Acting

Rodolfo Calvo

Known for

Acting

Credits

27 titles

Known for

A Woman Without Love poster
5.5

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.

A Woman Without Love

1952

Marejada poster
6.7

Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.

Marejada

1952

El Portero poster
7.8

Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.

El Portero

1950

School for Buglars poster
7.7

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.

School for Buglars

1958

Adventure in Rio poster
5.5

Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.

Adventure in Rio

1953

La perversa poster
6.0

A single, hard-working, girl looks to improve her situation by becoming a "kept woman". In doing so, she turns away from church and family, thereby violating the mandates of both God and Man.

La perversa

1954

Film credits

1950s · 18 titles

A Woman Without Love poster
5.5

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.

A Woman Without Love

1952

Marejada poster
6.7

Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.

Marejada

1952

El Portero poster
7.8

Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.

El Portero

1950

School for Buglars poster
7.7

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.

School for Buglars

1958

Adventure in Rio poster
5.5

Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.

Adventure in Rio

1953

La perversa poster
6.0

A single, hard-working, girl looks to improve her situation by becoming a "kept woman". In doing so, she turns away from church and family, thereby violating the mandates of both God and Man.

La perversa

1954

Las infieles poster
7.0

Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.

Las infieles

1953

Streetwalker poster
5.5

In Mexico City, two sisters live radically different lives: Maria, who—along with her supportive group of fellow sex workers—must deal with unscrupulous, abusive clients and her exploitative pimp, Rudy, and Elena, a society woman trapped in a marriage of convenience, who falls prey to Rudy’s fortune-seeking seduction.

Streetwalker

1951

Historia de un marido infiel poster
6.7

Marital problems and Ofelia’s physical and mental illness (Rosa Carmina) drive Emilio (Francisco Petrone) to seek pleasure. He meets Carmina, a prostitute who, together with her pimp, plans to ruin him by mocking his situation.

Historia de un marido infiel

1956

Música, mujeres y amor poster
5.5

Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.

Música, mujeres y amor

1952

They also sing of pain poster
7.4

The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.

They also sing of pain

1950

Assassins of the Night poster
5.8

A man orders an enemy to be killed, but the order is not carried out. Filled with rage, he murders the thug and pursues his rival.

Assassins of the Night

1957

Una mujer en la calle poster
4.8

An unlikely friendship develops when respectable Doña Nena spends her days looking out her window across the street to the sex workers who spend their nights there. One night, she helps helps Alicia one of the girls, escape a police raid and spend several nights painting her portrait.

Una mujer en la calle

1955

Cuando me vaya poster
6.8

Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.

Cuando me vaya

1954

El vagabundo poster
6.5

Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.

El vagabundo

1953

The Troublemaker poster
7.5

Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.

The Troublemaker

1951

La loca de la casa poster
6.2

A nun reevaluates her life and decides to give up her vows to marry and help her father.

La loca de la casa

1950

La malcasada poster
5.7

A woman leaves her life as a cabaret performer behind thanks to a man who, after finding her unconscious, takes her to his home.

La malcasada

1950

1930s · 5 titles