Gilberto Martínez Solares

Gilberto Martínez Solares

Birth : 1906-01-19, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Death : 1997-01-18

History

Mexican actor, cinematographer, director and screenwriter.

Profile

Gilberto Martínez Solares

Movies

El día de los Albañiles IV
Director
Just arriving from his town to the capital, Roberto asks for accommodation to his ambitious relatives. As he does not bring money, he is forced to work as a bricklayer in a construction in which he lives an endless number of dangerous adventures.
El asesinato
Writer
El asesinato
Director
La mujer de los dos
Writer
The boys in a famous pop-band all have girl troubles. And other problems. Sucks being them.
La mujer de los dos
Director
The boys in a famous pop-band all have girl troubles. And other problems. Sucks being them.
Salvame! Una Luz En La Oscuridad
Ricardo has lived life on the edge after the untimely death of his grandfather. Alcohol & drugs consume him and hopes to avenge his grandfather's death someday. Ricardo longs to be saved from his darkened days and is also pursuing a career in singing.
Devuélveme a mi hijo
Director
Mujeres infieles
Screenplay
Three stories about three high middle class women from Mexico City who are unfaithful to their partners. 1) Julieta is a married with Eduardo, a publicist addicted to work. 2) Clara is a capricious and fickle girl who is committed to marry Ricardo, a lawyer, until she meets Alfonzo, the architect in charge of remodeling the apartment where the couple will live when they get married. 3) Mariana and Rafaela are married for 10 years and have a daughter, but she is dissatisfied with their marriage until she decides to contact Armando, a man much older than her, through a magazine contact.
Mujeres infieles
Story
Three stories about three high middle class women from Mexico City who are unfaithful to their partners. 1) Julieta is a married with Eduardo, a publicist addicted to work. 2) Clara is a capricious and fickle girl who is committed to marry Ricardo, a lawyer, until she meets Alfonzo, the architect in charge of remodeling the apartment where the couple will live when they get married. 3) Mariana and Rafaela are married for 10 years and have a daughter, but she is dissatisfied with their marriage until she decides to contact Armando, a man much older than her, through a magazine contact.
Mujeres infieles
Director
Three stories about three high middle class women from Mexico City who are unfaithful to their partners. 1) Julieta is a married with Eduardo, a publicist addicted to work. 2) Clara is a capricious and fickle girl who is committed to marry Ricardo, a lawyer, until she meets Alfonzo, the architect in charge of remodeling the apartment where the couple will live when they get married. 3) Mariana and Rafaela are married for 10 years and have a daughter, but she is dissatisfied with their marriage until she decides to contact Armando, a man much older than her, through a magazine contact.
Crímenes de pasión
Don Gil
Gabriel, a mentally unstable actor, upon release from asylum falls for aspiring actress Julieta, and tries to help her win film roles – only, she doesn’t fancy him one bit, and merely uses his connections for bettering her career. Her best friend Letícia, also an aspiring actress, uses a friend’s uncle – a senator, to further her ambition. Both their interests clash at some point – crime ensues.
Más allá del deseo
Director
Sea creature who looks like a human girl takes the place of a couple's drowned daughter. She grows up into a beautiful woman who wears very little clothing, and she2 meets a young man and they fall in love. Then...
Los verduleros 3
Writer
Enjoy a fun day with the cops that leak to bad to good to pursue! A sensational affair with a dangerous killer who escapes from prison and decides to take revenge on them killing them one to one ... If crime is bad business and crime a disease ... do not worry friends Alfonso Zayas is medicine! Enjoy this sensational sexy comedy with more parrots and destrampados greengrocers market of laughter and love.
La negra Tomasa
Screenplay
Based on the infamous song by the same name "La Negra Tomasa". This is a comical adventure based in a barrio in Mexico. César Bono plays a police office, Alfonso Zayas a ladies' man and Roberto Ballesteros a dangerous loan shark who abducts Tomasa out of passion.
La negra Tomasa
Director
Based on the infamous song by the same name "La Negra Tomasa". This is a comical adventure based in a barrio in Mexico. César Bono plays a police office, Alfonso Zayas a ladies' man and Roberto Ballesteros a dangerous loan shark who abducts Tomasa out of passion.
Curados de espantos
Screenplay
During an excavation, archaeologist Magdalena (Lina Santos) accidentally resurrects a centuries-old vampire named Vladimir, who promptly disappears. When she attempts to warn authorities, she's locked away in a mental hospital for a spell. Upon release, she sets out to stop the vampire, who's now taken over a nightclub.
Curados de espantos
Story
During an excavation, archaeologist Magdalena (Lina Santos) accidentally resurrects a centuries-old vampire named Vladimir, who promptly disappears. When she attempts to warn authorities, she's locked away in a mental hospital for a spell. Upon release, she sets out to stop the vampire, who's now taken over a nightclub.
Midnight Women
Screenplay
An assassin stalks and murders women to mutilate them and turn them into models.
Midnight Women
Producer
An assassin stalks and murders women to mutilate them and turn them into models.
El diario íntimo de una cabaretera
Writer
Martha is a single woman who becomes pregnant and commits suicide after giving birth to a pair of twins, Jessica and Angelica, who are adopted separately. Years later, Angelica becomes a lawyer working for the mafia. Jessica, who was adopted by a prostitute, has become a criminal and is now arrested for the murder of her husband. In prison she tries to be friends with the director without success and she has to pay her sentence.
El diario íntimo de una cabaretera
Director
Martha is a single woman who becomes pregnant and commits suicide after giving birth to a pair of twins, Jessica and Angelica, who are adopted separately. Years later, Angelica becomes a lawyer working for the mafia. Jessica, who was adopted by a prostitute, has become a criminal and is now arrested for the murder of her husband. In prison she tries to be friends with the director without success and she has to pay her sentence.
Tres lancheros muy picudos
Writer
Son las emocionantes aventuras de tres lancheros holgazanes en Acapulco. Cada uno de ellos se ve involucrado en diferentes problemas y tienen que salir huyendo a la ciudad de México. Ahí se esconden en la casa de unas amigas para evadir a los gangsters que los buscan solo que las muchachas resultan ser prostitutas y todo se complica. The exciting adventures of three men who drive boats in Acapulco. Each gets involved in different problems and all have to run away to Mexico City to elude the gangsters who are after them. They hide in the house of some lady friends who turn out to be "working girls" and things get really wild.
Tres lancheros muy picudos
Producer
Son las emocionantes aventuras de tres lancheros holgazanes en Acapulco. Cada uno de ellos se ve involucrado en diferentes problemas y tienen que salir huyendo a la ciudad de México. Ahí se esconden en la casa de unas amigas para evadir a los gangsters que los buscan solo que las muchachas resultan ser prostitutas y todo se complica. The exciting adventures of three men who drive boats in Acapulco. Each gets involved in different problems and all have to run away to Mexico City to elude the gangsters who are after them. They hide in the house of some lady friends who turn out to be "working girls" and things get really wild.
Los gatos de las azoteas
Director
There are people disappearing in an apartment building and a psychopath killer is doing it. A man is busy cheating on his wife, another man is looking for love in the same building. It's up to Los Gatos to stop the sexy madness.
El sexo me divierte
Director
The sexual adventures that take place in the rooms of a luxury hotel.
Los verduleros 2
Writer
Two police officers decide to open a police academy where many applicants are enrolled, most of them stupid and without powers.
El día de los albañiles 3
Director
Tres Mexicanos ardientes
Director
El día de los albañiles 2
Writer
Sequel to Day of the Laborer. Roberto and his wife Beatriz work on a construction site, him as a laborer and her selling food. Another laborer El Chalan, seduces neighborhood maids in order to rob the homes where they work. In the neighborhood there is also a serial killer on the loose who preys on prostitutes.
El día de los albañiles 2
Director
Sequel to Day of the Laborer. Roberto and his wife Beatriz work on a construction site, him as a laborer and her selling food. Another laborer El Chalan, seduces neighborhood maids in order to rob the homes where they work. In the neighborhood there is also a serial killer on the loose who preys on prostitutes.
El ratero de la vecindad 2
Producer
Roberto y su nueva familia estan pasando por dificultades economicas por lo que decide formar otra vez su vieja banda y comienzan a tratar de organizar algunos robos que resultan mal. La esposa de Roberto y su abuelita recurren al engaño disfrazandose de monjitas para poder vender galletas y rompope, sin embargo la abuelita hace de las suyas y se meten en problemas.
El ratero de la vecindad 2
Director
Roberto y su nueva familia estan pasando por dificultades economicas por lo que decide formar otra vez su vieja banda y comienzan a tratar de organizar algunos robos que resultan mal. La esposa de Roberto y su abuelita recurren al engaño disfrazandose de monjitas para poder vender galletas y rompope, sin embargo la abuelita hace de las suyas y se meten en problemas.
El día de los albañiles
Screenplay
Just arrived from his village to the capital, Roberto calls hosting its ambitious relatives. As not bring money is forced to work as a bricklayer in a construction in which a host of dangerous adventures live.
El vecindario 2
Screenplay
El vecindario 2
Director
El ratero de la vecindad
Director
Roberto es un ladrón que le hace creer a su hijo Pepito y a todos sus vecinos que es un honesto Mecánico. La güerita recién llegada a la vecindad es la muchacha de la que Roberto se ha enamorado. Pero Roberto tiene una doble vida, ya que también es Bobby "El elagante" jefe de una banda de ladrones, quienes siempre fallan en todos sus robos y juntos se ven envueltos en persecuciones graciosas y equivocaciones constantes. Una divertida comedia para toda la familia.
The Neighborhood
Screenplay
Mexican comedian Alfonso Zayas is just one of the many folks in town who are cheating on their spouses, imagining themselves quite clever and secretive, even while unbeknownst to them their spouses are cheating on them in turn! When one of the many women with whom Zayas has a child dies tragically, he attempts to integrate his daughter into one of his other families, calling her his goddaughter. But when his son falls in love with her, the many sexual escapades around town threaten to take a disturbing turn for the worse.
The Neighborhood
Director
Mexican comedian Alfonso Zayas is just one of the many folks in town who are cheating on their spouses, imagining themselves quite clever and secretive, even while unbeknownst to them their spouses are cheating on them in turn! When one of the many women with whom Zayas has a child dies tragically, he attempts to integrate his daughter into one of his other families, calling her his goddaughter. But when his son falls in love with her, the many sexual escapades around town threaten to take a disturbing turn for the worse.
El contrabando del paso
Director
A shady associate from the past tempts the owner of a failing nightclub into a drug-smuggling scheme.
Hijos de tigre
Director
Two half-brothers are spiky and resentful toward each other, but they find common cause together when their father is murdered.
Golpe a la Mafia
Director
A cop confronts a gang of drug traffickers.
La banda del polvo maldito
Director
A man returns home only to find out his friend is an undercover drug enforcement agent who is trying to dismantle a criminal organization from within.
La banda del polvo maldito
Script
A man returns home only to find out his friend is an undercover drug enforcement agent who is trying to dismantle a criminal organization from within.
Ángel del silencio
Director
Handicapped day-laborer crushes out on a ranchera singer, then has a chance to save her from ruffians. After that, he becomes a ward/employee of a Catholic orphanage and trains for lucha libre competition with an aging wrestler who mentors him.
Mystery in the Bermuda Triangle
Adaptation
Beautiful Silvia and Sandra disappear mysteriously at the Bermuda Triangle. Santo, Blue Demon and Mil Mascaras, a team of super-heroes, go into action to try to find them. Soon they find out that evil Scientist Dr. Gro has developed a device to make people and objects to disappear blaming the famous vanishings of ships, airplanes and human beings on Mother Nature. Cast: Santo el Enmascarado de Plata, Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, Silvia Manrquez and, Sandra Duarte
Mystery in the Bermuda Triangle
Story
Beautiful Silvia and Sandra disappear mysteriously at the Bermuda Triangle. Santo, Blue Demon and Mil Mascaras, a team of super-heroes, go into action to try to find them. Soon they find out that evil Scientist Dr. Gro has developed a device to make people and objects to disappear blaming the famous vanishings of ships, airplanes and human beings on Mother Nature. Cast: Santo el Enmascarado de Plata, Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, Silvia Manrquez and, Sandra Duarte
Mystery in the Bermuda Triangle
Director
Beautiful Silvia and Sandra disappear mysteriously at the Bermuda Triangle. Santo, Blue Demon and Mil Mascaras, a team of super-heroes, go into action to try to find them. Soon they find out that evil Scientist Dr. Gro has developed a device to make people and objects to disappear blaming the famous vanishings of ships, airplanes and human beings on Mother Nature. Cast: Santo el Enmascarado de Plata, Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, Silvia Manrquez and, Sandra Duarte
Okey, Mister Pancho
Director
La India Maria becomes deeply embroiled in a large scale diamond heist.
El norteño enamorado
Director
Boy sees his family murdered in Texas returns to Mexico. Grown up, he goes back to Texas to avenge his parents.
En esta primavera
Director
College student falls into the orbit of pop singer Juan Gabriel and they become very close, despite opposition from a woman scorned in his background, her abusive boyfriend and her parents.
El circo de Capulina
Director
Two unethical businessmen are trying to swindle Capulina and his niece out of a piece of real-estate, but Capulina wants to use that vacant lot to present a circus.
De Cocula es el mariachi
Director
A ranchera singer and his band emigrate to Texas to try their luck there.
Capulina Chisme Caliente
Writer
When he lands a job as a telephone operator, Capulina -- legendary Mexican funnyman Gaspar Henaine -- quickly discovers that he can get the best gossip in town by eavesdropping on callers' private conversations. But when he uses these juicy tidbits to help a local newspaper boost its circulation, he unleashes a firestorm of scandal that threatens to ruin him. Gilberto Martínez Solares directs this comedy.
Capulina Chisme Caliente
Director
When he lands a job as a telephone operator, Capulina -- legendary Mexican funnyman Gaspar Henaine -- quickly discovers that he can get the best gossip in town by eavesdropping on callers' private conversations. But when he uses these juicy tidbits to help a local newspaper boost its circulation, he unleashes a firestorm of scandal that threatens to ruin him. Gilberto Martínez Solares directs this comedy.
Caballo prieto afamado
Director
Two roving gamblers. Cockfights, horse-races, a jealous boyfriend and an avenging brother...
Cuartelazo
Embajador
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
El guía de las turistas
Director
A clownish 'tour-guide' takes a group of wealthy foreign vacation-gals to Acapulco.
El Compadre Mas Padre
Director
Four male friends compete for the attentions of three female friends.
Chanoc en el foso de las serpientes
Director
Chanoc and Tzekub are hired to hunt two black jaguars, but they've tasted human flesh and strange occurrences have been going on.
Chanoc en el foso de las serpientes
Story
Chanoc and Tzekub are hired to hunt two black jaguars, but they've tasted human flesh and strange occurrences have been going on.
Satanic Pandemonium
Writer
Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!
Satanic Pandemonium
Director
Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!
El investigador Capulina
Director
Child-in-adult-body tries to play Detective, but he's too stupid, and his lucha-libre friends have to cover his ass every time he fouls a case up or gets thrown in jail. Meanwhile, there's a rogue Bank President who has a teleportation machine that he's using to make unauthorized withdrawals from rival banks, and...
El carita
Director
Door-to-door salesman of beauty products gets involved in comical misadventures and riotous high jinks. Also throwing buckets of water and handfuls of colored goop.
Las hijas de don Laureano
Director
El bueno para nada
Director
Bumbling inventor/jack of all trades does sketch-comedy stuff for 65 minutes, then rescues Mexico City from a Mad Scientist triggering earthquakes.
Las tarántulas
Director
From the 'Chanoc' series of comic-book adaptations: Chanoc and his entourage face off against a jewel thief who has eyes on a shipwrecked treasure lying off the coast.
El metiche
Writer
Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
El metiche
Director
Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
Cuna de valientes
Director
Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire
Director
Chanoc must defeat an evil vampire known as Count Frankenhausen.
El nano: Niñera con bigotes
Director
Rich family's lovable groundskeeper is charged with caring for the seven children when Mum and Dad go on vacation.
The Moderate Doctor
Director
Underqualified doofus tries to run a medical clinic.
Chanoc en las garras de las fieras
Director
Comic-book adaptation: Tarzan-type in the Mexican outback.
The World of the Dead
Director
Santo and Blue Demon take on a 300-year-old witch with a nasty attitude. She raises a legion of zombies and sends them to fight Santo in his home and in the rings.
Santo and Blue Demon Against the Monsters
Director
Bruno Halder a sinister scientist seeking revenge against his brother and niece is resurrected by Waldo his faithful sidekick. Besides his minions of zombies Halder enlists the help of Wolfman, Franquestain, a Vampire, a Mummy and a Cyclops. Once again the survival of mankind is put in the hands of Santo
Gregorio y su angel
Writer
An alcoholic janitor is fired from his job at an orphanage, and is befriended by an angel in the guise of a little girl, who proceeds to change his life.
Gregorio y su angel
Director
An alcoholic janitor is fired from his job at an orphanage, and is befriended by an angel in the guise of a little girl, who proceeds to change his life.
Misión cumplida
Director
Blue Demon y las invasoras
Director
Title says it all. Wrestler, interplanetary babes...
Las Sicodélicas
Director
Maura Monti (Mireya), Amedee Chabot (Adriana), Isela Vega (Dalila) and Elizabeth Campbell (Patricia), are hit women who kill men in cold blood. But not everybody, only men who don't comply with their 'godmother' (Tamara Garina)
Amor en las nubes
Writer
Guatemalan-Mexican film about air hostesses.
El misterio de los hongos alucinantes
Writer
El misterio de los hongos alucinantes
Director
The Specter's Road
Director
A group of people, including Capulina and Viruta, head towards the city by train. A heavy storm interrupts their journey and now they must take a haunted path to reach they city. (English Subtitled)
Los perversos a-go-go
Director
Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.
El ángel y yo
Director
Ex-con breaks into a house and ends up bonding with a toddler instead of burgling the way he'd planned.
Marcelo y María
Director
Late 16th century: two Azteca teens are very much in love, but older folks have designs on each of them. This can't end well...
Alazán y enamorado
Director
Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.
Dos meseros majaderos
Director
Comic duo are stalked by a serial killer.
Cada quién su lucha
Director
Bumbling "comedians" klutz around with a fake spiritualist-medium and a bunch of pro wrestlers.
Los tres salvajes
Director
Ranchera comedy: three guys compete for the farmer's daughter.
Alma llanera
Director
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.
Tintansón Cruzoe
Director
Tin Tan is marooned on an island full of colorful natives.
Me ha gustado un hombre
Director
A girl poses as man in order to work in a hotel bellhop. A guest is attracted to her but thinks it is and confused man goes to a psychologist.
Los Tales por cuales
Director
Western comedy. Stranger-in-town falls into an ambivalent love/hate relationship with the sheriff.
Mi héroe
Director
Lawless Youth
Director
Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father.
Face of the Screaming Werewolf
Writer
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarnated Aztec woman. Via her recovered memories, she is able to lead Redding and his associates to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan, where they hope to find the lost treasure of the Aztecs. Instead, they find two mummified bodies - one of a modern man, quite dead, and the other of an ancient Aztec, quite alive. They are able to return safely to Pasadena with both finds, but a rival professor, Janney, kills Redding and steals the body of the modern man-mummy. This he subjects to a resurrection experiment, which works - only the mummy proves to be a werewolf. Two supernatural menaces roam the city that night. This film is composed of footage from two unrelated Mexican horror movies, LA CASA DEL TERROR and LA MOMIA AZTECA, plus new footage shot in the U.S. by Jerry Warren.
Face of the Screaming Werewolf
Director
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarnated Aztec woman. Via her recovered memories, she is able to lead Redding and his associates to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan, where they hope to find the lost treasure of the Aztecs. Instead, they find two mummified bodies - one of a modern man, quite dead, and the other of an ancient Aztec, quite alive. They are able to return safely to Pasadena with both finds, but a rival professor, Janney, kills Redding and steals the body of the modern man-mummy. This he subjects to a resurrection experiment, which works - only the mummy proves to be a werewolf. Two supernatural menaces roam the city that night. This film is composed of footage from two unrelated Mexican horror movies, LA CASA DEL TERROR and LA MOMIA AZTECA, plus new footage shot in the U.S. by Jerry Warren.
La criada malcriada
Director
Azucena is a saucy maid whose personality causes many comical situations. These will increase when the family she works for hosts a recently widowed millionaire returning to Puerto Rico after many years.
Napoleoncito
Director
La gitana y el charro
Director
Caravan of gypsies sets up camp outside an old-style Mexican hacienda.
De color moreno
Writer
De color moreno
Director
Bullfighter for One Day
Director
El Piporro, desperate to earn more money, decides to fight and put his skills to the test in the rodeo using a nickname.
A 16 Year Old Young-Woman
Director
Papa hires a "boyfriend" to indulge her in her fantasies of old-fashioned romance.
Las hijas del Amapolo
Director
Six grown-up daughers need husbands. Is big problem for El amapolo.
Los valientes no mueren
Director
Charro-dude wants his sister to marry into professional city-folk and move into the upper classes... but she's in love with somebody from their own social stratum.
Viva Chihuahua
Director
Respectable guy uses a pseudonym when he wants to cut loose in a neighboring town. A friend of his picks up the pseudonym habit, and they take turns pretending to be the same person, until their cover stories get too snarled to continue.
Suicídate mi amor
Screenplay
Tin Tan is an eccentric wealthy man who comes across a beautiful woman who doesn't want to live anymore.
Suicídate mi amor
Director
Tin Tan is an eccentric wealthy man who comes across a beautiful woman who doesn't want to live anymore.
Las Leandras
Director
Mistaken identity farce; theatre troupe moves into a rental mansion in order to convince someone that it's a finishing school for young ladies... but the site used to be an expensive brothel, and a former customer turns up at just the wrong moment. Wacky complications!
El duende y yo
Screenplay
Modesto works as clerk in the Vulcania company and aims to start a project to benefit the workers who work there. Modesto befriends Diana and by confusion, the owners of the company believe that she is his wife. Inviting them to dinner at his house, Modesto tries to show his project to get a promotion without imagining that your boss really cares about is his supposed wife Diana
El duende y yo
Director
Modesto works as clerk in the Vulcania company and aims to start a project to benefit the workers who work there. Modesto befriends Diana and by confusion, the owners of the company believe that she is his wife. Inviting them to dinner at his house, Modesto tries to show his project to get a promotion without imagining that your boss really cares about is his supposed wife Diana
Ojos tapatíos
Director
The Phantom of the Operetta
Screenplay
Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume.
The Phantom of the Operetta
Writer
Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume.
Vivo o muerto
Director
Cowboy/western: hero fakes cowardice to trap the bad guys into showing their hands.
Una estrella y dos estrellados
Story
In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements.
Una estrella y dos estrellados
Director
In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements.
Vuelta al paraíso
Screenplay
All men who arrive on a small island fall in love with the daughters of an old fisherman who live there.
Vuelta al paraíso
Director
All men who arrive on a small island fall in love with the daughters of an old fisherman who live there.
House of Terror
Writer
Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness makes him - because his boss, the Professor, is secretly draining blood from him while he dozes to use in experiments in raising the dead. These haven't worked so far, and the bodies have been waxened and placed on display in the museum to cover his crimes. His big chance seems to come, however, when he learns that the mummified body of a modern man has been found in an Egyptian sarcophagus. The professor and his two henchmen steal the body and take it back to his lab - where the experiment flops again.
House of Terror
Director
Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness makes him - because his boss, the Professor, is secretly draining blood from him while he dozes to use in experiments in raising the dead. These haven't worked so far, and the bodies have been waxened and placed on display in the museum to cover his crimes. His big chance seems to come, however, when he learns that the mummified body of a modern man has been found in an Egyptian sarcophagus. The professor and his two henchmen steal the body and take it back to his lab - where the experiment flops again.
El tesoro de Chucho el Roto
Director
A notorious bandit dies and adventurers try to track down his hidden loot.
El ciclón
Director
Cowboy revenge-drama, paired with a love triangle between two Mexican fellers and a rather unpleasant gringa.
Escuela de verano
Director
Aging lecher struggles to launch an institution of higher learning for young ladies.
Besos de arena
Director
Romantic rivalries and violence on a tropical island.
Kermesse
Director
Four young couples cement their primary relationships during the town fair.
¡Paso a la juventud..!
Director
Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate.
Mientras el cuerpo aguante
Director
Housekeeper inherits her employer's fortune, tries to enter into society and make a good match for her God-daughter.
School for Mothers-in-Law
Adaptation
Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him.
School for Mothers-in-Law
Director
Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him.
La feria de San Marcos
Director
Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.
La sombra del otro
Director
Una divertida aventura de Viruta y Capulina en donde se verán enredados en un lío de boxeadores confundiendo tanto la situación que ni sus bellas amigas los podrán salvar de una gran golpiza.
Los tres mosqueteros y medio
Director
Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.
La ciudad de los niños
Director
Priest feels a calling to open an orphanage.
El organillero
Director
Organ grinder grooms his girlfriend as a professional singer.
The Window Gossip
Director
A quirky peeper with a telescope accidentally discovers serial-killer activity across the courtyard.
Vivir a todo dar
Director
Clavillazo is a likeable drifter who gets his diploma because his teachers want to lose sight of him. He lives on what he can find in the street. However, nothing can stop him from helping those around him.
El vividor
Director
Con-artist cleans up his act to score points with a new girlfriend.
Ladies Club
Writer
Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
Ladies Club
Director
Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
El sultán descalzo
Director
Jack-of-all-trades interferes in his neighbors' lives, then has to set everything straight.
Pura vida
Director
Hapless Melquiades arrives in the city and embarrasses his relatives.
Qué lindo Cha Cha Cha
Director
Satan opens a nightclub in a small town, scheming to seduce the townsfolk into naughtiness.
Los líos de Barba Azul
Adaptation
A news reporter falls in love with a millionaire's young daughter, but her father tells him he won't let them marry unless he earns one million Pesos first. Helped by a friend, he tries to earn the money by marrying - and murdering - four rich women.
Los líos de Barba Azul
Director
A news reporter falls in love with a millionaire's young daughter, but her father tells him he won't let them marry unless he earns one million Pesos first. Helped by a friend, he tries to earn the money by marrying - and murdering - four rich women.
Pobre huerfanita
Director
Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home.
Mulata
Writer
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.
Mulata
Director
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 Vizconde de Montecristo
Script
Inocencio Dante, the intendant of a bank, where the director Don Miguel and their children; Marga who spends money without control, Polo who spent on gambling, have defrauded the bank with eight hundred thousand pesos, have agreed to coax "Chencho" and make it appear as responsible for the theft. In prison, "Chencho" knows Don Facundo Farias to whom he talks about his sorrows, Don Facundo happens to be the leader of the gang that stole twenty million pesos and is the only survivor who knows the place where the money is buried. After a fight, "Chencho" is put into a cell for defending Don Facundo, he in gratitude and before dying from pneumonia advises how to escape and where to find the money.later Inocencio In the style of Count of Monte Cristo flees giving a positive spin into his life. Pleasant moments alive with sparkling, funny and comical adventures of the Viscount of Montecristo.
El Vizconde de Montecristo
Story
Inocencio Dante, the intendant of a bank, where the director Don Miguel and their children; Marga who spends money without control, Polo who spent on gambling, have defrauded the bank with eight hundred thousand pesos, have agreed to coax "Chencho" and make it appear as responsible for the theft. In prison, "Chencho" knows Don Facundo Farias to whom he talks about his sorrows, Don Facundo happens to be the leader of the gang that stole twenty million pesos and is the only survivor who knows the place where the money is buried. After a fight, "Chencho" is put into a cell for defending Don Facundo, he in gratitude and before dying from pneumonia advises how to escape and where to find the money.later Inocencio In the style of Count of Monte Cristo flees giving a positive spin into his life. Pleasant moments alive with sparkling, funny and comical adventures of the Viscount of Montecristo.
El Vizconde de Montecristo
Director
Inocencio Dante, the intendant of a bank, where the director Don Miguel and their children; Marga who spends money without control, Polo who spent on gambling, have defrauded the bank with eight hundred thousand pesos, have agreed to coax "Chencho" and make it appear as responsible for the theft. In prison, "Chencho" knows Don Facundo Farias to whom he talks about his sorrows, Don Facundo happens to be the leader of the gang that stole twenty million pesos and is the only survivor who knows the place where the money is buried. After a fight, "Chencho" is put into a cell for defending Don Facundo, he in gratitude and before dying from pneumonia advises how to escape and where to find the money.later Inocencio In the style of Count of Monte Cristo flees giving a positive spin into his life. Pleasant moments alive with sparkling, funny and comical adventures of the Viscount of Montecristo.
El mariachi desconocido
Writer
This film is considered one of Tin Tan's funniest comedies. This time, the charismatic comedian incarnates a mariachi musician that lives the most entertaining an extraordinary adventures while traveling from Mexico to the paradisaic island of Cuba. An example of the excellent cinematographic comedy that only Tin Tan can achieve.
El mariachi desconocido
Screenplay
This film is considered one of Tin Tan's funniest comedies. This time, the charismatic comedian incarnates a mariachi musician that lives the most entertaining an extraordinary adventures while traveling from Mexico to the paradisaic island of Cuba. An example of the excellent cinematographic comedy that only Tin Tan can achieve.
Dios los cría
Adaptation
Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
Dios los cría
Director
Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
El vagabundo
Director
Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.
Here Come The Freeloaders
Writer
Authorities close down a restaurant after a violent crime is committed on the premises; the employees look for new jobs and try to track down the murderer.
Here Come The Freeloaders
Director
Authorities close down a restaurant after a violent crime is committed on the premises; the employees look for new jobs and try to track down the murderer.
Me traes de un ala
Director
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
Rumba caliente
Director
Stage-hand and a concession-girl try to break into showbiz.
The Sleeping Beauty
Director
A Mexican comedy loosely playing off of the tale of Sleeping Beauty. A caveman wakes up after a thousand year slumber. When he awakens he is seen as a wonder to behold, and discovers his ancient love and romantic rival are seemingly still alive as well.
Chucho El Remendado
Director
"Gentleman bandit" acts out ridiculous schemes to steal valuables from his society friends.
El Ceniciento
Writer
Valentin reaches Mexico City to stay with his countrymen Marcelo and Sirenia, parents of thirteen children. Marcelo gladly serves Valentin until he realizes that he is poor and throws him out of the house. By a suggestion Sirenia, Marcelo employs Valentin as a servant and exploits it mercilessly. But with the help of Andres, the fate of Valentin takes an unexpected turn.
El Ceniciento
Director
Valentin reaches Mexico City to stay with his countrymen Marcelo and Sirenia, parents of thirteen children. Marcelo gladly serves Valentin until he realizes that he is poor and throws him out of the house. By a suggestion Sirenia, Marcelo employs Valentin as a servant and exploits it mercilessly. But with the help of Andres, the fate of Valentin takes an unexpected turn.
Las locuras de Tin Tan
Adaptation
Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.
Las locuras de Tin Tan
Director
Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.
Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
Story
A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.
Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
Director
A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.
The Troublemaker
Story
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
The Troublemaker
Director
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
My Dear Captain
Writer
My Dear Captain
Director
Simbad el Mareado
Director
The Mexican comedy Simbad el Mareado stars the popular comic Tin-Tan. The story concerns the adventurer Sinbad who becomes sidetracked from his quest for riches and love when he suffers from a psychotic belief that his best friend is a commoner who may be in line to receive a financial windfall.
The Mark of the Skunk
Writer
In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.
The Mark of the Skunk
Director
In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.
The King of the Neighborhood
Writer
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
The King of the Neighborhood
Director
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
¡No me defiendas, compadre!
Writer
A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse.
¡No me defiendas, compadre!
Director
A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse.
Conozco a los dos
Director
Twin brothers separated at birth accidentally meet each other 25 years later. Girlfriends and coworkers are confounded, wacky hijinks!
Soy Charro de Levita
Adaptation
Tin-Tan and his carnal Marcelo take over Carmelita baby for a few hours, and suddenly, the three are hired by an employer of the tents, starting the funniest adventures you can imagine.
Soy Charro de Levita
Director
Tin-Tan and his carnal Marcelo take over Carmelita baby for a few hours, and suddenly, the three are hired by an employer of the tents, starting the funniest adventures you can imagine.
Novia a la medida
Director
Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.
Perez Family
Adaptation
Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money.
Perez Family
Story
Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money.
Perez Family
Director
Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money.
What a Beautiful Legs!
Screenplay
A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets out organize a musical starring beauties from Brazil, Mexico, and Spain in this Spanish-language comedy starring popular funnyman Tin Tan. Now, as the hapless imposter attempts to finance a musical without any money, he also discovers just how difficult it can be to juggle three beautiful starlets who all have eyes for their presumably wealthy producer.
What a Beautiful Legs!
Director
A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets out organize a musical starring beauties from Brazil, Mexico, and Spain in this Spanish-language comedy starring popular funnyman Tin Tan. Now, as the hapless imposter attempts to finance a musical without any money, he also discovers just how difficult it can be to juggle three beautiful starlets who all have eyes for their presumably wealthy producer.
El casado casa quiere
Director
La novia del mar
Director
Cinco rostros de mujer
Director
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
The Last Adventure
Director
All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again.
Tragic Weddings
Director
Romantic triangles, rural/hacienda setting.
La señora de enfrente
Director
Two travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church ladies.
El jagüey de las ruinas
Director
Un beso en la noche
Writer
The strange behavior of a woman leads her loved one to consult with a psychiatrist.
Un beso en la noche
Director
The strange behavior of a woman leads her loved one to consult with a psychiatrist.
La trepadora
Director
Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.
El globo de Cantolla
Director
Three boys and three girls in the 1890s.
Internado para señoritas
Director
1940s-style teen comedy set in a private school for girls.
Yo bailé con Don Porfirio
Writer
Light comedy in which Joaquin Cortes and Mapy Pardavé join their talents, written and directed by Gilberto Martinez Solares. It deals with the life of a pair of twins from a provincial family who emigrated to the city, then one begins to work in a music magazine and occasionally is confused with her sister, which causes problems with their respective boyfriends.
Yo bailé con Don Porfirio
Director
Light comedy in which Joaquin Cortes and Mapy Pardavé join their talents, written and directed by Gilberto Martinez Solares. It deals with the life of a pair of twins from a provincial family who emigrated to the city, then one begins to work in a music magazine and occasionally is confused with her sister, which causes problems with their respective boyfriends.
Las 5 noches de Adán
Director
Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.
La casa del rencor
Writer
A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares.
La casa del rencor
Director
A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares.
La locura de Don Juan
Director
México lindo
Director
The film of the thousand dancers, of the enchanting songs, of the sets that are splurge of luxury and beauty.