Alejandro Galindo

Directing

Alejandro Galindo

Born — Died

1906-01-14 — 1999-02-01

Place of birth

Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico

Known for

Directing

Credits

43 titles

Héctor Alejandro Galindo Amezcua (January 14, 1906 – February 1, 1999), better known as Alejandro Galindo, was a Mexican screenwriter, actor, producer and film director. He is remembered as one of the great directors of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema.

Known for

Neither Blood Nor Sand poster
7.5

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.

Neither Blood Nor Sand

1941

Hermoso ideal poster
6.0

Two Spanish children, boy and girl, make friends with a Mexican boy while on vacation. In adulthood, their friendship turns into a romantic triangle. Then bullfighting and the Foreign legion and stuff.

Hermoso ideal

1948

Doña Perfecta poster
7.0

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.

Doña Perfecta

1951

Jóvenes delincuentes poster
6.3

A group of young people lives in a world of drugs and crime, they wanna be free.

Jóvenes delincuentes

1991

Ni hablar del peluquín poster
5.8

Some unlucky accidents cause an innocent person to be convicted to jail time, and on release he can only find gainful employ in a criminal gang... but a little girl in a house he breaks into rehabilitates him with her innocence and simplicity. And stuff.

Ni hablar del peluquín

1960

Chabelo Y Pepito en La Lampara Maravillosa poster
5.4

Pepito The child misbehaves because his stepfather is scolding. Buy a sauceboat but when his cat rubs it a genie appears. The child understands that it is the magic lamp and asked all sorts of goodies and the solution of their tasks, but when he needs money stepfather tells of genius. The stepfather asked to topple his partner's plane. Pepito refuses and flees with the lamp and throws it into a river to avoid falling into its power. The stepfather drowns while trying to rescue him.

Chabelo Y Pepito en La Lampara Maravillosa

1972

Film credits

Behind the camera

Neither Blood Nor Sand poster
7.5

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.

Neither Blood Nor Sand

1941

Hermoso ideal poster
6.0

Two Spanish children, boy and girl, make friends with a Mexican boy while on vacation. In adulthood, their friendship turns into a romantic triangle. Then bullfighting and the Foreign legion and stuff.

Hermoso ideal

1948

Doña Perfecta poster
7.0

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.

Doña Perfecta

1951

Doña Perfecta poster
7.0

Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.

Doña Perfecta

1951

Ni hablar del peluquín poster
5.8

Some unlucky accidents cause an innocent person to be convicted to jail time, and on release he can only find gainful employ in a criminal gang... but a little girl in a house he breaks into rehabilitates him with her innocence and simplicity. And stuff.

Ni hablar del peluquín

1960

Chabelo Y Pepito en La Lampara Maravillosa poster
5.4

Pepito The child misbehaves because his stepfather is scolding. Buy a sauceboat but when his cat rubs it a genie appears. The child understands that it is the magic lamp and asked all sorts of goodies and the solution of their tasks, but when he needs money stepfather tells of genius. The stepfather asked to topple his partner's plane. Pepito refuses and flees with the lamp and throws it into a river to avoid falling into its power. The stepfather drowns while trying to rescue him.

Chabelo Y Pepito en La Lampara Maravillosa

1972

Chabelo Y Pepito en La Lampara Maravillosa poster
5.4

Pepito The child misbehaves because his stepfather is scolding. Buy a sauceboat but when his cat rubs it a genie appears. The child understands that it is the magic lamp and asked all sorts of goodies and the solution of their tasks, but when he needs money stepfather tells of genius. The stepfather asked to topple his partner's plane. Pepito refuses and flees with the lamp and throws it into a river to avoid falling into its power. The stepfather drowns while trying to rescue him.

Chabelo Y Pepito en La Lampara Maravillosa

1972

A Family Like Many Others poster
6.8

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.

A Family Like Many Others

1949

A Family Like Many Others poster
6.8

The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.

A Family Like Many Others

1949

The Adventures of God poster
5.9

A man and a woman find themselves trapped inside what appears to be a dream that takes place in the labyrinthine corridors and mysterious rooms of a large hotel located by the sea.

The Adventures of God

2002

Historia de un marido infiel poster
6.7

Marital problems and Ofelia’s physical and mental illness (Rosa Carmina) drive Emilio (Francisco Petrone) to seek pleasure. He meets Carmina, a prostitute who, together with her pimp, plans to ruin him by mocking his situation.

Historia de un marido infiel

1956

Get Off at the Next Corner! poster
6.4

Driver Gregorio del Prado and fare collector Regalito were suspended for deviating from their route to impress a young woman named Cholita.

Get Off at the Next Corner!

1948

Get Off at the Next Corner! poster
6.4

Driver Gregorio del Prado and fare collector Regalito were suspended for deviating from their route to impress a young woman named Cholita.

Get Off at the Next Corner!

1948

Virgen de medianoche poster
6.3

A gangster melodrama set in the slums of Mexico City, following the criminal exploits of a fur smuggler and his attraction to an innocent but determined young woman.

Virgen de medianoche

1942

Por el mismo camino poster
5.3

On vacation, an old lady and her niece pick up a hitch-hiker.

Por el mismo camino

1953

Por el mismo camino poster
5.3

On vacation, an old lady and her niece pick up a hitch-hiker.

Por el mismo camino

1953

..Y mañana serán mujeres poster
6.0

Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls vacationing at a country villa.

..Y mañana serán mujeres

1955

Milagro en el circo poster
5.4

Commanded by Mr. Simón and his beautiful teenage daughter Lily, the Fantastic Circus arrives in a small town. A homeless boy joins the troupe after fleeing a theft. As he does not bear the children's happiness, the evil Makario uses his magic so that the show fails, but the clown Cepillín will stand up to him using the children's smile and laugh as a spell.

Milagro en el circo

1979

Almas rebeldes poster
6.2

Mexican Revolution: a small squadron of insurgents are chosen to trek to US border and pick up an arms shipment.

Almas rebeldes

1937

Almas rebeldes poster
6.2

Mexican Revolution: a small squadron of insurgents are chosen to trek to US border and pick up an arms shipment.

Almas rebeldes

1937

Los Fernández de Peralvillo poster
6.6

A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.

Los Fernández de Peralvillo

1954

Divorciadas poster
6.2

Divorciadas 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

Divorciadas poster
6.2

Divorciadas 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

Crown of Tears poster
6.5

Doña Refugio works in an office until the bounce and has three children: Fernando who is studying to be a lawyer, doctor and Nacho Edmundo to work in a company as a truck driver gas. Things become difficult within the family and each seek solutions to economic oppression living.

Crown of Tears

1968

No artwork available
4.5

The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.

Ellas también son rebeldes

1961

No artwork available
4.5

The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.

Ellas también son rebeldes

1961

El sexo de los pobres poster
4.4

Courtroom drama focused on the background of a man accused of rape.

El sexo de los pobres

1983

El sexo de los pobres poster
4.4

Courtroom drama focused on the background of a man accused of rape.

El sexo de los pobres

1983

The Devil's Money poster
6.0

Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo.

The Devil's Money

1953

The Devil's Money poster
6.0

Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo.

The Devil's Money

1953

The Doubt poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

The Doubt

1954

Confidencias de un ruletero poster
6.4

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.

Confidencias de un ruletero

1949

Confidencias de un ruletero poster
6.4

Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.

Confidencias de un ruletero

1949

Hay lugar para... dos poster
6.6

Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan!"

Hay lugar para... dos

1949

Hay lugar para... dos poster
6.6

Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan!"

Hay lugar para... dos

1949

Manos arriba poster
5.8

A tailor is mistaken for the leader of an agricultural union and gets tangled up in a price-fixing conspiracy.

Manos arriba

1958

Champion Without Crown poster
5.4

A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rough, he aims to put Roberto in the professional ring. But Roberto finds that his personal challenges must be overcome before he can achieve professional greatness.

Champion Without Crown

1946

San Simón de los Magueyes poster
6.2

The statue of a town's patron saint is broken just before the annual Saint's Day festival, so the priest hires a mime from a troupe of traveling players to impersonate the statue during the church's hours of operation.

San Simón de los Magueyes

1973

Tu hijo debe nacer poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tu hijo debe nacer

1958

Espaldas mojadas poster
6.8

Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life. English translation of title is “Wet Backs”.

Espaldas mojadas

1955