
Acting
Arturo de Córdova
Born 1908-05-08 · Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Arturo de Córdova (May 8, 1908 – November 3, 1973) was a Mexican actor. He made over one hundred films in all. Arturo García Rodríguez was born in Mérida, Yucatán. Most of Córdova's films were made in Mexico and he became a major motion picture actor in Latin America and Spain winning three Silver Ariel's and received four other nominations. Córdova starred in the several American films during the 1940s including For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Frenchman's Creek (1944), Incendiary Blonde (1945), and New Orleans (1947).
Acting credits
6.8An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family.
The Gangster
1965
6.5Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
5.7Among Delia, a socialite, and Jorge a bohemian cabaret pianist, begins a relationship that ends in tragedy.
Matar es fácil
1966
6.8The life of Pedro Infante, with scenes from his best films and the chaos that his tragic death caused in the public.
This was Pedro Infante
1963
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Mientras México duerme
1938
5.8She has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home...
La agonía de ser madre
1970
6.5A young woman loses her mind when she finds out that her uncle and his boyfriend met in a train accident.
Stolen Heaven
1951
5.7Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.
Los Perversos
1967
8.0Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.
El profe
1971
5.1Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
Incendiary Blonde
1945
6.6A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and others.
New Orleans
1947
5.6Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
Mala yerba
1940
7.1Ivón, a chorus girl, Hugo, a failed writer, and Carlos, Hugo's young son, arrive at a seaside hotel on a stormy night.
Red Fish
1955
6.5Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.
Soledad's Shawl
1952
5.5A great mystery surrounds Leonora, and it becomes even more mysterious when a stranger arrives from Buenos Aires looking for her, saying he knows her. In love with her, he is desperate when they say she is dead. Not believing what they say, he continues his search. But upon finding her, he is faced with a cruel and unexpected enigma.
Leonora of the Seven Seas
1955
7.7Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Él
1953
6.8Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.
The Kneeling Goddess
1947
5.8An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.
Frenchman's Creek
1944
6.4The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
Duffy's Tavern
1945
8.0Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.
My Son, the Hero
1961
4.0Mother and daughter return to Mexico to escape the US Civil War... and get caught up in the conflict between the French army and the fighters for independence.
Furia roja
1951
6.0Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.
México de mis amores
1979
6.5The wife of a hypnotist lives in a state of uncertainty over whether she's with her husband out of love or if she's been a victim of his influence.
Fascination
1949
6.4A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
The Man Without a Face
1950