Manuel Capetillo

Manuel Capetillo

Birth : 1926-04-15, Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos, Jalisco, Mexico

Death : 2009-05-05

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Manuel Capetillo

Movies

Las plebes de Sinaloa
Atentados del Poder
A Special Tactic Unit faces a criminal group
Death Lurks
Perseguida
Raul Olvera
A journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from influential politician Hermenegildo Parra. After several unsuccessful attempts they decide to break into his house and make some photos there but when they enter his cabinet they see him stabbed with the knife. The next day the newspaper announces his death and start to celebrate a big amount of sold copies but during the fiesta a phone calls and it was Mr.Parra "alive and kicking". After this scandal Lorena becomes pursued by some mysterious killers who want to take the negatives from her at any price. The solution of this mystery is very unexpected...
Mi fantasma y yo
A family of three moves to a haunted house. The couple's 10-year-old son runs into the ghost of the house but isn't scared. He tells the ghost that since his father is a writer of horror novels he lost fear of horror stories. The ghost then confides in the boy that he is a lonely ghost on account of the modern world focused on so many material priorities. Child and ghost become best friends, playing together, telling stories and helping the ghost pay his rent by scaring people every month.
La noche de la bestia
Ingeniero
A group of friends on a hunting trip, staying at a cabin in the middle of nowhere start being attacked by a beast.
Ghosts Who Love Too Much
Mexican feature film
Cuando corrio el alazan
La muerte cruzó el río Bravo
Presidente municipal
Rich man's son in a small town thinks he can get away with anything, including rape and murder.
Los Reyes del Palenque
Widow becomes professional singer to meet expenses. Love complications come along with the territory.
La sotana del reo
Mexican feature film
The Living Forces
It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.
Vuelve el ojo de vidrio
Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the Mexican Revolution.
El ojo de vidrio
Gumaro Buenavista
El as de oros
A young charro's head is turned by a glamourpuss from the big city, and he has a hard time putting his life back together after she kicks him to the curb.
Requiem por un canalla
Wolfie
The Treasure of Moctezuma
Santo and Jorge Rivero team-up to stop an international syndicate from stealing Mexico's greatest treasure.
The Batwoman
Swedish Wrestler (uncredited)
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!
Los malvados
Four amoral drifters team up to retrieve a cache of gold coins from its hiding place.
Duelo de pistoleros
Four expert marksmen compete in a target shooting competition. Each has a back-story that explains why he really really really needs the prize money.
Alma llanera
Ramiro Leyva
A Venezuelan rancher tries to preserve his traditional way of life in spite of modernizing influences brought when international business discovers oil in his region.
Cargando con el muerto
Moving company bozos are left holding the bag when bad guys hire them to transport a corpse.
La conquista de El Dorado
A new Judge and Sheriff, plus support staff, come to town to clean up El Dorado's lawless ways.
El padre diablo
Rateros último modelo
Singing duo waiting for their big break, committing petty crimes to get by. Adopting a baby and meeting a priest's niece are civilizing influences.
La gitana y el charro
Manuel Gálvez
Caravan of gypsies sets up camp outside an old-style Mexican hacienda.
The Bloody Revolver
Rogelio Cruz
Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.
Juan guerrero
Government official in charge of land grants for tenant farmers gets into a ruckus with the feisty daughter of a landower whose estate is up for redistribution.
Las bravuconas
Three big-city wimps have to pass for machos when they go to their home-town.
La divina garza
Film of 1963 directed by Humberto Gómez Landero, starring Elvira Quintana, Manuel Capetillo and Joaquín García Vargas.
Rutilo el forastero
Another Cowboy-Justice-Hero. One-shot, not part of a series.
Then God Named It Earth
Sebastián
During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
Viva Jalisco que es mi tierra
Manuel
Mom doesn't approve of her son's fiancée, so she schemes a scheme to throw him together with a woman she likes better. It involves him leaving town to become a bullfighter, and...
La ley de las pistolas
Fancy shooting-iron awarded as a prize in a marksmanship competition, passes from hand to hand.
Vivo o muerto
Cowboy/western: hero fakes cowardice to trap the bad guys into showing their hands.
Las hermanas Karambazo
Three brothers meet three sisters from the nearest town.
Acapulcan
Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the Muslims Mustafa and Ali, the Brazilian Mr. Carioca and the charro José Lorenzo meet to carry out the project. Among the men there will be a series of entanglements to dispute the love of the young woman.
Dos novias para un torero