Señor secretario
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
Espectador asamblea (uncredited)
Na Pepeslávia, um país poderoso do bloco oriental, a embaixada da pequena República dos Cocos está prestes a atingir uma importância decisiva, já que em uma próxima assembléia que todas as nações realizarão para discutir o futuro do mundo, o voto da pequena republica pode decidir o triunfo de um ou outro bloco. O ministro das Relações Exteriores López (Cantinflas) trabalha na embaixada, que todos conhecem como "Lopitos" e cuja posição é a última das autoridades, até um dia, por uma série de golpes sucessivos em seu país, a presidência chega à Padrinho de "Lopitos", que nomeia imediatamente seu afilhado embaixador na Pepeslávia.
Miembro banco (uncredited)
Old Man Trapped at Church (uncredited)
Após uma extravagante e farta refeição, os convidados de uma festa de alta classe se sentem estranhamente incapazes de deixar a sala de jantar e, nos dias que se seguem, pouco a pouco, caem as máscaras de civilização e virtude e o grupo passa a viver como animais.
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.
Don Leoncio
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
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.
Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
Hombre en casa de juegos
Subscriptor del periódico (uncredited)
Cleto, a poor newspaper boy, dreamed of becoming a cyclist and inventor. His latest invention is delivering newspapers by rockets. When he finds the owner of the newspaper, dismisses him. But Cleto do not give up and shows Don Macario his latest invention: " The telemirófono ", a device that allows you to see the person talking on the phone...
Espectador (uncredited)
In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.
Invitado a recepción (uncredited)
After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
Invitado a boda (uncredited)
Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.
Invitado fiesta (uncredited)
Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
Espectador (uncredited)
A woman of low estate is beloved of a promising young man, but sacrifices her love for him in order to protect his future and reputation.
Miembro del consejo (uncredited)
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!
Hombre en restaurante (uncredited)
Carmela is a Gypsy singer who sells lottery tickets. She meets two penniless Mexican brothers and they buy a ticket between the three: if it is awarded, could share the prize and go to Mexico, they to return to their homeland and her for bullfighter boyfriend whom has no news. The fate accompanies them, but, on reaching Mexico, her boyfriend rejects her. This way, she ends up acting in a cafe where reaps many successes.
Miembro de comité (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 entre multitud (uncredited)
Cantinflas, um entregador de jornal, decide ser bombeiro para cobrir despesas, já que seu melhor amigo morreu e ele deve sustentar sua filha. mas o que ela não sabe é que a menina é a herdeira de uma grande fortuna e que os malfeitores querem sequestrá-la. Em um dos incêndios ele salva seu antigo chefe, que lhe pede para voltar ao seu antigo emprego e assumir um bairro muito perigoso.
Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
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.
Invitado a fiesta (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.
Paciente que se cree rey
Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the disappearance of her daughter. Now, present day, evil relatives are trying to take control of money she's inherited...
Miembro del jurado (uncredited)
Cantinflas é um barbeiro que aprende sobre leis e direitos graças a um cliente. Com seu conhecimento, consegue defender os bairros pobres no tribunal de justiça. Seu talento poderá levá-lo ao cargo de deputado.
Invitado a cena (uncredited)
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.
Invitado a boda (uncredited)
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.
Doctor (uncredited)
Cliente en cabaret (uncredited)
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
Asistente desfile de modas (uncredited)
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
Buñuel's first "comeback" film since "L'Age d'Or" in 1930 (he made only a few musicals in the interim), "El Gran Calavera" concerns a family's attempts to change the patriarch's somewhat indulgent and hedonistic ways by fooling him into thinking his large fortune is gone. They assume a life of poverty in Mexico in an attempt to teach him a lesson. However, he discovers it's a ruse, but continues to perpetuate the facade of ignorance while sneaking off during the day to conduct his thriving business. Why? To teach his family a lesson - they are all lazy, worthless leeches!
Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.
Invitado a boda (uncredited)
The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.
Doctor (uncredited)
Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"
Store client
A Mexican family drama.
Miembro del consejo (uncredited)
Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.
Invitado a boda (uncredited)
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, Armendáriz falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
Hombre en funeral (uncredited)
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
Invitada a boda (uncredited)
Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
Anunciador de la corte
A 1940 film directed by Enrique Herrera.