Emma Roldán
Actor · 1893 – 1978 · San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Emma Roldán (February 3, 1893 – August 29, 1978) was a Mexican character actress and costume designer. She is remembered as the sharp-tongued, domineering matron of Mexican cinema, and was nominated three times for a Silver Ariel Award.
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Movie4.1HorrorThe evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - Xochitl's tomb. Confusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor's lover, Dr. Almada, his assistant, and wrestling superhero, El Angel. Krupp finally meets his match, however, when he comes up against Popoca, the warrior mummy who guards Xochitl's tomb.
Movie5.8Aspiring big-band singer who doubles as an art forger takes in a teenaged runaway who wants to be a showgirl.
Vístete Cristina
1959 · 5 votes
Movie7.2DramaFamily honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
Movie7.3ComedyDramaCantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.
Movie5.3CrimeDramaAfter stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
One Way Street
1950 · 28 votes
- Movie6.7
Two secret agents are after a couple of car thieves who belong to a band of criminals headed by Ernesto. The band has kidnapped the son of Daniel, a boxer who is about to fight for the world title. The agents must destroy Ernesto's band and rescue Daniel's son before the fight so Daniel doesn't lose his chance at the title under the kidnapper's threats.
Servicio secreto
1962 · 3 votes
Movie3.0Science FictionHorrorA mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries old living mummy.
Movie7.4DramaA disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.
Movie7.0ComedySex and middle class are the main topics in "La verdadera vocación de Magdalena". Hermosillo shows marriage as a matter of interests (economical and social) in the modern society. emphasizing the education, lose of tradition and customs in the gap generation of sixties youth and its parents. Angelica María, plays the best character in his career, being a kind and vulnerable girl raised in a hard moral education
- Movie6.2
Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest.
Hay ángeles con espuelas
1957 · 5 votes
Movie6.0ComedyRomanceNewlyweds find married life to be challenging.
Si quiero
1967 · 5 votes
Movie5.8Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.
Mi candidato
1937 · 5 votes
Movie5.6Romantic comedy/drama.
Como yo te quería
1945 · 5 votes
Movie6.8DramaWarThree generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
1950 · 5 votes
Movie7.8HorrorComedyThis funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich old lady who sits at the head of the clan. All the hilarious members want a piece of the very lucrative inheritance money. What they don't know, however, is that grandma has left all of the money to her trusty dog.
- Movie5.6
Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving their virginity in a variety of purity-oath threatening situations.
Señoritas
1959 · 5 votes
Movie6.0Hipólito, el de Santa
1950 · 3 votes
Movie6.8ComedyVerona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
Romeo y Julieta
1943 · 33 votes
Movie6.5DramaThrillerFor love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.
La infame
1954 · 6 votes
Movie4.8DramaWarA story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population is liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her.
Movie7.3ComedyImmediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.
Entrega Inmediata
1963 · 58 votes
Movie6.0ComedyMusicTwo good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
Allá en el Rancho Grande
1936 · 12 votes
Movie5.5Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
Los tigres del ring
1960 · 6 votes
- Movie6.3RomanceDrama
A 1933 film.
La calandria
1933 · 3 votes