María Gentil Arcos

Acting

María Gentil Arcos

Born — Died

1905-04-12 — 1965-07-18

Place of birth

València, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

María Gentil Arcos was an actress, known for Demonio y carne (1951), Campeón sin corona (1946) and Un divorcio (1953). She died on July 18, 1965 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Known for

Susana poster
6.8

The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.

Susana

1951

The Magician poster
7.5

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

The Magician

1949

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

The Atomic Fireman poster
8.5

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.

The Atomic Fireman

1952

San Francisco de Asís poster
6.2

Historical drama on the life of the medieval Italian saint, Francis of Assisi.

San Francisco de Asís

1944

Él poster
7.7

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

Él

1953

Film credits

1950s · 42 titles

Susana poster
6.8

The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.

Susana

1951

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

The Atomic Fireman poster
8.5

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.

The Atomic Fireman

1952

Él poster
7.7

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

Él

1953

Doña Perfecta poster
7.0

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.

Doña Perfecta

1951

No artwork available
6.2

Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest.

Hay ángeles con espuelas

1957

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

Cárcel de mujeres poster
5.9

Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.

Cárcel de mujeres

1951

Los Fernández de Peralvillo poster
6.6

A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.

Los Fernández de Peralvillo

1954

Yo quiero ser mala poster
6.4

In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.

Yo quiero ser mala

1950

Las dos huerfanitas poster
6.3

Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies.

Las dos huerfanitas

1950

Fierecilla poster
4.3

After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside, removed from corrupting influences. Fifteen years later...

Fierecilla

1951

Huellas del pasado poster
5.8

A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair accusations.

Huellas del pasado

1950

Stolen Tears poster
6.0

Melodrama involving a young woman returning to Mexico from abroad after a failed romance and dealing with an unwanted pregnancy and a meddling Aunt.

Stolen Tears

1954

Slum poster
5.7

Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...

Slum

1950

Romance de fieras poster
6.8

Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.

Romance de fieras

1954

El gran espectáculo poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

El gran espectáculo

1958

La vida en broma poster
6.0

Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.

La vida en broma

1950

A Place Close to Heaven poster
8.3

An honest man emigrates to the capital in search of a better life, but ends up mired in extreme poverty along with his family; forced to overcome tragedy and despair to find, even in misery, a glimmer of hope.

A Place Close to Heaven

1952

What a Man poster
6.2

Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.

What a Man

1955

Ultraje al amor poster
6.7

Mexican feature film

Ultraje al amor

1956

..Y mañana serán mujeres poster
6.0

Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls vacationing at a country villa.

..Y mañana serán mujeres

1955

No artwork available
6.0

Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.

Love Pays for Love

1950

Guanajuato Road poster
5.8

The romantic entanglements of three singers: two boys and a girl who fail in a radio contest and formed a trio.

Guanajuato Road

1955

Frontera norte poster
6.0

Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.

Frontera norte

1953

Prefiero a tu papá poster
4.8

Theatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends.

Prefiero a tu papá

1952

Guardián, el perro salvador poster
5.6

Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death! Jail sentences! Inheritances!

Guardián, el perro salvador

1950

Dos gallos de pelea poster
5.7

Two small-town hell-raisers get so out of hand the authorities have to step in to rein them in.

Dos gallos de pelea

1950

Cuando me vaya poster
6.8

Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.

Cuando me vaya

1954

Lo que no se puede perdonar!.. poster
5.8

Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well.

Lo que no se puede perdonar!..

1953

Aventurera poster
7.6

Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.

Aventurera

1950

For Loving a Woman poster
6.2

Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.

For Loving a Woman

1951

Nunca debieron amarse poster
5.8

Ranchera romance; two young lovers whose families are hostile to each other.

Nunca debieron amarse

1951

Cuarto de hotel poster
6.0

Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and lots of incidents before they find each other again.

Cuarto de hotel

1953

Monte de piedad poster
5.8

Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.

Monte de piedad

1951

El gran premio poster
6.4

Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.

El gran premio

1958

Far from Heaven poster
7.7

Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.

Far from Heaven

1952

Spring in the Heart poster
5.7

Don Juan-type manipulates his roommate into helping him mount ridiculous schemes to get next to a girl he has his eye on.

Spring in the Heart

1956

Chucho el Roto poster
5.2

Humble craftsman runs afoul of a rich girl's father and ends up in prison; the ill-fated romance has repercussions over the course of twenty-odd years and ultimately drives him to a life of crime.

Chucho el Roto

1954

La loca poster
6.7

Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the disappearance of her daughter. Now, present day, evil relatives are trying to take control of money she's inherited...

La loca

1952

Padre contra hijo poster
4.8

Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango.

Padre contra hijo

1955

Las tres Elenas poster
6.0

A woman married to a renowned doctor confesses to her mother that she has fallen in love with her daughter's young boyfriend.

Las tres Elenas

1954

1940s · 17 titles

The Magician poster
7.5

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

The Magician

1949

San Francisco de Asís poster
6.2

Historical drama on the life of the medieval Italian saint, Francis of Assisi.

San Francisco de Asís

1944

We the Poor poster
8.2

Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.

We the Poor

1948

A Family Like Many Others poster
6.8

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.

A Family Like Many Others

1949

El rebelde (Romance de Antaño) poster
6.2

After a vengeance taken too far costs his father his Hacienda and his life, young Juan Manuel Mendoza becomes a bandit. He will get a chance for revenge and for love after he infiltrates his enemy house as a piano teacher.

El rebelde (Romance de Antaño)

1943

Adultery poster
4.9

Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.

Adultery

1945

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

La hija del penal poster
6.4

A young woman who was born and grew up on an island prison-colony decides to move to the island and try life in the real world. Romance, bad luck and astonishing coincidences wait in her path.

La hija del penal

1949

La reina del trópico poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

La reina del trópico

1946

Caminos de sangre poster
6.0

A crooked lawyer frustrates attempts to clear bandits from the local highways.

Caminos de sangre

1945

Los Cristeros poster
6.4

When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family.

Los Cristeros

1947

Woman Without a Soul poster
6.4

Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.

Woman Without a Soul

1944

Champion Without Crown poster
5.4

A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rough, he aims to put Roberto in the professional ring. But Roberto finds that his personal challenges must be overcome before he can achieve professional greatness.

Champion Without Crown

1946

Cuando los padres se quedan solos poster
6.0

Some elderly people mortgage their house to pay the debts of their children, but they do not return the money and lose their house.

Cuando los padres se quedan solos

1949

Comisario en turno poster
6.8

Night shift at police headquarters; criminals and victims of all sorts pass through to get their cases sorted out.

Comisario en turno

1949

Las tandas del principal poster
6.8

Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle.

Las tandas del principal

1949

Rondalla poster
5.5

A woman who has been raped (Alicia Neira) sets out to rebuild her life with another man (Luis Aguilar), but the bandit who assaulted her (Enrique Zambrano) stands in her way.

Rondalla

1949