Pedro A. Calderón

Películas

Perdida
This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.
Los perturbados
Producer
Los ángeles de la tarde
Producer
La hora desnuda
Producer
Las infieles
Producer
Esta noche si
Producer
En este drama, una joven ingenua es comprometida a la fuerza con el jefe de su padre. Ella tiene el corazón roto porque ella realmente ama al artista que ha estado haciendo trabajo en torno a su escuela. En su desesperación, se trata de engañar al artista y se case con ella por dormir con él. Desafortunadamente, las cosas no salen según lo planeado
Los secretos del sexo débil
Producer
Los secretos del sexo débil
Writer
Las recién casadas
Idea
Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.
Estos años violentos
Writer
Serán hombres
Producer
Tres muchachos intentan cambiar de vida al salir del reformatorio; a cada uno le espera una fortuna distinta.
Esposas Infieles
Producer
A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
Club de señoritas
Producer
Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
Maternidad imposible
Producer
Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...
Sombra Verde
Producer
Un delegado de una industria mexicana tiene que ir a la selva en busca de la zona donde crece el árbol de cuya hoja se extrae la cortizona. Parte con un guía inexperto y ambos se pierden en la selva. Muere el guía picado por una víbora y el hombre continúa su marcha. Después de mil angustias llega a un lugar habitado, junto a una catarata. Es mal recibido por un personaje hostil que le corta el puente de acceso y lanza al río al viajero, el cual se salva gracias a la intervención de la hermosa hija del raro individuo, que es un ser amargado que ha huido del mundo víctima de la incomprensión primero y de la traición de su mujer después. La muchacha se enamora del hombre herido, que está casado, y ese amor despierta un conflicto que degenera en lucha entre el dueño del lugar y su huésped forzado.
Llévame en tus brazos
Producer
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...
Aventura en Río
Producer
Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.
Por qué peca la mujer
Producer
Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
La noche es nuestra
Producer
Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.
No niego mi pasado
Producer
A 1952 film by Alberto Gout.
Del can-can al mambo
Producer
Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.
Mujeres de teatro
Producer
Sensualidad
Producer
El severo juez Alejandro Luque se ve tentado por la sensualidad encarnada en Aurora Ruiz, una prostituta que él condenó a prisión y que ha logrado obsesionarlo. Cegado por la pasión, Luque cometerá una serie de delitos con tal conquistar a la cruel cortesana, sin importarle sacrificar toda una vida de rectitud.
Los amantes
Producer
A burglar and a bar girl fall in love and decide to go straight, but complications.
Mujeres sacrificadas
Producer
Nightclub dancer comes unglued after killing a man.
Burlada
Producer
Fancy gentleman uses his charms to exploit a bunch of women.
Víctimas del pecado
Producer
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Aventurera
Producer
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
Perdida
Associate Producer
Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...
Mujeres en mi Vida
Producer
Mexican romantic musical.
El capitán de Loyola
Producer
Película que cuenta la vida de san Ignacio de Loyola, religioso español que fundó la Compañía de Jesús.
Revancha
Producer
A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.
Revancha
Writer
A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.
Señora Tentación
Story
Famous singer hires a pianist/songwriter on the strength of his compositions, then seduces him away from his fiancee and from the paths of righteousness in general.
Pecadora
Original Story
Prostitution and drug-smuggling in Mexico City and Cd. Juarez.
Tuya en cuerpo y alma
Producer
La zandunga
Producer
It is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the promise of returning, but due to her delay she decides to accept a former suitor as her husband. Finally, when the marriage is about to materialize, the sailor returns creating an emotional conflict in her that is resolved thanks to her fiancé who, by intuiting her true feelings, leaves her free to stay with the sailor