Carolina Barret
Actor · 1916 – 2009 · Veracruz, Mexico
The beautiful actress Carolina Barret (October 20, 1916 - October 13, 2009) was an actress of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema as a supporting character with an extensive career and designated as an honorary member of the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In addition to dedicating her life to Mexican cinema, she participated in several U.S. productions. In his last years he made some telenovelas. ARIEL AWARDS. - 1947 Actress Canaima (Winner). - 1956 Supporting actress Espaldas mojadas (Winner). - 1974 Female co-actress Calzonzín inspector (Nominated).
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Movie8.1ComedyCantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
Movie7.4ComedyCantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.
Gran Hotel
1944 · 34 votes
Movie7.9ComedyCrimeA gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
Movie7.0ComedyDramaWhile trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
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
Movie6.9DramaWesternA man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.
Movie5.8ComedyMusicGlobe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.
Las cinco noches de Adán
1942 · 4 votes
Movie5.6Romantic comedy/drama.
Como yo te quería
1945 · 5 votes
Movie6.2DramaComedyAmable is the drinking buddy of Paquito, a former medical student who plays Fanny's love, a cabaret singer and also with Conchita, a showgirl. One day, Paquito receives a telegram that his uncle Pancho vayaa asked to see his wife and other medical eminence to heal him his kidney ailment. Among all a hoax to mount Paquino not lose the inheritance from his uncle.
Qué hombre tan simpático
1943 · 6 votes
Movie7.7ComedyWith revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life.
Así es mi tierra
1937 · 37 votes
Movie5.7DramaMaría dreams of going to the capital to study piano and begins exchanging letters with Alberto, a composer. He takes advantage of the situation by sending his family away so he can deceive María and make her fall in love with him.
La vida tiene tres días
1955 · 3 votes
Movie5.6HorrorWesternA cowboy and his sidekick meet a ranching family that is haunted by spirits and vampires.
Movie5.8DramaComedyTwo charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
1946 · 5 votes
Movie6.0DramaThe director of a hospital deceives a poor couple in order to steal their newborn child and sell the baby to a wealthy couple.
Médico de guardia
1950 · 3 votes
Movie5.4RomanceDramaThe love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
El día de la boda
1968 · 7 votes
Movie6.7ComedyDramaUnidos por el eje
1942 · 3 votes
Movie6.8Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
Flor de caña
1948 · 4 votes
Movie5.8AdventureComedyTwo construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
Suerte Te De Dios
1961 · 6 votes
Movie8.2DramaComedyA humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
Movie5.3ComedyRomanceAnthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
El cuerpazo del delito
1970 · 10 votes
Movie6.3HorrorTwo doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.
Movie6.7MusicDrama"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
Cinco rostros de mujer
1947 · 6 votes
Movie5.8Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
Vuelva el sábado
1951 · 4 votes
Movie7.5ComedyA rumor reaches a small town, San Garabato, that a government infiltrator will arrive to check the conditions of the community. Quickly, the municipal president, Don Perpetuo del Rosal, orders the imprisonment of those who might give a bad image. An indigenous man named Calzonzin arrives in town, pursued by two men. He is quickly taken as the infiltrated inspector, and protected by all the local authorities.