Writer
The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a boat to set sail for the new world. It has not been re-released for the home video market. This lack of availability, which has been described as making it "more rare than the dinosaur" has made it a sought-after item in some circles.
Director
The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a boat to set sail for the new world. It has not been re-released for the home video market. This lack of availability, which has been described as making it "more rare than the dinosaur" has made it a sought-after item in some circles.
Conflicts in town force a guy to escape to a hiding-place in the countryside.
Sergeant
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
El cantinero
Blue Demon must stop an evil chinese gang and their reign of terror.
Pascual Mendez
A town confused by religion persecutes a woman who stole the braid from the statue of the Virgin.
A union leader dies in a sleazy hotel room, then the wife, mistress, police, co workers, reporters, colleagues, and political figures arrive to the hotel and each has its own intentions.
Waiter (uncredited)
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Barbero
Twin brother of murdered pro-wrestler goes after the killerses.
Father and uncle have conflicting ideas about who a young woman should marry, so they set up an elaborate, wacky contest to resolve their disagreement.
Rene Cardona Jr.'s bloody Mexi-Western is the story of a hired gun that wants to complete his last big job so he can retire with his prostitute. The job consists of killing a sheriff who keeps himself hidden away inside an old monastery. A series of double crosses culminates with an excessively bloody Wild Bunch inspired massacre inside the monastery.
After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.
A commanding friend Pepito and Chabelo ask them to help uncover a gang who kidnaps children. They accept and are out to steal to join the band. Whenthey find that the band mesmerizes children with toys and then the kids are controlled by young boys and they controlled in turn by strangers with long hair and blue eyes.
El Cura
Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society.
Orphan girl grows up to take revenge on the men who killed her parents.
Two buddies from Pancho Villa's regiment go on a mission. Light comedy, romance, songs...
A man called “The Devil” makes a living in cock-fights. He falls for a girl who's about to enter the monastery.
A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.
Don Marcos F. Galván
Notario
Single father with a disability struggles to raise his son.
Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
Postman
A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension.
Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.
Teenaged girl isn't emotionally mature enough for marriage, but she gets hitched anyway.
Delivery boy answers a call to take some food to that huge spooky mansion on the hill behind the cemetery.
Trabajador factoria
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
Gordo chismoso (uncredited)
Policía
Underqualified doofus tries to run a medical clinic.
Debauched playboy has a hypochondriac streak and an unscrupulous doctor that profits from it.
Two Air force pilots are best friends in that competitive, always picking fights with each other way.
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
A priest is dismissed from his parish, so he decides to open a halfway house to rehabilitate sex workers.
Ambitious young woman thinks she's on he fast track to fame and fortune, but her manager's a sleazeball who gets her hooked on IV drugs and pimps her out at random.
Violador (episodio "Lucía")
Anthology movie, episodes about three women who undergo stressful experiences that cause their minds to snap.
Policeman
A family in extreme poverty is forced to make a series of sacrifices in order to survive.
A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
Raul
Crime melodrama involving blackmail, murder, mystery and the obligatory police investigation.
Tololo, Cantinero (segment "La mujer del carnicero")
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
A sporty new car is gifted to two young men who work at an auto factory, and they have to time-share it between them.
Bumbling oaf takes custody of his god-daughter and helps her advance her singing career.
The leader and villain of the movie is called Kadena, a buxom girl, who is the real deal of the gang "Hell's Angels" and whose goal is to kill the Mil Mascaras as sending to jail to his sweetheart consented. What force our hero to golpisar to bad and bad.
Security Guard
Plutarco Satan returns, this time he's pitted against a rival evil organization intent on owning the very formula rumored to turn any metal into gold! Dr. Satan must go toe to toe with the vampiric black magician Yei Lin, in order to keep it out of their hands. The cost of failure? His eternal rest!
A mute fisherman helps another whose boat capsizes, he dies and leaves behind a girl whom he raises as his own daughter.
Padre de hija rebelde (uncredited)
Romance, stolen jewels and sitcom humor on a bus-trip from Tijuana to Guadalajara.
Businessman
The silver masked Santo tries to stop a gang of counterfeiters who conspire to ruin the economy.
Espectador lucha libre
The Panther women are worshipers of Satan and perform rituals in their honor and sacrifice. The fighters will face them up and down the ring.
Gabino's son tries to find out why his father was murdered.
'I Want to See Blood' Spectator (uncredited)
Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.
Policía (uncredited)
Detective (uncredited)
If you've ever longed for a movie about wrestling women who take on various monsters, this is it! Xochitl, the mummy, can turn into a snake or a bat, which is difficult to get half-Nelsons on. Loreita, the Golden Ruby, joins her sister to battle the evil Prince Fugiyata and her Oriental female wrestlers. The mummy is also female and on the good side of the struggle.
Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.
The comical misadventures of two brothers who are part of the local soccer team and their family.
Empleado teatro
Hombre asaltado (uncredited)
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Three big-city wimps have to pass for machos when they go to their home-town.
Pueblerino (uncredited)
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
Empleado estudio (uncredited)
Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.
(uncredited)
A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
A farmer aspires to marry the daughter of the local aristocrats, but she think he's beneath her. It take a long time for things to settle into a groove so life can run smoothly again for all concerned.
Claimed by his grandmother, who lives in a Mexican village, Joselito begins the journey from Spain. Once there, while traveling in a stagecoach, is assaulted by bandits. Joselito manages to escape and, walking aimlessly, he meets Antoine, a rider who is ex officio of random player, and become close friends.
Tito is a swindler who plans to appropriate a large sum of money supposedly sent abroad by airplane, with the complicity of Carlos, the cashier of a big company, who must put a time bomb aboard the airplane while keeping the money. Waiting for the plan to develop, Tito enjoys the company of the North American starlet stripper Rita, but he seduces a Mexican chorus girl, and the two women eventually fight over him. What seemed to be a faultless plan starts going wrong. A scavenger takes the money without knowing, and Carlos feels remorse for having placed the bomb aboard the jet flight, and is going to confess his crime. Tito is abandoned by his lover, locates the money and takes it back, locates Carlos and kills him. Even then, he will find crime does not pay.
Carpintero (uncredited)
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
Espectador (uncredited)
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.
A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.
Paco (cantinero)
Manuel
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
Jugador de cartas (uncredited)
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.
Espectador cine (uncredited)
Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
Party guest (uncredited)
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.
Pasajero avión
Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
Fotografo
A young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her two daughters fall into his orbit.
Martín (uncredited)
Alberto Medina is a very famous composer and is on a field trip when his car runs out of gas and goes downhill. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcome by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for giving shelter to tramps. The rest of the family disagrees, because the last one disappointed her. In a story of family situations, funny moments and jealousy, Alberto ends up earning everyone's respect and has a special connection with the oldest daughter, the beautiful Susana, and they fall in love.
Man at Gordo's (uncredited)
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
Invitado a boda (uncredited)
Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.
Transeúnte (uncredited)
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...
Hombre en restaurante (uncredited)
Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.
Espectador del boxeo (uncredited)
Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
Mesero (uncredited)
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.