Gloria Mestre
Actor · 1928 – 2012 · Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
Gloria Mestre Rodríguez (July 28, 1928 – December 9, 2012) was a Mexican dancer, choreographer, and actress in film, stage, and television. She was considered one of the greatest Mexican ballet dancers in the early 1940s.
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Movie5.5ComedyDramaCatita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
Mi campeón
1952 · 4 votes
Movie4.4ActionAdventureTwin warrior sisters, raised in the wilderness and trained for battle, must survive a bizarre world of monsters, cultists, zombies, and barbarians as they prepare for a final showdown with the father who once tried to destroy them.
Sorceress
1982 · 83 votes
Movie7.0DramaCrimeA tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.
- Movie6.3Comedy
Three men receive a newborn child, along with a message that leaves the mother for dead and one of them for the father.
Tres bribones
1955 · 3 votes
Movie7.0DramaCrimeA nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
Movie5.7Los Destrampados
1971 · 3 votes
Movie6.2AdventureHistoryIn this period costume swashbuckler, Don Pedro de Rivera, the rightful owner of a Spanish castle seeks to reclaim it from an occupying Moorish Caliph. Don Pedro’s accomplice is Juan Ponce de León, who intends to steal the "Rose of Granada," a rare gem owned by the Caliph, which supposedly contains a rare essence that ensures eternal youth.
Movie6.6DramaWarA German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
Foxhole in Cairo
1960 · 5 votes
Movie6.0MusicTourist's eye overview of some highlights of Mexican history and folk culture, all expressed through interpretive dance.
México lindo y querido
1961 · 5 votes
Movie6.0RomanceAn emotionally fragile older woman embarks on an ill-fated love affair with a handsome young artist while traveling through Mexico's Yucatan peninsula...
Interval
1973 · 5 votes
Movie6.3ComedyDramaA low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.
Movie5.7DramaMaría dreams of going to the capital to study piano and begins exchanging letters with Alberto, a composer. He takes advantage of the situation by sending his family away so he can deceive María and make her fall in love with him.
La vida tiene tres días
1955 · 3 votes
Movie6.4WesternActionIn this highly regarded Mexican war film, peasant Demetrio Macias leads a band of outlaws in a revolt against the Federales during the Mexican Revolution.
Los de abajo
1977 · 8 votes
Movie6.0ComedyMrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
Dios los cría
1953 · 9 votes
Movie5.0A couple suffers through slander and jealousy to maintain their love for one another.
Solamente una vez
1954 · 3 votes
Movie6.1CrimeRene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.
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.
Movie6.0ComedySeveral couples are lured into becoming contestants in a dance marathon that awards a large cash prize to the couple still standing at the end of this grueling test of endurance.
Maratón de baile
1958 · 3 votes
Movie6.0DramaAn unhappy marriage is complicated when hubby starts an affair with his sister-in-law. Darkest before the dawn...
Movie5.7When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico City, they separate from their boyfriends, form a trio and travel the country singing, dancing and bribing older men, but they fall into a trap when they invest their money in an unreliable business.
Las tres alegres comadres
1952 · 3 votes
Movie6.7CrimeDrama3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.
Reclusorio III
1999 · 3 votes
Movie4.9WesternHorrorHighly convoluted Mexican concoction involving the titular 'Devil's Horse' and a violent son brought back to life, courtesy of the aforementioned Devil who begins straight away to be even more violent then before, this time extending his violence to women and animals.
Movie4.9ComedyDramaIn a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
Movie6.0CrimeDramaTwo brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.
Frontera norte
1953 · 4 votes