
Directing
Rafael Baledón
Born — Died
1919-11-25 — 1994-05-06
Place of birth
Campeche, Campeche, Mexico
Known for
Directing
Credits
106 titles
Rafael Baledón (25 November 1919 in Campeche — 6 May 1994 in Mexico City, Mexico) was a Mexican actor, director, producer and writer.
Known for
7.6El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar is a 1988 Mexican telenovela starring Lucía Méndez and Jorge Martinez. It is an unusual example of a telenovela which addresses supernatural topics.
El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar
1988
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Bianca Vidal
1982
No synopsis available yet.
Rosalía
1978
8.0Gabriel y Gabriela is a Mexican telenovela made by Televisa and produced by Patricia Lozano in 1982. The series was based on an original story by Yolanda Vargas Dulche, who also wrote the adaptation for television. The series featured an original song "Dulce Amor", written by Bebu Silvetti and performed by Ana Martín, who also starred in the main role. The series was directed by Carlos Téllez with cinematography by Carlos Velazquez.
Gabriel y Gabriela
1982
6.485 episodes (1994). Cristina Carbajal is a woman who has paid an unjust sentence for having been wrongly blamed for the death of her husband. After ten years locked up, she manages to get out of prison for good behavior. Her daughters Karina and Rosita, who were only five years and one year old when her mother was incarcerated, are now 15 and 11 years old. They have been raised by her father's uncles, Braulio and Eloisa Monasterios. The Monasteries hate Cristina, since they believe that she is responsible for the death of her nephew, and they have told the girls that they are orphans.
Prisionera De Amor
1994
NRYesenia is a beautiful Roma woman who lives different situations in an aimlessly fixed way with the company of her caravan. In one of her many trips she meets a military man, Osvaldo Moncada, and falls in love with him. They will have to prove that their love is stronger than their differences and social prejudice that separate them. One of the opponents of their relationship is Rashay, the patriarch of the Roma people, who opposes the relationship because the military youth does not belong to the Romani tribe.
Yesenia
1987
Film credits
1980s · 5 titles
5.0Reporter investigating an actress' death gains an overview of her whole biography.
Ángela Morante, ¿crimen o suicidio?
1981
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Una sota y un caballo: Rancho Avándaro
1982
5.6Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job.
El mexicano feo
1984
5.9Political intrigue drama which aired dimly, some of the most common vices Latin American government systems, at least hypothetically and not still be scenarios. Its characters have the dictator whose intentions are to inherit the power to his son, little interest in the issue. In a moment in which he is forced to decide who will succeed him, other characters see the opportunity to replace him in the supreme command of this country without a name.
La Sucesión
1980
5.7Mexican feature film
Tetakawi
1980
1970s · 17 titles
4.8Gigolo and his girlfriend scam off married women; he seduces them, she photographs them in bed together and blackmails them afterwards. Things eventually go south.
El arte de engañar
1972
7.0Sex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows marriage as a matter of interests (economical and social) in the modern society. emphasizing the education, lose of tradition and customs in the gap generation of sixties youth and its parents. Angelica María, plays the best character in his career, being a kind and vulnerable girl raised in a hard moral education
Magdalena’s True Vocation
1972
5.9Rich entomologist René is accepted by a group of young rebels on the condition that they organize parties with his money. One day he proposes a game in which each one must get rid of the most valuable thing they have.
The Useless Force
1972
6.5A woman hires four gunmen, Trinidad, Doc, Satan and The Renegade to rob a bank, but things don't work out as planned.
Su precio... unos dólares
1970
6.0A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.
El hombre del puente
1976
5.8A man named Tony is captured riding the horse of Lee Corey, a missing delivery man for a local mining company. Tony claims to have bought the horse from two men, but the sheriff believes he has murdered Corey and stolen the horse. Tony is sent to the gallows, but escapes hanging with the help of Corey's mistress and sets out to find the real killer.
Uno para la horca
1974
6.5Frontier boy orphaned after a military actiion,, escapes with his horse into Mexico and has adventures.
Aventuras de un caballo blanco y un niño
1975
Based on the novel by Caridad Bravo Adams.
Estafa de amor
1970
5.8The owner of a beauty salon and her employees discuss their lives and their struggles to get ahead in life.
El amor tiene cara de mujer
1973
6.8Mexican feature film
A Secretary's Intimacies
1971
6.4Controlling father stifles adult son's career plans, interferes with his love life...
¡Quiero vivir mi vida!
1973
3.8In the Old West, a gunfighter punishes the wrongdoers making justice himself, but his mother's words continue to fill his mind: "Justice is divine". Nonetheless, he goes on hanging the culprits, becoming quite famous. When a bunch of outlaws lead by a crooked landlord treats an innocent village and a beautiful girl, the time for the avenger's final mission is arrived.
El juez de la soga
1973
5.8A young girl, María, has 17 “boyfriends” and a fiancé approved by her mother. On his deathbed, Don Eustaquio sends Arturo, a lawyer, in search of his wife Victoria and his daughter Maria, whom he abandoned under pressure from her family. Arturo finds them working in a toy store. Arturo inherits the house of his ancestors during his lifetime, but ten children live there and Maria decides not to take them out because she has cleaned it. However, Eustaquio recovers and marries Victoria, as well as María marries Arturo, on the condition of adopting the children.
Yo Amo, Tu Amas, Nosotros...
1975
6.3A brave group of Mexicans embark on a risky mission to rescue a wounded guerrilla in Bolivia. This guerrilla, hoping to return to Mexico, is currently in the hands of friends who protect him and anxiously await the arrival of rescuers.
Pasajeros en Transito
1978
6.3Two young adults, brother and sister, discover that both were adopted, and they start to develop grown-up feelings toward each other. Is this the worst, most perverse thing to ever happen? Opinions differ.
Prohibido
1970
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
4.7No synopsis available yet.
Ya somos hombres
1971
1960s · 3 titles
Cowboy comedy turns serious and adventure-y in the middle. Sequel to Los hermanos diablo.
El renegado blanco
1960
5.4Three good guys vs a bad dude who sells weapons to the Apaches and provokes a range war between US Cavalry and a splinter group of tribesmen, breaking the standing treaty between their tribe and the invaders. Sequel to Los Hermanos Diablo.
Venganza Apache
1960
No synopsis available yet.
Tesoro de mentiras
1963
1950s · 13 titles
5.7A comedy of errors in which a young married couple finds themselves caught up in a web of intrigue when they take in a three-year-old girl whose grandmother is being slowly poisoned by another pair of crooks.
Sígueme corazón
1952
6.5Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess?
La gota de sangre
1950
5.7Bad guy who runs a ritzy nightclub is trying to keep his younger brother out of the gutter and get him into a professional career. Unknowingly, he takes up with his brother's fiancee. Also other complications.
Cuando el alba llegue
1950
6.0A Cuban rumbera dancer undergoes an ordeal to fall in love with a married Mexican doctor.
Caribbean Rhythms
1950
6.8Due to confusion, Rafael is believed responsible for the death of Teresa. His wife Lilia and his brother looking for the real culprits.
Había una vez un marido
1953
5.8Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.
Si, Mi vida
1953
6.3Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life.
Cuando acaba la noche
1950
6.1The three Diablo brothers are effete dandies who love chamber music and afternoon tea... but they also love brawling and whoring and all that wild west stuff. They inherit a ranch, and all hell breaks loose when they go to take ownership of it.
Los hermanos Diablo
1959
5.8Irresponsible playboy-type needs to cut down on his nightclubbing and his expensive women-friends and buckle down to his Uni studies. Meanwhile, his godfather...
Los apuros de mi ahijada
1951
5.8Police procedural: some detail pertaining to a murder case is nagging at the back of a detective's mind "like having a stone in his shoe." Once he teases it to the surface, he solves the case.
Una piedra en el zapato
1956
6.0Rosa, a working-class young woman, falls in love with the physician Armando de la Vega. After they spend a night together, she discovers that she is pregnant. Armando, however, marries another woman, and the couple leaves for Paris, where he remains for several years. Upon his return, disillusioned with his marriage, he meets the famous cabaret star Alma Rosa, not realizing that she is Rosa, now performing under a stage name.
Una mujer decente
1950
5.0A series of misadventures leaves a city slicker trapped into a shotgun marriage with a country gal. Back home in Mexico City, he tries to scam his way out of his marriage and set things right with his previous fiance...
Matrimonio y mortaja
1950
6.0Frenetic rom-com about doctors overwhelmed with amorous female patients.
Especialista en señoras
1951
1940s · 20 titles
5.6Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable cell, he changes his identity, becoming the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, an identity he uses to take revenge on those who betrayed him and sent him to prison.
El conde de Montecristo
1942
6.0Interfering relatives complicate a couple's attempt to build their dream house.
El casado casa quiere
1948
5.7Young couple weather a marital crisis while older people who have already given up on life interfere from the sidelines.
Tormenta en la cumbre
1943
6.0Shipboard romance/comedy between a female executive and a guy with a lot of buttons on his tunic.
El pasajero diez mil
1946
6.2Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.
Novia a la medida
1949
5.8It tells the stories of the passengers aboard a nonstop train. Each character is portrayed one by one, and the only thing they have in common is the journey they will take that night.
El rápido de las 9.15
1941
5.8A man's on trial for murder; a friend who could prove his innocence chooses not to come forward. An interested detective starts working to discover the how-come of all of that.
Crimen en la alcoba
1946
6.0A 1940 film directed by Alejandro Galindo.
The Mad Monk
1940
5.8No synopsis available yet.
La insaciable
1947
6.0Two gangsters on the lam end up in Cuba.
El ángel caído
1949
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Así son ellas
1944
6.7This overlooked, if not almost forgotten romantic melodrama from Director Juan Jose Ortega, features a South American-born beauty named Lenora Amar, (whom the Mexican press quickly dubbed "The Brazilian Beauty"), in the title role. Although her acting career was rather short-lived because she chose to end it when she was just 27 years of age, her Zorina co-star and then-husband, Luis Aldas, (starring as" Bardo" in this film), seem to still have made an impact on movie audiences due to some favorable news publicity and the relative success of the handful of films the pair made.
Zorina
1949
5.4Uni professor is voted "Hunkiest teacher of the year." Madcap complications.
El amor las vuelve locas
1946
6.0Two travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church ladies.
La señora de enfrente
1945
5.8Two adventurers visit a small coastal village in 1850 in hopes of getting access to a shipwreck that took place 100 years earlier. Also, local girlfriends.
Rosalinda
1945
6.2Two men are shipwrecked and arrive in the Kingdom of Eden, where the women control all the power.
El sexo fuerte
1946
5.6A mother stands by helplessly while a scandal involving marital infidelity, blackmail and murder takes shape around her daughter.
No matarás
1943
6.4Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.
María Eugenia
1943
6.0Three sisters discover that the men in their lives are philandering trash and band together to build new lives for themselves instead of continuing to enable their unworthy partners.
Nuestros maridos
1946
6.3Mexican movie
La sin ventura
1948
1930s · 2 titles
6.8When three orphans that were raised together and love like brothers knows about plans to be separated and work outside, they escape and live in the street. They sell lottery and newspapers. When older, they became artists.
Águila o sol
1938
6.0When the U.S. invasion and the landing of troops in 1847 begins, the former cadet Miguel de la Peña (Jorge Negrete) and his friend Agustin Melgar (Jose Macip) decide to return to the military college and fight heroically in the defense of the Mexican army.
El Cementerio De Las Aguilas
1938
Series credits
7.6El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar is a 1988 Mexican telenovela starring Lucía Méndez and Jorge Martinez. It is an unusual example of a telenovela which addresses supernatural topics.
El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar
1988
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Bianca Vidal
1982
No synopsis available yet.
Rosalía
1978
8.0Gabriel y Gabriela is a Mexican telenovela made by Televisa and produced by Patricia Lozano in 1982. The series was based on an original story by Yolanda Vargas Dulche, who also wrote the adaptation for television. The series featured an original song "Dulce Amor", written by Bebu Silvetti and performed by Ana Martín, who also starred in the main role. The series was directed by Carlos Téllez with cinematography by Carlos Velazquez.
Gabriel y Gabriela
1982
6.485 episodes (1994). Cristina Carbajal is a woman who has paid an unjust sentence for having been wrongly blamed for the death of her husband. After ten years locked up, she manages to get out of prison for good behavior. Her daughters Karina and Rosita, who were only five years and one year old when her mother was incarcerated, are now 15 and 11 years old. They have been raised by her father's uncles, Braulio and Eloisa Monasterios. The Monasteries hate Cristina, since they believe that she is responsible for the death of her nephew, and they have told the girls that they are orphans.
Prisionera De Amor
1994
NRYesenia is a beautiful Roma woman who lives different situations in an aimlessly fixed way with the company of her caravan. In one of her many trips she meets a military man, Osvaldo Moncada, and falls in love with him. They will have to prove that their love is stronger than their differences and social prejudice that separate them. One of the opponents of their relationship is Rashay, the patriarch of the Roma people, who opposes the relationship because the military youth does not belong to the Romani tribe.
Yesenia
1987
Behind the camera
6.3Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance.
El 7 de Copas
1960
6.8Husband and wife share the spotlight as two of Mexico's most famous ranchera singers, but when they decide to pursue solo careers, a Spanish theatrical empresario and an Italian female chocolatier will threaten their marriage.
Dos corazones y un cielo
1959
5.9In a neighborhood of Mexico City, inhabit different characters. From a hardened general, suffering from delusions of persecution, to a recruit; two brothers dedicated to teaching music; two treasure hunters restless, and a friendly concierge who lives with her son, the popular Gordolfo Gelatino.
¡Ahí, madre!
1970
5.8Piporro doesn’t need to use his gun to get away with murder.
El tragabalas
1966
6.9A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits.
The Curse of the Crying Woman
1963
6.9A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits.
The Curse of the Crying Woman
1963
5.2A disappearing body leads a detective and his sidekick into an encounter with a gill man.
Swamp of the Lost Monster
1957
6.7Three party-animal cowboys are hired by a dying man to bring his daughter to meet him.
Los inocentes
1961
7.9The farce starring Polivoces , creative Mexican comedians duo formed by Enrique Cuenca and Eduardo Manzano, in the roles of characters and Gordolfo Naborita respectively. When the child Gordolfo question the identity of his father, devoted Naborita recounts the story of his family in five innings , located in the contexts of the Stone Age , the Roman Empire , incursions of English pirates in the Caribbean , West American and the space race of the years after World War II .
El aviso inoportuno
1969
6.0Buddy movie about aviators.
Diablos en el cielo
1965
5.8Two sworn enemies must put aside their differences and join forces to catch a gang of thieves led by a woman called "The Yara". They must fight to save their village from the bandits and do everything necessary to prevent The Yara from controlling their destinies.
The Children of Satan
1972
7.1A mad scientist creates a remote-controlled monster and sends it to terrorize the city.
Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein
1960
7.1A mad scientist creates a remote-controlled monster and sends it to terrorize the city.
Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein
1960
6.4Crushed-out octogenarian makes a pact with the devil so he can make time with his sixteen-year-old sweetie.
My Soul for a Love
1964
7.7Pastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport, among them is Paul, a little-known mariachi that has been chosen to become a new idol. Automatically, both had bad relations and during filming many discussions happens. This arguments gives way to a deep love.
Gitana Tenias Que Ser
1953
6.5Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess?
La gota de sangre
1950
6.0Mexican feature film
Milagros de San Martín de Porres
1959
6.2A shady character takes over as owner/manager of a nightclub, conflicts evolve.
Un callejón sin salida
1965
6.2A shady character takes over as owner/manager of a nightclub, conflicts evolve.
Un callejón sin salida
1965
5.5Man tracks down the five people responsible for killing his father. Semi-sorta sequel to Juan Sin Miedo (1964).
El tigre de Guanajuato: Leyenda de venganza
1965
6.7Carlos has spent four years in prison for selling drugs. When he's released he finds out his brother has become a drug addict and is locked in a psychiatric hospital. Carlos starts working to cure his brother when he befriends a street kid and falls for social worker Elena.
Reto a la vida
1988
4.7No synopsis available yet.
De Todas... Todas!
1985
4.7Based on the Émile Zola same name novel. The life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century. The film includes numerous musical acts performed by Irma Serrano.
Naná
1985
6.0A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
The King of México
1956
6.7The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he marries and starts another life and lives alternately with a family 15 days and 15 days with the another arguing that their travel is for work in the Crown Brewery, which is in Veracruz where he lives with one family and one in Mexico.
¿Qué haremos con papá?
1966
7.6Venezuelan boy band flies to Acapulco for a week of performances. Two of them compete for the attentions of a slightly older girl and one is chased by a very clingy plain girl who is treated as a figure of fun. And then some stuff happens and stuff.
Secuestro en Acapulco
1983
5.8Odyssey of a man involved in a criminal activity, which leads him to his moral and material failure.
Un hombre en la trampa
1965
5.3Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
El cuerpazo del delito
1970
5.3Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
El cuerpazo del delito
1970
6.0A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.
El hombre del puente
1976
Country-boy migrates to the big city to work as a taxi-driver.
Ruletero a toda marcha
1964
6.3Mexican feature film
Esta noche no
1966
5.8The movie theme is the migration of Mexicans to the United States in search of the "American dream". Piporro crosses the Rio Grande swimming illegally, and lives a series of events that lead him from walking away from the police to winning the award for "Bracero of the Year" for his work in the harvest. Prize that he will lose before returning to Mexico just as he had gone: no money in the bag.
El bracero del año
1964
Blowhard's mouth runs away with him and he's trapped into having to prove that he knows Maria Antonieta Pons, the big movie star and stuff.
Nunca me hagan eso
1957
6.4A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.
The Man and the Monster
1959
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Una sota y un caballo: Rancho Avándaro
1982
6.8Due to confusion, Rafael is believed responsible for the death of Teresa. His wife Lilia and his brother looking for the real culprits.
Había una vez un marido
1953
6.0A young man eagerly prepares for triumph as a boxer in a neighborhood gym with the firm intention of escaping poverty to marry his girlfriend, who sings in a nightclub.
Campeón del barrio
1964
5.8After her child dies in an accident, a woman's marriage collapses and she goes into a convent.
El amor no es pecado (El cielo de los pobres)
1965
6.8A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption and his own integrity.
Resigned for Reasons of Health
1976
