Augusto Benedico
Рождение : 1909-12-21, Alicante, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
Смерть : 1992-01-19
История
Augusto Benedico (December 20, 1909 – January 19, 1992), born Augusto Pérez Lias, was a Mexican actor of Spanish origin.
Class distinctions are an obstacle for a guy trying to woo his gal of choice.
Pablo
In an old monastery in Mexico, the faith of all young aspiring priests is tested by the prior using psychoanalysis. During the process, young people manifest indecision, sexual problems (such as incest or homosexuality) and lack of faith.
Mr. Cuéllar
After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
Don Rubén
A woman with a troubled past introduces lust, depravity and sex to a religious commune.
A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God's glorious plan.
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower.
Ex-con trying to go straight is backed into a corner by "former associates."
Julio
Две девушки страстно любят бравого офицера Освальдо. Одна, живущая в роскоши, обладает ангельским характером и неизлечимо больна. Другая, воспитанная цыганами, с детства лишена всего, что принадлежит ей по праву. Можно ли найти выход из этого любовного треугольника? Черные очи и гибкий стан красавицы Есении навек сразили хладнокровного покорителя женщин, капитана Освальдо... Его величество Случай вмешивается в их судьбу... Экзотика цыганской жизни, трагическая любовь и счастливый финал...
Monseñor
Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune.
Federal-agent/cowboy battles crime
Gigolo devises underhanded schemes to insinuate himself into the lives of the wife and daughter of a rich man with a terminal illness.
William Gaynor
Invitado (segment "La puerta")
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.
Dr. Lorenz
A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.
Cowboy detective investigates two murders.
On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus engineers a miracle that will rehabilitate three kept women into orthodox 'decency' and marriage.
Padre Rentería
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Director del banco
Carlos
Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.
Young pop singer finds his niche in the entertainment industry.
Mathias
Tourists visiting the pyramids in Mexico experience a string of deaths and disappearances while staying at a nearby hotel. Police investigators Fernando and Cornado are assigned to the case and attempt to solve the mystery with the help of reporter (and girlfriend of Fernando) Veronica and the wrestler Santo.
Matias
Prof. Orlof
A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.
Dr. Carlos Conde
После роскошного званого ужина гости вдруг обнаруживают, что в силу каких-то таинственных причин не могут выйти из столовой. Проходит день, другой, и множества тщательно выстроенных фасадов и поз — как не бывало. Исчезают без следа понятия о приличиях, обусловленных положением в обществе, люди опускаются до примитивного животного состояния.
Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.
Dr. Sáenz
Rejected suitor goes all-out in his efforts to break up an engaged couple.
Newlywed couple wait for their first baby, but the mother/in-law gets pregnant first.
A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.
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.
Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
Writer
Famous singer becomes desperate to figure out which of three women helped to launch his early career with anonymous mentoring and support.
Luis (Louis Hill - English dubbed version)
A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.
Empresario
This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
Mom and Dad convince studious college girl to enroll in a beauty pageant, hoping to win big cash prize at the end of the rainbow.
Seven dresses/seven models at a fashion show, and each one represents one of the seven deadly sins.
Lic. Gómez
A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
Don Alfonso
Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.
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.
This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.
Refugee from Spanish Civil War deals with PTSD and a romantic triangle while trying to find her father's murderer.
Don Anselmo (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.
El tigre
A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.