Acting

Enrique Pontón

Born — Died

1928-11-07 — 1981-02-24

Place of birth

Bogotá, Colombia

Known for

Acting

Credits

27 titles

Enrique Pontón was born on November 7, 1928 in Bogota, Colombia. He was an actor.

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 21 titles

Blacker Than the Night poster
6.9

When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror.

Blacker Than the Night

1975

Friar Juan poster
6.7

A Dominican friar finds himself wrapped in tangled skirts because he is mistaken for his twin brother, a womanizer.

Friar Juan

1970

Un cura de locura poster
6.7

A newly ordained priest, Capulina, is sent to a town where a gang of criminals has driven out the priest who needs to be replaced. Rogelio, the gang’s leader, forces Capulina to take part in a robbery, and the police mistake him for the gang’s leader, calling the group “the priest’s gang.” Capulina must set the record straight and catch the gang on his own.

Un cura de locura

1979

Los amantes frios poster
5.0

Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes.

Los amantes frios

1978

Guns and Guts poster
5.2

An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along the way, the two men meet a hired gun that loves money just as much as he loves the company of women, so the two men decide to hire him in order to help them on their mission. However, things become complicated when the man they all seek to kill has risen to become a wealthy sheriff with a small army of gunmen at his disposal.

Guns and Guts

1974

El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo poster
5.5

Series western, adaptation of a popular comic-book.

El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo

1972

Departamento de soltero poster
7.0

Newlywed couple are jealous of each other's imagined infidelities.

Departamento de soltero

1971

Jesús, el niño Dios poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Jesús, el niño Dios

1971

El valle de los miserables poster
4.3

In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, but end up owing everything to the company store. All are tortured, raped, or killed when they protest. Another landowner whose brother was killed by Zamarripa and who falls in love with one of his daughters is going to be punished, but he flees and becomes a revolutionary.

El valle de los miserables

1975

What Color is the Wind? poster
7.8

Two blind children have bonded deeply in their special-ed classroom. The sight of one of them is restored with an operation.

What Color is the Wind?

1973

Capulina vs. the Mummies poster
7.6

A taxi driver winds up working as a butler for a scientist who is trying to revive mummies.

Capulina vs. the Mummies

1973

Santo vs. the Head Hunters poster
5.8

Famed wrestler/secret agent El Santo must venture deep into the Amazon jungle to rescue a girl who is set to be sacrificed under the full moon by the Jibaro Indians.

Santo vs. the Head Hunters

1971

Jesús, María y José poster
7.5

The founder of Christianity and his sacred family.

Jesús, María y José

1972

El bueno para nada poster
5.1

Bumbling inventor/jack of all trades does sketch-comedy stuff for 65 minutes, then rescues Mexico City from a Mad Scientist triggering earthquakes.

El bueno para nada

1973

Rapine poster
7.2

Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of all the occupants killed in the accident.

Rapine

1975

The Desire in Autumn poster
5.3

The story concerns a young woman named Elena who ascends from rags to riches when she inherits a substantial fortune; having no one else with whom she can share the monies, she invites her best friend, Clara, to move into her home and enjoy the wealth with her. All fares well until Elena falls in love with a male suitor - and thus threatens to jeopardize Clara's place in the household and her share of the spoils. Indignant, Clara vows to do everything in her power to prevent this new romance from blossoming.

The Desire in Autumn

1972

La disputa poster
5.7

The wife of a philandering husband tries to engineer a situation in which she can photograph him in a compromising position in order to file for divorce. Meanwhile, subplots.

La disputa

1974

El ardiente deseo poster
4.1

Adulterous love triangle ends in tragedy.

El ardiente deseo

1971

El elegido poster
7.1

A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.

El elegido

1977

¡Cómo hay gente sinvergüenza! poster
6.2

Two criminal rivals and two crooked insurance adjusters jockey for ownership of a batch of stolen jewels.

¡Cómo hay gente sinvergüenza!

1972

Secreto de confesión poster
5.4

Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower.

Secreto de confesión

1971

1960s · 5 titles