Manuel Arvide

Birth : 1897-01-08, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Death : 1969-01-22

Movies

Ambición sangrienta
Comisario
A lawman and two sidekicks clear up a series of crimes related to mining rights.
Esta noche si
Los mediocres
Mario Saldívar (segment "El Alacrán")
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.
Sol en llamas
A powerful rancher loses his power and wealth during the Revolution, and his daughter falls in love with a revolutionary.
La tórtola del Ajusco
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
Prosecutor
After being arrested the two adorable grannies spend some time in jail and then stand trial for the robberies they've committed.
The Shadow of the Strongman
General Protasio Leyva
Post-revolucionary Mexico. War secretary Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate for presidency, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows that his boss and current president, El Caudillo, has chosen a second one.
The Woman and the Beast
Insp. Jiménez
Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
Nazarin
Compañero de arquitecto (uncredited)
Nazarín is the priest who leaves his order and decides to go on a pilgrimage. As he goes along subsisting on alms, he shelters a prostitute wanted by the police for murder. He is released from suspicion and she eventually catches up with him when she escapes imprisonment. Another woman joins the duo and soon the ex-priest is learning more about the human heart and suffering than when he wore robes.
The Last Rebel
Mexican western film about Joaquin Murrieta, the Robin Hood of the West.
Land of Men
Gov. Captain
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.
Path of evil
Comandante
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Martinez
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
Tizoc
Cosijope
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.
Para siempre
El medallón del crimen
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.
María la Voz
Damián, municipal president
A small-town woman with psychic sensitivities gets tangled up in the blood-feud between two families and in a romantic rivalry with her best friend.
Prisionera del pasado
Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.
Sandra, the Woman of Fire
Don Miguel Olazabal
An exuberant dancer decides to change her lifestyle after meeting a millionaire.
Camelia
(uncredited)
A woman of low estate is beloved of a promising young man, but sacrifices her love for him in order to protect his future and reputation.
Sombrero
Manager
Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
Soledad's Shawl
Médico hospital
Alberto 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.
¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?
Don Antonio
This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.
Hombres sin alma
Dandy
Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things impossible for them.
Perdición de mujeres
El dandy
Small town girl moves to the big city. When she can't find a job, she starts hanging with a bad crowd.
Doña Perfecta
Capitán
Liberal 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.
Monte de piedad
Don Ruperto
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
In the Palm of Your Hand
Inspector de policia
A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat? Perhaps the greatest thriller ever made in Mexico, starring Arturo de Córdova and Leticia Palma.
Madre querida
Cabaret Shanghai
Inspector Arriaga
Nightclub-owner/gangster discovers that his dame and his second-in-command are cheating on him.
Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
Don Florencio
Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
El charro del arrabal
El reino de los gángsters
Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected.
Tania la bella salvaje
Rolando
Rolando, a millionare, travels to a remote island and meets the young and tough Tania, a local woman with great dancing skills. He falls in love with her and takes the girl to Mexico, but their relationship gets awry when Tania cheats on him with another man.
The Three Garcia
Judge
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.
Vuelven los García
Judge
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.
Honeymoon
Registrar
A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.
Cinco rostros de mujer
Gustavo Carreño
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
Gángsters contra charros
Felipe
Gangster Johnny Carmenta must confront the "Charro of the Slums" Pancho Domínguez, who has control over the city, but their rivalry gets worse when rumba dancer Rosa befriends both men.
La Devoradora
Ricardo Galván
A Mexican film noir revolving around a crime: the suicide of one of Diana (María Félix)'s lovers and the disposal of his body in order to avoid a scandal. Diana not only engineers the entire scheme, but drafts her two other suitors: her fiance Adolfo (Julio Villareal) and his nephew Miguel (Luis Aldas).
Twilight
Ricardo Molina
Neurotic society doctor struggles with anomie and existential despair.
La pequeña madrecita
Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her.
Viva Mi Desgracia
(uncredited)
After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
Another Dawn
Gunman
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
El ametralladora
Priest
Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.
Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra
Gen. Lorencez
In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
Santa
Rubio
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 Hipolito
¡Cuando la tierra tembló!
El marido
A 1942 film.
Cinco minutos de amor
Writer
Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
Cantinflas Ruletero
Cantinflas Ruletero is one of his most famous short films, where the great comedian acts as a taxi driver, making his passengers work without taking them to their destination.
El Signo de la Muerte
Jefe de redacción (uncredited)
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.
Águila o sol
Hipólito Sol
At birth, three children are abandoned in a convent. They are Polito Sol and his siblings, Adriana and Carmelo Águila and they grow up to become the "Águila o Sol" trio. Many years later, Don Hipólito, Polito's father becomes rich and decides to search for his son. In the end he finds Polito and the Aguila siblings.
La soñadora
La soñadora ("The Dreamer") is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.
The Tigress
The attractive and rapturous Eva is ready to do anything to be the protagonist of a cruel and painful romance. Determined, the young woman falls in love with the humble craftsman Bruno, whom she later abandons to marry the millionaire Ernesto. Bruno goes mad with pain and is admitted to a madhouse. In delirium, Bruno imagines a tigress with Eva's face attacking her in her delusions.