Raúl Martínez Solares

Raúl Martínez Solares

Birth : 1908-01-01, Mexico City, Mexico

Death : 1972-01-01

History

Raúl Martínez Solares was a Mexican cinematographer (1908-1972). He began his career during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. His brother was the renowned film director, Gilberto Martínez Solares. He received the Ariel Award in 1957 for best photography for the film Cry of the bewitched (1957).

Profile

Raúl Martínez Solares

Movies

Las tarántulas
Director of Photography
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.
Las tarántulas
Writer
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.
La satánica
Director of Photography
She's got a sugar-daddy paying her bills, and while she's stringing him along, she meets somebody her own age that she reallytruly falls in love. And it turns out he's the son of her rich dude.
Santo vs. the Killers from Other Worlds
Director of Photography
Santo, the crime-fighting wrestler, battles an alien monster who is controlled by an evil madman bent on taking over the world.
El rincón de las vírgenes
Director of Photography
"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.
The Innocent
Director of Photography
The innocence of a woman due to a mental deficit will become the worst nightmare for her loved ones, after the harsh reality of the outside world made her their victim.
Doña Macabra
Director of Photography
The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.
Santo vs. Frankenstein's Daughter
Director of Photography
Dr. Frankenstein and her assistant, Dr. Yanco, are going to bring one of their experiments to life in Santo Vs. Frankenstein's Daughter. She intends to use a monster named Ursus to do her evil bidding. Using a youth serum to retain their vitality, the doctors set their sights upon none other than El Santo. They need his super human blood to regenerate a stronger youth serum. They kidnap Santo's goddaughter, Norma and lure him into Dr. Frankenstein's lab where he is captured and enslaved. Will Santo make it out alive?
Cuna de valientes
Director of Photography
Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire
Director of Photography
Chanoc must defeat an evil vampire known as Count Frankenhausen.
Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire
Writer
Chanoc must defeat an evil vampire known as Count Frankenhausen.
Capulina vs. the Vampires
Director of Photography
Delivery boy answers a call to take some food to that huge spooky mansion on the hill behind the cemetery.
Santo in the Vengeance of the Mummy
Director of Photography
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.
The Enemy Blood
Director of Photography
A group of people suffering from mental retardation, blindness and physical malformations work in a traveling circus.
Rosario
Director of Photography
Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun ...
Temporada salvaje
Cinematography
Santo vs. The Riders of Terror
Director of Photography
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!
Alguien nos quiere matar
Cinematography
A woman is sent to Mexico to kill the person who presumptly killed her father.
Chanoc en las garras de las fieras
Director of Photography
Comic-book adaptation: Tarzan-type in the Mexican outback.
Chanoc en las garras de las fieras
Writer
Comic-book adaptation: Tarzan-type in the Mexican outback.
El pocho
Director of Photography
José Guadalupe García was born in the United States, but seems very Mexican. Winning his American girlfriend creates many comic situations, but he also faces discrimination and racism.
The World of the Dead
Director of Photography
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 vs. Blue Demon in Atlantis
Director of Photography
A Nazi scientist using the lost city of Atlantis as his home base threatens to destroy civilization with a nuclear bomb. The Nazi scientist wants the third Reich to rule again and if his demands are not meet he will follow through on his threat of nuclear annihilation. With very little time to spare Santo is enlisted to find the nuclear bomb, disarm it and end the Nazi scientist’s diabolical plan
The World at Their Feet
Camera Operator
The 1970 finals saw the emergence of probably the greatest team the world has ever seen, in the all-conquering form of Brazil. Pelé was playing in his last finals and his touch, vision and goal prowess combined with Jairzinho's amazing feat of scoring in every round, propelled the Brazilians to an irresistible 4-1 final victory over an overwhelmed Italy.
Santo and Blue Demon Against the Monsters
Director of Photography
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
Click, fotógrafo de modelos
Director of Photography
Mauricio is a photographer that works for a very important advertisement company. It all starts with Mauricio's work being criticized by the company, to which Mauricio jumps into the discussion and explains to the company that his idea was misinterpreted, and quits. Mauricio bent on revenge, and promises to be enemy number one of his former employers, sets off and works so hard photographing so many models, that he develops a click that when he blinks his eyes, he can see anybody in their underwear. A lot of Mauricio charm, famous quotes and pranks in this movie, very entertaining and beautiful women for that time. Very recommendable.
Blue Demon y las invasoras
Director of Photography
Title says it all. Wrestler, interplanetary babes...
Blue Demon y las invasoras
Adaptation
Title says it all. Wrestler, interplanetary babes...
El crepúsculo de un dios
Director of Photography
Shark!
Director of Photography
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
La maestra inolvidable
Director of Photography
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 of Photography
A woman travels to her past life with the help of Santo's past life regression machine
Night of the Bloody Apes
Director of Photography
A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.
Wrestling Women vs. the Killer Robot
Director of Photography
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
Director of Photography
The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
Operación carambola
Director of Photography
Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack.
Chewing Gum
Director of Photography
Two little poor kids, who work selling chewing gum in the streets, must face the true nature of the horror surrounding them
The Specter's Road
Director of Photography
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)
Seis días para morir
Director of Photography
Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.
Don Juan 67
Director of Photography
Mauricio, millionaire, and irreclaimable Don Juan, lives only for and to seduce women of every class and condition. With the help of his butler manages to capture the hearts of many to abandon and then having a panic marriage.
Detectives o ladrones..?
Director of Photography
Two bumbling bozos with detective licenses get hoodwinked by a pair of jewel-thieves.
Los tres mosqueteros de Dios
Director of Photography
Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish.
El matrimonio es como el demonio
Director of Photography
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!
Dr. Satan
Director of Photography
Dr. Satan, a mad scientist and sorceror, plans to take over the world. In order to do so, he wakes up three zombie slaves from the dead and attempts to make a deal with the devil. He sends his zombie servants to do harm to anyone who stands in his way. Will anyone be able to stop him?
Los dos rivales
Director of Photography
Ranchera comedy -- the hero thinks his girlfriend has another suitor... but the suitor is really she herself in man-drag.
The Right to Be Born
Director of Photography
Cuando el diablo sopla
Director of Photography
Two babies are switched in the cradle to gratify wealthy parents' preference for a boy. Nineteen years later, the babies meet...
Dos meseros majaderos
Director of Photography
Comic duo are stalked by a serial killer.
Fiebre de juventud
Director of Photography
Una mujer sin precio
Director of Photography
Exotic dancer with a masochistic streak can't decide which of two boyfriends treats her more thrillingly badly.
Un callejón sin salida
Director of Photography
A shady character takes over as owner/manager of a nightclub, conflicts evolve.
The Mocking Ghosts
Director of Photography
Two fake fortune-tellers at a carnival accidentally conjure up some real ghosts.
Adventure at the Center of the Earth
Director of Photography
After a young man is killed in an unexplored subterranean cavern and his girlfriend driven mad by something she saw there, a track found at the scene cannot be identified with any known animal and thus a scientific expedition is launched to find out just what it is that is living there.
Lawless Youth
Executive Producer
Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father.
Lawless Youth
Director of Photography
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
Director of Photography
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.
Los cuervos están de luto
Director of Photography
The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.
La edad de piedra
Director of Photography
Capulina chip and are transported back to prehistoric times with a time machine. There they live crazy adventures.
La gitana y el charro
Director of Photography
Caravan of gypsies sets up camp outside an old-style Mexican hacienda.
Me llaman el cantaclaro
Director of Photography
The story of the ruthless female boss of a hacienda who meets her match in the city-educated Santos Luzardo.
Así amaron nuestros padres
Director of Photography
Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.
Museum Of Horror
Director of Photography
A mysterious killer abducts girls off the street and covers them in wax.
Los amores de Marieta (los fabulosos 20s)
Director of Photography
Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marrying her. Then she becomes a musical comedy star and Mexican Revolution.
The Age of Violence
Director of Photography
Daniel, the leader of a criminal youth gang, views new guy Victor first as a threat, then as possible addition to his gang. When Victor refuses, but sets his eyes on Daniel's Sister Nancy, Daniel orders her to get close to Victor so she can persuade him to join the gang. Daniel does not expect that instead the relationship with Victor makes Nancy longing for a life without crime. A juvenile-delinquent-crime-musical!
Bullfighter for One Day
Cinematography
El Piporro, desperate to earn more money, decides to fight and put his skills to the test in the rodeo using a nickname.
Yo, el mujeriego
Director of Photography
Playboy bachelor poses as a woman's husband to protect her daughter's reputation at a private school. Remake of El Mil Amores (1955).
The Invasion of the Vampires
Director of Photography
A doctor and his assistant hunt down a vampire named Count Frankenhausen, who is terrorizing the populace.
Shark Hunters
Director of Photography
Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he decides to move to the big city.
¡En peligro de muerte!
Director of Photography
Romance in Puerto Rico
Director of Photography
Rosina is frustrated by her engagement to millionaire John Johnson III, a fussy, domineering, control freak. The night before her wedding, she goes out dancing with her maid María, María's husband Tomás, and their friend Gordillo. When Rosina learns Gordillo is a sailor on the yacht owned by Mexican film star José María Beltrán, she decides to stow away and sail to Mexico to be with her grandmother.
The Bloody Vampire
Director of Photography
Count Cagliostro, whose family has tried for generations to rid the world of vampires, instructs his daughter and her fiance to protect several valuable documents.
Los secretos del sexo débil
Director of Photography
Sol en llamas
Cinematography
A powerful rancher loses his power and wealth during the Revolution, and his daughter falls in love with a revolutionary.
Jóvenes y rebeldes
Director of Photography
Azahares rojos
Cinematography
Family with young-adult children returns to Mexico after many years in Spain.
Teresa
Cinematography
Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, desperately seeking to leave the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives.
Conquistador de la luna
Director of Photography
Called to the home of a scientist to deal with a simple electrical problem, bumbling electrician Bartolo finds himself aboard a rocket headed for the moon!
Miracle Roses
Director of Photography
Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized subject has visions of the Virgin Mary.
House of Terror
Cinematography
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.
The Ship of Monsters
Director of Photography
A singing cowboy falls foul of alien invaders and beautiful women from Venus.
Two Ghosts and a Girl
Director of Photography
Two ghosts who died in a turn-of-the-century duel and now haunt a theater attempt to help a girl who's in danger from bank robbers.
The Man and the Monster
Director of Photography
A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.
La edad de la tentación
Director of Photography
By the negligence of parents who not assume their responsibility in sex education, many lives are ruined
The New Invisible Man
Director of Photography
A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.
El potro salvaje
Director
Raffles
Cinematography
The Head of Pancho Villa
Director of Photography
Rival factions struggle over a box that was entrusted by Pancho Villa to several members of his higher command. Second of three films in series "El jinete sin cabeza."
El jinete sin cabeza
Director of Photography
A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won't stay in its grave. This is the first in a trilogy of horror/western hybrids that also includes the films La marca de Satanás ("The Mark of Satan") and La cabeza de Pancho Villa ("The Head of Pancho Villa").
Swamp of the Lost Monster
Director of Photography
A disappearing body leads a detective and his sidekick into an encounter with a gill man.
Cada hijo, una cruz
Cinematography
Empty nest syndrome, #1388.
Los televisionudos
Director of Photography
Mexican feature film
Unfaithful Wives
Director of Photography
A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
Love and Sin
Director of Photography
A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the same woman, played by the beautiful dancer Ninón Sevilla, an orphan they rescued during their childhood. Though she loves only one of them, she decides to give up her happiness rather than destroying the reason of the other she doesn't love.
A Woman's Pride
Director of Photography
Everything is very quiet and peaceful in the city of Taxco, until there arrives a man called Ramón Durán who exploits abandoned mines. His presence in the community will initiate a lot of changes. Ada Montalvo is a beautiful young woman with a great heart, whose strong personality wakes up the admiration of a good looking millionaire Ramón. She is the woman he has always dreamed of. However, for Ada he is nothing more than an intruder who has arrived to ruin the calm life of Taxco with his money, and she does not hide the contempt she feels towards him, even though the circumstances force her to marry him...
Pueblo, canto y esperanza
Cinematography
Anthology-movie with episodes set in Cuba, Mexico and Colombia.
Ladies Club
Director of Photography
Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
The Phantom of the Red House
Director of Photography
A millionaire's ghost watches while his heirs murder each other over his fortune.
La vida tiene tres días
Cinematography
Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.
X Murderer
Writer
A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
Beware of Love
Director of Photography
Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.
As negro
Director of Photography
Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
The River and Death
Director of Photography
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
Orquídeas para mi esposa
Cinematography
El enmascarado de plata
Cinematography
Mysterious wrestler-dude teams up with a teenaged boy and fights supervillainous criminal gang.
Return to Youth
Cinematography
An old professor in love with one of his students is rejected by her because of his advanced age. He then sells his soul in return for youth and a chance at love but things don't go as he planned.
Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Director of Photography
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
Gitana tenías que ser
Director of Photography
Pastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport, among them is Paul, a little-known mariachi that has been chosen to become a new idol. Automatically, both had bad relations and during filming many discussions happens. This arguments gives way to a deep love.
El vagabundo
Director of Photography
Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.
Siete mujeres
Director of Photography
Mexican feature film
Por ellas aunque mal paguen
Cinematography
Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter Isabel with wealthy rancher. Isabel and her family refuse to work, Jose Manuel takes them to the ranch, where they are forced to work for food.
A Woman Without Love
Director of Photography
After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.
La huella de unos labios
Cinematography
Woman prostitutes herself to the man who murdered her fiance, to get evidence of his guilt and bring him to trial.
Ella y Yo
Director of Photography
Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.
Women's prison
Cinematography
Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.
El tigre enmascarado
Cinematography
They Say I'm a Communist
Cinematography
A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as mysterious as typical, you will realize demagoguery and arrangements existing between union leaders to maintain the status quo unchanged and profit from mafia practices.
Inmaculada
Cinematography
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
El Portero
Director of Photography
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
Rosauro Castro
Director of Photography
Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved revenge end the injustices committed by Rosauro Castro.
Entre tu amor y el cielo
Director of Photography
La mujer del puerto
Director of Photography
Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...
Las puertas del presidio
Director of Photography
Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.
Felipe de Jesús
Director of Photography
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
El Mago
Director of Photography
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
The Cockfighter
Director of Photography
In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.
El Supersabio
Director of Photography
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
Una aventura en la noche
Director of Photography
Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.
Nocturno de amor
Director of Photography
Venice Film Festival 1948
El ladrón
Director of Photography
Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction.
A media luz
Director of Photography
Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson.
Crimen en la alcoba
Director of Photography
A man's on trial for murder; a friend who could prove his innocence chooses not to come forward. An interested detective starts working to discover the how-come of all of that.
El socio
Director of Photography
A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...
La monja alférez
Director of Photography
A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.
Mexico of my Memories
Director of Photography
After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don Susanito was named patron protector of artists and aspiring young stars of the stage, which leads to a series of adventures in the middle of songs, dances and loves.
Qué hombre tan simpático
Director of Photography
Amable is the drinking buddy of Paquito, a former medical student who plays Fanny's love, a cabaret singer and also with Conchita, a showgirl. One day, Paquito receives a telegram that his uncle Pancho vayaa asked to see his wife and other medical eminence to heal him his kidney ailment. Among all a hoax to mount Paquino not lose the inheritance from his uncle.
Yo bailé con Don Porfirio
Director of Photography
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.
Allá en el bajio
Director of Photography
Ranchera/western; white hats vs. black hats.
¿Quién te quiere a tí?
Director of Photography
Neither he nor she are very handsome, not to say ugly, and how they would like to be good looking to give and receive compliments, and that someone loves them.
Lo que el viento trajo
Director of Photography
A 1941 film.
Ni sangre ni arena
Assistant Director of Photography
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
El Zorro de Jalisco
Director
Isabel, the daughter of Don Antonio; a rich land owner in Tepestates, Jalisco returns to her town after five years away, to visit her father. She is confronted by the unpleasant surprise that her dad has been assassinated by the malicious municiple government, which has the whole town in a clutch of terror. "An excellent sharp-shooter is worth more here, than a good lawyer..." This phrase inspires lawyer Leonardo Torres to convert himself into a guardian of justice, who will defend the right of the weak against tyranny. Nobody would ever guess that the "timid" lawyer is in reality none other than the dreadful "Zorro of Jalisco."
El charro Negro
Director of Photography
Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.
The Coward
Director of Photography
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.
Canto a mi tierra
Director of Photography
Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.
Eterna mártir
Director of Photography
A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care for the couple's seriously ill infant son. Consequently, the well-meaning woman is willingly sentenced to years in prison for a crime she did not commit-all because she believes her son will fare better if the bond between father and son remains intact. Upon her release, she soon discovers that no good deed goes unpunished. Her once loving husband has remarried a woman that her son calls Mother, After just a brief glimpse of her loved ones, she simply leaves without saying a word. Many years later, she becomes a patient at her son's busy medical practice just so that she can keep an eye on his progress in secret. In a cruel twist of fate, it is only after he diagnoses her as being terminally ill does does she reveal her true identity. The poor woman subsequently learns that her former father-in-law lied about her initial release from ...