Alberto Catalá
Actor · 1910 – 1989 · Mexico City, México
Movies24
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.
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
Movie8.1ComedyIt is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.
Movie7.5An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.
Picardía mexicana
1978 · 80 votes
Movie7.4ComedyThe film tells an episode of the life of a kindly hearted bootblack who becomes accidentally the tutor of an orphan but nevertheless spends all his time and effort for the sake of the boy.
El bolero de Raquel
1957 · 100 votes
Movie6.0ComedyOut-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great grandfather.
Si usted no puede, yo sí
1951 · 6 votes
Movie7.8ComedyInocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
El analfabeto
1961 · 122 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
Movie7.8ComedyA cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.
El barrendero
1982 · 56 votes
Movie7.4ComedyCantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
Si yo fuera diputado
1952 · 78 votes
Movie7.2ComedyCantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.
Movie6.0ComedyDramaA widow remarries... and then her missing-presumed-dead first husband reappears.
Los amores de una viuda
1949 · 5 votes
Movie7.9ComedyFollows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.
El patrullero 777
1978 · 126 votes
Movie7.3ComedyImmediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.
Entrega Inmediata
1963 · 58 votes
Movie6.8DramaAdaptation of the novel by Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures in Santiago de Compostela of Gerardo Roquer from Madrid, who stays in a boarding house known as "La Casa de la Troya".
La casa de la Troya
1948 · 5 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDramaBachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.
Mi mujer no es mía
1951 · 5 votes
Movie5.0CrimeDramaLa mafia del crimen
1958 · 4 votes
Movie7.6ComedyCantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
Movie7.1DramaRomanceThe encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.
Movie6.7DramaMexican feature film
Ultraje al amor
1956 · 3 votes
Movie6.7AdventureDramaLa sombra de Cruz Diablo
1955 · 3 votes
Movie5.9HorrorScience FictionA detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...
Movie6.7ComedyMusicMelodías de amor
1955 · 3 votes