Wolf Ruvinskis
Birth : 1921-10-30, Riga, Latvia
Death : 1999-11-09
History
Of Jewish origins, Wolf Ruvinskis Manevics was born in 1921 in Riga (Latvia), but fearing persecution during World War II his family relocated to Argentina, where they lived in extreme poverty. In spite of his deprived childhood, Wolf excelled in sports and became interested in wrestling. When he was 19 years old he started his professional career and toured South America, the United States and Mexico, where he decided to stay. Although he stayed on the ring until the 1960s - in matches with top Mexican wrestlers, as El Santo, Black Shadow, El Médico Asesino and Lobo Negro - Wolf was also a tango singer and a magician, and in 1949 he was called to act on the stage and in films. One of his biggest successes was _Bestia magnífica, La (1953)_, the first in a series of movies centered on Neutron, a character he created. His popularity was firmly established with his role as the handsome rural boy who becomes the victim of a mad scientist in the cult film The Body Snatcher (1957), he was a regular performer in all kinds of movies until the 1990's and was nominated for an Ariel as Best Supporting Actor for _Juego limpio (1996/II)_. He was also a businessman, and married three times: to Beatriz Perez, to dancer Armida Herrera, and to actress Lilia Micheluntil his death in 1999.
Himself
A comprehensive history of Wrestling in Mexico. Starring some of the most famous Mexican wrestlers of our times.
Enrique
The boys in a famous pop-band all have girl troubles. And other problems. Sucks being them.
Leclerc
A novice private detective is on the trail of a serial strangler in Mexico City.
During the rainy Christmas season, a troupe of five actors who are college students lose their way in the mountains of Hidalgo when they try to take a short cut. With their van in need of repairs, they are stranded in a village where a local boss, Don Elias, pays peasants to log the forest illegally. The five collegians have little sensitivity to village ways and are shocked to be treated as foreigners in their own country. When two of them witness assaults on the town's priest and on a harmless simpleton, and when Don Elias frames the troupe for murder, their cries of innocence fall on deaf ears. Vigilantes call for their deaths and give chase. Will anyone help them?
Baseball sketch, restaurant sketch, store-detective sketch, lucha libre sketch. Remake of No me defiendes, compadre.
The film narrates the discovery of the last great Mayan city, which occurred during the spring of 1946. It is the story of Charles Frey, a smuggler of archaeological pieces who upon hearing some legends about the immense riches that the jungle regions of southeastern Mexico keep, decides to go looking for him. After several months and a point of giving up, Frey detects some archaeological evidence of the Mayan culture, so he continues his explorations until he finds the majestic city of Bonampak.
Two women meet by accident and discover that they both have 10 year+ relationships with the same man. Also, unrelated subplots involving other women.
Offbeat Mexican police officer must transport 3 convicts to a trial before a local drug kingpin kills them.
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
Héctor Zepeda
Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.
The adventures of two friends, one a chicken vendor in a market and the other a policeman. They have love affairs and capture criminals.
Young man grows up thinking that his father's murderer is dead but wanting revenge against the guys who hired him to commit that crime.
Saúl Brook / Vicente Viveros
Rafael Inclan plays the campy hero in the Mexican By Hook or Crook. Known as the "Super-Mexican", detective Inclan is in his own way as dangerous as France's Inspector Clouseau. A series of murders have occured in the uppermost circles of society. Inclan vows to solve the killings, or die trying (which is a strong possibility). There's a belly-laugh a minute in this silly confection, which since its 1985 release has popped up with regularity on the various Spanish-language TV cable services.
Saúl Beltrán
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
Mayor Urbano Malagón
Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
Young heroin addict dies in the pursuit of his calling, and his brother goes on a vendetta against the narco gang that supplied his drugs.
A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
Tourist industry dudes moonlight as karate detectives, solving crimes committed among the mod young jet-setters.
A young woman of wealthy class rejects the world that surrounds her and dies, but in her wake a shaman resuscitates her. She is dedicated to transgressing all the rules of her society. In the end a strange character offers him a flower and they both love each other.
Colonel Venancio Salvatierra
Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.
Lobo
Crime melodrama involving blackmail, murder, mystery and the obligatory police investigation.
Charlie Gonzalez
Criminals hiding out on an island find a shipwrecked stranger.
Santo fights a group of phony spiritualists who are trying to scam his god-daughter out of her 6 million peso inheritance.
"The fastest gun of all" visits his home-town for a few days. All he really wants is to see his wife and som, talk with them about starting over someplace far away... but life interferes with his plans. Remake of The Gunfighter (1950).
Argos
In this Mexican sci-fi fantasy, big beefy Martians invade the earth. Ostensibly, they have come to warn people about the dangers of nuclear testing and exploring space, but their real mission becomes manifest when they begin using their special powers and gadgets to exploit weak earthlings.
"Demons on Wheels". A gang of bikers terrorize a town and its inhabitants who can not do anything to prevent it.
Andrés Menchaca
Cowboy-hero series, first of two. Sequel: Pistoleros de la frontera.
After USA's appropriation of Texas, a Mexican resident responds to prejudice and injustice by forming a band of bandits.
Federal agent infiltrates smuggling gang in seaport.
Barrabas
The story of The Last Hours of Jesus Christ.
Papá de Beto
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
Neutron / Carlos Marquez
Neutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium.
Neutron
Superhero wrestler Neutron battles a gang of robotic assassins who use their hands and feet as deadly weapons.
Pablo, "El Rata"
The son of a prostitute, longshoreman, fighter and bully.
Carlos Márquez
Neutron, a superhero/wrestler, goes up against a mad scientist and his army of monsters.
Boxing melodrama; heroic middleweight vs. crooked promoters. Sequel to Dinamita Kid.
Inspector Maldonado
Two twin sisters have completely different ways of loving: to one love is profound, to the other is carnal.
Neutron / Carlos Márquez
The evil scientist Dr. Caronte plots to revive the brains of three dead scientists and use them to obtain the formula for the super-powerful neutron bomb. The resulting creation needs blood lots of blood, sending Caronte's midget assistant Nick and his legion of mutant monsters out to get fresh victims. However, the masked atom-superman Neutron vows to put a stop to Caronte's deeds.
Rómulo
The Sabine tribe battles Romulus in the early days of Rome after Romans seize their women as unwilling brides.
Young boxer on the rise butts head with dishonest promoters. Etc etc.
White-hat with two sidekicks masquerades as a priest to break the stranglehold a blackhat has on a small town.
Neutrón
Dr. Charon and his group of mad scientists built a neutron bomb with trying to blackmail the free world for global power. But the hero appears, Neutron, who, with the help of Dr. Thomas and reporter Nora spoil those plans.
Horseman. With a mask on. First in a series, "El Norteño."
Film clips of songs by performers from around the world.
Cowboy/western: hero fakes cowardice to trap the bad guys into showing their hands.
Tomás Téllez
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
Producer
Slice-of-life melodrama: backstage at the wrestling arena.
Lobo
Slice-of-life melodrama: backstage at the wrestling arena.
Mad scientist gives Atomic Powers to a 98 pound weakling.
Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate.
"Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married.
Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.
Incompetent clown is drafted into a Murder Incorporated style squad of hitmen.
Humberto Carrasco (picador)
Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to their village for fear of confronting his grandfather, a revolutionary colonel. In love with the movie star Laura, Agustin flee to the capital but encounters the dangerous Humberto, another in love with the actress. Thanks to his "nine lives", he attains overcome perilous adventures and, incidentally, overcome their fears.
College student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father. Third of four in a series.
Cowboy justice: drifter takes on unscrupulous rancher and his sociopathic son.
El Bronco
Guillermo Santana
A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...
Villardel
Police procedural: some detail pertaining to a murder case is nagging at the back of a detective's mind "like having a stone in his shoe." Once he teases it to the surface, he solves the case.
Hilario Trujeque
Jack-of-all-trades interferes in his neighbors' lives, then has to set everything straight.
Masked rider exposes the criminal misdeeds of a wealthy land-owner and his henchmen.
Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide.
Ramón Torres
Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder.
El caimán
Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
Chucho el Sacristán
Cantinflas 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.
Yaco
Renato Mancera
Policeman
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Lepka
Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...
Bobby Galeana
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.
Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.
Carlos
The Magnificent Beast (Free Fight) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Chano Urueta. The first film of the Luchadores genre.
Mayordomo
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
Amado is an employee of a brewery that dreams of success in football. Inveterate dreamer sends a letter to the pantheon of athletes. There champions Assembly decides to send the spirit of a great scorer for help. However, the devil, a fighter with no luck, decides to take the place of the player and turn beloved wrestling champion. This is one of the first incursions of Mexican cinema to the sub-genre of movies precursor struggle and many others that followed over the decades of the 50s and 60s.
A Mexican comedy loosely playing off of the tale of Sleeping Beauty. A caveman wakes up after a thousand year slumber. When he awakens he is seen as a wonder to behold, and discovers his ancient love and romantic rival are seemingly still alive as well.
Pablo Rivas
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.
Bodoques
The arrogant Arizmendi, pelota champion, lives intoxicated by his success and disdain for women who love him. Arizmendi commits blackmail to lose a game. Convinced to get away with it, Arizmendi does not meet the covenant and must face the villainous revenge Marcial Gomez.
Father and two sons raise hell at the county fair.
(uncredited)
Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.
Juan
Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
Roberto
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
Tony
When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexpected way.
Carlos
The story of two estranged sisters, both of whom end up as prostitutes but for very different reasons.
A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!
"Brilliant" young painter watches his wife lapse into schizophrenia.
El Monstruo
A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
Hombre golpeado (as Wolf Rubinsky)
Alma leaves Panama to go live with her aunt Antonia and with Manuel, her husband. There she meets Julio, who tries to woo her.
El Campeón Asesino
The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son Silvano, a young kid man that is incapable of passing judgment on his own father.
A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse.
El rayas
A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.
