Gilberto Martínez Solares
Just arriving from his town to the capital, Roberto asks for accommodation to his ambitious relatives. As he does not bring money, he is forced to work as a bricklayer in a construction in which he lives an endless number of dangerous adventures.
The boys in a famous pop-band all have girl troubles. And other problems. Sucks being them.
Mexican movie about women cheating on their husbands. Three segments, I liked the first one, but not the other two. The first had a very good ending, the second was 'weird' in lack of a better word, and the third was a little violent, I didn't expect it from a movie talking about 'cheating on'. This is of course, my humble personal opinion.
Sea creature who looks like a human girl takes the place of a couple's drowned daughter. She grows up into a beautiful woman who wears very little clothing, and she2 meets a young man and they fall in love. Then...
Based on the infamous song by the same name "La Negra Tomasa". This is a comical adventure based in a barrio in Mexico. Cesar Bono plays a police office, Alfonso Zayas a ladies man and Roberto Ballesteros a dangerous loan shark who abducts Tomasa out of passion.
During an excavation, archaeologist Magdalena (Lina Santos) accidentally resurrects a centuries-old vampire named Vladimir, who promptly disappears. When she attempts to warn authorities, she's locked away in a mental hospital for a spell. Upon release, she sets out to stop the vampire, who's now taken over a nightclub.
Martha is a single woman who becomes pregnant and commits suicide after giving birth to a pair of twins, Jessica and Angelica, who are adopted separately. Years later, Angelica becomes a lawyer working for the mafia. Jessica, who was adopted by a prostitute, has become a criminal and is now arrested for the murder of her husband. In prison she tries to be friends with the director without success and she has to pay her sentence.
There are people disappearing in an apartment building and a psychopath killer is doing it. A man is busy cheating on his wife, another man is looking for love in the same building. It's up to Los Gatos to stop the sexy madness.
Roberto y su nueva familia estan pasando por dificultades economicas por lo que decide formar otra vez su vieja banda y comienzan a tratar de organizar algunos robos que resultan mal. La esposa de Roberto y su abuelita recurren al engaño disfrazandose de monjitas para poder vender galletas y rompope, sin embargo la abuelita hace de las suyas y se meten en problemas.
Sequel to Day of the Laborer. Roberto and his wife Beatriz work on a construction site, him as a laborer and her selling food. Another laborer El Chalan, seduces neighborhood maids in order to rob the homes where they work. In the neighborhood there is also a cereal killer on the loose who preys on prostitutes.
Just arrived from his village to the capital, Roberto calls hosting its ambitious relatives. As not bring money is forced to work as a bricklayer in a construction in which a host of dangerous adventures live.
Roberto es un ladrón que le hace creer a su hijo Pepito y a todos sus vecinos que es un honesto Mecánico. La güerita recién llegada a la vecindad es la muchacha de la que Roberto se ha enamorado. Pero Roberto tiene una doble vida, ya que también es Bobby "El elagante" jefe de una banda de ladrones, quienes siempre fallan en todos sus robos y juntos se ven envueltos en persecuciones graciosas y equivocaciones constantes. Una divertida comedia para toda la familia.
A shady associate from the past tempts the owner of a failing nightclub into a drug-smuggling scheme.
Two half-brothers are spiky and resentful toward each other, but they find common cause together when their father is murdered.
Beautiful Silvia and Sandra disappear mysteriously at the Bermuda Triangle. Santo, Blue Demon and Mil Mascaras, a team of super-heroes, go into action to try to find them. Soon they find out that evil Scientist Dr. Gro has developed a device to make people and objects to disappear blaming the famous vanishings of ships, airplanes and human beings on Mother Nature. Cast: Santo el Enmascarado de Plata, Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, Silvia Manrquez and, Sandra Duarte
Boy sees his family murdered in Texas returns to Mexico. Grown up, he goes back to Texas to avenge his parents.
La India Maria becomes deeply embroiled in a large scale diamond heist.
College student falls into the orbit of pop singer Juan Gabriel and they become very close, despite opposition from a woman scorned in his background, her abusive boyfriend and her parents.
A man returns home only to find out his friend is an undercover drug enforcement agent who is trying to dismantle a criminal organization from within.
Two unethical businessmen are trying to swindle Capulina and his niece out of a piece of real-estate, but Capulina wants to use that vacant lot to present a circus.
A ranchera singer and his band emigrate to Texas to try their luck there.
Two roving gamblers. Cockfights, horse-races, a jealous boyfriend and an avenging brother...
When he lands a job as a telephone operator, Capulina -- legendary Mexican funnyman Gaspar Henaine -- quickly discovers that he can get the best gossip in town by eavesdropping on callers' private conversations. But when he uses these juicy tidbits to help a local newspaper boost its circulation, he unleashes a firestorm of scandal that threatens to ruin him. Gilberto Martínez Solares directs this comedy.
Four male friends compete for the attentions of three female friends.
A clownish 'tour-guide' takes a group of wealthy foreign vacation-gals to Acapulco.
Chanoc and Tzekub are hired to hunt two black jaguars, but they've tasted human flesh and strange occurrences have been going on.
Child-in-adult-body tries to play Detective, but he's too stupid, and his lucha-libre friends have to cover his ass every time he fouls a case up or gets thrown in jail. Meanwhile, there's a rogue Bank President who has a teleportation machine that he's using to make unauthorized withdrawals from rival banks, and...
Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!
Bumbling inventor/jack of all trades does sketch-comedy stuff for 65 minutes, then rescues Mexico City from a Mad Scientist triggering earthquakes.
From the 'Chanoc' series of comic-book adaptations: Chanoc and his entourage face off against a jewel thief who has eyes on a shipwrecked treasure lying off the coast.
Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
Rich family's lovable groundskeeper is charged with caring for the seven children when Mum and Dad go on vacation.
An alcoholic janitor is fired from his job at an orphanage, and is befriended by an angel in the guise of a little girl, who proceeds to change his life.
Comic-book adaptation: Tarzan-type in the Mexican outback.
Bruno Halder a sinister scientist seeking revenge against his brother and niece is resurrected by Waldo his faithful sidekick. Besides his minions of zombies Halder enlists the help of Wolfman, Franquestain, a Vampire, a Mummy and a Cyclops. Once again the survival of mankind is put in the hands of Santo
This time Santo and Blue Demon must take on a 300 year-old witch with a really bad attitude. She raises a legion of zombies and sends them to fight Santo in his home and in the rings. Talk about a rude interruption to a wrestling match .
Maura Monti (Mireya), Amedee Chabot (Adriana), Isela Vega (Dalila) and Elizabeth Campbell (Patricia), are hit women who kill men in cold blood. But not everybody, only men who don't comply with their 'godmother' (Tamara Garina)
Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.
Ex-con breaks into a house and ends up bonding with a toddler instead of burgling the way he'd planned.
Bumbling "comedians" klutz around with a fake spiritualist-medium and a bunch of pro wrestlers.
Late 16th century: two Azteca teens are very much in love, but older folks have designs on each of them. This can't end well...
Azucena is a saucy maid whose personality causes many comical situations. These will increase when the family she works for hosts a recently widowed millionaire returning to Puerto Rico after many years.
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarnated Aztec woman. Via her recovered memories, she is able to lead Redding and his associates to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan, where they hope to find the lost treasure of the Aztecs. Instead, they find two mummified bodies - one of a modern man, quite dead, and the other of an ancient Aztec, quite alive. They are able to return safely to Pasadena with both finds, but a rival professor, Janney, kills Redding and steals the body of the modern man-mummy. This he subjects to a resurrection experiment, which works - only the mummy proves to be a werewolf. Two supernatural menaces roam the city that night. This film is composed of footage from two unrelated Mexican horror movies, LA CASA DEL TERROR and LA MOMIA AZTECA, plus new footage shot in the U.S. by Jerry Warren.
A Venezuelan rancher tries to preserve his traditional way of life in spite of modernizing influences brought when international business discovers oil in his region.
A girl poses as man in order to work in a hotel bellhop. A guest is attracted to her but thinks it is and confused man goes to a psychologist.
Western comedy. Stranger-in-town falls into an ambivalent love/hate relationship with the sheriff.
Caravan of gypsies sets up camp outside an old-style Mexican hacienda.
Untalented bullfighter tries to pose as a star player in his hometown (and to his daughter) ... but he has so little game that he's reduced to playing 'rodeo clown'.
Papa hires a "boyfriend" to indulge her in her fantasies of old-fashioned romance.
Charro-dude wants his sister to marry into professional city-folk and move into the upper classes... but she's in love with somebody from their own social stratum.
Respectable guy uses a pseudonym when he wants to cut loose in a neighboring town. A friend of his picks up the pseudonym habit, and they take turns pretending to be the same person, until their cover stories get too snarled to continue.
Modesto works as clerk in the Vulcania company and aims to start a project to benefit the workers who work there. Modesto befriends Diana and by confusion, the owners of the company believe that she is his wife. Inviting them to dinner at his house, Modesto tries to show his project to get a promotion without imagining that your boss really cares about is his supposed wife Diana
Mistaken identity farce; theatre troupe moves into a rental mansion in order to convince someone that it's a finishing school for young ladies... but the site used to be an expensive brothel, and a former customer turns up at just the wrong moment. Wacky complications!
Tin Tan is an eccentric wealthy man who comes across a beautiful woman who doesn't want to live anymore.
A notorious bandit dies and adventurers try to track down his hidden loot.
In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements.
Romantic melodrama set on a tiny island populated by fishermen and families.
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.
Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness makes him - because his boss, the Professor, is secretly draining blood from him while he dozes to use in experiments in raising the dead. These haven't worked so far, and the bodies have been waxened and placed on display in the museum to cover his crimes. His big chance seems to come, however, when he learns that the mummified body of a modern man has been found in an Egyptian sarcophagus. The professor and his two henchmen steal the body and take it back to his lab - where the experiment flops again.
Cowboy/western: hero fakes cowardice to trap the bad guys into showing their hands.
Aging lecher struggles to launch an institution of higher learning for young ladies.
Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate.
Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.
Housekeeper inherits her employer's fortune, tries to enter into society and make a good match for her God-daughter.
Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him.
Una divertida aventura de Viruta y Capulina en donde se verán enredados en un lío de boxeadores confundiendo tanto la situación que ni sus bellas amigas los podrán salvar de una gran golpiza.
Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.
Parody of Rear Window: skeezy peeper with a telescope accidentally discovers serial-killer activity across the courtyard.
Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
Jack-of-all-trades interferes in his neighbors' lives, then has to set everything straight.
Clavillazo is a likeable drifter who gets his diploma because his teachers want to lose sight of him. He lives on what he can find in the street. However, nothing can stop him from helping those around him.
Satan opens a nightclub in a small town, scheming to seduce the townsfolk into naughtiness.
Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home.
A news reporter falls in love with a millionaire's young daughter, but her father tells him he won't let them marry unless he earns one million Pesos first. Helped by a friend, he tries to earn the money by marrying - and murdering - four rich women.
Inocencio Dante, the intendant of a bank, where the director Don Miguel and their children; Marga who spends money without control, Polo who spent on gambling, have defrauded the bank with eight hundred thousand pesos, have agreed to coax "Chencho" and make it appear as responsible for the theft. In prison, "Chencho" knows Don Facundo Farias to whom he talks about his sorrows, Don Facundo happens to be the leader of the gang that stole twenty million pesos and is the only survivor who knows the place where the money is buried. After a fight, "Chencho" is put into a cell for defending Don Facundo, he in gratitude and before dying from pneumonia advises how to escape and where to find the money.later Inocencio In the style of Count of Monte Cristo flees giving a positive spin into his life. Pleasant moments alive with sparkling, funny and comical adventures of the Viscount of Montecristo.
In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and of a black laundress of African origin. Over the years, Mateo falls for Caridad, but she doesn't love him back because she has fallen for a Mexican captain, Martin (Pedro Armendáriz), who she happened to meet at the port. The captain also fell in love with Caridad and proposes that they live together and she accepts. Caridad works in a cabaret in the port and the owner, Guevara (René Cardona), feels an attraction for the girl, and in a moment of jealousy, tries to kill Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara. When Martin returns to Veracruz, Mexico, Guevara feels that he's the new owner of Caridad.
This film is considered one of Tin Tan's funniest comedies. This time, the charismatic comedian incarnates a mariachi musician that lives the most entertaining an extraordinary adventures while traveling from Mexico to the paradisaic island of Cuba. An example of the excellent cinematographic comedy that only Tin Tan can achieve.
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
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...
Authorities close down a restaurant after a violent crime is committed on the premises; the employees look for new jobs and try to track down the murderer.
Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.
A Mexican comedy loosely playing off of the tale of Sleeping Beauty. A caveman wakes up after a thousand year slumber. When he awakens he is seen as a wonder to behold, and discovers his ancient love and romantic rival are seemingly still alive as well.
Valentin reaches Mexico City to stay with his countrymen Marcelo and Sirenia, parents of thirteen children. Marcelo gladly serves Valentin until he realizes that he is poor and throws him out of the house. By a suggestion Sirenia, Marcelo employs Valentin as a servant and exploits it mercilessly. But with the help of Andres, the fate of Valentin takes an unexpected turn.
"Gentleman bandit" acts out ridiculous schemes to steal valuables from his society friends.
A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
Tin Tan stars as a poor railroad employee by day and a modern day Robin Hood by night.
In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.
The Mexican comedy Simbad el Mareado stars the popular comic Tin-Tan. The story concerns the adventurer Sinbad who becomes sidetracked from his quest for riches and love when he suffers from a psychotic belief that his best friend is a commoner who may be in line to receive a financial windfall.
Tin-Tan and his carnal Marcelo take over Carmelita baby for a few hours, and suddenly, the three are hired by an employer of the tents, starting the funniest adventures you can imagine.
A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse.
Door-to-door salesman falls for a young woman, implements hare-brained schemes to separate her from her fiance.
Twin brothers separated at birth accidentally meet each other 25 years later. Girlfriends and coworkers are confounded, wacky hijinks!
A 1949 Mexican comedy drama film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares and starring Joaquín Pardavé, Sara García and Manolo Fábregas.
A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets out organize a musical starring beauties from Brazil, Mexico, and Spain in this Spanish-language comedy starring popular funnyman Tin Tan. Now, as the hapless imposter attempts to finance a musical without any money, he also discovers just how difficult it can be to juggle three beautiful starlets who all have eyes for their presumably wealthy producer.
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
Two travelers visiting a small town link up together and then run afoul of the gossip of church ladies.
The strange behavior of a woman leads her loved one to consult with a psychiatrist.
Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.
Light comedy in which Joaquin Cortes and Mapy Pardavé join their talents, written and directed by Gilberto Martinez Solares. It deals with the life of a pair of twins from a provincial family who emigrated to the city, then one begins to work in a music magazine and occasionally is confused with her sister, which causes problems with their respective boyfriends.
Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.
The film of the thousand dancers, of the enchanting songs, of the sets that are splurge of luxury and beauty.
