Amor en la sombra
Nov 24, 1960A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.
Drama
Daniel Arroyo
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El que con niños se acuesta...
Jun 21, 1959Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.
Romance
La visita que no tocó el timbre
Sep 11, 1954Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby.
La mujer que engañamos
Mar 29, 1945Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
Drama
Una aventura en la noche
Jul 09, 1948
El Suavecito
Aug 03, 1951Charming but unreliable, Roberto has earned his nickname "El Suavecito" through his constant flirtations and the easy way he moves through life, even when it causes pain to his devoted aging mother and his beautiful neighbor Lupita, who resists his overtures in the hopes he can learn to settle down and behave. When Lupita gains a steady and honest suitor in Carlos, El Suavecito can't resist trying to foul his chances with the help of the unscrupulous gambler "El Nene"--but it all goes badly wrong. This neglected noir asks whether a morally impoverished gangster is capable of redemption.
Drama
El bombero atómico
Sep 10, 1952Cantinflas 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.
Comedy
Caballero a la medida
Sep 01, 1954Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
Comedy
Una familia de tantas
Mar 11, 1949The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.
Drama
Al son del mambo
Oct 07, 1950A fun musical comedy style of the 50s where the infectious rhythm of the son and the mambo, led by the hand by the incomparable Damaso Perez Prado, will a waste of good music and grace. With a formidable cast, and above all a fabulous collector's item.
Comedy
Si yo fuera diputado
Jan 30, 1952Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
Comedy
Su Excelencia
May 03, 1967Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Comedy
Le Grand Noceur
Nov 25, 1949Don Ramiro, un homme très riche, vit mal son veuvage. Il se console dans la débauche et l'alcool en dépensant sa fortune sans aucune limite. Bien qu'ils soient les premiers avantagés par les excès de l'homme, ses proches craignent qu'il ne se retrouve sans le sou. C'est ainsi qu'au lendemain d'une beuverie, ils lui font croire qu'il est ruiné. Mais Don Ramiro n'est pas dupe...
Comedy
Une femme sans amour
Jul 30, 1952L'antiquaire Carlos Montero est marié avec Rosario, dont il a un fils, Carlitos. La sévérité du père oblige ce dernier à fuir. Il est recueilli par un ingénieur, Julio Mistral. Julio et Rosario deviennent amants et ont un fils ensemble, que l'on prend pour le fils de Montero...
Drama
On a volé un tram
Mar 10, 1954Le tramway numéro 133 arrive en fin de vie et doit partir à la ferraille. Deux employés de la Compagnie des tramways : Caireless et Tarrajas ne peuvent accepter l'idée d'abandonner le véhicule. Après une soirée arrosée, il décide de voler le tramway et font une ultime promenade à son bord.
Comedy
L'Ange exterminateur
May 16, 1962Edmundo et Lucia de Nobile, un couple bourgeois de Mexico, donnent une réception après l'opéra dans leur luxueuse demeure. Quelques faits bizarres se produisent alors : des domestiques partent sans expliquer leur comportement, les invités connaissent une impression de déjà vu, Ana retire de son sac deux pattes de poulet alors que Blanca joue au piano une sonate de Paradisi. Au moment de partir, une étrange réaction interdit aux invités de quitter les lieux. Ces derniers finissent par dormir sur place. Mais le lendemain matin, ils constatent qu'il est toujours impossible de sortir du salon.
Comedy
Camelia
Feb 16, 1954A 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.
Drama
Enamorada
Dec 25, 1946In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
Drama
La Diablesse
Jan 28, 1950A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Drama
Ella y Yo
Oct 02, 1951Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.
Comedy
Double destinée
Nov 20, 1946Manucure sans le sou, obligée de subir en silence les lourdes avances de certains de ses clients masculins, María envie sa sœur jumelle Magdalena, jeune veuve ayant hérité d'une immense fortune. Un jour, en essayant le manteau de vison de cette dernière et en admirant son reflet transfiguré dans un miroir, María comprend qu'une autre vie est à portée de main…María-MagdalenaDolores del Río, vedette mexicaine qui a aussi conquis Hollywood, porte avec maestria ce double rôle de Marie-Madeleine, à la fois victime et pécheresse, qui relègue au second plan une poignée de faire-valoir masculins. Un thriller d'une oppressante noirceur et d'une grande audace, tant sur la forme que dans son propos quasi féministe, empreint aussi d'une vision marxiste des rapports de classe. Le scénariste José Revueltas et le cadreur Alex Phillips, qui entament alors avec Roberto Gavaldón une collaboration fructueuse, comptent pour beaucoup dans la poignante beauté du film.
Crime
Doña Perfecta
Oct 10, 1951Liberal 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.
Drama
Angelitos Negros
Nov 19, 1948Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"
Drama
Dicen que soy mujeriego
Apr 14, 1949Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.
Comedy
Tambien de dolor se canta
Aug 31, 1950The 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.
Comedy
Los apuros de Narciso
Jul 19, 1940
El inocente
Sep 20, 1956Durant le réveillon du Nouvel An à Mexico, Mane passe la nuit chez elle avec Cruci, un mécanicien qui avait testé sa voiture. Les deux se saoulent et se réveillent dans le même lit, sans aucun souvenir. Surprise par ses parents, elle est contrainte de l’épouser.
Comedy
Mi campeón
Jun 20, 1952Catita 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.
Comedy
Escuela de rateros
May 09, 1958The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
Comedy
Dios los cría
Sep 15, 1953Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
Comedy
El hombre inquieto
Nov 26, 1954
Teatro del crimen
Feb 13, 1957In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.
Crime
El Campeón Ciclista
Mar 21, 1957Cleto, a poor newspaper boy, dreamed of becoming a cyclist and inventor. His latest invention is delivering newspapers by rockets. When he finds the owner of the newspaper, dismisses him. But Cleto do not give up and shows Don Macario his latest invention: " The telemirófono ", a device that allows you to see the person talking on the phone...
Comedy
El fantasma de la opereta
Dec 22, 1960Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume.
Comedy
El cuarto mandamiento
Aug 14, 1948
Pecado
Mar 01, 1951Crime
Sor Ye-yé
Mar 09, 1968Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
Comedy
¡Ay, pena, penita, pena!
Sep 24, 1953Carmela 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.
Comedy
Sueños de oro
Feb 19, 1958Comedy
Napoleoncito
Dec 03, 1964Comedy
La tórtola del Ajusco
Feb 08, 1962Drama
La loca
May 29, 1952Mentally-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...
Drama
Camino del mal
Aug 01, 1957Crime
El hombre de la máscara de hierro
Jan 01, 1943Adventure
El hambre nuestra de cada día
Apr 25, 1960Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
Drama
