Rafael Baledón

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

El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar poster
7.6

El 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

Bianca Vidal poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Bianca Vidal

1982

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rosalía

1978

Gabriel y Gabriela poster
8.0

Gabriel 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

Prisionera De Amor poster
6.4

85 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

Yesenia poster
NR

Yesenia 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

1970s · 17 titles

El arte de engañar poster
4.8

Gigolo 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

Magdalena’s True Vocation poster
7.0

Sex 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

The Useless Force poster
5.9

Rich 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

Su precio... unos dólares poster
6.5

A 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

El hombre del puente poster
6.0

A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.

El hombre del puente

1976

Uno para la horca poster
5.8

A 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

Aventuras de un caballo blanco y un niño poster
6.5

Frontier boy orphaned after a military actiion,, escapes with his horse into Mexico and has adventures.

Aventuras de un caballo blanco y un niño

1975

No artwork available
5.8

Based on the novel by Caridad Bravo Adams.

Estafa de amor

1970

El amor tiene cara de mujer poster
5.8

The 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

A Secretary's Intimacies poster
6.8

Mexican feature film

A Secretary's Intimacies

1971

¡Quiero vivir mi vida! poster
6.4

Controlling father stifles adult son's career plans, interferes with his love life...

¡Quiero vivir mi vida!

1973

El juez de la soga poster
3.8

In 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

Yo Amo, Tu Amas, Nosotros... poster
5.8

A 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

Pasajeros en Transito poster
6.3

A 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

Prohibido poster
6.3

Two 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

Duelo al atardecer poster
5.4

After 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

Ya somos hombres poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Ya somos hombres

1971

1950s · 13 titles

Sígueme corazón poster
5.7

A 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

La gota de sangre poster
6.5

Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess?

La gota de sangre

1950

Cuando el alba llegue poster
5.7

Bad 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

Caribbean Rhythms poster
6.0

A Cuban rumbera dancer undergoes an ordeal to fall in love with a married Mexican doctor.

Caribbean Rhythms

1950

Había una vez un marido poster
6.8

Due 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

Si, Mi vida poster
5.8

Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.

Si, Mi vida

1953

Cuando acaba la noche poster
6.3

Newspaper 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

Los hermanos Diablo poster
6.1

The 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

Los apuros de mi ahijada poster
5.8

Irresponsible 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

Una piedra en el zapato poster
5.8

Police 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

Una mujer decente poster
6.0

Rosa, 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

Matrimonio y mortaja poster
5.0

A 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

Especialista en señoras poster
6.0

Frenetic rom-com about doctors overwhelmed with amorous female patients.

Especialista en señoras

1951

1940s · 20 titles

El conde de Montecristo poster
5.6

Based 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

El casado casa quiere poster
6.0

Interfering relatives complicate a couple's attempt to build their dream house.

El casado casa quiere

1948

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

El pasajero diez mil poster
6.0

Shipboard romance/comedy between a female executive and a guy with a lot of buttons on his tunic.

El pasajero diez mil

1946

Novia a la medida poster
6.2

Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.

Novia a la medida

1949

El rápido de las 9.15 poster
5.8

It 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

Crimen en la alcoba poster
5.8

A 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

The Mad Monk poster
6.0

A 1940 film directed by Alejandro Galindo.

The Mad Monk

1940

La insaciable poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

La insaciable

1947

El ángel caído poster
6.0

Two gangsters on the lam end up in Cuba.

El ángel caído

1949

Así son ellas poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Así son ellas

1944

Zorina poster
6.7

This 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

El amor las vuelve locas poster
5.4

Uni professor is voted "Hunkiest teacher of the year." Madcap complications.

El amor las vuelve locas

1946

La señora de enfrente poster
6.0

Two travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church ladies.

La señora de enfrente

1945

Rosalinda poster
5.8

Two 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

El sexo fuerte poster
6.2

Two men are shipwrecked and arrive in the Kingdom of Eden, where the women control all the power.

El sexo fuerte

1946

No matarás poster
5.6

A mother stands by helplessly while a scandal involving marital infidelity, blackmail and murder takes shape around her daughter.

No matarás

1943

María Eugenia poster
6.4

Before 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

Nuestros maridos poster
6.0

Three 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

La sin ventura poster
6.3

Mexican movie

La sin ventura

1948

Series credits

El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar poster
7.6

El 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

Bianca Vidal poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Bianca Vidal

1982

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rosalía

1978

Gabriel y Gabriela poster
8.0

Gabriel 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

Prisionera De Amor poster
6.4

85 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

Yesenia poster
NR

Yesenia 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

El 7 de Copas poster
6.3

Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance.

El 7 de Copas

1960

Dos corazones y un cielo poster
6.8

Husband 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

¡Ahí, madre! poster
5.9

In 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

El tragabalas poster
5.8

Piporro doesn’t need to use his gun to get away with murder.

El tragabalas

1966

The Curse of the Crying Woman poster
6.9

A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits.

The Curse of the Crying Woman

1963

The Curse of the Crying Woman poster
6.9

A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits.

The Curse of the Crying Woman

1963

Swamp of the Lost Monster poster
5.2

A disappearing body leads a detective and his sidekick into an encounter with a gill man.

Swamp of the Lost Monster

1957

Los inocentes poster
6.7

Three party-animal cowboys are hired by a dying man to bring his daughter to meet him.

Los inocentes

1961

El aviso inoportuno poster
7.9

The 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

Diablos en el cielo poster
6.0

Buddy movie about aviators.

Diablos en el cielo

1965

The Children of Satan poster
5.8

Two 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

Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein poster
7.1

A mad scientist creates a remote-controlled monster and sends it to terrorize the city.

Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein

1960

Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein poster
7.1

A mad scientist creates a remote-controlled monster and sends it to terrorize the city.

Orlak, the Hell of Frankenstein

1960

My Soul for a Love poster
6.4

Crushed-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

Gitana Tenias Que Ser poster
7.7

Pastora 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

La gota de sangre poster
6.5

Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess?

La gota de sangre

1950

Milagros de San Martín de Porres poster
6.0

Mexican feature film

Milagros de San Martín de Porres

1959

Un callejón sin salida poster
6.2

A shady character takes over as owner/manager of a nightclub, conflicts evolve.

Un callejón sin salida

1965

Un callejón sin salida poster
6.2

A shady character takes over as owner/manager of a nightclub, conflicts evolve.

Un callejón sin salida

1965

El tigre de Guanajuato: Leyenda de venganza poster
5.5

Man 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

Reto a la vida poster
6.7

Carlos 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

De Todas... Todas! poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

De Todas... Todas!

1985

Naná poster
4.7

Based 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

The King of México poster
6.0

A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.

The King of México

1956

¿Qué haremos con papá? poster
6.7

The 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

Secuestro en Acapulco poster
7.6

Venezuelan 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

Un hombre en la trampa poster
5.8

Odyssey of a man involved in a criminal activity, which leads him to his moral and material failure.

Un hombre en la trampa

1965

El cuerpazo del delito poster
5.3

Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.

El cuerpazo del delito

1970

El cuerpazo del delito poster
5.3

Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.

El cuerpazo del delito

1970

El hombre del puente poster
6.0

A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.

El hombre del puente

1976

No artwork available
6.7

Country-boy migrates to the big city to work as a taxi-driver.

Ruletero a toda marcha

1964

Esta noche no poster
6.3

Mexican feature film

Esta noche no

1966

El bracero del año poster
5.8

The 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

No artwork available
6.4

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

The Man and the Monster poster
6.4

A 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

Una sota y un caballo: Rancho Avándaro poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Una sota y un caballo: Rancho Avándaro

1982

Había una vez un marido poster
6.8

Due 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

Campeón del barrio poster
6.0

A 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

El amor no es pecado (El cielo de los pobres) poster
5.8

After 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

Resigned for Reasons of Health poster
6.8

A 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