Acting

Ángel Merino

Acting credits

The Exterminating Angel poster
7.9

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.

The Exterminating Angel

1962

The Magnificent Beast poster
5.7

Two very good friends become wrestlers to leave poverty behind, but the arrival of an ambitious woman will tragically change their destinies.

The Magnificent Beast

1953

The Shadow of the Tyrant poster
7.0

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.

The Shadow of the Tyrant

1960

Simon of the Desert poster
7.7

Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.

Simon of the Desert

1965

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz poster
7.3

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

1955

Tlayucan poster
6.6

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

Tlayucan

1962

La extraña pasajera poster
6.6

During a long train trip, the Police has discovered jewelries in the personal bag of an actress, but she turns out to be innocent.

La extraña pasajera

1953

El gran autor poster
5.5

A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.

El gran autor

1954

Entrega Inmediata poster
7.3

Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.

Entrega Inmediata

1963

Solamente una vez poster
5.0

A couple suffers through slander and jealousy to maintain their love for one another.

Solamente una vez

1954

Camelia poster
6.2

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.

Camelia

1954

Frente al destino poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Frente al destino

1964

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

The Coward poster
6.7

A stranded ship. A man and two boys go to its rescue - uncle Arturo and his two nephews. The ship is empty, except for a little girl - the only survivor.

The Coward

1953

El mensaje de la muerte poster
6.5

The film is based on real events, from a case investigated by Detective Valente Quintana.

El mensaje de la muerte

1953

La edad de la inocencia poster
6.9

A poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by.

La edad de la inocencia

1962

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

A 16 Year Old Young-Woman poster
6.8

Papa hires a "boyfriend" to indulge her in her fantasies of old-fashioned romance.

A 16 Year Old Young-Woman

1963

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

Lágrimas de amor poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Lágrimas de amor

1959

¿Por qué ya no me quieres? poster
6.7

Tired of struggling, Lilia, played by Sara Montiel, moves to the city to live with her aunt, a former actress. There she strives to become a singer and meets Raul a singer, played by Agustin Lara, who helps her succeed.

¿Por qué ya no me quieres?

1954

El gallo giro poster
7.2

A young man goes to the city to make his fortune, unaware that fate is preparing a surprise for him. He will fall in love on the train.

El gallo giro

1948