Julio Villarreal

Julio Villarreal

Birth : 1885-12-07, Lérida, Catalonia, Spain

Death : 1958-08-04

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Julio Villarreal

Movies

Two Ghosts and a Girl
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.
El gran premio
Don Rubén Dario López de Urquijo
Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.
Ladrones de niños
Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.
Préstame tu cuerpo
Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.
Los salvajes
Padre de Yadira
Pedro, a wealthy Mexican landowner, is convinced he can get everything he wants with money and arrogance.
Horas de agonía
Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark.
Locos Peligrosos
Don Julio
A cellist and a pianist, along with the daughter of the owner of a musical home, form a classical trio. A television producer challenges confronting the modern equipment. Accept and so begin a new career in popular music, so despises his former employer, thus limiting the affair between his daughter and one of them.
¡Aquí están los aguilares!
Two itinerant cowhands hire on at a ranch owned by a woman, end up fighting two bad-hats who rustle la patrona's cattle and set fire to her stables.
La faraona
Don Guillermo Prim Altamira
Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Don Pedro
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
Wild Heart
Francisco D'Autremont
On the Caribbean island of Martinique, two half-brothers are involved in the entanglements of a frivolous and calculating young woman.
Historia de un amor
Singer relives her love-life in flashback: she adopts another woman's illegitimate daughter, she gets married, the grandparents of the baby raise a fuss, etc.
La culpa de los hombres
Juan Fonseca
A factory worker gets pregnant by the son of her boss, who forces his son to marry a rich girl he doesn't love.
Seven Cities of Gold
Pilot Vila
In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
Padre contra hijo
Don Cecilio García
Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango.
Yo no creo en los hombres
Arango
Based on the novel by Caridad Bravo Adams.
Morir para vivir
A voodoo warlock turns a girl into a zombie, by the orders of her stepmother, so she can continue her affair with the girl's boyfriend.
La rosa blanca
Mariano Martí
Take Me in Your Arms
Don Antonio
Fishing-village girl sacrifices her reputation to the local banker to protect her family; fron there, she follows the path of least resistance, but she never forgets the fiance she left behind...
Miradas que matan
Sketchy TV personality exploits a busker with psychic powers for personal gain.
La ladrona
Twin sisters butt heads over a feller. One goes into a convent, the other becomes a professional thiefstress.
El valor de vivir
Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.
The Witch
Doctor Boerner
Thieves break into a scientist's laboratory to steal a secret formula, and in the process they kill his daughter. Enraged, he develops a formula that will turn an extremely ugly woman into a spectacular beauty, and then uses the woman to take his revenge on those responsible for his daughter's murder.
Reportaje
Surgeon
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
¡Yo soy gallo dondequiera!
Young man returns to his home town from USA to reclaim his inherited properties.
Eugenia Grandet
Don Eugenio Grandet
A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.
El señor fotógrafo
Roberto Alvírez
Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...
Plunder of the Sun
Ulbaldo Navarro (as Julio Villareal)
An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca.
Un divorcio
Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..
Quiero vivir
Comandante Rodolfo Saldívar
Man in the final stages of a fatal illness gets immersed in a new romance and a murder investigation.
El jugador
Don Gervasio
Cuatro horas antes de morir
A Woman Without Love
Don Carlos Montero
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 miel se fue de la luna
Don Ernesto, padre de Mini
Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats África, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in Cuba. With her, he poses as a friend industrial, Ricardo and his intention is not to see her again. While Africa is out he marries Mini, which proves to be terribly jealous. Complications ensue when Africa returns to Mexico and start searching for the fake Richard. By chance a friend of Mini will be in a beauty salon and this ensures she can take to "Ricardo" because is "a friend of her husband". A typical sitcom with a blistering pace.
Night Falls
Sr. Villarreal
The arrogant Arizmendi, pelota champion, lives intoxicated by his success and disdain for women who love him. Arizmendi commits blackmail to lose a game. Convinced to get away with it, Arizmendi does not meet the covenant and must face the villainous revenge Marcial Gomez.
Sangre en el barrio
Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.
Doña Perfecta
Don Inocencio
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
La bienamada
Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n...
Las Islas Marias
Rector escuela militar
Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns important life lessons that actually make him a better man.
La Hija De La Otra
Husband and wife raise hubby's extra-marital child when the birth mother rejects it.
Si usted no puede, yo sí
Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great grandfather.
Tierra baja
Don Tomás
A poor shepherd is convinced to marry a beautiful woman. This is a Maquiavellian plan schemed by the woman's fiancé and her father.
Capitán de rurales
Idealistic young police officer deals with corruption in local government.
One Day of Life
Manuel Ignacio Landa y Márquez del Toro Bravo
A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.
La loca de la casa
Don Juan Moncada
Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.
The Torch
Don Carlos Peñafiel
The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as the girl is concerned, but this will soon change.
The Love Nest
Sr. del Castillo
Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the town where she lived. They worked together and became his love. Although he was engaged to another, Fernando decided to return to the city to complete his commitment to her and finally reunited with Amalia, but the facts do not happen as they had planned.
Red Rain
Mr. Federico
Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.
Confidencias de un ruletero
Sr. Legazpi
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
Hay lugar para... dos
Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan!"
La malquerida
Don Eusebio
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.
Felipe de Jesús
Fray Pedro Bautista
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
Soy Charro de Levita
Don Agripino
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.
Cuando los padres se quedan solos
Don Damian
Mom and dad make sacrifices for the sake of their adult children. And then more sacrifices. And more.
¡A volar, joven!
Coronel
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
Gran Casino
Demetrio García
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.
Honeymoon
Señor Gaspar Mendoza
A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.
Mas alla del amor
A street urchin helps a severe alcoholic with recovery, and he repays the favor by mentoring the boy and putting him through school. When the boy grows up, there are romantic problems to deal with...
La Devoradora
Don Adolfo Gil
A Mexican film noir revolving around a crime: the suicide of one of Diana (María Félix)'s lovers and the disposal of his body in order to avoid a scandal. Diana not only engineers the entire scheme, but drafts her two other suitors: her fiance Adolfo (Julio Villareal) and his nephew Miguel (Luis Aldas).
Pepita Jimenez
Tío cura
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.
La casa de la zorra
The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
Bugambilia
Don Fernando
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.
The White Monk
In an Italian monastery during the XIII century, a white image appears sculpted by Fray Paracleto humble mystically and sew clothes. Besides a mysterious woman appears Orsina Galata. She tells her story to the Father Provincial and thus dates back to his past.
Vertigo
Young woman's fiance unexpectedly falls in love with her mom, and ends up arranging the young woman's death.
Twilight
Maestro de psiquiatria
Neurotic society doctor struggles with anomie and existential despair.
Camino de Sacramento
Twin brothers, one of them a bandit, in Mexican California.
El rebelde (Romance de Antaño)
Don Pablo de la Vega
A landowner indirect kills another because of false rumors. Time passes. The son of the dead want the offender to pay their share. It becomes generous bandit, but then he meets the daughter of his enemy and falls in love.
Adulterio
Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.
Mi lupe y mi caballo
The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland
Padre Hidalgo
On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Yo bailé con Don Porfirio
Evaristo Mendizábal
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.
Story of a Great Love
Don Elías
Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love.
The Three Musketeers
Rey Luis XIII
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
Passion Island
1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called the Island of the Passion, in the Pacific. After the outbreak of the revolution, the island becomes administered by the government of France, events that in principle go unnoticed by the islanders.
Alejandra
Manuel
There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married.
El conde de Montecristo
Abate Faria
Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
Simón Bolívar
General Pablo Morillo
Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
El gendarme desconocido
Jefe de policía
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
Hombre o demonio
A 1940 film.
Mi madrecita
Gustavo
Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down...
Corazón de niño
All through the school-year with a teacher and his fifth-grade boys.
Profanación
The Lark
Priest González
A 1933 film.
Una vida por otra
There Were Thirteen
Doctor Lofton
This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On, in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer of an American found dead in a London hotel room.
La ley del harem
Hassan
Del mismo barro
A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.