Roberto Meyer

Acting

Roberto Meyer

Born 1901-09-10 · La Piedad, Michoacán, Mexico

Acting credits

Gran Hotel poster
7.3

Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.

Gran Hotel

1944

The Brute poster
7.0

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

The Brute

1953

La ley del gavilán poster
5.8

A 1968 film.

La ley del gavilán

1968

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

Ambición sangrienta poster
6.0

A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.

Ambición sangrienta

1968

Daughter of Deceit poster
5.9

In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.

Daughter of Deceit

1951

La Valentina poster
6.4

A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."

La Valentina

1966

Mil Máscaras poster
5.9

A committee of four wise men trains the masked hero Mil Máscaras to defend the world. When someone kidnaps the members of the committee, the hero stops at nothing to rescue them.

Mil Máscaras

1969

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

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

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

Rosenda poster
6.6

A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.

Rosenda

1948

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

Mi marido poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Mi marido

1951

Love Me Because I Die poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Love Me Because I Die

1953

Tailored gentleman poster
7.3

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

Él poster
7.7

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

Él

1953

Scared to Death poster
6.0

A young woman hires Viruta y Capulina to find a notorious jewel thief, known as Rostov.

Scared to Death

1958

The River and Death poster
6.4

A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.

The River and Death

1954

A Quixote Without La Mancha poster
7.2

A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.

A Quixote Without La Mancha

1969

Thirst for Love poster
6.3

Pedro Ortiz, a brave charro, arrives to a fishing village that is passing hard times. There's no fish in the waters. His manners and his love for Maria, a local attractive widow, will get him into trouble

Thirst for Love

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 Body Snatcher poster
5.9

A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...

The Body Snatcher

1957

The Big Cube poster
4.3

A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.

The Big Cube

1969

Behind the camera