
Arturo Castro 'Bigotón'
Actor · 1918 – 1975 · Mexico City, Mexico
Movies24
Movie8.2ComedyYoung priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
Movie7.8AdventureComedyFidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
Por mis pistolas
1968 · 88 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDramaA humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
Movie7.6DramaA Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Nazarín
1959 · 164 votes
Movie8.0ComedyIt's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
El señor doctor
1965 · 117 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.
Movie6.0ComedyMusicThe guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.
Movie6.0Comedy about two friends (Viruta and Capulina) who are swindled when they buy a plot of land. It turns out that the land they just purchased is actually the cemetery of a small town. Moreover, the two bumbling stooges cross paths with the local criminal, a masked robber known as "El Esqueleto" (the Skeleton). The film also stars Dacia Gonzalez.
Un par a todo dar
1961 · 9 votes
Movie5.9ComedyMusicA young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame
Movie6.5DramaComedyA worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as mysterious as typical, you will realize demagoguery and arrangements existing between union leaders to maintain the status quo unchanged and profit from mafia practices.
Movie5.8ComedyRomanceThree girls from different social classes are forced to take that first step into adulthood that leads them to live fun adventures and also unfortunate events.
El primer paso... de la mujer
1974 · 4 votes
Movie5.8AdventureComedyA couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
Pilotos de la muerte
1962 · 9 votes
Movie6.8RomanceComedyChón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.
El que con niños se acuesta...
1959 · 5 votes
Movie5.8ComedyWesternTwo ranch owners promised their offspring would marry. The intended refused and switched places with their respective servants. They don't discover their real identities till they marry.
Yo no me caso compadre
1960 · 5 votes
Movie6.9DramaFamilyA poor little girl slips in a circus one day and sees a puppets' show. Later she returns to the empty circus looking for a fairy she was fascinated by.
La edad de la inocencia
1962 · 16 votes
Movie6.1Saucy-but-naive country girl moves to the big city to look for work.
La criada bien criada
1972 · 8 votes
- Movie5.8
Two bandits hide from the law by posing as doctor's in a small town without medical care.
Ladrón que roba a ladrón
1960 · 6 votes
Movie6.4ComedyDramaThe Postman Adalberto is involved by chance in the filming of a scene, which gives the film director the idea of including him as an actor, but without his knowledge.
Yo quiero ser artista
1958 · 7 votes
Movie6.5ComedyChild suffers a brain injury and falls into a coma. When he regains consciousness, twenty years later, he has to deal with having become a grown-up 'overnight'.
Héroe a la fuerza
1964 · 6 votes
- Movie6.7
A young woman who lives with a married man falls in love with another, and maintains a friendly correspondence with him.
Una mujer para los sábados
1970 · 3 votes
- Movie6.3DramaRomance
El misterio de los hongos alucinantes
1968 · 3 votes
Movie7.3ActionAdventureEl ojo de vidrio
1969 · 22 votes
Movie6.3HorrorAn American serial killer, known for his handiwork with a straight razor, manages to escape while being transported in Mexico and hides out inside a publisher's home, where he claims many more victims.
Movie6.5ComedyTwo con-artists run roughshod over the local economy of a small town they visit... but then they fall in love with two young women related to the rich landowners who are the target of their primary swindle.
Los apuros de dos gallos
1963 · 4 votes
Series1
TV8.5ComedyLos Beverly de Peralvillo is a Mexican family television sitcom that originally aired from 1968 to 1973 on the Canal de las Estrellas network. The series stars Guillermo Rivas, Leonorilda Ochoa, Arturo Castro, and Amparo Arozamena. As Mexico's answer to The Beverly Hillbillies, the sitcom was probably the most popular family television series in Mexico before El Chavo. The cast members, who usually had minor insignificant roles before, were offered principal roles in the series. The series spawned two theatrical releases, Los Beverly de Peralvillo and Que familia tan cotorra!. Both films featured the same series' cast.
Los Beverly de Peralvillo
1969 · 4 votes