Carlos Toussaint

Movies

Kiss from Beyond the Grave
Director
A newlywed couple find themselves broke when the woman's father dies deeply in debt. Forced to sell their belongings, they move into a rundown house from which they get very bad vibes. It's not long before some very strange and disturbing people begin showing up at the house.
Los falsos héroes
Director
Three spoiled rich kids live profligately and set a bad example for an ambitious middle-class friend.
Then God Named It Earth
Writer
During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
Then God Named It Earth
Director
During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
La Canción de Jean Richepin
Director
Asked by his beloved to bring his mother's heart for her dog, a hopeless lover tears it out, stumbles with it, lets it fall. Rolling across the floor, the heart gasps out: “Are you hurt, my son?"
El crucifijo de piedra
Director
Marejada
Director
Recently-graduated doctor assigned to a small, backward fishing community.
Thou Shalt not Covet thy Son's Wife
Art Direction
An elderly man falls in love with a beautiful young woman, without knowing that she is in love with his son.
The Black Sheep
Production Design
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.
The Seminarian
Set Designer
Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.
The Woman I Lost
Set Designer
A political revolutionary fights against injustice, his adoring wife by his side. But only in her death does he realize the depth of her love for him and their country. A dramatic romance from the 23 film library of the most iconic classic Mexican film and recording star, Pedro Infante.
Dicen que soy mujeriego
Art Direction
Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.
Cuando los padres se quedan solos
Production Design
Mom and dad make sacrifices for the sake of their adult children. And then more sacrifices. And more.
Allá en el Rancho Grande
Art Designer
Remake of famous 1936 ranchera musical.
You the Rich
Set Designer
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
Angelitos negros
Set Designer
Starring 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"
Las mañanitas
Art Designer
Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...
The Three Huastecos
Set Designer
This is the story of three brothers (a priest, a soldier and an outlaw) that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near the town the outlaw lives in. The drama will unfold once the three brothers meet each other.
Cortesana
Production Design
Young woman breaks up with her fiance to shack up with her sister's husband.
Si Adelita se fuera con otro
Production Design
Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on Francisco Villa.
We the Poor
Set Designer
A poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe el Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita while woos the pretty Celia, but tragedy knocks his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
La bien pagada
Production Design
Melodrama about marital infidelity.
Vuelven los García
Art Direction
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
Set Designer
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.
The Three Garcia
Set Designer
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.
When the Brave Cry
Set Designer
A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
La culpable
Art Direction
Mexican movie
Star Scandal
Set Designer
The story of the adventures and entanglements of the son of a famous film producer who is forced to study law.
Mi lupe y mi caballo
Writer
Mi lupe y mi caballo
Director
Viva Mi Desgracia
Set Designer
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.
Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra
Set Designer
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
Production Design
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
The Spirit's Canyon
Production Design
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.
Dark Angel
Production Design
Despite the strange death of Jorge's previous wives, Elisa decides to marry him.
Lo que el viento trajo
Production Design
A 1941 film.
When the Children are Gone
Production Design
Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.
You’re Missing the Point
Production Design
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
Cantinflas y su prima
Production Design
Cantinflas appears flirting with a lady until her lover arrives. Angry, Cantinflas call the husband causing a number of situations.
Cantinflas y su prima
Director
Cantinflas appears flirting with a lady until her lover arrives. Angry, Cantinflas call the husband causing a number of situations.
To the Sound of the Marimba
Production Design
Shabby-genteel big city family tries to marry their daughter off to a wealthy landowner from the southern provinces.
In the Times of Don Porfirio
Production Design
In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is pregnant, is sent to Paris by the snubbed family.
Festival de la comedia
Director
The Girls Aunt
Set Decoration
Two middle-aged no-goodniks are trying to marry two young ladies; two age-appropriate young men concoct a scheme to prevent it, which involves one of them masquerading as the young ladies' aunt.
La honradez es un estorbo
Production Design
Malditas sean las mujeres
Production Design
A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro.
Mystery of the Ghastly Face
Production Design
Dr. Forti carries out strange experiments, assisted by his son Pablo. They embark on an expedition to the jungle. Eight years later Forti returns without his son but strange things start to happen in the old house where they live.
Two Monks
Production Design
In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them.