Álvaro Matute

Acting

Álvaro Matute

Known for

Acting

Credits

56 titles

Known for

The Magician poster
7.5

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

The Magician

1949

Illusion Travels by Streetcar poster
6.5

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!

Illusion Travels by Streetcar

1954

The Atomic Fireman poster
8.5

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.

The Atomic Fireman

1952

The River and Death poster
6.3

A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.

The River and Death

1954

Él poster
7.7

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

Él

1953

Daughter of Deceit poster
5.8

In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.

Daughter of Deceit

1951

Film credits

1960s · 4 titles

1950s · 33 titles

Illusion Travels by Streetcar poster
6.5

Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!

Illusion Travels by Streetcar

1954

The Atomic Fireman poster
8.5

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.

The Atomic Fireman

1952

The River and Death poster
6.3

A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.

The River and Death

1954

Él poster
7.7

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

Él

1953

Daughter of Deceit poster
5.8

In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.

Daughter of Deceit

1951

Camelia poster
6.2

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.

Camelia

1954

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

The Boy and the Fog poster
6.7

Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband.

The Boy and the Fog

1953

Rebellion of the Hanged poster
6.7

A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.

Rebellion of the Hanged

1954

Port of Temptation poster
4.3

A cabaret dancer helps an injured man, and the two fall in love, unaware that together they will face a tragedy.

Port of Temptation

1951

Pecado poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Pecado

1951

Yo quiero ser mala poster
6.4

In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.

Yo quiero ser mala

1950

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

Dos mundos y un amor poster
7.8

Cultural differences cause tensions in an international marriage.

Dos mundos y un amor

1954

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

Basket of Mexican Tales poster
7.2

Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.

Basket of Mexican Tales

1956

El gran autor poster
5.5

A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.

El gran autor

1954

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

Doña Diabla poster
7.1

A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.

Doña Diabla

1950

Música, mujeres y amor poster
5.5

Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.

Música, mujeres y amor

1952

Noche de perdición poster
5.8

A dancer is accused of killing a businessman. When her husband finds out, he decides to take her kid away from her.

Noche de perdición

1951

Fruto prohibido poster
6.2

A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.

Fruto prohibido

1953

El mensaje de la muerte poster
6.5

The film is based on real events, from a case investigated by Detective Valente Quintana.

El mensaje de la muerte

1953

Huellas del pasado poster
5.8

A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair accusations.

Huellas del pasado

1950

Adventure in Rio poster
5.5

Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.

Adventure in Rio

1953

La miel se fue de la luna poster
6.7

Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats África, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in Cuba. With her, he poses as a friend industrial, Ricardo and his intention is not to see her again. While Africa is out he marries Mini, which proves to be terribly jealous. Complications ensue when Africa returns to Mexico and start searching for the fake Richard. By chance a friend of Mini will be in a beauty salon and this ensures she can take to "Ricardo" because is "a friend of her husband". A typical sitcom with a blistering pace.

La miel se fue de la luna

1952

Una mujer en la calle poster
4.8

An unlikely friendship develops when respectable Doña Nena spends her days looking out her window across the street to the sex workers who spend their nights there. One night, she helps helps Alicia one of the girls, escape a police raid and spend several nights painting her portrait.

Una mujer en la calle

1955

La Diana Cazadora poster
4.2

A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.

La Diana Cazadora

1957

Cuando me vaya poster
6.8

Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.

Cuando me vaya

1954

La entrega poster
6.0

Through hard work, the Spaniard Alejandro has become wealthy and powerful. In contrast, the banker Don Victorino—who once refused a loan to the then-poor Alejandro—has fallen on difficult times. Victorino is married to Ana, who spends her life playing the piano, and they are the parents of the proud Julia, who is engaged to Enrique Régules. Julia is forced to marry Alejandro in order to save her family’s financial situation. Despite her husband’s blunt and often harsh honesty, Julia gradually finds herself falling in love with him, and vainly tries to make him jealous with Licenciado Héctor, who courts her. Julia becomes nervously ill, troubled by the fact that Alejandro does not love her in the romantic, storybook way she longs for.

La entrega

1954

Las infieles poster
7.0

Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.

Las infieles

1953

Remember to Live poster
6.0

In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.

Remember to Live

1953

Legítima defensa poster
5.8

Mr. X is convicted of killing Mr. Y and serves a jail sentence. After being released, he discovers that Mr. Y is still alive...

Legítima defensa

1953

1940s · 13 titles

The Magician poster
7.5

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

The Magician

1949

Los amores de una viuda poster
6.0

A widow remarries... and then her missing-presumed-dead first husband reappears.

Los amores de una viuda

1949

El diablo no es tan diablo poster
5.8

A couple in crisis receives a mysterious visit from the devil, who offers them a tempting solution to their problems-but his true intention is to claim their souls in exchange.

El diablo no es tan diablo

1949

Laura's Sin poster
6.4

José, a driver, and Laura, a dancer, were lovers. José couldn't dance with Laura due to his condition on his legs. Therefore, a man notices Laura's skill to dance and wants to do business with her, taking her on a dancing tour, which made José and Laura miss each other.

Laura's Sin

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

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

La reina de la opereta poster
6.8

Mario marries Blanca, the queen of operetta, but after their daughter is born, they separate and she leaves on a world tour to continue her artistic career. Meanwhile, he stays behind and waits with the baby until they reunite again.

La reina de la opereta

1946

La mujer del puerto poster
6.2

Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...

La mujer del puerto

1949

El cuarto mandamiento poster
6.9

A Mexican family drama.

El cuarto mandamiento

1948

Algo flota sobre el agua poster
6.0

Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.

Algo flota sobre el agua

1948

Nuestros maridos poster
6.0

Three sisters discover that the men in their lives are philandering trash and band together to build new lives for themselves instead of continuing to enable their unworthy partners.

Nuestros maridos

1946

Carta Brava poster
6.0

Safe-cracker sets up a gangster rival to get arrested; after some unrelated adventures, that guy escapes from jail and pays him back.

Carta Brava

1949

El gallo giro poster
7.2

A young man goes to the city to make his fortune, unaware that fate is preparing a surprise for him. He will fall in love on the train.

El gallo giro

1948

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