
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
7.8Cantinflas 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
6.8The 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
7.5A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
The Magician
1949
8.2Carpenter 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
8.5Cantinflas 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
6.2Historical drama on the life of the medieval Italian saint, Francis of Assisi.
San Francisco de Asís
1944
Film credits
1960s · 1 titles
1950s · 43 titles
7.8Cantinflas 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
6.8The 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
8.5Cantinflas 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
7.0Liberal 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
7.7Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Él
1953
6.4Elderly 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
7.6Left 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
Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest.
Hay ángeles con espuelas
1957
4.3After 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
6.0Grad 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
7.4The 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
6.4In 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
8.3An 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
5.9Evangelina 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
6.6A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.
Los Fernández de Peralvillo
1954
Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.
Love Pays for Love
1950
6.7No synopsis available yet.
El gran espectáculo
1958
6.0Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.
Frontera norte
1953
6.0Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
La vida en broma
1950
5.8A 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
6.0Newlywed 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
5.7Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...
Slum
1950
5.6Poor 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
6.0Melodrama 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
6.3Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies.
Las dos huerfanitas
1950
5.8Ranchera romance; two young lovers whose families are hostile to each other.
Nunca debieron amarse
1951
5.7Two small-town hell-raisers get so out of hand the authorities have to step in to rein them in.
Dos gallos de pelea
1950
5.8Hortensia 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
6.8Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
Cuando me vaya
1954
5.7Don 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
6.8Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
Romance de fieras
1954
6.2Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
What a Man
1955
4.8Theatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends.
Prefiero a tu papá
1952
7.7Pedro 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
6.7Mexican feature film
Ultraje al amor
1956
6.2Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.
For Loving a Woman
1951
5.8The romantic entanglements of three singers: two boys and a girl who fail in a radio contest and formed a trio.
Guanajuato Road
1955
6.7Mentally-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
6.3Two brothers named Margarito butt heads courting the same woman.
Los margaritos
1956
5.2Humble 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
6.7Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..
Un divorcio
1953
5.8Anthology-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
6.0A 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 · 16 titles
7.5A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
The Magician
1949
8.2Carpenter 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
6.2Historical drama on the life of the medieval Italian saint, Francis of Assisi.
San Francisco de Asís
1944
6.6A 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
6.2After 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
6.4A 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
6.4Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
Woman Without a Soul
1944
6.8The 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
6.0Some 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
6.4No synopsis available yet.
La reina del trópico
1946
5.4A 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
6.8Night shift at police headquarters; criminals and victims of all sorts pass through to get their cases sorted out.
Comisario en turno
1949
4.9Man 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
6.8Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle.
Las tandas del principal
1949
5.7Mexican movie
Ave de paso
1948
6.0A crooked lawyer frustrates attempts to clear bandits from the local highways.
Caminos de sangre
1945

