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

Film credits

1950s · 15 titles

Dos tipos de cuidado poster
8.4

Jorge 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

Nosotras, las taquígrafas poster
6.0

Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.

Nosotras, las taquígrafas

1950

Inmaculada poster
6.3

A 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

Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me! poster
6.3

A 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

La vida en broma poster
6.0

Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.

La vida en broma

1950

Sangre en el barrio poster
5.8

Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.

Sangre en el barrio

1952

Mi mujer no es mía poster
6.0

Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.

Mi mujer no es mía

1951

Tale of a Heart poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tale of a Heart

1951

La loca de la casa poster
6.2

A nun reevaluates her life and decides to give up her vows to marry and help her father.

La loca de la casa

1950

Médico de guardia poster
6.0

The 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

The Absentee poster
6.6

After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident

The Absentee

1952

Acapulco poster
6.2

A 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

Cuatro horas antes de morir poster
6.0

The film tells the intense countdown of a woman sentenced to death.

Cuatro horas antes de morir

1953

Rosauro Castro poster
6.6

Cardoza'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

White hair poster
6.0

Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.

White hair

1950

1940s · 31 titles

Me he de comer esa tuna poster
6.2

In 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

Naná poster
4.0

Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.

Naná

1944

La hija del penal poster
6.4

A 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

Woman Without a Soul poster
6.4

Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.

Woman Without a Soul

1944

You the Rich poster
7.8

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.

You the Rich

1948

El abandonado poster
6.0

Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.

El abandonado

1949

Club verde poster
6.7

Mexican movie

Club verde

1945

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Felipe Derblay, el herrero

1944

La casa de la zorra poster
6.4

The 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

A Letter of Love poster
6.4

Moments 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

When the Brave Cry poster
5.7

A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.

When the Brave Cry

1947

México de mis recuerdos poster
6.7

After 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

Prisión de sueños poster
6.7

Luis 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

La razón de la culpa poster
6.2

Roberto 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

No artwork available
7.0

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

Balajú poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Balajú

1944

Una gitana en México poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Una gitana en México

1945

Salon Mexico poster
6.6

Mercedes 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

El espectro de la novia poster
5.5

Between 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

The Seminarian poster
6.3

Returning 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 artwork available
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Adios mi chaparrita

1941

Rocambole poster
6.0

Convict 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

Fantasía ranchera poster
6.8

Young 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

El capitán Malacara poster
6.8

Misogynist 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

Wild Flower poster
6.6

The 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

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

La trepadora poster
6.0

Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.

La trepadora

1944

Porfirio Díaz poster
6.2

Mexican movie

Porfirio Díaz

1944

El baisano Jalil poster
6.6

Aristocratic 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

Rondalla poster
5.5

A 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

Toda una vida poster
5.6

A 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

Santa poster
5.6

Santa 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

Abnegación poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Abnegación

1938

No artwork available
6.3

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

Café Concordia poster
6.3

During 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

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz poster
5.7

A biopic that narrates the life of the novohispanic poetess.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

1935

Refugiados en Madrid poster
5.7

A 1938 film.

Refugiados en Madrid

1938

Martín Garatuza poster
6.0

Sixteenth-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

Behind the camera

The Tigress poster
5.0

The 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

The Tigress poster
5.0

The 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

Soul Sacrifice poster
5.0

Soul Sacrifice is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.

Soul Sacrifice

1917

In Self Defense poster
5.0

The 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

In the Shadow poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

In the Shadow

1917

In the Shadow poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

In the Shadow

1917