Armando Acosta

Acting

Armando Acosta

Born — Died

1922-04-05 — 1976-05-16

Place of birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Known for

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia poster
7.1

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

1974

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

¿Quién?

1973

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

Fever Mounts at El Pao poster
6.1

After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.

Fever Mounts at El Pao

1959

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

Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy poster
4.9

Gloria Venus and Golden Rubi are tag-team Luchadoras, helping a scientist on a quest to discover an ancient Aztec treasure, but the fiendish Prince Fugiyata wants to get there first. Both are in for a surprise, as the treasure is guarded by Xochitl, the Aztec Mummy Sorcerer, who can turn into a bat at will.

Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy

1964

Film credits

1970s · 21 titles

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia poster
7.1

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

1974

Letters from Marusia poster
5.6

Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.

Letters from Marusia

1975

Santo vs. the Riders of Terror poster
5.8

After a group of violent lepers escapes from a sanitarium, - robbing several farms, residents of the town demand the the sheriff - take action. Meanwhile, a local criminal joins forces with the lepers - to commit even more robberies. As the disfigured madmen keep the - entire town indoors with its reign of terror, the sheriff has no - choice but to call on the only man who can help--legendary wrestling - superhero, Santo!

Santo vs. the Riders of Terror

1970

Guns and Guts poster
5.2

An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along the way, the two men meet a hired gun that loves money just as much as he loves the company of women, so the two men decide to hire him in order to help them on their mission. However, things become complicated when the man they all seek to kill has risen to become a wealthy sheriff with a small army of gunmen at his disposal.

Guns and Guts

1974

The Invasion of the Dead poster
5.3

Professor Bruno Volpi spots some strange paintings on a cliff. He sends for Professor Zovek to help him discover its meaning. Zovek uses his powers to figure the writings are a warning that a cosmic tragedy is going to happen. Their fears prove to be true when a fire ball falls from the skies causing the ressurrection of the dead as zombies, craving for human flesh.

The Invasion of the Dead

1973

El principio poster
5.5

Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.

El principio

1973

Uno y medio contra el mundo poster
6.9

Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society.

Uno y medio contra el mundo

1973

Wait for me in Siberia, Darling! poster
5.9

Debauched playboy has a hypochondriac streak and an unscrupulous doctor that profits from it.

Wait for me in Siberia, Darling!

1971

Tres noches de locura poster
6.0

Anthology movie, episodes about three women who undergo stressful experiences that cause their minds to snap.

Tres noches de locura

1970

El sargento Perez poster
6.0

Two buddies from Pancho Villa's regiment go on a mission. Light comedy, romance, songs...

El sargento Perez

1973

Who Killed Grandpa? poster
6.6

A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension.

Who Killed Grandpa?

1972

Capulina vs. the Vampires poster
6.8

Delivery boy answers a call to take some food to that huge spooky mansion on the hill behind the cemetery.

Capulina vs. the Vampires

1971

Before the Corpse of a Leader poster
6.4

A union leader dies in a sleazy hotel room, then the wife, mistress, police, co workers, reporters, colleagues, and political figures arrive to the hotel and each has its own intentions.

Before the Corpse of a Leader

1974

Entre Monjas Anda El Diablo poster
8.0

A man called “The Devil” makes a living in cock-fights. He falls for a girl who's about to enter the monastery.

Entre Monjas Anda El Diablo

1973

Chabelo y Pepito Detectives poster
7.8

A commanding friend Pepito and Chabelo ask them to help uncover a gang who kidnaps children. They accept and are out to steal to join the band. Whenthey find that the band mesmerizes children with toys and then the kids are controlled by young boys and they controlled in turn by strangers with long hair and blue eyes.

Chabelo y Pepito Detectives

1974

La carrera del millón poster
6.2

Father and uncle have conflicting ideas about who a young woman should marry, so they set up an elaborate, wacky contest to resolve their disagreement.

La carrera del millón

1974

Las cadenas del mal poster
5.8

Ambitious young woman thinks she's on he fast track to fame and fortune, but her manager's a sleazeball who gets her hooked on IV drugs and pimps her out at random.

Las cadenas del mal

1970

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

El vals sin fin poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El vals sin fin

1972

Los leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra poster
4.5

Twin brother of murdered pro-wrestler goes after the killerses.

Los leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra

1974

Cinco mil dolares de recompensa poster
5.5

A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.

Cinco mil dolares de recompensa

1974

1960s · 22 titles

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

Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy poster
4.9

Gloria Venus and Golden Rubi are tag-team Luchadoras, helping a scientist on a quest to discover an ancient Aztec treasure, but the fiendish Prince Fugiyata wants to get there first. Both are in for a surprise, as the treasure is guarded by Xochitl, the Aztec Mummy Sorcerer, who can turn into a bat at will.

Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy

1964

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

Doctor of Doom poster
4.8

A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as subjects in sadistic brain transplant experiments. A female wrestler whose sister was one of the victims swears vengeance against the Mad Doctor.

Doctor of Doom

1963

Mil Máscaras poster
5.9

A committee of four wise men trains the masked hero Mil Máscaras to defend the world. When someone kidnaps the members of the committee, the hero stops at nothing to rescue them.

Mil Máscaras

1969

Dr. Satan vs. Black Magic poster
6.1

Plutarco Satan returns, this time he's pitted against a rival evil organization intent on owning the very formula rumored to turn any metal into gold! Dr. Satan must go toe to toe with the vampiric black magician Yei Lin, in order to keep it out of their hands. The cost of failure? His eternal rest!

Dr. Satan vs. Black Magic

1968

La rabia por dentro poster
6.3

Tito is a swindler who plans to appropriate a large sum of money supposedly sent abroad by airplane, with the complicity of Carlos, the cashier of a big company, who must put a time bomb aboard the airplane while keeping the money. Waiting for the plan to develop, Tito enjoys the company of the North American starlet stripper Rita, but he seduces a Mexican chorus girl, and the two women eventually fight over him. What seemed to be a faultless plan starts going wrong. A scavenger takes the money without knowing, and Carlos feels remorse for having placed the bomb aboard the jet flight, and is going to confess his crime. Tito is abandoned by his lover, locates the money and takes it back, locates Carlos and kills him. Even then, he will find crime does not pay.

La rabia por dentro

1962

The Paper Man poster
6.9

A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away.

The Paper Man

1963

Las bravuconas poster
5.7

Three big-city wimps have to pass for machos when they go to their home-town.

Las bravuconas

1963

Pedro Paramo poster
7.2

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

Pedro Paramo

1967

El Hijo De Gabino Barrera poster
6.0

Gabino's son tries to find out why his father was murdered.

El Hijo De Gabino Barrera

1965

Pilotos de la muerte poster
5.8

A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.

Pilotos de la muerte

1962

El amor llegó a Jalisco poster
6.3

In a small Mexican town, two rival groups clash over water irrigation rights. While the local priest attempts to mediate, his nieces charm the landowners' sons to force a peaceful resolution.

El amor llegó a Jalisco

1963

Ambición sangrienta poster
6.0

A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.

Ambición sangrienta

1968

La marcha a Zacatecas poster
5.8

Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendado. Everybody has an agenda, everybody butts heads in comical ways. Or not so much.

La marcha a Zacatecas

1969

¡Ay, Jalisco no te rajes! poster
6.2

A man hated by his father and in love with a beautiful woman whose brothers do not approve of the relationship and persecute him.

¡Ay, Jalisco no te rajes!

1965

Romeo contra Julieta poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Romeo contra Julieta

1968

There are not Crosses in the Sea poster
6.0

A mute fisherman helps another whose boat capsizes, he dies and leaves behind a girl whom he raises as his own daughter.

There are not Crosses in the Sea

1968

Romance sobre ruedas poster
6.6

A sporty new car is gifted to two young men who work at an auto factory, and they have to time-share it between them.

Romance sobre ruedas

1969

Amanecí en tus brazos poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Amanecí en tus brazos

1967

La fierecilla del puerto poster
6.0

Ana María is a beautiful young woman who sells souvenirs to help her grandpa. When she falls in love with Alberto, a wealthy young man, she has to face his father, who will do anything to keep them apart.

La fierecilla del puerto

1963

Un ángel de mal genio poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Un ángel de mal genio

1964

1950s · 16 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

Fever Mounts at El Pao poster
6.1

After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.

Fever Mounts at El Pao

1959

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

Locura pasional poster
5.6

Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.

Locura pasional

1956

School for Tramps poster
8.0

Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.

School for Tramps

1955

The Magnificent Beast poster
5.7

Two very good friends become wrestlers to leave poverty behind, but the arrival of an ambitious woman will tragically change their destinies.

The Magnificent Beast

1953

Ella, Lucifer y yo poster
3.4

A man makes a pact with Lucifer in order to gain the love of a beautiful singer. To achieve his goal, the devil endows him with the ability to become invisible at will.

Ella, Lucifer y yo

1953

Dancing, salón de baile poster
5.5

Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.

Dancing, salón de baile

1952

Daughter of Deceit poster
5.8

In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.

Daughter of Deceit

1951

Tragic Cabaret poster
6.3

A bar-girl's job becomes inescapable after her involvement in a murder. The bar owner deals with relationship troubles from her cheating boyfriend and her adopted daughter's ambitions.

Tragic Cabaret

1958

Mi campeón poster
5.5

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.

Mi campeón

1952

El que con niños se acuesta... poster
6.8

Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.

El que con niños se acuesta...

1959

Sonatas poster
5.1

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.

Sonatas

1959

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

The Body Snatcher poster
5.9

A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...

The Body Snatcher

1957

Refifí entre las mujeres poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Refifí entre las mujeres

1958

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