René Cardona

René Cardona

Birth : 1905-10-09, Havana, Cuba

Death : 1988-04-25

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René Cardona

Movies

Viva la risa II
Mexican feature film
Las limpias
Yo el ejecutor
A retired mercenary known as 'The Executioner', is forced to take one more case especially when his girlfriend is kidnapped and raped, he then wages a one-man war against the mob with his execution style.
¡Maten al fugitivo!
The House that Burns at Night
American
A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.
Siempre en domingo
Behind the scenes at a popular TV variety show, highly fictionalized.
La banda de la sotana negra
Three punk cholos in Tijuana steal cassocks from a church so they can do crimes better.
The Fury of the Karate Experts
Professor Williams
An evil priestess and her twin sister battle for control of a powerful crystal.
Viva México y sus corridos
Director
Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things.
Las Computadoras
Director
Diana secretly owns a nightclub and has a son named Arturo. When Arturo gets his college degree, he decides to celebrate and goes to the nightclub he does not know his mother owns. There, he meets and falls in love with a lady of the night. When he takes her home to meet his mother, both women are embarrassed. Diana offers the girl money to leave Arturo alone, and the young girl takes it and gives it to Arturo with a letter saying she’s leaving. Arturo is upset with his mother and drifts away from her. Diana, tired of the nightclub business and of the double life she has led, decides to retire and gives the nightclub to the women who have worked for her. She intends to patch things up with her son and to welcome the woman that Arturo has chosen to marry.
Visita al pasado
Director
Mexican feature film
Burlesque
Director
Recreation of a nightclub's burlesque show, alternating between dance numbers and bits of narrative involving performers backstage or audience members.
Verano salvaje
Papá
The legend of their beach days, plus nights of sex.
Carlos el terrorista
Director
After assassinating his boss -- who just so happens to be an important underworld crime figure -- Carlos (Andres Garcia) turns to the one place he can think of to keep him safe: the CIA. But the top secret government organization inexplicably responds to the desperate man's plea for protection by kidnapping Carlos's family, holding them captive until he carries out their questionable demands. Alicia Encinas and Pablo Ferrel co-star.
Crónica roja
After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.
La Guerra de los Pasteles
Director
El Llanto de los Pobres
Cyclone
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well.
The Children of Sanchez
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
Raza de viboras
Mentally-ill eldest son creates havoc within an old-money farming family.
Raza de viboras
Director
Mentally-ill eldest son creates havoc within an old-money farming family.
Tempestad
Una noche embarazosa
Director
An Italian taxicab driver is used as a "breeding man" to save the inheritance of a wealthy family in Mexico.
La casta divina
Consul Cubano
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.
Prisión de mujeres
'Prisión de Mujeres' is a film by Fernando A. Rivero that narrates a harsh reality: the strength of women in a prison, how they lose their dignity and do not stop for anything.
Prisión de mujeres
Director
'Prisión de Mujeres' is a film by Fernando A. Rivero that narrates a harsh reality: the strength of women in a prison, how they lose their dignity and do not stop for anything.
La folle de Chaillot
Le rentier
Survive!
Director
Sixteen plane crash survivors stranded in the Andes turn to cannibalism to stay alive. Based on a true story.
Fantastic Voyage in a Baloon
1862. Commodore Sir Francis and inventor Douglas initiated on behalf of the Royal Society of London Geography of a balloon ride under the command of Dr. Ferguson, who plans to cross Africa from east to west. But to accomplish this feat will have to overcome numerous adventures in which their lives are at serious risk.
El pequeño Robin Hood
Directed by René Cardona, and written by René Cardona Jr., «El Pequeño Robin Hood» is a 1975 Adventure/Comedy/Drama/Family film . René Cardona III and Patricia Aspíllaga are starring, alongside René Cardona, Arturo Cobo, Jorge Russek and Alfredo Wally Barrón.
El pequeño Robin Hood
Director
Directed by René Cardona, and written by René Cardona Jr., «El Pequeño Robin Hood» is a 1975 Adventure/Comedy/Drama/Family film . René Cardona III and Patricia Aspíllaga are starring, alongside René Cardona, Arturo Cobo, Jorge Russek and Alfredo Wally Barrón.
Night of Death
Director
Someone who wears a blue mask, is squat and has giant hands are killing people and stealing jewelry and money. The witnesses are afraid to talk, despite the detective understands that the clues point to his friend Blue Demon. This is actually an evil plan hatched by the Count and a fighter called ' The Cossack ', taking revenge on Blue. In both the real Blue Demon campaign starts with his secretary and a detective to unravel the mystery.
La mafia amarilla
Director
Blue Demon must stop an evil chinese gang and their reign of terror.
El valle de los miserables
Don Luis Aguirre
Jalisco nunca pierde
Director
Class distinctions are an obstacle for a guy trying to woo his gal of choice.
La disputa
The wife of a philandering husband tries to engineer a situation in which she can photograph him in a compromising position in order to file for divorce. Meanwhile, subplots.
The Vengeance of the Crying Woman
Severo Segovia
Santo and Mantequilla Nápoles team up to end the curse of La Llorona by getting ahold of a special medallion. Unfortunately, La Llorona escapes in the process.
La isla de los hombres solos
Screenplay
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.
La isla de los hombres solos
Director
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.
Guns and Guts
Monk
Rene Cardona Jr.'s bloody Mexi-Western is the story of a hired gun that wants to complete his last big job so he can retire with his prostitute. The job consists of killing a sheriff who keeps himself hidden away inside an old monastery. A series of double crosses culminates with an excessively bloody Wild Bunch inspired massacre inside the monastery.
El hijo del pueblo
Screenplay
At the end of an unhappy romance, a Mexico City cabdriver decides he's fed up with big-city classism and hypocrisy, and goes home to his ranch. Soon, a group of city-folk are stranded on his property and dependent on him for help and sustenance.
El hijo del pueblo
Director
At the end of an unhappy romance, a Mexico City cabdriver decides he's fed up with big-city classism and hypocrisy, and goes home to his ranch. Soon, a group of city-folk are stranded on his property and dependent on him for help and sustenance.
The Invasion of the Dead
Director
Professor Bruno Volpi spots some strange paintings on a cliff. He sends for Professor Zovek to help him discover its meaning. Zovek uses his powers to figure the writings are a warning that a cosmic tragedy is going to happen. Their fears prove to be true when a fire ball falls from the skies causing the ressurrection of the dead as zombies, craving for human flesh.
Zindy, the Swamp Boy
Abuelo
The story is about a fugitive who lives apart from society in a jungle area with the company of his grandson
Peluquero de señoras
Beauty-products czar can't attend an important industry function, so he hires a look-alike as a stand-in. The body double will have to learn to behave like a massive queen for the imposture to work...
Entre monjas anda el Diablo
Director
A man called “The Devil” makes a living in cock-fights. He falls for a girl who's about to enter the monastery.
El derecho de los pobres
Director
Kids in an Ecuadorian slum have a benevolent doctor who tries to help them forward in life. Also they play soccer.
Manuel Saldivar, el texano
Cowboy-justice dude has to figure out who the masterminds are behind a string of murders.
Manuel Saldivar, el texano
Director
Cowboy-justice dude has to figure out who the masterminds are behind a string of murders.
The Incredible Professor Zovek
Adaptation
Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters.
The Incredible Professor Zovek
Director
Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters.
Capulina vs. the Vampires
Screenplay
Delivery boy answers a call to take some food to that huge spooky mansion on the hill behind the cemetery.
Capulina vs. the Vampires
Director
Delivery boy answers a call to take some food to that huge spooky mansion on the hill behind the cemetery.
Jesús, el niño Dios
Baltazar (as René Cardona Sr.)
Santo in the Vengeance of the Mummy
Director
When Santo accompanies a troupe of archaeologists in the search for Aztec artifacts, they find the Mummy of an Aztec who leaves a warning to those who tamper with his resting place. The adventurers ignore the warning, and before long, the Mummy starts bumping them off one-by-one with his bow & arrow.
Santo vs. the Head Hunters
Director
Santo battles a mad scientist reviving the dead
La mula de Cullen Baker
Capitán
La mula de Cullen Baker
Director
La mula de Cullen Baker
Writer
Siete muertes para el texano
Director
When the Texan returns to the town, seeking to secure his fortune, the sheriff of the place asks the Texano to come to the aid of a dear friend. Seven frightful ones, on a pillaging expedition, have assaulted the cabana of a hunter and kidnapped his young daughter. When the Texan arrives there, he finds only the hunter who desperately asks for his aid. Both men initiate the ferocious persecution, until one by one they manage to end the seven strangers and also manage to save the beautiful young person.
La venganza de Gabino Barrera
Director
Alicia, the wife of the vengeful Gabino Barrera, is killed by an escaped convict. Stripped of the one woman he's ever loved, Gabino vows to make the killer pay and pursues him. As he gets closer to his prey, Gabino turns deadlier.
Santo vs. The Riders of Terror
Screenplay
After a group of violent lepers escapes from a sanitarium, - robbing several farms, residents of the town demand the the sheriff - take action. Meanwhile, a local criminal joins forces with the lepers - to commit even more robberies. As the disfigured madmen keep the - entire town indoors with its reign of terror, the sheriff has no - choice but to call on the only man who can help--legendary wrestling - superhero, Santo!
Santo vs. The Riders of Terror
Director
After a group of violent lepers escapes from a sanitarium, - robbing several farms, residents of the town demand the the sheriff - take action. Meanwhile, a local criminal joins forces with the lepers - to commit even more robberies. As the disfigured madmen keep the - entire town indoors with its reign of terror, the sheriff has no - choice but to call on the only man who can help--legendary wrestling - superhero, Santo!
Chanoc en las garras de las fieras
Gang Member (as René Cardona Sr.)
Comic-book adaptation: Tarzan-type in the Mexican outback.
El pueblo del terror
Director
Federal-agent/cowboy battles crime
La hermana Trinquete
Career-thief hides from the police by joining a convent.
El asesino enmascarado
Director
Series western: Felipe Reyes el justiciero comes to town to track down a killer.
La captura de Gabino Barrera
Director
International playboys in NYC get mixed up with a bank robbery and have to evade the police long enough to reach Mexico. long the way, they pick up an orphan boy who says he's running away from an abusive stepfather. Fourth in a series of four.
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Second Unit Director
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.
Santo vs. Capulina
Director
Calpuina is a night-watchman in a wharehouse, a perfect job for him. When some thieves break in and steal some crates, El Santo is after them because they are using the wharehouse for diamond smuggling. Capulina hinders their capture. Then he decides that he will put on a wrestler's mask and help El Santo to caputre the crooks.
La maestra inolvidable
Director
Idealistic young teacher takes a post in a small, backwoods town and dedicates her life to schooling the village's children.
Santo in the Treasure of Dracula
Director
A woman travels to her past life with the help of Santo's past life regression machine
Duelo en El Dorado
Director
Saloon-owner's a hard guy and none too law-abiding; his twelve year old son comes to live with him and he starts changing his ways... but his past is likely to catch up with him.
El deseo llega de noche
Pitanguelli
Prison colony on an island: the staff Doctor has some neuroses he's trying to overcome, and his "weakness" makes him vulnerable to exploitation by a sociopathic prisoner.
Lauro Puñales
Director
One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.
Night of the Bloody Apes
Writer
A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.
Night of the Bloody Apes
Director
A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.
Wrestling Women vs. the Killer Robot
Director
A lady wrestler and her boyfriend, a policeman, battle a mad scientist who has developed a murderous killer robot and uses it to kidnap wealthy people.
El día de la boda
Ramón
The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
Stranger in the House
Tomas
An American serial killer, known for his handiwork with a straight razor, manages to escape while being transported in Mexico and hides out inside a publisher's home, where he claims many more victims.
Valentín de la Sierra
Director
Operación carambola
Scorpio Leader
Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack.
The Treasure of Moctezuma
Director
Santo and Jorge Rivero team-up to stop an international syndicate from stealing Mexico's greatest treasure.
Lucio Vázquez
Director
Blending historical fact and adventure fiction, Emiliano Zapata's (fictional) right-hand man takes leadership of his regiment after he's killed.
The Batwoman
Director
A whacked out scientist is capturing wrestlers (because they are "perfect") and using their spinal fluid to create a Gill Man. Two cops call in Batwoman to investigate. She steals aboard the baddies boat , uncovers his mad plan, but she is discovered and during a scuffle our hero tosses acid in the scientists face. This doesn't sit too well with the dude and he seeks revenge. His plan, capture her and turn her into a Gill Woman!
Caballo prieto azabache
Director
Standing before Pancho Villa's tomb, horse breeder Jesus harkens back to his youth, when he provided bed and board to a nondescript laborer named Doroteo Arango. In time, Arango would transform himself into gang leader Villa. When the Mexican Civil War erupts, a man named Fierro wants to execute Jesus for selling a horse to an anti-Villa buyer. But in repayment of Jesus's debt of kindness, Villa intercedes on his behalf.
Operation 67
Director
The silver masked Santo tries to stop a gang of counterfeiters who conspire to ruin the economy.
Un par de robachicos
Un novio para dos hermanas
Sr. Mateos
Pili and uncle Angel travel to Mexico to see Mili dancing at her debut in a theater in the capital. When Mili finds out the bad economic situation of her uncle, she decides to seek work. Meanwhile, Pili works in a department store and meets Rodolfo, the grandson of Mrs. Caceres, owner of the store, which she takes for the chauffeur of the lady. In turn, Ms. Caceres hires Mili to dance at her party, where she meets and falls for Rodolfo. Rodolfo, who does not know of the existence of a twin sister, is convinced that the girl in the party is Pili. And the sisters do not know they are in love with the same man, which will lead to an unexpected conflict.
La vuelta del Mexicano
Director
1850s. Seminary student abandons the priesthood to fight for social justice in formerly-Mexican territories of the SW USA. Sequel to El Mexicano (1966).
La leyenda del bandido
Western with romance subplot.
El matrimonio es como el demonio
Ramón
The story of a Playboy bachelor who does not know the good that is, until he is married. Slowly, the man discovers that having a woman is not easy, but sometimes ... being faithful recomended. After sympathetic experiences and funny situations, he realizes that there are two uncorrectable errors committed by the man in your life: Being born and married!
The Panther Women
Director
The Panther women are worshipers of Satan and perform rituals in their honor and sacrifice. The fighters will face them up and down the ring.
El mexicano
Director
After USA's appropriation of Texas, a Mexican resident responds to prejudice and injustice by forming a band of bandits.
El alazán y el rosillo
Director
Two rival landowners: one is exploiting the local peasantry and dispossessing them of their land, and the other believes in fair play and justice for all.
Santo vs. the Ghost of the Strangler
Writer
When Santo beat to Estrangulador, one of his strongest enemies, thought not ever see it, but thanks to Tor returns to avenge the death of Santo.
Santo vs. the Ghost of the Strangler
Director
When Santo beat to Estrangulador, one of his strongest enemies, thought not ever see it, but thanks to Tor returns to avenge the death of Santo.
El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
Director
Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on his feet again, he puts a domino on and swings into J J action.
El hijo de Gabino Barrera
Director
Gabino's son tries to find out why his father was murdered.
Pistoleros del oeste
Director
Timid city-boy hires two cowboy roughnecks to help him get out of an arranged marriage.
Santo vs. the Strangler
Writer
Santo battles the Strangler.
Santo vs. the Strangler
Director
Santo battles the Strangler.
Aquella Rosita Alvírez
Director
Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
She-Wolves of the Ring
Director
Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.
Neutron Traps the Invisible Killers
Director
Masked hero El enmascarado de oro faces a criminal that turns invisible.
La edad de piedra
Director
Capulina chip and are transported back to prehistoric times with a time machine. There they live crazy adventures.
La duquesa diabólica
A rare and impossible to find Mexican adventure / fantasy / horror.
The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy
Director
If you've ever longed for a movie about wrestling women who take on various monsters, this is it! Xochitl, the mummy, can turn into a snake or a bat, which is difficult to get half-Nelsons on. Loreita, the Golden Ruby, joins her sister to battle the evil Prince Fugiyata and her Oriental female wrestlers. The mummy is also female and on the good side of the struggle.
Dos caballeros de espada
Sixteenth century swordsmen adventure.
The Bloody Revolver
Comisario
Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.
El corrido de María Pistolas
Director
Sequel to Maria Pistolas. Comic-tomgirl member of Villa's army has boy trouble.
María Pistolas
Director
Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends.
Fuerte, audaz y valiente
Director
Western comedy: two medicine-show guys vs. badhats.
Doctor of Doom
Director
A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as subjects in sadistic brain transplant experiments. A female wrestler whose sister was one of the victims swears vengeance against the Mad Doctor.
Aventuras de las hermanas X
Adventure film about two sisters looking revenge against the man who murdered their father.
La Bandida
General Robles
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.
Santo vs. the King of Crime
Sr. Roberto de la Llata
¡En peligro de muerte!
Director
Los encapuchados del infierno
Husband and wife team of hooded avengers, First of three in series.
Carnaval en mi barrio
Director
Juana Gallo
Capitán Esquivel
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
El globero
Director
Loose remake of Chaplin's The Kid.
The Crying Woman
Director
A woman takes revenge in the family of her lover.
Juan Polainas
Director
Pathetic shmuck loser tries to rival his twin brother's exploits in the Mexican Revolution.
Adventures of Joselito and Tom Thumb
Director
Joselito lives with his grandmother in a fishing village. His father went to America long ago to make a fortune. One day, the boy decides to travel there to meet him. He takes courage and embarks on a fragile boat and miraculously is saved at sea by a vessel that leads him to Mexico where he meets Tom Thumb, a little newsboy who lives many adventures and helps him in the search.
A tiro limpio
Director
Una señora movida
Director
"Old dark house" spooky-comedy.
La ley del más rápido
Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma.")
La ley del más rápido
Director
Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma.")
Santa Claus
Writer
Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to save the day!
Santa Claus
Director
Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to save the day!
El joven del carrito
Director
Ice-cream vendor gets caught up in wacky misadventures.
El puma
Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series.
El puma
Director
Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series.
Night Dance Hall
Martine is a young woman plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can provide the kind of nurturing that Martine needs during her adolescent years. As a result of her family situation, Martine runs away from home and gets involved with a group of teens and young adults from the wrong side of the moral tracks.
El sordo
Director
Craftsman who sculpts religious figures goes deaf. Lotsa pathos.
Ángel del infierno
Director
Young woman moves to a remote border town to take charge of properties she inherited from her father.
Maratón de baile
Screenplay
Several couples are lured into becoming contestants in a dance marathon that awards a large cash prize to the couple still standing at the end of this grueling test of endurance.
Maratón de baile
Director
Several couples are lured into becoming contestants in a dance marathon that awards a large cash prize to the couple still standing at the end of this grueling test of endurance.
La marca del cuervo
Director
Masked avenger on horseback, one of a series.
Las tres pelonas
Director
Pseudo-historical drama about a semi-civilian who decides to run guns across the border for Villa's troops.
Tú y la mentira
Director
Struggling musician finally reaches the big time, then a scheming gold-digger gets her hooks into him.
La cama de piedra
Director
The Living Idol
Director
An archaeologist believes a Mexican woman is the reincarnation of an Aztec princess.
Pancho López
Director
A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes looking into the situation, it becomes necessary to find someone to impersonate that bandit. Remake of El Tigre De Jalisco (1947).
Tom Thumb
Screenplay
A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.
Tom Thumb
Director
A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.
La faraona
(uncredited)
Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.
La faraona
Director
Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.
Las zapatillas verdes
Director
Los hijos de Rancho Grande
Don Felipe
Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.
¡Que seas feliz!
Duarte
Career criminal hooks up with famous singer because she looks like a long-term meal ticket.
Los margaritos
Director
Two brothers named Margarito butt heads courting the same woman.
Los tres amores de Lola
Director
Flamenco artist in Mexico draws attention from three suitors.
A los cuatro vientos
Career-biography of a fictional ranchera singer, played by Rosita Quintana.
El pueblo sin Dios
Director
Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.
Love From Afar
Director
Una gallega en la Habana
Director
Cándida's boyfriend left her in Spain to go to work to Havana. After twenty years without news, she decides to go look for him, although the only thing she knows of him is his name. In the port of Havana, she is confused with a jewel smuggler, which kicks off a series of comical events.
De ranchero a empresario
Writer
Ranch-owner visits the big city to help his brother launch a theatrical venture.
De ranchero a empresario
Director
Ranch-owner visits the big city to help his brother launch a theatrical venture.
Sindicato de telemirones
Director
As negro
Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
Cain y Abel
Director
Bohemian husband and strait-laced wife get divorced; each takes custody of one son. Twenty years later...
Mulata
Guevara
In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and of a black laundress of African origin. Over the years, Mateo falls for Caridad, but she doesn't love him back because she has fallen for a Mexican captain, Martin (Pedro Armendáriz), who she happened to meet at the port. The captain also fell in love with Caridad and proposes that they live together and she accepts. Caridad works in a cabaret in the port and the owner, Guevara (René Cardona), feels an attraction for the girl, and in a moment of jealousy, tries to kill Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara. When Martin returns to Veracruz, Mexico, Guevara feels that he's the new owner of Caridad.
El enmascarado de plata
Story
Mysterious wrestler-dude teams up with a teenaged boy and fights supervillainous criminal gang.
El enmascarado de plata
Director
Mysterious wrestler-dude teams up with a teenaged boy and fights supervillainous criminal gang.
Nuevo amanecer
Mexican feature film
The Three Perfect Married
Jorge
Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
Pompeyo el conquistador
Director
Timid guy creates an alter-ego who will get tough with people while he continues being gentle and jolly.
Póker de ases
Director
Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
Bumbling detective solves a murder on board a train.
Por qué peca la mujer
Writer
Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
Por qué peca la mujer
Director
Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
Vive como sea
Director
A rich uncle thinks he's married with children, so a young gadabout recruits all his friends to pass themselves off as his wife, inlaws and children.
Mujeres de teatro
Director
Canasta Uruguaya
Director
Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.
El marido de mi novia
Director
Raquel's life is turned upside down when a terrible accident results in the death of her child and the confinement of her husband to a wheelchair. Without any way to support her and her disabled husband, Raquel turns to a life of crime and partners with a petty thief named Paco who falls in love with her.
Vuelva el sábado
Director
Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
Puerto de tentación
Director
El as negro
Director
This is the story of a convict fellow whose brother is a bright scientist that discovers a vaccine against a deadly infection. The clash between good and evil moves the convict to search into his soul and find the goodness that will lead him to the ultimate sacrifice.
También de dolor se canta
Director
The 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.
Yo quiero ser hombre
Director
Red Rain
Director
Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.
Yo quiero ser mala
Director
In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.
Una canción a la vírgen
Director
Showbiz family is stressed when wife gets sick and husband starts paying attention to costar.
El Charro del Cristo
Director
Favored son of a wealthy rural family forced to go into hiding after killing someone in a duel.
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
Director
Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys rape and murder his wife, then use their young son for target practice. Enough is enough.
La vorágine: abismos de amor
It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.
La última noche
Director
Struggling musician takes sympathy on a homeless woman and they build a life together.
Cartas Marcadas
Screenplay
A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected.
Cartas Marcadas
A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected.
Cartas Marcadas
Director
A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected.
Pito Pérez se va de bracero
Alcoholic hobo drifts across the border and has a series of random adventures.
Lazos de fuego
Adaptation
Mexican movie
Lazos de fuego
Director
Mexican movie
Soledad
Roberto Covarrubias
Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
Soy charro de Rancho Grande
Felipe
La barca de oro
Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
Si me han de matar mañana
Romantic triangle during the Mexican Revolution.
El tigre de Jalisco
Director
A very ordinary little mook is manipulated into posing as a notorious bandit.
¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
Mauricio Gómez
Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
Director
Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
El museo del crimen
Producer
Stage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.
El museo del crimen
Writer
Stage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.
El museo del crimen
Director
Stage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.
El precio de una vida
Director
Una canción en la noche
Director
El abanico de Lady Windermere
A woman with a dubious reputation causes problems in an aristocratic marriage.
Hotel de verano
Writer
This Musical-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, features American actress Janice Logan as the dutiful daughter who is about to wed a much older man and widower as part of an arranged marriage orchestrated by her Father. Plans quickly change, however, once she meets a handsome singer and rising radio star, (played by actor Jose Pulido), who soon sweeps her off her feet-much to the dismay of her dear old Dad. Catchy musical numbers and a charismatic cast add to the charm of this war-time movie release.
Hotel de verano
Director
This Musical-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, features American actress Janice Logan as the dutiful daughter who is about to wed a much older man and widower as part of an arranged marriage orchestrated by her Father. Plans quickly change, however, once she meets a handsome singer and rising radio star, (played by actor Jose Pulido), who soon sweeps her off her feet-much to the dismay of her dear old Dad. Catchy musical numbers and a charismatic cast add to the charm of this war-time movie release.
La mujer sin cabeza
Writer
Mexican Fu Manchu adaptation.
La mujer sin cabeza
Director
Mexican Fu Manchu adaptation.
Mis hijos!
Writer
An endless series of disasters separates a mother from her children. It takes her over twenty years to find her way back to the bosom of her family.
Mis hijos!
Director
An endless series of disasters separates a mother from her children. It takes her over twenty years to find her way back to the bosom of her family.
Divorciadas
Three newly unmarried women room together, start a business, share the ups and downs of their love lives
El espectro de la novia
Director
British-born David T. Bamberg was a magician who went by the stage name of Fu Manchu. He was so popular in Mexico and South America that he was given the opportunity to star in a series of crime / horror / mystery films between 1943 and 1949. This is one of them.
Ave sin nido
Husband, sterile wife, fertile mistress, daughter.
The Spirit's Canyon
Manuel
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.
Jesusita en Chihuahua
Ranchera comedy.
Jesusita en Chihuahua
Director
Ranchera comedy.
El conde de Montecristo
Fernando Mondego / Conde de Morcef
Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
El misterioso señor Marquina
La casa del rencor
Hugo
A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares.
El secreto del sacerdote
Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.
Adios mi chaparrita
Director
Amor de mis amores
Director
Con su amable permiso
Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.
Mala yerba
Don Julián Andrade
Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
The Coward
Director
Alberto is born in wartime, where his father dies a hero. He grows up effeminate. His mother sends him to military college where Fernando bullies him, but they become friends. When war comes, he has to face his fears.
Tierra brava
Director
Financier threatens to foreclose on a cigar-factory's mortgage, but a secret benefactor pays off the owner's debt and saves the day.
Dos cadetes
Director
Mama thinks one of her sons is going into the priesthood... but he wants to join the army instead. Naughty uncle from Paris help him get out from under Mom's thumb.
La cuna vacía
Male half of a young couple gets distracted from his family duties and considers abandoning his wife and daughter.
Don Juan Tenorio
Screenplay
Classic legend of a playboy meeting supernatural comeuppance.
Don Juan Tenorio
Don Juan Tenorio
Classic legend of a playboy meeting supernatural comeuppance.
Don Juan Tenorio
Director
Classic legend of a playboy meeting supernatural comeuppance.
Honrarás a tus padres
Conde de los Pinares
Allá en el Rancho Grande
Felipe
Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
El calvario de una esposa
Sebastián Urquizo
Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is presumed dead. Soon after he returns, scavengers destroy the family home and he and Betty escape westward. Meanwhile, Gen. John Harvey (William Welch), Betty's father, has been seriously injured but is not dead. He arrives at the deserted plantation with the help of Union soldier Tom (Bob Steele), who then pledges to help John find his family
El baúl macabro
Dr. Armando del Valle
A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
Malditas sean las mujeres
Conde Osvaldo de Valdemar
A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro.
Marihuana El Monstruo Verde
Policeman goes undercover to bust drug-smuggling ring.
Hand to Hand
Manuel Chávez
A 1932 film.
Cuando el amor ríe
José Mojica plays a singing vacquero who stops off in la cantina to have muchas cervezas with los muchachos. While José is all beered up, he boasts that he can tame the wild mare -- a horse no man can ride -- owned by local ranchero Don Alvarado (a stolid performance by Carlos Villarias). While he's in the neighbourhood, José also boasts that he can tame the Don's daughter, a Mexican spitfire played by Mona Maris.
Del mismo barro
A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.