Roberto G. Rivera
Actor · 1927 – 2016 · Mexico City, Mexico
Roberto Gutiérrez Rivera (April 1st, 1927 - June 11th, 2016), better known simply as Roberto G. Rivera, was a Mexican actor, singer, producer, story writer, screenwriter, and film director. He began his artistic career as a singer in 1945 after winning a contest, and by 1950 he was performing ranchera music on television programs such as Noches Tapatías, Así es mi Tierra, and Estudio Raleigh on XEWTV’s Canal 2. He studied medicine for a little over a year at UNAM before leaving to enter cinema full-time, debuting as an actor in 1946 in El yugo (dir. Víctor Urruchúa). Over his career he acted in 102 films alongside major stars including Jorge Negrete, Pedro Infante, and Tito Guízar; he also wrote for 20 films and produced 60. In 1959 he received his first opportunity as a leading man and writer with Ferias de México (dir. Rafael Portillo), and produced La ley de las pistolas and Pistolas invencibles (both dir. Benito Alazraki). After a long hiatus, he directed the short film Los marginados (1972), portraying harsh realities of social poverty in Monterrey. In 1981 he produced and directed his first feature film, El Milusos, based on a story by Ricardo Garibay; the film earned him the El Heraldo award for Best Debut (Ópera Prima) in 1984 and a special prize at the Karlovy Vary festival that same year, and it was later recognized by the national film industry as a major box-office success. He went on to direct Las glorias del gran Púas (1982), El Milusos 2 (1983), and his last 35mm feature ¿La tierra prometida? / La dulce esperanza (1985), which won a top prize at the Tashkent international festival and received second place at Karlovy Vary in 1986; in the 1990s he returned to directing with several videohome productions. Separately, he received a gold medal in 1964 from the National Association of Actors for his promotion of Mexican culture abroad, an initiative attributed to President Adolfo López Mateos.
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Movie6.2ActionHorrorA woman travels to her past life with the help of Santo's past life regression machine
Movie7.7ComedyRomancePastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport, among them is Paul, a little-known mariachi that has been chosen to become a new idol. Automatically, both had bad relations and during filming many discussions happens. This arguments gives way to a deep love.
Gitana Tenias Que Ser
1953 · 19 votes
Movie5.4DramaComedyWorking-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
Arrabalera
1951 · 5 votes
Movie6.9DramaAdventureWith the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in a remote location called Paradise.
Movie5.2DramaComedyTwo young men go into hiding to escape from a contract killer; they put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.
Muñecas de medianoche
1979 · 10 votes
Movie5.7CrimeDramaLibrado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1976 · 10 votes
Movie5.6DramaCrimeWorking-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
Por qué peca la mujer
1952 · 8 votes
Movie4.6ComedyDramaThe female employees at a nightclub go on a strike.
Las Tentadoras
1980 · 7 votes
Movie5.5MusicComedyHired gunman tries and fails to kill The Sheriff. Then the gunman's kid brother coms to town, thinking The Sheriff is to blame for the gunman's death.
Amor a balazo limpio
1961 · 6 votes
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A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.
Póker de reinas
1960 · 5 votes
Movie6.2DramaRomanceA young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
El vestido de novia
1959 · 6 votes
Movie5.0A couple suffers through slander and jealousy to maintain their love for one another.
Solamente una vez
1954 · 3 votes
Movie7.6ComedyDramaCarmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu
El mil amores
1954 · 53 votes
Movie6.4HorrorFour men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
Movie7.7ComedyCrimeThe police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.
Movie6.3HorrorComedyTwo screwballs get mixed up with monsters, mad scientists and vampires.
Movie5.7WesternThe Jiménez brothers and their allies lead an operation to combat a gang of criminals who have the region under a regime of terror. The bloody confrontations begin to produce the first fatalities.
Movie6.0DramaCrimeA film that tells how a woman who suffered blackmail her entire life kills a man. Her lawyer falls in love with her and does everything possible to uncover the truth, even though it is a professional secret that will make him lose everything.
Secreto profesional
1955 · 3 votes
Movie5.8DramaThrillerPolice detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery.
El misterio del carro express
1953 · 5 votes
Movie6.3DramaRomanceMexican feature film
Los amantes
1956 · 3 votes
Movie6.0ActionWesternAspiring opera singer Luis Landa returns to his hometown to avenge the murder of his brother.
El tigre enmascarado
1951 · 3 votes
Movie6.2ComedyDramaFather and two sons raise hell at the county fair.
Los tres alegres compadres
1952 · 4 votes
Movie5.6Science FictionFantasyA man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.