Famie Kaufman
Actor · 1924 – 2009 · Ontario, Canada
Fannie Kauffman (April 11, 1924 – February 21, 2009), who was often known by the stage name Vitola, was a Canadian-born Mexican actress and comedian.
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Movie8.4ComedyCrimeA poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
Movie5.2Science FictionComedySatan offers a weary ghost a chance for redemption through true love.
Movie7.0ComedyFantasyA 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.
Los líos de Barba Azul
1955 · 5 votes
Movie6.9DramaA 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.
Movie6.3DramaAnthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.
D.F./Distrito Federal
1981 · 33 votes
Movie4.3DramaActionIn 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves. The others are lured with the promise of high wages, but end up owing everything to the company store. All are tortured, raped, or killed when they protest. Another landowner whose brother was killed by Zamarripa and who falls in love with one of his daughters is going to be punished, but he flees and becomes a revolutionary.
El valle de los miserables
1975 · 6 votes
Movie6.3ComedyDramaA 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.
Movie6.0ComedyIn this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of them falls in love and that complicates things.
Movie6.8RomanceComedyThe story of a Playboy bachelor who does not know the good that is, until he is married. Slowly, the man discovers that having a woman is not easy, but sometimes ... being faithful recomended. After sympathetic experiences and funny situations, he realizes that there are two uncorrectable errors committed by the man in your life: Being born and married!
El matrimonio es como el demonio
1967 · 5 votes
Movie7.3ComedyDramaThe movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
Movie6.8ComedyFantasyAldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms.
Movie5.5ActionFrom 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.
Las tarántulas
1973 · 4 votes
Movie7.6Documentary"Ni Muy Muy, Ni Tan Tan, Simplemente, Tin Tan. Tin Tan was one of the greatest comdedian-actors in the history of Mexican Cinema. He began his film career during the early years of what became the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. Throughout the majority of his movies he plays the character of a pachuco; the Chicano/Mexicano in zoot suit, throwing out the tirili phrases and words, and jammin the jitty-bug. With the style and the slang down to a tee, he was picked up in Cd. Juarez Chihuahua by an acting troupe. Touring extensively through-out Mexico with the troupe landed him in Mexico City with film contracts. It was in those films that Tin Tan exposed the image of the pachuco, which Mexican Youth adopted. From the desert border-towns of Juarez y El Paso the style took off in various parts of the country, most notably in Mexico City
Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan
2005 · 8 votes
Movie6.6ComedyInocencio 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.
Movie5.8DramaActionLola finds herself into the world of violence and drug trafficking when her father is murdered for refusing to put his truck to the service of a powerful cartel, with protections at high police levels. Knowing the local officials will not serve out justice, she takes matters into her own hands. Armed with a machine gun, she'll attempt to get revenge by her own hands - but the enemy has more firepower than her.
Movie4.8ComedyEl ánima de Sayula
1982 · 5 votes
Movie6.0ComedyRomanceMany many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
La vida en broma
1950 · 5 votes
Movie5.5ComedyMusicTwo women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.
Música, mujeres y amor
1952 · 6 votes
Movie5.5Science FictionComedyA guy and his girlfriend pretend to come from Mars.
Movie5.2ComedyDramaTwo young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.
Mi papá tuvo la culpa
1953 · 6 votes
Movie6.4FamilyComedyLa cigüeña distraída
1966 · 17 votes
Movie6.2ComedyMusicLonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
Movie6.0Sketchy TV personality exploits a busker with psychic powers for personal gain.
Miradas que matan
1954 · 3 votes
Movie5.5Widower with three grown daughters wants to go out and mack on chorus girls and stuff with his Argentine best-buddy.
Se acabaron las mujeres
1946 · 4 votes