Gregorio Acosta

Acting

Gregorio Acosta

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Known for

The Scalphunters poster
6.4

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.

The Scalphunters

1968

The Last Sunset poster
6.8

At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.

The Last Sunset

1961

Si yo fuera diputado poster
7.4

Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'

Si yo fuera diputado

1952

The Big Steal poster
6.6

Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.

The Big Steal

1949

The Magnificent Matador poster
6.0

Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.

The Magnificent Matador

1955

Victims of Sin poster
7.0

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.

Victims of Sin

1951

Film credits

1970s · 5 titles

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

Tarzan's Deadly Silence poster
5.0

Tarzan tries to stop a bloodthirsty Colonel from taking over an African village with his soldiers of fortune. The ape-man has been rendered deaf by an exploding hand grenade, effectively limiting one of his keen senses. Tarzan relies on his telepathic powers to stop a lion. Woody Strode also appears in this film that combines two made for television episodes.

Tarzan's Deadly Silence

1970

El vals sin fin poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El vals sin fin

1972

Longitud de Guerra poster
5.9

Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.

Longitud de Guerra

1976

Guerra de sexos poster
4.7

A soccer coach gets caught in the middle of the conflict between a millionaire and his wife.

Guerra de sexos

1978

1960s · 8 titles

1950s · 21 titles

Si yo fuera diputado poster
7.4

Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'

Si yo fuera diputado

1952

The Magnificent Matador poster
6.0

Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.

The Magnificent Matador

1955

Victims of Sin poster
7.0

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.

Victims of Sin

1951

Si usted no puede, yo sí poster
6.0

Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great grandfather.

Si usted no puede, yo sí

1951

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

A Place Close to Heaven poster
8.3

An honest man emigrates to the capital in search of a better life, but ends up mired in extreme poverty along with his family; forced to overcome tragedy and despair to find, even in misery, a glimmer of hope.

A Place Close to Heaven

1952

The Man Without a Face poster
6.4

A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.

The Man Without a Face

1950

Una cita de amor poster
6.0

The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship.

Una cita de amor

1958

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

La guarida del buitre poster
5.8

Cowboy-policeman-hero interferes with the bad guy's plans and prevents his engaging in monkeyshines. Part of the series "Mauricio Rosales, el rayo justiciero."

La guarida del buitre

1958

What a Man poster
6.2

Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.

What a Man

1955

The Goddess of Tahiti poster
6.1

A fugitive hides from justice among smugglers in the deep jungle of an exotic island, but things become complicated when he falls in love with a local cabaret dancer.

The Goddess of Tahiti

1953

The Troublemaker poster
7.5

Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.

The Troublemaker

1951

They Say I'm a Communist poster
6.5

A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as mysterious as typical, you will realize demagoguery and arrangements existing between union leaders to maintain the status quo unchanged and profit from mafia practices.

They Say I'm a Communist

1951

Four Nights With You poster
5.0

Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her.

Four Nights With You

1952

La mujer X poster
6.0

A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.

La mujer X

1955

La diligencia de la muerte poster
6.0

Law officer goes undercover as member of gang of murderous highwaymen.

La diligencia de la muerte

1959

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

Piña madura poster
5.8

A dancer surrenders herself to a wealthy, depraved man to save the life of her true love.

Piña madura

1950

Ella y yo poster
4.3

Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.

Ella y yo

1951