Fanny Schiller
Actor · 1901 – 1971 · Mexico City, Mexico
Fanny Schiller Hernández (1897–1971) was an award-winning Mexican character actress, television star and also acted in operettas and musicals in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She won two best supporting actress awards from the Ariels and was nominated for two additional films. She was a social activist, creating the Actor's Union and inspiring the creation of “Rosa Mexicano”. She was accomplished at dubbing and was the voice of many animated characters as well as the official voice of several other notable Mexican actresses.
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Movie6.4ComedyNo te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.
No te engañes corazón
1937 · 13 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaA woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity
María Isabel
1967 · 42 votes
Movie5.6DramaIrresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.
Las engañadas
1955 · 5 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceDirected by Juan Ortega and set in 19th Century Victorian England, a struggling single woman of the noble class , named Juana Champion (played by actress Andrea Palma), has absolutely no marriage prospects. After finally resigning herself to becoming a Spinster or "Old Maid", she decides to go live with her very wealthy Aunt, none other than the Dutchess of Meldrum. Not long after her arrival, she quickly becomes infatuated with a charming, good-looking and talented painter named Garth, who works for her prim and proper Aunt. Although there is a mutual attraction between them from the start, Garth does not truly fall in love with Juana until he hears her sing a wonderful song called "The Rosary".
El rosario
1944 · 4 votes
Movie7.1DramaRomanceThis is the story of Rubí, a young, selfish and hypocritical woman who, through ambition and deception, ruins the lives of those around her and her own.
Rubí
1970 · 25 votes
Movie4.7DramaThrillerRepressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
Movie6.5DramaThrillerFor love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.
La infame
1954 · 6 votes
Movie5.2DramaA woman lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband who married her for her money.
Love Has Many Faces
1965 · 9 votes
Movie5.6DramaWife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.
Locura pasional
1956 · 5 votes
Movie5.7ComedyDramaMagicians transfers two peoples' souls (or whatever you want to call them) into each other's bodies.
Movie5.2Science FictionHorrorVolcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
The Black Scorpion
1957 · 67 votes
Movie7.1ComedyDramaSalvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.
Movie6.4CrimeMysteryA widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
A Life in the Balance
1955 · 9 votes
Movie6.7Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.
El norteño
1963 · 3 votes
Movie4.3MusicRomanceMexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
Sombrero
1953 · 12 votes
Movie4.5AdventureCrimeAn artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area, and the ex-GI comes to believe he might be responsible, as he has long stretches where he can't remember anything.
A Woman's Devotion
1956 · 14 votes
Movie6.0AdventureHistoryA 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.
La monja alférez
1944 · 7 votes
- Movie6.2Drama
Troubled young man meets his father for the first time.
Cielo Rojo
1962 · 5 votes
Movie5.9WesternIn 1915, an American adventurer joins the supporters of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
The Treasure of Pancho Villa
1955 · 14 votes
Movie6.7DramaRomanceTuya en cuerpo y alma ("Yours in Body and Soul") is a 1945 Mexican film. It stars Sara García.
Movie5.5DramaIdealistic young teacher takes a post in a small, backwoods town and dedicates her life to schooling the village's children.
La maestra inolvidable
1969 · 4 votes
Movie4.6Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.
Historia de un abrigo de mink
1955 · 8 votes
Movie6.6DramaCrimeMercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
Movie6.3ComedyThe family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.