Julián Soler

Directing

Julián Soler

Born — Died

1907-02-17 — 1977-05-05

Place of birth

Jimenez, Chihuahua, Mexico

Known for

Directing

Credits

79 titles

Julián Soler (1907–1977) was a Mexican actor and film director.

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 18 titles

He Who Died of Love poster
5.7

Magicians transfers two peoples' souls (or whatever you want to call them) into each other's bodies.

He Who Died of Love

1945

Espionaje en el golfo poster
6.7

Journalist Luis Navarro is assigned to cover the sinking of several ships, but his investigation takes an unexpected turn after meeting Miss Morán. As he digs deeper, he realizes the case is tied to a dangerous espionage conspiracy.

Espionaje en el golfo

1943

Mi madrecita poster
6.2

Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down...

Mi madrecita

1940

El diablo no es tan diablo poster
5.8

A couple in crisis receives a mysterious visit from the devil, who offers them a tempting solution to their problems-but his true intention is to claim their souls in exchange.

El diablo no es tan diablo

1949

Tormenta en la cumbre poster
5.7

Young couple weather a marital crisis while older people who have already given up on life interfere from the sidelines.

Tormenta en la cumbre

1943

No artwork available
6.0

Two pen-pals decide to get married, but the groom cooks up a scheme to test his fiancee's moral fibr before they tie the knt.

Esa mujer es la mía

1942

¡Que viene mi marido! poster
6.0

Carita finds herself forced to reject the advances of her wealthy godfather because she already has a steady boyfriend. Spurned, the godfather changes his will, stipulating that the five million pesos he leaves to his goddaughter can only be claimed once she becomes a widow. Hoping to inherit the fortune quickly, Carita marries Lázaro Bermejo, a dying indigent. However, the beggar makes a miraculous recovery and regains his health.

¡Que viene mi marido!

1940

Mil estudiantes y una muchacha poster
5.8

The dream of Atenodoro is to be a professor at the Faculty of Law. The students show enthusiasm for Ana, the professor’s daughter. Atenodoro resigns from his class, and the students try to make him return by pretending to be the rector and his family.

Mil estudiantes y una muchacha

1942

El secreto de Juan Palomo poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

El secreto de Juan Palomo

1947

May God Forgive Me poster
6.3

Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, but for information.

May God Forgive Me

1948

El que tenga un amor poster
6.6

Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that awaits him in his hometown.

El que tenga un amor

1942

Miguel Strogoff poster
5.8

A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines. He encounters many colorful characters along the way.

Miguel Strogoff

1944

Amok poster
6.7

A doctor embezzles the proceeds of his Parisian clinic in order to better support the manipulative woman with whom he is having an affair. After losing all the money while gambling, he is forced to flee to an undeveloped region of India. There, he tries to mitigate the onslaught of a disease the natives term "Amok," while his past mistakes still plague him.

Amok

1944

Doña Bárbara poster
7.1

A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.

Doña Bárbara

1943

Los siete niños de Écija poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Los siete niños de Écija

1947

Simón Bolívar poster
6.7

Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.

Simón Bolívar

1942

Un beso en la noche poster
6.3

The strange behavior of a woman leads her loved one to consult with a psychiatrist.

Un beso en la noche

1945

Tres hermanos poster
5.6

The three sons of a Mexican family emigrated to USA end up fighting in WWII.

Tres hermanos

1943

1930s · 14 titles

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

El escándalo

1934

Cruz Diablo poster
5.9

16th-century swashbuckler; evil nobleman usurps another man's title and properties and forces his daughter to marry a political ally. But Cruz Diablo will have revenge!

Cruz Diablo

1934

Tu hijo poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tu hijo

1935

Dos cadetes poster
6.6

Mama thinks one of her sons is going into the priesthood... but he wants to join the army instead. Naughty uncle from Paris help him get out from under Mom's thumb.

Dos cadetes

1938

Clemencia poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Clemencia

1935

Una mujer en venta poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Una mujer en venta

1934

El beso mortal poster
6.3

Adapted from "Le mortel baiser", a stage play by French writer Loïc Le Gouriadec (also known as Paul Gury). The story follows Cecilia, the daughter of a wealthy and conservative family, who is about to marry the son of the town's mayor. When a physician specializing in venereal diseases arrives in town, he examines Cecilia's fiancé and informs him that he is still suffering from syphilis, which has advanced significantly since he contracted it years earlier.

El beso mortal

1938

Alma jarocha (Estudiantina) poster
6.0

A group of students enjoy crazy adventures during their vacation in Orizaba, Veracruz.

Alma jarocha (Estudiantina)

1937

Noches de gloria poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Noches de gloria

1938

The Dead Speak poster
5.8

Professor Jiménez believes the human retina retains the image of the last thing a person sees before death. Only his student Eduardo stands by him in the face of widespread mockery. Together they will try and prove the professors theory but fate has a unpleasant way of helping them do this.

The Dead Speak

1935

El cobarde poster
6.7

Alberto is born in wartime, where his father dies a hero. He grows up effeminate. His mother sends him to military college where Fernando bullies him, but they become friends. When war comes, he has to face his fears.

El cobarde

1939

The Dressel Family poster
4.0

The Dressel family owns a prosperous hardware store in the city. The business is managed by Mrs. Dressel, a strict widow who has two sons: Federico and Rodolfo. Federico falls in love with the singer Magdalena and marries her against Frau Dressel’s wishes, as she wants her heir to marry a German woman. The young couple must face constant harassment from Frau Dressel and an accusation of adultery.

The Dressel Family

1935

Mater nostra poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Mater nostra

1936

No artwork available
NR

Based on the Spanish play "El caudal de los hijos" by José López Pinillos. Francisca, the daughter of a provincial gentleman in Valencia, falls in love with Miguel, a young sculptor. When Miguel leaves for Paris to complete his studies, the lovers promise to wait for each other. During Miguel's absence, however, the Duke of Montesino calls on Francisca's father and asks for her hand in marriage. Her father, pressed for money because of gambling debts, agrees to the match.

Los hijos mandan

1939

Series credits

Behind the camera

Me ha besado un hombre poster
6.3

Spanish refugee could only get across the border using fake documents that belonged to her brother and now she's stuck with the male identity...

Me ha besado un hombre

1944

The Third Word poster
7.0

A 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

The Man and the Beast poster
4.6

Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, adapted once again.

The Man and the Beast

1973

Una gringuita en México poster
6.0

A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!

Una gringuita en México

1951

Los amores de una viuda poster
6.0

A widow remarries... and then her missing-presumed-dead first husband reappears.

Los amores de una viuda

1949

El diablo no es tan diablo poster
5.8

A couple in crisis receives a mysterious visit from the devil, who offers them a tempting solution to their problems-but his true intention is to claim their souls in exchange.

El diablo no es tan diablo

1949

Si usted no puede, yo sí poster
6.0

Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great grandfather.

Si usted no puede, yo sí

1951

Castle of the Monsters poster
5.7

A couple are forced to stay in a scary castle, and the castle is filled with monsters!

Castle of the Monsters

1958

Secreto de confesión poster
5.4

Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower.

Secreto de confesión

1971

Tía Candela poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tía Candela

1948

Tía Candela poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tía Candela

1948

Me quiero casar poster
6.0

In Mexico, an American tourist meets and falls in love with a young Mexican doctor.

Me quiero casar

1967

La alegría de vivir poster
6.3

Post-adolescent romance; the dude and the chick both tried to impress each other by pretending to come from rich families, and eventually they'll both have to fess up. Also other complications.

La alegría de vivir

1965

Tormenta en la cumbre poster
5.7

Young couple weather a marital crisis while older people who have already given up on life interfere from the sidelines.

Tormenta en la cumbre

1943

Miracle Roses poster
6.5

Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.

Miracle Roses

1960

Si yo fuera millonario poster
5.4

White-collar criminals conspire to prevent a shmuck from collecting an inheritance.

Si yo fuera millonario

1962

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El soplador de vidrio

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Lanza tus penas al viento poster
6.4

Four guys share an apartment while attending art-school.

Lanza tus penas al viento

1966

Laura's Sin poster
6.4

José, a driver, and Laura, a dancer, were lovers. José couldn't dance with Laura due to his condition on his legs. Therefore, a man notices Laura's skill to dance and wants to do business with her, taking her on a dancing tour, which made José and Laura miss each other.

Laura's Sin

1949

Romeo contra Julieta poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Romeo contra Julieta

1968

Aladdin and the Marvelous Lamp poster
6.5

Mexican feature film

Aladdin and the Marvelous Lamp

1958

Matrimonio sintético poster
6.7

Mexican movie

Matrimonio sintético

1948

Matrimonio sintético poster
6.7

Mexican movie

Matrimonio sintético

1948

There are not Crosses in the Sea poster
6.0

A mute fisherman helps another whose boat capsizes, he dies and leaves behind a girl whom he raises as his own daughter.

There are not Crosses in the Sea

1968

There are not Crosses in the Sea poster
6.0

A mute fisherman helps another whose boat capsizes, he dies and leaves behind a girl whom he raises as his own daughter.

There are not Crosses in the Sea

1968

Se le pasó la mano poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Se le pasó la mano

1952

When Children are Gone poster
7.0

Federico announces that his dream is to become a great singer; his father does not take it well and gradually distances himself from him. Federico is forced to leave his beautiful home after being accused of theft.

When Children are Gone

1969

Eterna agonía poster
6.3

Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.

Eterna agonía

1949

Eterna agonía poster
6.3

Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.

Eterna agonía

1949

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

The Straying Rooster poster
6.5

A wealthy sculptor takes in a thief as a servant on her ranch, hoping to reshape him, but their situation is disrupted when she discovers a major robbery has taken place on her estate.

The Straying Rooster

1952

La miel se fue de la luna poster
6.7

Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats África, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in Cuba. With her, he poses as a friend industrial, Ricardo and his intention is not to see her again. While Africa is out he marries Mini, which proves to be terribly jealous. Complications ensue when Africa returns to Mexico and start searching for the fake Richard. By chance a friend of Mini will be in a beauty salon and this ensures she can take to "Ricardo" because is "a friend of her husband". A typical sitcom with a blistering pace.

La miel se fue de la luna

1952

Mi madre es Culpable poster
6.0

"Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia.

Mi madre es Culpable

1960

No artwork available
6.0

Missing-presumed-dead wife reappears after husband has remarried.

Dos esposas en mi cama

1970

Ocho hombres y una mujer poster
6.0

Eight shipwrecked men do the Robinson Crusoe thing on an uninhabited island... and then they're joined by an aviatrix whose plane conks out in their airspace.

Ocho hombres y una mujer

1946

Una gallega en México poster
5.8

The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Robustito hard time believing him guilty of what happened.

Una gallega en México

1949

Confesiones de una adolescente poster
5.6

Orphan girl has a secret benefactor. When she's old enough to leave the orphanage and enter the real world, she's determined to track him down. Also: having a first boyfriend, yippee!

Confesiones de una adolescente

1970

Cuando acaba la noche poster
6.0

In a New York hospital, a man is cured of heroin addiction after a grueling three-month treatment. Although no longer an addict, he has complete amnesia: the only clues to his past are an expensive ring he was wearing when admitted, and a book of matches from a Puerto Rican nightclub. He pawns the ring and buys clandestine passage on a boat to Puerto Rico in search of his identity.

Cuando acaba la noche

1964

Un par de sinvergüenzas poster
5.5

Itinerant cowboy learns that his horse can talk. Horse ends up giving him singing-lessons... and...

Un par de sinvergüenzas

1964

The Age of Violence poster
6.0

Daniel, the leader of a criminal youth gang, views new guy Victor first as a threat, then as possible addition to his gang. When Victor refuses, but sets his eyes on Daniel's Sister Nancy, Daniel orders her to get close to Victor so she can persuade him to join the gang. Daniel does not expect that instead the relationship with Victor makes Nancy longing for a life without crime. A juvenile-delinquent-crime-musical!

The Age of Violence

1964