
Roberto Cañedo
Actor · 1918 – 1998 · Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
known as Roberto Cañedo, was a Mexican actor of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. During his career, he appeared in over 300 films. Cañedo received two Ariel Award for Best Actor nominations for his performances in Pueblerina (1949) and Crime and Punishment (1951), he won for the former. In 1997, he was given a Golden Ariel for his life dedicated to the cinema.
Movies23
Movie8.0AdventureDramaTwo jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948 · 1.4K votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaA woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity
María Isabel
1967 · 42 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceDirected by Juan Ortega and set in 19th Century Victorian England, a struggling single woman of the noble class , named Juana Champion (played by actress Andrea Palma), has absolutely no marriage prospects. After finally resigning herself to becoming a Spinster or "Old Maid", she decides to go live with her very wealthy Aunt, none other than the Dutchess of Meldrum. Not long after her arrival, she quickly becomes infatuated with a charming, good-looking and talented painter named Garth, who works for her prim and proper Aunt. Although there is a mutual attraction between them from the start, Garth does not truly fall in love with Juana until he hears her sing a wonderful song called "The Rosary".
El rosario
1944 · 4 votes
Movie5.7Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.
Los Perversos
1967 · 6 votes
Movie7.4ComedyCantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.
Gran Hotel
1944 · 34 votes
Movie8.1ComedyCantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
Movie6.1DramaAfter one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.
Crónica roja
1979 · 8 votes
Movie6.3MysteryCrimePart of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fisto del diablo." The others are El fistol del diablo, Juego diabólico and El ataúd infernal. All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo.
Movie5.5AdventureScience FictionWhen a mad scientist begins kidnapping wrestlers and extracting their spinal fluid to create a race of Gill Men, two cops call in Batwoman to investigate. But when her mission leaves the scientist horrifically scarred, he seeks revenge.
Movie7.2DramaFantasyWhen his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Movie6.0DramaUpon reaching the capital, an old man and his daughter are victims of abuse, where their goodwill becomes the way to gain control of the low instincts of a man who sought favors he did for an uncontrolled temptation.
Tentación
1943 · 3 votes
Movie7.6AdventureComedyCantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
Movie6.2DramaAfter Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.
Movie7.9ComedyCrimeA gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
Movie7.7ComedyCantinflas, on a drunken night, becomes Army soldier. Soon, he meets the Devil who tries to make it an evil being.
Movie6.4Remake of Pueblerina (1949). Convict is released from prison and tries to pick up his life-farm-girlfriend where he left off with them. But there are obstacles.
México Norte
1979 · 5 votes
Movie6.4WesternFantasyIn a small western town, a father obliges a doctor to separate two conjoined twins in a very hazardous operation. One of the children dies but years after seems to have survived as his brother's second personality.
Movie5.1ThrillerDramaWhen they were children, siblings Sergio and Teresa made a promise to never leave each other. An unhealthy co-dependence developes into adulthood.
Movie4.3ThrillerActionA sadistic psycho, disguised as a military man and wearing a helmet, attacks and murders (mostly) women in a small town. It's up to the police captain and his girlfriend (who must act as a decoy) to stop him.
Movie6.3DramaComedyLos humillados
1984 · 3 votes
Movie6.7CrimeDramaPecado
1951 · 3 votes
Movie6.7Mamá Inés
1946 · 3 votes
Movie6.8DramaRomanceOn a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.
Maclovia
1948 · 12 votes
Series1
TV10.0DramaEntre la vida y la muerte is a Mexican telenovela produced by Angelli Nesma Medina for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from January 11 to July 2, 1993. It was the first telenovela produced by Angelli Nesma Medina for Televisa. The story follows Dr. Susana Trejos, who is about to marry the ambitious lawyer Andrés del Valle, unaware that he plans to kill her to inherit her fortune. After a series of unexpected events leads everyone to believe she has died, Susana finds herself stranded in the Lacandon Jungle, where she meets an archaeologist who shares the same name as her fiancé. As she uncovers the truth behind the conspiracy against her, Susana must fight for justice, love, and a new beginning.
Entre la vida y la muerte
1993 · 1 votes