historia de un amor poster
5.7

Elena (Libertad Lamarque), already a star, falls madly in love with Roberto. They make it to the altar. Elena and Roberto adopt a baby. The years go by and everything is happiness in the couple’s life—until one day the girl’s grandfather appears.

Historia de un amor

1956

Stolen Tears poster
6.0

Melodrama involving a young woman returning to Mexico from abroad after a failed romance and dealing with an unwanted pregnancy and a meddling Aunt.

Stolen Tears

1954

Al diablo las mujeres poster
6.0

Rosa, a mayor, faces pressure from her police chief father to imprison her cousins. After a kidnapping and tampering with vaccines, Rosa realizes politics isn't for women.

Al diablo las mujeres

1955

La mujer X poster
6.0

A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.

La mujer X

1955

Four Nights With You poster
5.0

Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her.

Four Nights With You

1952

Pretty sky! poster
5.8

Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman

Pretty sky!

1957

Ella y yo poster
4.3

Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.

Ella y yo

1951

Remember to Live poster
6.0

In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.

Remember to Live

1953

1940s · 18 titles

The Magician poster
7.5

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

The Magician

1949

We the Poor poster
8.2

Carpenter 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

The Other poster
6.9

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.

The Other

1946

El diablo no es tan diablo poster
5.8

A 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

El rebelde (Romance de Antaño) poster
6.2

After a vengeance taken too far costs his father his Hacienda and his life, young Juan Manuel Mendoza becomes a bandit. He will get a chance for revenge and for love after he infiltrates his enemy house as a piano teacher.

El rebelde (Romance de Antaño)

1943

Soltera y con gemelos poster
5.7

A father imposes conditions on his son in order to inherit his fortune, unaware of what true love is capable of. The son accepts his father's terms and faces a series of challenges that ultimately lead him to become the heir.

Soltera y con gemelos

1945

Vuelven los García poster
6.6

Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.

Vuelven los García

1947

La reina de la opereta poster
6.8

Mario marries Blanca, the queen of operetta, but after their daughter is born, they separate and she leaves on a world tour to continue her artistic career. Meanwhile, he stays behind and waits with the baby until they reunite again.

La reina de la opereta

1946

The Three Garcías poster
8.2

Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.

The Three Garcías

1947

Dicen que soy mujeriego poster
6.9

Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.

Dicen que soy mujeriego

1949

Nuestros maridos poster
6.0

Three sisters discover that the men in their lives are philandering trash and band together to build new lives for themselves instead of continuing to enable their unworthy partners.

Nuestros maridos

1946

Canaima poster
6.1

Marcos 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

La pícara Susana poster
5.7

Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.

La pícara Susana

1945

The Seminarian poster
6.3

Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.

The Seminarian

1949

Encadenada (El yugo) poster
5.8

A marriage becomes a living hell when hubby's pathologies start surfacing.

Encadenada (El yugo)

1947

Perez Family poster
6.5

Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money.

Perez Family

1949

Adiós juventud poster
6.7

Nostalgic comedy about medical students circa 1905.

Adiós juventud

1943

Rondalla poster
5.5

A woman who has been raped (Alicia Neira) sets out to rebuild her life with another man (Luis Aguilar), but the bandit who assaulted her (Enrique Zambrano) stands in her way.

Rondalla

1949