
Acting
Rodolfo Landa
Born — Died
1926-01-01 — 2004-02-14
Place of birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
61 titles
Rodolfo Landa was born as Rodolfo Echeverría Álvarez. He was an actor and producer.
Known for
7.3A 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
6.0Two Spanish children, boy and girl, make friends with a Mexican boy while on vacation. In adulthood, their friendship turns into a romantic triangle. Then bullfighting and the Foreign legion and stuff.
Hermoso ideal
1948
4.9Superhero wrestler Neutron battles a gang of robotic assassins who use their hands and feet as deadly weapons.
Neutron Battles the Karate Assassins
1965
7.0A young teacher is sent to a remote estate to educate a wealthy man who has grown up isolated from society. As she introduces him to formal education and social conventions, their contrasting views of the world lead to a series of unexpected encounters.
The Third Word
1956
5.7The evil scientist Dr. Caronte plots to revive the brains of three dead scientists and use them to obtain the formula for the super-powerful neutron bomb. The resulting creation needs blood lots of blood, sending Caronte's midget assistant Nick and his legion of mutant monsters out to get fresh victims. However, the masked atom-superman Neutron vows to put a stop to Caronte's deeds.
Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots
1962
5.3Neutron, a masked wrestler/superhero, battles a gang of crooks who are plotting to steal a secret formula.
Neutron and the Black Mask
1962
Film credits
1960s · 22 titles
4.9Superhero wrestler Neutron battles a gang of robotic assassins who use their hands and feet as deadly weapons.
Neutron Battles the Karate Assassins
1965
5.7The evil scientist Dr. Caronte plots to revive the brains of three dead scientists and use them to obtain the formula for the super-powerful neutron bomb. The resulting creation needs blood lots of blood, sending Caronte's midget assistant Nick and his legion of mutant monsters out to get fresh victims. However, the masked atom-superman Neutron vows to put a stop to Caronte's deeds.
Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots
1962
5.3Neutron, a masked wrestler/superhero, battles a gang of crooks who are plotting to steal a secret formula.
Neutron and the Black Mask
1962
5.1Neutron, a superhero/wrestler, goes up against a mad scientist and his army of monsters.
Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte
1963
8.0The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
Black Wind
1965
6.0Townsfolk expect that when the dead sheriff's son comes home, people will quit doing crimes... but he turns out to be an inept comedian type bozo guy.
Los bárbaros del norte
1962
5.5Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
Los tigres del ring
1960
5.1During a visit to Guatemala for Holy Week, tourist Andrés falls in love with a mysterious woman who hides her identity and marital status, rawing him into a web of secrets, deception and tragedy.
You Only Come at Night
1966
5.8Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
Suerte Te De Dios
1961
6.7The film is a typical whodunit story, combined with a "ranchero" and western flavor. A young engineer arrives to his godfather hacienda, along with his fiancée. But the things got complicated when the godfather's wife reveals that she had an affair with the young man. One night, the young man's father is murdered in the wood, and he will look for revenge.
Rancho solo
1967
5.2Neutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium.
Neutron vs. the Maniac
1965
Three Black Angels (Spanish: Tres angelitos negros) is a 1960 Mexican comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring Miguel Aceves Mejía, Yolanda Varela and Pedro Vargas.
Three Black Angels
1960
5.8Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.
Las recién casadas
1962
No synopsis available yet.
Mi guitarra y mi caballo
1961
6.3Three stories of the tigers of the ring "The love of the beast", "The tiger brothers" and "The tigers of the ring".
El torneo de la muerte
1960
A gunslinger avenges his father's murder.
A Clean Shot
1960
6.3Gentleman swindler runs cleverly-orchestrated scams. Four of four in a series.
La entrega de Chucho el Roto
1962
No synopsis available yet.
Los secretos del sexo débil
1962
6.3"Gentleman bandit" and his gang execute a series of elaborate heists. #3 of 4 in a series.
La captura de Chucho el Roto
1961
6.7Number 2 of 4 in a series about the exploits of a crew of Robin Hood-esque con artists.
Aventuras de Chucho el Roto
1961
5.6The film tells the story of two twins separated in childhood who reunite when they are older. One of them has grown between outlaws and has become one of them, a murderous bandit who frightens the region. The other has grown, without knowing it, in exactly the ranch of the man who murdered his father and has become the loving foreman of the farmer's daughter, now deceased.
Calibre 44
1960
6.2A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.
La hermana blanca
1960
1950s · 29 titles
7.3A 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
7.0A young teacher is sent to a remote estate to educate a wealthy man who has grown up isolated from society. As she introduces him to formal education and social conventions, their contrasting views of the world lead to a series of unexpected encounters.
The Third Word
1956
6.3A bar-girl's job becomes inescapable after her involvement in a murder. The bar owner deals with relationship troubles from her cheating boyfriend and her adopted daughter's ambitions.
Tragic Cabaret
1958
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Pecado
1951
6.2Historical drama/biopic about 1880s Social Justice bandits in a mining community in Sinaloa. First of three in series.
Here is Heraclius Bernal
1958
4.61913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.
Ash Wednesday
1958
Viruta and Capulina are responsible for rescuing the Sultan's baby, after it's kidnapped by a evil dude.
Los tigres del desierto
1958
6.5Villa's troops contend with some rival factions trying to gain control of a misplaced treasure trove.
El tesoro de Pancho Villa
1957
5.4Itinerant card-shark with pre-teen daughter adopts an orphan boy; the children grow up and fall in love. Once they decide to get married, complications arise.
Ferias de México
1959
6.0During the time of the Mexican Revolution, the eldest daughter of a conservative family must respect the decision of her parents, and follow the traditions of using the wedding flowers her mother used.
Orange Blossoms for your Wedding
1950
6.2This is the story of a gambler whose mistress is the wife of a renowned philanthropist. The gambler himself is cheating on his mistress with another woman. The secret love triangle gradually becomes public due to the jealousy, ambition, and weaknesses of its protagonists, including the guilt felt by the lovers.
La mujer ajena
1955
7.3Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Reportaje
1953
Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma.")
La ley del más rápido
1959
5.5No synopsis available yet.
El potro salvaje
1958
7.6Two clownish incompetents get mixed up in power struggles between state officials.
A sablazo limpio
1958
5.8Disgruntled 19th century peasants get militant and start redistributing some wealth. Part two of a historical-drama trilogy.
El rayo de Sinaloa: La venganza de Heraclio Bernal
1958
5.0Family melodrama; one sister runs away with the other one's fiance. Twenty-odd years later, her daughter tries to make peace with the rest of the family. Plus accidental deaths and unwed motherhood and miraculous cures for blindness and near death experiences.
Magdalena
1954
5.6Sequel to El Tesoro De Pancho Villa; masked wrestler battles gangsters trying to take control of five clues to the location of a hidden treasure.
El Secreto De Pancho Villa
1957
6.0A 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
5.7Second film in the Tigres del ring series.
Diabolical Kidnapping
1957
4.9In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
The Abduction
1954
6.0For the centenary of Cuban patriot Jose Marti, the 1950s pre-Castro dictator Batista collected funds for an official film commemoration and hired renowned director Fernandez from Mexico to erect this memorial work.
La rosa blanca
1954
6.0Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decides to separate them by simulating a car accident from which Gabriela temporarily becomes paralized. Aware that they will marry, Tania makes the girl believe that Raúl is marrying her out of compassion, causing Gabriela to disappear from the residence...
The Intruder
1954
Masked avenger on horseback, one of a series.
La marca del cuervo
1958
Masked wrestler vs. gothic criminal gang. Third or fourth in a series.
La sombra vengadora contra la mano negra
1955
6.2Colonel Montero kills a man, which triggers a series of events, deaths and reprisals in 1923 Mexico. The people want revenge, and Montero will do everything possible to protect his beloved Elisa, who loves him despite his crimes.
Red Rain
1950
6.0No synopsis available yet.
El monstruo en la sombra
1955
6.6An evil mastermind, known as La mano negra, attempts to steal a formula that creates synthetic drugs but a masked avenger known as La sombra will do anything to stop him.
La sombra vengadora
1956
5.8Pseudo-historical drama about a semi-civilian who decides to run guns across the border for Villa's troops.
Las tres pelonas
1958
1940s · 7 titles
6.0Two Spanish children, boy and girl, make friends with a Mexican boy while on vacation. In adulthood, their friendship turns into a romantic triangle. Then bullfighting and the Foreign legion and stuff.
Hermoso ideal
1948
6.9A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.
Late Afternoon
1949
6.0A physician launches his own investigation into a gang of opium traffickers, while a mother who lost her son to the drug vows revenge against those who led him into that world.
Cita con la muerte
1949
6.9Pedro 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
6.0In this Mexican version of Winterset (inspired by the 20s Sacco Vanzetti case) an idealistic youth searches for the culprit behind a crime that his father was wrongly accused of several years before.
In the Shadow of the Bridge
1948
5.7Young woman has to choose between three potential husbands, so she leaves town for awhile to sing for a living and sort out her feelings.
Canta Y No Llores
1949
6.4A small disparate group of people board a multi-day, multi-stop flight from Mexico City to Buenos Aires. A remake of the film Five Came Back (1939) directed by John Farrow.
Those Who Came Back
1948
1930s · 2 titles
6.3A white man seduces a local girl in an isolated Mayan village, which makes gods unhappy.
The Night of the Mayans
1939
The story narrates the idyllic and tragic love between María and her cousin Efraín, both natives of Valle del Cauca. In the middle of a romantic and bucolic landscape, the young characters fall in love with each other but circumstances prevent the full realization of their love.
María
1938

