Acting

Pedro Padilla

Acting credits

The Magnificent Matador poster
6.0

Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.

The Magnificent Matador

1955

Arrabalera poster
5.4

Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.

Arrabalera

1951

El sol sale para todos poster
6.7

A bullfighter suffers an accident during an afternoon of bullfighting in a town square and his ex-lover tells his story.

El sol sale para todos

1950

La Vida No Vale Nada poster
8.1

Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.

La Vida No Vale Nada

1955

Al diablo las mujeres poster
6.0

Rosa, a mayor, faces pressure from her police chief father to imprison her cousins. After a kidnapping and tampering with vaccines, Rosa realizes politics isn't for women.

Al diablo las mujeres

1955

Ella y yo poster
4.3

Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.

Ella y yo

1951

Piña madura poster
5.8

A dancer surrenders herself to a wealthy, depraved man to save the life of her true love.

Piña madura

1950

Under the influence of fear poster
5.6

Tony Carpio becomes a dangerous criminal and gains power by fixing boxing matches while seeking revenge on the ones who sent him to serve 5 years in jail, this includes his former lover, the rapacious Marbella.

Under the influence of fear

1956

Zzyzx poster
5.5

Zzyzx, the road, may lead to nowhere, but three people find themselves baking in a desert of murder, mystery, manipulation and greed when the legendary road becomes the place where their destinies collide.

Zzyzx

2006

Assassins of the Night poster
5.8

A man orders an enemy to be killed, but the order is not carried out. Filled with rage, he murders the thug and pursues his rival.

Assassins of the Night

1957

Love, how bad you are! poster
5.7

Noirish drama about a drug trafficker and his girlfriends.

Love, how bad you are!

1953

Carta Brava poster
6.0

Safe-cracker sets up a gangster rival to get arrested; after some unrelated adventures, that guy escapes from jail and pays him back.

Carta Brava

1949

Ángeles de arrabal poster
6.2

A thief commits several misdeeds and, to mislead the police, keeps jewelry in the house of his fiancée, whom he seduces to prevent her from discovering the theft.

Ángeles de arrabal

1949

Los muertos no hablan poster
6.5

Bandit crew with mysterious masked leader is doing lots of crimes. Mauricio Rosales and his sidekick ride into town all incognito and stuff to set things right.

Los muertos no hablan

1958

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

La malcasada poster
5.7

A woman leaves her life as a cabaret performer behind thanks to a man who, after finding her unconscious, takes her to his home.

La malcasada

1950