
Meche Barba
Actor · 1922 – 2000 · New York City, New York, USA
Meche Barba (New York City, New York September 24, 1922 – Mexico City January 14, 2000) (born Mercedes Barba Feito), was an American-born Mexican film actress and dancer of the Golden age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. She was considered one of the icons of the "Rumberas film".
Movies24
Movie6.3MusicHandicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.
Movie5.5CrimeDramaSome thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.
Dancing, salón de baile
1952 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DocumentaryAnthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.
México de mis amores
1979 · 4 votes
Movie6.3A shoe-clerk's aunt and uncle send him to a remote fishing village to retrieve a distant cousin and bring her back to the bosom of the family.
Cuando tú me quieras
1951 · 3 votes
Movie5.7Bad guy who runs a ritzy nightclub is trying to keep his younger brother out of the gutter and get him into a professional career. Unknowingly, he takes up with his brother's fiancee. Also other complications.
Cuando el alba llegue
1950 · 3 votes
Movie6.5DramaElderly woman bonds with other senior citizens for emotional support.
Los años de Greta
1992 · 6 votes
Movie7.6ComedyAn underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.
Músico, poeta y loco
1948 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DramaEl Pichi, El Trompas and El Orejas are street children who pick up a bill that Fernando has dropped, who prevents them from being arrested and offers them a job at a cake stand. Fernando meets Queta, El Pichi's sister, and they both feel attracted. This will lead Fernando to know the hardness of life for people in the suburbs.
Movie6.4DramaCrimeJosé, a driver, and Laura, a dancer, were lovers. José couldn't dance with Laura due to his condition on his legs. Therefore, a man notices Laura's skill to dance and wants to do business with her, taking her on a dancing tour, which made José and Laura miss each other.
Movie5.8DramaYoung actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.
Movie6.3DramaPersonal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Movie6.7El hijo de nadie
1946 · 6 votes
Movie5.2ComedyDramaTwo young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.
Mi papá tuvo la culpa
1953 · 6 votes
Movie5.8Teenaged slum-girl falls into show-biz by accident and rises to the tuxedos-and-furs class. Gangster drama and heartbreak, so she goes back to her own social class at the end, even though other options were available to her.
Yo fui una callejera
1952 · 5 votes
Movie5.8WesternTheatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.
Sota, caballo y rey
1944 · 4 votes
Movie6.0DramaBad girl makes lives miserable.
Movie6.3Young woman miraculously rises from runway model to internationally-acclaimed film star in a few months' time because she's sorta pretty and stuff. Then she decides to get even with an ex-boyfriend who left town for a job and forgot about her.
Amor y venganza
1991 · 6 votes
Movie6.5Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
Póker de ases
1952 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DramaA circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.
Movie6.7Mexican movie
Lazos de fuego
1948 · 3 votes
Movie6.3DramaConvicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.
Eterna agonía
1949 · 6 votes
Movie6.2WesternDramaRancho de mis recuerdos
1946 · 4 votes
Movie6.2DramaHeated rivalry over a bar-girl in a dive-y waterfront saloon.
Movie5.7DramaSi fuera una cualquiera
1950 · 3 votes
Series5
TV7.4DramaSoapA brave, poor young girl is welcomed into a rich family and develops a romance with their misogynist youngest son, driving a woman already in love with him to go to great lengths to destroy their relationship.
María la del Barrio
1995 · 582 votes
TV7.3DramaSoapMaría Mercedes, a poor girl who sells lottery tickets, meets a rich man who hates his own family and sees in María Mercedes an opportunity to make their lives miserable.
TV7.1DramaSoapHaving to serve a sentence for a murder she did not commit but took the blame for, a woman gives her baby to her sister to be raised without knowing the truth. 20 years later she is freed and try to be once again part of her life. But things get complicated when the daugther, Rosalinda, and Fernando, the son of the man that was killed, become close.
Rosalinda
1999 · 179 votes
TV5.7DramaSoapLa pobre señorita Limantour
1987 · 3 votes
TV7.5DramaEl cristal empañado
1989 · 2 votes