Jorge Casanova

Acting

Jorge Casanova

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

Known for

Cuéntame cómo pasó poster
7.1

Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.

Cuéntame cómo pasó

2001

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz poster
7.3

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

1955

Conserje en condominio poster
6.7

After reading in the newspaper, Úrsulo runs to seek employment. It is the position of caretaker of a luxury apartment building habited by people more heterogeneous: the professional model, the spiritualist, hippies and all turn to him to solve their problems. But someone in the building, kidnapped an important person and Úrsulo becomes a private investigator.

Conserje en condominio

1974

Your Excellency poster
8.1

Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.

Your Excellency

1967

El profe poster
8.0

Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.

El profe

1971

El analfabeto poster
7.8

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.

El analfabeto

1961

Film credits

1970s · 12 titles

Conserje en condominio poster
6.7

After reading in the newspaper, Úrsulo runs to seek employment. It is the position of caretaker of a luxury apartment building habited by people more heterogeneous: the professional model, the spiritualist, hippies and all turn to him to solve their problems. But someone in the building, kidnapped an important person and Úrsulo becomes a private investigator.

Conserje en condominio

1974

El profe poster
8.0

Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.

El profe

1971

Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dr. Frankenstein poster
6.2

Innocent women are being kidnapped and used as guinea pigs for a brain transplant experiment. The diabolical Dr. Frankenstein continues his quest to perfect his brain transplant operation to bring back his deceased wife at any cost - even if it means playing with the lives of others. El Santo and Blue Demon are called in to help when their friend Alicia becomes Dr. Frankenstein's next target. It'll take both heroes to go up against the dastardly doctor and go mano a mano with his super strong zombie Golem.

Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dr. Frankenstein

1974

The Champions of Justice poster
6.7

Blue Demon and pals square off against the Black Hand's army of super powered midgets. Five luchadores (Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, El Medico Asesino, La Sombra Vengadora, Tinieblas plus Black Shadow) face off against a mad scientist and his army of powerful wrestling midgets.

The Champions of Justice

1971

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez poster
5.8

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez

1970

El bueno para nada poster
5.1

Bumbling inventor/jack of all trades does sketch-comedy stuff for 65 minutes, then rescues Mexico City from a Mad Scientist triggering earthquakes.

El bueno para nada

1973

The Spring of the Scorpions poster
5.1

A lady photographer and her preteen son on vacation at a beautiful Mexican resort, befriend two men whose homosexual relationship is going through some tough times.

The Spring of the Scorpions

1971

Triángulo poster
5.4

The story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun.

Triángulo

1972

The Business of Hate poster
5.8

An ambitious businessman searches for the perfect candidate to train and turn into a great boxing champion.

The Business of Hate

1972

Jesús, nuestro Señor poster
7.1

Third movie in "Life of Christ" trilogy.

Jesús, nuestro Señor

1971

Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire poster
5.9

Chanoc must defeat an evil vampire known as Count Frankenhausen.

Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire

1972

El metiche poster
4.8

Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.

El metiche

1972

1960s · 14 titles

Your Excellency poster
8.1

Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.

Your Excellency

1967

El analfabeto poster
7.8

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.

El analfabeto

1961

The Extra poster
7.2

Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.

The Extra

1962

Santo vs. the Vampire Women poster
4.2

A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.

Santo vs. the Vampire Women

1962

Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte poster
5.1

Neutron, a superhero/wrestler, goes up against a mad scientist and his army of monsters.

Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte

1963

La vida de Pedro Infante poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

La vida de Pedro Infante

1966

Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket poster
8.1

Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.

Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket

1963

Dos meseros majaderos poster
5.8

Comic duo are stalked by a serial killer.

Dos meseros majaderos

1966

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

La estrella vacía poster
6.6

Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.

La estrella vacía

1960

Blue Demon vs. the Diabolical Women poster
5.3

Wrestler vs. organized crime.

Blue Demon vs. the Diabolical Women

1968

Frente al destino poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Frente al destino

1964

Blue Demon vs. the Infernal Brains poster
5.3

A wrestling hero helps the police in their battle against a mad doctor and his army of female zombies.

Blue Demon vs. the Infernal Brains

1968

No artwork available
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Napoleoncito

1964

1950s · 20 titles

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz poster
7.3

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

1955

¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer? poster
8.2

This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.

¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?

1951

Camelia poster
6.2

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.

Camelia

1954

Gutierritos poster
6.6

Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.

Gutierritos

1959

Full Spead Ahead poster
8.4

A drifter lands a job as an officer in México City's elite motorcycle police unit and gets home with a mate of this unit. The mate is in love with a girl, but he and she are always making jealous to each other. The drifter and the mate get involved themselves in a fight to become the winner of conquering ladies and performing unit acrobatic tricks, interfering with their friendship and profession.

Full Spead Ahead

1951

Para siempre amor mío poster
5.6

A man, annoyed by his wife's interference in the family business, travels to Spain, where he becomes involved with another woman.

Para siempre amor mío

1955

Las locuras de Tin Tan poster
6.2

Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.

Las locuras de Tin Tan

1952

Huracán Ramírez poster
5.7

Family comedy and family melodrama involving father and son wrestlers, little brothers, little sisters, girlfriends, waitresses...

Huracán Ramírez

1953

La vida tiene tres días poster
5.7

María dreams of going to the capital to study piano and begins exchanging letters with Alberto, a composer. He takes advantage of the situation by sending his family away so he can deceive María and make her fall in love with him.

La vida tiene tres días

1955

Quinto patio poster
5.7

Model son/employee/student is frustrated by poverty and surrenders to the temptations of a criminal lifestyle... in the same gang that twenty years earlier murdered his father OMG. Meanwhile his sister. Meanwhile his mother.

Quinto patio

1950

Reportaje poster
7.3

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

Reportaje

1953

Noche de perdición poster
5.8

A dancer is accused of killing a businessman. When her husband finds out, he decides to take her kid away from her.

Noche de perdición

1951

La entrega poster
6.0

Through 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

Por qué ya no me quieres poster
6.7

Tired of struggling, Lilia, played by Sara Montiel, moves to the city to live with her aunt, a former actress. There she strives to become a singer and meets Raul a singer, played by Agustin Lara, who helps her succeed.

Por qué ya no me quieres

1954

Esposa te doy poster
6.0

Chofi marry Alberto and very much in love, but her mother continues to intervene in the couple's relationship, which will lead to divorce.

Esposa te doy

1957

La rosa blanca poster
6.0

For the centenary of Cuban patriot Jose Marti, the 1950s pre-Castro dictator Batista collected funds for an official film commemoration and hired renowned director Fernandez from Mexico to erect this memorial work.

La rosa blanca

1954

With my finger on the trigger poster
6.0

The Private detective Raúl Marín with the help of his grandmother and the police commander Aragón try to find out the murder of several homicides in three episodes: El Anónimo, El Ídolo and El Hipnotizador.

With my finger on the trigger

1958

Four Nights With You poster
5.0

Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her.

Four Nights With You

1952

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

Cinnamon Skin poster
6.8

Marucha (Sarita Montiel) has had a shattered face since childhood, but she has a beautiful figure and covers half of her face with her hair. She is a singer and performs in neighborhood theaters. Marucha and Ramon are professionals in crime.

Cinnamon Skin

1953

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