Carlos Orellana
Birth : 1900-12-28, Santiago Tezontlale, Mexico
Death : 1960-01-24
History
Carlos Orellana was born on December 28, 1900 in Santiago Tezontlale, Hidalgo, Mexico as Carlos Orellana Martinez. He was an actor, director and writer.
Writer
Director
Three murder-mystery fans team up to play detective together; they catch some thieves at the workplace of one of them, then get caught up in an old-dark-house situation...
Adaptation
A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.
Writer
A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.
The marriage of a husb-and-wife singing duo hits the rock, brother-in-law tries to restore family harmony.
Romantic triangle. One of the guys is a very bad man.
Don Melchor
A couple are forced to stay in a scary castle, and the castle is filled with monsters!
Screenplay
Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.
Director
Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.
Writer
On his family's farm, Gilberto keeps weapons to support the revolutionaries. When his father find out, he runs out from the hacienda to join them.
Adaptation
Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor.
Adaptation
A guy and his girlfriend pretend to come from Mars.
Vineyard worker is happy when her long-estranged artist brother comes to visit her. But then...
Don Pancho García
The story of an indigenous who gave his life for the love of a white woman, whom he confused, because of her beauty, with Maria the virgin, fighting against the society, the prejudices, and the race.
Writer
The story of an indigenous who gave his life for the love of a white woman, whom he confused, because of her beauty, with Maria the virgin, fighting against the society, the prejudices, and the race.
Rich family's maid thinks that maybe if she plays her cards right, she can land a moneybags husband. There's also a really cute auto mechanic, though, and...
Maid tries to smooth over the difficulties in her employers' marriage while juggling five or six potential boyfriends of her own.
Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.
Writer
Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
Lives in a "model factory," designed to create a progressive community among the workers.
Writer
A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
Lucas
A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
Policeman
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Don Elías
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins. A year later they find themselves in the same town and confront each other once and for all.
Writer
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins. A year later they find themselves in the same town and confront each other once and for all.
Screenplay
The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
Writer
A young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame
Mr. Cecilio Zarraga
A young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame
Writer
Bad girl makes lives miserable.
Bad girl makes lives miserable.
Don Chente Mendoza
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
Writer
Anacleto and Baldomira are a couple who have problems because of gossip from their compadre who wants Baldomira. The marriage is separated for a short time because they realize that they love each other.
Woman and her daughter try to get on with their lives and run their family bakery while dealing with abusive alcoholic husband/father and other family problems.
Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.
Director
Director
Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
Screenplay
Adaptation of the novel by Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures in Santiago de Compostela of Gerardo Roquer from Madrid, who stays in a boarding house known as "La Casa de la Troya".
Director
Adaptation of the novel by Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures in Santiago de Compostela of Gerardo Roquer from Madrid, who stays in a boarding house known as "La Casa de la Troya".
Director
A young woman disguises herself as a soldier when her boyfriend arrives to propose.
Priest
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Writer
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Priest
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Writer
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
Writer
Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
Don Trinidad Rojas
A man's on trial for murder; a friend who could prove his innocence chooses not to come forward. An interested detective starts working to discover the how-come of all of that.
Story
Small-town Arabic family moves to Mexico City to live with the oldest son who made his career there. Follow-up (not a direct sequel) to El baisano Jalil (1942).
Director
Padre Belisario
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.
The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
Personal stories of a handful of Air Force recruits.
Family life of a widowed father with four teenaged and young-adult children.
Director
Two farmworkers emigrate to USA to work on a Texas ranch, then go home and put their lives back in order.
Director
Misogynist military asshole is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.
Neftali
A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.
Laureano
Movie 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.
Screenplay
Movie 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.
Director
Movie 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.
Romantic melodrama; hero and rich landowner are both after the same woman.
Screenplay
Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.
Story
Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.
Adaptation
Amable is the drinking buddy of Paquito, a former medical student who plays Fanny's love, a cabaret singer and also with Conchita, a showgirl. One day, Paquito receives a telegram that his uncle Pancho vayaa asked to see his wife and other medical eminence to heal him his kidney ailment. Among all a hoax to mount Paquino not lose the inheritance from his uncle.
Don Pancho
Amable is the drinking buddy of Paquito, a former medical student who plays Fanny's love, a cabaret singer and also with Conchita, a showgirl. One day, Paquito receives a telegram that his uncle Pancho vayaa asked to see his wife and other medical eminence to heal him his kidney ailment. Among all a hoax to mount Paquino not lose the inheritance from his uncle.
Director
The Story of a Woman's Redemption
The Story of a Woman's Redemption
Director
Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that awaits him in his hometown.
General José Antonio Páez
Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
Director
Writer
Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
Don Ataulfo
Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
Writer
Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family.
A 1940 film directed by José Bohr.
Don Luis
A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...
Isaac
A 1940 film directed by Rolando Aguilar.
Writer
An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
Ponciano Luque
An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give her some nurturing parent attention.
Dr. Gallardo
Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo.
Three Spaniards emigrate to Mexico and become prosperous landowners.
Sargento Carrasquilla
Don Gil de Alacala (José Mojica), a swashbuckler also known as Captain Adventure, must overcome a series of difficult trials and tribulations in order to save the love of his life, Carmina (Manolita Saval), who is engaged to marry a terrible nobleman. Based upon the libretto "Don Gil de Alcala" by Manuel Penella, this classic black-and-white romance also stars Margarita Mora, Carlos Orellana and Sara García.
Wicked man seduces an innocent country girl into a life of degradation and nightclubs.
Coronel Refugio Romero
Dazzled by the Empress Carlotta's graciousness, magnanimity and charm, a young officer in the Mexican army switches his allegiance to the Imperial government with Maximilian as figurehead. Bad move, space cadet.
Don Boni
No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.
The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.
Mario - criado
Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variations of the story.
Hipólito
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.
