Alfredo Varela
Actor · 1884 – 1962 · Mexico
Movies24
Movie6.4RomanceComedyIn this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.
Yo quiero ser mala
1950 · 11 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
Movie6.0ComedyDramaWhen an old house is about to be demolished to make room for a new radio station the famous ghosts which resides in the house start a revolt to alter the decision.
Movie6.2DramaComedyAmable is the drinking buddy of Paquito, a former medical student who plays Fanny's love, a cabaret singer and also with Conchita, a showgirl. One day, Paquito receives a telegram that his uncle Pancho vayaa asked to see his wife and other medical eminence to heal him his kidney ailment. Among all a hoax to mount Paquino not lose the inheritance from his uncle.
Qué hombre tan simpático
1943 · 6 votes
Movie6.3DramaAbismos
1931 · 3 votes
Movie6.7ComedyThis film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.
Movie6.9DramaIn Santiago de Cuba in the early 1950s, history begins. A young woman of high society becomes pregnant with a false love, her father orders his black maid (Dolores) to kill the baby (Alberto), but she flees to Havana where Alberto becomes a renowned doctor.
El derecho de nacer
1952 · 16 votes
Movie6.2ComedyDramaAfter a vengeance taken too far costs his father his Hacienda and his life, young Juan Manuel Mendoza becomes a bandit. He will get a chance for revenge and for love after he infiltrates his enemy house as a piano teacher.
El rebelde (Romance de Antaño)
1943 · 6 votes
Movie6.7CrimeDramaPecado
1951 · 3 votes
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.
Movie5.4DramaComedyWorking-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
Arrabalera
1951 · 5 votes
Movie6.9DramaThrillerA mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
Movie6.2DramaRomanceDivorciadas tells the story of three women: Cristina, recently divorced after refusing to endure her husband's lack of love, especially following the death of their young son; Carmen, divorced for many years and living on the fortune left to her by her late husband, leading a free and unconventional life; and Juanita, an employee at the courthouse where she meets Cristina, married but long abandoned by her husband.
Divorciadas
1943 · 4 votes
Movie6.0CrimeDramaIn this Mexican version of Winterset (inspired by the 20s Sacco Vanzetti case) an idealistic youth searches for the culprit behind a crime that his father was wrongly accused of several years before.
Movie7.7DramaPedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
Movie5.0DramaMusicErnesto, a composer, is madly in love with Amalia. He decides to help her pay the rent and wants her to start singing at the cabaret where he works, but she ends up falling in love with another man.
Movie5.8DramaCrimeA dancer is accused of killing a businessman. When her husband finds out, he decides to take her kid away from her.
Noche de perdición
1951 · 5 votes
Movie5.4DramaRomanceBased on the brief life of the Mexican composer of the famous waltz, "Over the Waves" ("Sobre las Olas"), Juventino Rosas.
Movie8.2ComedyThis musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.
¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?
1951 · 48 votes
Movie6.8DramaRomanceAntonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.
Movie7.2ComedyDramaFermín is a young taxi driver but also a playboy. He sets out to woo the daughter of a merchant who has amassed a small fortune. His plans go off track, and the consequences are imminent.
Dos pesos dejada
1949 · 14 votes
Movie7.1DramaA woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Doña Diabla
1950 · 21 votes
Movie6.2DramaA pregnant and very poor woman has no place to give birth, and turns to a society lady for help.
La culta dama
1957 · 4 votes
Movie5.6DramaAn ex-convict struggling to start anew faces relentless pursuit by a remorseless cop while protecting an orphan amid the 1832 Paris student uprisings.
Los miserables
1943 · 8 votes