
Carlos Martínez Baena
Actor · 1889 – 1971 · Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Carlos Martinez Baena was a character actor, who was born in Spain. At an early age he moved with his family to Mexico where he became a journalist. By 1920 he decided to become an actor while he was living in Argentina, and shortly afterward moved to Spain where he worked as a stage actor, eventually ppearing in films in Argentina, Spain and the U.S in Spanish language films made in the early and mid 1930s. In 1940 he returned to Mexico, escaping the fascist Franco goverment in Spain. The following year he began appearing in Mexican films in character parts, he was often cast as kindly old men, teachers, priests and appeared in many character parts. He was also very involved in the actor's union, during his career he also wrote and adapted sceenplays as well as writing poetry. In 1970 he completed his last film at the age 80, also a character part.
Movies23
Movie7.7DramaThrillerGloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Él
1953 · 166 votes
Movie8.2ComedyWesternRosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
El Siete Machos
1951 · 113 votes
Movie7.3ComedyDramaA bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
Movie7.7ComedyCantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
El Portero
1950 · 62 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 · 120 votes
Movie7.8ComedyMysteryCantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
El Supersabio
1948 · 38 votes
Movie6.0FantasyComedyMexican movie
El rey se divierte
1944 · 3 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDramaNun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father.
Mi niño, mi caballo y yo
1959 · 4 votes
Movie6.4DramaA useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
Movie6.8DramaRomanceAntonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.
Movie6.3DramaCrimeEntre tu amor y el cielo
1950 · 4 votes
Movie5.6DramaMusicMelodrama about marital infidelity.
Movie6.2DramaRomanceA sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
Camelia
1954 · 6 votes
Movie6.7Favored son of a wealthy rural family forced to go into hiding after killing someone in a duel.
El Charro del Cristo
1949 · 3 votes
Movie6.4DramaAmbitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
Movie6.9HorrorMysteryA troubled woman commits a series of murders that exposes some dark family secrets.
Movie6.0DramaUpon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decides to separate them by simulating a car accident from which Gabriela temporarily becomes paralized. Aware that they will marry, Tania makes the girl believe that Raúl is marrying her out of compassion, causing Gabriela to disappear from the residence...
Movie4.8ComedyDramaTheatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends.
Prefiero a tu papá
1952 · 8 votes
Movie6.0WarStandard retelling of the the Gospels, with a brief epilogue about the death of Mary.
Reina de reinas: La Virgen María
1948 · 6 votes
Movie6.3Mexican movie
Espinas de una flor
1945 · 3 votes
Movie8.0ComedyLa ciudad de los sueños
1954 · 1 votes
Movie6.6Rich family's maid thinks that maybe if she plays her cards right, she can land a moneybags husband. There's also a really cute auto mechanic, though, and...
Cupido pierde a Paquita
1955 · 5 votes
Movie5.8DramaAnthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
Monte de piedad
1951 · 5 votes
Series1
TV4.0HKM (Hablan, kantan, mienten)
2008 · 1 votes