Charles Rooner
Actor · Vienna, Austria
Charles Rooner was born in 1901 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor, known for Plunder of the Sun, Sofia and En cada puerto un amor. He was married to Luisa Rooner. He died on 22 November 1954 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Movies23
Movie7.9ComedyA cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlfriend.
Movie6.3AdventureMysteryAn American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca.
Plunder of the Sun
1953 · 18 votes
Movie6.0Mexico miner Pete Carroll is in Acapulco and meets Terry Perreau and falls in love with her after he hears her singing on a recording of "Extraño amor". The troubled Terry decides she wants to go shark fishing, so Pete poses as the skipper of a fishing boat, owned by Thursday, and off they go. Pete lands a mantray and cuts it up for bait and the sharks are soon swarming, and Terry dives in the water. Terry does likewise and fights a few sharks and gets his leg gashed but finally rescues her. Gradually, her friendship also turns into love. But back in Acapulco she learns of Pete's "fake skipper" joke, is all hacked off and goes to Mexico City with her friend Dr. Antez. There, a specialist, Dr. Rivas tells her that unless she has a dangerous operation she has only three months to live. Depressed even more than usual, if possible, she returns to the hotel and is met by!
Silent Fear
1956 · 3 votes
Movie6.7AdventureCrimeJournalist Luis Navarro is assigned to cover the sinking of several ships, but his investigation takes an unexpected turn after meeting Miss Morán. As he digs deeper, he realizes the case is tied to a dangerous espionage conspiracy.
Espionaje en el golfo
1943 · 3 votes
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Movie6.0DramaMusicNegro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")
Movie6.5ThrillerMysteryA young woman loses her mind when she finds out that her uncle and his boyfriend met in a train accident.
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.
Movie6.4DramaMusicLa reina del trópico
1946 · 5 votes
Movie7.1DramaWesternA woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.
Doña Bárbara
1943 · 39 votes
- Movie6.0DramaRomance
Marguerite Gautier is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Marguerite discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
La dama de las camelias
1944 · 3 votes
Movie6.7DramaMarital problems and Ofelia’s physical and mental illness (Rosa Carmina) drive Emilio (Francisco Petrone) to seek pleasure. He meets Carmina, a prostitute who, together with her pimp, plans to ruin him by mocking his situation.
Historia de un marido infiel
1956 · 3 votes
Movie7.2DramaAdventureFisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor refuses to treat their son Coyotito, who has been bitten by a scorpion. When Quino unexpectedly finds a magnificent pearl in the sea, Juana senses that the discovery will only bring them misfortune and tries to convince her husband to return it to the sea.
Movie6.2MysteryCrimeRuined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
Movie6.0DramaComedyEn cada puerto un amor
1949 · 3 votes
Movie6.2ThrillerDramaA former OSS agent is assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from the dastardly Russians and spirit them away from behind the Iron Curtain.
Sofia
1948 · 4 votes
Movie5.8DramaLa sombra de Chucho el Roto
1945 · 6 votes
Movie5.0ComedyRomanceTraveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her.
Movie7.5ComedyWell-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
Movie5.8ActionComedyBand of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.
Movie5.5DramaRomanceA young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.
Movie5.2MusicDramaAfter the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.
Gran Casino
1947 · 29 votes
Movie5.6DramaCrimeReturning veteran with PTSD/amnesia returns home and gets tangled up in a criminal investigation.