
José Gálvez
Actor · 1931 – 1978 · Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia
José Manuel Gálvez Velandia (March 19, 1931 - August 9, 1978), known as José Gálvez, was a Colombian-born actor who worked in Mexico in films, plays, television, and also did voice-over work starting from the 1960s.
Movies24
Movie8.7DramaFantasyPoor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
Macario
1960 · 221 votes
Movie8.1ComedyDramaLopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Movie5.4HorrorDr. Satan, a mad scientist and sorceror, plans to take over the world. In order to do so, he wakes up three zombie slaves from the dead and attempts to make a deal with the devil. He sends his zombie servants to do harm to anyone who stands in his way. Will anyone be able to stop him?
Movie6.0ComedyDramaA humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.
Movie5.6ComedyMiguel Cañete is a village man who is called up by the Navy to do military service, but he lives alone with his little brother and doesn't know where to leave him...
Cateto a babor
1970 · 32 votes
Movie8.1DramaA family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.
Movie6.2Biopic about a General in the Mexican Revolution. Sequel: Persecucion y muerte de Benjamin Argumedo.
Benjamín Argumedo el rebelde
1979 · 4 votes
Movie6.3ComedyTired of the monotony of her work, Mary O'Hara, executive of an important American company, travels to Acapulco for a few days in search of love and adventure. On the beach, her high hopes fade, since she only meets unscrupulous playboys. She declines all offers she gets until she meets Pancho el Golfo, a young man who makes a living as he can.
El golfo
1969 · 5 votes
Movie4.7DramaThrillerRepressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
Movie6.7DramaSometimes parents make the mistake of loving one child more than the others. Don José places blind trust in his son Pepe, who turns out to be the one committing the most serious faults within the family, while Raymundo is the one who pays for them. Remake of Cuando los hijos se van (1941).
Movie4.3DramaCrimeFollowing their mother’s passing, two brothers plot to claim the inheritance left in their stepfather’s care, but life has a way of turning things around.
Movie6.0ActionScience FictionThe Secret Agent Lafargue locates the evil Professor Marcus headquarters, who with the help of Dr. Bellini and an android of his invention, plan to conquer the world. Lafargue is discovered and severely injured, so he is unable to remember where it is the basis of Marcus or what their plan. To resolve this situation the authorities call the Agent Zero team.
Movie5.8WesternForeign mining concern resorts to illegal tactics to buy up land; two brothers are orphaned and dispossessed and they become outlaws in revenge.
Sangre en Rio Bravo
1966 · 4 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
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.
Movie6.0CrimeThrillerHeist movie: bank teller develops an elaborate game plan to lift money from the vault where she works.
La mujer de oro
1970 · 6 votes
Movie5.2Science FictionActionNeutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium.
Movie6.0DramaArnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".
Movie5.3ComedyRomanceAnthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
El cuerpazo del delito
1970 · 10 votes
Movie5.1ComedyMusicMaria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
Sor Ye-yé
1968 · 16 votes
Movie5.5DramaRomanceIndependently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.
Movie6.3ActionDramaDramatization of a popular '70s corrido.
La muerte de un gallero
1977 · 10 votes
Movie6.3DramaCrimeA woman betrayed by a man falls into despair and kills him. What fate will the jury decide for her?
Movie6.7ThrillerDramaPublic health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.
Seis días para morir
1967 · 11 votes
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TV10.0DramaSoapExtraño en su pueblo
1973 · 1 votes