Carlos Cardán

Carlos Cardán

Birth : 1932-11-03, Ciudad Lerdo, Durango, Mexico

Death : 2016-07-17

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Carlos Cardán

Movies

El poder es el poder
Los niños del narco
Euforia
Stuck in a world of dreams and nostalgia, Pat struggles to forget the limelight and fleeting fame of his glory days. When a beautiful young woman named Ana saves his life, Pat agrees to drive her to her ancestral home, in hopes that she can save him from his own past. Unpaved roads treat the pair to a bumpy adventure full of anger management, Beethoven and The Doors, as the journey proves to be full of lessons and revelations.
Se buscan III
Pamela: secretos de una pasión
This is the story of the problems of a young 21-year-old woman who, in the context of modern Mexico, tries to escape reality with the false relief granted by drugs and casual sex. Pamela gets involved with an older man called Victor, in an unboundedly passionate relationship that leads them to invent a double life for themselves in order to cross over the boundaries and explore their deepest fantasies. They set off in the company of Miguel, a young and sensual Spaniard, on a trip to Pie de la Cuesta.
Perfidia
AK-47 La Reina De Sinaloa
Venganza cumplida
La muerte del pelavacas
Se buscan II, el tesoro de la hacienda
Esclavo y amo
Lorenzo
Otilia Rauda
Otilia's father
Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly mole that mars her beautiful face. The juxtaposition between fabulous beauty and disfigurement proves unsettling for the villagers and she grows up friendless, save the family's hired hand Melquíades. Though most figured she would end up as a prostitute, she is married off to Isidro, the local police chief. Cruel and petty, this ogre of a man brutalizes her and eventually infects her with venereal disease, rendering her sterile. With the help of Melquíades, Otilia takes a series of lovers to spite her husband. One day, the wounded Ruben -- a wanted outlaw -- staggers onto her doorstep and immediately she is in love. Much to Melquíades' chagrin, she harbors and tends to the criminal as her husband is out hunting for him.
Las Muertas de Juárez
Tomás Montoya
There is a serial killer and the detectives try to capture him. Someone brings him women willing to migrate to the United States, he sexually abuses them and kills them.
Niños de la mafia
"El Güero" is a street child, protected only by Lola, a gallant woman who lavishes on him a little food and affection, among all the misery "Güero" is forced to steal parts of cars in a junkyard. He is beaten when he is caught stealing, and is injured, walks through the city where he is almost run over. The driver of the car is Rogelio, Capo Guzmán's right hand. He picks up and heals "Güero" little by little and gains his affection. He invites him to work within the group of street children for the Capo organization.
Sangre prisionera
Police officer, struggling to bust open an organized crime syndicate, eventually has to deal with the fact that his son is implicated in their activities.
Rivales de sangre
Febronio
One more of the numerous films of Julio Aldama Jr.
Doble fondo
Un indio quiere llorar
Vagabunda
Carioco
Vagabunda is the story of young girl (Flor), well aware about her seductive skills, who arrives from an unknown place into a small town in Verazcruz where she is protected by the widowed father of a family who has two sons; one married and the other one lame. After weighting possibilities she ends up dividing the family to get the benefits of the family patrimony causing the married man to killed his pregnant wife, fact that is covered up by his father. At his sister in law's funeral, the head of the family announced his wedding with Flor which takes place before the burial. But since the now widowed son was cheating with Flor, he ends up being killed by his father as he did when killing his pregnant wife, Perla, giving this initial sensual movie a tragic end.
Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
Lieutenant Rincón
Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.
Su herencia era matar
Odio, amor y muerte
Doble venganza
La metralleta
Capitán Robles
Diana González works for the police and successfully eliminates narco dealers. One of the narco bosses, Constantino, decides to punish her by making Diana's sister to use drugs. This poor girl ends up dying in a S&M orgy. Now Diana is going to kill all those who wronged her with her Machinegun (La metralleta) while being pursued by drug dealers and the local police.
Dying in the Gulf
Santana
The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power between the basements and the domes of Mexican politics, have a narrative record made in the Gulf of accuracy and dexterity
The Rose Strangler
Ciro Ruiz
A trio of female cops are on the trail of a serial killer who maybe connected to a satanic cult.
Motel of Death
Murders take place in and around a hotel. Debuted on Mexican TV.
Red Dawn
Subteniente
On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
El jardín de la paz
An American's couple who live peaceful and quiet in their summer house in Cuernavaca, Mexico, see how their peace and security is broken when a band of delinquents break inside their home violently with the only purpose of extortion.
The Realm of Fortune
Don Isabel
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.
Luz's Motives
Pancho
Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step to reach the Heaven.
Death Squad
Ojo de parche
Mario Balbuena, a honest cop, becomes the victim of an ambush by drug dealers and dirty cops, after that, he recruits a group of sleazy criminals in order to strike his revenge.
Acorralado
Revolutionary on the run from a government hit squad kidnaps a landowner's daughter for protection.
Los dos matones
That cartel guy wants to buy the Terraza family's ranch, but they don't want to sell. Can they hold out till their tough-guy older brother comes home to take charge of this situation?
A Real Man
Braulio Gómez
Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.
Valentín Lazaña
Parody of the Zorro-styled "noble bandit" story.
In the Storm
Jacinto Cruz Usma, sangrenegra
In the storm is a Mexican film of the year 1980 directed by Fernando Vallejo. The film is about the time of La Violencia in Colombia. Vallejo wanted to make the film in Colombia, however he found numerous obstacles to film it in the country so he decided to do it in Mexico with Mexican actors and recreating the Colombian landscapes in that country.
Visita al pasado
Rodrigo
Mexican feature film
Tres de presidio
A dishonest judge knowingly sentences three innocent men to prison. The three eventually escape and have only one thing on their minds--kill the judge.
Crónica roja
After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.
Call Me Mike
Dominguez
After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.
En defensa propia
The leading edge of working-class discontent in a Mexican village is a troop of bandits hiding out in the hills; when the bandit leader is killed, the whole town rises up.
Xoxontla
La ley del monte
Monte law begins as a love story in September in the Mexican Revolution years. To seal their oath to love a boy and girl names recorded on a stalk. Years pass and go their separate ways, but one day the man returns to the same place where the tree meets girl turned woman and resume their love, but soon has to leave again because he has to return to the revolution
Kalimán in the Sinister World of Humanón
Kalimán: Women want to be with him, men want to be him! That old adage fits this character. The superhero was huge in Mexico, the subject of comic books and a radio show that was as popular as the Shadow's was in the States. He's a very philosophical, peace loving man who uses his brains and heart as well as brawn in his capers.
La Bestia Acorralada
Miguel
A man who pretends to be a Dutch immigrant, is discovered by the Israelite Secret Service that he is a German Nazi War Criminal who escaped to Mexico.
El Pistolero del diablo
Mike Nolan
A man is continuously vilified by the other members of the small community in which he lives. One day he meets a strange "doctor" who offers him a great ability with the gun through mysterious magical arts. The man accepts and his vengeance begins. But the price to be paid for the newly acquired skills could be too high.
The Invasion of the Dead
Ranchero
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.
Kalimán, the Incredible Man
Zarur
La mula de Cullen Baker
Los Desalmados
El cuerpazo del delito
(segment "La insaciable")
Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
Pancho Tequila
Naïve moviegoers in his hometown think a certain actor is tough like the characters he plays and will be able to clear their town of badguys.
Blue Demon vs. the Diabolical Women
Wrestler vs. organized crime.
Por mis pistolas
Frank
Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
The Prodigal Son
Lic. Ramos
Suffering mother is reunited with her son after a long absence... and he turns out to be a real rotter.
The Night of the Falcon
Abel Benavente
A man and his godson fall in love with the same woman.
Dr. Satan vs. Black Magic
Capitán Mendía
Plutarco Satan returns, this time he's pitted against a rival evil organization intent on owning the very formula rumored to turn any metal into gold! Dr. Satan must go toe to toe with the vampiric black magician Yei Lin, in order to keep it out of their hands. The cost of failure? His eternal rest!
The Scapular
Julián Fernández
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.