Luis Manuel Pelayo
Actor · 1922 – 1989 · Mexico City, Mexico
Luis Manuel Pelayo was born in 1922 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor.
Movies24
Movie8.1ComedyDramaLopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Movie7.8ComedyInocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
El analfabeto
1961 · 122 votes
Movie8.1ComedyIt is the story of a sportsman who is a little bit dumber than most people but nevertheless he succeeds in getting a job at a sports article saler's. Having this job is the beginning of a lot of funny problems he causes due to his dumbness.
Movie4.6ComedyScience FictionMauricio is a photographer that works for a very important advertisement company. It all starts with Mauricio's work being criticized by the company, to which Mauricio jumps into the discussion and explains to the company that his idea was misinterpreted, and quits. Mauricio bent on revenge, and promises to be enemy number one of his former employers, sets off and works so hard photographing so many models, that he develops a click that when he blinks his eyes, he can see anybody in their underwear. A lot of Mauricio charm, famous quotes and pranks in this movie, very entertaining and beautiful women for that time. Very recommendable.
Click, fotógrafo de modelos
1970 · 9 votes
Movie5.9CrimeDramaEl Secuestro De Lola - Lola La Trailera 2
1986 · 16 votes
Movie5.8FantasyComedyFollowing the death of their miller father, his eldest son inherits the mill, the middle one a donkey, and the youngest a cat. While initially disappointed, the lad soon learns not only that the cat can talk but is quite resourceful.
Movie5.4RomanceDramaThe love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
El día de la boda
1968 · 7 votes
Movie7.1ComedyA lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.
Movie6.0ComedyDramaNun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father.
Mi niño, mi caballo y yo
1959 · 4 votes
Movie7.1DramaComedyConstruction worker falls in love with a handicapped woman who aspires to a career as a singer.
El Albañil
1975 · 13 votes
Movie6.8RomanceComedyThe story of a Playboy bachelor who does not know the good that is, until he is married. Slowly, the man discovers that having a woman is not easy, but sometimes ... being faithful recomended. After sympathetic experiences and funny situations, he realizes that there are two uncorrectable errors committed by the man in your life: Being born and married!
El matrimonio es como el demonio
1967 · 5 votes
Movie7.5FamilyAdventureThe classic story of the Red Riding Hood spiced up by a couple of funny characters like the dog Duke, companion to the girl in her adventures, and the stinky Skunk, henchman to the Wolf.
Movie7.2ComedyCantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.
Movie6.4CrimeDramaTwo shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants.
Movie7.4HorrorMysteryA movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
Movie7.2AdventureAn undercover policewoman tracks seven escaped convicts to the deserted island where they've set up a camp.
Movie8.0ComedyMysteryCantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
El Supersabio
1948 · 40 votes
Movie5.8Based on a true story, it tells the story of opera singer Paco Sierra, who, realizing that the life of an artist does not provide him with enough money, plans and carries out a terrorist act: He assures the passengers of an airplane that he has placed a bomb.
¡Pum!
1981 · 5 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDramaHistoria de un grupo de estafadores internacionales y sus artimañas.
Las Fieras
1969 · 3 votes
Movie6.9ComedyAfter a year spent mourning his wife's death, a father and two sons cut loose for some wild living. Loose remake of Los Tres Alegres Compadres.
Entre Compadres Te Veas
1986 · 9 votes
Movie3.4ComedyA man makes a pact with Lucifer in order to gain the love of a beautiful singer. To achieve his goal, the devil endows him with the ability to become invisible at will.
Ella, Lucifer y yo
1953 · 8 votes
Movie4.5ComedyDramaRagtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
Movie6.7ComedyMexican feature film
Se me sale cuando me río
1983 · 3 votes
Movie6.4Upper-crust city gal falls for a rough-edged working-class guy, so she follows him to his home town and masquerades as a peasant/Indian local to win him over. All very stalky and classist.
Cuatro copas
1958 · 5 votes