
Acting
Juan José Martínez Casado
Born — Died
1903-07-12 — 1987-01-01
Place of birth
Gibara, Cuba
Known for
Acting
Credits
47 titles
Known for
6.0No synopsis available yet.
La canción del plateado
1942
5.916th-century swashbuckler; evil nobleman usurps another man's title and properties and forces his daughter to marry a political ally. But Cruz Diablo will have revenge!
Cruz Diablo
1934
5.7A waitress helps a ruined composer. When he triumphs and after a surgery he decides to marry her.
La mesera del café del puerto
1957
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
4.6Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, adapted once again.
The Man and the Beast
1973
No synopsis available yet.
María Elena
1936
Film credits
1980s · 5 titles
7.4In a small town a dead dog lays on the middle of the main street. A bureaucratic process begins to determine who is responsible for removing it
The Big Dead Dog
1981
5.8Based on a true story, it tells the story of opera singer Paco Sierra, who, realizing that the life of an artist does not provide him with enough money, plans and carries out a terrorist act: He assures the passengers of an airplane that he has placed a bomb.
¡Pum!
1981
5.8After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.
Call Me Mike
1981
6.6After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns.
El testamento
1981
6.5Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.
The Black Widow
1983
1970s · 9 titles
4.6Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, adapted once again.
The Man and the Beast
1973
6.5Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
Faith, Hope and Charity
1974
4.3In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, but end up owing everything to the company store. All are tortured, raped, or killed when they protest. Another landowner whose brother was killed by Zamarripa and who falls in love with one of his daughters is going to be punished, but he flees and becomes a revolutionary.
El valle de los miserables
1975
4.3In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, but end up owing everything to the company store. All are tortured, raped, or killed when they protest. Another landowner whose brother was killed by Zamarripa and who falls in love with one of his daughters is going to be punished, but he flees and becomes a revolutionary.
El valle de los miserables
1975
5.8Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters.
The Incredible Professor Zovek
1972
7.0While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
Tivoli
1975
5.3Three nymphets struggle to have a beneficial youth: Ana is suicidal, Mercedes is attracted to her brother William, and Patricia desires to be sexually abused.
The Fight with the Panther
1975
6.2Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
Cuartelazo
1977
6.0In the 1920s, Mexico was still in a state of near-chaos. Rebellions and revolutions had followed one after the other for decades. Though things were beginning to settle down some, it was still a time when one had the feeling that anything could happen.
The Days of Love
1972
1960s · 5 titles
No synopsis available yet.
Mi guitarra y mi caballo
1961
Young woman's parents don't supervise her activities closely enough; she ends up going to a beatnik nightclub and dancing the twist and getting raped.
Cuando los hijos se pierden
1963
5.8Mad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him.
Mark of the Dead Man
1961
5.9Capulina chip and are transported back to prehistoric times with a time machine. There they live crazy adventures.
La edad de piedra
1964
5.3Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
1966
1950s · 7 titles
5.7A waitress helps a ruined composer. When he triumphs and after a surgery he decides to marry her.
La mesera del café del puerto
1957
On New Year's Eve, a banker and his wife invite several friends to have dinner in their apartment. Suddenly, an astrologer makes an appearance and predicts seven of the present people will die in the next weeks.
Seven Deaths at a Fixed Time
1950
6.3Sonia, a school teacher, is excited about her new post in the Cuban beach town of Caibarien since her childhood friend Guillermo lives there. However she finds Guillermo a tormented soul and evil lurks in town.
Y si ella volviera (Guantanamera)
1957
5.7Cándida's boyfriend left her in Spain to go to work to Havana. After twenty years without news, she decides to go look for him, although the only thing she knows of him is his name. In the port of Havana, she is confused with a jewel smuggler, which kicks off a series of comical events.
Una gallega en La Habana
1955
6.0For the centenary of Cuban patriot Jose Marti, the 1950s pre-Castro dictator Batista collected funds for an official film commemoration and hired renowned director Fernandez from Mexico to erect this memorial work.
La rosa blanca
1954
6.3Slice-of-life melodrama: backstage at the wrestling arena.
La última lucha
1959
7.0The action takes place on a Maragata hacienda that is sinking into misery, whose situation can only be solved through a marriage of convenience. But the marriageable girl, during a train trip, falls in love with a young poet and is reciprocated. Her family is opposed to this relationship, since they have promised her to marry a man of good standing.
La esfinge maragata
1950
1940s · 4 titles
6.0No synopsis available yet.
La canción del plateado
1942
6.2Divorciadas tells the story of three women: Cristina, recently divorced after refusing to endure her husband's lack of love, especially following the death of their young son; Carmen, divorced for many years and living on the fortune left to her by her late husband, leading a free and unconventional life; and Juanita, an employee at the courthouse where she meets Cristina, married but long abandoned by her husband.
Divorciadas
1943
5.7A hacienda seem to be haunted by La Llondra, the crying woman.
Legacy of the Crying Woman
1947
6.0Two children grow up together and when the girl gets married, the young man realizes that he has always been in love with her.
Cruel destino
1944
1930s · 16 titles
5.916th-century swashbuckler; evil nobleman usurps another man's title and properties and forces his daughter to marry a political ally. But Cruz Diablo will have revenge!
Cruz Diablo
1934
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
No synopsis available yet.
María Elena
1936
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Huapango
1938
7.6With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life.
Así es mi tierra
1937
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Los hijos del destino
1930
4.5Two middle-aged no-goodniks are trying to marry two young ladies; two age-appropriate young men concoct a scheme to prevent it, which involves one of them masquerading as the young ladies' aunt.
The Girls Aunt
1938
6.3A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro.
Malditas sean las mujeres
1936
5.7It revolves around a suave thief (Carlos Miranda) who infiltrates a house where a murder has taken place. Surprisingly, it is this very criminal who ends up helping to solve the mystery of this and other crimes that occurred during the night.
La obligación de asesinar
1937
5.8Officer comes home from the Revolution to discover that he's been declared dead and that his wife has remarried and given his lands to another man.
El derecho y el deber
1937
6.2A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care for the couple's seriously ill infant son. Consequently, the well-meaning woman is willingly sentenced to years in prison for a crime she did not commit-all because she believes her son will fare better if the bond between father and son remains intact. Upon her release, she soon discovers that no good deed goes unpunished. Her once loving husband has remarried a woman that her son calls Mother, After just a brief glimpse of her loved ones, she simply leaves without saying a word. Many years later, she becomes a patient at her son's busy medical practice just so that she can keep an eye on his progress in secret. In a cruel twist of fate, it is only after he diagnoses her as being terminally ill does does she reveal her true identity. The poor woman subsequently learns that her former father-in-law lied about her initial release from ...
Eterna mártir
1937
6.0A group of students enjoy crazy adventures during their vacation in Orizaba, Veracruz.
Alma jarocha (Estudiantina)
1937
5.7No synopsis available yet.
El impostor
1937
No synopsis available yet.
El rosal bendito
1936
6.71830s: An officer from the French army and a leader of the insurgency are both in love with Ms. Guadalupe.
Guadalupe La Chinaca
1938
Alma falls in love with Julio, a famous singer, but her parents oppose the idea thinking that it's just one more of her rich girl whims.
Ahora seremos felices
1939

