Writing

Edmundo Báez

Born

1914-08-04 (112)

Place of birth

Aguascalientes, Mexico

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Toña Machetes poster
6.6

A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man.

Toña Machetes

1985

Corazón salvaje poster
4.7

Calculating Aime sends her sister Monica to distract a love-struck smuggler, Juan del Diablo, when he threatens to reveal their affair to Aime's new rich husband. They are discovered alone together and to save Monica's virtue, Juan del Diablo promises to marry Monica.

Corazón salvaje

1968

El amor de María Isabel poster
7.1

Follow up to Maria Isabel. Newly wed to a rich man, Maria Isabel must still struggle with being branded as a lowly maid and endure the scorn of her adoptive daughter and the infidelity of her husband.

El amor de María Isabel

1968

María poster
7.0

Romance melodrama set in 19th century Colombia.

María

1972

Natacha poster
6.0

Story of a timid provincial girl Natacha Cervantes, who moves to the capital and enters to work like a maid in the house of the Pereira Family where she falls in love with the rich boy Raul Pereira.

Natacha

1971

Preciosa poster
6.3

Successful nightclub singer has difficulties with her love life.

Preciosa

1965

Ambitious poster
5.8

Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.

Ambitious

1953

Impaciencia del corazón poster
5.8

Young army officer gets involved with two sisters; one of them's a chronic invalid and her family has protected and sheltered her from all possible harm with such smothering care that she's a spoiled, petulant bag of temper tantrums. She forms a big ol' crush on the dashing lieutenant, and everyone involved goes completely nuts and makes an infinite number of bad decisions in the wake of her pouting and her crying jags and her passive-aggressive crap.

Impaciencia del corazón

1960

Secreto de confesión poster
5.4

Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower.

Secreto de confesión

1971

Secreto de confesión poster
5.4

Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower.

Secreto de confesión

1971

The Great Victory poster
3.6

The adventures and misadventures the popular singer Rigo Tovar, his relationships, trips and unparalleled successes

The Great Victory

1981

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez poster
5.8

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

The Useless Life of Pito Pérez

1970

Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket poster
8.1

Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.

Cri-Cri the Singing little cricket

1963

Una leyenda de amor poster
6.3

The romance between two young people intensifies the bitter feud between their rival families, which has been going on for three generations.

Una leyenda de amor

1982

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

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

Pensión de artistas poster
7.2

Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.

Pensión de artistas

1956

Dos mundos y un amor poster
7.8

Cultural differences cause tensions in an international marriage.

Dos mundos y un amor

1954

La mujer X poster
6.0

A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.

La mujer X

1955

Midnight poster
6.5

A diamond smuggler from the city is on the lam and takes the identity of a rural schoolteacher, teaching in a small town.

Midnight

1949

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

Sol en llamas poster
5.8

A powerful rancher loses his power and wealth during the Revolution, and his daughter falls in love with a revolutionary.

Sol en llamas

1962

La maestra inolvidable poster
5.5

Idealistic young teacher takes a post in a small, backwoods town and dedicates her life to schooling the village's children.

La maestra inolvidable

1969

La fierecilla del puerto poster
6.0

Ana María is a beautiful young woman who sells souvenirs to help her grandpa. When she falls in love with Alberto, a wealthy young man, she has to face his father, who will do anything to keep them apart.

La fierecilla del puerto

1963

My Wife and the Other poster
5.1

A classic story of a husband who meets a younger woman, and begins a love affair.

My Wife and the Other

1952

Mujeres que trabajan poster
6.1

Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.

Mujeres que trabajan

1953

El rencor de la tierra poster
5.7

A couple is struck by tragedy and must prove how great their love is to overcome what happened together.

El rencor de la tierra

1949

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

Quinceañera poster
7.2

María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.

Quinceañera

1960

Passionate poster
5.6

Returning veteran with PTSD/amnesia returns home and gets tangled up in a criminal investigation.

Passionate

1952

Otra primavera poster
6.1

His wife dies and now he's free to marry his mistress and adopt their children officially. How will this play out?

Otra primavera

1950

El amor tiene cara de mujer poster
5.8

The owner of a beauty salon and her employees discuss their lives and their struggles to get ahead in life.

El amor tiene cara de mujer

1973

Azahares rojos poster
6.7

Family with young-adult children returns to Mexico after many years in Spain.

Azahares rojos

1961

I Need Money poster
7.8

Manuel is a mechanic in love with the beautiful Maria Teresa. When the rich Jose Antonio courts his beloved Maria, Manuel realizes that he needs money and gets into trouble to get it.

I Need Money

1951

Girls in Uniform poster
5.5

Orphan Manuela's passionate crush on her teacher Lucila scandalizes their all-girl Catholic school.

Girls in Uniform

1951

Orquídeas para mi esposa poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

Orquídeas para mi esposa

1954

Canasta Uruguaya poster
6.3

Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.

Canasta Uruguaya

1951

La loca poster
6.7

Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the disappearance of her daughter. Now, present day, evil relatives are trying to take control of money she's inherited...

La loca

1952

La mujer que tu quieres poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

La mujer que tu quieres

1952

Algo flota sobre el agua poster
6.0

Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.

Algo flota sobre el agua

1948