
Acting
Tito Novaro
Born — Died
1918-08-01 — 1986-04-14
Place of birth
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
85 titles
Augusto Novaro Vega (August 1st, 1918 – April 14th, 1986), better known simply as Tito Novaro, was a Mexican film actor, screenwriter, and director. He entered the industry in 1936 as an extra and developed a long career largely in supporting and ensemble roles while also writing story treatments and screenplays in the 1940s–1950s, later working as an assistant director. He moved into directing in the early 1960s, initially in co-direction, and made his solo directorial debut with “El dilema,” a segment of the anthology feature Trampas de amor. From the 1970s through the mid-1980s he directed a cycle of popular genre and melodrama features—often combining directing with writing or adaptation…
Known for
4.2Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
Sombrero
1953
7.0In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
The Shadow of the Tyrant
1960
6.3Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance.
El 7 de Copas
1960
7.6Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
Drop the Curtain
1955
3.6Near the end of the 19th century, Prof. John Mayer and his assistant, the scientist Dr. Isabel Reed, accidentally invent a powerful ray. An alien travels to Earth to destroy the machine since it would be a threat to the universe. He initially possesses the mind of Thomas, a sex maniac and serial killer, to get close to Mayer during the demonstration of the machine to scientists and the military. Mayer's niece, Laura, meets an acquaintance of her uncle, the chemist Dr. Paul Rosten, and Mayer invites him to join the research. When Thomas gets close to Mayer, the alien also possesses his mind in order to destroy the device and his notes. Meanwhile, Thomas is not able to control his murderous impulses and attacks several women with a straight razor.
Alien Terror
1971
7.9A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlfriend.
The Circus
1943
Film credits
1970s · 13 titles
3.6Near the end of the 19th century, Prof. John Mayer and his assistant, the scientist Dr. Isabel Reed, accidentally invent a powerful ray. An alien travels to Earth to destroy the machine since it would be a threat to the universe. He initially possesses the mind of Thomas, a sex maniac and serial killer, to get close to Mayer during the demonstration of the machine to scientists and the military. Mayer's niece, Laura, meets an acquaintance of her uncle, the chemist Dr. Paul Rosten, and Mayer invites him to join the research. When Thomas gets close to Mayer, the alien also possesses his mind in order to destroy the device and his notes. Meanwhile, Thomas is not able to control his murderous impulses and attacks several women with a straight razor.
Alien Terror
1971
4.3A trio of masked Mexican wrestlers take on a mad scientist, killer dwarfs, and a horde of re-animated mummies in Guanajuato.
The Castle of Mummies of Guanajuato
1973
6.0A cursed treasure brings back to life seven ghastly mummies at a Guatemalan castle and Blue Demon, along with superhero Superzan, must battle the fiends and save a young woman who has been cursed.
The Mansion of The 7 Mummies
1977
7.0Newlywed couple are jealous of each other's imagined infidelities.
Departamento de soltero
1971
5.9Young couple's honeymoon is interrupted by an emergency at the groom's workplace. How long will it take them before they can make conjugal nookie?
Ni solteros, ni casados
1972
5.3The Count Cagliostro and scientist Raymond discovered a component that is only found in the mines of Guanajuato, this serves to create a formula to help them in their plans to conquer the world.
Robbery of the Mummies of Guanajuato
1972
5.4The story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun.
Triángulo
1972
5.8An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion.
The Business of Hate
1972
6.7No synopsis available yet.
La hija de nadie
1979
5.4After five years in prison the protagonist of the story, Emiliano Trejo, seek to know the truth of his imprisonment, in his wake you will find a "compadre" and a widow with a daughter who were victims of a strange gunman who uses an expansive weapon . Also to his friend and his former love who is married to him.
Duelo al atardecer
1973
7.1Third movie in "Life of Christ" trilogy.
Jesús, nuestro Señor
1971
4.2Raimundo, a wealthy man, died of a heart attack. The notary reads out Raimundo's will, leaving all his estate and companies to the widow, Luz, with the surprising clause that she will remain without a man for the period of two years, during which his trusted attorney, Arturo, will be in possession of the whole patrimony. Luz being much younger than her late husband, resents this clause that will keep her captive of the dead man for so long. Her attempts to seek release in the night spots of the town do not prove satisfying. Lucia, the maid, starts an extortion scheme against the widow, menacing to denounce the murder of Raimundo with venom, as Luz and Arturo were lovers. The faithful cook and the gardener are dismissed and Lucía literally takes her employer's image, clothes, and manners - forcing Luz to play humbly to her (progressively insane) demands.
Las cautivas
1973
5.8A completely illiterate general from the Mexican Revolution “wins” a teacher in a game of dice. What happens to him with this woman is something unexpected.
...And Woman Made Man
1975
1960s · 16 titles
7.0In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
The Shadow of the Tyrant
1960
6.3Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance.
El 7 de Copas
1960
8.0Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
My Son, the Hero
1961
6.3A woman betrayed by a man falls into despair and kills him. What fate will the jury decide for her?
History of a Scoundrel
1964
6.0Gabino's son tries to find out why his father was murdered.
El Hijo De Gabino Barrera
1965
6.8A sharecropper and his daughter, a swarthy beauty, flee from the hacienda on which they live and join the Mexican Revolution.
La Chamuscada - Tierra Y Libertad
1969
6.2After a long journey in search of the murderer of his father, a man abuses a beautiful girl next to marry.
Crosses Over the Wasteland
1967
4.7A mad scientist teams with an evil, disfigured woman to kidnap and operate on young women to make her look beautiful again.
Madame Death
1969
5.3Written by future Nobel-prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, this is the story of Patsy, a wealthy debutante with an acute sense of living and boundless curiosity. She falls in love with an older man (Julio Alemán) whom is married and mediocre, and thus learns the hard way about unhappiness, marring her rose colored world.
Patsy My Love
1969
5.8Jungle adventure about the search for a lost treasure.
The Jade Mask
1963
6.7Mexican feature film
Un día de diciembre
1962
5.2The Blue Demon faces a murderous satanic hypnotist.
Blue Demon vs. the Satanic Power
1966
In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements.
Una estrella y dos estrellados
1960
5.6Starring Nick Adams in his final role, a lone cowboy rides into a small Western town that is besieged by a gang of hoodlums in search of treasure. The search leads to an all out war between the town bosses, a family of crooked ranchers and other unsavory characters. But when Shannon (Nick Adams) enters the picture, they may have met their match...
Los Asesinos
1968
5.4Two wrestling stars must investigate strange deaths and a secret criminal organization led by a madman who becomes invisible.
The Clutching Hand
1966
5.7El Cachorro is falsely accused of two murders; right after he's arrested flor those crimes, another murder is committed and he has to clear himself of that accusation. We never find out what happened about the first two deaths.
El cachorro
1966
1950s · 22 titles
4.2Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
Sombrero
1953
7.6Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
Drop the Curtain
1955
5.7When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico City, they separate from their boyfriends, form a trio and travel the country singing, dancing and bribing older men, but they fall into a trap when they invest their money in an unreliable business.
Las tres alegres comadres
1952
5.6Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
Por qué peca la mujer
1952
7.5Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.
Los hijos de María Morales
1952
5.0Ernesto, a composer, is madly in love with Amalia. He decides to help her pay the rent and wants her to start singing at the cabaret where he works, but she ends up falling in love with another man.
Lost Love
1951
6.2The story unfolds through the twists and turns of a strange curse attributed to a jewel that, passed from hand to hand, carries a deadly destiny. Its theme spans the three countries where it was filmed (Spain, Mexico, and Argentina), beginning in Spain and then moving to Mexico. The jewel, which takes on the character of another figure in the narrative as it travels through different parts of the world, arrives in Buenos Aires. The film ultimately presents the jewel's final destination in Mexico, where its owner dies, like others who were also marked by its malevolent influence.
3 citas con el destino
1954
6.2Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.
Las locuras de Tin Tan
1952
5.3No synopsis available yet.
Refifí entre las mujeres
1958
5.9Tin Tan stands in as the double of a kidnapped millionaire.
Vagabundo y Millonario
1959
6.4The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
La Cucaracha
1959
6.9In Santiago de Cuba in the early 1950s, history begins. A young woman of high society becomes pregnant with a false love, her father orders his black maid (Dolores) to kill the baby (Alberto), but she flees to Havana where Alberto becomes a renowned doctor.
El derecho de nacer
1952
NRDuring the times of Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, an exhausted stranger arrives at a farm and starts to help the owner with the legal status of her land.
Love for Life
1950
8.1The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
The Martyr of Calvary
1952
7.8Tin Tan just won the lottery and wants to donate it to an orphanage. Sataela and Riverita want to keep the money for themselves. In an attenpt to do so, they convince him of having a terminal disease and suggest that committing suicide is his best option.
Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
1951
6.5Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.
El hombre inquieto
1954
7.3Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Reportaje
1953
8.2When three beautiful young nurses from Jalisco, afflicted with a rare disease called "sexappealitis", create commotion among the patients in a hospital, they are forced to resign. They travel to Mexico City following the suggestion of a crazy scientist, who tells them they will be cured when they get married. But they are attracted to three men who are indifferent to their sexy looks, being themselves sick with "lovetitis".
Las cariñosas
1953
6.0Through hard work, the Spaniard Alejandro has become wealthy and powerful. In contrast, the banker Don Victorino—who once refused a loan to the then-poor Alejandro—has fallen on difficult times. Victorino is married to Ana, who spends her life playing the piano, and they are the parents of the proud Julia, who is engaged to Enrique Régules. Julia is forced to marry Alejandro in order to save her family’s financial situation. Despite her husband’s blunt and often harsh honesty, Julia gradually finds herself falling in love with him, and vainly tries to make him jealous with Licenciado Héctor, who courts her. Julia becomes nervously ill, troubled by the fact that Alejandro does not love her in the romantic, storybook way she longs for.
La entrega
1954
5.5This film is considered one of Tin Tan's funniest comedies. This time, the charismatic comedian incarnates a mariachi musician that lives the most entertaining an extraordinary adventures while traveling from Mexico to the paradisaic island of Cuba. An example of the excellent cinematographic comedy that only Tin Tan can achieve.
El mariachi desconocido
1953
5.9Two ghosts who died in a turn-of-the-century duel and now haunt a theater attempt to help a girl who's in danger from bank robbers.
Two Ghosts and a Girl
1959
6.2In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.
Teatro del crimen
1957
1940s · 6 titles
7.9A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlfriend.
The Circus
1943
5.8Lieutenant Palomino of the police must recover some important documents containing the formula for the antidote to a serious disease. With the help of the magician Fu-Man-Chu, they embark on an adventure filled with suspense, intrigue, and deception.
The Black Ace
1944
6.2Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito.
Santa
1943
6.0The story of Mary Magdalene from being a sinner to follow Jesus Christ.
Mary Magdalene, Sinner of Magdala
1946
No synopsis available yet.
China poblana
1944
6.0An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
Pobre diablo
1940
1930s · 2 titles
6.0Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is presumed dead. Soon after he returns, scavengers destroy the family home and he and Betty escape westward. Meanwhile, Gen. John Harvey (William Welch), Betty's father, has been seriously injured but is not dead. He arrives at the deserted plantation with the help of Union soldier Tom (Bob Steele), who then pledges to help John find his family
El calvario de una esposa
1936
6.0A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas?
Ave sin rumbo
1937
Behind the camera
4.3A trio of masked Mexican wrestlers take on a mad scientist, killer dwarfs, and a horde of re-animated mummies in Guanajuato.
The Castle of Mummies of Guanajuato
1973
4.3A trio of masked Mexican wrestlers take on a mad scientist, killer dwarfs, and a horde of re-animated mummies in Guanajuato.
The Castle of Mummies of Guanajuato
1973
Billionaire Mauricio Brandy picks up two stranded models after a car crash and begins a risky triangle, as his doctor warns his excesses could kill him.
The Dilemma
1969
Billionaire Mauricio Brandy picks up two stranded models after a car crash and begins a risky triangle, as his doctor warns his excesses could kill him.
The Dilemma
1969
6.7While she's conducting an obsessive search for the father she never met, a nightclub owner falls ill with a movie disease that leaves her amnesiac afterwards. Then she falls in with a band of gypsies. And... (Sequel to La Hija De Nadie.)
El perdon de la hija de nadie
1980
6.7While she's conducting an obsessive search for the father she never met, a nightclub owner falls ill with a movie disease that leaves her amnesiac afterwards. Then she falls in with a band of gypsies. And... (Sequel to La Hija De Nadie.)
El perdon de la hija de nadie
1980
5.3The Count Cagliostro and scientist Raymond discovered a component that is only found in the mines of Guanajuato, this serves to create a formula to help them in their plans to conquer the world.
Robbery of the Mummies of Guanajuato
1972
6.0A rich and powerful man is married to a much younger woman, who has a lover.
Los dos hermanos
1971
6.7A Mexican man crosses the border seeking work to afford English classes, leaving his girlfriend behind. In Texas, he joins other immigrants while a Chicana lawyer's wife leads Mexican-American women fighting for workers' rights.
Soy Chicano Y Mexicano
1975
5.5White-hat cowboy takes down a Western gang-leader and his hired guns.
Los Malditos
1966
5.7Three very poor children bond into a "family" unit. Grown up, they each try to help the others accomplish career goals. One's a girl, so there are romantic complications.
Tres contra el destino
1980
5.0Some aliens stalk and kidnap humans to take their eyes off and send them to their planet, the same Blue Demon falls into the trap, trying to rescue his brother.
The Son of Alma Grande
1976
5.6Blending historical fact and adventure fiction, Emiliano Zapata's (fictional) right-hand man takes leadership of his regiment after he's killed.
Lucio Vazquez
1968
Leonor and Rosa are two sisters who have dedicated themselves to trying to win the hearts of two young charros: Ángel and Pepe.
Cada oveja con su pareja
1965
6.7No synopsis available yet.
La hija de nadie
1979
5.4Two wrestling stars must investigate strange deaths and a secret criminal organization led by a madman who becomes invisible.
The Clutching Hand
1966
5.6Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance.
Love Traps
1969
5.6Love, infidelity and desire are the protagonists of three stories full of entanglements and romance.
Love Traps
1969
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Ahí vienen los Argumedo
1962
5.7El Cachorro is falsely accused of two murders; right after he's arrested flor those crimes, another murder is committed and he has to clear himself of that accusation. We never find out what happened about the first two deaths.
El cachorro
1966
Mexican feature film
Lazos de sangre
1983
6.0A young hunchbacked girl who sells newspapers and sings in the street is discovered by a music producer.
La jorobada
1981
6.0A young hunchbacked girl who sells newspapers and sings in the street is discovered by a music producer.
La jorobada
1981
No synopsis available yet.
El último disparo
1985
6.3Mexican feature film
El gran moyocoyo
1983
