
Acting
Antonio Badú
Born — Died
1914-08-13 — 1993-06-29
Known for
Acting
Credits
57 titles
Antonio Badú (August 13, 1914 – June 29, 1993) was a Mexican film actor and producer. He appeared in more than sixty films during his career, which began during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Known for
6.3A 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
7.5Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.
Los hijos de María Morales
1952
5.5Carmela is a Gypsy singer who sells lottery tickets. She meets two penniless Mexican brothers and they buy a ticket between the three: if it is awarded, could share the prize and go to Mexico, they to return to their homeland and her for bullfighter boyfriend whom has no news. The fate accompanies them, but, on reaching Mexico, her boyfriend rejects her. This way, she ends up acting in a cafe where reaps many successes.
Oh Pain, Little Pain, Pain!
1953
6.7No synopsis available yet.
El gran espectáculo
1958
Widow of a rich older man, Sonia returns to her old neighborhood, unable to claim his inheritance. As soon she arrives, she meets her old love Roberto and they revive their romance. But this love can not be due to Sonia's greed, who becomes the mistress of a handsome and wealthy gangster.
La vendedora de amor
1964
No synopsis available yet.
Tres Romeos y una Julieta
1961
Film credits
1960s · 8 titles
Widow of a rich older man, Sonia returns to her old neighborhood, unable to claim his inheritance. As soon she arrives, she meets her old love Roberto and they revive their romance. But this love can not be due to Sonia's greed, who becomes the mistress of a handsome and wealthy gangster.
La vendedora de amor
1964
No synopsis available yet.
Tres Romeos y una Julieta
1961
6.0Historia de un grupo de estafadores internacionales y sus artimañas.
Las Fieras
1969
6.8The story of a Playboy bachelor who does not know the good that is, until he is married. Slowly, the man discovers that having a woman is not easy, but sometimes ... being faithful recomended. After sympathetic experiences and funny situations, he realizes that there are two uncorrectable errors committed by the man in your life: Being born and married!
El matrimonio es como el demonio
1967
5.4The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
El día de la boda
1968
5.0Eccentric millionaire hires a team of young people to help him stage practical jokes.
Bromas, S.A
1967
5.6Border town is overrun with wastrels and scofflaws, so the City Council decides to hire a notorious gunslinger to help them clean up their streets.
Los resbalosos
1960
5.6Star of cowboy-movies returns to his home and locals expect him to be heroic like he is onscreen.
El Bronco Reynosa
1961
1950s · 27 titles
7.5Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.
Los hijos de María Morales
1952
5.5Carmela is a Gypsy singer who sells lottery tickets. She meets two penniless Mexican brothers and they buy a ticket between the three: if it is awarded, could share the prize and go to Mexico, they to return to their homeland and her for bullfighter boyfriend whom has no news. The fate accompanies them, but, on reaching Mexico, her boyfriend rejects her. This way, she ends up acting in a cafe where reaps many successes.
Oh Pain, Little Pain, Pain!
1953
6.7No synopsis available yet.
El gran espectáculo
1958
6.6Fernando Mendez's 1953 Spanish-language melodrama El Lunar de la Familia unfurls against the backdrop of a deceptively innocent-sounding family reunion. Two freewheeling, party-happy young men, Luis and his buddy Antonio, catch the train in to San Miguel, on a visit to Luis's grandmother, Doña Luisa, and his sister Esther. Unfortunately for the visitors, Luisa's goddaughter Rosita, is sitting near them in the same train car. She soon catches wind of the boys' wild tendencies, and makes a point of telling Luisa. Furious, the crotchety old woman decides to teach the bad boys a lesson by beating them senseless with her cane and forcing Luis to seek out a proper mate for Esther. Unfortunately, Esther has already fallen in love with Antonio - who could care less.
El lunar de la familia
1953
5.8Three cowboy party-boys, posing as highway bandits, meet three women who want to reform them.
Tres desgraciados con suerte
1958
Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.
Love Pays for Love
1950
6.0A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!
Una gringuita en México
1951
5.8Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.
Sangre en el barrio
1952
5.8Nightclub owners cash in on new musical fad.
Ay... Calypso no te rajes!
1958
7.4The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
They also sing of pain
1950
6.5Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.
El pueblo sin Dios
1955
5.5Two young women 'forced' to masquerade as soldiers in military troop.
Las coronelas
1959
5.7Fretful granny is upset when her granddaughter isn't home by 9 PM on Saturday night, so she teams up with a gangster to tour Mexico City nightclubs looking for her.
México nunca duerme
1959
6.2Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.
Heart of beast
1951
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Vagabunda
1950
5.0Spanish bullfighter and a Mexican one have a friendly rivalry spanning decades.
Tercio de quites
1951
No synopsis available yet.
Te odio y te quiero
1957
6.3Two brothers named Margarito butt heads courting the same woman.
Los margaritos
1956
6.5Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
Póker de ases
1952
7.6Three criminals break out of jail and head for a town where they've hidden their steals.
Los santos reyes
1959
6.5When the pregnant Esther gets some bad news from her doctor, he advises her to visit a clinic in Mexico City, so she enlists husband Antonio to drive her there at once, along with her brother Luis. As soon as the men drop her off at the hospital, they hit a local nightclub and live it up, and as they are leaving the club in the company of a sexy dancer, they get thoroughly robbed: the criminals even steal the poor victims' clothes! Taken in to the police station and documented along the way, their photograph turns up in the paper the next day, which Esther of course sees. The men will have a lot to explain when they arrive at the clinic to pick up Esther.
Genio y figura
1953
8.0Two bumpkins in the big city fight over the same girl, until they realize that she's playing them against each other.
The Poulterer Hawk
1951
5.4Paco's ordered by a higher-up in his gang to beat up a journalist who wants to write exposes about Mexico City drug traffic, and that ends up opening a whole can of worms.
Paco, el elegante
1952
5.7Three hard-partying cowboys go to Mexico City for one last fling before entering into arranged marriages back home.
Los Mujeriegos
1958
5.4Two rival combos play practical jokes on each other during a festival where they're performing... then a sideshow artist is murdered and several of them fall under suspicion for the crime.
Mariachis
1950
6.0Bohemian husband and strait-laced wife get divorced; each takes custody of one son. Twenty years later...
Cain y Abel
1954
6.6Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
As negro
1954
1940s · 19 titles
6.3A 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
6.1A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.
Hipócrita..!
1949
6.4Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
Woman Without a Soul
1944
6.3Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.
Ahí vienen los Mendoza
1948
5.8No synopsis available yet.
El misterioso señor Marquina
1942
5.6Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
Mala yerba
1940
7.0Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
Hooray for Women!
1943
5.8Ranchera melodrama/romance.
La feria de las flores
1943
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Una canción en la noche
1945
6.2In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.
Me he de comer esa tuna
1945
5.4Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...
Las mañanitas
1948
5.8Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
1946
6.5A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
Cantaclaro
1946
6.0A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.
The Hawk
1940
5.4Romantic melodrama with murderous rivalries, set on a newly-cultivated wilderness plantation in Guatemala.
Cuatro vidas
1949
6.7A young woman disguises herself as a soldier when her boyfriend arrives to propose.
Enrédate y verás
1948
6.3A 1940 film directed by Roberto E. Guzmán.
Por una mujer
1940
5.6A young woman is brought before a prosecutor after stealing food. She is defended by Julio, a university professor who decides to exhibit her as an example in his class on the theory of theft. Then he hires her as a housemaid. Her face and charms won’t only save her family from serious quandaries; they will also inspire the professor’s love.
Carita de cielo
1947
6.0Mexican movie
Extraña obsesión
1947

