Acting
Mimí Derba
Born — Died
1893-01-01 — 1953-07-14
Place of birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Known for
Acting
Credits
64 titles
Mimí Derba (1893–1953) was a Mexican actress and the first female director in Mexico. Derba founded one of the very first Mexican production companies, Azteca Films. She had a successful career in Vaudeville before entering films.
Known for
8.4Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
Dos tipos de cuidado
1953
6.2In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.
Me he de comer esa tuna
1945
4.0Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.
Naná
1944
6.4A young woman who was born and grew up on an island prison-colony decides to move to the island and try life in the real world. Romance, bad luck and astonishing coincidences wait in her path.
La hija del penal
1949
5.0The attractive and rapturous Eva is ready to do anything to be the protagonist of a cruel and painful romance. Determined, the young woman falls in love with the humble craftsman Bruno, whom she later abandons to marry the millionaire Ernesto. Bruno goes mad with pain and is admitted to a madhouse. In delirium, Bruno imagines a tigress with Eva's face attacking her in her delusions.
The Tigress
1917
6.0Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.
Nosotras, las taquígrafas
1950
Film credits
1950s · 15 titles
8.4Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
Dos tipos de cuidado
1953
6.0Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.
Nosotras, las taquígrafas
1950
6.3A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
Inmaculada
1950
6.3A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.
Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
1951
6.0Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
La vida en broma
1950
5.8Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.
Sangre en el barrio
1952
6.0Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.
Mi mujer no es mía
1951
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Tale of a Heart
1951
6.2A nun reevaluates her life and decides to give up her vows to marry and help her father.
La loca de la casa
1950
6.0The director of a hospital deceives a poor couple in order to steal their newborn child and sell the baby to a wealthy couple.
Médico de guardia
1950
6.6After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident
The Absentee
1952
6.2A young woman who has seen better (and richer) days wants to marry a rich man because she is used to the luxuries that she no longer has.
Acapulco
1952
6.0The film tells the intense countdown of a woman sentenced to death.
Cuatro horas antes de morir
1953
6.6Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved revenge end the injustices committed by Rosauro Castro.
Rosauro Castro
1950
6.0Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.
White hair
1950
1940s · 31 titles
6.2In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.
Me he de comer esa tuna
1945
4.0Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.
Naná
1944
6.4A young woman who was born and grew up on an island prison-colony decides to move to the island and try life in the real world. Romance, bad luck and astonishing coincidences wait in her path.
La hija del penal
1949
6.4Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
Woman Without a Soul
1944
7.8Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
You the Rich
1948
6.0Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.
El abandonado
1949
6.7Mexican movie
Club verde
1945
No synopsis available yet.
Felipe Derblay, el herrero
1944
6.4The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
La casa de la zorra
1945
6.4Moments before he will be executed by the French Intervention Army, the liberal leader reads a love letter by his girlfriend. His memories provide the poetic pictures of this romantic historical drama.
A Letter of Love
1943
5.7A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
When the Brave Cry
1947
6.7After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don Susanito was named patron protector of artists and aspiring young stars of the stage, which leads to a series of adventures in the middle of songs, dances and loves.
México de mis recuerdos
1944
6.7Luis el Roto is a laborer who, due to a lack of money, cannot marry his girlfriend Rosa; they live in a poor alleyway with their respective mothers. Luis is loved by the prostitute Carlota, and for this reason he despises the pimp Rodolfo, who beats Luis in the public restrooms. Tragedy looms over Luis.
Prisión de sueños
1949
6.2Roberto on a journey to Mexico knows to Maria de La Paz, a woman older than he, who falls in love, she also has feelings for him, but doesn't give him hopes cause she is married. Fate reunites them without imagine it, they will have to face a moral dilemma.
La razón de la culpa
1943
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.
The Unloved Woman
1949
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Balajú
1944
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Una gitana en México
1945
6.6Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
Salon Mexico
1949
5.5Between performances of his magic show, Fu-Manchu must solve the mystery of a haunted house, where several séances are held and numerous supernatural phenomena take place.
El espectro de la novia
1943
6.3Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.
The Seminarian
1949
No synopsis available yet.
Adios mi chaparrita
1941
6.0Convict breaks out of jail to undo aristocratic crimes involving a fortune in jewels, a servant wrongfully accused of theft, and a dispossessed young heiress.
Rocambole
1946
6.8Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece.
Fantasía ranchera
1947
6.8Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.
El capitán Malacara
1945
6.6The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
Wild Flower
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
6.0Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.
La trepadora
1944
6.2Mexican movie
Porfirio Díaz
1944
6.6Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughter of the Veradada wasteful. Being invited to the house of Don Guillermom, Jalil and his wife Suan and Selim are teased and contempt. Finally, the Lebanese family worker puts in place the family of Don Guillermo ridiculous.
El baisano Jalil
1942
5.5A woman who has been raped (Alicia Neira) sets out to rebuild her life with another man (Luis Aguilar), but the bandit who assaulted her (Enrique Zambrano) stands in her way.
Rondalla
1949
5.6A beautiful young woman, adopted as a child by a man, falls in love with her stepfather and wants to conceive a child with him.
Toda una vida
1945
1930s · 7 titles
5.6Santa 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 Hipólito.
Santa
1932
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Abnegación
1938
The story narrates the idyllic and tragic love between María and her cousin Efraín, both natives of Valle del Cauca. In the middle of a romantic and bucolic landscape, the young characters fall in love with each other but circumstances prevent the full realization of their love.
María
1938
6.3During the early XX Century, a lovely woman dancer has an amazing success in a place called "Cafe Concordia". She is courting by many men, buts he is in love with Ernesto, a young man whose parents are against their relationship. Ernesto invites Raquel to a party at his home but she is snubbed by his mother and offended by a slighted pretender. Ernesto faces this man in a duel in which he is about to be killed by his rival, but Raquel protects his body and receives the bullet. She dies in Ernesto's arms.
Café Concordia
1939
5.7A biopic that narrates the life of the novohispanic poetess.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
1935
5.7A 1938 film.
Refugiados en Madrid
1938
6.0Sixteenth-century swashbuckler helps a young woman claim a rightful inheritance in the face of opposition from her father's widow and co-conspirators.
Martín Garatuza
1935
1910s · 5 titles
5.0La soñadora ("The Dreamer") is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.
La soñadora
1917
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Dos corazones
1919
5.0Soul Sacrifice is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.
Soul Sacrifice
1917
5.0The recently orphaned Enriqueta has to work to earn a living; She finds a job with the widower Julio Mancera, for whom she works as governess for her little daughter. After a while, the two fall in love and get married. But then, Julio's cousin Eva returns from Europe and tries to separate the couple. She is almost successful, but her plans are thwarted at a party she throws for Julio and his friends, where she is surprised by Julio, Enriqueta, and the other guests in a compromising situation with Julio's best friend, Mauricio.
In Self Defense
1917
5.0No synopsis available yet.
In the Shadow
1917
Behind the camera
5.0The attractive and rapturous Eva is ready to do anything to be the protagonist of a cruel and painful romance. Determined, the young woman falls in love with the humble craftsman Bruno, whom she later abandons to marry the millionaire Ernesto. Bruno goes mad with pain and is admitted to a madhouse. In delirium, Bruno imagines a tigress with Eva's face attacking her in her delusions.
The Tigress
1917
5.0The attractive and rapturous Eva is ready to do anything to be the protagonist of a cruel and painful romance. Determined, the young woman falls in love with the humble craftsman Bruno, whom she later abandons to marry the millionaire Ernesto. Bruno goes mad with pain and is admitted to a madhouse. In delirium, Bruno imagines a tigress with Eva's face attacking her in her delusions.
The Tigress
1917
5.0Soul Sacrifice is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.
Soul Sacrifice
1917
5.0The recently orphaned Enriqueta has to work to earn a living; She finds a job with the widower Julio Mancera, for whom she works as governess for her little daughter. After a while, the two fall in love and get married. But then, Julio's cousin Eva returns from Europe and tries to separate the couple. She is almost successful, but her plans are thwarted at a party she throws for Julio and his friends, where she is surprised by Julio, Enriqueta, and the other guests in a compromising situation with Julio's best friend, Mauricio.
In Self Defense
1917
5.0No synopsis available yet.
In the Shadow
1917
5.0No synopsis available yet.
In the Shadow
1917
