Fernando A. Rivero

Directing

Fernando A. Rivero

Born — Died

1908-02-09 — 1972-04-20

Place of birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Known for

Directing

Credits

37 titles

Fernando A. Rivero (Mexico City, February 9th 1902 – April 20th 1975) was a Mexican set designer, film director, painter, actor, and writer, regarded as a foundational figure—“the father” of Mexican film scenographers. He studied architecture but left the program for financial reasons, worked at the jewelry shop El Nuevo Mundo, emigrated to the United States in 1927 to work as a draftsman for advertising companies and newspapers, and returned to Mexico in 1931. After inheriting money upon his grandfather’s death, he founded the Compañía Anunciadora Mexicana; a later press note also states he was orphaned at age four and adopted by relatives, and that he began professionally in advertising, f…

Known for

El pecado de ser pobre poster
6.7

Ex-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison.

El pecado de ser pobre

1950

La morena de mi copla poster
6.0

In Cordoba, Spain, a girl singer and her mother are falsely accused of stealing a donkey. They are saved by a famous painter who becomes infatuated with the girl and asks her to be his model for a painting. Things get complicated when a Mexican bullfighter arrives in town and falls for the same girl.

La morena de mi copla

1946

Coqueta poster
5.5

Blind nightclub pianist takes in a young singer/entertainer when she hits bottom... but once she gets stable and starts thinking about maybe a boyfriend, his unspoken intentions start to surface.

Coqueta

1949

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

La extraña pasajera poster
6.6

During a long train trip, the Police has discovered jewelries in the personal bag of an actress, but she turns out to be innocent.

La extraña pasajera

1953

El beso mortal poster
6.3

Adapted from "Le mortel baiser", a stage play by French writer Loïc Le Gouriadec (also known as Paul Gury). The story follows Cecilia, the daughter of a wealthy and conservative family, who is about to marry the son of the town's mayor. When a physician specializing in venereal diseases arrives in town, he examines Cecilia's fiancé and informs him that he is still suffering from syphilis, which has advanced significantly since he contracted it years earlier.

El beso mortal

1938

Film credits

Behind the camera

El pecado de ser pobre poster
6.7

Ex-con rebuilds his life after being discharged from prison.

El pecado de ser pobre

1950

La morena de mi copla poster
6.0

In Cordoba, Spain, a girl singer and her mother are falsely accused of stealing a donkey. They are saved by a famous painter who becomes infatuated with the girl and asks her to be his model for a painting. Things get complicated when a Mexican bullfighter arrives in town and falls for the same girl.

La morena de mi copla

1946

Coqueta poster
5.5

Blind nightclub pianist takes in a young singer/entertainer when she hits bottom... but once she gets stable and starts thinking about maybe a boyfriend, his unspoken intentions start to surface.

Coqueta

1949

Coqueta poster
5.5

Blind nightclub pianist takes in a young singer/entertainer when she hits bottom... but once she gets stable and starts thinking about maybe a boyfriend, his unspoken intentions start to surface.

Coqueta

1949

La extraña pasajera poster
6.6

During a long train trip, the Police has discovered jewelries in the personal bag of an actress, but she turns out to be innocent.

La extraña pasajera

1953

El beso mortal poster
6.3

Adapted from "Le mortel baiser", a stage play by French writer Loïc Le Gouriadec (also known as Paul Gury). The story follows Cecilia, the daughter of a wealthy and conservative family, who is about to marry the son of the town's mayor. When a physician specializing in venereal diseases arrives in town, he examines Cecilia's fiancé and informs him that he is still suffering from syphilis, which has advanced significantly since he contracted it years earlier.

El beso mortal

1938

El príncipe del desierto poster
6.3

A girl meets a young boy in Arabia who falls in love with her. When they grow up, he goes to Mexico while hiding the fact that he is a prince.

El príncipe del desierto

1947

El príncipe del desierto poster
6.3

A girl meets a young boy in Arabia who falls in love with her. When they grow up, he goes to Mexico while hiding the fact that he is a prince.

El príncipe del desierto

1947

The Bewitched House poster
6.1

Magician Fu Manchu must find a way out of a supposed haunted house.

The Bewitched House

1949

Hand to Hand poster
6.0

A 1932 film.

Hand to Hand

1932

Seda Sangre Y Sol poster
5.7

Rivalries and romances among bullfighters.

Seda Sangre Y Sol

1942

Good night my love poster
6.0

Local oligarch has the hots for a small-town schoolteacher; to escape from the problems he causes them, she and her boyfriend both move to Mexico City... but they lose contact with each other, and complications.

Good night my love

1951

Juntos pero no revueltos poster
4.7

Ensemble-comedy set in a lower-middle-class apartment complex.

Juntos pero no revueltos

1939

Los miserables poster
5.6

An ex-convict struggling to start anew faces relentless pursuit by a remorseless cop while protecting an orphan amid the 1832 Paris student uprisings.

Los miserables

1943

Nosotros poster
6.3

The tragic romance between a woman with a dubious past and a young thief who reforms his life for love.

Nosotros

1945

Mujeres en mi Vida poster
3.8

Mexican romantic musical.

Mujeres en mi Vida

1950

Mujeres en mi Vida poster
3.8

Mexican romantic musical.

Mujeres en mi Vida

1950

La noche es nuestra poster
5.8

Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.

La noche es nuestra

1952

Perdida poster
7.7

Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...

Perdida

1950

Perdida poster
7.7

Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...

Perdida

1950

Jengibre contra Dinamita poster
7.7

He shows us a poor Cantinflas like a rat that walks with a sad hatter and ends up in a bar where he will have a clash with the dangerous bandit "Ojo Tapado" (Covered Eye).

Jengibre contra Dinamita

1939

El fanfarrón: ¡Aquí llegó el valentón! poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

El fanfarrón: ¡Aquí llegó el valentón!

1943

Víctimas del divorcio poster
5.8

The 'other woman' tricks her fella into filing to divorce his wife.

Víctimas del divorcio

1952

Marina poster
5.6

Adaptation of a Spanish operetta about a love triangle between two fisherman and a human female.

Marina

1945

Burlada poster
6.3

Fancy gentleman uses his charms to exploit a bunch of women.

Burlada

1951

Siempre listo en las tinieblas poster
5.8

Cantinflas will face a thief who enters his house while he sleeps.

Siempre listo en las tinieblas

1939

Cantinflas boxeador poster
6.8

We see a young Mario Moreno making us laugh while he trying to fight against an opponent on a ring.

Cantinflas boxeador

1940

Los amantes poster
6.6

A burglar and a bar girl fall in love and decide to go straight, but complications.

Los amantes

1951

Mi reino por un torero poster
6.0

Professional bullfighter pretends to his girlfriend that he's a doctor, because her father hates bullfighters and would never let her marry one. Meanwhile...

Mi reino por un torero

1944

The Bloody Inn poster
6.5

Young couple are trapped in an isolated mansion while members of a criminal gang are killing each other off on the premises.

The Bloody Inn

1943

Dinero maldito poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Dinero maldito

1949

Cantinflas Ruletero poster
7.4

Cantinflas Ruletero is one of his most famous short films, where the great comedian acts as a taxi driver, making his passengers work without taking them to their destination.

Cantinflas Ruletero

1940

No artwork available
6.0

The bride of a Federale colonel rejects him on their wedding night, and begins extramarital relations with a strapping young leader of the peasant revolution against which the colonel is fighting.

Enemigos

1934

Canciones y recuerdos poster
6.3

Mexican movie

Canciones y recuerdos

1949