Armando Acosta

Armando Acosta

Nascimento : 1922-04-05, Mexico City, Mexico

Morte : 1976-05-16

Perfil

Armando Acosta

Filmes

Romeo.Juliet
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.
Romeo.Juliet
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.
Acorralados
Conflicts in town force a guy to escape to a hiding-place in the countryside.
Atas de Marusia
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.
La mafia amarilla
El cantinero
Blue Demon must stop an evil chinese gang and their reign of terror.
The Braid
Pascual Mendez
A town confused by religion persecutes a woman who stole the braid from the statue of the Virgin.
Before the Corpse of a Leader
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.
Tragam-me a Cabeça de Alfredo Garcia
Waiter (uncredited)
Alfredo Garcia engravida a filha de um latifundiário mexicano que, revoltado, oferece 1 milhão de dólares por sua cabeça. Um músico arruinado descobre que o procurado já está morto e corta a cabeça do defunto para receber a recompensa.
Los leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra
Barbero
Twin brother of murdered pro-wrestler goes after the killerses.
La carrera del millón
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.
Guns and Guts
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.
La muerte de Pancho Villa
After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.
Chabelo y Pepito detectives
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 principio
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.
Uno y medio contra el mundo
Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society.
La tigresa
Orphan girl grows up to take revenge on the men who killed her parents.
El sargento Perez
Two buddies from Pancho Villa's regiment go on a mission. Light comedy, romance, songs...
Entre monjas anda el Diablo
A man called “The Devil” makes a living in cock-fights. He falls for a girl who's about to enter the monastery.
Los cacos
A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.
El vals sin fin
Don Marcos F. Galván
Padre nuestro que estas en la tierra
Notario
Single father with a disability struggles to raise his son.
El metiche
Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
Who Killed Grandpa?
Postman
A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension.
Mi niño Tizoc
Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.
La pequeña señora de Perez
Teenaged girl isn't emotionally mature enough for marriage, but she gets hitched anyway.
Capulina vs. the Vampires
Delivery boy answers a call to take some food to that huge spooky mansion on the hill behind the cemetery.
El águila descalza
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.
La mula de Cullen Baker
Gordo chismoso (uncredited)
The Moderate Doctor
Policía
Underqualified doofus tries to run a medical clinic.
Espérame en Siberia, vida mía
Debauched playboy has a hypochondriac streak and an unscrupulous doctor that profits from it.
Aguilas de acero
Two Air force pilots are best friends in that competitive, always picking fights with each other way.
Emiliano Zapata
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
Las chicas malas del padre Mendez
A priest is dismissed from his parish, so he decides to open a halfway house to rehabilitate sex workers.
Las cadenas del mal
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.
Tres noches de locura
Violador (episodio "Lucía")
Anthology movie, episodes about three women who undergo stressful experiences that cause their minds to snap.
Unethical Behaviour
Policeman
A family in extreme poverty is forced to make a series of sacrifices in order to survive.
Perverse Doll
A troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
Mujeres de medianoche
Raul
Crime melodrama involving blackmail, murder, mystery and the obligatory police investigation.
The Door and The Butcher's Wife
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.
Romance sobre ruedas
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.
Mi padrino
Bumbling oaf takes custody of his god-daughter and helps her advance her singing career.
Romeo contra Julieta
Los canallas
A líder e vilã do filme se chama Kadena, uma garota desonesta, que é o verdadeiro negócio da gangue "Hell's Angels" e cujo objetivo é matar as Mil Máscaras, enviando para a prisão seu consentido. O que força nosso herói a lutar contra o mal e o mal.
Dr. Satan vs. Black Magic
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!
There are not Crosses in the Sea
A mute fisherman helps another whose boat capsizes, he dies and leaves behind a girl whom he raises as his own daughter.
Tres mil kilómetros de amor
Padre de hija rebelde (uncredited)
Romance, stolen jewels and sitcom humor on a bus-trip from Tijuana to Guadalajara.
Operation 67
Businessman
The silver masked Santo tries to stop a gang of counterfeiters who conspire to ruin the economy.
Amanecí en tus brazos
The Panther Women
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.
El hijo de Gabino Barrera
Gabino's son tries to find out why his father was murdered.
She-Wolves of the Ring
'I Want to See Blood' Spectator (uncredited)
Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.
Napoleoncito
Policía (uncredited)
The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy
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.
Así amaron nuestros padres
Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.
Frente al destino
Las chivas rayadas
The comical misadventures of two brothers who are part of the local soccer team and their family.
De color moreno
Empleado teatro
The Paper Man
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.
Las bravuconas
Three big-city wimps have to pass for machos when they go to their home-town.
Tlayucan
Pueblerino (uncredited)
Desesperado pela doença do filho, o camponês Eufemio rouba uma pérola da imagem de Santa Lucía na igreja do povoado. Alguns turistas testemunham e fotografam o roubo e Eufemio fica a ponto de ser linchado por seus vizinhos.
El Extra
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.
Pilotos de la muerte
(uncredited)
A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
Martín Santos el llanero
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.
O Cavalinho Branco
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.
La rabia por dentro
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.
O Analfabeto
Carpintero (uncredited)
Inocêncio Prieto y Calvo recebe uma carta dizendo que ele é o herdeiro da fortuna de seu tio de dois milhões de pesos. Não sendo capaz de ler, ele não faz ideia de quem enviou a carta ou o seu conteúdo. Então ele vai à farmácia porque o farmacêutico pode ler-lhe a carta. Mas enquanto espera para ser ajudado, ele vê que uma menina sabe ler. Ele então acha que precisa descobrir o conteúdo da carta sozinho, então decide guardar a carta e ir à escola para aprender a ler.
The Phantom of the Operetta
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.
Amor en la sombra
A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.
¡Yo sabia demasiado!
Paco (cantinero)
Os Ambiciosos
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.
Sonatas
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.
El que con niños se acuesta...
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.
Refifí entre las mujeres
Espectador cine (uncredited)
School for Buglars
Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
La faraona
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.
La adúltera
Pasajero avión
Jilted lover takes revenge on her ex's new wife.
El seductor
Fotografo
A young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her two daughters fall into his orbit.
School for Tramps
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.
Ensaio de um Crime
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...
El hombre inquieto
Invitado a boda (uncredited)
Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.
Dios los cría
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...
Si, Mi vida
Hombre en restaurante (uncredited)
Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.
Mi campeón
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.
A Filha do Engano
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.